Abstract: An improved child resistant end closure wherein most of the pull tab for an easy opening end is mounted within a bead formed on the end panel which obstructs access to the ring or lift portion of the tab and pevents grasping and lifting it. The tab and/or the end panel are slightly bowed in such manner that the tab upon fastening by the rivet to the end panel is sprung toward the end panel so that the ring portion of the tab is biased toward the panel below the bead. The shape of the bead and the ring or grasping portion provides a digitally operable structure which permits an adult to insert his nail between the tab and external bead to lift the ring while flexing the end panel so that the ring may be further lifted to break free the tab hinge and then break the score defining the openable segment of the end panel, or alternatively the lift portion may be pried up by a tool entered into a slot provided beneath the ring.

Abstract: A simplified heavy-duty press having a bed and a support head mounted from the press bed for limited vertical movement under predetermined spring preload. The entire drive (less motor) and rams are carried from the press head and these components are movable away from the bed when the tools between the ram and bed encounter an obstruction beyond the preload. The preload limits maximum operative force that will be transmitted in the mechanisms where precise control of the components/dimensions may be difficult to maintain because of manufacturing limitations or because of thermal expansion.

Abstract: A propellantless aerosol container wherein an elastic expelling member is sleeved over a flexible product containing member and carried within a rigid container body. Retainers, releasable from without the container, are provided whereby the expelling member may be extended and retained in the extended condition during filling of the container, and later released to provide an expelling force.

Abstract: A hollow shirred casing stick is provided having the terminal pleats of one end thereof twisted into a cylindrical configuration which is implanted within said hollow stick to form an end closure. The end closure may be formed by twisting successive terminal pleats into the bore of the stick about a rotating mandrel advanced thereinto. A device is provided for forming the closure including a rotating and translating mandrel having retractable pickup means and gripping means, whereby a cylindrical closure may be formed thereabout, and the mandrel withdrawn, without disturbing the closure formed.

Abstract: The adhesion of propylene polymer layers to enamel coated metal surfaces is improved by incorporating an adhesion promoting amount of a carboxyl modified polypropylene resin in the enamel.

Abstract: Propylene polymers are heat sealed to enamel coated metal surfaces, the enamel having incorporated therein an adhesion promoting carboxyl modified polypropylene resin. The bond strength of the heat seal is improved by incorporating the carboxyl modified polypropylene resin in the enamel coating formulation dissolved in a hot (heated above 100.degree. C) organic solvent solution selected from aliphatic acids, alcohols and hydrocarbons having at least 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Metal surfaces are coated with an aqueous dispersion containing a water dispersible carboxylic acid containing resin and aliphatic polyamine.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a process for producing a cheese product wherein a cheese curd is extruded through a nozzle into a flexible, tubular mold, solidified to form a cheese product, and then removed from the flexible mold and the resulting product. The improvement is the use in the process of a "duplex type" mold constructed ofAn outer film laminate comprising a first film ply of cellophane having bonded to its outer surface a gas impermeable film having a gas transmission rate of less than about 10 cc/100 in..sup.2 /24 hour-atm.;A second film ply of biaxially oriented polypropylene bonded to the inner surface of said cellophane; andAn inner film comprising a film ply of biaxially oriented polypropylene.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for molding plastic articles by forming a parison on a core within an injection mold, cooling the internal and external walls of the parison thus formed by heat transfer through the core and the injection mold, transferring said core to a delay position for permitting redistribution of heat from the interior of the parison to the exposed walls to obtain a more uniform temperature just above the material's glass transition temperature, and subsequently transferring said core to an expansion mold for expanding same, the cooling and heat redistribution permitting a greater degree of orientation of the polymer chains of the formed articles. Preferably, the apparatus for practicing the process includes injection and expansion molds supported in such a relation as to permit a substantial time interval between injection and expansion of the parison.

Abstract: A container end panel having a non-detachable flap portion partially severable from the panel to provide an opening. The flap portion is recessed below the remainder of the panel and is broken away by a fitment which fits into the recess. The fitment is adapted to be pushed inwardly and after rupturing the score between the panel and the flap functions to swing the flap inwardly about a hinge formed by the unscored metal connecting the flap to the panel. The fitment is pressed into the opening and snaps within the opening and provides a guard shielding the users finger from the raw edges at the tear edge about the opening. The invention is also directed to a formation of the inner edge of the ring to facilitate rupturing the score and thereafter swinging the panel inwardly.