Abstract: Packaging means for storing, mailing or transporting a plurality of small objects having pointed ends. The package has a sheet of compressible foam material having a plurality of tapes attached to one face of the sheet for receiving the pointed objects to a stored position in which the points are embedded in the foam. The foam sheet is rolled into a scroll and maintained in position by a pair of rods, connected to opposite ends of the sheet, which are tied together.

Abstract: A package and a method to produce said package are provided comprising a wound body of strand having an outer cylindrical portion; and an elastic membrane wound about the cylindrical portion of said body, the membrane being wound to a sufficient thickness and being stretched sufficiently to partially collapse when the strand is withdrawn from the body such that the membrane captures the strand of the outer cylindrical portion to retain such strand along said membrane until said strand is withdrawn from the package at a predetermined time.

Abstract: A hinged cover container having ribbon spool storage and dispensing dowels in the cover, and a divided major container portion for storage of folded paper in one section and cards and ribbons in a smaller section. The inside of the cover is provided with loops of elastic ribbon for securing hardware useful for wrapping.

Abstract: There is a plurality of lengths of gift wrap sheet material of different patterns, color or finish on a single core, each sheet having a different width such that the under-rolled sheet is partially exposed for visual appreciation, the whole being overwrapped by a transparent film.

Abstract: An aggregate product comprising an aggregate, such as alumina of a size from about 1/2 inch to about 60 mesh, is bonded in a substantially continuous layer by means of conventional adhesives to a strip of fine mesh, such as nylon mesh. A viscous adhesive, such as a two-component epoxy resin, applied to the surface to be covered, bonds the aggregate-containing mesh to such surface.The method of this invention comprises coating a surface with a viscous adhesive, placing over such surface the aggregate-containing mesh, initiating pressure so as to cause settling of the aggregate-containing mesh into the viscous adhesive, and allowing the adhesive to bond the aggregate-containing mesh to the surface. Preferably, the adhesive is sprayed or rolled onto the surface and the aggregate-containing mesh is rolled out over the wet adhesive using a tape or string attached to the roll to propel it from a rolled-up position.

Abstract: A tunnel-type greenhouse is packed in a mailing tube with wires constituting support-wicket halves received in a core tube on which a synthetic-resin foil usable as the greenhouse wall is wound. The wire wicket halves are joined together by short sleeves and formed into wickets that are driven into the ground in a row. The foil is unwound from the core tube which is broken in two at a central weakened region to form two stakes that are driven into the ground at the ends of the row. String unwound from the ends of the core tube is secured between these stakes and the apices of the end wickets. The foil is stretched between the stakes over the wickets and extra wickets may be engaged over the foil to hold it in place.

Abstract: Smearing of graphics and scoring of gusseted bags on a roll during dispensing from a shipping, storage and dispensing container are inhibited by providing support in the container for that roll only at the margin and between the margin and the thickened portion at the inner fold of the gusset but not including such thickened portion.

Abstract: A dispenser for strip material comprising a receptacle having an arcuate well for a reservoir roll of strip material, a cover overlying said receptacle for receiving a feed roll of strip material. A base is secured to said receptacle defining a compartment for receiving strips of material torn from said feed roll for future use thereof. The base has upwardly extending flanges and a partition for removably clampingly engaging said receptacle while defining a compartment for receiving the strips of material.