Abstract: A laterally tearing tape strip torn from a roll having a longitudinal axis. The tape is originally annularly rolled onto the roll. Several cuts extending parallel with the longitudinal axis of the roll extend radially through the tape to divide the tape into a plurality of laterally tearing tape strips. A portion of the tape and therefore each tape strip does not include adhesive over a defined area which serves as a leading edge for each strip, a remaining portion of which does not include adhesive, to facilitate removal of a laterally tearing tape strip from the roll.

Abstract: An improved container for the storage, display and protection of collectable items such as graded coins, stamps, jewels and other valuables is disclosed. Display of the collectable items is enhanced by an optical element which provides reflective means for viewing the item indirectly. A reflecting prismatic ring is preferred to provide viewing of the periphery of a cavity or the collectable item enclosed therein. In a second embodiment where two or more components may completely enclose the cavity, various tamper-resistant and tamper-evidencing features are further incorporated in the container design to discourage and prevent fraudulent substitutions of collectable items, modification of grade and value certificates enclosed therewith, or counterfeiting of container components.

Abstract: A tape-form electronic component package accommodates a plurality of electronic components in a carrier tape. A tape main body has a plurality of cavities, each having a shape indicating a direction, for accommodating electronic components respectively. The cavities are arranged obliquely against a longer side of the tape main body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a moulded container (1) having an applicator handle (6) associated with it comprises moulding as a one piece unit the container (1) an applicator handle (6) and a frangible moulded connection (8) directly between the container (1) and the applicator handle (6).

Abstract: Permanent indicia can be applied to a surface comprising a composition comprising about 35 to about 75% of a polymeric component having dispersed therein about 25 to about 65% of a filler component comprising: i) about 2 to about 65% of an insoluble, infusible particulate, active filler having a mean particle size less than about 2.5 micron and a surface area greater than about 10 m.sup.2 /g: and (ii) up to about 63% of an insoluble, infusible, particulate, inert filler. The polymeric component should be polar, e.g. by the use of a polymer containing polar groups or adding a polar additive to the composition.

Abstract: A retaining device integrally formed of a single piece of resiliently flexible material for retaining a flattened and rolled portion of a collapsible tube in a rolled condition. The retaining device is formed with two body portions, a first portion which is attached to an end of a tube, and a second portion which acts as a shackle to retain the tube in a rolled up condition. The second portion is integrally attached to the first portion an one end thereof and is releasably engageable with the first portion at an opposite end thereof. The retaining device has a perimeter which is shaped to permit interlocking of a plurality of the retaining devices when the retaining devices are juxtaposed in alternating directions forming a tessellation in a continuous strip of resiliently flexible material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a removal aid for mechanically detachable substrates adhering to a sheet-like, flexible carrier material and in the form of cuts or predetermined breaking lines in said carrier material. At least in the contact surface of the carrier material is provided for each substrate a separate, non-linear cutting or predetermined breaking line, so that when pressure is exerted on the carrier material with a force component in a direction at right angles to the substrate contact surface a carrier material portion with the substrate portion adhering thereto and bounded by the cutting or predetermined breaking line can be bent in the direction of the substrate or substrates, so that at least part of the substrate in the border area thereof adjacent to the cutting or predetermined breaking line is detached from the carrier material and consequently a gripping portion is formed on the substrate for the complete removal of the latter.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for molding a strip of blind rivets, with each of the rivets having a pin within a sleeve and with the pin having a pulling head and shank, including a strip advance rod mounted in the apparatus for movement between first and second positions, a set of pin mold cavities and a set of sleeve mold cavities, a first runner for feeding the pin mold cavities and including a band around the rod, a second runner overlying the first runner for feeding the sleeve mold cavities, opposing mold members defining the sets of cavities and a sprue for feeding molding material to the runners, with the rod and strip moving together when the mold members are out of engagement for advancing the molded parts, and with the rod moving through the strip when the mold members are in engagement for returning the rod to the first position.

Abstract: In a strip of collated fasteners, each having a shank and a head, a carrier molded from a polymeric material has a sleeve for each fastener. Each sleeve has an annular portion and a breakable portion, which breaks into two segments as the fastener gripped by such sleeve is driven. The breakable portion, which is notched at one end, has a pair of similar, laterally opposed, outwardly opening, continuously curved concave recesses with open windows, from which portions of the fastener shank emerges. In a fastener-guiding tool, parallel ribs of a guiding device fit into such recesses, into close proximity with the emerging portions, so as to guide the strip between such ribs.

Abstract: The Applicator Means comprises a plurality of identical applicators joined to a freestanding base by frangible couplings. Each applicator is configured to receive a sample of substance or preparation, i.e., lipstick, or such, by deposition on a stub end thereof. A removable cap is set over the stub end of each applicator to shield such substance or preparation as will be deposited on the stub end. The base, couplings and applicators constitute a single, unitized molding. The Method defines the steps to be exercised in depositing a preparation (i.e., the product sample of lipstick, or the like) on the stub ends of the applicators, simultaneously.

Abstract: A disposable single-use contact lens conditioning package having two pairs of adjacent open-topped containers of a size for accommodating a contact lens to be conditioned, a contact lens sterilizing solution or cleaning member in one container of each pair, a solution for counteracting the sterilizing solution or rinsing away a lens cleaning liquid in the other container of each pair, and a cover sealed over the pairs of containers over the tops thereof and capable of being peeled off the containers for opening the tops of the containers.

Abstract: an inflatable packaging material comprises a plurality of flexible bladders formed of tubes sealed at one end and partially sealed at the other end to provide a passageway which may be closed by a stopper. In one embodiment, a protuberance extends from the sealed end of each bladder which may releasably engage the walls of a passageway of an adjacent bladder to join the bladders end-to-end. In a second embodiment, the sealed end includes an eyelet and the passageway end includes a stopper attached to such end by a flexible trunk such that the stopper of one bladder may releasably engage the eyelet of an adjacent bladder to join the bladders end-to-end. The bladders may line a carton to protect an article shipped therein.

Abstract: The assembly includes first and second parallel connecting bars between which individual attachments are situated in parallel, spaced relation. Each of the attachments includes first and second T-bar ends with a flexible filament extending therebetween. The attaching device includes a housing with a recess having a first and second sections adapted to receive the first and second connecting bars, respectively. First and second hollow needles extend from the housing. The T-bar ends are pushed through needles by simultaneosuly actuatable ejector rods after each is severed from the associated connecting bar. The assembly of the attachments is advanced through the housing to align the T-bars with the needles by simultaneously actuated indexing gears. The gears cooperate with the elements which join the T-bar ends and the connecting bars.

Abstract: A plurality of tapered sample strips are secured at one end to a border strip to faciliate the performance of perfumery by a relative novice in the field. The tapered sample strips include the fragrance of a note, which is an essential oil, used in the perfume industry to manufacture perfumes. The series of tapered sample strips secured to the border strip are prepared for sampling by first separating two sets of border strips with their associated tapered sample strips from a die-cut sample sheet of heavy paper. The identifying indicia and color for each fragrance is clearly indicated. A tiered sample rack or case, including a plurality of capped bottles, corresponding to the number of tapered sample strips on each border strip, contains different notes or essential oils which correspond in order to the marked indicia on the tapered sample strips. Each tier of bottles corresponds to a separate border strip and its associated tapered sample strips.

Abstract: Straight zipper sections are attached to a carrier tape for attachment to the mouth end of a bag. The straight zipper sections are mounted on the continuous tape in longitudinal series orientation, or in spaced side-by-side orientation across the length of the tape. The tape in either case may be fan folded and packed into a storage or shipping container. The tape provides for closing attachment across the mouth of a bag to provide a security membrane and/or a tamper evident structure required to be ruptured to gain initial access into the bag after the zipper is opened.

Abstract: The two chambers of a double chamber receptacle, especially a double chamber ampoule, are formed by two containers. The containers are arranged adjacent to one another, connected detachably and are closed by removable stoppers. One container has a neck forming the filling and/or drawing out opening with an outer conical member tapering toward the open end of the neck. The other container has a neck forming the filling and/or drawing out opening with an inner conical member configured correspondingly to the outer conical member of the one container and tapering toward the inside of its container.

Abstract: A strapped fastener assemblage for an automatic fastener driver includes a pair of connecting straps made of paper, each of which has a plastic film laminated onto one surface of the connecting strap. The plastic-film-side surfaces of the connecting straps are in contact with each other. A plurality of pin-like fasteners are arranged in parallel to one another with a predetermined spacing and each of the fasteners extend transversely of and between the connecting straps; and a plurality of fastener retainers are defined by a pair of heat-sealed portions in the connecting straps extending transversely of the connecting straps, and the fastener retainer will retain a corresponding one of the fasteners.

Abstract: The common cigarettes in cigarette packs and boxes are individually wrapped by a thin foil-type wrapping material and each is totally sealed from all four sides to preserve tobacco freshness and aroma and to prevent tobacco brittleness if the cigarettes are stored for extended period of time or if the cigarette package is opened but the contents are consumed long time after the opening. The cigarettes are packed in flexible strips having flexible foldings which allow compacting the cigarettes for packaging in the least volume and allow the separation of individual cigarettes without breaking the total seal of any adjacent cigarettes. With the cigarettes sealed inside the strip, the usual aluminum foil-type lining of the cigarette box is no longer needed.

Abstract: A casing of plastic provided with casing chambers for the reception of electric plug connectors, and also provided with rest arrangements connectable with rest arrangements of an adjacent casing to form a belt. A first rest arrangement is arranged on a first side wall and a second rest arrangement is arranged on the oppositely lying second side wall. The first rest arrangement includes at least one hook-shaped rest finger molded to the first side wall and projecting therefrom, being formed by a connecting strip and by a rest strip molded thereto and extending upward. On the second side wall there is arranged at least one outward-projecting lug member forming the second rest arrangement, which includes a connecting strip and a bow portion joined therewith. The bow portion is provided with a recess for receiving and retaining the rest strip of an associated similar casing therein to form the belt.

Abstract: An apparatus for storage and automatic feeding of screws into an electric screwdriver comprises a plurality of re-usable or disposable cartridges with internal means for retaining and centering a screw. A magazine holes an upwardly biased column of cartridges.

Abstract: A sheet of removable pirn markers is provided which may be fed through a printer, and then a row of interconnected pirn markers may be removed from the sheet by pulling outwardly on the first pirn marker in the row. Each pirn marker in the row has opposed sides defined by opposed arcuate cuts extending through the sheet, and the cuts are designed to create connection points at the ends of a line of joinder between pirn markers in the row. The end pirn markers in the row are connected to the sheet by a single, central connection point remote from the line of joinder between the end pirn marker and other pirn markers in the sheet.

Abstract: A baking-tin to cook and distribute cakes and food-stuffs in general comprises a laminar support (2) made of paper material provided with a plurality of through holes (3) each of them housing a small pleated-paper cup (4). The support (2) is provided with a number of fracture lines (5) defining a plurality of support portions (6) thereon each circumscribed to at least a small cup 4), as well as a series of shaped holes (7) which are cut each at the crossing of two fracture lines (5). On the outer edges of the baking-tin (1) where the edge itself intersects the fracture lines, provision is made for a plurality of engagement seats (8) enabling the baking-tin to be engaged by grasping elements carried by the automated transport means.

Abstract: A calendar type dispenser is provided in association with a separable indicia means, the combination comprising a reminder system for reminding users when a particular dosage of medicament must be taken. The medicament container comprises a blister pack dispenser wherein a plurality of blisters are linearly arranged, in one or more groups, each group having a predetermined number of blisters. Each group has associated therewith a means for retaining a separable overlying planar sheet member provided with a plurality of apertures corresponding to the number of blisters in a selected group. Suitable indicia are marked on the sheet member in associating with each aperture thereof thereby identifying the particular dosage in each blister with the time when it should be taken.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a tray arrangement for a series of continuously linked trays. The trays are adapted to be stacked by a twisting mechanism and by a series of curved side guards which twist and bend the links connecting the trays in order to arrange the trays into the proper configuration. The trays are then unstacked by another series of curved side guards and twisting mechanism and then each tray is in turn moved to a filling station where filling material is dispensed therein. The filled tray is then moved to a lid closing station where the attached flipped open lid of the tray is closed atop the tray. The tray is then pulled by a side grasping pull flange to a position where an overhead piston driven mechanism seals the lid and cuts the link, separating the tray from the nested of the trays.

Abstract: A food serving system in the form of a receptacle housing is provided which is initially integrated, but which includes at least two meal course portion containers which are separable. In such a system at least one separable portion is designed to carry a meal course which is to be heated in that portion, and at least one separable portion is designed to carry a meal course which is not intended to be heated but rather is designed to carry a meal course which is to be served at room temperature or at a temperature cooler than room temperature. In one embodiment the integrated food serving system is in the form of a receptacle housing in which at least one of the separable portions which is designed to carry a meal course has scorelines there-in-between such portion and the receptacle and from other portions carried by the receptacle which are designed to carry meal courses.

Abstract: Improved continuously connected plastic fastener stock for attaching price tags to garments and other joining applications. The fastener stock includes two side members connected by a series of filaments, one of the side members comprising a series of severally connected T-bars. The T-bar connectors are defined by saw-tooth-like indentations in that end bar, having a perpendicular or slightly angled surface which is eventually engaged by the plunger when ejecting the severed T-bar.

Abstract: An elongate container of one-piece resilient thermoplastic construction. The container includes a first wall having first and second lateral edges with a first latching component positioned adjacent the first lateral edge. A second wall has first and second lateral edges with a second latching component, for interlocking with the first latching component positioned adjacent its second lateral edge. The container also includes a hinge joining the first lateral edge of the first wall and second lateral edge of the second wall, with the hinge including a web of material having a thickness less than the thickness of the walls. The walls are relatively movable about the hinge between an as-formed position in which the first and second latching components are spaced and a use position in which the first and second walls extend relative to each other at a predetermined angle and the first and second latching components are in locking engagement.

Abstract: A tape structure provided with electronic components includes a base tape having a width and an attachment tape having a width which is approximately half the width of the base tape. The attachment tape extends parallel to and along a first half side of the base tape, the base tape and the attachment tape being bonded together so as to support the terminal legs of the electronic components between the base tape and the attachment tape. Projections are provided on a second half side of the base tape. When the tape structure is cut into segments, and held between a pallet and pressing arms, the projections prevent each segment from being turned while the segment is held between the pallet and the pressing arms.

Abstract: A strip like structure is formed in the shape of a succession of phials, of a heat-sealable plastic, with the phials molded with their respective bases open and their mouths each closed by a removable stopper element, each of the phials having a first set of webs disposed transversely about the middle of their respective longitudinal axis and a second set of webs formed at the mouth ends with narrow stiffening ribs on either side of an uppermost edge thereof, the first and second webs serving to interconnect the phials and the removable stopper elements closing the same, respectively. The interconnecting webs are provided with relative weakening creases located preferably midway between each two adjacent phials and disposed parallel to the phial longitudinal axis. Each terminal web of the second set has transverse butt portion disposed at right angles to the plane of the web, the butt having a width not greater than the width of the phial and a height equal to a depth of the second web.

Abstract: A device for dispensing elastomeric orthodontic appliances. The device has a mounting section having a rigid support structure and an outer layer. The outer layer has integrally formed therewith a plurality of orthodontic appliances detachably connected thereto. The outer layer and appliances are made of a material having a stiffness substantially less than that of the support structure. The device also has a finger gripping section attached at one end of the mounting section and preferably made integral with the rigid support structure.

Abstract: A sheet of removable pirn markers is provided which maybe fed through a printer, and then a row of interconnected pirn markers may be removed from the sheet by pulling outwardly on the first pirn marker in the row. Each pirn marker in the row has opposed sides defined by opposed arcuate cuts extending through the sheet, and the cuts are designed to create connection points at the ends of a line of joinder between pirn markers in the row. The end pirn markers in the row are connected to the sheet by a single, central connection point remote from the line of joinder between the end pirn marker and other pirn markers in the sheet.

Abstract: A package band (10) is formed of two walls (11a, 11b) substantially adjoining one another and made of a flexible material, e.g. plastic material. Each one of the walls extends from a first edge area (12a, 12b) the longitudinal direction of the package band to a bottom edge (23) common to the walls situated in a second edge area (14) of the package band. By forming joints (15) located transversely to the longitudinal direction of the package band storage pockets (16) are formed one behind another. Each one of the walls is provided in its first edge area (12a, 12b) with a first connecting tunnel (17a, 17b) adapted to co-operate with a filling or emptying equipment. In its second edge area (14) the package band is provided with a second connecting tunnel (18) adapted to cooperate with a mechanical element of the filling or emptying equipment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bag-shaped container with a receiving capacity r receiving seeds or the like and with a releasable marker section. Preferably the marker section can be released from the remaining part of the container without additional tools, for example by a perforation.

Abstract: A screw strip is disclosed in which each screw carries a washer on its screw shank between the tip of the screw and a plastic strip carrying a plurality of screws. This configuration permits application of screws carrying the washers by power tools as is particularly useful in sheet metal applications.

Abstract: A stack of cosmetic pads (2) of an arcuate configuration conjoined by one bridgeable members (3) for "one-handed" individual dispense via dispense slot (7).

Abstract: A bag article for the containment and treatment of garments and the like includes a fumigant source element within the bag, which element is activated by exposure of an internal surface to the atmosphere so as to evolve a gaseous treatment agent. The fumigant source element may be provided by a laminar pad, and activation may be achieved by parting of the panels of the bag, such as by the introduction of the garment to be contained therewithin.

Abstract: When an electrical device such as a receptacle switch or the like is fixedly wired into building wiring, it is electrically and mechanically connected to an outlet box inside the wall. The device is fastened to the face of the box by screws. Ordinarily, the opening in the wall for recessing the device has minimal clearance to admit only the device and the device has extending projections that engage the wall surface around the opening so that the device mounts flush with the wall surface. When the opening is oversize, the projections pass through the opening and the workman cannot secure the receptacle firmly and mount it flush with the wall. The invention provides a set of insulated horizontal spacer members mounted parallel to one another and flexibly joined together by flimsy vertical joining elements that are readily broken apart. The workman can break off a portion of the assembly that will provide the necessary total spacing thickness and place it between the projections and the junction box.

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 packaging cup formed from a resilient material has an integrally body having a product reservoir and a lip. The product reservoir includes a flat bottom wall and a continuous side wall integrally joined together about a smooth curve. The side wall extends upwardly from the bottom wall to join the lip. The joint between the lip and the side wall continuously surrounds and defines an opening through the lip to the interior of the reservoir. The lip extends in a plane outwardly from this opening completely around the periphery of this opening. The bottom wall is essentially circular in shape and the opening is essentially squarish in shape. First, second, third and fourth fluted areas are located in the side wall at the corners of the squarish shaped opening. Each of the fluted areas is shaped essentially as a conical surface generated from a cone which is truncated by a plane about a parabolic intersecton of the plane with the cone.

Abstract: The invention relates to an infusion, stirring and hanging device for preparing beverage in a container comprising a porous bag made of a liquid permeable material containing an infusible substance, and a rigid, non-toxic unit having one section located within said porous bag and another section protruding therefrom, the protruding section having rigid or partially flexible hanging means, enabling the hanging of said device on the rim of said container.

Abstract: An invertable tray/vial package assembly is disclosed formed of separable interlockably connected top and bottom vial holding and locating tray sections which tray enables and effects holding and spatial positioning of a plurality of vials therein for selective external access to the vials at their respective opposite fluid content filling ends and fluid serving ends, for ease of vial filling, closing, handling, labeling and visual identification of vial contents, and for dispensing of the vials and serving the fill content of a vial to a patient. The tray has vial holding and spatially positioning pockets formed on one of its separable sections, with fluid-fill enabling openings formed in the bottom end of each of the pockets, and which are effectively registrable with closeable fill openings of vials disposed therein.

Abstract: This invention provides a marker sleeve assembly comprising a series of flattened tubular recoverable marker sleeves held by at least one longitudinal carrier strip which holds the sleeves in fixed spaced apart relationship extending laterally from the strip. In a preferred embodiment, this invention provides a marker sleeve assembly which comprises a pair of parallel longitudinal carrier strips the inner edges of which have two layers with adhesive means on the inside facing surfaces of the two layers. The ends of the flattened tubular recoverable marker sleeves are positioned between the layers and held in position by the adhesive means on the inside surfaces of said layers of the carrier strips. The flattened marker sleeves are spaced apart whereby a portion of each adhesive means on the inside surface on each said layer of each carrier strip alternately engages the ends of the flattened marker sleeves and the opposing adhesive means on the opposing surface of the opposing layer of that carrier strip.

Abstract: In a method for the production and packaging of a continuous strip of small bags each formed with two longitudinal folds and with transverse welds and transverse pre-incisions, the continuous manufacture is longitudinally folded after the formation of the welds and the pre-incisions defining adjacent single small bags, is die-cut to form the handles and then is wound up as a reel.

Abstract: Reinforcement for strengthening sheets of paper and the like around binding holes. The reinforcement has a generally chevron shape with parallel opposing edges of similar length and contour. In one embodiment, the reinforcements are supplied in a precut from in which a plurality of the reinforcements are nested together along an axis with the opposing edges of adjacent ones of the reiforcements in close mating relationship with each other and no gaps or waste material between the reinforcements. In another embodiment, the reinforcements are cut in place from a sheet of adhesive backed reinforcing material and applied by a punch which also cuts the binding holes in the paper.

Abstract: A through the wash, compact, laminated laundry product (1) comprising powdered laundry actives laminated between two plies, at least one ply of which is a strong wet strength, high stretch tissue (5) having a multiplicity of deeply embossed (stretched) nonconnecting tissue cup-like depressions (2) containing the powdered actives with the other ply (4) covering the cups. The plies are sealed with a glue pattern (22) around the cup rims (5a). The high stretch tissue is stretched 15% to 100% to form said deeply embossed (stretched) cups and is made to survive the rigors of a washing machine.

Abstract: A multiple use shim product having plural rows of spaced-apart shims, with the shims being integrally-connected to adjacent shims in the same row as well as adjacent rows by relatively thin and narrow fracturable hinge sections. The shim product is of a one-piece construction formed as a molded sheet of plastic material. Each shim is of generally a horseshoe shape with a space between separated legs. The shims are arranged in adjacent rows wherein separation of two particular rows of shims from the sheet can have the shim spaces opening outwardly from each row of shims and another selection of rows of shims can have the shim leg sections abutting to form an elongate enclosed opening by the combined spaces.

Abstract: A continuous business form assembly of mailer units, the units of which have slits for accommodating breaker knuckles used in the detaching operation.

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: A plurality of dental floss holders, each formed of a length of floss with gripping elements are aligned in succession with the floss of each being part of a continuous strand that is severable between holders, and with each two adjacent gripping elements of adjacent holders being separable parts of an initially unitary component. Also disclosed is an assembly of parallel disposed floss holders releasably joined together in dispenser packages and other assemblies of packaged dental floss holders.

Abstract: A belt assembly for machine delivery of piece goods, includes a carrier belt having feed holes formed therein and having troughs formed therein at regular intervals for receiving piece goods. The carrier belt has folding zones free of the troughs disposed at fixed intervals. The folding zones including provisions for permitting the carrier belt to fold through 180.degree. without strain, so that a multiplicity of the carrier belts can be stacked to form an ammo pack.