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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337929 | Device with dual dispensing system A device for packaging and dispensing a product, in particular a cosmetic product, which includes a container holding the product. The container is surmounted by a neck, such that a free edge of the neck delineates a first dispensing aperture for the product. A deta... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7213719 | Plastic container The plastic container includes a hollow body of plastic material having a lower supporting base, a sidewall extending upwardly from the lower base and an upper neck portion extending upwardly from the sidewall with an opening therein. The sidewall includes at least ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7182214 | Plastic container including an upper grip portion The container includes a hollow body of plastic material having a lower supporting base, a sidewall extending upwardly from the lower base, and an upper portion extending upwardly from the sidewall. The upper portion includes at least one opening therein. An integra... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168582 | Plastic container having a handle and label panels The container includes a hollow body of plastic material having a lower supporting base, a sidewall extending upwardly from the lower base, and an upper portion extending upwardly from the sidewall. The upper portion includes at least one opening therein. Two label ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7051891 | Plastic container having label panels The container includes a hollow body of plastic material having a lower supporting base, a sidewall extending upwardly from the lower base, and an upper portion extending upwardly from the sidewall. The upper portion includes at least one opening therein. Two label ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7007803 | Device for storing liquids The invention relates to a device for storing liquids comprised of a plastic container, which is produced by a blowing process, which has a single layer or multilayer wall, and which is provided with at least one filling and emptying opening. The aim of the inventio... | 03/07/2006 |
| 5924583 | Tissue culture flask A laboratory flask is designed for the growth of tissue, cells or microorganisms in a culture medium. The flask includes a bottom wall which accommodates the culture medium. The interior of the flask is accessible from an opening in a side wall through a ... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5690244 | Blow molded container having paneled side wall A plastic blow molded container (10) of polyethylene terephthalate has a side wall (18) at least three vertically spaced horizontal ribs (38) of an annular shape and at least (12) vertical ribs (40) spaced circumferentially and extending between the horiz... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5199633 | Drinking aid A cylindrical container, having an open top, closed bottom, and an annular wall, has an aperture formed through the wall in immediate adjacency to the closed bottom. An articulated tube is removably set into the aperture, to enable gravity-fed flow of con... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5178308 | Curved container A curved food container having a cylindrical body portion, a curved extension portion and a mouth portion. The mouth is covered by a removable closure in order to retain the contents. The body portion includes an indentation for positioning, orienting and... | 01/12/1993 |
| 4940151 | Infant fluid drinking container An infant fluid drinking/nursing container including a reservoir with a principal elongated section and a lesser elongated section whose axis is disposed less than 90 degrees with respect to the axis of the principal elongated section and having at the ex... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4927764 | Tissue culture flask A tissue culture flask having a flat bottom wall with optical properties on the inner surface of which cells are grown. A top wall opposite the bottom wall has a large opening therethrough which provides access to the growing surface for the removal of ce... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4923098 | Fluid container A fluid container has a housing arranged in a box-like fashion with two square side walls, each having four edges and four corners, two top walls adjoining one another at a corner and extending between adjacent corresponding edges of the sidewalls, and tw... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4881650 | Fluid collection container A container for collecting and storing oil drained from an internal combustion engine has a bottom wall and a lower end wall for selectively supporting the container in prone and upright positions. The top wall has a funnel-shaped portion surrounded by an... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4851351 | Culture vessel A culture vessel used for microorganism culture, cell culture, tissue culture and the like, which has features with regard to a shape of the opening neck for enabling to perform various operations such as introduction of a culture area solution and insert... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4832215 | Bottle for dispensing viscuous foodstuff A dispensing bottle for thick fluid, such as ketchup, in which the dispensing hole and cap are located in an enlarged, body portion of the bottle, near the base.... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4781314 | Fluid container A fluid container has a housing arranged in a box-like fashion with two square side walls, each having four edges and four corners, two top walls adjoining one another at a corner and extending between adjacent corresponding edges of the sidewalls, and tw... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4769858 | Urinal bottle A urinal bottle having a unique head that includes a deformable bellows which defines the mouth. The head also includes two finger stalls located on its rear face that cooperate with the bottle's handle. In use, and in response to manual pressure drawing ... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4770854 | Laboratory flask A laboratory flask includes a body and a canted neck at one end joined to the main surface by an inclined ramp. The neck diameter is maximized and along with the ramp allows the user excellent accessibility to the four corners of the flask end wall with a... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4762241 | Container with supplemental opening for extracting contents A container especially for use with viscous substances has both a primary opening and a supplemental opening. The primary opening is at an upper point in the container, whereby contents are extracted due to gravity, when tilting the container. A supplemen... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4419323 | Method for manufacturing a plastic container with non-coring penetrable wall portion A plastic blow-molded container is disclosed having a penetrable wall portion or site which is sufficiently thin to permit piercing by a needle, spike or the like without coring or fragmenting, and a thicker recessed wall portion adjacent to the penetrabl... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4334028 | Flask In a flask suitable for tissue or micro-organism culture, having top and bottom walls, a pair of similar side walls, a closed end wall, a second end wall having an opening therein, a tubular open neck in sealing engaged at one end with the second end wall... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4252256 | Compressible drinking apparatus A compressible drinking apparatus includes a body rigidifying and bounding the open end of a flexible liquid-containing bag and a storage member on the bag engageable with the rigidifying body for attaining a compact storage condition of the apparatus aft... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4251001 | Developer powder supply cartridge A toner supply cartridge for use with an electrographic reproduction machine, having a generally symmetric configuration with a centrally located filling opening. The cartridge contains a second larger opening for dispensing the toner into the copy machin... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4113129 | Container for sterile liquids A blow-molded thermoplastic container for storing and dispensing sterile liquids that is designed to be filled with a sterile liquid during the blow-molding having a first penetrably sealed threaded neck, a second penetrably sealed neck in an aperture nea... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4062652 | Reagent unit intended for microanalyses of standard type and device and method for its production A prefabricated micro-quantity reagent dosage unit for an analytical procedure, is provided involving reaction of a chemical reagent with a reaction mixture to be analyzed. The unit comprises a composite structure which incorporates the chemical reagent a... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4054220 | Combined pocket flask and denture case with removable cup portion A compact, portable pocket flask for cleaning and refreshing dentures. The flask is elongated, elliptically-shaped and pocket sized and contains two completely sealed compartments also sealed from each other. One such compartment is shaped to carry a dent... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3977598 | Centrifuge tube This centrifuge tube has the general shape of a conventional centrifuge tube or test tube. An external re-entrant groove is provided along an upper portion of the tube. An internal tube has an open end in the closed bottom of the centrifuge tube and is in... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3945523 | Freeze storage container system A system for the transferral, freezing, storage and processing of liquids with a minimum of contamination is described. The components of the system include a hollow disc-shaped vessel of special construction which permits rapid freezing at extremely low ... | 03/23/1976 |