Abstract: A three-piece tote bag and method of construction is described. The bag includes two end panels which are assembled to a body panel with zippers. The periphery of the end panels are provided with zipper halves which engage cooperating zipper halves along the side edges of the body panel to form the bag. Each of the three panels are produced in a flat condition and contain stiffening means and insulative material between outer cover and inner liner sheets. The panels are sealed about their peripheral edges and the zipper halves are stitched to the panel edges.

Abstract: A laminated settable tubular package is disclosed having integral end and body portions of the same material. The tubular package is formed with a process and apparatus which permits head and shoulder portions to be formed as a continuation of the tubular body through folding and shaping operations. The package is substantially impermeable and has particular use for containing toothpaste, essential perfumes, oils, solvents, flavorings, and other substances in which permeation of the atmosphere and/or volatization losses are problems.

Abstract: The method of forming, by rotational molding, a foamed polystyrene article that has a continuous covering of thermoplastic material such as low density polyethylene. The method requires the utilization of polystyrene beads that contain substantially less than the maximum possible percentage of blowing or expanding agent. A high temperature, low residence time heating step is found to be adequate for the formation of the article.

Abstract: A screen or plate is positioned above and adjacent the normal fluidized pulverulent material top surface level in a typical fluidized bed construction. The screen extends over substantially the entirety of the bed and has enlarged openings therein of a size suitable for the acceptance of the articles that are to be immersed in the pulverulent or powder material. Screen placement within the fluidized bed is also such that upon article immersion into the entrained powder bed, the magnitude of the powder level increase insures that there is at least contact between the screen and bed top surface which will stabilize the bed top surface and preserve the continuity thereof during article immersion and removal. Similarly, an intermittently operable material feeding system is contemplated to assure that a substantially uniform and constant amount of pulverulent material is maintained in the bed during the coating operation.

Abstract: An orientation or transfer device that is adaptable to either accurately align a plurality of articles of glassware simultaneously on a conveyor and on centers that may be easily adjusted to accommodate the users needs or to move a single row of such ware from one conveyor system to another.The device is particularly well adapted for inclusion in a glassware coating system that is continuously operable to apply a coating of thermo-plastic polymer resin to the exterior surface of the ware. However, the device is easily modified to form transfer apparatus that will efficiently move ware from a stacked arrangement on a conveyor across a dead plate to a single line conveyor.

Abstract: An insulated household vessel for serving hot or cold foodstuffs is provided having a detachable inner liner. The liner includes resilient connectors extending below the bottom into an orifice in the vessel outer casing. The orifice is located in the lower part of a concave portion of the vessel casing thereby facilitating insertion of the connectors and providing a spring-like downward bias on the liner.

Abstract: A stackable overcap lid and container combination wherein the container has vertically and horizontally offset annular beveled rim portions for stacking engagement with like portions of similar containers. The rim includes an upper flat lip portion for sealing engagement with an overcap lid. A film located across the container opening and bonded to the lip portion can be used to provide an additional seal. The overcap lid presents an intermediate annular offset portion adapted to seat a similar lid in a stacked relationship and includes a depending wide ring flange which facilitates the vertical stacking of lids and substantially inhibits their disarrangement.

Abstract: Packages are described wherein two compositions are maintained isolated from each other within a container, the first composition comprising a substance capable of releasing iodide ion and the second composition comprising hydrogen peroxide. The container is fitted with valve means which communicate with each composition. Actuation of the valve means results in mixing portions of each composition and dispensing of the mixture as a composition containing iodine.

Abstract: A glassware coating process and apparatus including ware handling, heating, coating and transfer equipment that is continuously operable to apply a coating of thermoplastic polymer resin to the exterior surface of the ware. The apparatus, among other things, includes a clamping mechanism for gripping heated ware about the finish thereof, which mechanism is immersible in a fluidized bed of the thermoplastic polymer resin along with the ware. Means feed pressurized gas to separate reciprocable cooperating elements of the clamping member to both cool said member and to inhibit polymer deposition on the grasped portion of the wave. Similarly, the invention incorporates a ware orientation device that accurately aligns the ware immediately prior to the seizure thereof by the clamping mechanism.

Abstract: A multi-purpose receptacle to support various culinary implements and having interrelated supporting surfaces of varying configurations to retain such implements.

Abstract: A fluid flow meter of the variable area flow passage type is provided wherein the variation in said flow passage area is effected by the displacement of a control boundary which is supported by an annular diaphragm element. Said control boundary is shaped and sized so that the overall displacement required for the flow rate range desired is within the stroke capacity delivered by the free flexing action of said diaphragm element, thereby achieving substantially constant differential pressure operation at a very reasonable value which is due almost entirely to gravity. The resulting unit is very compact and stable and is characterized by very smooth linear response between vertical displacement and fluid flow rate. Said vertical displacement can be measured by various means but is preferably transduced to an equally linear, smooth and steady electrical signal by a direct connection with a specially adapted differential transformer.

Abstract: Propylene, for example, is polymerized with crystalline TiCl.sub.3 --AlCl.sub.3 and diethylaluminum monochloride catalyst at a rate of at least 300 lbs. polymer/lb. catalyst/hr. based on TiCl.sub.3 with partial H.sub.2 pressure of about 150 to about 1000 psi and sufficient total pressure to maintain propylene in liquid form. The resulting propylene homopolymer, while still containing active catalyst residues, is then reacted further with at least one additional alpha-olefin, preferably ethylene or ethylene-containing alpha-olefin mixtures in suitable amounts. The resulting waxy block copolymer has a melt flow of 40 to 400 as determined by ASTM-D-1238-62T at 230.degree.C.

Abstract: Hydroxy-terminated polymers of butadiene having two hydroxy groups per molecule are prepared by polymerizing butadiene in a chain transfer solvent at a temperature of from about 50.degree. to about 170.degree.C. with t-butyl beta-hydroxyethyl peroxide as an initiator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for treating vitreous surfaces such as glass with a coating material introduced upwardly into a coating area or chamber from below a conveyor means which transports the article through such coating area. Distributor means with spaced outlet perforations or openings communicating with the coating area is placed below such coating area and is provided with a source of coating material.This is a division of application Ser. No. 280,376, filed Aug. 14, 1972, now abandoned.

Abstract: A container and closure combination wherein the closure includes a stepped ledge area formed by two truncated conical sections that produce a structure resiliency enabling the generation of an effective seal between the mating parts.

Abstract: ABS compositions of improved impact strength are obtained by adding thereto controlled amounts of a synthetic hydrocarbon resin having a ring and ball softening point of at least 70.degree.C and derived from deeply cracked petroleum stocks.

Abstract: A generally bowl-shaped coffee maker base structure is disclosed having a plurality of receptacles extending upwardly from the structure bottom. Exposed electrical terminals common with electrical parts on an electric coffee maker are positioned within the appropriate receptacles. The electrical terminals are encapsulated by filling the receptacles with a liquid hardenable sealing compound. The compound is cured and hardens to provide watertight corrosion-proof terminals to produce an immersible unitary base structure for a coffee maker.

Abstract: Glassware coating apparatus including spraying equipment and a transfer mechanism that assures the uniform application of a thermoplastic polymer on glassware (i.e., bottleware) in a continuous fashion without occurrence of internal contamination. The apparatus, among other things, includes a unique chucking arrangement adapted to seize the ware in the finish area and transfer same through the spraying equipment. Likewise, the apparatus includes provision for fluid purging each bottle during the spraying thereof.

Abstract: An aqueous acid nickel electroplating bath containing as a brightener-leveling agent the reaction product of an acetylenic diester of a halogenated saturated aliphatic acid with a heterocyclic compound containing a tertiary nitrogen atom. The brightener may have the general formula ##EQU1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen, halogen or a hydroxy, carboxy, carboxyester, sulphoxy, alkyl, amino or amido group;R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are hydrogen or an alkyl group;X is halogen andN is an integer from 0 to 2.

Abstract: Propylene-based, normally solid polymer compositions are stabilized against oxidative degradation especially when exposed to both a metal such as copper and a soft hydrocarbon medium such as petrolatum. Highly synergistic levels of stability are achieved by combining in said polymer compositions three different stabilizer additives (a), (b) and (c) as follows:A. between about 0.4 and about 1.6% by weight of the tetraester of pentaerythritol with 3(3',5'-ditertiary butyl, 4'-hydroxy phenyl) propionic acid,B. between about 0.1 and about 0.4% by weight of N,N'" diacetyl N',N" adipoyl dihydrazide, andC. between about 0.15 and about 0.