Abstract: A disposable lift sheet formed of paper board having beneath one edge of the platform portion thereof a multiple layer stack of strips which provide a pierceable target area for the forks of the lift truck. The target area strips in the upper portion of the stack are wider than the strips in the lower portion of the stack to provide gradual stepped support for the platform portion and to reinforce the fork entry region of the lift sheet and prevent accidental piercing of the platform portion and the supported load thereon by the forks. In the preferred embodiment the target area strips are integral with the platform portion and are provided by reverse folding edge portions of the base sheet from which the lift sheet is made.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dispensing cabinet for sequentially dispensing material from a primary roll and a reserve roll by passing the sheet material through a nip formed by two rotatably mounted feed rollers. The dispensing cabinet has transfer means and trnasfer actuation means for feeding sheet material from the reserve roll into the nip in response to substantial depletion of sheet material from the primary roll. The transfer means is adapted to press the sheet material from the reserve roll into contact with both of the feed rollers at spaced-apart locations on the sheet material and on the inwardly rotating side of the nip. The transfer means and feed rolles are adapted to drive the reserve roll sheet material towards the nip by the cooperation of the transfer means and one of the feed rollers and to block the reserve roll sheet material from being driven past the transfer means by the cooperation of the transfer means with the other feed roller, whereby the reserve roll sheet material is crowded into the nip.

Abstract: Moisture impervious packaging systems for retaining articles include a container body and a closure lid hingedly connected thereto. The container body includes a bottom wall and upwardly extending peripheral walls ending in an upper surface that defines an access opening into an interior compartment in which the articles are retained. The lid includes a peripheral frame member providing the side margins of the lid, and a separate moisture impervious sheet adhered to the frame member for providing the top wall of the lid. The moisture impervious sheet constituting the top wall of the lid preferably is also adhered to the upper surface of the container body for providing a primary moisture impervious seal for the interior compartment of the container body.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dividable transport package consisting of two or more containers placed on a single pallet in side-by-side relationship on opposite sides of a vertical dividing plane. The pallet forms the bottom of the package and includes a continuous-plane platform of low tear strength material which supports all of the containers in the package. The pallet is encircled in each of the vertical dividing planes by a thin band of high tensile strength material which, upon being pulled through the pallet, divides the pallet to form two or more separate self-supporting, palletized packages. Also disclosed is a dividable pallet for supporting two or more objects.