Joseph M Ladina

6474515, Nov 5, 2002

Nov 10, 2000

09/709245

Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA
Thomas C. Stoneberg - Buffalo Grove IL
Gary L. Berge - Crystal Lake IL

The Coca-Cola Company - Atlanta GA

B67D 300

2224815, 222483, 222521

A closure for a bottle. The closure includes a spout neck attached to the bottle and a cap rotatably positioned on the spout neck. The spout neck may have a sealing lip and the cap may have an internal vent and an internal body portion. The sealing lip of the spout neck and the body portion of the cap align to seal the bottle when the cap is in a first position. The sealing lip of the spout neck and the circular vent of the cap align so as to vent the bottle when the cap is turned to a second position.

6484895, Nov 26, 2002

May 18, 2001

09/860895

Gary V. Montgomery - Evansville IN
Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA

The Coca-Cola Company - Atlanta GA
Rexam Medical Packaging Inc. - Evansville IN

B65D 4708

215237, 215303, 215307, 220263, 220835, 222556

A two stage dispensing cap for a carbonated beverage container is described. The cap has a flip top which is hingedly connected to a collar wherein the collar is rotatable on the container. The cap, upon rotation of the collar, is first opened into a venting position wherein the flip top vents the pressurized contents of the container but remains locked partially closed. Continued rotation of the cap releases the locked flop top to allow the container to be fully opened. A set of cams on the container neck work in conjunction with annular beads to first allow partially opening of the flip top into the venting position and then allowing it to fully open.

6545594, Apr 8, 2003

May 25, 2000

09/578877

John D. Knight - Marietta GA
Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA
George E. Selecman - Marblehead MA
Thomas P. Hambleton - Nahant MA
Douglas J. Ely - North Andover MA
Dean M. Pichon - Arlington MA
David Nedder - Attleboro MA

The Coca-Cola Company - Atlanta GA

G08B 310

3403847, 3403841, 206217

A closure for a bottle. The closure includes an outer cap. An audio device and a triggering mechanism are positioned within the outer cap. A water block is positioned on the outer cap so as to prevent water from penetrating into the audio device.

20120305518, Dec 6, 2012

Jun 1, 2011

13/150282

Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA, US
Robert P. Grant - Alpharetta GA, US
Sterling Steward - Douglasville GA, US
Louis Mattos, JR. - Douglasville GA, US

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY - Atlanta GA

B65D 51/16
B67B 3/00

215307, 53471, 53281

The present application and the resultant patent provide a container for a beverage filled in a hot fill process. The container may include a bottle and a closure. The closure may include a vent therein having a top side with an amount of excess material and a bottom side with a porous component.

54621860, Oct 31, 1995

Aug 2, 1994

8/284143

Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA
Timothy R. Exley - Stone Mountain GA
William A. Szedon - Stone Mountain GA

The Coca Cola Company - Atlanta GA

B65D 4104
B65D 5502

215330

A mating closure and finish system particularly adapted for use with containers, e. g. bottles containing carbonated beverages which generate gas in the bottle headspace and where the bottle finish incorporates at least two equally spaced helical cam tracks. The closure is comprised of plural sets of cam followers which fit into the cam tracks and where the cooperation between the cam tracks and cam followers produces an axial movement of the closure as it is rotated on the finish. For a two track system, which is the preferred embodiment, each track starts 180. degree. from each other and makes at least one full turn around the circumference of the finish. Also included are intervening stops and tapered speed bumps that contact and impede the cam follower(s) in the cam tracks during closure removal to effect a delay. Raised thread segments which define the cam tracks are intersected by a plurality of vertical venting slots or pathways along their helical length to vent headspace gas. Longitudinally extending grooves are located in raised thread segments on either side of the cam tracks and couple with the vertical venting slots to provide a continuous venting conduit of the headspace gas.

59155850, Jun 29, 1999

Jul 10, 1997

8/882395

Joseph Ladina - Marietta GA
Wendell Willingham - Zionsville IN
Ted Boehm - Crawfordsville IN
David Cerny - Crawfordsville IN
David Denman - Crawfordsville IN
Daniel Denman - Rockville IN

Alcoa Closure Systems International, Inc. - Crawfordsville IN

B65D 8500

220522

A closure includes a promotion piece holding container within a cap to be installed onto a container such as a bottle. The promotion piece receiving container includes a top flange captured by a lip of a seal installed within the cap. The promotion piece receiving container includes a frangible band extending circumferentially around a substantial circumference of the container. The container can include a bottom flange arranged for convenience gripping and removing of the container from the cap, and a pull tab attached to the frangible band to assist in removing the frangible band to open the container for removal of the promotion piece.

58135634, Sep 29, 1998

Nov 15, 1996

8/749415

Ted W. Boehm - Crawfordsville IN
David E. Babcock - Lafayette IN
Hugh C. Urmston - Carmel IN
Daniel J. Denman - Crawfordsville IN
Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA

Alcoa Closure Systems International, Inc. - Crawfordsville IN

B65D 124

220522

A promotional closure includes an outer closure cap, and a removable inner promotion compartment for receiving an associated promotional element such as a coupon, game piece, currency, or the like. The promotion compartment has a generally cup-shaped configuration, including a circular bottom wall, and an upstanding generally cylindrical side wall. An annular flange extends generally outwardly from the side wall, and includes a detachable portion whereby the annular flange can act as a pull-ring or finger grip to facilitate opening or splitting of the side wall of the compartment. The annular flange is preferably connected to a hingedly detachable section of the side wall which can be pulled open by manipulation of the flange to facilitate access to the contents of the compartment.

58199764, Oct 13, 1998

Nov 15, 1996

8/746710

Ted W. Boehm - Crawfordsville IN
David L. Cerny - Crawfordsville IN
Wendell D. Willingham - Zionsville IN
Daniel J. Denman - Crawfordsville IN
Sheldon L. Wilde - Indianapolis IN
Stephen W. McBride - Brownsburg IN
Hugh C. Urmston - Carmel IN
Ralph H. Whitney - Venice FL
David E. Babcock - Lafayette IN
Joseph M. Ladina - Marietta GA

Alcoa Closure Systems International - Crawfordsville IN

B65D 110

220522

A promotional closure includes a sealed promotion-receiving member in the form of a compartment positioned generally within an outer closure cap, for disposition within an associated container. The sealed configuration of the promotion compartment desirably acts to isolate the promotional element therein from the contents of the container. Use on a container having carbonated contents is particularly facilitated by an arrangement by which a plastic film cover member which seals the compartment is sealed to an annular flange of the compartment to permit predetermined delamination and release of gas pressure from within the interior of the compartment.