Abstract: A packaging case includes a case body for storing a wrap film and a lid continuously formed with the top edge portion of a rear wall of the case body. Flap pieces extend outward to be pivotal on the top edge portions of side walls of the case body. Stepped portions engaged with the flap pieces to prevent floating of the lid are formed on the inner surfaces of lid side walls covered on the side walls of the main body during closing of the lid. Predetermined portions of the side walls of the main body continuous with the flap pieces are made thinner than remaining portions of the side walls. The inner surfaces of the remaining portions are located inside the inner surfaces of the predetermined portions.

Abstract: A tape dispensing apparatus including a tape container having tape dispensing apertures and a plurality of slots for partitions between rolls of tape. The partitions in the slots are individually formed from portions of boxes for the tapes. The portions of the boxes are integral with the boxes with the tapes therein but have lines of demarcation from the remainders of the boxes for being torn therefrom.

Abstract: A carrying case for wire and cable that includes a removable top and bottom with sides, front and back hinged at three junctions and latched at the forth. The case opens to form a linear sheet exposing six wire supporting hooks. In the closed condition two groups of three hooks are end abutting and top wall abutting thereby preventing the cable from leaving the hook in the event the case is tumbled about.

Abstract: Container or box for packaging and unwinding a coil (18) of wire (2), which comprises: a box-like body (5, 11) that has a polygonal plan, can be opened at the top and is meant to accommodate a coil for wire; and a coil covering panel (16) that has a central circular opening (17) and a contour that matches the plan shape of the box-like body, so that it can freely descend within the box-like body in contact with the coil as the height of the coil decreases as the wire is unwound from above through the central opening of the panel, in order to prevent the lifting of turns of wire between the peripheral region of the panel and the container and thus the accidental entanglement of turns.

Abstract: An improved surface mount component dispensing system including a dispenser and a package/display box. The dispenser is formed as a spool having an outer diameter of about four inches so that a small amount of tape carrying quantities of surface mounted components can be packaged. The package/display box includes a circular front window sized to expose an information label on the dispenser in any rotational orientation of the dispenser. The box further includes a punch-out manual assembly dispensing slot in one end wall.

Abstract: A simple, inexpensive, and easy to construct label dispenser is provided for linerless labels. The dispenser is made from a rectangular strip of cardboard or paper board having four parallel fold lines defining the strip into first through fifth panels and with first and second openings in the first and fifth panels and a third opening in the third panel. The strip is folded about the fold lines to form an open ended rectangular parallelepiped with the first and fifth panels in face to face engagement. A plastic plug is inserted into the first and second openings, making a friction fit with them and holding the first and fifth panels together. A second plug is inserted into the third opening, and the plugs define a pivot axis for a roll of linerless labels.

Abstract: A device for displaying sheets of promotional material includes a frame having a rear wall, a front wall, a pair of side walls, a top wall, and a bottom wall. The walls cooperate to define a sheet receiving cavity. A hinge can be provided for pivotally mounting the front wall or cover from the remainder of the frame. Alternatively, the cover can be a separate element secured by a catch to the remainder of the frame. A bracket construction is located on the rear wall for securing the frame to an associated support member. A slot is defined along one of the side walls for allowing the withdrawal of sheets, such as coupons and the like, one at a time from the cavity.

Abstract: An energy attenuating support plate (10) for protecting an object thereon, such as a roll (R) of photographic web, from damage due to shock during handling and transportation. The support plate (10) is engageably attached to either end of the core (C) of the roll (R) and provides a means of absorbing impact energy incurred by the support plate (10). The molded plastic plate (10) comprises first, second and third energy attenuation regions (24,30,40) that successively absorb as-received energy before such energy encounters the roll (R) supported thereon.

Abstract: A one-piece, collapsible, paperboard bulk container for packaging a product such as rubber or plastic hose coiled in bulk. The container has overlapped add interlocked bottom wall inner and outer panels, and the inner panels have opposed edges disposed in abutting relationship to provide a smooth inner bottom surface free from uneven areas that could cause indentation of a packaged product.

Abstract: A rectangular-parallelepiped packaging box having three folding lines, in each of at least one of four corners of top and bottom faces of the box, interconnecting three ridgelines which meet at each of the four corners. At these corners are formed concaved sections by folding pointed corners inward along the folding lines. A worker, therefore, can easily insert the hands into the concaved sections and lift the box. During transport, the worker grips the box firmly with the fingers put in the concaved sections, and therefore there will not occur such a hazard that the box slips off the hands and down.

Abstract: A length of galvanized steel structural utility strap, normally 18- to 20-gauge thickness, is shaped in a continuous coil and placed inside a dispensing carton. A length of the utility strap is dispensed from an end wall of the container, from the outer portion of the coil, after which the dispensed strap can be cut off to a desired length. The dispensing carton can contain large centrally located holes on opposite front and rear faces of the carton for use in carrying the carton and the heavy coiled utility strapping material contained within. A measuring gauge located on one or more end walls of the carton is used in measuring preselected lengths of strapping material, which are dispensed and then cut to a preselected length.

Abstract: A system securing a plurality of tape pancakes includes a compressible baffled core support on which the pancakes can be mounted. An interior rod having a head fits and is received within the baffled core support. A nub on the inside surface of the core support engages a groove on the outside surface of the interior rod to provide a threaded engagement between the interior rod and the core support. Rotation of the interior rod within the core support after the head contacts the end of the core support provides an axial compression load onto the core support to hold together the pancakes. This axial compression also expands the baffles which contact and tighten against the inside of the tape pancake cores and provide a radial force to secure the pancakes in place.

Abstract: An integrated merchandise display and return package is disclosed that allows merchandise, such as a roll of photographic film, to be packaged in a container which can have a protective barrier and displayed in a retail outlet. The exposed film may be returned to a photoprocessor in a return carton that is removably attached to the container.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for an improved carrying container for a food product such a roasted fowl, ham or the like impaled on a skewer rod. The, container comprises a bottom wall and side wall elements with a first and a second aperture defined in opposed walls. The skewer rod ends are insertable within the first and second apertures in the opposed walls for supporting the food product within the container interior of the container. The first and second apertures are positioned for spacing the food product from the bottom wall and the side wall elements.

Abstract: A coil retention, protection and guidance device, comprising a bow tie-shaped device scored at a pair of separate and parallel locations across its width and forming at its ends two rectangular members; perforated at a single location parallel to and equidistant from said scored locations across its width and through its midpoint forming two mirror-image trapezoid members between said scored locations; and conformed to embrace the outer layer of a coiled bundle generally radially and across the bundle's width. The device, when applied to a coil of strand material, protects the material during shipment and storage, and facilitates the unravelling of the strand.

Abstract: A sports card sleeve storage box comprising a receptacle having a bottom wall, upstanding side walls and upstanding end walls; and a cover fitting onto the receptacle, and having a top wall, depending side walls adjacent the respective side walls of the receptacle, and depending end walls adjacent the respective end walls of the receptacle; the receptacle sized to receive and orient a multiplicity of sports card sleeves, in a stack; and first structure proximate upper extents of certain of the receptacle walls and second structure proximate upper extents of certain of the cover walls for releasably interfitting below the cover top wall in response to reception of the receptacle into the cover thereby to releasably lock the cover to the receptacle without interfering with the reception and orientation of the sleeves into the receptacle.

Abstract: A unitary, light-tight, self-locking, flip-top package, for securely containing light-sensitive material, which comprises (1) a closable and openable rectanguloid box having bottom, front, rear, and opposite end walls and (2) a mating lid having a top wall movably connected to the box rear wall, with front and opposite end walls depending therefrom in close confronting relation to the corresponding box walls. The box and lid walls are all formed from a single paperboard blank that is specially configured with various panels, flaps, and tabs adapted to be readily folded into close interlocking relationships, to provide a unitary, light-tight, flip-top package which can also be readily unfolded and stored in flat condition for reuse.

Abstract: Apparatus for crumpling and dispensing dunnage from a roll of stock paper material, includes a frame having a pair of side walls for guiding sheet paper from the roll of paper in a converging manner, each side wall including an inclined central section for guiding the sheet paper in the converging manner and two angle supports for supporting the inclined central section in an inclined manner, two roll supports for supporting the roll of paper at a diverged end of the pair of side walls, a connecting section for connecting the pair of side walls at a converged end of the pair of side walls, the connecting section including a reduced dimension corrugated-shaped opening for crumpling the converging paper exiting therethrough, for substantially maintaining the paper in the crumpled form and for maintaining a portion of the crumpled paper in an extended manner through the opening; and a box-like housing for holding the frame, the box-like housing including an opening in alignment with the reduced dimension opening

Abstract: An improved foldably erect dispensing carton particularly for household wrapping materials such as polymeric films and the like, wherein the carton embodies a tab along a longitudinal axis of the front panel about midway longitudinally in the front panel providing an opening therein. The tab is hingedly connected along a hinged line to the front panel, and when operative, has a free end adapted to be disposed inwardly into the carton towards the top of the lid above the hinge line between the lead edge of the material and the roll of the material to prevent withdrawal of the lead edge back onto the roll.

Abstract: A system for dispensing insect screen in retail stores includes a roll of screen, a box having a specially configured slot, and a holder for the box, all arranged such that the screening can be pulled from the box and cut to desired lengths.

Abstract: Disclosed is a card case, made of two rectangular sheets of plastic or leather, produced by fusing or seaming three edges thereof together and leaving one edge thereof unfused. One or both of the rectangular sheets are provided with an elongated opening the width of which is at least sufficient to receive a finger tip so as to allow a card to be pushed through the open side. The card case is constructed such that it can be used conveniently for cash dispenser cards, telephone cards, name cards, season tickets and the like because bearers can remove the cards quickly from the case by simply putting their finger tip on the card through the opening and pushing the card out.

Abstract: A lottery ticket holder having a pair of planar members interconnected by and through a pair of partition (or side) members to form a hollow body wherethrough a lottery ticket slidably passes.

Abstract: A holder and dispenser for namecards has two rectangular plates with a chamber between the plates and an opening in each one. One side of the holder has a slot and slopes arranged to allow the insertion of a namecard and to prevent a namecard within the chamber from falling out, and another side of the holder has a slot and slopes arranged to allow the removal of a single namecard.

Abstract: A protective cover is disclosed for covering material contained on spools, such as solder. The cover includes a plurality of tabs which are contained in a cavity to receive the spool. Each of the protective tabs has a horizontal slot engage a flange of the spool to retain the cover about the spool when the spool is placed in the cavity within the cover. One embodiment of the invention includes an elongated slot in one side of the cover to permit material stored on the spool to be withdrawn without removing the spool from the protective cover.

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: The present invention provides in association, a plurality of endless abrasive belts wound about an axis into a coil, and a two-way opening packaging carton for enclosing and protecting the plurality of endless abrasive belts. The carton may be opened from the top or from an end. A pair of pads inside the carton are used to protect the abrasive belts. The carton is a versatile article which may be stored in various arrangements and may be used to store belts even after it is opened.

Abstract: A light-tight package, for securely containing a light-sensitive article, comprises a mating pair of rectanguloid inner and outer boxes. The inner box, adapted to enclose the light-sensitive article, has a bottom wall, front and rear walls, opposite end walls, and a closable and openable top wall with an integral flap that tucks inside the front wall. The outer box, adapted to enclose the inner box, has a top wall, front and rear walls, and opposite end walls, but no bottom wall. The walls of both boxes are formed by selective folding of specially configured paperboard blanks.

Abstract: A card holder has a moulded body for holding a plurality of cards. The moulded body comprises a base wall and two spaced side walls extending from the base wall. The side walls have channels for holding cards in a spaced relationship with respect to each other. The channels have access openings at their one end for permitting insertion of cards into and removal of cards from the channels. The card holder has a resiliently displaceable retaining tab extending from the body. The retaining tab is integral with the base wall. The tab has a lug at its free end. The retaining tab is displaceable from a first position, in which the lug restricts the removal of a card held in the channels to a second position in which a card can be inserted into and removed from the channels, via the access openings. The body of the card holder also has a hole formed therein, for attaching a key ring to the card holder.

Abstract: A parallelepiped box (400) containing a roll of tear-off strip material and provided with a device for tearing off a portion of said strip is formed from a punched element (310). The box comprises one (128) or two (128 and 158) toothings which are formed in the cardboard of the punched element and when the box has been assembled correspond with that (28) of the long corners of the box which is opposite the long corner (24) about which the box lid rotates once the box has been opened.The toothings can be non-continuous, in which case the relative untoothed portions of one toothing can correspond with the toothed portions of the other.A strip of the cardboard punched element (310) comprising a relative toothing (128, 158) can be treated with a substance able to harden the cardboard.

Abstract: A container for accommodating and taking out a string-like article which is assembled using a sheet of some hard paper to be made by a press machine in a specified pattern. The container is formed in a preferably polygonal cylinder which has a chamber formed by the bottom plate and two cover plates provided with holes at the center portion thereof. These cover plates are formed with the flaps extended from the sides opposite each other by folding the flaps inside the cylinder and being bent normal to the sides to reach the opposite side each other and the tips of the flaps being bent upward along the sides to form a symmetrically overlapped cover plates. The upper edge of the container is provided with a slit having a cutter at the bottom thereof.

Abstract: A carrying case for business cards and the like, which case is securable to a piece of material, is disclosed. The case includes a body having first and second side members. The side members define a cavity therebeween which communicates with an opening at one end thereof. The body is sized and shaped to receive the cards through the opening into the cavity. An arrangement for accessing and removing the cards from the cavity includes a slot disposed along the first side member depending from one end toward the center portion of the first side member. A mechanism is provided for removably securing the case to the piece of material. Finally, an element projects from the interior surface of the second side member opposite the slot for constricting the width of the cavity along the center portion thereof to assist in maintaining the cards within the case while providing a leverage area for removal of the cards.

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 concatenation of circular abrasive discs each having a layer of abrasive material on a first surface, and means on a second surface for releasably attaching said discs to a drive member. The discs are attached to two adjacent discs at opposite edges by two narrow tabs along each edge spaced by at least 0.32 centimeter (1/8 inch) along the edge and generally equally spaced on opposite sides of a center line extending between the centers of the attached discs. Also the discs are separated between the tabs and the tabs are folded to position abrasive discs in a stack within a container with each abrasive disc in the stack having its layer of abrasive against the layer of abrasive of one adjacent disc, and its means for attaching adjacent the means for attaching of the other adjacent disc.

Abstract: A container containing trash and like bags and bag ties carried by the container with which to seal the open end of the bags. The bags and ties are individually manually dispensed from the container.

Abstract: A magazine for light-sensitive materials comprises a tubular body and side plates covering each of both sides of the tubular body. The tubular body is formed by bending a sheet material having folded portions at both ends so as to form a slit between both ends and having such a structure that an upper part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near one end and a front wall part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near other end. A cured resin is provided within a space formed between the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part and a portion of the upper part corresponding to the folded portion. Otherwise, a forehead portion having a upper edge and a lower edge is formed of the bent material in an area between the upper part and the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part.

Abstract: A wire dispensing and storage box is provided with a plurality of flap tabs appending to the top and bottom portions of the box which are inserted within a plurality of flap slots within the side portions of the box, respectively, so that the top and bottom portions of the box will not interfere with the paying off of the wire from the coil. The flap slot/flap tab construction helps prevent the cones, which provide integrity to the box and help support the wire therein, and locking tabs, which lock the box, of the top of the box and the cones and locking tabs of the bottom of the box from contacting each other in the center of the box thereby facilitating the dispensing of the wire.

Abstract: A cardholder for containing and dispensing business cards has a housing containing a flat spring, a cover plate for the spring for supporting the cards, and a backing plate. The cover plate, spring and backing plate are fitted into the housing, and the cards are inserted into the housing on top of the cover plate. The cards may be dispensed singly by pressure through a window opening in the housing.

Abstract: A magazine for a roll of a photosensitive strip material which comprises a core rotatably supporting the roll and a light-shielding container body admitting the core and having an opening for drawing out the photosensitive strip material and light-shielding teremp cloth piece(s) provided at the above opening, and which is characterized in that the wall of the container body is formed by paper board and a multilayer film superposed thereon containing a metal foil layer or a metallized flexible sheet layer being visible from the outside and that the ground fabric structure of the above teremp cloth is knit structure.This magazine is superior in moistureproofness, gas barrier, dustproofness, thermal-shielding, water proofness and antistatic property. Deformation of the opening for drawing out hardly occurs, and leakage of light and moisture do not occur. Even though this magazine is left in the sunlight for a long time, inner temperature of the magazine is not so raised.

Abstract: A packaged food casing article includes a dispensing carton, a roll of casing rotatably supported within the carton, and a strip of splice tape releasably attached to a carton closure flap. The tape as oriented on the flap extends transverse to the casing dispensing direction and is attachable to an end of the casing when effecting a splice to the casing length being dispensed from the carton. The flap maintains the splice tape in a proper orientation during splicing and provides a work surface against which the casing is pressed for effecting the splice.

Abstract: A light-tight, self-contained canister and light sealing, anti-blooming tab, of generally rectangular shape, for preventing a roll of core wound photosensitive media, containable within the canister and used in a microfiche or microfilm reader-printer, from being damaged or exposed to actinic light during shipping and storage. The canister includes an open-ended, opaque tubular sleeve having an exit slot, and the sleeve is closed at both ends by opaque end caps fastened thereto. The tab includes an insertable portion joined along a fold line to an extendable portion. The insertable portion may be inserted into the exit slot and engageably wedged between the roll of core wound photosensitive media and the sleeve to prevent undesired rotation. In addition, the extendable portion of the tab is folded at the fold line along the exit slot.

Abstract: A one piece paperboard carton blank is folded into a rectangular shape for packaging and dispensing from a roll of individual plastic bags, particularly disposable milk bottles for feeding babies. The carton has a double wall front part which includes an inner top rigidly supporting a tab protruding in a direction opposite to the direction of withdrawal of bags from the roll. When a first plastic bag is withdrawn it starts to pull out a succeeding bag to which it is removably attached along a line of perforations. When the center of the perforated edge of the succeeding bag is impaled on the tab, further withdrawal of the succeeding bag is restrained and the first bag is readily separated to facilitate its dispensing and to place the leading edge of the succeeding bag where it may be easily reached for withdrawal.

Abstract: The invention concerns a supply roll for protective covers, especially those made out of sheet plastic, for motor-vehicle seats, wherein the covers can be separated at a perforation and are attached to each other across their length in a long web and folded over at the ends to form pockets that can be pulled out over the backrest or forward edge of the seat and the overall web is folded longitudinally between the seat and backrest components and finally wound into a supply roll, wherein in accordance with the invention the winding density of supply roll of wound seat covers is kept constant over its whole width by introducing a supporting fold.

Abstract: A dispensing carton for plastic bags is disclosed in which the bags may be removed from aperture openings located on three different sides of the carton. A blank for the dispensing carton is also disclosed.

Abstract: A fibreboard shipping container for coil material, such as wire, is formed of an octagonal cross-section tubular body having a closed bottom and a cover, with an octagon shaped, tubular core coaxially positioned within the body. A pair of stiff, fibreboard panels are forcibly positioned within the container on opposite sides of the core in substantial face to face contact with their adjacent core wall surfaces, and with their opposite vertical edges pressing against their adjacent interior wall surfaces of the body. The panels have closely spaced, horizontal score lines for folding their lower edge portions incrementally upwardly to adjust their heights to correspond to the distance between the cover and the upper surface of the core so as to apply downwards pressure by the cover against the core.

Abstract: A method for producing a package to receive a ring (7) of reeled wire, tube or the like cut to a predetermined length, especially an electrical line (8). The ring (7) is introduced between two substantially square panels of rigid material, e.g. cardboard or the like, with the center axis of the ring running perpendicular to the panels. A substantially tubular rigid means (10) is after introduced through both panels and the center opening of the ring (7) and is thereafter locked in the introduced position in relation to the ring (7) well as the panels. The package can be used as a reel by removing a protective shell of the package. As an alternative said tubular rigid means can be removed, whereby the line or the like is removed from the center of the package.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which uses labels releasably adhered to a carrier web. The labeler has a body with a pair of identical body sections. The body mounts first, second and third feed rolls. The first and third feed rolls project beyond the body and cooperate respectively with the second feed roll. The body has a delaminator and a guideway for the carrier web. The carrier web can be threaded through the guideway and about the delaminator in either direction. In either event, the first, second and third feed rolls cooperate with the carrier web to advance it and effect label delamination. Depending on the direction of threading, either the first or the third feed roll is used to advance the carrier web by rolling that feed roll along the surface to be labeled. A label roll is held captive in a holder having two identical body sections. In an alternative embodiment, a label strip winding feature enables a strip of labels to be wound into a roll for subsequent use in the labeler.

Abstract: A long length of large plastic sheet tubing is stored in a cardboard storage cartridge having a hollow, box-like, flattened housing with a large circular opening in the top wall and a large circular opening in the bottom wall aligned with the first opening. A hollow center core is integral with the top wall and is present within the cartridge, and it is of generally cylindrical form. Both the top and bottom walls of the cartridge are of generally square form, and the top wall has downturned side flanges that have a height slightly greater than the height of the hollow center core. A long length of large plastic sheet tubing is loaded into the cartridge when the bottom wall is opened and the cartridge is inverted, where the plastic sheet tubing is folded lengthwise or compressed into the area bounded by the hollow center core and the side flanges and the top and bottom walls of the cartridge housing. Means are provided for sealing the bottom wall to the cartridge to confine the plastic sheet tubing therein.

Abstract: In a wire shipping and dispensing package comprising a wire-carrying spool disposed vertically in a generally rectangular carton having side and end walls extending upwardly from a substantially square bottom section to define a substantially square open top, the lower end portion of the carton is adapted to frictionally fit within the upper end portion of a substantially identical carton disposed therebelow. A pad sheet is removably secured in the open top of the carton in engagement with the rim of an upwardly cupped upper end flange of the spool and provides a seating surface for the bottom section of a substantially identical carton disposed thereabove with its lower end portion fitted into the upper end portion of the lower carton.

Abstract: A carton is provided for dispensing sheet material from a roll thereof disposed in the carton. The carton has a hood panel and a material tearing member which is preferably mounted on the lower edge of the hood panel. A hood panel engaging portion is provided on the front panel of the carton for releasably holding the hood panel in overlying relationship with the front panel to close the carton. If the carton is used to dispense plastic sheet material, the front panel is provided with one or more openings which allow the end portion of the plastic sheet to be pressed against the roll of plastic sheet through the openings whereby the natural tackiness of the plastic material holds the end portion of the sheet against the outer surface of the front panel of the carton.

Abstract: An improved foldable sheet plastic construction, employed in a butterfly pouch for use in making plastic laminated data cards, and in a plastic fan-fold product, both comprising adjacent panels made from a single sheet of plastic material that must be folded along a fold line into parallel facing relation. The fold line has a two-level hinge cut. A major portion of the fold line is cut to a predetermined depth that assures easy folding but may cause separation of adjacent panels; a minor fractional portion of the fold line is cut to a substantially shallower depth to preclude separation of the panels on folding. In the preferred construction, the shallow cut is made at two or more spaced locations along the fold line to provide plural hinges.