Michael T Tully

US Patent:

61741221, Jan 16, 2001

Filed:

Jan 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/245115

Inventors:

Robert J. Krooss - Mountain Lakes NJ
Kenneth F. Regula - Sparta NJ
Michael A. Tully - Union City NJ

Assignee:

Pace Packaging Corporation - Fairfield NJ

International Classification:

B65G 5908

US Classification:

414412

Abstract:

A carrier container having sides, ends and a bottom defining an open face holding chamber, is provided for loading a stack of tiers loaded on a pallet into the holding chamber. The stack of tiers comprises a plurality of tier sheets, each supporting a plurality of products aligned in groups on each tier. The tier sheets are disposed vertically, defining a stack. The stack is positioned on and secured to the pallet. Loading of the stack of tiers and pallet into the holding chamber is accomplished with the holding chamber in a vertical orientation. After loading the stack of tiers and pallet into the holding chamber the carrier container is rotated from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation, securing the stack of tiers and pallet in the holding chamber. Each of the tier sheets is removed from the stack destroying the stack and displacing the products from the stack, the products retained in the holding chamber. One of the ends which defines a part of the holding chamber is collapsed into a pouring spout and the carrier container is rotated toward the pouring spout for unloading the plurality of products from the holding chamber.

US Patent:

46340220, Jan 6, 1987

Filed:

May 28, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/738660

Inventors:

P. Joseph O'Halloran - Wyckoff NJ
Robert H. Laauwe - Franklin Lakes NJ
Stanley L. Roggenburg - Staten Island NY
Michael E. Tully - Staten Island NY

International Classification:

B65D 3528

US Classification:

222 95

Abstract:

A wall fixture containing a liquid dispenser, the fixture comprising a bracket having an upstanding plate from the bottom of which a shelf having a nozzle hole extends forwardly and a cover adapted to open and close in front of the plate and shelf, the dispenser comprising a flexible bag having front and back walls containing the liquid and having a main portion with its back wall suspended in front of the plate and a dispensing portion folded forwardly on the shelf so as to form a lower wall, the lower wall having a dispensing valve having a dispensing nozzle extending downwardly through the nozzle hole, and a depressible upper wall above the valve, the valve having an operator between the upper and lower walls and actuated by pressing the upper wall downwardly on the operator; the cover having a pressing arrangement for pressing a bulge in the bag's front wall and extending towards the bag's back wall at a position above the bag's dispensing portion and so as to form a passageway on at least one side of the bulge extending between the main and dispensing portions of the bag when the cover is closed.