Abstract: The disclosed carton has opposite front and back walls, a top or end panel hinged to the front wall, and a flap extending downward from the top panel inside the back wall. A tongue in the back wall is defined by side cuts and an end cut. A hang-up tab extends from the top-panel flap at a reverse bend, extending through said end cut and upward. A locking portion of the hang-up tab is wider than the tongue, thus having locking extremities. When the tab is initially shifted from inside the back wall downward through the end cut, its locking portion is disposed partly outside the tongue but the locking extremities are inside the carton. When the hang-up tab is thereafter forcibly swung outward, the locking portion flexes and its extremities emerge and lock the top panel closed. The top panel additionally has detents at the ends of its closing flap.

Abstract: Novel hair rollers have resilient monofilaments formed as detents projecting in pairs from a self-supporting cylinder wall. The detents individually have an upstanding leg and an overhang which projects from the leg to be disposed over an opposite area of the cylinder wall. The pairs of detents have their overhangs extending toward each other and disposed at slant angles to planes perpendicular to the axis of the roller, the legs of each pair being spaced by the combined lengths of their overhangs.

Abstract: The disclosed packages include a merchandise unit needing protection against impact during shipment, especially a stack of articles such as mirrors, firmly contained in a liner that surrounds the merchandise unit. Inward off-sets of the liner block up-and-down sliding and, in the case of plural articles such as mirrors, the off-sets hold the articles together. The edges of the liner and especially the edges of the off-sets support the contents between the walls of a carton.

Abstract: Merchandise display apparatus here includes an upright support and a cantilever arm extending from the support. The arm bears demarcations distributed along its length to provide a measure of the amount of merchandise on the rod and a label at a portion of the arm remote from the support enabling the arm to be related to the merchandise on the arm. The transverse size of the arm all along its length including the demarcations and the label-bearing portion is limited so that the arm can readily enter a conventional opening in merchandise-bearing cards that are to be loaded onto and removed from the arm.

Abstract: Merchandise display apparatus here includes an upright support and a cantilever arm extending from the support. The free end portion 22 of the arm bears demarcations distributed along its length to provide a measure of the amount of merchandise on the rod and a label at a portion of the arm remote from the support enabling the arm to be related to the merchandise on the arm. The transverse size of the arm all along its length including the demarcations and the label-bearing portion is limited so that the arm can readily enter a conventional opening in merchandise-bearing cards that are to be loaded onto and removed from the arm.

Abstract: A carton and blank therefor has a transverse tear-strip and panel areas with adjoining ends flaps adapted to be erected adjacent the tear-strip so as to form carton dividers. When the tear-strip is removed, the dividers form end barriers across separated carton sections. Where the tear-strip provides margins for the carton dividers, the tear-strip and the erected dividers form a carton-stiffening channel.

Abstract: A display pack for the display and sale of an article or articles of mechandise such as a hair brush or comb which exposes a part of the article so that its quality can be tested by a prospective purchaser yet contains the article well enough to make pilfering from the card difficult. In one type of pack an article is held on a backing sheet by two flanged, transparent cover elements mounted by their flanges on the backing sheet and covering opposite ends of the article leaving the part between exposed. In another type of pack a single cover element encloses, for example, the handle of a hair brush, and another part of the article, for example the back of the brush, is held by an opening in the backing sheet. The cover elements can be made in pairs by vacuum forming sheet material with a raised central portion surrounded by a continuous peripheral flange and cutting the elements apart across the raised portion.