The Clorox Company

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Frank M Knafelc

Ronald E Heiskell

Ezra E Theys

Dane Dickson

Russell G Taylor

Ezra A Theys

Thomas M Lipton

John Hoyrup

Bruce Bertelsen

David E Kolarich

Frederick G Doolittle

James R Parent

Jon L Ellgen

Albert Oey

Karl Robert Krause

Michael J Petrin

James D Mitchell

Daniel T Carty

Robert J Iliff

James R Latham

Thomas Gerret Dewees

Larry F Morice

Raymond W Harold

Kenneth T Felipe

R Gregory Taylor

Ken H Chiang

Timothy M Soto

Albert Obey

Robert B Seebeger

Karl A Krause

Michael J Silveira

A cap chute end for capping a plurality of in-line containers in an ambient atmosphere includes a fluid manifold having a plurality of first manifold apertures for injecting a first fluid into the plurality of containers. A fluid shoe is operatively adjacent the fluid manifold and has a plurality of shoe apertures for dispensing a second fluid into the plurality of caps and plurality of containers. A frame that supports the fluid shoe is configured to receive a plurality of caps at a receiving end of the frame. A wiper supported at a dispensing end of the frame has a pair of arms operatively adjacent the fluid shoe. The pair of arms is configured to orient the plurality of caps to the plurality of containers.

Nitrogen cap chute end

A lightweight, free-body and buoyant dispenser that is centrifugally actuated for releasing a laundry product following the spin cycle includes a housing that has one or more covered apertures one of which is exposed during the spin cycle. The laundry product, which is a liquid, solid, gel powder, or mixture thereof, however, does not exit the dispenser until the spinning has subsided. Disc-shaped dispensers having two apertures that are covered by biased-doors are especially suited for delivering laundry agents for post-spin cycle treatment.

Rinse release dispensing device

Insect bait station

In an apparatus for detaching an article from a member attached thereto, the attached article and member are supported on a grid such that the member is in contact with a substantially rigid surface of the grid and the article is suspended away from the rigid surface. Holders hold the member to the rigid surface. While the member is held to the rigid surface, a punch detaches the article and the member. The member from which the article has been detached is gripped by a pin assembly and the gripped member is removed from the substantially rigid surface by raising the pin assembly.

Apparatus for punching

Multiple embodiments of a display-ready carton each include an opening formed in one vertical panel both to display articles within the carton and to permit their removal as desired. The opening preferably extends into the top panel of the carton and includes a removable reinforcing element, more preferably a T-bar, extending across the opening. The carton is preferably formed from corrugated material having a horizontal axis of corrugation in the panel forming the opening and a vertical axis of corrugation in the end panels to structurally rigidify the carton. The carton is preferably the same height as the articles and is more preferably formed from a wrap including the front, back, top and bottom panels and end pieces forming the two end panels. In a method of use, the carton is filled with articles, transported to a point of sale and then arranged to display articles in the carton, the removable reinforcing element more preferably being removed after the carton is filled with articles and prior to display of the articles to make the carton fully display-ready.

Display-ready shipping carton

The present invention discloses and provides a dough preparation and dividing machine capable of receiving substantially spherical, filled encrusted dough balls and forming them, with a minimum of dough working, into flattened, 'D'-shaped configurations to increase the output of a conventional encrusting and co-extruding device for filled, encrusted dough ball products.

Dough ball preparation table

A dry cleaning system particularly suited for employing supercritical CO.sub.2 as the cleaning fluid consisting of a sealable cleaning vessel containing a rotatable drum adapted for holding soiled substrate, a cleaning fluid storage vessel, and a gas vaporizer vessel for recycling used cleaning fluid is provided. The drum is magnetically coupled to a motor so that it an be rotated during the cleaning process. The system is adapted for automation which permits increased energy efficiency as the heating and cooling effect associated with CO.sub.2 gas condensation and expansion can be channeled to heat and cool various parts of the system.

Liquid/supercritical carbon dioxide dry cleaning system

This invention relates to a method for forming a formable food mass, comprising food pieces with or without a binder, in selected shapes; and this invention describes the apparatus used to prepare the formable food mass without the use of binders, wherein the food pieces are optionally chilled to from about 25.degree. F. to about 35.degree. F. prior to compressing the food pieces into the desired shape; optionally the apparatus has a chilled mold cavity maintained at from about -5.degree. F. to about 5.degree. F. during compression of the food pieces therein.

Method for forming shaped edible products

This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for forming a formable food mass, comprising food pieces without a binder, in selected shapes; and this invention relates to the apparatus used to prepare the formable food mass without the use of binders, wherein the food pieces are optionally chilled to from about 25.degree. F. to about 35.degree. F. prior to compressing the food pieces into the desired shape; optionally the apparatus has a chilled mold cavity maintained at from about -5.degree. F. to about 5.degree. F. during compression of the food pieces therein.

Apparatus for forming binderless edible products

A portable barbecue cooker for use without solvent ignition means or impregnated charcoal briquets. A turbo air blower communicates with ignited briquets through a distributive port plenum chamber and brings ignited briquets to operating temperature rapidly. A vertically and rotationally movable elevator brings the briquets, at operating temperature, to the char grill, and by conveying rotary movement to the char grill, distributes the briquets evenly thereupon. The elevator engages the char grill for vertical movement and for variable spacing with respect to the cook grill. The char grill is equipped with a support cage and plough blades which rotate with the char grill to move ashes from the cooker bowl bottom for transport to an ash collector. Either paper kindling or piezoelectric means provide initial ignition for the briquets in an ignition chamber.

Turbo grill cooker

Combined kettle and side tables for a barbeque grill

Method for forming binderless edible products

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Lafayette, CA, United States of America

Frank M Knafelc