Abstract: Push-pull dispensing closure provided with interengaging angulated ribs and cooperating lugs on the exterior of the shell member chimney portion and interior of the tip member sleeve portion, respectively, to provide a limited degree of relative rotation therebetween during extension or opening movement of the tip member and finding particular utility when utilized as a dispensing closure for a bottle or container of viscous or thixotropic material requiring shaking immediately before use. This construction provides apparatus for preventing spurting upon opening of the closure after such shaking.

Abstract: A collapsible dispensing tube is formed from a laminate which includes two separate layers of metallic foil; e.g., aluminum. This configuration allows substantially independent variation of the deadfold (i.e., tendency of the tube to stay in the rolled-up position) and body (i.e., tendency of the tube to resist being rolled-up) of such a tube. Species of the invention having both desirable deadfold and desirable body are disclosed.

Abstract: Manually openable captive container closure comprising a cover portion of a manually tearable sheet material with high deadfold characteristics having an integral margin portion extending peripherally therearound together with means for enabling said margin portion to be attached contiguously around the mouth of a container to extend said cover portion sealingly across such container mouth, means for enabling manual opening of a perforation through a generally central region of said cover portion and means for directing manual tearing of said cover portion outwardly along a plurality of tear lines radiating from said perforation to said margin portion to separate said cover portion into a plurality of captive segments attached to said margin portion so that bunching of said segments against said margin portion provides a generally open and unobstructed fenestration substantially contermineous the container mouth.

Abstract: A tape tab cutting and applying mechanism in which a rotating orbiting tape head picks up a tape tab at one station and transports it to an applying station for applying tape tabs at spaced intervals on a moving web or line of successive objects. The tape tab is essentially perpendicular to the path of the tape head at the pick-up station and parallel to the web or article at the applying station.

Abstract: Mummy-type insulated sleeping bag, particularly for Winter, Alpine and other severe weather, providing unusual loft and warmth with minimal weight, elimination of coldspots or areas of reduced insulation thickness and suitable for efficient use by persons of differing physiques by self-adjusting compensation therefor.

Abstract: Folded paperboard carton provided at one end with opposed pairs of major and minor flaps and an elongated tearout tab having a free edge extending along a major portion of the distal edge of the first down major flap and an opposed concomerated edge connection therewith to provide a wide opening; enabling removal of a wide rigid premium such as a children's book or a record as well as enabling well controlled pouring of a product such as a granulated detergent, while leaving spaced apart minor portions of said distal edge on each side of said major portion adhered to the underlying minor flap to define a U-shaped flange around the opening to allow adequate sealing and to keep the carton generally rigid and resistant to bulging after opening; and wherein the second down major flap is adhered to the first down major flap proximally of said tearout tab substantially only adjacent the concamerated edge thereof; the distal edge of the second down major flap defining a reclosure tab for insertion into a mating slit