Dean R Rainey

US Patent:

6394337, May 28, 2002

Filed:

Feb 2, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/773575

Inventors:

Michael Edward Ross - Oxford CT
Josephine Telesca - Trumbull CT
Dean R. Rainey - Clinton CT

Assignee:

Unilever Home PersonalCare USA division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B65D 7506

US Classification:

2291032, 206427, 206434

Abstract:

A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.

US Patent:

6419783, Jul 16, 2002

Filed:

Apr 16, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/293729

Inventors:

Dean Rainey - Clinton CT
James Lynn Turbett - Darien CT

Assignee:

Unilever Home Personal Care USA - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B32B 3100

US Classification:

156297, 156325, 222 94

Abstract:

A dual container wherein two chambers are secured together by at least two different adhering agents to maintain integrity over a range of temperatures. The adhering agents may be used to adhere other objects together as well. Preferably, the adhering agents are hot melts.

US Patent:

6779689, Aug 24, 2004

Filed:

Jan 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/348183

Inventors:

Raymond Michael Flaig - Stamford CT
Dean Rainey - Clinton CT

Assignee:

Unilever Home Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B67D 506

US Classification:

222182, 2223217, 222556

Abstract:

An ovaloid dispensing container is provided which includes an ovaloid bottle and an ovaloid overcap. The bottle is fitted with a fluid dispensing device such as a pump assembly. An oval collar is supported on the bottle and has an outwardly flaring shoulder. The overcap is formed with a surrounding wall and a mouth defining an open end. The surrounding wall tapers outwardly while the mouth defines a downwardly convex perimeter on front and rear faces of the surrounding wall. The shoulder functions as a camming surface against which the overcap perimeter slides to assist in twist-off removal of the cap.

US Patent:

6837405, Jan 4, 2005

Filed:

Jan 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/348521

Inventors:

Dean Rainey - Clinton CT, US
Raymond Michael Flaig - Stamford CT, US

Assignee:

Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B65D 4700

US Classification:

222546, 222212, 222554, 222563

Abstract:

A dispensing container is provided which includes an ovaloid bottle and an ovaloid overcap. The bottle includes a dispensing aperture. The overcap is formed with a roof at a closed end thereof and a surrounding wall with a mouth defining an open end opposite the closed end. A pintel and a circular collar both project from the roof in a direction toward the open end. The pintel is sealingly fittable into the dispensing aperture. The circular collar ensures that the pintel will not misalign with the aperture of the bottle and thereby avoids damage to the soft plastic of the pintel. The bottle has a shoulder which serves as a camming device for easy removal of the overcap in a twist motion.

US Patent:

20060186075, Aug 24, 2006

Filed:

Feb 24, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/064704

Inventors:

Dean Rainey - Clinton CT, US
Gina Pisa - Briarcliff Manor NY, US
Jody Wilson - Shelton CT, US

International Classification:

B65D 55/02
A61J 1/00
A61J 1/03

US Classification:

215202000

Abstract:

A container for a cosmetic composition is provided which includes an oval receptacle and replaceable cap. The receptacle is formed with a receiving cavity and near an open end thereof has an oval landing and projecting upward therefrom a centered round neck. A screwable thread is circumferentially molded along a wall of the neck. A stop projects outwardly perpendicular to the thread at a point near the landing. A rib projects from the neck at a point near an open end of the cavity. The cap is fitted with an oval skirt surrounding a circular closure, the latter features a screwable thread complimentary to and lockingly engagable with the screwable thread on the neck. An L-shaped catch on the lower edge of the neck prevents rotation of the cap when contacted with the stop. A tab on an upper edge of the circular closure engages with a tab on the cap producing an audible click as one overrides the other.

US Patent:

48098787, Mar 7, 1989

Filed:

Jun 24, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/212129

Inventors:

Dean R. Rainey - Clinton CT

Assignee:

Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B65D 8854

US Classification:

222321

Abstract:

A viscous product dispenser is described which comprises a tubular container body adapted to hold product, a take-up piston at the lower end of the body which decreases the internal volume of the container as product is dispensed from the container, and a bulk liquid pump dispenser at the upper portion of the container body having a dip tube extending into the container body and a finger depressible, spring-biased piston/cylinder pumping mechanism. The pumping mechanism of the bulk liquid pump dispenser has a product outlet conduit which is parallel and coaxial to the outlet axis of the dip tube and the center of the piston. The piston/cylinder pumping mechanism is of substantially less cross-sectional area than the internal diameter of the container body.

US Patent:

55799574, Dec 3, 1996

Filed:

Apr 25, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/429271

Inventors:

James Gentile - Orange CT
John Bengston - Ridgefield CT
Dean Rainey - Clinton CT
John Eimer - Danbury CT
Alfred G. Zammit - Mississauga, CA

Assignee:

Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B67D 533

US Classification:

22215314

Abstract:

A dispensing package is provided with a container and a cap. The cap includes a mechanism to fittingly engage across an open end of the container, a top portion defined by a deck, a skirt wall surrounding the deck, at least one dispensing orifice formed in the deck, a locking aperture with a wide and a narrow area preferably in a T-shape, a lid hingedly attached to the deck, a flexible post projecting downwardly from the lid, and a release mechanism along the skirt. The flexible post has an enlarged section at an end thereof which can lockingly engage underneath landings that define wide and narrow areas of the locking aperture. A flexible area along the skirt can be pushed inward against the enlarged section of the post to dislodge same from underneath the landings thereby opening the lid.

US Patent:

48544841, Aug 8, 1989

Filed:

Jul 27, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/077913

Inventors:

James L. Gentile - Orange CT
Joseph P. LaRosa - Danbury CT
Dean R. Rainey - Clinton CT

Assignee:

Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

G01F 1100
B67D 540

US Classification:

222256

Abstract:

A product dispenser for viscous products is described comprising a tubular container, a liquid pump dispenser, and a take-up piston which advances towards the pump dispenser as product is dispensed therethrough from the container. The take-up piston has a central depression to accommodate the lower portions of the housing of the pump dispenser when the piston reaches its uppermost location when the container is nearly fully evacuated of product. Transverse slots cut downwardly in the upper surface of the piston extend radially outwardly from the central depression to the sides of the piston to provide a means to bleed or vent off unwanted air entrapped in product which lies in the central depression.