Abstract: A holding device is provided for removably securing a multitude of flat plastic cases in an orderly, easily viewable array. The device employs a substantially rigid panel having a number of series of uniformly spaced apertures, and suction cups held by said apertures. The apertures are disposed such that two suction cups are positioned to engage each plastic case.

Abstract: A device for protecting a plastic tray wall of a compartment of a till tray when a user breaks a wrapper of a coin roll by impacting the coin roll against the tray wall. A generally U-shaped member, which is made of metal or plastic, is mounted on a tray wall of a plastic till tray while grippers located on opposed legs of the U-shaped member retain the member on the tray wall. A user then breaks the wrapper of the coin roll by impacting the coin roll against the U-shaped member, thereby releasing the coins for depositing into a compartment of the till tray. A second embodiment of the device includes a ridge formed thereon to facilitate breaking the wrapper of the coin roll.

Abstract: A storage device and system are provided for retaining a number of collector's coins that are encased in plastic cases. The coins are retained in an orderly array and are readily reviewable and removable. The device consists of a panel upon which a number of suction cups are mounted. An assembly consisting of the device holding a number of encased coins can be stored in stack-wise manner with other assemblies in a manner whereby the cases of one assembly are in protective abutment with the rear extremities of the suction cups of the next forward assembly.

Abstract: An improved case particularly adapted for the safe and efficient storage and transportation of hats and boots, and in particular western style or cawboy hats and boots, is comprised of a single case preferably having two separate storage compartments, each of which is accessed throguh a separate door. One such compartment is designed to securely hold a hat, particularly a western or cowboy style hat. To achieve this result, a circular insert is provided which receives the top part of the hat thereby holding the hat in a fixed position while a strap, extending horizontally across parallel vertical sides of the box assures that the hat will not be jostled or damaged during transport. The second compartment contains straps along both sides which are intended to be used for securing boots and particularly western or cowboy style boots. Cutouts in an inner plate supporting the two compartments which comprise the case help hold each boot securely in place.

Abstract: A dispensing holder for discs (such as coins) comprises a middle plate and two face plates. Each middle plate and face plate define between them disc-receiving slots having mouths open to the edge of the holder. Each slot is bordered on one side by a finger spring on the middle plate, and on the other side by a face hole in the face plate. Manual depression of the finger spring by pressing on a disc through the appropriate face hole allows the disc to be slid out through the mouth of the slot.

Abstract: A device for collecting and playing with coins or the like includes a base in the form of an upward and inward sloping hollow pedestal having a generally flat bottom and a circular upper end concentric with and of substantially lesser cross-sectional area than the bottom. An open top main body, having a vertically extending circular upper rim and a circular downwardly and inwardly formed surface portion, extends from said rim to a lower aperture concentric with the rim and merging with the upper end of the pedestal, whereby the main body is supported on the pedestal along a common vertical centerline. A launching ramp is removably mounted on the rim and curves upward and inward over the main body toward the vertical centerline. The ramp has a downwardly and outwardly formed guiding surface arranged to cause disc-like objects placed thereon to roll onto the surface of the main body inside the rim and through a helical path of decreasing radius through the aperture and into the base.

Abstract: A container for money, tokens or savings stamps, which container comprises a body portion for retaining the money, tokens or savings stamps, and a feed member through which the money, tokens or savings stamps are fed to the body portion, the feed member having a funnel section which leads to a slot through which the money, tokens or savings stamps pass, and the feed member having a baffle positioned in spaced apart relationship to the slot and remote from the funnel section, the baffle being such that it allows money, tokens or savings stamps to pass through the slot and into the body portion whilst substantially preventing money, tokens or savings stamps from being taken from the body portion through the slot.

Abstract: A flexible bag operable as a coin bank includes first and second sidewall members and a base portion. The sidewall members and base portion may be constructed from a flexible plastic material, such as a polyethylene plastic, which is capable of being heat-sealed. The flexible bag includes the plurality of edges, all of which are sealed to define an internal coin receiving chamber. Access to the chamber is provided by means of a coin slot, enabling coins to readily be placed into the bag, one at a time. Preferably the coin slot is sized to generally inhibit removal of large numbers of coins from the bag, without substantial difficulty. The flexible bag includes retaining means serving to keep the coin slot held substantially open for facilitating deposit of coins therein, at preferred times. The flexible bag bank may be constructed from materials sufficiently inexpensive and easy to cut open to facilitate complete destruction of the bank, when access to the coins is desired.

Abstract: A tip tray for use in restaurants or the like which is transparent and has a pair of slide tracks or slots formed by longitudinal leg bars on the bottom. The tracks accomodate cards upon which may be printed various written messages, photos, and/or other visuals which may be viewed through the transparent tray surface.

Abstract: A plastic utility cup is provided with a magnet on the rear wall and a hook is selectively connected to the rear wall and depends from the bottom of the cup forwardly to the forward wall, whereby with the cup magnetically held to a refrigerator door, items may be hung from the hook, while other items may be held in the cup, and papers held between the magnet and the door. A cover may be provided with the cup, which cover may be slotted for coins and the like.

Abstract: An iron containing 3% to 6% carbon and small quantities of manganese, silicon, sulfur and phosphorus produced by the blast furnace, electric furnace, or other well-known furnace requires a relatively low temperature to convert to the molten state. This molten iron can be refined on the surface of molten silver at temperatures from 1000.degree. C. to 1525.degree. C. containing on the surface of the molten metal an oxide of lead or oxides of nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, and other metals whose oxides are reducible to the elemental state by carbon resulting in a refined or alloyed steel. The carbon monoxide formed in this reaction may be combined with hydrogen at temperatures from 400.degree. C. to 1000.degree. C. and 100 atmospheres to 150 atmospheres in the presence of a proper catalyst according to the known Fischer-Tropsch reaction to form a petroleum product. Alternately a finely ground iron containing 3% carbon to 6% carbon can be furnaced at 1000.degree. C. to 1525.degree. C.

Abstract: An insert for a money drawer for receiving coins, currency, bills and the like including a relatively large area lower tray defining a plurality of relatively long and relatively deep compartments running from front to rear of the lower tray and sized to accommodate paper currency, a relatively small area upper tray defining a plurality of relatively short and relatively shallow compartments running from front to rear of the upper tray and sized to receive metal currency, and coacting means on the lower tray and on the upper tray for removably mounting the upper tray in the upper rear region of the lower tray so that the upper tray overlies the rear portions of the relatively long currency compartments defined by the lower tray.

Abstract: A hairpiece storage and carrying case includes a divider for partitioning the hollow interior of the case into a hairpiece receiving compartment and an implement receiving compartment. A frame member in the shape of a human skull is disposed in the hairpiece compartment for supporting a hairpiece so that the front portion of the hairpiece is positioned between the frame member and the divider, and the rear and side portions of the hairpiece are disposed between the frame member and the side walls of the carrying case. A landing interconnects the frame member and the divider and defines a support surface in spaced relationship from the bottom wall of the case to support the front portion of the hairpiece at a desired height above the ends of sides and rear of the hairpiece to maintain the hairpiece in a simulated natural style of arranging hair. Preferably, the divider, frame member and landing are constructed as a one-piece plastic unit adhesively mounted within the interior of the case.

Abstract: A coin display case includes an outer lens, an inner lens and a central laminate. The laminate is held between the outer lens and the inner lens. The laminate further includes a hole for accepting a coin. The laminate is made out of a layer of flexible foamed material sandwiched between two layers of sulfur-free acid neutral paper.

Abstract: A phonograph record and album frame having a base member, a frame member cooperating and releasably engageable with the base member to define an enclosed space for encompassing an article to be held in the frame, and a holding member selectively cooperating with the base member to hold an article in a desired position within the enclosed space. The base member preferably has a cylindrical recess formed in its upper surface for receiving a phonograph record. A bore extends through the base member to receive a shaft of a holding member than holds the record within the recess. When an album is positioned within the frame, the head of the holding member is positioned adjacent the lower surface of the base member.

Abstract: An iron containing 3% to 6% carbon and small quantities of manganese, silicon, sulfur and phosphorus produced by the blast furnace, electric furnace or other well-known furnaces, requires a relatively low temperature to convert to the molten state. This molten iron can be refined on the surface of molten lead at temperatures from 1000.degree. C. to 1525.degree. C. containing on the surface of the molten lead an oxide of lead or oxides of nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, and other metals whose oxides are reducible to the elemental state by carbon resulting in a refined or alloyed steel and/or increasing amount of molten lead. The carbon monoxide formed in this reaction may be combined with hydrogen at temperatures of 400.degree. C. to 1000.degree. C. and 100 atmospheres to 150 atmospheres in the presence of a proper catalyst according to the known Fischer-Tropsch reaction to form a petroleum product. Alternatively a finely ground iron containing 3% carbon to 6% carbon can be furnaced at 1000.

Abstract: A roll of coin wrapping paper includes streak portions which extend in the width direction of the paper and are arranged at a predetermined pitch in the longitudinal direction of the paper. The streak portions are formed by making such portions thicker than the other portions of the paper. The thicker portion is made by applying printing ink to the paper. Alternatively, the streak portion may be formed by making a series of perforations in the paper.

Abstract: A coin holder for removably retaining coins including a decorative backing member having an annular rim whereby the coin is retained. A locking ring is attached to the annular rim. The holding arrangement for the coins permits one to display the coin as a piece of jewelry or to be supported upright on a surface as a picture frame.

Abstract: A box includes an open topped body and a removable cover, the body having a pair of opposite apertures in its peripheral wall directly below the cover skirt wall. A short elastic retainer and a long flexible cord bail have opposite pairs of ends thereof joined to respective anchoring elements which are insertable through and larger than the apertures and engage the peripheral wall inside face, the retainer being stretched and holding the cover in closed position and the bail extending above the retainer and functioning as a handle. Each anchoring element is a resilient T-shaped plastic member or a deformable metal channel, a part of which clinches the bail and retainer respective ends.

Abstract: A convenience device for a motorcycle helmet formed of pivotally interconnected flexible structural elements or members which unfold from a compact storage condition into encircling relation about the helmet, to thereby bound a compartment in which the helmet can be safely stored during non-use, and which can be pad-locked or otherwise attached to the parked motorcycle.

Abstract: A coin carrying locket has a hollow compartment for the storage of at least one coin. A coin-receiving slot and a coin ejection slot are formed in a peripheral wall of the locket at spaced locations. A pair of springs are mounted within the locket. One of the springs biases the coin towards ejection from the ejection slot whereas the other spring prevents ejection of the coins and is pivotally mounted with a tab portion thereof extending through a wall of the locket for manipulation to permit the ejection of the coin.

Abstract: Coin photographic apparatus has a base to which guides are attached, the latter having slots to receive a slidable support or carriage that has recesses that receive a coin or medal to be photographed. A ruled grid rests on a holder and movable sits on a coin to be photographed. A camera and lighting means are operably associated with said apparatus.

Abstract: A packaging means intended to contain one or more fragile articles such as ceramic models comprises a container with walls of shock absorbing material, and supporting means in the container for holding a relatively robust part of the article in a position such that the article is held away from the walls of the container. The supporting means, which may take the form of a shelf with parts which can be moved in the plane of the shelf to hold or release the article, is held in the container with shock absorbing means which allows the supporting means to move relative to the container.

Abstract: A resilient bumper for protecting vehicles and stationary objects against collisions comprising a plurality of spaced, adjacent fins of flexible resilient material which are so spaced that the fins abut against each other progressively as the result of an impact and thus offer progressively higher resistance as each fin contacts an adjacent fin. The fins are preferably of tough rubber or plastic material having high ultimate elongation at low temperatures, high tear strength over a wide temperature range, and high abrasion resistance.The fins may be disposed on corners of a vehicle or other objects to be protected or may be on flat, circular or other shapes. The fins may be of various shapes and may be offset or staggered relative to each other.