Abstract: A three piece egg container assembly is provided which includes a rectangular base member having a bottom wall, sidewalls and an open top, an egg tray with a plurality of egg receiving receptacles receivable within the base member and a removable lid for the base member. The lid is configured with a peripheral lip such that one side of the lid conforms to the base member bottom wall, the open top of the base member and the egg tray such that the first surface of the lid could receive any of those elements. A second side of the lid conforms to the opening of the base member such that the lid can be received in the opening either in an upright position or an inverted position. Stacking of numerous base members with intervening inverted lids or stacking of the egg tray on the lid is thereby accommodated by this construction.

Abstract: A case for organizing and sorting small articles includes a body and a hinged lid with a latch mechanism for closing securely. A plurality of web portions in the inside surface of the lid align with matching web portions in the inside surface of the bottom of the case, forming a plurality of cells in the lid and bottom of the case. An article container fits into each cell, and is sealed at the top by the case lid when it is closed, and is restrained from movement by the top and bottom web. The top surface of the lid includes a recessed article sorting tray, which tapers as a funnel toward the rear of the case and terminates in a chute. An article container is placed in a recessed loading channel at the rear of the body. Small articles can be sorted or selected in the sorting tray in the case top and then returned to the container by lifting the lid.

Abstract: A cigarette package comprises a plurality of packs, and a binder member bonded to adjoining edge faces of the packs. A releasable retainer normally holds the packs together. Upon release of the retainer, the packs can be fanned-out about axes coinciding with adjoining corners of the packs. Any number of the packs can be detached by the user for individual use.

Abstract: A peelable foil packaging system for absorbable or pre-moistened nylon sutures which may be used to transfer the sutures into a sterile field. In a preferred embodiment, the foil package comprises two foil sections each with a polymer inner coating. The sections are sealed together enclosing a suture holding mechanism which presents a needle with attached suture for arming a needle holder.

Abstract: A package having a separable overlay is formed by a high speed web roll manufacturing method and adapted for multiple marketing of retail goods. The package has at least three layered sheets of flexible material, the outermost sheet being quickly and easily removable from the remainder of the package without disruption thereof. The package may thus be converted from one for marketing goods under a label of a seasonal or special nature to a package for marketing goods under a label of a general or everyday nature, to thereby extend the profitable shelf-life of the package.

Abstract: A two-piece dunnage device includes a cushioning piece made of a resilient foamed plastic material and a supporting piece to which the cushioning piece is mechanically attached without adhesives or bonding agents. The cushioning piece has a plurality of cushioning elements that extend from a connecting web. The cushioning elements are spaced apart to provide support for articles shipped in a container. The supporting piece presents the cushioning piece away from the sides of the shipping container. The supporting piece may be made of plastic or fiberboard and may be shaped as beams either folded into a cross-section or extruded into a cross-section. Such cross-sections include circles, triangles and rectangles.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transfer container for carrying circuit panels in and between substantially contaminant free environments. The walls of the transfer container are fabricated out of substantially particulate free, unfilled polymers, such as polycarbonate. One of the end walls is an access wall. The access wall has an opening surrounded by a ferromagnetic gasket. This gasketed opening is adapted to receive a ferromagnetic door panel. The side walls, and the top and bottom walls may extend beyond the access wall, with the ends of said walls defining a plane, so that the access wall is recessed with respect to the plane defined by the said extensions. Each of the side walls have co-planar bracket pairs for holding circuit panels. Either one of, or preferably both brackets of a bracket pair have pyramidal or conical positioning pins. These pins extend upwardly from the brackets and are adapted to receive and hold a workpiece in place.

Abstract: A water and dirt protective, camcorder, shooting case comprises an enclosure. The enclosure comprises an outer structure that substantially encapsulates the camcorder and minimizes damage from adverse environmental elements and from harmful shock and impact from external objects, while allowing camcorder shooting with the enclosed camcorder. The enclosure includes interconnected folding end frames, tension members for allowing the enclosure to be adjustable from a collapsed, flexible, folded arrangement to an erect, tensioned and semi-rigid arrangement, which semi-rigid arrangement serves to minimize said damage. The enclosure also comprises a water and snow resistant, a dirt and dust protective, and a shock and impact protective material to effect minimizing said damage.

Abstract: The support blank (1) forms the actual packaging envelope with the parallel side walls (4, 4'), which run parallel to the corrugations (3). These corrugations are formed from a shaped blank (2) which is connected with the support blank at the corrugation valleys. An end corrugation (6, 6') is in each case arranged directly next to the parallel side walls (4, 4'), the outer wall (7) of which is no longer connected with the support blank. The outer wall lies loosely against the parallel side wall and through that is held in position.

Abstract: A self-sealing compression packaging bag for compression sealing of an article on evacuation and a compression packaging kit using the bag. Clothing is introduced at an opening part of a bag formed of a film material exhibiting self-adherent properties and provided with an evacuating port. An evacuating tube is introduced into the evacuating port and the inside of the bag is evacuated through the tube by a vacuum pump. The opening part is automatically sealed at this time, and the evacuation port is automatically sealed on extracting the evacuating tube. Tight sealing of the bag may be achieved automatically on evacuation without the need for heat compression bonding. Also, the bag is portable.

Abstract: The packed electric lamps have a box (1) provided with a base (2) having a base wall (7) and side walls (3, 4, 5, 6) connected thereto. First seats (31) and corresponding second seats (41) are present in the base (2) at a first side wall (3) and a second (4) side wall, in which seats cushion-shaped cartons (50) with electric lamps (20) are held. The packed electric lamps have a comparatively small volume, but the packaging also protects comparatively vulnerable lamps against damage.

Abstract: A unitary corrugated board insert for a bicycle shipping container. The insert is fashioned from a generally unitary blank of corrugated paperboard, with panels of the insert defined by vertically extending score or fold lines. One of the panels is provided on one of its surfaces with an adhesive. The insert is formed by folding the several panels about the fold lines so as to yield an insert in the general form of two vertically running channels or enclosures for parts which must be added by the consumer to complete the assembly of the bicycle. These two channels are joined by folding the blank and attaching its free left and right ends to that panel which has been provided with adhesive. The two channels store some of the components of the bicycle which must be added by the consumer to complete bicycle assembly.

Abstract: A flat multiple tool holder includes a generally flat card-like substrate having an interior and a pair of opposite end edges, and a plurality of separate pockets in the interior of the substrate. Each pocket is open at one of the opposite end edges of the substrate. Further, each pocket is shaped to match a profile of a given one of a plurality of different tools. The flat card-like substrate is formed by front, rear and middle layers laminated together in a sandwiched facing relationship with one another. The front and rear layers of the substrate are solid layers. The middle layer of the substrate has a plurality of separate voids or cutouts defined therein. Each of the cutouts is shaped to match a profile of a given one of a plurality of different tools. When the three layers are sealed or laminated together, these cutouts define pockets in the holder for receiving the various tools.

Abstract: A lunch pail assembly has an upper member having a bottom wall, opposed side walls and end walls defining a first food and beverage compartment, a lid at the upper end of the first food and beverage compartment, a handle on the lid, and a fastening mechanism on the exterior of the opposed end walls. A detachable lower member having a bottom wall, opposed side walls and end walls defines a second food compartment having an open top end which is received within a depending lip on the bottom of the upper member. Catches on the end walls of the lower member releasably engage the fastening mechanisms on the upper member to selectively releasably connect the upper and lower members together to be carried as a single unit wherein food, beverages, and other articles of one type may be contained in the first food and beverage compartment and isolated from food and other articles of another type contained in the second food compartment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pack for cigarettes or the like. The best known pack types for cigarettes, in particular hinge lid pack and soft cup, both have their advantages and disadvantages. The upper portion (top part 15) of the present pack is in the form of a hinge lid pack and the lower portion (bottom part 16) is in the form of a soft cup pack. As a result, the pack can be handled like a hinge lid pack but requires a smaller expenditure of material. This pack type can also be equipped with a collar which is integrally connected to a blank for the top part (15) which is in the form of a hinge lid pack. The bottom part (16) may also form part of an overall outer wrapper (outer wrapping).

Abstract: A bottle carrier of the type employing support tabs at the periphery of bottle neck, openings for engaging the underside of shoulders on the bottles. The carrier is comprised of two plies, each containing aligned bottle openings and each opening being surrounded by support tabs. In one embodiment the support tabs of an opening in one ply are connected to the ply along fold lines which are at an angle to the fold lines of the tabs of the corresponding opening in the other ply so that the edges of the tabs engage the shoulder of a bottle at spaced points along the circumference of the shoulder.

Abstract: A catheter tray package includes a tray portion including a floor, an access end, a storage end opposite the access end, and an elongate locking formation secured to the floor and being substantially parallel in relation to a longitudinal axis of the floor. The present package also includes an insert portion configured for sliding engagement with the tray portion and including a planar sheet portion having a catheter access end, a catheter storage end opposite the access end and an elongate keyway formation disposed on the sheet portion for engaging the locking formation to limit the sliding action of the insert portion relative to the tray portion in a first direction, while permitting the insert to be released from engagement with the locking formation in a second direction.

Abstract: A carrying case is provided for storing and transporting a plurality of relatively flat, thin items such as compact discs or the like. The carrying case comprises an outer shell defining an enclosed compartment for housing a plurality of items and having a top shell member and a bottom shell member of complementary configuration. A pair of coaxially aligned, spaced apart annular members project from each of the top and bottom shell members and are coaxially alignable for defining a hinge axis therethrough about which the top and bottom shell members may be hingedly coupled for movement between an open condition and a closed condition for respectively accessing and closing the compartment.

Abstract: An improvement in a known type of display box having two complementary separable box halves arranged to display a wristwatch, comprising a rear box half of rigid material with a bottom wall, a rear wall and two spaced triangular side walls, a watch holder supported in the rear box half and adapted to display the wristwatch, and a front box half of rigid transparent material with a top wall, a front wall and two spaced substantially flat triangular side walls and adapted to nest with the rear box half. The improvement comprises a recessed pocket in the back of the rear box half, formed by a stepped contstruction in the rear wall and bottom wall, and a slot in the top wall of the front box half, the recess and the slot being so located as to cause the slot to be aligned with the recess when the box halves are nested, whereby the open box may be supported on a peg extending through the slot into the recess so as to display the wristwatch.

Abstract: The invention concerns a transport and protective case for an information medium in particularly a minidisc. According to the invention, the parts of the case are integrally attached to one another by means of film hinges. In addition, snap-lock devices that are convenient to open are provided, in order to secure the lid in its position with respect to the case bottom when the case is closed.