Charles Dumont

US Patent:

20010025859, Oct 4, 2001

Filed:

Feb 17, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/505668

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Miami FL, US

International Classification:

B67D005/52

US Classification:

222/136000, 222/145600, 222/235000, 222/325000

Abstract:

A dispensing container which stores two or more separated fluids and blends the fluids when dispensing. The container has two or more liquid receptacles and a cap which threads to the bottle. The receptacles include the open interior of the container, and an interior vessel separate and removable from the container. The cap is connected a mixing circuit which retrieves and blends fluids taken from the receptacles. A pump, which may be either manually or electrically operated, draws fluids from the receptacles and discharges these fluids after they are mixed. The dispensing container has at least one, and optionally a plurality of separate, attachable auxiliary vessels. The auxiliary vessels communicate with the mixing circuit or alternatively with one another. The auxiliary vessels are constructed to hold pressurized propellant, while the dispensing container is formed from plastic. Internal circuitry has check valves which relieve vacuum which would otherwise develop within the container, and includes valves which open responsive to auxiliary vessels being installed or inserted into the dispensing container.

US Patent:

20020108968, Aug 15, 2002

Filed:

Feb 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/781166

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Miami FL, US

International Classification:

B67D005/52

US Classification:

222/136000, 222/145600, 222/321900

Abstract:

A dispensing bottle which stores two separated fluids and blends the fluids when dispensing. The bottle has two liquid receptacles and a cap which threads to the bottle. The receptacles include the open interior of the bottle, and an interior vessel separate and removable from the bottle. The cap includes a mixing circuit which retrieves and blends fluids taken from the receptacles. The mixing circuit includes a pick-up tube to each receptacle, coaxially aligned, one within the other, a mixing chamber and a check valve preventing backflow of mixed fluids into the storage receptacles. A proportioning valve adjusts the proportions of the fluids entering the mixing chamber. The bottle has a plunger type pump which propels mixed fluid to a discharge nozzle. The pump optionally has mixing blades projecting therefrom and/or mixing balls therein for blending the fluids.

US Patent:

56410395, Jun 24, 1997

Filed:

Sep 2, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/300333

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Surfside FL

International Classification:

A47F 904

US Classification:

186 61

Abstract:

To be used to checkout a plurality of items to be purchased, a purchase checkout station including a product scanner utilized to scan a bar code of the item to be purchased and obtain store and purchase information relative to the item to be purchased, a data transmission connector structured to receive the purchase and pricing information regarding the items to be purchased from the product scanner for transmittal to the purchase checkout station for totalling and storage. The purchase checkout station including a loading platform whereon each item to be purchased is individually placed and verified as an item which has been scanned and whose pricing and purchase information has been transmitted to the checkout station, whereafter the loading platform is moved to an open position enabling the verified item to be purchased atop the loading platform, only if it has been properly scanned, to be placed into an automatically positioned and opened bag which receives a predetermined quantity of the items to be purchased therein and is sealed for secured removal by the consumer subsequent to payment.

US Patent:

55843620, Dec 17, 1996

Filed:

Apr 10, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/419430

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Surfside FL

International Classification:

A47F 904

US Classification:

186 61

Abstract:

A customer checkout apparatus for recording the prices of purchase items where the purchase items each have an item information display mechanism for storing purchase item data including purchase item price in machine readable form includes an item check-out vessel for receiving each of the purchase items, and for checking each purchase item, the vessel including a vessel wall and an item receiving door for opening to admit a given purchase item into the vessel and for closing to secure the item against tampering during item check-out, a purchase item display mechanism scanning device for reading item data from the information display mechanism on each item upon closing of the item receiving door, and a microprocessor for receiving and processing and storing data scanned by the display mechanism scanning device. A method of using the apparatus is also provided, and includes the steps of placing the purchase item and the attached information display mechanism into the check-out vessel, closing the item receiving door, scanning the information display mechanism, and releasing the item from the vessel.

US Patent:

62097571, Apr 3, 2001

Filed:

May 16, 2000

Appl. No.:

9/572403

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Miami FL

International Classification:

B65D 8300
B65D 3700

US Classification:

2221456

Abstract:

A dispensing container which stores two or more separated fluids and blends the fluids when dispensing. The container includes a storage bottle for containing the first fluid and an interior auxiliary vessel for containing a second fluid. The auxiliary vessel is configured as a closure closing the open storage area of the storage bottle by threading thereto, and forms a mixing chamber above the storage bottle and auxiliary vessel. The mixing chamber has first check valves preventing backflow into the storage area of the bottle and second check valves preventing backflow into the auxiliary vessel. Preferably, the check valves are flaccid membrane valves. Optionally, agitating balls are provided in the mixing chamber. In another option, squeeze resistant compression members are placed inside the storage bottle to transfer pressure from squeezing to the interior auxiliary vessel. In still another option, dispensing container has at least one and optionally several recharging vessels.

US Patent:

55515312, Sep 3, 1996

Filed:

Oct 12, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/321798

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Surfside FL

International Classification:

A47F 1002

US Classification:

186 61

Abstract:

An apparatus for pricing and bagging purchase items which are marked with bar codes includes a hub rotatably mounted on a hub mounting structure, a transparent and substantially horizontal upper table positioned over the lower table and rotatably mounted on the hub, the upper table having a circular array of purchase item delivery ports opening through the upper table, a transparent tray removably covering the purchase item delivery ports for receiving and retaining one the purchase item, a motor for rotating the upper table on the hub, a bar code scanner positioned beneath the upper table and directed upward, a plurality of bags individually designated for specific types of purchase items and positioned below one of the delivery ports for selectively receiving the purchase item, a tray tilting mechanism for tilting the tray to drop the purchase item from the tray through the port beneath the tray into one of the bags, a microprocessor for controlling the operation of the motor to rotate the upper table to pass the purchase item over the scanner to read the price and classification of the purchase item, and then for operating the motor to rotate the purchase item to a position directly above one of the bags designated for receiving purchase items of the classification of the purchase item, and for causing the tray tilting mechanism to drop the purchase item off the tray and through the port beneath the tray, into the particular bag, and for replacing the tray, and the method of using the apparatus.

US Patent:

55403018, Jul 30, 1996

Filed:

Oct 25, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/328683

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Surfside FL

International Classification:

A47F 904

US Classification:

186 61

Abstract:

An automatic bulk self-checkout apparatus includes several purchase items, each item being marked with a bar code containing item price information, a purchase item holder for retaining purchase items as they are gathered and transported to a checkout area of a store, a bar code scanner assembly for reading the bar codes while the items are inside the item holder and for sending information contained in the bar codes as signals, a bar code processing assembly for receiving and converting the signals into numerical price data and for totalling prices of the items within the item holder. The apparatus preferably includes a tunnel structure having an entry port, an exit port, a top wall and two opposing side walls and a floor, and sized to receive through the ports the item holder, where the scanner assembly is located within the tunnel structure and oriented to scan the bar codes on the items within the item holder. The apparatus also preferably includes a conveyor belt for automatically transporting the item holder through the tunnel structure from the entry port to the exit port. The apparatus may additionally include a first sensor assembly for sensing an item holder placed at the entry port and activating the conveyor belt for a prescribed time duration.

US Patent:

62699792, Aug 7, 2001

Filed:

Oct 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/412582

Inventors:

Charles Dumont - Miami FL

International Classification:

B67D 560

US Classification:

2221451

Abstract:

A multi-compartmented storage and dispensing container is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the larger outer bottle surrounds and is attached to an inner compartment or chamber that, in the preferred embodiment, is a generally cylindrical enclosure having helically oriented scores or striations. This cylindrical inner enclosure is attached at its base to the outer bottle and is engaged and broken open by the closure assembly. The closure assembly consists of a threaded cap attached to an inner enclosure engagement arm. A removable security ring is initially located between the bottom of the threaded cap and the outer bottle shoulder. After this ring is removed, the user tightens the cap all the way down, bringing the inner enclosure engagement arm into contact with anchored cylindrical inner enclosure. As the cap is twisted, the inner enclosure breaks along the scored lines due to the torque, and the material contained within the inner enclosure is released into the outer bottle. The user may then shake or otherwise agitate the outer bottle to mix the different materials together.