Abstract: A device for facilitating the testing of a fluid sample on a test strip includes a housing containing a loading receptacle, a support member, a disposal receptacle, a lancet device and a sensor device. The loading receptacle is adapted to receive the test strip. The support member is adapted to support the test strip. The disposal receptacle is adapted to hold the test strip. The sensor device is adapted to analyze the fluid sample. The device further includes a strip control assembly that is adapted to move the test strip from a first position in the loading receptacle to a second position on the support member, and from the second position to a third position in the disposal receptacle. The device may include a sample door that provides access to the test strip in the second position wherein the test strip is operatively engaged with the sensor device.

Abstract: A display package for ribbon and like materials in which a length of ribbon is wound onto a supporting blank preferably fabricated of paperboard which partially encloses the wound ribbon and partially exposes the ribbon for inspection and evaluation by purchasers.

Abstract: A crochet knitted decorative ribbon is formed of longitudinally alternating integral first and second sections. Throughout the length of the ribbon, there exists a plurality of side-by-side, longitudinally extending continuous warp yarns. Further, throughout the ribbon, a continuous weft yarn interconnects adjacent warps at connecting points defined by chain stitches at alternating intervals. The first sections constitute flat solid pattern sections, with the weft yarns extending sinusoidally across the full width of the ribbon and longitudinally over the full length of the section. In each second section, continuous weft yarn portions interconnect only given sets of at least one warp yarn at connecting points defined by chain stitches at alternating intervals, leaving free longitudinal spaces between respective adjacent strands.

Abstract: A formable, laterally stretchable fabric which retains its shape includes a plurality of laterally spaced longitudinally extending soft, formable metallic wires comprising the warps and a weft pattern of yarns which act to connect adjacent warps at staggered intervals. The knitted fabric is stretchable in the weft direction and the soft wires are caused to bend at or near the weft connecting points, thus holding the fabric in its reformed and/or stretched condition.