Abstract: A divider for partitioning a rectangular space into six cells, formed from a blank comprising a central panel and a pair of panel sections. Each of the panel sections includes second, third, fourth and end panels extending in that order from the central panel. The widths of the second and fourth panels are equal, and the width of each end panel is greater than the width of the respective third panel, whereby when the fourth and end panels are folded flatly onto the second and third panels, an end portion of each end panel overlies a portion of the central panel. The blank is cut and further scored along a median portion to provide hinge means and to divide the panels into half-panels.

Abstract: An improved pull tab mounting arrangement for an easy open end closure member, characterized by the provision of improved pull tab positioning means for maintaining the pull tab in a desired orientation relative to the panel-defining score line and minimizing tab protrusion from the end closure member. A pierced hole forming a protrusion with a jagged edge is incorporated in the tab nose portion between the free extremity of the tab and the rivet means that secures the tab to the end panel member. The jagged protruding edge of the protrusion is driven into the end panel member during the staking operation, thereby providing an anti-rotation interlock between the tab and the end panel which prevents rotation of the tab nose relative to the score line. The protrusion further serves to raise the nose portion of the tab relative to the end panel thereby biasing the tab against the end panel upon staking of the rivet which forces the finger grip portion of the tab into close contact with the end panel.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process of packaging an edible product having an exposed bone by applying hot melt material to the exposed bone, encasing the product in a package, and closing the package which preferably is a bag which is heat shrunk and due to the heat shrinking operation or by the application of heat in the absence of heat shrinking the hot melt material is adhered to the bag with a bond strength greater than that between the hot melt material and the bone such that upon the removal of the bag the hot melt is removed from the bone to permit subsequent processing of the product.

Abstract: An easy opening end closure for a container in which the end closure includes a panel having a pre-cut pour opening. The pour opening is sealed by a plastic closure having a portion permanently bonded to the underside of the end. A remaining portion is releasably adhered to the underside so that upon downward pressure on the closure, it is released and hinges about the permanently bonded portion. A tongue integral with the panel projects into the opening along the edge along which the flap hinges and is permanently bonded thereto.

Abstract: Method 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: This disclosure relates to a can body transfer mechanism particularly adapted for use as part of an automatic coating and printing machine wherein can bodies and like tubular members are automatically positioned on mandrels and thereafter serially presented to coating and printing blankets. The transfer apparatus includes a vertically disposed feed screw which spaces can bodies and transfers them to a feed turret which, in turn, transfers the can bodies to a transfer turret. The transfer turret has generally horizontally disposed pockets axially aligned with mandrels carried by an endless chain and there is associated with the transfer turret a pusher turret having a plurality of pusher members thereon axially aligned with the turret pockets and the mandrels and automatically operable by a fixed cam in response to the rotation of the pusher turret to push can bodies from the transfer turret pockets onto the mandrels.

Abstract: A depalletizer apparatus for unloading containers or other articles stacked in tiers which are separated by paperboard upon a pallet. The apparatus has a pallet infeed section, an elevator means for sequentially raising a loaded pallet to a height of one tier and sweep means operated in conjunction with the elevator to remove each tier onto a conveyor. Also disclosed is a pallet discharge means, and a paperboard removal means which together with the sweep means operate to move the pallets, the containers, and the paperboard onto three conveyors for transporting same to three separate collection areas, all conveyors being located adjacent the top of the elevator means. Finally, this specification also discloses a second elevator means for receiving the unloaded pallets and stacking same as well as a compartment for receiving paperboard and collecting same in a manner to facilitate subsequent removal and reuse.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a process of reducing the creep characteristics of plastic containers, principally bottles, jugs or the like, by providing a cartridge having upper and lower ends and a plurality of vertically extending transversely inter-connected chambers also having upper and lower ends, blow molding a plurality of containers, stacking the blow molded containers vertically upwardly through the lower ends of the chambers toward the upper ends thereof atop and in contact with each other in an upright position in each chamber, transferring the cartridge into a heat treatment bay, circulating hot air in contact with the plastic containers in a direction upwardly from and through the lower ends through the upper ends in an open condition and through and between the chambers for a predetermined period of time and at a predetermined temperature sufficient to reduce the creep characteristics of the plastic containers, and removing the cartridge from the heat treatment bay.

Abstract: One or more shirred artificial sausage casings are tightly packaged in a flexible film to reduce lateral and longitudinal expansion and to protect against moisture loss. The flexible film is caused to fit tightly about the artificial sausage casings by enveloping the casings within at least one flexible film, removing sufficient air from within the resulting envelope for producing a partial vacuum therein and sealing said envelope for maintaining said partial vacuum.

Abstract: An improved tooling configuration enables production of an end panel opening score line without loss of the enamel protective coating on the reverse side of the end panel. Current scoring methods frequently result in enamel loss, and hence, necessitate coating repair before the end panel may be attached to the can body. By controlling the angular relationship of the score punch and anvil, while simultaneously confining the displaced metal, the enamel which was previously applied to the panel is retained substantially in place with only a slight reduction in thickness. Punch angles of 90.degree. - 100.degree. and anvil angles of 25.degree. - 35.degree. have been found to be effective, with a punch angle of 90.degree. and an anvil angle of 30.degree. being optimum. The metal may best be confined and controlled by the simultaneous formation of an anti-fracture score concentric with, and radially inward of the opening score line.

Abstract: An end closure having a non-detachable flap partially severable from the end panel to provide an opening. The flap is recessed below the remainder of the panel and is broken away by a tab which fits into the recess. The tab is adapted to be pushed inwardly and, after rupturing the score between the end panel and the flap, functions to swing the flap inwardly about a hinge formed by an unscored area of the flap perimeter. The invention is primarily directed to a means of attaching the tab to the flap so as to provide a lost motion enabling the movement of the flap relative to the tab during the inward swing.

Abstract: A pressure regulator particularly adaptable for use in aerosol cans in which a chamber is provided having inlet and outlet ports, and a pressure reactive diaphragm, and a dimensionally changeable inlet throttling body, positioned in the chamber, is dimensionally controlled to close and open the inlet port by variations of pressure in the chamber.

Abstract: Timed release of measured quantities of an aerosol spray is accomplished by attachment of an improved dispenser to a conventional aerosol container. The contents of the container are controllably passed through a porous sintered plug and a flow restricting orifice into a measuring chamber in the body of the dispenser. The exit passage of this chamber is sealed by a spring disk which is concave upward with its periphery seated against a shoulder encircling the exit orifice. As the container contents enter the chamber, the pressure therein rises until it is sufficient to overcome the spring resistance of the disk. When this occurs, the disk snaps into its stressed condition, assuming a concave downward shape. It is then supported on projections formed on the exit orifice shoulder. These projections retain the stressed disk in spaced relation to the exit orifice and allow a quantity of the chamber contents to pass around the disk and escape through a nozzle mounted on the exit orifice.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method utilizing an apparatus defining an open ended mold cavity, operable in conjunction with a piston supporting a closure cover for a container to be formed in the cavity which is shiftable inwardly into the open end of the cavity. The method involves introducing a blank of heated plastic material into the mold cavity inwardly of the open end thereof first introducing gas or a similar fluid or fluent material and then a beverage or a similar fluid or fluent material under pressure into the cavity at a point spaced outwardly of the blank and inwardly of the closure cover and piston after the latter has been shifted into the outer end of the cavity to seal the latter. The introduced gas is under sufficient pressure for pre-blow molding blank and the subsequently introduced beverage is under sufficient pressure to complete the blow molding of the blank in the mold.

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

Abstract: The easy opening end closure for attachment to a can body. The end closure includes a plastic pull tab having a closure tab sealed in a slit which defines a displacable closure.The pull tab is attached by forging a plastic strip over a lid in a manner such that the plastic is caused to flow and force the metal panel against a cutting edge to form a slit defining a displacable closure. At the same time the forged plastic flows beneath the adjacent edges of the slit to form a tight seal therein.

Abstract: An improved easy open end closure, characterized by the provision of improved pull tab positioning means for maintaining the pull tab in a desired orientation relative to the flap-defining score line, regardless of doming of the end panel. The finger ring portion of the tab is nested within a recess formed in the end panel. A protrusion, formed interior to this recess, abuts the interior periphery of the finger ring, serving as an anti-rotation abutment. The tab rivet panel is formed at an angle to the plane of the tab, inclining 4.degree.-6.degree. away from the end panel center, whereby a panelward bias is imparted to the finger ring portion of the tab by the tab attachment rivet. This bias serves to retain the finger ring within the recess.

Abstract: A multiple-motion easy-open closure for a can which has two rivets on the end panel, one rivet pivotably connecting a tab to the end panel and functioning to aid in cracking the score and the second rivet anchoring the tab to the end panel. The tab has a slot flanked by ribs and must be rotated until the second rivet, which extends through the slot has its head in alignment with a circular opening in the slot through which the tab may be lifted to rupture the score. The ribs are positioned tangentially to the arc of pivot of the tab and must be laterally deflected and assume an arcuate contour concentric with the pivot arc to accommodate passage of the second rivet between locked and unlocked positions.

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.