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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Medline Industries, Lp, Northfield, IL (US);
Inventors:
Paige Wexler, Northfield, IL (US);
Evan Oravec, Northfield, IL (US);
Quinten Krisik, Northfield, IL (US);
Gregory J Foster, Northfield, IL (US);
Robert W. Sheldon, Northfield, IL (US);
Assignee:
Medline Industries, LP, Northfield, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/422 (2013.01);
Abstract
An article advancing assembly and various article advancers are provided for helping dispense articles from a container. In some forms, the article advancers are provided that can bias the contents of the containers towards the dispensing opening. This can, in some forms, provide extra friction within the container and/or at the dispensing opening to decrease extra contents from being dispensed and thus decrease waste.