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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258884 | Method employing a disposable brew basket for an electric coffee maker A method having the steps of: providing an electric coffee brewing machine; providing a single-use, disposable brew basket, inserting the disposable brew basket into the electric coffee brewing machine; brewing a single cup of coffee with the electric coffee brewing... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7081263 | Disposable brew basket for electric coffee maker A method includes the steps of: providing an electric coffee brewing machine; providing a single-use, disposable brew basket, inserting the disposable brew basket into the electric coffee brewing machine; brewing a single cup of coffee with the electric coffee brewi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6878449 | Sealing member for a cap featuring excellent safety and environmental friendliness, and metal cap A sealing member for a cap featuring excellent cap performance as well as excellent safety and environmental friendliness, and a metallic cap. A foamed polyurethane elastomer having a JIS A hardness of from 15 to 65 and a foaming magnification of from 1.1 to 10 time... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6848590 | Child-resistant closure and container package A child-resistant closure and container package includes a container having a finish with an external thread and pockets in the thread. A closure has a base wall, a peripheral skirt with an internal thread and lugs on the internal thread for receipt in the pockets, ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6299608 | Transfer assembly for providing a sterility seal in a medicinal storage bottle A bottle having a sterility seal and a method for producing same are disclosed. The bottle, which can be configured to retain a medicament in powder or tablet form, features a protective cap configured to engage a transfer assembly associated with the bot... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5957388 | Container for flowable cleaning agent, specifically elastic bottle for liquid thixotropic WC bowl cleaner The invention relates to a container for flowable cleaner products, particularly for liquid thixotropic WC bowl cleaners of which the thixotropic properties cause the liquid WC bowl cleaner to adhere to vertical surface. It is the object of the invention ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5947309 | Container-closure combination with improved sealing feature A container made from a rigid, polymeric material, or from glass or metal, has a frusto-conical or cylindrical wall defining an outer thread and having an upper edge, which defines a sealing bead extending circumferentially and having a cross-section conf... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5934492 | Senior friendly child resistant medication containers A medication container has a tubular container body with an open upper end, and a cap detachably securable to the upper edge of the container body by clockwise rotation relative thereto, the cap and the container body having mutually engageable stops prev... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5826739 | Cup and closure A container and closure assembly includes a container including a bottom portion and an encircling wall extending therefrom and defining a body portion. The body portion has an open end with a span equal to or different than the span of the body portion. ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5673807 | Cup and closure A container and closure assembly includes a container including a bottom portion and an encircling wall extending therefrom and defining a body portion. The body portion has an open end with a span equal to or different than the span of the body portion. ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5586673 | Cap assembly for fluid delivery system A cap assembly for receiving a stopper and for application to the threaded neck of a bottle. The cap assembly includes a cap and a thrust washer. The cap has an end wall which has a central aperture and a circular side wall which has internal threads. The... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5553727 | Tamper-evident cap and neck finish A neck finish for a tamper evident bottle is disclosed having at least ten helically spaced threads which extend along a substantial length of the exterior wall of the neck. The neck finish may include one or two annular ring flanges to accept a snap-on c... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5411157 | Container and the manufacture thereof A container closure assembly having a container neck and a closure for said container neck. The closure is retained on the container neck by a screw thread on at least one of the closure and the container neck. A sealing mechanism is provided for forming ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5379910 | Apparatus for sealing a container and closure A threaded closure and container arrangement having complementary annular surfaces on the closure and container which engage each other during threading and unthreading to guide the closure and container into axial alignment and to shape the relatively fl... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5372300 | Opening device for a packaging container Opening device for a packaging container with an unbroken, liquid-tight pouring spout (31, 33) and a closure part (3) enclosing this. A method of manufacturing the opening device entails forming the pouring spout (21, 33) with the closure part (3) as a mo... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5325985 | Gasket with a self-supporting protrusion A gasket for sealing a channel of a mounting cup to a container bead including at least one protrusion at an end of the gasket for retaining the mounting cup in position on a container bead prior to clinching. Six such protrusions can be equidistantly pos... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5255805 | Screw cap A screw cap for a container that has a thread, in particular bottles, jars, and the like. A ring that incorporates at least one projection engages the thread on the container. The ring can be configured as a safety ring, i.e., that it have a lower ring se... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5069367 | Pouring stopper with tear-off guarantee strip with a separate diaphragm A stopper for a dispensing container having a body portion from which a pour spout extends, which spout is closed by a cap and wherein the stopper further includes a diaphragm member for surrounding the spout and sealing the body portion thereof and which... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5064082 | Compartmented container having a seal member and magnifying lid A Saturn-shaped container is provided which includes a receptacle forming a lower portion of the container, a lid forming an upper portion of the container, a ring member surrounding the receptacle and supporting the lid, and a seal member positioned betw... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5035798 | Filtration vessel and end cap lock by a flexible rod A water filtration device is provided with a vessel body having an open interior for containing activated carbon used to filter water flowing through the open interior of the vessel body. The vessel body is preferably tubular with at least one open end an... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4747498 | Safety dispensing closure-container package A threaded safety dispensing closure and container package in which the initial threading on of the closure to the product filled container affixes the closure to the container so that it cannot be removed, requiring dispensing through the dispensing orif... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4629084 | Closure for canning glass container with glass cover A closure for a canning glass container with a glass cover and a rubber ring therebetween has an upper rim which is formed in the container and provided with a sealing lip with a wedge having a tip with a radius of curvature between 1 mm and 3 mm, a suppo... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4603786 | Press-on closure for resealable glass finish A closure of the press-on type which includes a shell having therein a liner which functions to both form a seal with a container neck finish and also to form in the closure threads which are complementary to the threads of a container neck finish wherein... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4552279 | Container closure A container closure adapted to be applied to a container having threads by an axial movement and to be removed by a rotary movement to open the container comprising a body including a base wall and a peripheral wall and a gasket of plastic material formed... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4452365 | Closure device for hermetically sealing containers A closure device for providing a seal with a container having a shallow external bead in the region of the mouth-defining rim of the container. The closure device comprises a central panel and a skirt joined by a sector forming an internal channel contain... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4448320 | Closure with plastisol liner defining a retaining bead This relates to a closure utilizing a liner which is formed of plastisol or like material which puffs or expands upon curing after the liner has been applied. By providing the liner with a skirt portion and by increasing the radial thickness of a lower pa... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4444325 | Closure and pry-off resealable finish This relates to a container neck finish which is particularly constructed to have an interlock with a closure of the pry-off type. The container neck finish has a peripherally projecting locking bead which includes an upper camming surface and a lower loc... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4228909 | Squeeze-off closure with tamper indicating band This disclosure relates to a closure assembly for containers, particularly glassware containers, wherein the closures may be readily removed even when the product is vacuum packed by the deformation of the cup-shaped body of the closure and the sealing ri... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4227616 | Molded gasket press-on closure This disclosure relates to a closure for containers primarily of the tumbler and carafe types and wherein the containers are formed of glass or glass-like materials. The closure is particularly identifiable by a downward and radial extension of the normal... | 10/14/1980 |
| 3973690 | Sealing closure cap assembly A sealing closure assembly for a container mouth including a closure cap and a sealing member having a sealing portion which sealingly engages with a releasable locking fit with the mouth of said container and a cap engaging portion slidably engageable by... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3963142 | Sideseal closure cap and sealed package An improved sideseal closure and package are described in which a cut rubber gasket is used in a metal closure shell in a closure cap which is pressed onto containers for forming a sideseal. The closure cap has an integral cover and depending metal skirt ... | 06/15/1976 |
