Abstract: A tamper proof package including tamper detecting means on the top and bottom closures indicate if the package has been opened.

Abstract: A smoking device having a cylindrical fuel rod circumscribed by an air impermeable wrapper. The fuel rod consists of a homogeneous mixture of a non-tobacco fuel, a non-combustible tobacco, an aerosol generating material and a heat sink material.

Abstract: A paper sheet of paperboard, such as boxboard, cardboard and the like has one surface coated with a surfactant to prevent, or at least retard the penetration of moisture through the thickness of the paperboard to the other surface thereof. A method of making a paper sheet or paperboard which has an improved resistance to or retards the penetration of moisture through the thickness of the paperboard comprises the sequential steps of applying a thin coating of a surfactant to one surface of the paperboard, and immediately drying the coated surfactant on the paperboard.

Abstract: A dispenser device for removing planar panels from a hopper is provided with a panel engagement drum located at the discharge of the hopper which includes friction surfaces at spaced apart locations around the perimeter for sequentially engaging subsequent bottom-most panels in the hopper and extracting them from the hopper as the drum continuously rotates. A positioner is engagable with disengagable from the bottom-most panel at the hopper discharge end to position the bottom-most spacer at a location to be engaged by the friction surfaces of the drum. A stop is operatively responsive with the positioner for engagement with the penultimate one of the panels for preventing the penultimate one of the panels from moving to the location of the positioner during the time period the positioner is in its panel disengaged position.

Abstract: A cigarette including a tube of tobacco having a circumferential wall fabricated of a tobacco material with ridges and grooves from in the circumferential wall extending longitudinally of the tobacco tube, a wrapper of combustible material circumscribing the outside peripheral surface, and a filter rod attached at one end of the tobacco tube. Also, a method of making a cigarette includes forming a sheet of tobacco material, forming corrugations in the sheet of tobacco material and forming the corrugated sheet into a cylindrical tube.

Abstract: In combination with an automatic shaping device having a feed device for feeding material to a cutting tool, a cutting tool guard movable between a lowered position beneath the cutting tool and a raised position surrounding the cutting tool.

Abstract: A refuse compactor device has a container housing having an open top end for holding a trash bag in which the bag mouth is in registration with and folded over the open top end of the container for receiving trash to be compacted. The compactor device further includes a compactor plate received within the container housing for manual movement from the open top end of the housing toward the bottom end of the housing to compress refuse material in the trash bag. The housing has ventilation apertures in its side wall and bottom to allow air trapped between the bag and the side walls of the housing to be expelled from the container. The compactor plate also has ventilation apertures to allow air included in the refuse to be expelled from the container as the plate is moved into the trash bag and housing. The compactor plate further has an opening to receive therethrough the mouth end of the bag for convenient closing of the bag mouth.

Abstract: A solution-type moisture indicating ink to be printed on a substrate and change color at a preselected ambient moisture. The indicator ink includes a solvent carrier system, a moisture indicating substance which changes color under the influence of moisture, and a resin system as a binder to hold the moisture indicating substance to the substrate as well as a film forming and viscosity adjusting agent.

Abstract: A hopper apparatus for folding the end flaps of a film overwrapper across the ends of a carton enclosed in the overwrapper includes a back wall, two parallel side walls, and an access door closing the front side of the hopper. The top horizontal edges of the side walls, back wall, and closed access door define the open top end of the hopper, and the horizontal bottom edges of the back wall, side walls and closed access door define the open bottom end of the hopper. Carton engaging fingers are attached to the back wall for movement into and out of the hopper, and carton engaging fingers are also attached to the access door at the same elevation in the hopper as the engagement fingers on the back wall for movement into and out of the hopper.

Abstract: An instrument for use in optical laboratories for indicating the setting of a lens edger device based upon the relationship between a lens pattern or dummy lens and the lens opening of a spectacle frame into which a finished lens is to fit. The instrument can be used to determine the lens edger setting to produce a finished lens to fit both rimmed spectacle frames and rimless spectacle frames. The instrument gauges the size of the spectacle frame lens opening in relationship to either the lens pattern in the event of fitting a lens to rimmed spectacle frames, or a dummy lens in the event of fitting a lens to rimless spectacle frames.

Abstract: A clock security device to be hung on a wall of a facility such as, for example, a store. The clock face has a convex mirrored surface which provides reflected panoramic view of the facility. The clock security device also includes a mounting bracket which provides for the mounting of the clock security device on the wall with the concave mirrored surface at different positions from parallel to the wall to tilted downwardly at different selected angles to the wall.

Abstract: An infant carrier for attachment to a shopping cart includes an infant seat structure having a seat back and a seat bottom. The seat structure is to be disposed transversely across the shopping cart basket. Brackets are provided at the seat bottom for attaching the seat directly to the top edges of the two longitudinal sides of the shopping cart basket.

Abstract: Low sidestream cigarettes comprise at least 20% expanded tobacco and a cigarette paper comprising a burn retardant.

Abstract: A smoking device includes a cylindrical reticulated tube having an open air inlet at one end and an open air outlet at the other end filled with an aerosol generating material. An insulating collar is concentrically located with the reticulated tube covering a portion of the tube and spaced closer to the air outlet end of the tube than to the air inlet end of the tube. A tobacco plug is coaxially located within the tube with the portion of the length of the tube between the collar and air outlet end embedded within the tobacco plug. A nucleating chamber is located at the end of the tobacco plug opposite the insulating collar, and a reticulated wall is located at the interface of the tobacco plug and nucleating chamber. A filter plug is coaxially located with the tobacco plug at the other end of the nucleating chamber.

Abstract: A sound absorbing panel structure is formed of a panel of sound absorbing material, such as a felt mat or fiberglass mat, and spaced apart, parallel strips of a decorative non-sound absorbing material attached to one side surface of the sound absorbing panel so that the sound absorbing panel is exposed in the area between the adjacent strips of decorative material.

Abstract: A shipping carton including a plurality of foldable tables having detachable table tops, each table top being attachable to a support base including two pair of pivotably connected legs. The carton receives the table tops in bottom-to-top relationship vertically oriented so that they are parallel to the side walls of the enclosure. The carton also receives a like number of support bases having the two pair of legs in a closed position one-half of the bases arranged in a side-by-side first stack between one side of the vertical stack of table tops and a first side wall of the carton, and the other half of the bases arranged in a side-by-side second stack between the opposite side of the vertical stack of table tops and the opposite side wall of the container from the frist side wall whereby the stack of table tops are tightly sandwiched therebetween.

Abstract: A cigarette including a tobacco rod circumscribed by a metal foil wrapper and having a cylinder of carbon fuel surrounding the metal foil wrapper tobacco rod. An air permeable outer wrapper circumscribes the cylinder of carbon fuel. A filter plug is located at one end of the cigarette.

Abstract: A conveying system includes a movable conveyor track with a plurality of load carrying units movable with the conveyor track for conveying workpieces along the path defined by the conveyor track. Each of the load carrying units includes a device to selectively couple and uncouple the load carrying units from the conveyor track so that the load carrying units can selectively and individually be coupled to the conveyor track for movement therewith. In one embodiment, the system includes accumulation areas at preselected locations along with counting and calculating systems to determine and control the number of load carrying units between accumulation areas. In a second embodiment, means are provided to release load carrying units at preselected time intervals from each accumulation area.

Abstract: A nicotine dispensing aerosol device has nicotine and propellant storage containers connected to atomization nozzle from which a nicotine-aerosol spray can flow. A conical aerosol confining chamber extends from the nozzle, the cross-section of the chamber enlarging away from the nozzle. Large aerosol particles are removed by impaction on the upstream face of an impaction member, which member is located in the wider, outlet region of the aerosol confining chamber. A series of baffles are provided downstream of the impaction member, which baffles serve to produce a long, sinuous path for aerosol flow. The duration of the passage of the aerosol from the nozzle to the user is thereby increased, allowing more evaporation of the particulate phase of the aerosol. The device is, therefore, operable to dispense nicotine in an aerosol of a constitution which approximates that of tobacco smoke.