Colgate Palmolive Company

Chesebrough-pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.

General Housewares Corporation

Sensor Devices Inc.

Smithkline Beecham Corporation

Reebok International Limited

Ep Technologies, Inc.

Continental Sprayers International, Inc.

Medelec Limited

Shur Medical Corporation

International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

The Coleman Company, Inc.

Orthologic Corp.

Iatromed, Inc.

The Venture Fund of Washington

Bert D Heinzelman

Donald R Lamond

John C Crawford

Thomas E Mintel

John P Curtis

James Herbert Kemp

Kedar N Rustogi

Laura H Edelman

John Moldauer

Christopher J Claypool

Robert Moskovich

Adam Sherman

Richard Whitehall

Douglas M Spranger

James A Petronio

Malcolm J Brookes

Robert L Young

Walter Stoeckmann

Dylan M Akinrele

David L French

David A Lovejoy

Jose L Correa

Donald D Foster

Christopher J Brooks

Robert W Pritchard

Matthew L Phillips

Arthur Blumenfeld

Jeffrey Stein

Robert Pandorf

Joseph A Matthias

Susan M Clement

Theresa C Desantis

William Fiebel

John E Kuphal

Jeffrey A Karg

David R Schiff

Paul J Mulhauser

Norris R Long

Adam Sebastian Sanchez

Randall L May

Diego Fontayne

Franklin T Schmidt

Stanley H Remiszewski

Debra S Yates

Peter Leonard Dawson

Robert J Gross

Lance V Swearingen

Robert O Van Driest

Stephen John Raven

Donald Lamond

Christopher Brooks

Robert D Taff

Lois Josephine Slachowitz

Paul D Cesare

Tape and tape clip

A system for absorbing shock including a resilient member positioned between a portion of the head and a portion of the shaft of the tool. The resilient member dampens and absorbs vibration travelling from the head to the shaft and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system also includes a shock-absorbing member having an internal portion positioned within a cavity in the head of the tool and an external portion positioned on an upper surface of the head that dampens and absorbs vibration travelling within the head and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system further includes a bonding material filling spaces with the cavity and a channel within the head that further dampens and absorbs vibration travelling from the head to the shaft and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system includes a handle portion that has a soft elastomeric outer coating that provides a comfortable grip to the user and hinders vibration from travelling from the shaft to the hand of the user.

Shock absorption system for a striking tool

Tape measure

The invention relates to a novel douche nozzle suitable for vaginally administering a douche fluid.

Nozzle

A tape measure having a housing that encloses a coiled tape rule retractably mounted therein. The housing is constructed with an outer coating of a generally soft, resilient, pliant material that extends over a substantial portion of the housing. The tape measure further provides a locking button that is slidably attached to the housing and is adapted to selectively prevent the tape rule from moving with respect to the opening in the housing. The locking button generally includes a central portion that is located adjacent to the peripheral wall and at least one side portion located adjacent to a side wall of the housing. The locking button further includes an outer surface with an outer coating thereon of a relatively soft, skid-resistant material. The tape measure further provides a tape clip attached to a terminal end of the tape rule that includes a friction member made of a generally soft, non-skid material attached to a clip portion of the tape clip. The friction member is advantageously mounted to the clip portion by molding the friction member within a pair of apertures through the clip portion.

Handle

Hammer

A replaceable head toothbrush is described having a handle, a brushhead and a collar. The handle is formed with a cavity within which the collar is insertable. The brushhead at an end thereof is formed with a neck having a coupling anchor for engaging a complementary disengaging mechanism within the collar.

Replaceable head toothbrush

A child-resistant liquid dispenser such as a trigger sprayer. The dispenser comprises a dispenser body, a nozzle, and a locking mechanism. The dispenser body has a nozzle receiving end and a discharge passage configured for discharging liquid through the nozzle receiving end. The-nozzle has a nozzle opening therein and is connected to the nozzle receiving end of the dispenser body. The nozzle is rotatable relative to the dispenser body about a nozzle axis X between open and closed positions. The nozzle and dispenser body are configured such that the nozzle opening is in fluid communication with the discharge passage of the dispenser body when the nozzle is in its open position to permit fluid to flow from the discharge passage and through the nozzle opening. They are further configured such that fluid communication between the nozzle opening and discharge passage is blocked when the nozzle is in its closed position to prevent fluid flow from the discharge passage and through the nozzle opening. The locking mechanism comprises a locking member adjacent the nozzle and dispenser body. The locking member is moveable along the nozzle axis X between locking and unlocking positions. The locking mechanism, dispenser body, and nozzle are configured to prevent rotational movement of the nozzle from its closed position to its open position when the locking member is in its locking position and to allow rotational movement of the nozzle between its closed and open positions when the locking member is in its unlocking position.

Manually operated pump dispenser having child-resistant nozzle

A child-resistant liquid dispenser, such as a trigger sprayer, includes a dispenser body, a pump mechanism having a pump piston, and a trigger connected to the pump piston so that movement of the trigger effectuates movement of the pump piston. The pump mechanism is configured to draw liquid into an intake port of the dispenser body and discharge it through a discharge port upon reciprocating movement of the pump piston. The child-resistant liquid dispenser also includes a first locking mechanism which is engageable with the pump piston in a manner to prevent movement of the pump piston when in a locked position. The first locking mechanism is configured to permit normal movement of the pump piston when in an unlocked position. The child-resistant liquid dispenser further includes a second locking mechanism. The second locking mechanism is configured to releasably engage the first locking mechanism in a manner to releasably retain the first locking mechanism in its locked position.

Child-resistant pump dispenser

A toothbrush is provided having a handle and a bristle bearing head. The head includes a central skeleton, resilient side members mounted on either side of the central skeleton, tuft mounting receptacles in both the skeleton and the side members, and bristle forming tufts received in both the tuft mounting receptacles of the skeleton and of the side members. The side member bristle tufts are movable both sideways and downwards in a toggling movement relative to the bristle tufts stationarily mounted on the skeleton.

Toothbrush with flexibly mounted bristles

Toothbrush handle

A toothbrush is provided having a brushhead, neck and handle. The handle includes a flex zone flanked on one side by the neck on the other by a tail zone of the handle. The neck and tail zone are rigid in contrast to the bendable flex zone. Spring Rate for the neck and tail zone is each greater than that for the flex zone. A relatively hard, unitarily formed backbone traverses neck and handle. An elastomer forms portions of both the flex and tail zones. Elastomer is anchored through at least one channel traversing a beam of the backbone. Ends of the channel are radiused to eliminate structural weakness.

Resiliently flexible toothbrush

Lantern

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Tenafly, NJ, United States of America

Bert D Heinzelman