Abstract: An improved container, particularly useful for containing plants, seeds, or seedlings in soil for shipment, is formed of a blank which when unassembled is in a generally planar configuration. A plurality of hinge lines formed in the blank divide the blank into a minimum of three parts and enable the member to be folded into a configuration having a generally U-shaped cross-section. The hinge lines consist of lines of weakness interposed with cut-out tabs which break away from the center section of the blank when it is folded to form feet for the container. A plurality of indentations formed in the blank meet when the blank is folded to divide the container into a plurality of discreet compartments. Opposite side edges of the blank can be continued and folded from hinge lines thereat to form lids for the compartments.

Abstract: A one-piece paperboard blank for erection into a display carton capable of supporting an article, such as an inflatable basketball, football, etc., in a manner that opposed surfaces of the article are exposed includes solid top, bottom, and side panels, while the back panel is defined by specially curved portions articulated to the top and bottom panels, and lock panels articulated to the side panels, with the lock panels and the curved panels being interconnected by intermediate articulated webbed corners. The open front panel includes a top concavely curved front portion which is articulated to the top panel, as well as to articulated pairs of cushion flaps, extending from said first and second side panels. Another pair of articulated cushion flaps secured respectively to the first and second side panels cooperates with lower foldable front portions so as to provide a peripheral support for the article.

Abstract: Pallet supporting an array of articles which are vertically enveloped by at least two substantially superimposed tensioned wraps of a flexible cling film web and to a method of enveloping said array of palletized articles.

Abstract: A plastic film bag for the aseptic packaging of food products in puree form for storage prior to use in a canning process. The bag is formed from a section cut from a roll of plastic film in the form of a continuous cylinder. The cylindrical section is flattened to form a generally rectangular envelope having two faces bounded by two closed edges and two open edges. One of the open edges is sealed to form a bottom seam and the other is folded over and sealed to one face of the envelope in such a way as to form two side entry pockets of triangular shape extending along the upper edge of the bag toward the vertical centerline. A filling aperture is cut in the upper edge midway between the pockets. During the packaging operation a hanger dowel is inserted into each pocket from the side to suspendably support the bag during automatic handling steps including filling, sealing, heat sterilization and cooling. The bag is filled with hot puree through the opening and then hermetically sealed.

Abstract: Cartons for packaging and mailing books and the like include parallel major and minor walls which are foldably interconnected to form a tubular structure and a closure and protecting structure for each end of the tubular structure including end flaps which are folded to form triangularly shaped air cushions, and, in a modification, a trapezoidally shaped air cushion. The end flaps are provided with locking tabs which engage corresponding notches in the top surface of one of the major walls in order to form the air cushions.

Abstract: A one-piece folded suture package for a plurality of single or double-armed sutures comprising a front panel, a back panel and two inner panels. The sutures are individually mounted on the two inner panels with the needles at one end and the suture strand extending therefrom over the length of the panel and secured near the other end of the panel. The panels are offset in a vertical direction to expose the upper end of both inner panels and display the needles in two horizontal tiers. The sutures are removable from the package by grasping the needles and withdrawing the suture strand from between the panels of the package. The package is optionally provided with a cover flap to cover the needle display area and integral locking means to secure the package in its folded construction.

Abstract: A dispensing and packaging system for pellets such as ampules or vials. The system comprises an elongated resilient plastic tube in which the pellets are arranged in a line. The tube is of slightly smaller inner diameter than the pellets; and it is slit along its length so that it expands circumferentially to accomodate the pellets. The plastic material of the tube is sufficiently flexible and resilient at room temperatures to neck down in regions between adjacent pellets or in regions of the pellets which are of small diameter. This necking down provides restraint against axial movement of the pellets to hold them securely in the tube while allowing them to be dispensed individually with a minimum of difficulty.

Abstract: A wider and a narrower surface and back half-cut lines are provided adjacent to each other on a wall of a closed carton or container. Carton layers are separated from each other at the surface and back half-cut lines to thereby open the container. When the container is in a closed state, there is no perforated point passing all the way through the wall from the surface to the back or vice versa. Thus, moisture from the outside is prevented from passing into the inside of the container, and yet it is very easy to open the container.

Abstract: A display device, particularly for small valuable articles such as pre-recorded tape cassettes, comprising two open ended transparent and/or apertured container parts which are movable relative to each other. The open ends of the container parts can be brought together to prevent removal of articles from the parts through the open ends, and the ends can be moved apart to permit insertion of articles into the parts. A lock is provided for locking the container parts together when their open ends have been brought together.

Abstract: A bag formed of heat-sealable material and having a strap attached so as to extend substantially across one side dimension with means for forming apertures to project the strap through the bag side walls to close the bag and provide a carrying handle. Disclosed embodiments include bottom loading and top loading versions of the improved bag as well as preferred constructions of the strap and the means for projecting the strap through the bag sidewalls. The bag can be used as a container for marketing goods in a sealed condition and, when open, can be reclosed by means of the strap resulting in a handy receptacle for a wide variety of uses.

Abstract: An easy-open composite container is disclosed having an unbonded helical butt joint that extends the length of the container, characterized by the provision of an impervious inner liner layer having a helical folded portion which is coextensive with and extends the length of the unbonded butt joint. A peelable outer reinforcing or wrapper layer bonded to the outer surface of the fibrous body wall layer normally holds the edges of the butt joint together. Upon removal of the outer reinforcing layer, the ends of the container may be twisted in opposite directions to open the unbonded butt joint and to expand and rupture the inner liner layer folded portion. In the case where products under pressure, such as refrigerated dough products, are packaged in the container, upon removal of the outer reinforcing layer, the products expand to automatically open the butt joint and to expand and rupture the inner liner folded portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding and storing a paint brush. A variety of embodiments include a box assembly having a V-shaped interior wall to complementarily receive the bristled end of a paint brush. The box assembly includes an opening through which the handle of the paint brush projects. In one embodiment, the box assembly includes an inner box slidably mounted within an outer box. The V-shaped wall is an insert which is positionable within the inner box along with the paint brush. Slots in both boxes allow the paint brush handle to project externally of the assembly. Flanges on the insert limit relative movement of the paint brush and insert relative to the boxes. In another embodiment, the insert is centered in a V-shaped groove provided on a cap mountable to a box. In another embodiment, the insert is positionable within a box having the hinged lid with a V-shaped groove provided thereon to center the insert.

Abstract: A cellular structure for use in cartons having first and second parallel wall sections which are movable longitudinally relative to each other and away from each other during erection of the structure, outer dividers flaps cut from and hinged to the wall sections and extending longitudinally thereof and swingable outwardly therefrom, and inner flaps cut from the wall sections connected to and extending away from the outer flaps, opposed inner flaps being connected to each other so as to swing inwardly and cause the outer flaps connected thereto to swing outwardly when said wall sections are moved longitudinally relative to each other to form cells at the wall sections.

Abstract: A paperboard bulk material container has a separate flap secured by glue, staples and the like to short flaps integral with wall panels of the container on one or both of the bottom and top ends of the container.

Abstract: A cross-bottom bag having one end closed by fold portions of the bag which are tucked and folded over to close said one end, a cover sheet adhesively secured to the tucked and folded portions, a heat-meltable material provided on said tucked and folded portions before they are folded over and a heat-meltable material provided on said cover sheet in contact with the heat-meltable material provided on the corner tucks in the region between diagonal fold edges of the fold portions.

Abstract: A multi-compartment envelope which is resistant to tearing includes a first sheet folded along a medial line to define a front and back panel and a second sheet whose margins are adhesively secured to the interior surface of the front panel. A slot in the front panel permits access to the pocket formed by said front panel and the second sheet adhered thereto while a second pocket is formed in the envelope by adhesively securing lateral flaps on the back panel to the front surface of the front panel thereby providing a reinforced construction.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a storage cell assembly for magnetic tape cartridges. Modular storage cells are joined into a storage cell assembly that can accommodate a plurality of cartridges in either a linear or circular array. The storage cell assembly provides rapid retrieval of audio signals, such as recorded music, computer data and announcements. Each storage cell case is three-sided, having a panel and integral opposed sidewalls. A flexible release finger extends downwardly from one sidewall to the level of the other sidewall. An end cover panel is positioned adjacent the last one of the individual storage cells and aligned retaining flanges on the sidewalls and the edges of the end cover panel define guide recesses. Retainer members are positioned in the guide recesses to hold the components in an assembled relationship. In one embodiment, a locking member is positioned adjacent the retainer member and cemented therewith to provide a unitary storage cell assembly.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an easy opening package including a carton body having a bottom panel and four upstanding side panels terminating in free terminal upper edges and the cover including a top panel and four depending side panels, a tear strip formed in one cover side panel dividing the latter into upper and lower panel portions, and a carton body side wall underlying the one cover side wall including a pair of spaced weakening lines whereby upon removal of the tear strip the one carton body side panel can be opened by rupturing along the weakening lines to gain access to a product adapted to be packaged within the package.

Abstract: A generally rectangular carton for protectively enclosing a light bulb, or other fragile article including apertured partitions spaced from opposite sides of the carton for receiving and retaining the opposite sides of the bulb. Flaps adjacent the apertures extending between the sides of the bulb and the sides of the carton help to protect the bulb and to retain it in the carton.

Abstract: Hermetically sealed package for photographic sheet materials provided with one or two tearstrips which extend at the end of the package in the form of a loop. In order to facilitate the opening of the package in the dark a small part of the package is scored in the corners where the tearstrip extends, so that it can easily be torn off whereupon a sufficiently long extremity of the tearstrip is freed to open the package without difficulty.