Abstract: Embodiments relate to fabricating a lanyard that includes the assembly of a strap sheet, a fabric strip sheet, and a stopper column. The strap sheet is wrapped around the stopper column and the ends of the strap sheet are adhered to itself to form a closed loop of the lanyard. The inner surface of the strap sheet is attached to the stopper column and the ends of the strap sheet are further attached to the fabric strip sheet to form the assembly. The assembly is cut to obtain multiple lanyards that include a portion of the strap sheet (e.g., a strap), a portion of the fabric strip sheet (e.g., a fabric strip), and a portion of the stopper column (e.g., a stopper). One end of each lanyard can be worn by an individual whereas a second end of the lanyard can be coupled to another structure, such as a handheld controller.

Abstract: A hygienic cover for a hair brush is an elastic plastic netting of lycra polyester stitched into a tunnel shape with open and closed ends. This cover is rolled on a hollow insert with two open ends. A hairbrush is inserted into and through the insert. The closed end of the cover hits the end of the brush and the cover is stretched over the brush and slides off the insert and compresses around the brush head. The cover is porous and the holes grow when stretched, allowing the brush bristles to pass through the cover. When allowed to slide off the insert and collapse around the brush, the cover closes tightly around the bristles to prevent debris from reaching the brush head. The cover protects the brush in use. After each use, the hygienic cover can be taken off and replaced by a new cover.

Abstract: A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding wherein a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative between first and second stations, wherein the first station enables filamentary material to be wound on one of the mandrels and associated end form and a second station wherein the mandrel and end form containing the wound coil is rotated to confront a boxing station; a boxing station including a platform having a movable back panel, a base panel and an inclined ramp facing the second station and being movable towards and away from the second station for receiving the wound coil from the collapsible mandrel; the boxing station receiving an unfolded box deposited on the base panel with a back panel folded against said back panel and including means for folding two opposite side panels of the box to enable reception of the wound coil in the partially

Abstract: A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding, a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative between first and second stations, wherein the first station enables filamentary material to be wound on one of the mandrels and associated end form and a second station wherein the mandrel and end form containing the wound coil is rotated to confront a boxing station; a boxing station including a platform having a movable back panel, a base panel and an inclined ramp facing the second station and being movable towards and away from second station for receiving the wound coil from the collapsible mandrel; the boxing station receiving an unfolded box deposited on the base panel with a box back panel folded against the back panel and including means for folding two opposite side panels of the box to enable reception of the wound coil in the partially assemble

Abstract: A sleever apparatus includes an inner member with a central passage through which an item to be sleeved is passed. An outer member surrounds the inner member and defines a space between the members for holding a supply of containment material, which is preferably plastic sleeving. The apparatus has a handle which allows a user to hold the apparatus and walk the apparatus along the length of the item to be sleeved. As the user passes the item through the sleever apparatus, the containment material exits through a slit at one end of the apparatus in order to contain the item. The sleever apparatus may be formed of disposable materials, such as cardboard, and may be intended for a single use application. Alternatively, the sleever apparatus may be comprised of more permanent materials such as PVC or fiberglass.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing a plurality of tires having a threaded portion, a rim portion and two sidewall portions, said method comprising the following steps; peripherally slicing each of said tires in two half tires along said threaded portion about midway between said sidewall portions; performing radial incisions in each of said two half tires, said incisions extending through said threaded portion and part of said sidewall portion; stacking up said half tires one on top of the other in order to form a pile of half tires; compressing said pile longitudinally in order to flatten said half tires one over the other; whereby, said radial incisions allow the threaded portion of each half tire to lie in the same plane as the sidewalls of the same half tire without warping when said half tire is compressed into a flattened condition.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for disposing a sheet adjacent a flexible member. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for transporting the sheet to a loading position and a mechanism, located adjacent the loading position, for receiving and holding the sheet. The receiving and holding mechanism is capable of moving the sheet into juxtaposition with a surface of the flexible member so that the sheet contacts the surface of the flexible member upon being released by the receiving and holding mechanism. The apparatus further comprises a mechanism for wrapping the flexible member about itself with the sheet interposed between opposed surfaces of the flexible member.

Abstract: A tubular shirred formation (34) is covered by a previously shirred tubular net (38), which is held ready on a supply drum (36), with one end (42) closed and, with axial insertion, the tubular shirred formation (34) is covered, and then the other end is closed off. To simplify the device and to avoid an axial expansion of the tubular shirred formation (34) before packing, its axial insertion into the closed tubular net (38) and the covering of the tubular shirred formation take place while the tubular shirred formation is still seated on the shirring tube (16). Before covering the tubular shirred formation (34) is compressed further by pushing its front end against a stop (64) which is fixed in the axial direction.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for wrapping a sheet about an external surface of a flexible member to package the flexible member. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for receiving and clamping a free end of the sheet and a first portion of the flexible member, as well as a mechanism for spacing a second portion of the flexible member a preselected distance from the first portion thereof. The apparatus further comprises a mechanism for moving the receiving and clamping mechanism to urge the spacing mechanism toward the receiving and clamping mechanism so that movement of the receiving and clamping mechanism wraps the flexible member and sheet with the sheet being wrapped about the external surface of the flexible member.

Abstract: An article of manufacture comprises a plurality of nested plastic bags for use in lining containers such as garbage cans or waste paper baskets. The assembly is manufactured by placing successive plastic bags over a jig. The upper edges of the plastic bags are adhered to each other, for example, by conventional heat sealing means. The adherence between individual bags is such that the innermost bag can be separated readily from the remaining bags after the assembly is placed within a container.

Abstract: An annular container mounted at the base of a passage between a layering tube and a central mandrel is charged with a layered tube of flexible tubing delivered over a floating mandrel when coaxially in contact with mandrel by driving rollers coacting with pinch rollers on the floating mandrel. The tubing passes over the mandrel and gathers in the layering tube while being compacted by two sets of shoes reciprocated 180.degree. out of phase by rotating discs and connecting rods. When sufficient tubing has been delivered the floating mandrel is raised to enable a hot wire to pass between the mandrels to sever the tubing. The layering tube and central mandrel with the container can then be carried by a turntable through further stationary positions where the layered tubing is further compressed by reciprocable rings, a lid is put on the container to form a cassette and the cassette is discharged.

Abstract: The packing of a tubular casing segment which has been shired together into a hollow cylindrical shirring formation occurs in a tubular net of such configuration that first, with the shirring accomplished with the aid of an abutment which is movable on the shirring tube, a certain initial segment of the tubular casing length is allowed to be left unshirred. Following termination of the shirring, the shirring tube is withdrawn with the abutment from the tubular shirring formation, and the unshirred tubular casing length segment is narrowed down or swaged and is sealed. Finally the sealed tubular casing length tip is inserted with force into the shirring and together with the shirring is thrust through a cylindrical carrier, in which a tubular net is recovered which is sealed to the tubular shirring. This is turned inside out with the thrusting through of the tubular shirring and surrounds this part along its entire length.

Abstract: Pantihose garments are mounted on a card for purpose of display or sale, the card being inserted into one leg of the pantihose and parts of the pantihose unsupported by the card are folded and disposed to one side of the card-supported part of the leg. Exemplary machinery for so assembling the pantihose and card comprises a boarding machine which has a flat support with two support limbs for the pantihose legs; a dispenser places a card on one of the limbs and the pantihose is pulled waistband first onto the support and thereafter is pulled from the support toes first; the card slips from the limb as the pantihose is pulled off the support and is retained inside the pantihose leg which is stretched flat upon the card therein. Subsequently the pantihose is folded as aforesaid.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for loading a shirred casing article into a stuffing horn tilted upwardly at a load position with respect to horizontal. The article is moved along a horizontal rail supported above the stuffing horn. The article spills over an end of a rail and onto a chute. The chute is in alignment with the upwardly tilted horn so that a driven member can engage the article and drive it down the chute onto the horn. The driven member is reversible so a spent casing article on the upwardly tilted horn can be unloaded by driving it up the chute to a positions here it spills over the upper end of the chute and discards.

Abstract: A shirred stick of cellulosic casing having an open end formed to a desired profile by burnishing. A portion of the surface of the stick bore adjacent the open end is part of the desired profile. The burnishing action forms the stick end to a surface of revolution which is symmetrical about the longitudinal axis of the stick.

Abstract: A pair of hose are mounted on a card for purpose of display or sale the card being inserted into one hose and the other hose being placed inside the first hose, between the latter and one surface of the card. Machinery for so assembling the hose and card has two supports and means to transfer a first hose from its support with eversion, to a holder in which a former is held. The second hose is everted by suction into its support and is then conveyed pneumatically into a hollow interior of the holding means, thereby placing it inside the first hose, to one side of the former. The former and the two hose assembled therewith are extracted from the holder, the first hose slipping from around the holder into an encircling relationship in contact with the former.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for packaging a number of disc-like information recording media each having a hole at its center portion. The disc-like information recording media are collected with the holes thereof being aligned with each other to form a cylindrical assembly with a through-hole, and an elongated member is inserted into the through-hole and a pair of collars are set on the elongated member from both ends thereof so as to fix the cylindrical assembly with respect to the elongated member. Thereafter, the cylindrical assembly is wrapped by a shrinkable material and encased in a container comprising upper and lower halves each having at least one assembly-receiving portion with a configuration substantially equal in dimension to the semicylindrical half portion of the cylindrical assembly. The container has an engaging arrangement comprising L-shaped extending portions and L-shaped shelf portions so that the upper and lower halves are stably coupled to each other.

Abstract: The disclosure describes a method of automatically attaching an arrow label in the center hole of a ball, skein or package of yarn or thread wound onto a winding mandrel. The arrow label is coaxially aligned with the winding mandrel. During withdrawal of the ball of yarn from the winding mandrel the ball slides with its center hole onto the label. Subsequently, the ball of yarn is transported away together with the label by a conveyor means. A device for carrying out this method is provided with a movable label conveyor which positions the arrow labels one at a time and tip first at the winding mandrel. A movable gripping device then withdraws the ball of yarn from the winding mandrel, slides it over the shaft of the arrow label and transfers the labelled ball to ball conveyor.

Abstract: Bead protectors fittable to an opposed pair of tire bead portions are made of a thermoplastic resin. Each bead protector comprises a tubular portion fittable in the bead portion and a flange portion extending from the tubular portion via a curved portion and fittable to the outer side surface of the bead portion. The bead protector is integrally molded in an L-shaped radial cross section. Each of fastening bands comprises a stretchable portion and hooked plate-like metal members. When fitted to the tire bead portions, the bead protectors are interconnected by the fastening bands and elastically pulled toward each other axially of the tire by the stretchable portions, with the hooks in engagement with projections on the flange portions.

Abstract: Apparatus for shirring a tubular casing includes a pair of shirring wheels with helical teeth.The wheels 21,22 (FIG. 9) are moulded from flexible rubber or polyurethane. The leading edge 43 of a tooth of one wheel 22 is aligned (shown by a nominal straight line 48) with the leading edge 42 on the adjacent tooth on the other wheel 21.The helical teeth are of controlled flexibility and the wheels may include circumferential walls joining the teeth.Other features of the invention relate to the curvature of the crest or face surface of the teeth which are related to wheel diameter and to the desired diameter of the shirred stick or slug which is to be produced.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for attaching a sheet of packaging material to a wall of a bore of a coil of metal wherein the sheet of packaging material is fed into and discharged from a mandrel case and automatically attached to the wall of the bore of the coil by the pinch rollers contacting the wall and biasing forces of swing rollers supported on the mandrel case.

Abstract: A sausage casing package is formed utilizing a tool constituted by a rigid tube having a low-friction surface. The folded casing support is introduced into the tube and the casing sections as applied with the assembly of casing sections being drawn off the tube simultaneously with the withdrawal of the casing support from the tube to transfer the pleated and interfitted casings onto the support.

Abstract: An apparatus for shirring a tubular casing in which the compression of the shirred stick is produced by employing a tapered mandrel positioned between shirring wheels. The taper is carefully chosen to produce uniform shirring and compression.In the drawing (FIG. 3) is shown part of a shirring machine comprising a pair of shirring wheels 21.22 located on opposite sides of a mandrel 15. The mandrel 15 has a tapered section 27 which begins immediately upstream of the line 27B joining the centers 21A, 22A of the shirring wheels and continues a substantial distance downstream of the line 27B. Back pressure is generated by rolls 28, 29.A preferred rate of taper is about 1 in 5 but the rate of taper may be anywhere in the range 1 in 4 to 1 in 30.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for forming and dispensing individual wrappers of varying lengths from a supply roll of flat-folded tubular film is provided. The apparatus includes a rotatable turret which defines a plurality of appertures and has a plurality of hollow mandrels secured thereto in such manner that the interior of each hollow mandrel is communicatively connected to a respective apperture. In operation, a mandrel and tubular film loaded on the external periphery thereof is rotatively indexed from a stock receiving station to a stock dispensing station where the tubing is sealed, loaded with a product and severed to form an individual wrapper. A guide bullet is provided at the stock receiving station to assist in the loading of the tubular film onto the external periphery of a hollow mandrel upon the mandrel being indexed to the stock receiving station. In a preferred embodiment the guide bullet may be retracted through the interior of a mandrel by way of a reciprocal thrust rod.

Abstract: A stacking device for stacking headed tubular fasteners. The device comprises air blowing means which accelerates an end fastener in a guide relative to the remaining fasteners in the guide thereby ensuring that each fastener leaves the guide separately without jamming to fall into a stacking passage in which the fasteners form a column one-above-the-other. The stacking device is utilized for stacking rivets in a rivet packaging machine which assembles a column of rivets on a sleeve made of resilient plastics material for later transfer to the mandrel of a pull-through blind riveting tool.

Abstract: A sausage-casing/sleeve combination has a flexible synthetic-resin sleeve having a laterally open aperture, a pair of longitudinal ends, and a tear line extending longitudinally from this aperture to one of the ends. A plurality of sausage-casing sections having overlapping ends and longitudinally compressed accordion-fashion are carried on the sleeve between the aperture and the one end. This combination is made by fitting the sleeve over a mandrel tube, clamping the end of the sleeve at the tip of the mandrel tube, and then pulling the sections over the thus rigidified sleeve while ejecting water from the end of the sleeve to soften the sausage-casing sections. The overlapping ends may be stapled, glued, or sewn together.

Abstract: This relates to a machine for shirring tubular films such as those used for sausage casings and the like. In accordance with this disclosure, the films are continuously fed onto a mandrel where they are opened from their flat state and then are fed at a selected rate through a shirring head. The shirred casing is then gripped and advanced in a manner so as to control the density thereof and to impart a spin thereto as desired. The shirred casing, while being spun, is gripped by a pair of cooperating units and a leading portion of the shirred casing is separated at predetermined spacings into individual strands which are then fed along the mandrel individually and are compressed and doffed from the mandrel into a strand handler which then presents each strand to an end closer and thereafter deposits the closed strand on a receiving tray.

Abstract: This relates to a gripper-separator unit for separating continuously shirred casing into individual strands. The gripper is provided with hold back blades which engage the shirred casing while the separator is provided with like blades which engage the shirred casing substantially in the same plane as the gripper blades. The separator is then rapidly moved away from the gripper so as to snap the casing at the point of engagement by the blades. Suitable drives are provided for separately reciprocating the gripper and the separator and various drives are provided for positioning the blades. When the casing is being spun, the separator and the gripper are spun in unison therewith.

Abstract: Mechanism for wrapping a resilient envelope, as a netting, around a quantity of meat, including a guide shell, a supply table or platform at one end of the shell and an envelope carrying cylinder comprising a cartridge arranged for placement in encircling relationship to said shell. This also effects placement of the envelope in encircling relationship to said shell. One end of the envelope, which is pulled off said cartridge and the supporting shell, will contract in a conventional manner for engaging meat pushed by hand or by a plunger from the feeding platform into and through the shell. As said meat is pushed out of said shell, it will pull the envelope with it and complete the enveloping thereof. The cartridges provide means for rapid loading of envelopes onto the packing machine and without the necessity of intermediate equipment.