Abstract: A grease collection container which is provided with an upstanding or protruding ridge along a pouring end surface of the container. The upstanding ridge extends upward from a lip along a front wall of the container. The ridge extends upwardly from the inside surface so that the ridge is along a back portion of the lip. The upstanding ridge may be formed along each of the side walls adjoining the front wall. The upstanding ridge prevents dripping of the grease due to pouring the grease from the container.

Abstract: A cup includes a spout integrally formed in an upper zone of the cup's side wall, the spout including a fluid directing channel extending upwardly and outwardly from an inner surface of the side wall at an angle relative to a vertical axis of the cup which causes the velocity of fluid flow to increase as the fluid enters the channel and flows towards a distal tip of the spout, thereby reducing the required degree of tilt of the cup when pouring or drinking fluids therefrom. A lip on the distal spout tip includes acute angled surfaces which, in conjunction with the increased flow velocity of the fluid through the spout, cause the fluid to separate from the cup when pouring, thereby discouraging flow of the fluid down along an outer surface of the cup. A plurality of shoulders formed at spaced intervals on an outer side of the spout create a fluid capture area for entrapping droplets of fluid which fail to detach from the cup and flow over the lip and down the side of the cup.

Abstract: An article for delivering a cleaning composition to a wash water, preferably for laundering clothes, is formed from a flexible substrate folded into an S-shaped construction. Within one region of the folded substrate is positioned a detergent composition that includes a surfactant and builder in the form of a paste having adhesive strength sufficient to bind the two surrounding substrate areas together. In a second region of the folded substrate separate from that occupied by the detergent composition, there is a further composition, adhesive in nature, containing a component which may be a bleach, bleach precursor, enzyme and/or fabric softener. No other bonding is present between the three substrate area flaps constituting the S-shaped construction. The compositions between the substrate areas are easily released to the wash water when the article is placed therein.

Abstract: The operating components of a forced air furnace are disposed within a double-walled cabinet structure having inner and outer metal walls which define therebetween an insulating air space that replaces the fibrous insulation normally adhered to the interior surface of furnace cabinetry. The illustrated cabinet structure representatively comprises a coil housing positioned atop a return housing. Each housing is formed from initially flat inner and outer sheet metal panels having rectangular configurations and various transverse projections thereon which permit the panels to be nested in a spaced apart, laterally facing relationship. Opposite end portions of the nested panels are then transversely bent in the same direction to form from the nested panels three interconnected sides of the housing, and the outer ends of the bent panel structure are secured together by elongated metal joining members extended across the resulting open fourth side of the housing.

Abstract: This invention has an object to provide a cartridge filter which can prevent the interior of a filter housing from being contaminated when paint or ink is filtered. In this invention, a cartridge filter element is contained in a bag-like body or a cylindrical body made of an aqueous non-osmotic film.

Abstract: A drinking vessel comprises a first vessel member adapted to hold a liquid and a second vessel member associated with, but separated from, the first vessel member to form a barrier against the formation of condensation on the exterior surface of the second vessel member when a cold liquid is contained in the first vessel member. In one embodiment, the first vessel member comprises a removable insert which conforms generally to the configuration of the second vessel member to form a double-walled drinking vessel. Advantageously, a sanitary lip extends downwardly from the top edge of the insert and is proportioned and oriented to prevent a person's lip from contacting the second vessel member when the person takes a drink.

Abstract: A paint drip pan and method for constructing same. A base member has an aperture therethrough within which to receive a painter's wrist. A glove member may be located within the aperture and secured to the base member. A plurality of fingers integral with the base member are adapted to impinge against the glove member to secure the base member to the painter's wrist.

Abstract: There is provided a tea bag holding device comprising a base having defined therein a receptacle for collecting drips from the tea bag and opposing squeeze members hingedly affixed to the receptacle and protruding up therefrom for use in holding the tea bag during brewing and for squeezing the tea bag upon completion of the brewing.

Abstract: A trash container has a collecting trough for receiving and retaining liquid and solid spillage The trough is secured to the front wall of the trash container immediately below an opening through which refuse is deposited from a trash compactor. Liquid spillage drains into the trough rather than onto the ground to create a mess. Solid spillage is caught and retained by the trough when the container is separated from the compactor. In a modified form of the invention, a barrier extends along the sides of the opening and above it to prevent liuqid from running along the front wall of the trash container when it is inverted for dumping of its contents.

Abstract: A cover for an oil filter in the form of a cup-shaped body or cover having a central opening for receiving an oil filter, a reservoir space formed between the cover and the oil filter, flexible spacers disposed between the inner surface of the cover and oil filter and a bellows or compressible series of accordion folds in the container surface. The folds urge closure of seals at opposite ends of the cover with their contacting elements. The body or oil filter cover may be constructed of heat resistant, flexible, resilient, transparent or translucent plastic material.

Abstract: Novelly improved drinking vessels of the type adapted for selective preferential or essentially mandatory usage by and while a user is in either a partially or fully reclined position. The vessels may be either of the handled cup-like type, or of the non-handled generally conventional drinking glass type, but which embody an integrally formed open-trough-like spout projecting laterally from one side of the vessels by which liquid is conveyed to a user. The spouts have uniquely and novelly-contoured lip or mouth engageable outward terminal edges and specially curved liquid-spill-resistant side walls of the spout to facilitate improved spill resistant complemental mating with a user's lips. The handled cup-like vessels are provided with the novelly improved spouts in variously disposed 90.degree., 180.degree., and 270.degree.

Abstract: This relates to an anti-spill device to be utilized in conjunction with a hatch located on the top or roof section of a liquid storage vessel, particularly a petroleum liquid storage vessel. This device is in the form of a pan which is positioned between the hatch and the vessel roof with the pan being configurated for adequately holding on a temporary basis spilled liquid, and the pan having drain means for draining the spill to a suitable storage point.

Abstract: A specialized, reusable container for paint including an outer, bottom drip-catching body and an inner, main body for holding a supply of paint and a handle extending from the bottom section to the main, paint-containing section at and attached to the rears thereof. Included within the main, paint-containing section is a lateral, rotatable wire used to wipe the paint brush after the brush is dipped into the paint contained in the main body. Also included at the front of the bottom section is a projecting lip which defines a paint brush support in conjunction with the front wall of the inner, main body. The two sections of the container are preferably rectangular in horizontal configuration, with the inner, paint-containing section offset to the rear of the bottom, drip-catching section but still spaced therefrom to form a small gap.