Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing unconfined flat coiled strips, mults of which have been stacked in coaxial alignment. The mults form an enlarged cluster coil and in some cases the mults are severably attached to one another. Strip dispensing is effected successively from one coil at a time by means of a turntable upon which the coiled mults are set and associated accessory gear, including supportive coactively mounted coiled snubber and clamping coils, gate and dancer rolls with associated speed control and a pay-out basket assembly, adapted to rotate the dispensed strip to a desired plane. The invention is characterized by eye to the sky dispensing of strips from coils which, aside from the stacking, are otherwise unconfined. In a refined form wherein mutliple mults are attached to one another, the strip is peeled from a given mult by a peeling-blade which is associated with the snubber roller.

Abstract: An end cap for a paper board reel of unitary construction which is designed to be applied in an economical manner by production machinery and provides a smooth arcuate surface which avoids injury to cloth to be wound thereon.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for applying an end cap to a cloth board reel automatically. The end cap has a front wall and a pair of side walls. One of the side walls is provided with an extension at each end which wraps around the longitudinal ends of the reel. The machine applies the long side wall to the reel, folds over the front wall, and wraps the extensions of the side wall around the longitudinal edges of the reel. The remaining side wall is then folded over the broad side of the reel and the extensions which have been wrapped around.

Abstract: A molded container provided for use in the storage and shipping of such items as film or videotape cassettes. The container locates the cassette so that the walls of the cassette are isolated against shocks occurring to the container. The container provides mounts for releasably securing end and mailing labels to the container and includes openings for carrying the container.

Abstract: An end cap for a paperboard reel upon which cloth is to be wound which has its corners rounded instead of sharp so as not to injure cloth with which the reel might come in contact.

Abstract: Each top cover of carrying and shipping containers designed for nested stacking has a first locking means for securing the cover to the container bottom. A second locking means for connecting each locked container to a similar underlying container positioned in stacked relation is located within the structure of a male component of the first locking means which is mounted in the container cover. Structures of both locking means are provided for rotary and linear sliding modes of operation. The second locking means include cam collars having upper and lower chambers, the latter housing followers which, when actuated by a finger manipulatable means accessible from the top of the containers, project and lock into the upper chambers of similar cam collars of underlying containers.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming diagonally corrugated paperboard having a longitudinally elongated frame upon which is laterally mounted at least one corrugating unit. Each corrugating unit consists of a conveyor mechanism having a continuous loop belt with parallel grooves formed in its outer surface and a mechanism to force the web of paper being passed through the corrugating unit down into the grooves of the continuous loop belt. The parallel grooves in the outer surface of the continuous loop belt are oriented diagonally with respect to the direction of travel of the conveyor mechanism. The mechanism to force the web of paper down into the grooves of the belt comprises a plurality of rods that extend in a corresponding diagonal direction across the width of the belt and whose opposite ends are not secured to any structure but which are floatingly carried around a closed loop path structure.

Abstract: An electromagnetically actuated clutch or the like having a helical spring disposed about the surface of a relatively rotatable drum, and an electromagnet with a fixed annular pole piece closely adjacent the free end coil of the spring. The spring is induced to grip the drum surface by the action of magnetic flux passing from the drum to the spring and thence directly to the polepiece.