The Procter Gamble Company

Imflux Inc.

Pepsico, Inc.

N.v. Nutricia

John Boyet Stevens

David Andrew Dalton

Gene Michael Altonen

Philip Andrew Sawin

Robert Lawrence Prosise

John Moncrief Layman

Robert Earl Magness

Ralph Edwin Neufarth

Clint Adam Morrow

Danny David Lumpkin

Jennifer Elizabeth Hosmer

Julie OiLun Lim

Jeffrey Todd Petach

Ryan Alan Klenke

James Edward Poland

James Dyess

Martin H Beck

Kerry Lloyd Weaver

Charles Aaron Curtiss

Stuart Mark Leslie

Dennis C Connor

Paul Owen Nutley

Cynthia Ann Headen

Kelsey Erin Gibboney

David Tekamp

Lydia Reed

Merijn Dols

A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body that extends about a longitudinal axis and defines an outer surface and an inner passageway. A valve stem extends through the inner passageway and includes an outer stem surface, an inner stem surface opposite the outer stem surface, and a first orifice extending from the outer stem surface to the inner stem surface. The valve assembly includes a retaining member joined to the second portion of the valve stem, wherein the retaining member extends outward from the outer stem surface. The retaining member includes a first retaining member surface, a second retaining member surface, and a void.

Valve assembly for dispensers

A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body. The valve body includes a first hoop member, a second hoop member, and a transition portion defined by the joining of the first hoop member and the second hoop member. The first hoop member includes a first hoop outer portion positioned, a first hoop inner portion, a first hoop upper surface, and a first hoop lower surface. The second hoop member includes a second hoop outer portion, a second hoop inner portion, a second hoop upper surface, and a second hoop lower surface. The second hoop inner portion extends about the longitudinal axis defining a passageway. The passageway comprises a first passageway opening, a second passageway opening opposite the first passageway opening, and a passageway surface extending from the first passageway opening to the second passageway opening.

A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body that extends about a longitudinal axis and defines an outer surface and an inner passageway. The valve body includes a first valve body surface and a second valve body surface opposite the first valve body surface. A valve stem extends through the inner passageway and includes an outer stem surface, an inner stem surface opposite the outer stem surface, and a first orifice extending from the outer stem surface to the inner stem surface. A resilient member is disposed on at least a portion of the first valve body surface. The resilient member is made from a resilient polymeric material and has a non-linear compression profile.

A method comprises steps of: providing an initial package design, providing an initial package-handling element design, modeling the interaction of the package and the package-handling element, and altering one of the package design or the package-handling element design according to the results of the model. Wherein the initial package-handling element design comprises at least one item selected from the group consisting of: a motion transfer component comprising a combination of discrete geometrically defined elements, package guide rails, package guide rail supports, vacuum conveying components, and combinations thereof. And wherein the interaction reflects the package interaction with the discrete elements of a multi-element motion transfer component or the package guide rails having a flexibility greater than zero, or package guide rail supports having a finite stiffness, or a combination thereof.

Method for designing containers

A method for configuring a package labeler, and or labeling process including: providing a package defined as a computed mesh; providing a computed mesh description of a package labeler; providing operational parameters of a labeling operation for the package; simulating the interaction of the package and the package labeler according to the operational parameters of the labeling operation, the computed mesh of the package labeler and the computed mesh of the package; determining the location and/or deformation of the package mesh during at least a portion of the simulated interaction; and confirming, rejecting, or configuring the package labeler according to the determined location(s).

Method for evaluating and configuring label application processes

An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system. The simplified cooling system has a cooling complexity factor of less than three, preferably less than two, more preferably less than one.

Injection mold having a simplified cooling system

A package having a dispensing opening. The opening has a periphery. The package and or opening periphery may have a non-circular cross section. The opening is covered by a removable lid, having an interference fit. The amount of interference varies around the periphery of the opening.

Seal for dispensing container having dispensing opening

A bubble formed in the wall of a plastic container having, an interior surface , an exterior surface and a wall thickness and being suitable for containing a liquid under pressure e.g., a carbonated beverage, including an integral structure formed of a central dome having a convex outer surface facing toward the adjacent exterior surface and connected with an annular trough having an annular concave surface facing the adjacent the exterior surface , a frustum interconnecting the trough with the dome or an outer ring of curved cross-section, the outer ring having an annular concave surface facing toward the interior , integrally formed with the container wall surrounding the bubble, the bubble having a thickness approximately equal to the wall thickness. An associated container, blow mold and method are also included.

Plastic container with decorative recessed features and associated method and apparatus for manufacture thereof

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John Boyet Stevens