Colgate Palmolive Company

Other

Issac Zaksenberg

John C Crawford

Patrick M Calello

Christopher Miller

Kevin Harrity

George J Neveras

Alan Nimmey

A personal light apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a resting base having a flat portion and a battery compartment for receiving a battery; a light having a flexible tube, the flexible tube attached to the resting base; a switch in electrical communication with the battery and the light, wherein the switch turns on and off the light; and at least one attachment means for removably attaching a time keeping apparatus to the flat portion.

Light apparatus with attachment means

Envelope opener

Tongue cleaner

Dispenser

Bottle

The container has a varied sized substance body chamber with a channel at an exit end. This channel is sealed by a breakaway tab at an end distant form the chamber. Within the channel is a positive seal valve that can reseal the container after it has initially been opened. This valve is comprised of an upper wall of the channel being in a close contact with the lower wall. The lower wall usually will have a concave shape, with the upper wall contacting the lower wall with a mating convex shape. However this is not required with the channel having many differing shapes and dimensions. This valve can be separated from the substance holding body chamber by a portion of the channel, can be at the junction of the storing chamber and the channel or can be at the junction of the exit of the channel. When a compressive pressure is applied to the substance holding chamber, the substance flows down the channel to the valve. When the liquid pressure reaches a given level, the concave upper wall of the valve moves out of contact with the convex lower wall and some of the substance is dispensed. Upon the cessation of pressure the convex and concave portions come back into contact to cut off the flow of the substance. This valve produces a positive seal which provides a positive seal for the thermoformed container.

Container with formed memory valve

Figurine attached to a dip tube of a container

The three-dimensional design of a container is enhanced by the suspension of a three-dimensional design within the container. This is accomplished by a depending member which is a part of a container closure or which is supported by the upper edge of a container and held in place by a closure. This depending member has a three-dimensional design attached thereto or as an integral part thereof. The depending member can be cylindrical of different shapes or can be discontinuous such as having a longitudinal gap extending partially or fully the length of the depending member. When the closure to the container is a pump dispenser the dip tube of the pump dispenser can pass through and be partially or fully surrounded by the depending member, or optionally the dip tube can be the depending member with the three-dimensional design attached thereto or an integral part thereof. In a further embodiment the liquid in the container and the material of the depending member, and optionally a dip tube, have refractive indices whereby the depending member and dip tube substantially visually disappear in the liquid of the container. The result of the foregoing embodiments is a container that has a striking three-dimensional design appearance.

Enhanced three-dimensional container display

The present closure is one that is actuated and opened indirectly. A force on a push pad causes the lid to open. There is no direct manual force applied to the lid to open the lid. The closure is comprised of a base section and a lid section. These are separate molded sections. These separate molded sections are attached after molding. The base section has the attachment to a container, structural integrity, a spout, and a lid actuator mechanism. The lid actuator mechanism is comprised of a strap with a push pad with an actuator rod at the end adjacent an actuator wall. The lid section has a spout closing section for the spout of the base section and an attachment fitting for attachment to the base section. The spout closing section is attached to the attachment fitting by living hinges, and preferably, preloaded living hinges. Such living hinges reduce the force to actuate. The closure is opened by pushing on a push pad which in turn causes the living hinges to be actuated and the lid snap opened. The lid is manually closed.

Indirectly activated closure

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Scotch Plains, NJ, United States of America

Issac Zaksenberg