Abstract: The present invention relates to an infusion product for making a beverage, more specifically to a plant-based composition for making a beverage, and to a herbal and/or vegetable composition or bouquet garni. The plants are fruits, herbs, medicinal plants, tea, vegetables and/or spices. The invention further relates to a method for producing said compositions or infusion product, its use for making a (tea) beverage, and a (tea) beverage so obtained. Further, the present invention relates to a fiber-web, preferably a tea bag, made from said fruits, herbs, medicinal plants, tea, vegetable and/or spices.

Abstract: Severing tools for adhesive and other tapes that are thin or are made from thin material and have one tip to allow their attachment to rolls of tape without substantially changing the outlook of the tape rolls and their production cost.

Abstract: A bandage strip includes a plurality of flat adhesive bandage packages of conventional configuration, having sealed therein an adhesive bandage with a pad and an adhesive substrate for adhering to as patient and holding the pad in place on the patient's skin. The packages are adhered to an elongated substrate in end-to-end, spaced relation to form a flat, elongated bandage strip, with perforations in the substrate between the packages. A user can dispense a length of substrate, sever it at the perforations, and remove the bandage from the substrate for use in the conventional manner. A bandage dispensing device is attachable to the wrist of a user for convenient dispensing of bandages from a strip of individually packaged bandages.

Abstract: A bandage strip includes a plurality of flat adhesive bandage packages of conventional configuration, having sealed therein an adhesive bandage with a pad and an adhesive substrate for adhering to a patient and holding the pad in place on the patient's skin. The packages are adhered to an elongated substrate in end-to-end, spaced relation to form a flat, elongated bandage strip, with perforations in the substrate between the packages. A user can dispense a length of substrate, sever it at the perforations, and remove the bandage from the substrate for use in the conventional manner. A bandage dispensing device is attachable to the wrist of a user for convenient dispensing of bandages from a strip of individually packaged bandages.

Abstract: Set of tickets in the form of a continuous strip (35, 85) of multilayer detachable tickets featuring, between two adjacent tickets (30 and 31, 80 and 81), cross precuts (32, 82) alternating with ticket linking bridges (33, 83), the transversal precuts being used to guide the separation of adjacent tickets when a pulling force is applied on one of the tickets. The cross precuts (32, 82) feature at their end longitudinal precuts (34, 84) that are perpendicular or oblique to cross precuts so that the linking bridges (33, 83) between two adjacent tickets play the role of hinges when the adjacent tickets are folded or are not in the same plane, thus preventing the outer layer from being subjected to more stresses than the inner layer.

Abstract: A novel system for dispensing tickets wherein a continuous strip is individuated into separate units by the force of users pulling each individual luggage tag through an aperture located at one end of a dispensing mechanism having a detent mechanism for shearing pre-scored and pre-arranged tickets that is used in combination with an interference and/or ramped spacing mechanism. The same may be mounted in a stanchion, on any existing environmental structure, or in a counter, and may include rectangular, rolled and alternatively shaped housing. Particularly useful for luggage tagging applications, a self-engaging ticket-like article may be used with existing guidance systems and an optional writing surface to allow users to procure and apply identifying indicia to such articles for marking luggage on an expedited basis while traveling.

Abstract: Lottery ticket dispensing housings are provided with a hinged, transparent rear and top cover, a hinged front wall, and a powered ticket drive and separator module. A relatively tall embodiment of the dispenser with a small footprint is fitted onto the countertop of a check-out counter of a retail store. The top of the housing is flat so as to provide a convenient place for customers to write checks with the tickets being displayed immediately below being highly visible to the customer. A display of relatively flat and short dispensers is provided wherein a rack or housing supports the dispensers one a top of the other in a vertical array. In such a rack or housing the units are connected together electrically in a daisy-chain manner and one control device (point-of-sale terminal, computer or on-line terminal) operates all connected dispensers. The dispensers are shifted laterally with respect to one another to as to give greater viewability of the contents of each of the dispensers to a customer.

Abstract: A dispenser for strip materials, e.g. hook and loop fastener material, which automatically finds formations in a continuous fastener strip during its dispensing and, at that point in the dispensing procedure, produces a resistance to the remaining supply, that enables parting of the lead unit from the remaining supply, thus dispensing a discrete unit. The dispenser has a receptacle to hold the supply of fastener strip material; it employs a retarding device to provide light drag against the motion of the strip as the leading strip unit moves from the dispenser in response to pull by a user. A detent downstream of the retarding device engages a corresponding formation in the strip material to resist movement of the remaining strip material, so that the strip ruptures along a line of weakness under a user's tension. Also disclosed are dispensable fastener strips of various forms, some advantageously formed by use of needled bat, and methods of forming the fastening strips.

Abstract: A disposable bag making apparatus that comprises a container for holding an elongate flexible plastic tube. The container includes a first wall and an aperture in the first wall through which a free end of the compacted elongate tube can project. A cutter is formed on the container whereby any desired length of the tube can be pulled through the aperture and brought into contact with the cutter and severed to form various sized disposable bags.

Abstract: The ticket dispenser is usable to dispense a wide variety of tickets, but is particularly beneficial in dispensing lottery tickets, and other tickets stored in panels in fan-folded stacks. The leading edge of the ticket panel is thrust against a curved guide which serves as a barrier. This causes the lead ticket to bend along a perforation line and be thrust out of the outlet of the ticket dispenser at an angle to the rest of the panel. The rest of the panel is held firmly, and the ticket easily can be torn free on the perforated line along which the panel is bent. A swinging gate is provided for closing the outlet opening and swinging away to permit bending of the ticket panel, and pushing and/or guiding the ticket through the outlet opening. The dispenser is fast, simple, compact and accurate, and does not cut tickets in half, and yet does not permit strips of tickets to be pulled out of the machine by the user who has not paid for them.

Abstract: There is disclosed a web handling apparatus including a printer for printing on longitudinally extending multi-portion webs, with the web including a plurality of longitudinally extending web portions and connected at a longitudinal line of weakening between each adjacent pair of web portions, each web portion including record members, guide structure for causing adjacent web portions to move along different paths or planes to effect tearing and resultant separation of the web portions at each line of weakening, and a rewinder for drawing on the separated web portions and winding them into separate rolls. In the event tearing does not occur readily along the lines of weakening, there are knives to assist in separating the web portions.

Abstract: The disclosed ticket dispenser is especially designed for the dispensing of series-connected lottery tickets and provides a box-like structure for containing the tickets which are exited through a slot in one of the structure walls. The structure is configured so as to provide guide and ticket-tensioning elements about the slot and further includes wings closing the slot at opposite edges. The wall of the structure in which the slot is provided is hinged to the rest of the structure and has a lockable catch releasable to afford access to the interior of the structure. Portions of the structure are shaped in such fashion as to prevent or minimize interior obstructions to the free travel of tickets via manual tensioning forces applied exteriorly of the structure.

Abstract: A container for carrying a uniform, fan-folded stack of plastic sheet assemblies and for allowing the assemblies to be conveniently dispensed, one at a time, with minimal risk that the stack will become jammed. The stack of assemblies is retained behind a constriction within an elongated chamber having a corresponding shape and slightly larger size. Pulling the forward-most assembly through a narrow channel and exit slot at the forward end of the container flexes a trailing assembly past the constriction, while the remaining assemblies remain retained behind the constriction. In addition, a shallow recess in a wall defining the narrow channel conformingly receives a plastic sheet assembly in position to be dispensed, with the recess' rear periphery inhibiting the assembly from being moved unintentionally back into the chamber.

Abstract: The disclosed ticket dispenser is especially designed for the dispensing of series-connected lottery tickets and provides a box-like structure for containing the tickets which are exited through a slot in one of the structure walls. The structure is configured so as to provide guide and ticket-tensioning elements about the slot and further includes wings closing the slot at opposite edges. The wall of the structure in which the slot is provided is hinged to the rest of the structure and has a lockable catch releasable to afford access to the interior of the structure. Portions of the structure are shaped in such fashion as to prevent or minimize interior obstructions to the free travel of tickets via manual tensioning forces applies exteriorly of the structure.

Abstract: The ticket display and dispenser is a box forming one or more compartments for containing one or more ticket chains made up of a plurality of end-to-end or side-to-side interconnected tickets arranged in series-connected fashion. Each chain of tickets is fed forwardly through a ticket-entry slot for upward travel over a display structure and then rearwardly through a ticket-re-entry slot for exit through a ticket-exit slot at the rear of the box. The open front of the box is closed by a transparent cover that overlies the display structure and tickets displayed thereon. The ticket exit is located at the rear of the apparatus and the cover is lockable in place to prevent unauthorized access to the tickets, usually of the lottery type.

Abstract: A transparent dispenser is disclosed for dispensing material, generally tickets. One side of the dispenser is hinged for entry into the dispenser. A curl is formed within the dispenser in order to guide the tickets from inside the dispenser to the outside of the dispenser. In a second embodiment of the dispenser, the top and two sides are made of one piece of material and are hingeably connected to the bottom and front, which are made of one piece of material. In the third embodiment, an axle and wheel rotate within the curl to advance the tickets from the inside of the dispenser to the outside of the dispenser. In all three embodiments, various mounting methods are provided.

Abstract: A device for zig-zag folding a series of web segments connected at transverse lines of perforation and for separating a pre-determined series of the web segments into stacks having co-acting folding rolls adapted to deliver a zig-zag folded web, a pair of opposed cantilevered plates movably mounted adjacent the folding rolls to provide alternative support for a developing stack and to prevent concavity, and means for moving the plates.

Abstract: A printer includes a printhead, a driven platen to advance the paper, which simultaneously provides counter-pressure to the printhead, and a paper-cutting bar which includes a cutting edge on which the paper can be cut. A paper compartment holds a paper supply, through which the platen is accessible for paper insertion. A cover plate or lid covers the paper compartment. In order to assure safe operation, the cutting edge of the paper-cutting bar is mounted outside of the most constricted space between the platen axle and the paper-cutting bar. The end of the paper-cutting bar includes the cutting edge thus covering the platen so that the end of the cover plate penetrates beneath or overlaps the specified end of the paper-cutting bar in the closed position.

Abstract: The invention concerns a dispenser of continuous, severable strips, of the kind with a case (1), a passageway (S) for the end of the strip and a cutting blade (16) provided with cutter means (16a). The dispenser comprises a first auxiliary blade (17) provided with a cover section (17a) applying friction to the strip and a stop section (17b) which during the severing operation is subjected to a pressure exerted by the cutting blade (16) and locks the strip at the cover section (17a); the dispenser also comprises a second auxiliary blade (18) protecting the cutter means (16a) when in the rest position and withdrawing behind the cutting blade when in the cutting position. The storage space (3) of the case can be designed to hold a continuous, accordion-folded strip.