Abstract: An improved package for completely enclosing a bathtub within the package wherein the bathtub is carried by a pair of support members fixed to the insides of the end caps of the invention. Each end cap has formed thereon at least one cushion member which is hingedly attached to the end cap and also has fixedly attached to the end cap the beforementioned support member. Also disclosed is a method for supporting a bathtub on its opposite top end edges within the new and improved package so that the bathtub is suspended on the support member fixed to the end caps thereby providing improved protection from shipping and storage damage.

Abstract: A rack for shipping articles, e.g., automotive windshields has a pair of bottom edge supports pivotally mounted in spaced relation on the base to support the articles on an edge.

Abstract: A cartridge containing the inter-active components of a resin mix such as a polyester, epoxy or polyurethane, comprises tubular flexible containers, each containing an interactive component, the containers being sealed to prevent egress of their contents, the containers lying in side-by-side relation and preferably secured together by an adhesive such as a double sided adhesive tape.

Abstract: A container is disclosed for storing a plurality of elongated objects such as drill bits, screw taps and the like, including a body member, and a plurality of object-storing trays pivotally connected at one end with said body member for pivotal movement about a common pivot axis. The trays are automatically displaced from stacked retracted positions within the body member toward extended positions in which the other ends of the trays extend outwardly from the body member in accordance with the movement of a lid member that is pivotally connected with the body member.

Abstract: An upwardly opening rectangular tray including front, rear and opposite side walls is provided and includes a bottom wall extending between and interconnecting the lower marginal portions of the upstanding walls. The front wall terminates upwardly in a generally horizontally forwardly projecting flange extending therealong and the forward extremity of the flange terminates in an upwardly projecting flange whose upper marginal portion is provided with upwardly opening notches spaced therealong. The front wall of the tray includes forwardly projecting upstanding ribs projecting outwardly therefrom and spaced along the front wall. The ribs project forwardly outwardly beyond the forwardly projecting and upstanding flange and the tray includes a cover movable into position overlying the upper marginal edges of the front, rear and opposite side walls.

Abstract: An improved compact device easily attached by sliding it onto one post of a standard roll-type toilet-tissue holder for positioning a container of a material particularly usable for health care or personal hygiene purposes at that location, e.g., a material such as prewetted or self-wetting sheets, an encapsulated liquid, a pressurized liquid, etc., and holding the container in a given manner pending or during its usage.

Abstract: There is disclosed a technique for forming a pack from a foldable blank consisting of a compound foil for receiving rod-shaped articles, typically cigarettes. The blank encloses the contents of the pack in a tubular manner, and the front ends overlapping at least partially interconnected flaps are folded in such a way that an inner longitudinal end flap rests against the contents of the pack. Two side end flaps are folded on these longitudinal end flaps, and the second outer longitudinal end flaps are folded on the side end flaps and the first inner longitudinal end flaps. The sides of the longitudinal end flaps facing toward each other and the edge region of the inwardly folded side end flaps are connected together in a sealed manner by means of a straight bonded or adhesive strip which extends over the width of the pack in the half portion of the front face facing toward the outer longitudinal end flap.

Abstract: A tape cartridge for semi-permanently housing a removable tape spool rotatably supported in the cartridge by a pair of spring biased dowels that serve as axles for the spool and are associated with and held by a pair of collars that fit in apertures in the end walls of the cartridge.

Abstract: Mixing means comprising a disposable static-type mixer having opposed walls of sheet material secured to one another in a pattern such as to establish a flow path therethrough having a plurality of inlets at one end thereof for entry of the materials to be mixed (e.g., two resins forming a two-part plastic foam), an outlet at the other end thereof for exit of the mixture, and a plurality of flow passages between the inlet and the outlets. The flow passages cross one another at a plurality of intersections between the inlets and the outlet for mixing the materials flowing through the passages to the outlet.

Abstract: A carton is formed of foldable material, such as cardboard, for storing and shipping an appliance, such as a bathtub, which has an upper rim intended to carry a substantial portion of the weight of the appliance, the carton including a vertical column formed of the carton material and having at least one vertical strengthening bend, the column supporting the flange of the appliance from the floor of the carton.

Abstract: Multiple embodiments of a credit card mailer or mailing assembly including an envelope, a carrying member having an adhesive area thereupon for releasably engaging one or more credit cards in order to effectively immobilize the credit cards within the envelope and a wrapping member for enclosing the carrying member and masking the presence of the credit cards within the envelope.

Abstract: A tape cassette hub retainer which may be used with different types of cartons, and which is adapted to engage and restrain the hubs of the cassette from movement during shipment. Small die cut flaps are located in a base panel directly beneath the cassette hubs and are foldable upwardly into a post configuration to engage the internal teeth in the hub of the cassette reels. An overlying support panel is provided having an opening through which the small flaps extend and which has a pair of side restraining flaps to hold the flaps from the base panel in upright position. In an alternate form, the overlying support panel is omitted.

Abstract: A novel adhesive composition for tail control of rolled paper stock, said composition including a modified starch, polyethylene resin and water. The adhesive is applied onto the paper stock so as to form a non-continuous film.

Abstract: A carton and blank for making same are provided wherein such carton has a bottom wall, a pair of oppositely arranged side walls foldably connected to the bottom wall, and a top wall defined by a pair of flaps each foldably connected to an associated side wall. The flaps have integral portions defining at least a triple thickness handle for the carton.

Abstract: A display package for a plurality of articles of like configuration (i.e., flashlight batteries) is provided which is formed from a single blank of foldable sheet material, such as paperboard. The package includes a partition, a sling-like member outwardly protruding from said partition and forming an open-sided pocket in which the articles are disposed. Article-retaining means are foldably connected to the partition and secured thereto in a pocket-closing position. The articles, when disposed within the pocket, are arranged in substantially parallel side-by-side relation.

Abstract: Cardboard support or disposable container consists of a single quadrangular cardboard sheet on which many longitudinal zones are formed by means of predetermined creasing lines; at these lines parallel ribs are formed by folding the cardboard sheet; the sheet is transversely subdivided into three zones, notches of substantially "T" configuration being provided to enable the two end zones to be folded back vertically with respect to the central zone.

Abstract: A tape cassette hub retainer which may be used with different types of cartons, and which is adapted to engage and restrain the hubs of the cassette from movement during shipment. Small die cut flaps are located in a base panel directly beneath the cassette hubs and are foldable upwardly into a post configuration to engage the internal teeth in the hub of the cassette reels. An overlying support panel is provided having an opening through which the small flaps extend and which has a pair of side restraining flaps to hold the flaps from the base panel in upright position. In an alternate form, the overlying support panel is omitted.

Abstract: An adhesive closure for bags, such as sandwich bags for example, comprising an adhesive stripe located adjacent the open mouth portion of the bag. The adhesive stripe is covered until ready for use by the upper portion of the bag's front wall whereby upward displacement of the front wall exposes the adhesive stripe for sealing the upper portion of the bag walls together.

Abstract: A display carton for an article of merchandise is formed from a cut and scored blank of paperboard, or the like, and is characterized by upper and lower paired cells protecting the article, the two cells at each end of the completed carton having cell walls in confronting relationship, so that resistance to crushing of the completed carton and good stacking qualities are provided.

Abstract: A bipartite box as well as a blank for manufacturing the same. The box has an outer tubular guide and an inner container surrounded by the tubular guide and supported and guided for movement by the latter. The tubular guide has one open end and at an opposed end a tear strip which at least initially extends across this opposed end of the tubular guide, the tear strip having opposed edges one of which is connected with a wall of the tubular guide and the other of which is connected with an end wall of the inner container. The blank for the inner container as well as the outer tubular guide consists of a single body of sheet material having the portions which respectively form the inner container and the outer tubular guide interconnected by the tear strip.