Thomas E Jordan

US Patent:

43014941, Nov 17, 1981

Filed:

Sep 28, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/079709

Inventors:

Thomas W. Jordan - Berkeley IL

Assignee:

Wescom, Inc. - Downers Grove IL

International Classification:

H05K 114

US Classification:

361415

Abstract:

A faceplate assembly is provided for use in printed circuit board assemblies comprising a printed circuit board with electrical contact surfaces, and a housing frame with slotted guide rails to receive the circuit board, and edge connector means fastened to the housing frame and displaced at the end of the guide rails. The faceplate assembly includes insertion, extraction and positive latching means molded as an integral part of the faceplate. The faceplate body extends substantially the entire length of the printed circuit board edge and is pivotally mounted to the printed circuit board near one corner thereof. The insertion/extraction means, located on the pivotal end of the faceplate body, is actuated by manual pivotal movement of the faceplate thereby causing the insertion/extraction means to coact with a housing frame U-channel to thus effect engagement or disengagement of the printed circuit board electrical contacts to or from the housing frame edge connector contacts. Final pivotal movement of the faceplate body, directed toward the printed circuit board edge to effect engagement of the corresponding electrical contacts, activates the positive latching means located on the faceplate at the end opposite the insertion/extraction means to thereby positively lock the board and housing frame electrical contacts into a mated position.

US Patent:

41414489, Feb 27, 1979

Filed:

Feb 14, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/878182

Inventors:

Carmen T. Mascia - Clarendon Hills IL
Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

B65D 6522
B65D 7524

US Classification:

206485

Abstract:

An integrated double serving package with hanger wherein a pair of bowl-like containers having removable covers are held together in a display package by a retaining sleeve which is of a polygonal cross section and including flat panels having notches therein receiving the projections of the containers and covers. The sleeve has end portions secured together by a projecting hanger portion whereby the package may be readily hung from a hook or the like for display purposes.

US Patent:

40651983, Dec 27, 1977

Filed:

Dec 13, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/749740

Inventors:

Thomas W. Jordan - Berkeley IL

Assignee:

Wescom, Inc. - Downers Grove IL

International Classification:

H05K 118

US Classification:

339 17D

Abstract:

An LED mounting retainer and a printed circuit board display using such retainer for firmly mounting LED's on a printed circuit board with the LED axis parallel to the board and spaced at a precisely determined standoff distance from the board. The retainer is a unitary injection molded plastic element having a body and a locking member joined by a hinge. The body has a recess for receiving the LED, the recess having apertures for allowing the LED leads to project therethrough. The locking member in being pivoted to a locked position engages the leads to bend them about 90. degree. from their initial orientation, causing the leads to project below a mounting surface on the LED retainer, to produce a right angle indicator assembly.

US Patent:

41113306, Sep 5, 1978

Filed:

Oct 31, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/847108

Inventors:

Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

B65D 4116

US Classification:

220306

Abstract:

A container which may be formed of sheet material in a conventional manner of forming cans and the like and wherein the container is suitable for sealing under a vacuum and is readily openable and reclosable in the manner of a Mason jar. The container includes a body defining a peripheral sealing cavity in which a formed in situ gasket is permanently retained.

US Patent:

41717430, Oct 23, 1979

Filed:

Aug 31, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/938618

Inventors:

Carmen T. Mascia - Clarendon Hills IL
Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

B65D 6522
B65D 7524

US Classification:

206527

Abstract:

A display package which is formed of a pair of serving packages each including a bowl-like container with a removable cover. The covers are interlocked with the containers and require outward radial expansion for removal. The serving packages are arranged with the covers in face-to-face engagement and are joined together by a circumferential band shrunk in place and interlocked behind the covers. A separately formed hook of the bent wire type has a loop receiving the band and serves as hanging means for the package.

US Patent:

42916402, Sep 29, 1981

Filed:

Sep 9, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/831977

Inventors:

Robert D. Payne - Countryside IL
Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

C23C 1308
B05B 700
B05B 128

US Classification:

118 501

Abstract:

An apparatus for the internal coating of a two-piece can body with a powder. Two-piece can bodies include a body and an end. A stream of powder is directed towards the corner between the end and the body in a circular path by rotating either the can body or the powder dispenser so as to coat the end of the can body. A recovery tube is provided to draw the powder rearwardly out of the can body away from the end in a generally cylindrical path adjacent the interior wall of the body so as to coat the body with the powder. The powder is electrostatically charged so as to adhere to the can body until such time as the powder may be suitably cured.

US Patent:

41580710, Jun 12, 1979

Filed:

Sep 9, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/831980

Inventors:

Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL
Robert D. Payne - Countryside IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

B05B 502

US Classification:

427 33

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for coating the inside of tubular members, more specifically can bodies, which are open at opposite ends. The apparatus includes a supply tube and a return tube which are spaced apart to have received therebetween the tubular member to be coated. In each of the supply tube and the return tube there is positioned a corona electrode, the corona electrodes being in alignment wherein powder supplied to the interior of the tubular member is both initially charged as it passes through the supply tube and is further charged within the tubular member by an electrical field which exists between the two corona electrodes and the tubular member. Powder is supplied to the supply tube through a small diameter passage as compared to the diameter of the supply tube and there is provided a diverter which effects radially outward flow of incoming powder so that the powder is concentrated substantially adjacent the inner surface of the supply tube so that the powder delivered to the tubular member flows substantially entirely along the inner surface of the tubular member. The method and apparatus permits the provision of a thin coating on the tubular member which is uniform in thickness even at opposite ends thereof.

US Patent:

42892503, Sep 15, 1981

Filed:

Apr 28, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/144006

Inventors:

Thomas F. Jordan - Oak Park IL

Assignee:

The Continental Group, Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B65D 1734

US Classification:

220269

Abstract:

This relates to an easy opening container wherein a displaceable panel portion is defined by a line of weakness and has attached thereto an opening device. Most particularly, the opening device is formed of a length of flexible material, such as a tape, which is folded upon itself and has a lower leg bonded to the displaceable panel portion. The outer leg, which functions as a pull element, has secured thereto an opening element which extends beyond the fold and has a nose for effecting an axially inwardly directed opening force on the displaceable panel portion.