Abstract: A display fixture or rack supports a supply or stacks of letter-size pads and smaller note-size stationery pads in generally vertical positions, and also supports a supply of mailing envelopes in horizontal positions. Each pad includes a stack of paper sheets bonded at the top to a stiff backing card and surrounded by a transparent film. A set of one letter-size pad and one note-size pad is printed with the same multicolor design or artwork to provide the pads of each set with substantially the same appearance, and the artwork on each set of pads is different from the artwork on each of the other sets. All of the pads and envelopes are custom printed in colors coordinated to match the colors of a particular college or university, and the envelopes are located in compartments located below the stacks of note-size pads and between the stacks of letter-size pads.

Abstract: A notepaper dispenser for holding and dispensing sheets singly from a pad of notepaper with the sheets held in the pad by a narrow band of adhesive on one side of each sheet and adjacent one end is disclosed which has a support surface for the pad, a clamp for holding the bottom sheet in an area spaced from the band of adhesive in fixed position in relationship to the support surface and an abutment for engaging an edge of the pad opposite the end of the sheets joined together by the adhesive for restricting peeling forces resulting from peeling the top sheet being transferred to the bottom sheet of the pad.

Abstract: A container for use in holding receipts or the like comprises a hollow body formed of contiguous bottom, front, rear, and opposed side panels, and a cover integrally hinged to the top of the rear panel which is divided into contiguous top and front portions by a second integral hinge spaced parallel to the integrally hinged juncture of the cover with the rear panel. The cover is pivotal about its hinged juncture with the rear panel and the top and front portions of the cover are pivotal about the second integral hinge. A retaining tab integral with the front portion of the cover is adapted to engage the interior surface of the front panel of the body when the cover is closed and is disengaged therefrom upon upward and pivotal outward movement of the cover. A lifting tab integral with the front portion facilitates opening and closing of the cover. A fabric fastener on the exterior surface of the rear panel allows the container to be releasably attached to other objects for placement at a convenient location.

Abstract: Convertible packaging for a stack of leaved paper, such as fan-folded computer paper, provides a tray-shaped receptacle which may be converted to a binder for binding the paper after it has been printed on. The tray-shaped receptacle has detachable sidewalls and a bottom panel which are formed to be reassembled as a binder for computer printout and the like.

Abstract: A package is made of a foldable, relatively thin material such as fiberboard folded to define an open sided envelope surrounded by a decorative ribbon secured to at least one of the side panels of the container to sandwich and hold planar objects such as cards.

Abstract: This portfolio construction can be made from a single sheet of light cardboard and it provides two covers hinged together and with each cover made with three layers of cardboard folded back on itself. Each cover has two pockets suitable for holding loose sheets. The inside panel of the back cover has a transverse slot into which the cardboard on the back of a writing pad can be inserted to retain and protect pad sheets when enclosed between the front and back covers of the portfolio; the pad sheets are exposed for ready writing when the portfolio covers are hinged open The only adhesive required is along one horizontal edge of each cover.

Abstract: Weatherproof portfolios which are integral moldings of a thermoplastic polymer forming an elongated spine having a first side panel and a second side panel respectively hingedly mounted on respective, opposite, longitudinal edges of said spine, each panel having two integrally molded side flanges connected by an integrally molded top flange to form two, respective, substantially identical enclosures on respective panels, the longitudinal edges of said two side flanges and said top flange of the respective enclosures being aligned when said side panels are swung about their hinges from an open position toward each other and into abutting contact in the closed position, and grooves in the longitudinal edges of the side and top flanges on one side panel and longitudinal mating tongues or ribs on the longitudinal edges of the side and top flanges of the other side panel to provide substantially weathertight seals when the portfolio is closed.

Abstract: Transparencies for overhead projection are formed in which the information to be displayed is in the form of transparent lines, or other geometric patterns, on an opaque background. The transparent lines are formed on an opaque layer of a recording material formed from a clear or colored transparency on which the opaque layer is firmly adhered. The opaque layer is formed from finely divided organic styrene resin pigment uniformly distributed in a film-forming binder resin. The writing liquid is formed from a solvent for the organic styrene resin pigment. When the writing liquid is applied to the opaque layer using a suitable writing instrument, such as a pen, the opaque layer immediately becomes transparent where it is contacted with the solvent. The potential toxicity of the solvent (or solvent vapors) is eliminated and writing speeds may be increased by mixing a chlorofluoroalkane of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms with the solvent.

Abstract: A nest of folds of decorative wrapping paper. Each fold includes at least one sheet of wrapping paper which has one printed decorative surface and one unprinted surface. A first fold of paper is creased longitudinally into a flat V-shaped configuration having two panels of approximately equal width. A second fold of paper is creased longitudinally into a flat Z-shaped configuration having three panels. These three panels include a center panel having the same width as a panel of the first fold and two side panels, one of which is one-third and the other of which is two-thirds as wide as the center panel. A third panel is creased in the same configuration as the second fold.

Abstract: Two or more initially independent mailable items, each containing or carrying separate and usually different communications are banded, or otherwise held together, for mailing as a single mailing piece. One of the independent mailable items may carry postage in stamp or in printed postage indicia form as well as address information on one of its exposed faces. Alternatively such postage and address information may be carried by a band, or other means, utilized for holding the otherwise independent items together. The assembly is intended primarily but not exclusively, for use in mailing third class mailing material and allows plural, independent communications items to be mailed, under existing United States government postal rate schedules, at less total cost than if each independent communications item were to be mailed separately.

Abstract: A new deformable container is disclosed, suitable for use in packaging items of different dimensions. In use, portions of the container are deformed to provide abutments at the interior of the container for fixing therein the relative position of the items of different dimensions. The container is generally rectangular and is made of sheet material, for example, cardboard. In the preferred form, the container is used in conjunction with a detachable cover and with such cover forms a closed rectangular box. When the cover is detached from the container, two pairs of tabs are exposed. These pairs of tabs are located respectively at opposite longitudinal ends of the container. One tab in each pair is coplanar with and hingedly connected to the front wall of the container while the other tab of each pair is hingedly connected to and coplanar with the corresponding side wall of the container.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a display rack, for greeting cards or the like, which comprises compartmented tray sections that are engaged in an edge-to-edge relationship to provide a card rack of desired width. More specifically, the assembled card rack comprises a first tray section having dividers therein for separating a plurality of compartments for cards, and a second tray section that includes a slotted, downwardly projecting flap that is emplaced in the first section. The dividers of the first section are inserted into the slots of the flap on the second section, and interlocking means can be included for preventing inadvertent disengagement of the assembled sections.

Abstract: A package containing a number of folds of decorative wrapping paper. Each fold is formed of at least one sheet of decorative wrapping paper which is folded so that it forms a fold having a front panel and a rear panel connected along a backbone. The front panels of the various folds, comprising the package, are of different lengths. In the package, the folds are nested one inside another with the backbones next to one another, and the front panels are arranged with panels of greater lengths located inwardly of panels of shorter length so that all of the front panels are visible when the folds are nested in the package. In one form of package having two nests of folds, the nests are positioned so that the rear panels of the folds of one nest are against the rear panels of the folds of the other nest and the backbones of the folds of the respective nests are located at opposite ends of the package. In this arrangement, the front panels of all of the folds of both nests are visible.

Abstract: An attache-type case combined with a specially designed plotting board as an integral part thereof and incorporating a new and highly simplified position and course-finding instrument, all of which provides in one convenient, compact, and portable kit all equipment needed to guide a small craft through pilot waters, with all operations in time of emergency requiring the use of only one hand.

Abstract: A package for shipping and storing paper sheet items such as, for instance, greeting cards and the envelopes therefor, and which package is initially a flat sheet of cardboard material having a plurality of transverse lines of fold, the flat sheet being foldable along said lines to present a pocket for receiving said items and a cover therefor, the items being tightly retained in place in the package.