Abstract: A front loading corrugated container for the storage or shipment of garments on hangers. The container is erected from a unitary blank and has a four-sided tubular body which is closed at the top by a closure that is formed from flaps that are foldably attached to the tops of the sides of the body. Each of an opposed pair of top flaps has a secondary flap which is inturned with respect to the top flap to which it is attached to extend into the interior of the container through aligned slots in another of an opposed pair of top flaps, and the secondary flaps, which constitute an integral hanger bar, have aligned apertures for receiving garment hanger hooks and are supported along opposed sides by portions of each of the other opposed pair of top flaps which lie on the opposed sides of the slots therein.

Abstract: A hand operable calibration device for calibrating or re-calibrating a spring type torque tester, the device having first and second partially overlapping members with bearings therebetween to permit relative rotation between the first and second members. The first and second members are provided, respectively, with first and second annular permanent magnets which are spaced apart and which overlap one another to create a magnetic drag of reproducible magnitude against the relative rotation between the first and second members. One of the members is grasped by the jaws of the torque tester that is being calibrated or re-calibrated, a torque is applied to the other member to overcome the magnetic drag against the relative rotation between the members and the level of torque needed to cause relative rotation between the first and second members is compared to the torque reading indicated by the torque tester at the time such relative rotation begins.

Abstract: A glass fiber bulk strand roving that is made up of a multiplicity of strands, each of which is made up of a plurality of individual fibers, for example, 200 of such fibers. Each strand of the roving has a multiplicity of rather long, axially extending loops, for example, axially extending loops with a calculated length of at least 6 inches, and a multiplicity of shorter, unbroken, cross-axially extending loops that are formed in the axially extending loops of such strands. The axially extending loops and the cross-axially extending loops interengage and intertwine with one another to form a composite entangled structure. The roving of the present invention is made by a process that uses a finger wheel to form axially extending loops in strands and a spinner downstream of the finger wheel.

Abstract: A device for separating slices of bread from sliced loaves of bread and for transferring the separated slices one by one to a conveyor for further processing. The device incorporates an inclined, intermittently driven infeed conveyor for conveying the slices of bread in generally upright positions and in surface-to-surface contact with one another to a separating and transfer position. The separating and transfer position incorporates a primary rotatable member which rotates about its horizontally extending central axis. The primary rotatable member carries a plurality, for example, four, of secondary rotatable members, each of which rotates about its longitudinal central axis, which is spaced outwardly from and extends generally parallel to, the longitudinal central axis of the primary rotatable member.

Abstract: A conventional production two-door motor vehicle converted to a four-door limousine by severing the frame of the production motor vehicle near the center of the passenger compartment into a forward frame segment and rear frame segment. The longitudinal roof, floor, and rocker panel extension sections are welded between the frame segments to lengthen the wheel base and the passenger compartment. Pillars are welded between the roof and the floor of the forward frame on either side of the forward frame segment. Front doors are attached to either side of the frame forward of the pillar and rear doors are attached to either side of the frame rearward of the pillar. In the preferred embodiment, the forward doors of the limousine are forward doors manufactured for the four-door version of the production motor vehicle. The doors removed from the two-door motor vehicle are modified and are used as the rear doors for the limousine.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may also be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A recessed, rim-locking closure for attachment to a wide-mouth container of the type having an externally projecting curled rim or bead surrounding the open mouth thereof, such as the well-known one-piece nestable container produced from thermoplastic sheet material by a thermoforming process, the peripheral vertical wall surrounding the recessed central portion of the closure having a series of radially outwardly projecting lugs spaced apart therearound, each lug having a lower portion which is tapered upwardly and outwardly to facilitate centering of the closure on the container by mechanical closure-applicating equipment, the lugs also having a substantially vertical upper section to frictionally engage the inside of the mouth of the associated container to improve the resistance of the closure to turning relative to the container. Such a closure may be made of one-piece thermoplastic material by thermoforming a thermoplastic sheet material of a suitable composition, preferably in a female mold.

Abstract: A close nesting, single element, easy-opening tamper-proof closure for wide-mouth containers, especially externally beaded, round, nestable cup-like containers formed from paper or plastic, the closure comprising a central panel adapted to substantially span the mouth of the associated container and formed from paper, a non-shrinkable plastic material, or the like, and further comprising a frusto-conically shaped skirt formed from a double-ended blank of a plastic material which is highly oriented in the direction extending circumferentially of the closure, the overlapped ends of the blank being heat sealed or otherwise joined to one another inwardly of the outermost of the ends thereof, the inner smaller diameter of the skirt being adhesively joined to the outer periphery of the central panel, the skirt being shrinkable, upon the application of heat thereto when the closure is in place over the mouth of a filled container, to shrink into tight engagement with the mouth of the container, the outermost free en

Abstract: Mechanical self-centering device to center a moving web of thin sheetlike material such as paper, plastic, metal or the like to prevent the web from drifting from side to side as it moves from one mechanical device, such as an unwind stand, to another mechanical device, such as a printing press, coating apparatus, a web splicer, a machine to fabricate finished products from the web such as a cup-making machine, or the like. The self-centering device comprises a roller extending transversely across the path of travel of the web and adapted to rotatingly contact the moving web on one side thereof. The roller is rotatingly mounted in a bracket which is free to pivot about an axis which is spaced from, and which extends generally parallel to, the path of travel of the web.