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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:
Aug. 01, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Will L Culpepper, Covington, GA (US);
James J Feliks, Doraville, GA (US);
Assignee:
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B67B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53300 ; 53306 ; 53368 ;
Abstract
A container lid positioned atop a filled container is sealed to the top of the container by a vertically reciprocable sealing device engageable with the container lid, the container and lid being positioned on yieldable structure so as to avoid damage to the sealing apparatus or to the container being sealed which might occur due to the thrust of the sealing device.