Abstract: A method of applying a starch sizing to a forming web on a paper machine, such as in the form of a curtain on a fourdrinier machine, employs a suspension of uncooked particulate starch and water which is applied, as a suspension, to the inlet of a downwardly opening die positioned over the forming web and applied at a consistency of between about 2 to 10% onto the surface of the web as a free falling curtain, the impact velocity of which is controlled to a rate sufficiently low to prevent distortion of the web on impact. Improved drainage is achieved by heating the suspension to a temperature less than about 150.degree., to prevent the cooking of the starched particles. The curtain may be applied to the web at fourdrinier table consistencies as low as about 2% and still obtain starch retention rates of about 80%.

Abstract: A paperboard container for the containment and dispensing of small objects such as candies, including a back wall, a front wall, a pair of opposed side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall defining an inner chamber. In one preferred embodiment, the inner chamber is divided into three cells by a baffle. The front wall includes at least three openings, one each of the openings positioned to cooperate with one of each of the inner cells. A dial wheel is rotatably positioned between the inner cells and the front wall. The dial wheel includes a plurality of openings which are positioned in the dial wheel so that the dial wheel can be rotated to allow dispensing from any one of the cells or any combination of the cells, through aligned openings in the dial wheel and front wall. The dial wheel can be rotated to close the container.

Abstract: In a pallet, each of a plurality of similar stringers is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has at least two downwardly opening notches, and each of a plurality of similar braces is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has an upwardly opening notch. The upwardly opening notch of each brace is interengaged with one of the downwardly opening notches of the stringers, except that at least one of the stringers is not interengaged with such a brace at one or more of the downwardly opening notches. Each downwardly opening notch of each stringer is shaped so as to be deeper at the outer panels of such stringer and so and to so as to be shallower at two inner panels of such stringer. Each upwardly opening notch of each brace is shaped so as to interengage with such a notch of one of the stringers and so as to have a groove receiving portions of the inner panels of the stringer having the interengaging notch.