Abstract: Disclosed herein is a card holder for holding a card. The card holder comprises a card holding member, a latch and an urging member disposed inside a card case body and a hook provided on one of first and second plate-like members of the card base body, characterized in that an inserted card is pressed against the urging force of an urging member so as to be held in a card accommodating position, and the card is further pressed from the card accommodating position so as to release the same from being held at the card accomodating position, thereby forcing out the card into a card insertion slot of a card case body by the urging force of the urging member.

Abstract: The invention is to a spindle for use in mounting a toilet paper roll thereon, and more particularly, for use in mounting a coil of toilet paper, without the core, on the spindle. The spindle has a flange near its outer end that stops movement of the core as the toilet paper roll is pushed onto the spindle during mounting. Continued pushing of the roll onto the spindle while the core is stopped, strips the coil of paper off the core. The coil ends up on the spindle and the core is disposed of.

Abstract: A container for pancakes of recording tape has an L-shaped base, mandrels extending horizontally from the base on which pancakes are placed, and a cover which encloses the pancakes. The circumference of each mandrel is expandable to secure the pancakes in position. Each mandrel includes a frame having a longitudinal slot, an expander cam disposed for rotation in the slot, a flexible cover, and an end cap. The cover includes recesses for receiving and supporting the free ends of the mandrels.

Abstract: A novel packaging for several tape-form recording media (5) wound on reel cores (6) or spools provided with internal bores consists of two pallets (1, 2) and optionally hubs (3) which are raised in the axial center (10) and of which the diameter corresponds to the clear internal diameter of the bores of the reel cores (6). The packaging can be sealed by a shrink film (4) which can be pulled thereover. The cuboid pallets (1, 2) which can be joined together have groove-like notches (7) at their edges, the interior of the pallets reproduces the outer shape of the pancakes (5) and the weld seam (8) of the shrink film (4) is formed in one of the notches (7). The pallets (1, 2) also have window-like cutouts (9) on their four narrow sides. Pallets as well as the hub (3) passing through the axial center (10) of the pancakes are preferably composed of Styropore (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A memo pad device having a frame with a recessed cavity for protectively holding a plurality of sheets from a note pad having a reusable adhesive to allow a user to write reminders to themselves, look at them later, do the task and remove either a single sheet or the entire note pad. In one embodiment a memo pad key ring attachment device includes a polymer plastic frame with a hole for a key ring or similar device, a resilient panel which holds a memo pad, the resilient panel being cantileverly attached to the frame, a stack of sheets of paper with reusable adhesive on one end to permit user to attach memo pad to panel, a projecting lip attached to the frame which holds the second end of the memo pad in place, allowing the edge of a single sheet to be exposed for removal by flexing resilient panel in one direction, a writing instrument, and a means of frictionally holding the writing instrument to the frame.

Abstract: A toilet accessory having the outward appearance of a doll for concealing toilet paper rolls and/or toilet plunger. The device includes a decorative figure including a doll body having an aperture in the lower end thereof for receiving an upstanding rod mounted on a base. The rod may suitably comprise the handle of a plunger. The rod may mount one or more toilet paper rolls. The apparatus includes a skirt mounted on the body and depending therefrom to surround the rod and any toilet rolls mounted thereon.

Abstract: A packaging container for a plurality of circular recording media is formed from substantially identical container parts which, after being combined, have a continuous longitudinal tooth system in the circumferential direction and at least one partial transverse tooth system in the radial direction. Toothed edge parts of the container parts engage one another. Stacking means are provided. Recording media to be packaged are any type of recording media in circular form, such as wound films, magnetic tapes or recording disks.

Abstract: Transportation package comprising at least three adjacent polls of wound sheet material in tangential contact with each other about a centrally located hollow tube capable of accommodating an insertable lifting means.

Abstract: A shipping package system with at least one tier of vertically-stacked webbing rolls utilizes pads with an inner set of passages and an outer set of passages, which webbing rolls may have extended tubular core ends nesting in the pad passages. The outer set of passages accommodate radial webbing roll movement and inhibit circumferential movement about the pad center, which radial movement provides tangential contact between adjacent and/or inner passage webbing rolls.

Abstract: Package for pancakes, consisting of plate-like plastic pallets (1) which protect the outer pancakes and, if necessary, raised rubs (3) in the center of the pallets, the diameter of which corresponds to the inside diameter of the bores of the winding cores and wherein the package can be sealed by means of a shrink film (4) coated thereon. The inner surfaces (2) of the plastic pallets (1) taper off in a sloping manner towards the outside at least in the region of the tape reel (5) of the pancakes, so that the inner surfaces (2) rest against the pancake in a uniform manner over the entire region of the tape reel (5) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A separator holder structure for the quick loading of yarn would spools in dyeing machines, drying machines or other processing devices. The structure consists of a frame forming latticed tray which is divided internally into housings in each of which is secured, with the possibility of a limited vertical movement, a separator adapted to keep the yarn wound spools centered within the respective housing and to ensure hydraulic tightness between the vertically stacked elements in each column of spools when multiple structures are stacked. The possibility of movement of ht eseparators permits a quick stacking of the spools on horizontal layers, as the expedient allows the correct setting of separators, in individually loose manner, to ensure hydraulic tightness of same at the two ends of spools on which the yarn is wound.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for packaging a plurality of disk-shaped products, such as a roll of magnetic tape, wherein a magnetic tape is rolled up around a hub. In the apparatus, the disk-shaped products are piled up so that the hubs are aligned along the axial direction. The apparatus has a center core passing through the hubs, at least one pare of pressing plates being positioned at both ends of the piled disk-shaped products so that disk-shaped products are pressed in the axial direction between the pressing plates, and heat shrinkable sheet for fixing a positional relation between the center core and the pressing plates.

Abstract: A package for displaying and dispensing cards, including a front panel and a rear panel forming a recess therebetween in which cards may be placed. The front panel has an opening therein through which the cards may be seen and through which a finger may touch and push on the card. A resilient biasing means is placed in the recess at a position between the cards firmly in the recess. A cam surface is formed along the edge of the recess with the opening so that when the card is pushed toward the opening, a single card engages the cam surface and part of it moves out of the recess so that it may be readily grasped and removed from the recess.

Abstract: A compact, low shipping volume paper product comprising a compression loaded, core-wound roll of paper and a compression constraining element; and concomitant method of making such a paper product. The roll comprises a length of paper which is wound on a tubular core, and which roll may have an obround or parallelopipedal shape due to being unidirectionally compressively loaded after winding; and then constrained against expanding by a suitable constraining element. Preferably, the roll is sufficiently compressively loaded to completely flatten the core. In another aspect of the invention, the roll may be further compressed by applying a compressive loading that is substantially greater than that needed to cause the core to become flat; and, some of that high compressive loading may be relieved before the constraining element is applied or secured.

Abstract: A packing for a plurality of recording tapes wound on flangeless core hubs having central bores (so called pancakes) are described. The packing comprises plastic pallets in the form of discs which protect the outer reels of tape and a fixing device which extends upwards in the axial center, the diameter of which fixing device corresponds to the clear internal diameter of the bores of the core hubs and of the plastic disc. The fixing device is a centering sleeve (1,13, 22) which can be inserted through the outer walls (2, 30 and through the central bores of the core hubs (9) and has a closure clement which co-operates with another closure element so that the two parts cna be locked and tightened together, and the centering sleeve optionally has additional elements (7, 8) which prevent rotation of the centering sleeve against the outer walls of the plastic discs during opening or closing of the packing (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A device designed to receive a plurality of credit cards and/or bank check cards comprises a case which contains a drawer for each card. Associated with each drawer is a spring and a detent and when the detent is released, the drawer is pushed out of the case as far as an extraction stop by the force of the spring. With the drawer pushed out, the card can easily be removed. After use, the card is replaced in the drawer and this is pushed back into the case. A button is provided on the outside of the case for each drawer in order to release the detent. In order to receive the card securely, each drawer has a rib on its surface which is formed, at one place, as a freely swinging web bent inwards which serves as a card clip and prevents the card from falling out of the case.

Abstract: An improved supporting and spacing member for packaging a multi-layer stack of rolls of material. The supporting and spacing member includes an elongated bar of expanded foam material with a stabilizing member located within a semi-cylindrical indentation to provide a pair of indentation portions to retain opposing roll ends for added flexural stiffness and better stability for the stack.

Abstract: A pocket-sized dispenser for business or calling cards which includes a case having generally continuous upper and lower surfaces upon which advertising or identification indicia may be displayed and in which the cards are protectively housed for selective dispensing utilizing a reinforced and automatically retracted ejector mechanism which is compactly oriented within the case and is operable through a side wall thereof.

Abstract: A magnetic tape pancake package includes a plurality of pancakes respectively comprising a hub having a width slightly larger than the width of a magnetic tape, and the magnetic tape wound around the hub. A plurality of spacers are stacked together with the pancakes between the stacked pancakes and at the top and the bottom of the stack of the pancakes. Each spacer is formed into a disk-like shape having a diameter larger than the diameters of the pancakes and provided with a recess at a section contacting the hub for engagement with a hub end face section protruding from the magnetic tape wound around the hub. The pancakes and the spacers are wrapped in a lump with an expansible and/or contractible film.

Abstract: A stamp dispensing arrangement for dispensing stamps, such as postage stamps, one at a time from a roll of such stamps. The dispensing arrangement has a unitary body comprised of a base and a cover hingedly interconnected for relative pivotal movement therebetween from a closed to an open position. A roll of stamps is contained within a cavity defined in a stamp storage portion of the body and the stamps extend outwardly between spaced apart planer surfaces of the cover and the base at a dispensing end. First fingers with stamp engaging tabs thereon are positioned in an aperture in the planer wall of the base and are adapted to engage the stamps in the perforations thereof to prevent movement of the stamps in a first direction which is opposite to the second or dispensing direction.

Abstract: A container (10) for storing and dispensing, one at a time, a plurality of rolls of tissue stacked vertically adjacent one another includes tubular side walls (18,20,22,24) having a longitudinal axis and a pair of end portions (28,32) spaced from each other along the axis and being respectively joined to the side walls (18,20,22,24). One of the end portions (28) is closed to support a roll thereon and the other of the end portions (32) includes an end wall (34) inclined radially inwardly and axially relative to the axis. The end wall (34) defines a generally oval-shaped opening (36) through which to insert the rolls into the container (10) while preventing removal of such a roll from the container (10) through the opening (36).

Abstract: A dispenser containing a plurality of packaged rolls of bandage strips includes a case having upper section and a lower section which accommodates packaged rolls of bandage strips. The case has at least one slot for dispensing bandage strips and the bottom side of the case has a flat area which can be adhered to a flat support. Each packaged roll of bandage strips includes a series of bandage strips disposed in end-to-end relation with packaging material surrounding the bandage strips, transverse seals for maintaining strips sterilely separate from each other, lines of weakness in the packaging material, each located forward of a respective seal for aiding the separation of the packaging material and a corresponding bandage strip from the remainder of the roll while maintaining the bandage strips in the remainder of the roll in a sealed sterile condition.

Abstract: Male and female surface-type fastener tapes are unwound from respective spools in a housing and drawn out of the housing through a tape guide swingably disposed in a slot defined in a side panel of the housing. The spools are disconnected from the housing and can easily be replaced with new ones simply by opening a cover of the housing. The tape guide is automatically directed toward the position where the tapes are unreeled off the respective spools. Therefore, the tapes are properly and smoothly mated together by the tape guide as they are progressively passed through the tape guide.

Abstract: Pancakes of recording tape are packaged using stiff, expanded-plastic spacers, each having a web against which pancakes can rest in a stack of alternating pancakes and spacers. Each web terminates in an annular recess from which at least one deformable protuberance projects, and the core of each pancake is pinched between facing proturberances. A protective or reinforcing rim at the outer periphery of each web is sufficiently thin not to touch the rims so that each pancake can be held tightly against the adjacent webs while the stack is under axial compression, e.g., by a plastic shrinkwrap. By thus restraining both each pancake and its core, there is no core drop, upset or core rotation, problems besetting prior packages of pancakes of magnetic recording tape.

Abstract: The case (10) is for the purpose of storing credit or identification cards (K). Each card is located on its own slide (25) and each slide can be individually advanced out of the case. For this purpose, slots (15) are provided in the case, through which the tabs project which are connected to the slides. On the top of the tabs finger pads (30) are provided by means of which the slides can be moved (FIG. 5).

Abstract: A threaded spool storage apparatus having a plurality of transparent and rotatable cylindrical containers suitable for accommodating a plurality of multi-colored threaded spools is disclosed. Each cylindrical container is suitable for being removably mounted on an adjustable arm operably coupled to a base member means for accommodating thereto a plurality of lever means for operably manipulating the containers either outwards or inwards to permit thereto the storage, retrieval and replacement of the threaded spools. Moreover, a back portion member means is provided for bracing said containers. Preferably, the plurality of containers are arranged proximately along a horizontal plane; although, if desired, the plurality of containers may be arranged proximately adjacent from each other along a vertical plane suitable for sturdily mounting onto a side of a wall or on a horizontal base means.

Abstract: A package wherein a compressed array of resilient articles and a convertible support panel are disposed in a constraining enclosure such as, for example, a bag made of thermoplastic film. The convertible support panel preferably functions as the bottom wall of the package to enhance stackability of such packages; and is convertible into a tray for displaying the array of expanded articles upon removal of the constraining enclosure. The method of unpackaging includes the steps of removing the convertible support panel from the package while maintaining the array of articles constrained by the constraining enclosure; erecting the convertible support panel to convert it into a display tray; placing the constrained array in the tray; and removing the constraining enclosure.

Abstract: The purpose of the yarn dispenser is to store and dispense embroidery floss in a orderly manner.The operation of the device involves placing a skein of floss over the two bushings which rotate on internal axles. After the two halves of the outer case are assembled, the outside end of the skein is drawn out through the dispensing hole and cut off as needed by the user.An abraded area is provided to record information about the skein inside, and windows (holes) are provided to permit the user to see the color and amount of floss remaining.

Abstract: Package of a plurality of unitized film rolls of polymeric wrapping film. Each roll is suspended on its core within the bulk package so as to be separate from each other film roll in the package, and so as to be physically spaced from confronting surfaces of the package. The film on each film roll is thus available to the customer free from distortion, abrasion and edge damage.

Abstract: A pallet of moldable material, such as high density polyethylene, is ideally suited for transporting yarn packages having tubular cores. The pallet includes top and bottom surfaces with a repeating pattern of nubs upstanding from the top surface and a repeating pattern of depressions in the bottom surface, the depression pattern tracking the nub pattern. The nubs are shaped and dimensioned to receive one end of the yarn package tube thereover, and flexed to provide maximum surface contact with the inside of the tube. The outer surface of the tube also is received within a recess in the top surface surrounding the nub. A number of yarn packages are assembled on a pallet, and an identical pallet is disposed on top of the yarn packages, the depressions in the bottom surface of the top pallet receiving ends of the yarn package cores.

Abstract: A packaging system for 101/2-inch magnetic tape reels in which ten such reels are axially stacked and separated by stacking rings. This axially stacked assembly is then stretch-wrapped in a manner which produces substantial overlap of the stretch-wrap material. A support panel assembly, and two mounting plugs, capture the reels and the wrap material, to thereby seal the reels, and also support the reels with the edges thereof protected. An overpack box conforms to the shape of the support panel assembly, to further support and protect the reels, with the reel edges out of contact with the inner surface of the overpack box.

Abstract: A package for a plurality of stacked rolls or reels of recording media in tape form is provided with central holding means for the rolls or reels, and consists of a bottom member and a cover member which together have the shape of a cylindrical cheesebox, the cover member having a handle for carrying the closed container, and the bottom member having a handle for carrying it with or without tape rolls or reels. The cover member and bottom member may be provided externally with matching projections and depressions to enable a plurality of packages to be stacked in a virtually gap-free and interlocking manner.

Abstract: A method and a package are described for the takeup, shipment, storage and individual dispensing of a plurality of rolls of flat elongated material, for example, conveyor belting. The package includes a plurality of side-by-side rolls of flat elongated material, each roll being wound on its own shell. Between each pair of shells there is provided a pair of divider plates. The divider plates are joined at their radially outermost ends to an upper frame member. The upper frame member is joined to a pair of side members which are joined to the outer ends of the assembled shells and to a central member which extends axially through the assembled shells. At least two U-shaped tie members are provided which extend axially across the rolls and are joined at their radially inner ends to the outer ends of the assembled shells. Methods assembling and dissembling the package are also described.

Abstract: A bathroom accessory in the form of a canister for convenient storage of extra rolls of toilet tissue and a suction type plunger device, the compactness being provided by providing that the plunger handle is nested in the hollow core of the tissue rolls being stored, and a lifting means for the stored rolls being provided which is actuatable entirely from the exterior of the device even though it has a roll-raising effect throughout an extended range of lifting movement for the rolls.

Abstract: A ribbed ring for winding a magnetic tape cut in narrow width is disclosed which has an annular outer peripheral part and a groove for reinforcing the ring against deformation and a rib for fitting to a groove of an adjacent ring and an annular inner peripheral part having one or more slits for fitting to a spline shaft.

Abstract: A flangeless winding core for magnetic tape, adapted for stacking between like winding cores, has an annular body with parallel top and bottom annular surfaces, an outer circumferential surface around which the tape is wound, and an inner circumferential surface from which a plurality of angularly spaced lugs extend radially inward, the inner ends of which are curved to define a discontinuous inner circumferential core surface. The lugs have the shape of a sector of an annulus, are spaced from each other by a like number of similarly shaped gaps, and project equally above the top and bottom surfaces of the annular body a distance greater than one-half the axial dimension of the annular body.

Abstract: An annular flangeless winding hub for strip materials which is stackable due in particular to its plate form that is produced by an appropriately shaped circular projection and depression. As additional locking means protrusions and recesses may be provided in the depression and in the projection respectively. Apart from asymmetrical embodiments, a symmetrical design with respect to the median plane of the winding hub can be achieved by the use of upwardly and downwardly protruding ridge members which fit into one another when a plurality of hubs are stacked one upon the other. Such a winding hub can be used for any kind of material having a ribbon-like configuration, such as magnetic tape, strips of film and punched paper tape.

Abstract: A hosiery repair kit includes a repair strip, textured as original hosiery material, adhesive-backed and carried in strips or a tape on a peel-off backing. The backing may be in the form of a sheet carrying several strips. As a tape, the repair material may be mounted in a dispenser which has a cutting mechanism and a take-up reel for the waste backing material.

Abstract: A method and a package are described for the takeup, shipment, storage and individual dispensing of a plurality of rolls of flat elongated material, for example, conveyor belting. The package includes a plurality of side-by-side rolls of flat elongated material, each roll being wound on its own shell. Between each pair of shells there is provided a pair of divider plates. The divider plates are joined at their radially outermost ends to an upper frame member. The upper frame member is joined to a pair of side members which are joined to the outer ends of the assembled shells and to a central member which extends axially through the assembled shells. At least two -shaped tie members are provided which extend axially across the rolls and are joined at their radially inner ends to the outer ends of the assembled shells. Methods assembling and dissembling the package are also described.

Abstract: A holder for a plurality of tissue rolls, includes a support dowel or rod for holding the rolls in a stacked vertical array, and a cylindrical housing with a cover for containing the supported rolls. The support rod or dowel may be provided with a lift chain at the top thereof enabling one to lift the entire row array out of the storage housing.

Abstract: A gang tape dispenser for a multiplicity of dissimilar rolls of pressure sensitive tape selectively usable at the user's option. Each roll may bear a roll of distinctive symbols dissimilar from those on the other rolls enabling the user to employ strips alone or in any of a profusion of combinations for coding and identifying and the like purposes. The tape rolls are housed in aligned storage cells having dispensing ports facing a common severing blade. The dispenser can be bench mounted or suspended on a workman's belt.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ribbon tape cartridge assembly, the cartridges being adapted for mating in superimposed overlapping relation, bottom to bottom to form the assembly. Slots in tabs which project from the plane of one of the bottom surfaces of one of the cartridges coact with fins on the other of the cartridges, the fins movable into the slot for an interference fit with at least a portion of the tab. Shoulders on each of the cartridges also coact for limiting relative movement of the cartridges in a first direction with respect to each other. One of the cartridges is provided with a camming surface and a cam follower is provided the other of the cartridges, the cam and cam follower being engageable to effect relative movement between the cartridges in the first direction until the shoulders abutt one another inhibiting further relative motion.

Abstract: Carriers adapted to support strand spools in wire type pallets are disclosed. Each carrier comprises a tray having gripping devices or claws for centering the carrier at the intersection of the crossed support wires which comprise the pallet. Tubular supports extending upwardly and downwardly from the central tray are adapted to hold the ends of spools in position on stacked pallets. The lower support is slotted so that it can extend beneath the plane of the pallet. A central bore extending through the supports and the spool tray allows for circulation of air and treatment fluid so that the spools may be treated with steam or other treatment gas while on the pallets.

Abstract: A winding core for magnetic tape is adapted for stacking between like winding cores. The core has a substantially annular body with top and bottom substantially annular body surfaces, an outer circumferential body surface to wind the tape about, a discontinuous inner circumferential body surface and a set of recess surfaces extending between the annular body surfaces and between portions of the discontinuous inner circumferential body surface. The recess surfaces define a circular array of recesses for the core. Opposed sets of projections rise from the top and bottom annular surfaces. Each set forms a circular array; and each projection is adapted to mate with a recess of a like top or bottom sandwiching winding core. The projections of each array of projections are spaced to mate with every third recess along the array of recesses of a sandwiching core.

Abstract: A towel-dispensing golf bag insert comprising an elongated tubular container having a central axis, a cap removably mounted to one end of the container, a rod of about the same length as the container and located along the container's central axis, and a base mounted to the end of the rod opposite the cap. The rod is reciprocable along the central axis of the container when the cap is removed and several towels are concentrically wrapped around the shaft of the rod being securely held against the rod as it is reciprocated. The rod further includes several vertically-spaced shelves which operate to separate the towels along the rod and a handle mounted to the end of the rod opposite the base for use in reciprocating the rod within the container. An end plug is also fixedly mounted to the end of the container opposite the cap and the completed towel dispenser is insertable into a conventional golf bag.

Abstract: A findings structure for maintaining a spool and a bobbin with like filaments thereon in assembled relationship. The spool and bobbin are each provided with axial bores for support of each on a spindle for the use of each, and they are maintained in assembled relationship for storage by means extending into the aligned bores, such means having resilient filamentous material extending therefrom gripping the sides of said aligned bores. The assemblies of the bobbins and spools may be joined by a flexible strand for ready selection and storage as a group of assembled units.

Abstract: A bullet trap for safely arresting steel BB ammunition shot from an air gun. Its projectile energy absorbing and rebound control components are the novel combination of a roll of paper towels enclosed in a plastic bag. The surfaces of the towels and bag are held in a spaced apart relationship by an open framework spacer. The supple opposition offered by the easily penetrated roll of paper towels effectively absorbs the projectiles energy, and impedes its further flight. The BBs will usually imbed themselves in the roll of towels, but any occasional BB that bounces away from that surface will be arrested by the surface of the plastic bag. The spaced apart relationship of these surfaces provides a vertical passageway for the spent projectile to drop to the bottom of the bag, where it will be retained.

Abstract: A combination shipping and storage containers for rolls of sheet material having hollow centers, the container having an interiorly disposed spindle like post extending vertically between opposite ends thereof upon which the rolls are held against radial shifting movement. The container is provided at each of its opposite ends with closure panels which are inwardly foldable from an open position thereof into flatwise superimposed closed positions to embrace therebetween out-turned flaps provided at each end of the post to hold the same in fixedly secured position within the closed container.

Abstract: The winding cores are flangeless and adapted to receive magnetic tapes. For reasons of compact packaging, it is desired to be able to stack several reels of tape securely for transport. For this reason, the winding core is designed so that the height of the winding surface is equal to or slightly greater than the width of the tapes to be wound on it. In addition, the surfaces between the internal and external circumference or on the internal circumference of the winding core have projections which project upwards or downwards from the medial plane of the core by half the total height of the core. When several cores are stacked above one another, these projections interlock so that the winding surfaces are stacked as closely together as possible.

Abstract: A shipping, storage and handling device for commercial magnetic tape furnished by the manufacturer as windings convoluted about the periphery of flat annular cores or spools, comprising a unit, such units being referred to as "pancakes" in the trade. The device comprises a flat annular base portion having a plurality of upstanding pins and a like plurality of through openings, the pins and openings being symmetrically arranged about a common concentric circle so that, upon vertical stacking of the devices, the pins of each lower device will be received within the openings of the next successive device.