James R Langmeier

US Patent:

7757855, Jul 20, 2010

Filed:

Feb 7, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/360291

Inventors:

Mark Andrew Jarvis - Maidenhead, GB
James Robert Langmeier - Hamilton OH, US
James Peter Brastauskas - Mason OH, US

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65D 85/84
A61K 9/00

US Classification:

2065241, 424400

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved child resistant sachet construction, suitable for holding a medicinal product, especially a flavored product. The sachet is a three seal sachet, or stick pack, made from a laminate sheet, the sachet having a fin seal along a longitudinal axis and transverse fin seals at each end. The laminate sheet is tough enough to resist tearing unless a notch is provided with which to initiate a tear. A fold line extends across a corner of the sachet and through the fin seal, a notch extending through the sachet in a transverse seal area and perpendicular to the fold line such that when the sachet is folded a cut is revealed that allows the user to initiate a tear across the pack opening up a pouring spout for dispensing the medicinal product. In an alternative aspect of the invention the laminate sheet is provided with an acrylonitrile methyl acrylate copolymer resin on the sheet face which forms the inside of the sachet. This layer provides improved retention of flavor whilst still allowing the sachet to be readily torn once a tear has been initiated.

US Patent:

8066120, Nov 29, 2011

Filed:

Dec 10, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/634769

Inventors:

Mark Andrew Jarvis - Maidenhead, GB
James Robert Langmeier - Hamilton OH, US
James Peter Brastauskas - Mason OH, US

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65D 85/84
A61K 9/00

US Classification:

2065241, 424400

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved child resistant sachet construction, suitable for holding a medicinal product, especially a flavored product. The sachet is a three seal sachet, or stick pack, made from a laminate sheet, the sachet having a fin seal along a longitudinal axis and transverse fin seals at each end. The laminate sheet is tough enough to resist tearing unless a notch is provided with which to initiate a tear. A fold line extends across a corner of the sachet and through the fin seal, a notch extending through the sachet in a transverse seal area and perpendicular to the fold line such that when the sachet is folded a cut is revealed that allows the user to initiate a tear across the pack opening up a pouring spout for dispensing the medicinal product. In an alternative aspect of the invention the laminate sheet is provided with an acrylonitrile methyl acrylate copolymer resin on the sheet face which forms the inside of the sachet. This layer provides improved retention of flavor while still allowing the sachet to be readily torn once a tear has been initiated.

US Patent:

48077879, Feb 28, 1989

Filed:

Oct 27, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/114174

Inventors:

James R. Langmeier - Hamilton OH
Mohamed N. H. Chehab - Brussels, BE
Robert C. J. M. De Caluwe - Londerzeel, BE
Willy A. M. Hertogs - Sint Katelijne Waver, BE
Jean B. A. Van den Broeck - Asse, BE
Miriam H. J. M. van Loon - Mol, BE

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65D 4708

US Classification:

222529

Abstract:

An easy-open/reclosure device intended to be attached to the top lid of a container having an upstanding peripheral rim. The device includes a base portion and a moveable portion preferably hingedly attached thereto. The base portion has a dispensing aperture, a depending flange encircling the aperture, and a deformable pouring lip/drain surface. The moveable portion has a depending plug member which is shaped complementary to the base portion's aperture for reclosing the container. When the device is applied to the container, the base portion's depending flange is pushed through a prescored or pre-cut aperture in the container's top lid. In applying the device to the container, the container's peripheral rim bends the base portion's deformable pouring lip/drain surface upward and inward such that it assumes an inclined, trough-shaped configuration. This resultant shape provides an excellent surface for both channeling product up and over the container's peripheral rim when the container is tipped as well as for channeling any residual product remaining on this surface back into the container when it is returned to its upright position.