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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7377399 | Inverting vacuum panels for a plastic container A sidewall portion of a plastic container adapted for vacuum pressure absorption. The sidewall portion including generally rectangular shaped vacuum panels equidistantly spaced about the container. The vacuum panels having, at least in part, a convex shaped surface ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7277866 | System and method for consolidated shipping and receiving using reusable containers Products are delivered to customers using reusable containers. The reusable containers are equipped with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that is used by the vendor or deliverer to track whether the reusable container has been returned to the vendor or de... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7207457 | Closure with tear strip A closure for covering an opening of a container. The closure includes an inverted U-shaped peripheral channel for receiving the rim of a container therein. A tear strip is formed with the skirt of the closure via a tear line that circumscribes the skirt. A breakawa... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7172087 | Squeezable container and method of manufacture A plastic container includes a finish, a shoulder extending from the finish, a closed base, and a sidewall connecting the shoulder to the base. The sidewall is of blow molded construction and generally uniform wall thickness. The sidewall has an array of circumferen... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7163122 | Container A container system includes interchangeable components to form an enclosed container. A base in the form of a pallet, a sidewall and a cover are assembled to form an enclosed container. The containers include nesting portions on the pallet and cover so that containe... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151979 | System and method for tracking inventory An RFID enabled paper roll includes a tubular core, a paper stock wound around the core, and a radio frequency integrated circuit electrically coupled to an antenna and positioned on the core. A system for reading a radio frequency integrated circuit positioned on a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7097059 | Blow-molded bottle A blow-molded bottle includes a shoulder and a body that includes an upper body section, a lower body section, and a transversal recessed rib disposed between the upper body section and the lower body section. The upper body section has four lateral walls and four c... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069110 | System and method for tracking inventory An RFID enabled paper roll includes a tubular core, a paper stock wound around the core, and a radio frequency integrated circuit electrically coupled to an antenna and positioned on the core. A system for reading a radio frequency integrated circuit positioned on a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044325 | Plastic container This invention relates to a container consisting of a thermoplastic material, with side walls, flat top and bottom panels of which the top panel is provided with at least one fill/drain opening, and with a continuous circumferential carrying and transport rim. For b... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7017799 | Spindle sleeve with transponder The invention comprises a transponder moveably implanted into a pocket on an elastomeric spindle sleeve. The pocket comprises a plastic lining which is formed in the sleeve during cure or vulcanization. The transponder is inserted into the pocket once cure or vulcan... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6938788 | Squeezable beverage bottle A squeezable bottle is provided that has a hollow body with an intermediate panel section that is bounded by upper and lower recessed reinforcing rings. The intermediate panel comprises a plurality of recessed gripper rings, each of which is bounded by a pair a rais... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6838138 | Synthetic resin container bearing label It is an object of the present invention to prevent the edge of the in-molded label from the crack due to the impact of dropping the container, especially to prevent the occurrence of the crack on the thin synthetic resin container and to provide the synthetic resin... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6550627 | Container A container having opposing ends joined by a closing member, which closing member carries (a) a plurality of spread-apart ribs that radially encompass the periphery of the closing member, and (2) a plurality of radial sub-portions between adjacent ribs wh... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6467639 | Hot-fillable grip container having a reinforced, drainable label panel A hot-fillable grip container having a sidewall with a front label panel on which a label can be adhesively secured and prominently displayed. The label panel includes horizontally disposed stiffening grooves and transversely disposed channels connecting ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6390316 | Hot-fillable wide-mouth grip jar A hot-fillable wide-mouth jar having an opposed pair of collapse panels that move inwardly to accommodate vacuum-induced volumetric shrinkage of the jar. The jar includes a sidewall having front and rear label panels each of a predetermined radius of curv... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6375025 | Hot-fillable grip container A hot-fillable container having an opposed pair of collapse panels that move inwardly to accommodate vacuum-induced volumetric shrinkage of the container. The container includes a sidewall having front and rear label panels each of a predetermined radius ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6095360 | Vertical-rib reinforced bottle A bottle for storing and dispensing fluid comprises a side and at least one vertical rib section situated on the side for improving the bottle's vertical strength. Each vertical rib section comprises a plurality of vertical ribs being vertically and radia... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092688 | Drainage ports for plastic containers A container that provides for drainage of fluid underneath a product label on the container is provided. The container comprises a central label portion, a bottom portion below the central label portion, and at least one drainage port. Each drainage port ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6021916 | Plastic pallet bin A pallet bin comprises a generally rectangular base having a generally planar support surface. A pair of opposite side panels and a pair of opposite end panels between the side panels each stand vertically at one side of the rectangular base to define a p... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5938389 | Metal can and method of making A method of making a non-cylindrical shaped metal can that is provided with a stylized, irregular shape includes steps of forming a substantially cylindrical sidewall portion (12) that has a plurality of ribs integrated therein. These ribs provide additio... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5908135 | Sleeve pack A sleeve pack to be used with a pallet base and cover to form a container for shipping bulk goods comprises four vertical walls arranged such that each vertical wall is orthogonal to two adjacent walls. At least one vertical wall of corrugated plastic is ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5704504 | Plastic bottle for hot filling A plastic bottle for filling with hot liquid, of the type including a circumferential lateral wall (10), which is incorporated at its lower part to a bottom portion (F) and at its upper part to a neck portion (G) of said bottle. A plurality of grooves (20... | 01/06/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5564589 | Pot or pan A more efficient flat bottom pot or pan is obtained by (a) the introduction of an initial central downward depression in the bottom plate in the order of twice the plate thickness to avoid the undesirable upward bulging of the pot bottom as a result of ag... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5531352 | Agricultural container An agricultural container or fruit bin made of plastic has four vertical walls, triangular corner columns and a bottom element. The exteriors of the vertical walls and bottom element have rectangular rib patterns. Openings in the vertical walls and bottom... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5460292 | Agricultural container with corner struts A Plastic fruit bin having four vertical walls and a bottom joined to the walls. Two supporting elements extending along and attached to the bottom elements. An array of gas injection tubes disposed on the lower side of the bottom element and extending up... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5423453 | Microwaveable container A container constituted of a microwave transparent material for the heating or cooking of foods or comestibles through the intermediary of microwaves at a high degree of efficiency and with an enhanced temperature uniformity. The present invention is dire... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5407086 | Bottle A bottle has a high strength against pressure-reduction without reducing the internal content. The bottle is made up of a circular bottom; a barrel portion extending upwardly from the outer peripheral edge of the bottom portion; and a plurality of recesse... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5397021 | Crushable beverage can A beverage can that is capable of crushing easily in the axial direction is provided. The beverage can is designed to contain a beverage and has a roughly circular cylindrical shape with, at a prescribed portion on one end surface thereof, an operational ... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5333750 | Durable lightweight meter box The meter box has an inside wall defining a cavity and having upper and lower ends, with upper and lower openings respectively leading to the cavity whereby the cavity may receive a meter by way of the lower opening. An outside wall having upper and lower... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5267685 | Stackability of hollow products with conically contoured sidewalls having longitudinal folds A hollow stackable product including at least a section of a generally conically contoured sidewall having a number of longitudinal folds of alternating ridges and furrows. Each fold includes a first side strip laterally extending from the top of a ridge ... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5178289 | Panel design for a hot-fillable container A vacuum panel design for a hot-fill container which resists the increase in container diameter (barreling) which may occur during hot-filling and/or when the container is dropped on a hard surface. In one embodiment, adapted for a full wrap (360°) label... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5169024 | Multiple-wall plastic container and method of making same A high pressure plastic container is made by rotationally moulding a first wall of plastic material, and a second wall enclosing and bonded to the first wall. One of the walls is integrally formed with a plurality of circumferentially-extending axially-sp... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5126177 | Thermoplastic preform for blow molding a bottle with reinforcing ribs A preform injection molded from PET includes a frustoconical section whose outer surface is formed with a series of angularly spaced ribs. When the preform is converted into a bottle by a blow molding operation, the frustoconical section of the preform is... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5125512 | Nestable cup with alternative closure structure An article of manufacture comprising an integrally molded plastic cup nestable with indentically formed plastic cups. The mouth of the cup is formed with a threaded portion and a circumferential lip portion therebeneath. The threaded portion may be mating... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5048679 | Aircraft brake disk stack glove A device for protecting a carbon disk stack used in an aircraft brake assembly is disclosed. The glove-like device is constructed of an impact-resistant, flexible material and is installed by sliding the device over the carbon disk assembly. The device ma... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4969922 | Ribbed bottle with depressed oblong centers A blow molded bottle comprising oblong depressions in opposed major sides of the bottle, the bottom of the oblong depressions being joined at the center of the bottle. Extending from the major axes ends of the oblong depressions is a single depressed rib ... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4538439 | Cans formed of thin-walled material and apparatus for forming precise fine beads therein A can fabricated from sheet material or stock of small thickness contains a can body comprising closely adjacently situated circumferential beads of high precision and mutual parallelism which impart high strength to the can body in both axial direction a... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4512490 | Strengthened can bodies of thin-walled metal A can formed of a thin-walled material, especially sheet metal or metal plate, whose can body is provided with beads extending essentially in axial direction and circumferential direction for the purpose of increasing the strength of the can bodies. In pa... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4315574 | Container having circumferential and longitudinal stiffening corrugations An improved container in form of a barrel, drum can or the like, specifically a sheet metal container. The circumferential wall of the container is provided with horizontally extending corrugations or beads, respectively, and vertically extending corrugat... | 02/16/1982 |
