Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325703 | Multi-cavity blister package for storing and dispensing flowable substances A single-use, multi-chamber package for housing and common administration of at least two flowable substances. The package includes at least first and second product storage cavities; and at least first and second product application channels. At least one separatio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7101358 | Tampon wrapper with opening means comprising stopper The present invention relates to a wrapper for individually packaging absorbent articles for personal hygiene, especially tampons. The wrapper of the present invention is provided with an opening means comprising a tear tape and a stopper, the tear tape is used for ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6955665 | Tampon wrapper with improved opening means The present invention relates to a wrapper for individually packaging absorbent articles for personal hygiene, especially tampons. The wrapper of the present invention is provided with an opening means, which prevents the wrapper from becoming separated into more th... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6945391 | Containers and method for manufacturing containers This invention provides a container (10) in the form of a sachet having a body (11) defining a reservoir (12). The body (11) includes a flexible first wall (13) having a line of weakness (14), and a relatively more flexible ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6746734 | Surface covering system The present invention provides a surface covering system including a first covering portion detachably connected to a backing and a second covering portion detachably connected to the backing, wherein the first covering portion and the second covering portion are sp... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6541086 | Easily tearable packing films A first embodiment of the packing film is a four-layered laminate film in which the following films are laminated in that order: a first oriented plastic film formed as an outer surface layer and provided with a first coarse surface portion, an aluminum f... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6196383 | Tear tape with holographic image A substrate, such as the surface of goods or of packaging material for goods, is provided with a security device by applying, to the substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive tape carrying a security device in the form of a hologram.... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6085942 | Coffee creamer and other cups and tubs A container thermoformed from a relatively thin flat plastic film comprising an upright standing hollow containment formation having an upper flat rim to which a thin cover member is sealingly attached in a sealing pattern. The sealing rim encompassing th... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5494192 | Stress concentrator aperture-forming means for sealed containers and packages A stress concentrator aperture-forming structure for containers or packages for flowable products, which allow controlled dispensing of the flowable products with one hand. The stress concentrator includes a substantially flat, relatively stiff sheet, one... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5395031 | Stress concentrator aperture-forming means for sealed containers and packages A stress concentrator aperture-forming structure for containers or packages for flowable products, which allows controlled dispensing of the flowable products with one hand. The stress concentrator includes a substantially flat, relatively stiff sheet, on... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5198275 | Card stock sheets with improved severance means A card stock sheet prepared for subsequent severance along a perforation line in the sheet defined by a sequence of closely spaced perforations and a continuous score cut at one surface of the sheet, extending part way into the sheet and coinciding with t... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5188370 | Game cards in multiple form and a container/dispenser device In combination, a flexible sheet member including a plurality of bingo game cards, the upper surface of each card having indicia thereon in final bingo game form ready for use by players, the peripheral edges of adjacent game cards being adapted to be det... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5016750 | Environmentally sound carrier package A container package includes a series of similarly configured containers maintained in adjacent relation by a series of interconnected rings formed from a resilient deformable material each surrounding one of the containers of the container package. The r... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4944979 | Tape conveyers for components An improvement is provided for a conveyer tape comprising an underlying flexible belt, a stock of parts disposed in a row along such belt, adhesive deposited on the belt in two bands flanking such row, and a cover tape extending in the length of the row o... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4925020 | Environmentally sound carrier package A container package including a series of similarly configured containers maintained in adjacent relation by a series of interconnected rings formed from a resilient deformable material each surrounding one of the containers of the container package. A pl... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4587146 | Flat laminate part consisting of a substrate layer, a cover layer and an auxiliary pull-off means for the cover layer The present invention is related to a flat laminate part consisting of a substrate layer and a cover layer having an auxiliary pull-off means to so pull-off said cover layer or parts of said cover layer said auxiliary pull-off means comprising a preset cu... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4567984 | Plastic bag package A machine for making plastic bags, such as trash or garbage bags, includes a rotary sealing drum of variable diameter, the drum including one or more sealing bars for cross-sealing a flattened plastic film tube passing through the machine. A blanket tensi... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4394904 | Peripherally supported package for adhesive-surfaced articles A package for adhesive-surfaced sheet-like articles which may be delicate is formed by mounting the adhesive surface of the article onto a two-part release-surfaced carrier, one part of which supports the periphery of the article and the other part suppor... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4195787 | Rolled material marking arrangement A rolled material marking arrangement, as for bathroom tissue, for example, which selectively indicates the beginning or free end of the roll. In different embodiments, the sectional marking can be from corner to corner; overlapping at corners; offset at ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4159771 | Container having multiple independently unsealable compartments A container comprises a plurality of interconnected compartments having rim flanges therearound and being individually sealed by a lid sheet attached to the rim flanges after portions of a product have been placed in respective compartments, the lid sheet... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4076121 | Reinforced thin wall plastic bag, and method and apparatus to make material for such bags A plastic bag such as trash can liners, grass and leaf bags, sandwich bags and the like is reinforced by placing spaced ribs therein, integral with the wall structure, the ribs having a rib-to-rib spacing in the order of 1/8 to 2 cm, the ribs being peaked... | 02/28/1978 |
| 3966524 | Method and apparatus for manufacture of pad-stacked bags Sections successively severed from a double layer web of synthetic thermoplastic film, e.g., flattened tube stock, as produced are each stacked and welded to a precedingly stacked section near one edge of a tear off pat or hanger portion to which a bag po... | 06/29/1976 |
