Abstract: A receptacle for storage and display of needles has a flat rear panel of cardboard and a flat front panel of light-transmitting plastic material. Each panel has a first section and a second section, and the first sections are bonded to each other except to define a first chamber with parallel pockets for first portions of needles. The second sections are separably bonded to each other and define a second chamber for second portions of needles. The second section of the rear panel has a first leaf which can be pivoted away from the second section of the front panel, and a second leaf which can be pivoted relative to the first leaf and carries a tongue at the junction of the two leaves. The second section of the front panel has a first flap which can be pivoted away from the rear panel and away from the second portions of the needles so that such second portions become accessible upon pivoting of the first flap and the first leaf away from each other and away from the needles.

Abstract: A pack for notions and/or other relatively small commodities has a converted blank of cardboard or other degradable material and a light-transmitting plastic cover which is separably connected to a container of the converted blank. The converted blank further comprises a plate-like carrier having an opening so that it can be slipped onto a rail or an analogous support in a self-service store, in a workshop or at home. The plane of the carrier is located between the plane of a bottom wall of the container and the plane of a top wall of the cover. The sidewalls of the container forming part of the converted blank are removably confined between the lateral walls of the cover, and the top wall of the cover then overlies the open top of the container. The carrier can be separated from the container to reduce the space requirements of the remaining parts (container and cover) of the pack in a small area. The container can be withdrawn from and reinserted into the cover.

Abstract: A machine (1) for attaching buttons, rivets or the like, preferably to articles of clothing, which buttons, rivets or the like consist of an upper part (124, 125) and a lower part (67, 68) which are fed to an upper tool (9) and lower tool (10) from magazines and are brought into form-locked connection with each other with the interposition of the material (167) by the stroke of a ram (140); in order to optimize the use of different button parts, it is proposed that the upper tool (9) and the lower tool (10) be arranged opposite each other, lying in each case one behind the other in a row on the upper (51) and lower (48) arms of a U-shaped carriage (30) by the positioning of which the upper tool (9), which is to be placed in action in each case, enters into coupling position with respect to the ram (140).

Abstract: A button wherein the deformable shank of a rivet (which carries the enlarged portion that is to pass through a buttonhole) must be caused to penetrate through a layer of textile or other carrier material and to thereupon enter a retaining device having a portion which deforms the free end portion of the rivet. The rivet is part of the male component of a universal joint which further comprises a socket secured to the rear surface of the enlarged portion.

Abstract: A pack for arrays of needles has a plate-like carrier with a hinge between its upper and lower sections, and a cover which overlies the front side of the carrier and has upper and lower sections connected to each other by a hinge. The lower sections are permanently bonded to each other around a field of parallel pockets for needles in one of the lower sections, and the upper sections are separably connected to each other to permit pivoting of such upper sections relative to each other in order to expose the needles. The upper sections can be recoupled to each other, and at least those portions of the cover which are adjacent the needles consist of a light-transmitting plastic material.

Abstract: A snap fastener wherein the male and femal components are sealingly connected with sheet-like carriers of textile or other material. The male component has a male coupling element with a head which defines a cavity and with a collar one side of which is adjacent the inlet of the cavity. A deformable metallic or plastic liner is received in the cavity and has an extension in a depression at the one side of the collar. A first rivet secures the male coupling element to the outer side of a first carrier; to this, end, the shank of the rivet extends through the first carrier and into the liner to deform the latter into sealing engagement with the head as well as to urge the outer side of the first carrier against the extension of the liner.

Abstract: A riveting press wherein the reciprocable ram of the upper tool can be rotated by a stepping motor to transmit torque to an article holding device which is reciprocable independently of the ram to pick up randomly oriented articles from a transferring device. The latter accepts successive randomly oriented articles from a chute and carries a sensor which interrupts rotation of the article and of the holding device when its follower detects a marker on the article. An adjustable selector switch or a computer is provided to induce the motor to turn the holding device and the article therein to a final angular position prior to application of the article to a garment.

Abstract: A corrosion-resistant copper-based alloy contains 0.1-5 percent by weight of nickel; 0.01-1.5 percent by weight total of titanium and niobium; 0.2-5 percent by weight total of iron and chromium; 0.01-0.25 percent by weight total of germanium and gallium; and up to 0.01 percent by weight each of the trace elements phosphorus, silicon and manganese. The alloying elements passivate and cathodically protect the copper while the trace elements function as stabilizers. The alloy may be used for the facades of buildings, for roofs, for the gutters of buildings and for applications involving flowing corrosive media.

Abstract: A snap fastener wherein the female component has an end wall with a rim extending from one side of the end wall and a centrally located elastically deformable female coupling element provided on a frustoconical central portion of the end wall. The central portion has a concave surface at the other side of the end wall. The male component has a mushroom-shaped male coupling element which can be forced, not unlike an arrowhead, the female coupling element from the concave side of the central portion of the end wall. The force which must be applied to extract the male coupling element from the female coupling element is several times the force which is required to insert the male coupling element because the central portion of the end wall yields more readily in a direction toward the one side of the end wall.

Abstract: A riveting press wherein the female component of a composite button, knob or a like article of hardware is introduced between the jaws of first tongs below a sheet of textile material whose marked side faces upwardly, and wherein the male component of the article is introduced between the jaws of second tongs at a level above the sheet. The first tongs deposit the female component on a stationary anvil while the second tongs descend toward the upper side of the sheet to place the male component into the path of movement of a descending ram which causes a deformable part of the male component to penetrate through the sheet and to be deformed into permanent engagement with the female component by a centering stud which is provided on the anvil. The mechanism which moves the first tongs up and down derives motion from the mechanism which moves the second tongs and the ram.

Abstract: A riveting press for the application of several types of compatible first and second articles of hardware to garments has a discrete magazine for each first and second article, applicators for first and compatible second articles, a foot pedal for initiating a cycle of operation of the applicators, and a computer-operated feeding unit for delivering selected first and complementary second articles from the respective magazines to the corresponding applicators. The computer for the feeding unit can be programmed to select the sequence in which various different first and compatible second articles are fed to the respective applicators, and to select the number of identical first and compatible second articles which are fed during successive cycles of the press.