Abstract: A rotary table assembly apparatus for stuffing a snailed endless ribbon into a ribbon cartridge comprises a rotary table, a mounting plate affixed to the table for mounting and positioning a bottom housing of a ribbon cartridge, a loop tray affixed to the front portion of the mounting plate for holding a snailed loop while it is being stuffed into the ribbon cartridge, adjustable slide panels mounted on the loop tray to create narrow slits with a pin to hold the ribbon upright as it passes through the slits into the ribbon cartridge and to prevent more than one layer of ribbon from passing from the loop tray into the cartridge, and a cover for keeping the ribbon from jumping out of the loop tray as the ribbon is being fed into the cartridge.

Abstract: A molded two-piece suture package is disclosed which encloses and defines an oval channel in which sutures may be wound. The oval channel has two semicircular end sections connected by straight side sections. An opening in the channel is provided at the juncture of a straight section and an end section, permitting sutures to be withdrawn from the channel at the end of a straight section. In a preferred embodiment the interior wall of the channel is formed by alternating engaging sections formed in the respective package pieces. To prevent the wrapped suture from becoming entrapped when the two pieces are engaged, the top and bottom of the channel is alternately raised and lowered in alignment with the alternating wall sections, causing the wound suture to bridge those areas where it may become entrapped between the mating package pieces. Entrapment of the suture end at the outside of the channel is prevented by alternately recessing the outer wall of the channel.

Abstract: A kit comprises a tray with a well for a tourniquet, a dressing to use with a medical device inserted into a blood vessel. An antimicrobial treatment in the well disinfects an area of skin through which the medical device punctures the vessel. A pair of juxtaposed gloves with the finger ends, the hand parts and the cuff portions against one another are rolled up along their longitude from their fingers to their cuffs driving out air entrapped within the gloves. The process of rolling from the fingers to the cuffs leaves the cuffs of each glove at the periphery of the rolled generally cylindrical gloves for access to the inside of each when donning. A method for rolling gloves into a relatively cylindrical package, includes setting the gloves side by side with the finger ends, the hand parts, and the wrist or cuff portions juxtaposed. The finger portions are gathered into an axial bundle and rolled from the finger ends toward the palm or back hand parts driving out air within the gloves.

Abstract: A packaging system for a pre-assembled suture anchor assembly of the sort comprising of a suture anchor, a length of suture threadingly engaging the suture anchor and a pair of surgical needles attached to the opposite ends of the length of suture. The packaging system includes a tubular element sized to receive and removably hold the pointed ends of the respective needles within its opposite ends, and an envelope including front and back pockets, a top flap and a belt-like portion which is deflectable outwardly from the exterior of the envelope. The envelope can be manipulated between (1) a totally open position wherein the envelope is a flat sheet, (2) a partially closed position wherein the suture anchor is engaged by the belt-like element against the exterior of the envelope, the suture is located in a coil within the front pocket and the needles joined by the tubular element are located in the back pocket, and (3) a totally closed position wherein the top flap is folded over the open ends of the pockets.

Abstract: A one piece needle and suture holder is described in which a rounded channel is formed for retention of the suture. One end of the suture exits the channel toward the interior of the channel and is attached to a needle located in a needle holder in the interior of the channel. The channel is formed with an open side, to which are attached a plurality of hinged doors. After the suture is wound in the open channel, the doors are folded over the open side of the channel and are locked in place to retain the suture within the channel. In an alternative embodiment a paper cover is utilized to complete the enclosing channel. To afford ease of winding the suture the bottom of the channel is preforated for the application of a vacuum to the channel during suture winding. Also disclosed is a needle park for retaining the needle in the center of the package.

Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing printed envelopes provides feeding the web from a source roll into a laser printer. Predetermined envelope information such as address, name, and presort codes may be placed upon the web at selected locations thereon by the printer. The printed web is then output from the laser printer to an output roll. The printed web output roll is subsequently mounted onto an envelope folder in which each of the predetermined printed locations is detected. These predetermined locations are subsequently cut and the sheets derived therefrom are folded into individual envelopes. These envelopes are subsequently output to a collection point in a predetermined sequence. Prior to cutting and folding, additional enhancements such as embossing may be provided to the printed web.

Abstract: A package light-tightly enclosing a photosensitive web roll for use in cooperating apparatus comprises an opaque leader joined to the web and wrapped circumferentially at least twice around the roll and a pair of thin, readily foldable, disk-shaped, opaque end caps covering the roll ends. Each end cap has an inner annular portion that is folded into and sealed inside one of the roll core ends and an outer annular portion that is folded over the corresponding roll end periphery and onto the adjacent lateral edge portion of the first leader convolution. A pair of opposite lateral edge portion recesses extend inwardly from the leader opposite lateral edges, by an amount slightly exceeding the folded-over end-cap outer-annular-portion width, at a circumferential site on the leader where the first leader convolution ends.

Abstract: The present invention combines the advantages of a prior art figure of 8 winding pattern with the traditional circular or oval pattern for packaging flexible cord to form what can be called a "figure of 80 pattern" which includes a generally S-shaped partial cord layer with the end of the S joining with a J-shaped portion arranged so that the straight portion of the J forms a continuation of the S and the curved portion of the J overlies the beginning of the S-shaped portion. This basic combination of S and J shapes designates only partial layers, the pattern can be repeated, that basic pattern can be connected to a plurality of oval turn layers or even a plurality of figure 8 turn layers as the user may elect. It is also possible to continue to merely alternate the basic layer form to provide a package having a high packaging density while permitting easy accommodation of fittings which are secured to the end of the cord.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of packaging a detonating cord comprising explosive material contained in a sheath, intended to meet safety regulations of air transportation. The detonating cord is wound on a support in such a manner that every portion of the detonating cord in the winding is spaced apart from the nearest portions which are substantially parallel thereto by a distance (a) lying in a range between the distance below which detonation is transmissible from one portion to the nearest portion, and the distance beyond which said containing sheath is no longer destroyed by the detonation of a nearest portion.

Abstract: Printing products, arriving in an imbricated formation, have a certain formation length and approximately equal imbrication spacings. An imbrication-like formation is formed by pushing together the printing products and, at the same time, shortening the imbrication spacing. The imbrication-like formation is rolled up, together with a wrapping element, into a roll-shaped bundle. An end user then unrolls the bundle and pushes the imbrication-like formation together to form a vertical stack. For this purpose, the length of the imbrication-like formation length is chosen such that the same person can grasp, with his hands, the ends of the formation at the same time. Individual printing products may then be removed from the stack.

Abstract: A rail structure usable in the manufacture of packaged goods in matchbook-like form, especially threadlike goods such as dental floss. The rail structure conforms to attachment tooling and matchbook cover design constraints relating to similar rail structure used in the manufacture of matchbooks. The rail structure can accommodates either horizontal or vertical winding processes, according to the particular rail structure used for securing the threadlike article. The structure used for horizontal winding is an elongated rail structure formed having alternating article support portions separated by alternating notches. The matchbook-like array is formed by two side by side arrangement of the horizontally wound rail structure. The rail structure used for vertical winding is an elongated rail having upper and lower notches for securing the threadlike article. The lower notches have a deep V-shape portion for ease of detachment of the threadlike articles.

Abstract: The present invention involves methods and apparatus for winding imbricated formations of multi-sheeted, twice-folded printing products into a roll together with a winding band wherein the individual multi-sheeted, twice-folded printing products are skewed in relation to the conveying direction of the imbricated formation by a small angle. The laterally protruding corners of the printing products lie on imaginary straight lines which run parallel to the conveying direction. The lateral fold edges of the printing products are mutually offset by a certain amount in a direction running transversely to the conveying direction. The lateral fold edges therefore do not end up one on top of the other during winding, as a result of which a thickening on one side of the roll is avoided.

Abstract: An installation cable unwinder for dispensing a wire leader and pintle, which joins the ends of a papermachine fabric in a pin seam, includes a spool attached to a larger plate-like member. The pintle is wound onto the spool with the wire leader extending therefrom. The wire leader is then coiled loosely about the spool, and fastened by staples or tie straps to the plate-like member. A hole passing through the spool and plate-like member allows the user to place the installation cable unwinder on a dowel to rotate thereabout, so that the wire leader and pintle may be conveniently dispensed therefrom.

Abstract: There is disclosed a variety of single-use dental floss spindles and the process for their production from an elongated strip of semi-rigid sheet material such as paperboard, plastic or a combination thereof, such spindles being generally rectangular, preferably about two inches long by three-quarters inch wide or less, and having wound lengthwise thereon about two feet of dental floss. The spindles are preferably provided with arcuate or straight sided indentations on the ends thereof to better retain the dental floss. Other indentations or openings along the mid-section of the spindles optionally are provided for ease of use or facility of manufacture. Preferably the beginning and finishing ends of floss are secured near opposite edges of a face of the spindles and are retained by a strip of self-adhesive tape or the like, the ends and tape having been severed along with the spindle sheet as one of the last steps of the process of products carried out by hand or by machine or some combination thereof.

Abstract: The imbricated product formation is fed to a wind-up location and is wound-up to form a product roll at this location. At the start of the wind-up operation the leading edge or end of the frontmost printed product is rolled back in a direction towards one side or surface of this frontmost printed product. The wind-up of the following printed products in the imbricated product formation is effected in the same product winding direction. At the end of the wind-up operation an elongated holding element or strapping band is laid around the completed product roll which then holds the product roll together and also possibly protects the same. The winding direction is selected in accordance with the predetermined structure of the imbricated product formation and results in a roll-shaped wound product package which, if desired, can be disassembled starting from the center thereof without the holding element or strapping band having to be released.

Abstract: A roll of plastic bags is inserted into an empty carton using a finger body having a finger that radially extends to securely grip the inside of the roll. The roll is drawn into an already formed empty carton where the finger is lowered and the finger body is retracted so that the roll of bags is automatically packaged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of packaging a detonating cord comprising explosive material contained in a sheath, intended to meet safety regulations of air transportation. The detonating cord is wound on a support in such a manner that every portion of the detonating cord in the winding is spaced apart from the nearest portions which are substantially parallel thereto by a distance (a) lying in a range between the distance below which detonation is transmissible from one portion to the nearest portion, and the distance beyond which said containing sheath is no longer destroyed by the detonation of (a) nearest portion.

Abstract: A holder for protection and handling of a brittle electrical conductor element, such as a ceramic superconductor, limited in its ability to withstand tensile and compression forces exerted thereon and bending along its axial length beyond a predetermined arcuate path. The holder has a flexible housing which encompasses and protects the superconductor element. A helically disposed strengthening element is integral with the housing. The strengthening element resists tensile forces exerted on the housing in an axial direction and resists radially imposed forces on the housing isolating the superconductor element from these forces. The strengthening element also provides for limited arcuate bending of the housing for limiting the bending beyond a predetermined arcuate path.

Abstract: A method for packaging electric wiring by using a grasping tool to assist in ensleeving the wiring in a plastic sleeve. Subsequent to ensleeving the grasping tool is disengaged. The sleeve with the enclosed wiring is folded over to form a neat compact package which is secured and ready for storage.

Abstract: A detonating cord transport system is disclosed wherein detonating cord is windingly disposed on a plurality of separator-support members in such a manner that the cord is wholly accessible from a front face surface and is thus disposed without having to manipulate the separator-support members. For each separator-support member, the detonating cord is windingly disposed on a plurality of winding support devices such that there are a plurality of severing locations at frequent intervals at which severing locations there is incorporated means for stopping any detonation that occurs, with the result that such detonation will be confined to a relatively short length of detonating cord and will also be confined to the detonating cord transport system container.

Abstract: A lens-fitted photographic film package comprising a light-tight film casing having an exposure opening, a rolled film disposed on one side of the exposure opening in the light-tight casing, a removable light-tight container having a film winding spool therein disposed on the other side of the exposure opening in the light-tight film casing, and an externally operable film winding member for winding the rolled film around said film winding spool of the light-tight film container. The lens-fitted photographic film package is assembled by the steps of winding film withdrawn from a light-tight film container in a roll in a darkroom; loading the rolled film and the light-tight film container in separate respective receiving chambers formed in a main body section of the lens-fitted photographic film package; and fixing a back cover section to the main body section so as to assemble light-tightly the lens-fitted photographic film package.

Abstract: A roll of greenhouse film consisting of slit tubular plastic film wherein the longitudinal edges of the plastic film are folded over about 180.degree. to an imaginary longitudinal line drawn substantially through the center of a surface of the film.

Abstract: A roll of greenhouse film which is a large sheet of flattened tubular plastic film wherein the longitudinal edges of the plastic film are folded back over a surface of the film about 180.degree. toward an imaginary longitudinal line drawn substantially through the center of a surface of the film. The so-folded sheet is then longitudinally rolled.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing nested polyethylene bags utilizes a web of polyethylene material having a tubular cross-sectional configuration which is fed through seaming means to form a seam transverse the web. Material transporting means transports the seamed web onto a generally planar mandrel. Severing means are provided for severing the web into individual bags and includes means for separating the walls of the web to accommodate the material transporting means grasping the web. After a predetermined number of individual bags are nested on the mandrel, the mandrel is indexed to a position adjacent a rolling means which rolls the batch of nested bags into a roll on a pair of mutually rotating wrapping rods. The wrapping rods are subsequently withdrawn from the roll and the roll is folded along a longitudinal axis by a ram which applies a force to the center of the roll.

Abstract: The imbricated product formation is unwound from a first product package and infed to a deflection device in which the imbricated product formation is inverted by turning the same over through an angle of approximately 180.degree. about the rotational axis of a deflecting drum. The inverted imbricated product formation leaving the deflection device is inputted from below to a winding core to be wound-up thereon to form a second product package. By inverting the imbricated product formation due to its passage through the deflection device there is achieved the result that in the imbricated product formation supplied to the winding core the leading edges of the printed products are positioned on top so as to face the second product package. Consequently, a compact second product package is formed in which the printed products are not able to become displaced by slipping.

Abstract: Objects (1) to be stored are fed between two rollers (9, 10) to a belt (2) taken off from a belt coil (5) of a belt reel (6) and wound up therewith (2), forming a storage coil (7), onto a storage reel (3). For the delivery of previously stored objects (1a), the belt (2) is taken off therewith (1a) from the storage coil (7), the objects separate from the belt (2) upon leaving the roller pair (9, 10), the belt (2) being rewound onto the belt coil (b 5). The reels (3, 6) are displaceably mounted; their coils (5, 7) are each supported on a fixedly mounted backing roller (12, 13).

Abstract: A medical bandaging product (b 10) is rolled into a coil and positioned in a dispenser (11). Bandaging product (10) includes an outer elongate sleeve (13) formed of a moisture-impervious material and heat sealed along opposite, parallel extending sides to form an elongate tube. A medical material (14) is positioned within sleeve (13) and includes a substrate (16) formed of a suitable number of overlaid layers of a woven or knitted fabric such as fiberglass. Substrate (16) is contained within a tubular wrapping (18) formed of a soft, flexible non-woven fiber such as polypropylene. Substrate (16) is impregnated or coated with a reactive system which remains stable when maintained in substantially moisture-free conditions but which hardens upon exposure to sufficient moisture to form a rigid, self-supporting structure.

Abstract: At least one continuously arriving product stream of printed products is to be transferred to the infeed paths or lines of two or more processing stations. To ensure that the distribution of the arriving product stream can be accomplished as continuously as possible and accommodated optimumly to the requirements of the processing stations, the product stream is guided such that it crosses the infeed paths. At the crossings or cross-over locations the product stream is at least periodically delivered to a storage device and at the same crossings or cross-over locations printed products are simultaneously transferred out of the storage device and at a transfer location delivered to an infeed location of the associated infeed path or line. Thus, at each crossing there is present an intermediate store or buffer of products which, on the one hand, renders possible a continuous conveyance of the product stream and, on the other hand, affords a continuous mode of operation of the processing stations.

Abstract: The imbricated product formation is fed to a wind-up location and is wound-up to form a product roll at this location. At the start of the wind-up operation the leading edge or end of the frontmost printed product is rolled back in a direction towards one side or surface of this frontmost printed product. The wind-up of the following printed products in the imbricated product formation is effected in the same product winding direction. At the end of the wind-up operation an elongated holding element or strapping band is laid around the completed product roll which then holds the product roll together and also possibly protects the same. The winding direction is selected in accordance with the predetermined structure of the imbricated product formation and results in a roll-shaped wound product package which, if desired, can be disassembled starting from the center thereof without the holding element or strapping band having to be released.

Abstract: A premium item including a sealed protective pouch having a premium object such as a coupon or sports card enclosed therein and method are provided which allow economical, continuous, on-line production of premium items without the need for individual handling of the premium objects. In the preferred method, a printed web having a backing sheet removably adhered thereto is continuously positioned on a carrier sheet having an adhesive coating, with the backing sheet in contact with the coating, whereupon the web and backing sheet are die-cut to produce a plurality of spaced-apart premium objects on the carrier sheet and a waste matrix which is then removed. A top sheet is then positioned over the premium objects with marginal portions of the top sheet adhering to corresponding marginal portions of the carrier sheet to form a continuous seal surrounding the premium objects and to form sealed protective pouches enclosing the premium objects.

Abstract: The apparatus contains a winding unit for winding up printed products arriving in an imbricated product formation. The winding unit comprises a hollow substantially cylindrical winding core. Upon the outer surface of the winding core there is wound up a winding band. Prior to the start of a product winding-up operation the winding band is unwound from the winding core and wound upon a spool member. Subsequently the winding band is wound up onto the winding core together with the printed products.

Abstract: A coil of cable is formed by winding a predetermined length of cable (1) on to a spool (2) and fastening to the cable a clip (7), the clip including first and second recesses (8,9). Each recess receives a portion of the cable (1) to secure the free end (6) of the cable to the coil (3).The recesses (8,9) receive a portion of the penultimate turn (10) and final turn (11) respectively. The clip may be applied to the cable as the penultimate or final turns are being wound.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound-up into a product or package roll about which there is placed a wrapper or envelope which retains together the package roll. For easier handling of the product or package roll such is provided with an endless carrying loop. This endless carrying loop is formed by a carrying element, such as a knotted cord, rope, string or the like which extends through an internal opening or hollow interior of the product or package roll and to the outer side or surface of such product or package roll.

Abstract: A packaged food casing article includes a dispensing carton, a roll of casing rotatably supported within the carton, and a strip of splice tape releasably attached to a carton closure flap. The tape as oriented on the flap extends transverse to the casing dispensing direction and is attachable to an end of the casing when effecting a splice to the casing length being dispensed from the carton. The flap maintains the splice tape in a proper orientation during splicing and provides a work surface against which the casing is pressed for effecting the splice.

Abstract: The printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound up into wound product packages or coils each having a substantially horizontally disposed longitudinal axis. These wound products packages possess a predetermined size and an inherent stability which permit them to be transported and intermediately stored such that their longitudinal axes extend substantially vertically without the wound product packages disintegrating or unraveling. After forming the wound product packages they are transferred from a standing position into a reclining or reposing position by means of a package turning device. In this reclining or reposing position the longitudinal axes of the wound product packages extend substantially vertically. These wound product packages are supported only at their circumference or are only held at their winding cores and are not supported in any further manner.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of storing sheets of film-like material has a substrate which is wound and unwound from two rollers. An exposed portion of the substrate extends between the two rollers. A sheet to be stored is placed on the exposed portion of the substrate. The substrate is then further wound onto one of the rollers and unwound from the other roller. A counter determines the portion of the substrate upon which the sheet is stored by counting the revolutions of a counting roller and accumulating a storage count. To retrieve a stored sheet, the substrate is unwound from the roller upon which it was wound when the sheet was stored until the portion of the substrate upon which the stored sheet was placed is exposed. A counter counts the revolutions of the counting roller and causes the unwinding to cease when the storage count determined when the sheet was stored is reached. A bed is urged upwardly against the rollers to maintain tension on the substrate as it is wound and unwound.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for foam wrapping pressure sensitive rolls of material in a limited amount of space with a minimum amount of handling of the pressure sensitive rolls. The apparatus includes an intermediate transfer cart and a retractable foam application unit. The intermediate transfer cart operates to receive unwrapped rolls of pressure sensitive material from a winder unit and transport it to a position underneath the foam application unit which custom wraps various widths of pressure sensitive rolls of material from one full width of foam web while providing a driving force to turn the pressure sensitive rolls as foam is being applied thereto.

Abstract: Bags in a series have first and second end portions with the bags being separated from one another except for links that connect the first end portions of the bags into a continuous chain, which is wound upon itself on a storage reel. Such winding may be in a vertical spiral fashion, or it may be by engagement by a separable continuous strip, such as a ribbon tape across the second end portions of the bags as reeled upon a core, thereby maintaining the bags in the chain substantially free from skewing relative to one another. Method and apparatus for effecting the reeling of the bag chain are also disclosed.

Abstract: The imbricated product formation is fed to a wind-up location and is wound-up to form a product roll at this location. At the start of the wind-up operation the leading edge of the frontmost printed product is rolled back towards the bottom side or surface of this frontmost product which does not contact any one of the following or trailing printed products in the imbricated product formation. The wind-up of the following printed products in the imbricated product formation is effected in the same product winding direction. At the end of the wind-up operation a cover or strapping band is laid around the completed product roll which then holds the product roll together and also possibly protects the same. The winding direction is selected in accordance with the predetermined structure of the imbricated product formation and results in a roll-shaped wound product package which can be disassembled starting from the center thereof without the cover or strapping band having to be released.

Abstract: Signatures, newspaper sections or like printed products are temporarily stored between two successive processing machines of a production line by convoluting them onto a rotor with a flexible band so that the products are stored between neighboring convolutions of the band. The products are stored when the output of the preceding machine exceeds the requirements of the next-following machine, and the rotor is caused to pay out stored products when the requirements of the next-following machine exceed the output of the preceding machine. The rotor can store printed products in the form of a stream of spaced-apart products or in the form of a scalloped stream wherein the trailing portion of each preceding product overlaps the leader of the next-following product. A stream of spaced-apart products can be converted into a scalloped stream on its way to the reservoir from a conveyor which connects the preceding machine with the next-following machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for temporary storage of a stream of partly overlapping paper sheets has a first core which is driven by a first motor in a direction to collect an elastically extensible band while the band receives a succession of sheets which are thereby confined between successive convolutions of the band on the first core. The band is drawn from a second core which is braked with a gradually decreasing force so that the product of such force and the radius of the growing roll of sheets and convolutions of the band on the first core is at least nearly constant. The elongation of the band during winding onto the first core is not less than 0.1 percent.

Abstract: The wire coil wound to a variable diameter which is packaged onto a display backing in the form of a card (3) has groups of turns of different diameters which are stacked by being overlapped according to an increasing or decreasing diameter pattern meeting the relation E=D.sub.o .+-.2 n .phi. where E is the increasing or decreasing winding, D.sub.o is the initial coil diameter, n is a positive integer and .phi. is the wire diameter.

Abstract: Container stuffing apparatus and methods are disclosed. The apparatus is especially useful for the insertion of two component gas generating pouches into containers of the type wherein the pressurizing gas does not come into contact with the contents of the container. The apparatus receives the pouches, performs necessary bursting operations to initiate gas pressurization, compresses the pouch into an elongate cylindrical shape and inserts the pouch into a container. The apparatus includes a bursting station which comprises first and second plates which move toward each other and compress a pouch received between the first and second plates to thereby burst a rupturable member within the pouch to initiate gas generation. A reciprocable latch is provided to hold the pouch in position during the bursting operation.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are coiled or wound on edge, i.e., with an edge standing upright, onto a revolvingly driven hollow winding cylinder or core. The axis of rotation of this winding core is vertical or is inclined from the vertical. On the underside or bottom side of the winding core there is positioned a co-rotating discoidal support element or plate. The printed products rest or bear with their lowermost edges on this co-rotating support plate. These lowermost edges of the printed products extend substantially transverse relative to the axis of rotation of the support plate. A support strap or element is coiled or wound conjointly with and on the outer side of the imbricated formation of printed products. This support strap or element supports the printed products of the outermost winding or layer of the wound product package or storage coil.

Abstract: There is disclosed in the present application an apparatus for staking to a leader block the trailing end of a length of magnetic tape wound on a reel of a substantially closed cartridge. The leader block is sized and shaped to fit into and close an opening in the wall of the cartridge and later when the cartridge is in use to provide a means by which the tape may be grasped to be withdrawn from the cartridge. The present apparatus is mounted on a movable platform which permits its withdrawal to a retracted loading position out of the way of a cartridge loading or winding operation. In its retracted position, the apparatus is provided with a short length of rod to be used later for securing the trailing end to the block by staking the rod length with the tape end into an appropriately sized slot in the leader block.

Abstract: A method for producing a package to receive a ring (7) of reeled wire, tube or the like cut to a predetermined length, especially an electrical line (8). The ring (7) is introduced between two substantially square panels of rigid material, e.g. cardboard or the like, with the center axis of the ring running perpendicular to the panels. A substantially tubular rigid means (10) is after introduced through both panels and the center opening of the ring (7) and is thereafter locked in the introduced position in relation to the ring (7) well as the panels. The package can be used as a reel by removing a protective shell of the package. As an alternative said tubular rigid means can be removed, whereby the line or the like is removed from the center of the package.

Abstract: A process for wrapping a rotating bale of mineral fiber strip in the form of a felt-roll with an outer closed-face backing strip with protective wrapping applied as part of the winding process for packaging which entails bringing the protective wrapping, having a coating of adhesive material at the back end thereof into the circumferential area of the rotating bale with the front end thereof, with a length exceeding the circumference of the bale and being frictionally connected to the bale; and turning the bale and pressing the back end of the protective wrapping onto the outside of the winding of the protective wrapping, therebelow, to attain a lasting bonding, wherein the frictional sticking connection between the front end of the protective wrapping and the bale is produced exclusively by an adhesive effect, between the inner surface facing the bale and the bare outer surface of the backing strip, and the front end of the protective wrapping is placed on the bale at a distance from the outside end of the l

Abstract: A tube for packaging elongated, flexible members such as a flexible guidewire for medical purposes or the like. The tube comprises a flexible tube body capable of being coiled and having a projecting member extending outwardly from the tube body longitudinally along at least a substantial portion of the length of the tube body. A concave member extends along at least a substantial portion of the tube body in a diametrically opposed position from the projecting member. The concave member is positioned and preportioned to receive the projecting member of another portion of the tube in retentive relation when the tube is coiled.

Abstract: Small-size electronic parts having leads are packaged with a carrier tape composed of a tape base having tape feed holes and a tape body of formed plastic attached to the tape base. The carrier tape is unreeled from a supply reel, and the leads of the electronic parts are caused to pierce the tape body. The carrier tape with the electronic parts retained on the tape body is wound around a takeup reel.

Abstract: An imbricated product subformation is formed from one half of the printed products delivered in an imbricated product formation by a conveyor or transporter. This subformation is guided through a deflection or turning device. The printed products are accelerated and separated or singled as they run through this deflection or turning device and are simultaneously inverted. After leaving the deflection or turning device, the printed products are conveyed against a fixed stop member and are then deposited upon a belt conveyor to form a new imbricated product subformation. A second subformation is formed from the other half of the arriving printed products and is deposited upon the first altered subformation and is then conjointly wound up with this first altered subformation to form a coil or wound product package.