Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7408843 | Medicine cap timing apparatus A medicine cap with a timing mechanism that automatically resets upon the removal of the cap from a medicine bottle. A timing device is housed within a medicine camp, with a diaphragm housed below the timing device. The diaphragm has a rod extending upward from a ce... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7111746 | Shellable child resistant closure container with positive lock mechanism A shellable, positively lockable, child resistant closure and container includes a pair of nested inner and outer caps designed to be purposefully shellable for use in its non-child resistant mode. The inner cap is coaxially positioned and nested within the outer ca... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7021477 | Child-resistant closure and container package A child-resistant package includes a container having an end with an open mouth surrounded by a container wall having a central axis. An external ledge extends around the container wall at a position spaced from the open mouth. The ledge has an axially facing surfac... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017782 | Child resistant safety cap for applicator tubes A child resistant safety cap device for applicator tubes includes a base element, a cap, at least one keyway latching system, and at least one spring. The base element has a top and a sidewall, and has a container tube attachment mechanism located under the top that... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6948640 | Reservoir and fluid product dispenser with safe unscrewing A fluid reservoir (1) having a neck (11) defining a substantially cylindrical drum (12) and an opening (110), said neck being externally provided with an external thread (13) serving to co-operate with a ring (21) internally... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6905232 | Vibration resistant lamp structure A lamp structure including a lamp housing, and a circular ring piece, a lamp holder, and a lamp locking-collar all assembled in the lamp housing sequentially. The lamp housing has holes on a surface for extending a wire through and has a stepped portion on an inner ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6817479 | Closure and a liner having a sealing flange with an inwardly directed unflattened fold A closure (2A) overlies a liner (6) which seals a container mount defined by a peripheral edge (12) of the container. The liner (6) includes a sealing flange (31) having an upstanding outermost terminal rim (40) of resilient... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6378713 | Safety closure and container A safety closure for use on a container neck portion, providing an end wall and a side wall depending from the end wall. The side wall has at least one lug projecting therefrom near a lower end thereof, which is engageable with at least one lug-receiving ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6235822 | Gaskets made from olefin polymers Gaskets comprising either at least one homogeneously branched ethylene polymer or at least one elastic substantially linear ethylene polymer, at least one ethylene/carboxylic acid interpolymer; and at least one slip agent are disclosed. These gaskets may ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6149022 | Bottle and cap A bottle having a container and a specially formed neck having a flange with downwardly sloping portion and which is spaced from the container to create a recess between the flange and the container. The bottle cap has an inner shell and an outer shell. A... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5927532 | Vapor-seal child resistant closure and container package A child resistant package including a container having a base wall, side wall and opened end and a plurality of projections on the side wall having downwardly extending notches. A plastic closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt and a plurality of l... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5803288 | Cap for bottles having resiliently biased seal member Cap of a type suitable to be used for the momentary closure of bottles containing gaseous or aerated liquids, the cap comprising an outer sheath (13, 113) open at its lower end, within which is installed a longitudinally slidable supporting and closure el... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5533823 | Sealed cosmetic dispenser A sealed lipstick dispenser assembly has a base, a sleeve mounted within the base containing a lipstick pomade, and a cover mounted over the base and receiving a portion of the sleeve and pomade within a hollow interior. A bellows-like sealing member defi... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5242069 | Closure cap for a bottle of like containers A closure cap for a bottle having an external bead projecting from its neck. The cap is secured to the bead by an annular retaining part. A sealing disk is disposed beneath the cap-like retaining part, the periphery of which seals against the upper edge o... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5188249 | Plastic bottle having a linerless closure with collapsible flange and method An integral blow molded bottle having a neck, a thread surrounding the neck and a collar at the top of the neck. A circumferential flange is provided on the outside of the top of the collar and a support column is provided on the inside of the collar for ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5165559 | Child resistant closure and package A child resistant closure adapted to be used with a container to provide a child resistant package comprising a closure having a base wall and a peripheral skirt with internal threads adapted to engage complementary threads on the container. The closure i... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5119963 | Mechanical button and button enhancement techniques This relates to a closure for a container in the form of a closure cap which is provided with a mechanically actuated button. The button is centrally located and is generally in a recessed position. The button is surrounded by a plurality of dished areas ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4637519 | Two part closure A two part closure for a container is comprised of a flexible foil sealing disk together with a flanged linerless screw threaded closure cap. The cap's sealing flanges contact the flexible foil sealing disk on opposite edges of the container's mouth rim a... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4531649 | Molded plastic cap with sealing liner A molded plastic closure cap has a number of downwardly projecting fins on the underside of its cover for forming a seal with a container in combination with a liner positioned between the fins and the container rim. The liner is a laminated one consistin... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4320844 | Releasable locking system A container closure system such that an uninstructed person would find it difficult to remove the closure. Helical screw threads on the container and on the one-piece closure have detents and discrete thread portions engageable under the influence of a sp... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4310101 | Combined bottle and screw cap assembly A container assembly including a bottle and cap arrangement is disclosed herein along with a cooperating arrangement for placing the cap arrangement in a predetermined closed position relative to the bottle. The assembly also includes a seal arrangement f... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4280632 | Bottle cap A cap for closing a bottle shaped container. The cap has an inner lid formed with a ring groove that receives a lateral rib protruding inwardly from an outer lid that encompasses the inner lid. The inner lid has a sealing plate forming the top thereof tha... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4121729 | Home canning closure system An improved home canning closure system is provided for a home canning jar featuring a plastic ring and a metal lid combination which is adapted to allow excess pressure to escape while preventing the escape of the contents from the container. The plastic... | 10/24/1978 |
| 3974929 | Child resistant closure A substantially leak-proof and child-resistant combination closure comprising a container and a cap. The container has a neck and the cap has a tubular skirt which fits over the container neck, a disc-like top and resilient annular shoulder portion. The c... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3960288 | Bottle cap with means to effect seal with irregular bottle ends A bottle cap made of Teflon and the like has a relatively thin end closure portion for engagement with a bottle end and an annular back-up flange is spaced axially of a peripheral marginal portion of the closure portion, and a resilient insert is disposed... | 06/01/1976 |
