Abstract: An arcuately shaped caddy receptacle having a plurality of open-topped compartments and adapted for securement to the rim of a round cocktail waitress tray by means of a plurality of clips.

Abstract: A blow molded display package and case has a plastic base including upper and lower spaced walls and a peripheral side therebetween with the upper wall having a plurality of depressions or recesses formed therein separated by surface portions lying in a common plane. The depressions have a predetermined configuration selected according to the configuration of objects to be placed therein such that the objects extend above the depressions no further than the plane of the support surface portions. A transparent cover plate overlies the upper wall and is supported on the support surface portions against the objects in the recesses to retain the objects therein. The upper wall of the base also includes at least one frustro-conical depression formed therein having a base portion sealed to the lower wall of the base and a key hole shaped knock-out formed therein, thereby to rigidify the base while providing means for mounting the case on a wall.

Abstract: Equipment is provided for aiding persons in eating without substantial assistance when such persons are handicapped for some reason or cause which prevents them from using their arms and/or hands in the manipulation of utensils normally employed for eating purposes. Included therewithin is a tray provided with one or more mouthpieces into which food from the tray may be moved such that a mouthful of the food can be taken from the mouthpiece simply by the act on the part of the user of placing his mouth over the mouthpiece and the food thereon. Included also is a utensil mounted on a headpiece such that the user is able to manipulate selected quantities of food from the tray to the mouthpiece. Still further, the equipment includes a table for supporting the tray and adapted to be mounted on a wheelchair, the overall table assembly having an adequate number of adjusting features to permit proper positioning of the tray such that the user may easily carry out the self-feeding operation.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for conducting a microbiological radiorespirometric assay. The device comprises a support member which includes a plurality of pairs of chambers. One chamber in each pair contains a radioactive labeled substrate which is capable of being metabolized by at least some microorganisms to yield a radioactive gas. The other chamber in each pair contains a means for collecting radioactive gas. The two chambers in each pair are in communication with each other by means of a passageway, which opens into each of said chambers at the upper portion thereof. There is also disclosed a method for determining whether microorganisms contained in a sample material will metabolize a radioactive labeled substrate in the device. The method comprises placing said material in contact with a radioactive labeled substrate, collecting any gas which is evolved, exposing a photosensitive material to said collected gas and determining if a spot is produced on said photosensitive material.

Abstract: A thermoformed plastic tray of unitary construction is provided for holding loaded ice cream cones while resting on a supporting surface without the tray tipping regardless of how few or how many cones up to capacity are in the tray. The tray has a plurality of sockets, e.g., three, for holding the cones, the sockets being defined by a rigid hemi-conical surface and a planar sidewall which gives imperceptibly upon insertion of the cone. The defined sockets hold the cones at a slight angle from the vertical position so that the cones extend upwardly and inwardly over the tray such that the center of gravity of the combined tray and ice cream cone or cones is always close to the center of gravity of the tray, thereby greatly increasing stability and permitting the tray to be quite small and light in weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a serving tray for the serving of a meal comprising at least one dish and at least one drink in a drinking vessel, the tray comprising a number of recesses in the form of bowls for the components of the meal. According to the invention a hole extends through the tray is provided in shape and size to form an opening for the insertion of the thumb of a hand so that the tray can be carried with the thumb on the upper side of the tray while for the rest of the hand there is provided a downwards pointing surface against which the hand can rest and support the corresponding portion of the underside of the tray.

Abstract: A tray for receiving and supporting a group of bottles, particularly plastic bottles of a lightweight nature. The tray, made from precut paperboard or corrugated paperboard or other relatively stiff sheet material, has parallel top and bottom surfaces spaced vertically. The top surface has an opening complementary to the border configuration about the cylindrical sides of bottles within a rectangular group. This is presented in the form of scallops, each scallop being semi-circular to frictionally engage the barrel of a bottle about the border of the group. The heels of the bottles rest upon the bottom surface of the tray for vertical support. The bottles are frictionally engaged about their barrels to maintain the group of bottles within the tray by slight compressive tangential engagement of the bottles with one another.

Abstract: A reusable resilient package particularly for the shipment of beverage cans is provided having at least two mating half sections, each containing at least one pair of mating recesses, one recess of each pair receiving half of a lengthwise section of a beverage can of one size and the other recess of each pair receiving half of the lengthwise section of a beverage can of different size having a like diameter but shorter length, said two half sections in one position receiving in each pair of recesses a can of one size and a can of different size and, in a second position, receiving in each pair of recesses two cans of said different size.

Abstract: A planting system in which the basic unit of the system comprises a plurality of individual containers for growing plants to a stage suitable for transplanting and in which the plurality of containers are secured in a flexible carrier sheet. The securement of each of the containers in the carrier sheet is such that the entire basic unit can be handled in a number of shipping, handling, filling, growing, and transplanting operations in a convenient, unique and efficient manner. Various articles of manufacture are contemplated in the system of the invention which aid and render in the unique and efficient use of the system. Those articles of manufacture include shipping and handling cartons, holding trays, filler plates and portable pack arrangements.

Abstract: A vending machine adapter to allow items not normally suited to being vended through a particular vending machine to be vended. The vending machine adapter includes a container of substantially the same size and shape as the item normally vended by the particular vending machine and at least one recess provided in the container for holding the item or items normally not vended.

Abstract: A disposable, self-stabilizing tray, which is shipped in a flat condition and which forms a stable, non-collapsible structure as it is being erected, is disclosed. The tray includes a transverse downwardly directed panel partition which extends between the top and bottom panel members, and which, as the tray is being erected, cams a longitudinal panel into a downwardly directed direction. A protrusion or projection from the longitudinal panel is thus cammed into a locking notch which is formed by a recessed shoulder of an opening in the bottom member of the tray. An integral blank useful for constructing the tray is also disclosed.

Abstract: A storage container for associated or related articles such as nuts and bolts wherein there is a myriad of different sizes and shapes for each of the different types of related articles. It comprises a main body having a continuous side wall and open opposite ends, each end having a separate and independent cover. A first partition wall is provided within the body and has a plurality of slots for receiving bolts of a given diameter and thread configuration but of different lengths. A second partition wall is also provided in the main body, and has a plurality of trays for holding the nuts, such trays being in number equal to the number of slots in the first partition wall and arranged parallel and adjacent thereto so that mating nuts and bolts are arranged in juxtaposition. Thus the proper bolt and corresponding nut can be extracted from the container through said opposite ends of said main body but from corresponding locations therein.

Abstract: A packaging tray for holding and storing a group of endless belts in a nested configuration is of a molded plastic having a raised land area and a recessed well area, the land area defining the shape of the tray and the shape of the well, which well maintains the belts in their nested orientation when packed for shipping.

Abstract: A flexible multi-compartment container is provided for the storage, handling and shipping of fragile disks such as silicon wafers used in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The container comprises a generally tubular hollow bellows section formed of identical longitudinal halves from thin sheets of pliant self-supportable plastic sheet material. Each fold of the bellows section defines an interior annular groove forming a compartment for a disk of corresponding pre-selected or standardized size. Integral with the bellows section are longitudinally flexible end spacers of a diameter greater than the diameter of the bellows section. Each end spacer includes ridges adapted to confront the interior of a rigid outer box for suppotring the bellows section therein. In particular embodiments, the end spacers include an exterior annular ridge and adjacent trough for receiving a rubber band which is used to hold the mating halves together.

Abstract: A receptacle for selectively alternatively holding a standard recording tape cartridge or cassette which are of different dimensions includes a rectangular tray shaped member having a rectangular base wall and upstanding front, rear and end walls delineating a cavity for nesting the standard cartridge. Opposing medial rectangular recesses are formed in the front and rear walls and each is delineated by bottom and side shoulders and a vertical base and is open at its top, the distance between the wall recess bases is equal to the length of the standard cassette. In one form the receptacle is formed with a peripheral coplanar flange terminating in an upwardly directed lip to form a recess for receiving a pamphlet and in another form a pair of shallow receptacles is provided, each having a peripheral flange, the edges of a corresponding lip thereof being joined by a self hinge.

Abstract: A packaged dinner serving tray being of a one piece, lightweight plastic construction having a central cavity for holding the standard packaged dinner and having support portions for holding the packaged dinner in the cavity spaced above the surface on which the tray is placed (i.e. such as a table) and having opposite side openings to facilitate handling and serving of packaged dinner in the tray.

Abstract: A carton for card-mounted goods including bottom, side, end and top walls, inner side walls spaced inwardly from the outer side walls, the inner side walls having downwardly extending slots for receiving opposite margins of cards with the goods between the inner side walls, and flap means depending from the top wall removably into opposed slots.