Abstract: A children's drinking vessel for mounting on a fixed member in a vehicle and including a container to which a flexible drinking straw is disconnectably mounted thereon, the drinking straw being stored in a non-use position in encircling relation around the container and being movable to an extended position relative to the container, wherein the outer end of the straw is free for being received in the mouth of a child user, the container being prevented from tipping as mounted on the fixed member in the vehicle, while the child user drinks the fluid in the container through the extended drinking straw.

Abstract: A mailer bag is fabricated from a rectilinear blank formed of paper, paperboard or the like and has two parallel score lines for folding, with one of the panels having a plurality of equally spaced, parallel cuts formed therein extending from one leading edge for a major portion of the length along the panel to a location near the opposite edge so that when folded over and glued, the uncut section serves to seal one end of the mailer. Glue is applied to alternate sites on the two end, or outer, panels so that when the cut end panel is folded over to meet with the center panel, and the other end panel is folded over on top of the other two panels, the cut panel sections will adhere in an alternating manner to the appropriate glued matching sections of the other two panels.

Abstract: A continuous business form assembly provides for printing internal and external information on a single web in one, single-sided printing operation. Label portions cut in the forms are foldable for the printing. Attachment sheets and adhesive return the label portions to sealed, label positions where label information is external to the forms.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a sanitary beverage container having an enclosed straw which is automatically straightened and repositioned above the container when it is opened by pulling back the opening tab thereof. The straw is so positioned that the lips and the mouth do not contact the top or walls of the container while drinking the contents from the container, thereby avoiding contamination and bacteria frequently associated with the top and sides of the container.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new model packing device for ice cream which composed of an inner cup, an outer cup, and a sucker-scoop with the functions of ice cream-scooping and water-sucking. The outer cup for containing water accommodates the inner cup for ice cream, with suitable clearance between the two said cups to store cold water and to receive the said sucker-scoop. In use of the said sucker-scoop can scoop the ice cream as well as suck water, after enjoying ice cream, not only to satisfy thirst but clean the mouth cavity. More than this, cold water between the two said cups has the effect to extend dissolution time of the ice cream contained in the inner cup.

Abstract: A mailing container is disclosed which is preferably made of corrugated paperboard. The container is formed from a folded paperboard blank which is pre-cut and scored. The container provides a compact strong receptacle for articles to be transported through the mail so as to supply additional protection for such articles not possible with the use of conventional mailing envelopes.

Abstract: The drawings and description disclose a thermoplastic coated square or rectangular cross-section container suitable for being filled with milk, juice or other still beverage, and having a top closure arrangement adapted to being readily partially opened to disclose an opening therein. The opening may be suitable for a straw or, alternatively, for drinking or pouring therefrom. The top closure arrangement includes edge panels on three sides thereof, with the front edge panel including straw opening means and having a central portion thereof adaptable to being folded back onto itself around a weakened or perforated line and having a lift tab extending therefrom, and a cover panel secured to the three edge panels such that the cover panel is peeled away from the front edge panel by manually lifting the lift tab. Alternately, in one embodiment, lifting the lift tab exposes a straw opening access to the contents, without disturbing the cover panel.

Abstract: A front panel (12), a back panel (14) and a center panel (16) define a plurality of parallel slideways (30) between the panels (12, 14). Each of a plurality of users grasp a projecting tab portion (42) of a slide member (40) provided in each slideway (30) and pulls it outwardly until a chosen number from a strip of numbers on the slide member (40) is exposed on the slide member (40) immediately outwardly of the edge of the device. The user then tears off the projecting portion of the slide member (40). The slide member (40) carries an indicator at its opposite end which identifies the selected number on a corresponding strip of number provided inside of the device on a strip (32) of the center panel (16) which is adjacent to the slideway (30) in which such slide member (40) travels. After all of the slide members (40) have been manipulated in this manner, the device is given to a person who desires the information inside the device.

Abstract: In a plastic-coated cardboard milk or like container with a weakened area through which a straw is to be inserted, a pair of weakened lines surrounding such area on the inside and outside of the container respectively, the area enclosed by the line on the outside being smaller than the area enclosed by the line on the inside. This facilitates opening while resisting accidental opening under pressure from the inside.

Abstract: Coin card and integral slide chart therefor, giving information of numismatic value regarding the coins in the coin card, and made from a single piece of cardboard by automatic slitting, gluing and folding operations.

Abstract: There is disclosed a security seal apparatus for securing information recorded on a recording medium such as a floppy disc or recording tape which incorporates an aperture therein. The security seal apparatus includes a circular rigid pad projecting beyond the edges of such aperture and formed centrally with a post for projecting through such aperture. The post is formed on its free extremity with an enlarged-in-diameter conical lock head having its base of a cross-section less than the cross-section of the aperture. A fastener plate is provided with a central opening having a diameter slightly less than the base of such conical lock head so that such fastener plate may be pressed onto such lock head causing the base of the conical lock to be compressed radially inwardly whereby the lock will pass through such opening and expand radially outwardly to overlie the peripheral edges of such opening and lock the fastener in position.

Abstract: A multi-ply business form comprising a plurality of sheets in superposed relationship wherein the top sheet comprises a support bearing a localized coating comprising both microscopic pressure rupturable capsules containing a chromogenic material, and an electron acceptor material. At least one underlying sheet can comprise a support bearing a second localized autogenous coating comprising chromogen-containing microscopic pressure rupturable capsules and an electron acceptor material on its upper surface wherein the localized autogenous coatings are non-coextensive.

Abstract: A surgical suture package comprises a center panel. At least one foam receptacle is affixed to the panel. A plurality of cards are placed onto the panel, adjacent to the receptacle. A plurality of sutures are singly contained in a non-tangling configuration on a major portion of each card.A first flap is placed onto the cards. A means is provided for attaching the first flap to the cards and to the panel. A second flap is foldably attached to the panel, and is placed onto the receptacle and the first flap.The package is useful for singly containing a plurality of sutures with at least one end of each suture contained by a receptacle.

Abstract: An envelope for two-way mailing having opposed front and rear panels secured together around three sides to provide an open edged pocket, a first flap to seal the pocket is foldably carried on the edge of the pocket by one panel. A resealing flap is carried on the edge of the pocket by the other panel. The resealing flap is inwardly folded upon its panel and disposed within the pocket during the first mailing. At least one spot of adhesive is employed to couple the resealing flap to an insert carried within the pocket. When the insert is pulled from the pocket, it automatically lifts the return flap from the pocket placing the envelope in its return mailing condition.

Abstract: A platen including an annular surface adapted to heat seal a piece of film to the lip of a cup, and a central projection which is hotter than the annular surface to cause greater shrinkage in a central portion than in the surrounding portion of the sealed piece of film. This shrinkage of the central portion and the resultant gathering of the surrounding portion results in a planar central portion of the sealed film with radially projecting ridges and grooves around its periphery. The ridges and grooves draw visual attention to the central portion and features, such as perforations for a straw-hole, located therein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wrap for a sterile article. The wrap is a sheet which encases the article to be wrapped by means of at least two inward folds, forming panels atop the article to be shielded. One of these panels has attached to it a member which extends underneath the package from a point on the panel spaced from its inward fold line so that the article can be unwrapped by reaching under the wrapped article and grabbing the member. By pulling the member towards the user with the package oriented with the panel that is attached to the member away from the user, the package can be unwrapped without reaching over and contaminating the exposed sterile article.

Abstract: A length of envelope material adapted for being fed to an envelope-forming machine in which the material comprises a succession of envelope units in an unbroken row wound in the form of a roll with a succession of windings. Each envelope unit has a transverse fold line dividing the unit into two halves along which separated units can be respectively folded to form respective envelopes. Each envelope unit has a window opening and a transparent cover on the opening. First strings of glue are provided on each unit for joining the halves thereof together after folding along the fold line. Further strings of glue join the transparent cover to the unit. The strings of glue and the transparent cover are of respective thicknesses to form a uniform elevation at one side of the material of each unit. The diameter of the roll in which the length of material is wound corresponds to the dimensional length of each unit and the thickness of the glue strings and covers so that the roll is substantially cylindrical.

Abstract: A container for liquids formed of a pair of cooperating sheets of plastic material wherein one of the sheets is formed to provide a main liquid containing cavity and a cooperating conduit providing a path for the withdrawal of liquid from the main cavity. The other of the sheets is laminated to the formed sheet so as to hermetically seal the main cavity and the cooperating conduit. A fracturable opening at the outlet of the conduit is provided permitting the withdrawal of liquid therefrom. The formed sheet being formed such that the assembly may be supported, when not in use, to dispose the outlet of the conduit at a higher level than the main cavity to militate against the unintentional spillage of liquid.

Abstract: A closable food container body and utensil enclosing cover assembly of generally rectangular outline and in which the cover assembly is received by snap fit in the opening of the container body to seal the contents thereof. Both the cover assembly and the container body are formed with overlying coextensive peripheral flanges which may be planar to inhibit opening of the container once closed, deformed to facilitate opening of the container, formed to augment removable retention of the cover and the container body, or formed to provide a tamper proof closure. The cover assembly includes a utensil recess for receiving a spoon, a fork, or a drinking straw and is closed by a removable cover sheet secured to a central cover member panel about the periphery of the utensil recess but having a loose, unattached peripheral portion to facilitate grasping for manual removal to gain access to the utensil.

Abstract: The non-gusseted, side seamed expansible envelope of the present invention comprises a back panel, front panel and closure flap prepared from a single blank of paper or the like. The side seams are formed from a first pair of flaps foldably attached to the ends of the back panel and a second pair of flaps foldably attached to the ends of the front panel. Each of the side seam flaps are applied with diagonally oriented perforated lines that are located equidistant from the score line separating the front and back panels, and the second pair of side seam flaps are also applied with longitudinally oriented perforated lines which together with the diagonally oriented perforated lines provide the expansion characteristics of the envelope.

Abstract: A container with a drinking straw is provided. The container consists of a helix-shaped transparent container for the storage of the drinking liquid. The base of the helix-shaped transparent container is flat for a portion of its circumference in order that it will stand upright on a table. Affixed to the base of the container is a transparent spiral-shaped drinking straw for drinking the liquid in the container the top of said straw being level or higher than the top of the container in order to retain the liquid in the container when not being used. Thus the container is an attractive and convenient vessel in which to drink and store liquids for novelty as well as medical uses.

Abstract: A containerized greeting card and game toy combination, constructed of cardboard, plastic or similar material, made up of several sections forming panels and flaps foldable along folding lines into a flat container and secured in folded position by a closing device.On the interior surface of one or several panels is a laminated thin frame interrupted at the folding lines, surrounding a puzzle or board-game. One or several panels or flaps are provided with pockets for the storage of the components making the puzzle or the game.On the exterior surfaces of the foldable panels and flaps are printed, according to the location, the greeting card text, the instructions and contents of the game, advertising and the post-card form for mailing the contained card game.

Abstract: A construction comprising a sheet of two contiguous detachable leaf members is folded and separated to form slide and sleeve components of the calculator. Fold lines in the sheet are formed parallel to a separation or tear line that divides one leaf member from the other leaf member. In assembling the slide calculator the leaf members can be separated before or after the folding operation. A marginal portion provided on one of the leaf members enables the sheet to be secured by adhesive or other suitable form of attachment to a newspaper or magazine, a package container, or a package label.In various embodiments of the invention an information readout is provided on reverse sides of the calculator including one embodiment wherein the printed format of the slide and sleeve components is applied to one surface only of the respective leaf members.

Abstract: A sound producing device where a recorded sound track on the external surface of an elongate member, such as a drinking straw, produces sound as the straw is moved through a resilient lid of a container.

Abstract: A container includes a plurality of walls that define an enclosed space. One of the container walls has a frangible piercing point thereon adapted to be penetrated by an extraction device such as a drinking straw, the piercing point being defined by a depression formed in the exterior surface of the container wall, but which does not penetrate completely through the wall. The depression is surrounded by an annular ring, which marks its location, and the container walls are preferably made of a plurality of layers of laminated material.

Abstract: A money pack envelope which is formed from a single piece of folded paper is disclosed herein. The sheet of flat paper has a pair of spaced parallel fold lines that divide the sheet into a central panel portion and first and second panel portions on respective sides of the central panel portion. The first and second panel portions are folded so that the first panel portion is located between the second panel portion and the central panel portion. The first panel portion also has an inwardly offset portion at one end of the envelope to expose a portion of the central panel portion and the central panel portion has a tab folded along a fold line so that the tab can be connected to the second panel portion.

Abstract: A money pack envelope which is formed from a single piece of folded paper is disclosed herein. The sheet of flat paper has a pair of spaced parallel fold lines that divide the sheet into a central panel portion and first and second panel portions on respective sides of the central panel portion. The first and second panel portions are folded so that the first panel portion is located between the second panel portion and the central panel portion. The central and second panel portions have a common lateral edge at one end of the envelope while the adjacent lateral edge of the first panel portion defines a small acute included angle with the edges of the central and second panel portions.