Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for forming and placing a flexible liner into a shipping container with the open end of the liner draped over the sides of the container and the closed end of the liner spread into the bottom corners of the container. The device includes structure supporting a pair of cross heads moving relative to each other, each having a pair of side by side container liner engaging devices for opening and holding the liner in position for insertion into the container. One of the liner engaging devices has a dimension to enter the liner and extend to the closed end thereof, and the other is spaced from the first liner engaging device to enter the liner and extend partway to the closed end thereof, the liner engaging devices being spaced from each other to accommodate therebetween the walls of the shipping container. As the liner engaging devices are moved with respect to the container, the open end of the liner is draped about the container.

Abstract: A paperboard internal partition arrangement formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard and including a longitudinal and a transverse partition forming three cells, one of which is normal to the other two cells.

Abstract: A cushioning insert for containers loaded with necked articles arranged in allochiral relationship such as video tubes having a large viewing surface and wall portions tapering toward the neck of the tube is disclosed. The insert is characterized by a base panel having upstanding walls from which panel supports for the tube are provided. The wall and base panels have panel portions cut therefrom at the lines of fold between such panels and such panel portions are constructed and arranged to provide a stable structure supporting the tube necks.

Abstract: A self-locking cap for a tubular container having downwardly extending flanges at the upper end thereof, which cap includes a plurality of flanges adapted to receive the flanges of the container and having retaining means for maintaining the flanges of the cap and container in interlocking relationship.

Abstract: A package for holding and shipping reels, rolls, spools or the like, comprising an outer container and a plurality of retaining pads disposed adjacent respective reels for preventing lateral movement thereof within the outer container.

Abstract: An open top tray formed of foldable paperboard and including a bottom wall and opposed pairs of vertical walls upstanding therefrom and joined at the corners of the tray wherein certain of the vertical walls include an outer panel, an inner panel, and an intermediate reinforcing panel, adapted to minimize bowing of said walls.

Abstract: A machine for conveying container bodies for heat sealing of surfaces thereof is disclosed. Structure is provided for introducing heated air to said surfaces while the bodies are moving in a conveyor path and for modulating the temperature of the heated air in accordance with sensor means disposed in relationship to the surfaces to be heated.

Abstract: Apparatus for counting yieldable flat articles such as paperback books or the like consisting of a stack of books with their sides in contacting relationship, the books being guided in such a fashion that a measured quantity may be removed by structure engaging the stack and movable translatively of the longitudinal axis of the stack. The stack guiding structure is provided with means for preventing movement of the stack in the guiding structure during the removing operation and return thereof. Structure is provided for moving the books in the guiding structure and subsequently placing a load on the books along the longitudinal axis thereof and counting the books by measuring part of the stack when so loaded.

Abstract: A pilfer-resistant, composite package including a plastic cap member and a paperboard body member having integral flap means for retaining said cap member on said body member.

Abstract: A wrapper blank for a group of containers consists of main, side and closing panels foldably connected to define a tube. The edges of all the panels are provided with cutaway portions to provide a scallop-like configuration along the edge of the blank, each of the cutaway portions being generally U-shaped with divergent sides extending toward the fold lines connecting the panels and defining wrapper elements folded to position to restrain movement of the containers within the wrapper.

Abstract: There is disclosed a module for erected wall elements for providing an exhibition space, the wall elements being formed from fibrous material such as corrugated board folded along score lines to provide spaced front, rear and end wall portions, the wall elements being confined along the upper and lower edges by devices having spaced flanges confining the wall portions but having discontinuous portions to accommodate irregularities in the dimensioning of the wall elements and to enable the wall elements to be secured together at such discontinuous portions.

Abstract: A paperboard partition having a pair of U-shaped longitudinal sections separated by a multiply center transverse section.

Abstract: A shipping container partition arrangement which is formed of a unitary blank of foldable paperboard and which includes a pair of interlocking center members disposed at right angles with respect to each other, a pair of end members disposed in parallel relation with one of said center members, and a bottom wall foldably connected to the end members and one of the center members.

Abstract: The attachment is mounted on a lift portion of a lift truck, or the like. A frame member is operatively connected to upper and lower article engaging elements which engage a top and a side of an article, such as a drum, for movement and handling of same.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for packaging of flat articles, such as paperback books or the like, in a base number or multiples thereof, and includes structure for arranging the flat articles in a plurality of stacks and imposing a known pressure on each stack whereby the number within a given dimension is a constant, removing the desired number from the stack while retaining the remainder of the stack in position, enclosing the stacks in a container, adding additional flat articles to make the base number of multiples thereof, and closing the flaps of the container.

Abstract: A system for evacuating selectively two side-by-side chambers having a common wall with a pressure passageway therein includes a closure slidable between two positions where one chamber is connected to sub-atmospheric pressure with the common pressure passageway while the other is connected to ambient, and including circuit means for controlling the application of pressure and the release of same.

Abstract: A hollow wall display carton formed of foldable paperboard, for holding at least one packaged article, which includes a platform which is co-extensive with and spaced above the bottom wall.

Abstract: A tubular carton is formed from paperboard and has a side wall formed from a pair of wall panels joined to each other at their edges. A bottom wall is foldably attached to a bottom edge of the sidewall. At least a portion of a fold line between the bottom wall and the side wall is curved providing contoured, recessed bottom wall when the carton is set up.

Abstract: Apparatus for erecting flattened tubular cartons held in a hopper and depositing them on an endless conveyor which includes structure mounted for reciprocal movement between the hopper and conveyor and having vacuum transfer means for gripping a carton and plenum means at one end of the carton for opening the carton.

Abstract: A readily erectable and dismantleable structure for exhibition purposes consists of a base element having upturned front and end flanges adapted to be secured to a base to define locating means for a yieldable thin-walled panel having the lower extremities of the central portion extending along and behind the upturned front flange and along and behind the end flanges, there being an identical cap element for the thin-walled panel, contiguous sections being joined at the end flanges of the base and cap elements.