Abstract: A device for displaying a pair of articles such as gloves having a sleeve with a front, a back, and sides connecting the front and back to form an opening therein. The back has an upwardly extending top portion with stepped side edges and a clamp receiving opening. A pair of articles engage the sleeve, one extending through the opening of the sleeve and the other article disposed outside the sleeve and adjacent the other article. Means engage the back top portion and the pair of articles and maintain the sleeve and pair of articles in a displayed condition.

Abstract: A base structure for a hot-fill plastic container provides the container with enhanced structural integrity. The base structure uses a series of vertically staggered circumferential ribs interrupted by radial lugs. The disclosed base structure enables the container to withstand the various forces encountered in filling, cooling, and handling.

Abstract: A corrugated board package formed from a blank of a kind having a single component to define a base, sides and top. The blank has a substantially square or rectangular base portion limited by fold lines and/or cuts or cutouts and four separate peripheral portions. The peripheral portions include an opposed pair of the peripheral portions being foldable to create first opposed side walls and subsequent to assembly being further folded to provide at least part of the top of the package, those portions of the peripheral portion to form the opposed side walls being extended at one end in a direction parallel to the fold line and/or cut or cutout connection to the base portion to define a flap which, either in a folded or unfolded condition, can be folded at right angles from the side wall to assume a position as part of the structure of an end wall normal to each opposed side wall with a projection or projections formed by part of the flap, whether a fold created periphery or otherwise, directed upwardly.

Abstract: An openable and closeable soft-sided luggage case having an external flexible panel, an internal frame structure surrounding an internal cavity, and a carrying handle or a carrying strap connected to the frame structure, includes a first packing compartment which is connected to the external panel. The first packing compartment extends into the interior cavity and consumes a portion of the interior cavity when the case is closed. The remaining portion of the interior cavity forms a second packing compartment. The first packing compartment includes a cover member which is selectively closeable for separating the first and second packing compartments when the case is closed and which is selectively openable for allowing access to the first packing compartment when the case is opened. The first and second packing compartments are equally accessible and available for packing. The first packing compartment may function as a garment bag. A packing and unpacking method is also used for the case.

Abstract: A lightweight plastics bottle (1) having a body wall of substantially constant wall thickness and having a plurality of depressed zones (7) having a floor portion (12) spaced inwardly of and parallel to the general plane of the body wall. The depressed zones (12) are arranged in a series of horizontal rows characterised in that the body is non-cylindrical having a number of body panels and that each of said depressed zones (12) has at least one long dimension (9) lying in a direction which is not parallel to the longitudinal axis (10) of the bottle.

Abstract: An infant feeding bottle that is nipple-equipped at one end that is further equipped with a pressure equalizing apertured diaphragm member at the opposite end. The diaphragm member allows room air to pass therethrough into the air space in the bottle when the bottle is inclined and liquid is withdrawn through the nipple, thereby equalizing the interior air pressure. The diaphragm member is gas and liquid tight when the inside and outside pressures are equal and the bottle is in an upright configuration with the feeding liquid resting on the diaphragm member. The diaphragm member has a central portion which is dome configured and provided with apertures that are in a sealed shut configuration when the diaphragm member is relaxed yet that are opened when the diaphragm member is expanded responsive to differential air pressure.

Abstract: In a packet containing a plurality of dual tab merchandising bags, each bag includes a front panel, a rear panel, each side of said bag between the front and rear panels including, a front gusset folded from the front panel, a rear gusset folded from the rear panel, the front and rear gussets joined at a common gusset fold to form an endless tube of bag material around the periphery of said bag. The bags are sealed and severed at the bottom and open and severed at the top, and collapsed and folded one on another so that said gusset sides are folded upon themselves and collapsed under and between the bag front and rear panels. Handle holes are provided centrally of said front and rear panels adjacent said open top of the bag. Tabs are adjacent the sides of the bags at the top of the bag, the tabs having a first portion overlying the gussets and a second portion overlying the central portion of the bag between the gussets, these tabs fused together to form said packet of bags.

Abstract: A container has partitions that are formed from panels that are connected to the sidewall of the container. These panels have a reduced length relative to the length of the container. The shortcoming allows for a space for the heads of golf clubs to be shipped in the container. The sidewalls are formed by four panels that interlock with one another to form a rigid sidewalls. The copntents are easily loaded form the top of the container when the top panel is open.

Abstract: A carton has a pour spout located at the edge of two side walls. The spout is formed by two cut lines which extend from the edge into each of the side walls. The spout also consists of four folds lines which cooperate to allow the spout to flex outwardly when opened. The fold lines extend from the edge at positions above and below the cut lines and arc into the sidewalls to a junction with the cut lines.

Abstract: A collapsible or foldable container formed by sheet material comprising at least a bottom (15), a first pair of opposite side walls (12) (14) and a second pair of opposite side walls (11) (13). The bottom (15) and the second pair of side walls (11) (13) are respectively provided with folding guider means along their middle lines (42) (29) (32) which are coplanar. Also the two legs of two respective isosceles triangles defined by two isosceles triangular zones at the lower part of the two side walls (11) (13) are also provided with folding guider means. Thus the container can be easily collapsed into a planar structure to facilitate its carrying, storage, transport or disposal.

Abstract: A container mainly intended for the containment and transport of liquids, free flowing materials, and the like. The container includes a fiberboard container body, a top fiberboard pad, a lifting sling, and a liner bag. The container body includes top and bottom closures and side walls. The lifting sling includes a sling body and a plurality of lifting straps. The sling body is located inside the container body and the lifting straps extend through gabled corner apertures in the top closure. The liner bag fits inside the sling body, contains the flowable materials, and is removably attachable to a top pad of the top closure. The lifting sling arrangement permits the containers to be individually lifted by fork lift trucks and other standard material handling equipment. The bottom closure includes is self-locking and includes four panels.

Abstract: A fuel tank cover to temporarily cover the top and sides of the fuel tank of a motorcycle. The fuel tank cover has an upper panel that is solid and intended to cover the entire upper portion of the fuel tank. Two side panels are adapted to snugly cover the sides of the fuel tank and a forward panel member is adapted to cover the forward portion of the fuel tank.

Abstract: A foldable packaging container which is cut from a web of material, in particular a sheet of cardboard, has a bottom panel (14) and transverse and end walls (18, 16) which extend therefrom and which are separated therefrom by bend lines (24, 26) or the like weakening lines. The transverse and end walls are folded up at an angle relative to the bottom panel (14) to form a frame means surrounding same, for a receiving space (36), wherein each two transverse walls (18) of respective adjacent packaging containers, as part of the web of material, are separated by a bending line (22).

Abstract: There is disclosed an anti-cat protective or deterrent device for vehicles, the device comprising a flexible mat, which may be made of rubber, neoprene, leather, plastic or any other flexible material, having an upper surface and a lower surface, and a number of small elements attached in a closely-spaced relationship to the upper surface of the mat so as to project outwardly therefrom. Elastic cords are provided for detachably attaching the mat to a desired vehicle surface from which cats (and other small animals) are to be deterred from sleeping. The elements projecting from the mat may be in the shape of an inverted cone or a short cylinder. The elements are spaced apart from one another on the upper surface of the mat from about one-half inch to about one inch, center to center and project outwardly from said upper surface of said mat by between about one-half inch and about one inch. In an embodiment, the device is edge-contoured to fit onto a conventional motorcycle seat.

Abstract: The invention provides a self-standing blow molded two liter carbonated beverage bottle 1 weighing under 50 grams and having a unique petaloid base 7. The base comprises a petaloid design which has a plurality of at least three (preferably five) feet 9. Between each adjacent pair of feet is a radially extending valley 12 the width of which decreases with increasing radial distance from the bottles longitudinal axis toward a point of convergence 14 radially outside the bottle's diameter. The valley floor generally follows the hemispherical base shape and opens to an extended portion 13 of that base shape lying radially outwardly of the feet. The valley and extended portion initial pressurization of the bottle, deformation of the extended portions outwardly with a resulting raising of the center of the base away from the support surface.

Abstract: A retractable luggage handle mounting hardware including a top mounting frame, a sleeve holder and a bottom mounting frame respectively fastened to a luggage on the inside to hold a retractable handle, wherein the luggage has an opening on the top panel thereof aligned with the top mounting frame, and a cover flap fastened to the top panel by a zip fastener to close the opening of the top panel permitting the hand grip to be concealed inside the luggage when the retractable handle is collapsed.

Abstract: A carton for containers such as cans or bottles includes a top wall, pair of side walls and a bottom wall interconnected to form a tubular structure. End closure structure includes an end flap connected to each end edge of the top wall. A handle aperture is defined in the top wall and positioned thereon generally centrally of the top wall. A handle reinforcing structure includes a pair of end portions, one of the end portions connected along a side edge of each of the end flaps and extending to the top edge thereof, and a central portion connected to each of the end portions and extending therebetween. The central portion is secured in overlapping relationship to the top wall and positioned thereon to be substantially adjacent to a portion of the handle aperture.

Abstract: A golf bag comprised of a frame and a fabric body carried by the frame in a taut disposition thereon. The frame includes an upper annular support member, a lower support member forming the bottom of the golf bag and a plurality of flexible and resilient stays extending between the upper and lower support members in a flexed disposition so as to continuously urge the upper and lower support members axially apart and maintain the fabric body in tension therebetween. The flexible and resilient stays also provide the golf bag with a flexible side support which is comfortable against the body of a person carrying the bag and allows the bag to undergo abuse without the fabric body of the bag losing its shape.

Abstract: A container is provided which includes a tubular-shaped body member and a generally cup-shaped end member positioned within the body member and wherein the body member includes a generally inwardly-curled U-shaped cross-sectional configured end which receives an outwardly extending flange portion of the cup-shaped end member. The end member and the body member of the container include barrier liner layers wherein barrier liner layer of the tubular body member is positioned on the inside thereof and the barrier liner layer of the cup-shaped end member is positioned on the inside of the cup-shaped member so that these barrier liner layers are in face-to-face position on the inside of the cup-shaped end member. A bond is created between these face-to-face positioned barrier liner layers only to cooperate therewith to seal the one end of the container against leakage.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for a unique new cover for the upper portion of a vehicle including the roof and all windshields. The cover is comprised of a top portion that lays flat along the roof of a vehicle, a front and back panel that drape over the respective windshields and two side panels that are attached to the front, back and top panels. Connected to the side panels are fastening devices that allow the cover to adjust to vehicles of many different sizes. Cords stretch from the either the front, the back, or all four edges of the side panels to attatch to the under-side of the wheel wells by means of a hook or other fastening device. A belt is attached to each corner of each side panel. Each belt moves toward the center of the vehicle through a series of loops on the side panel. The two belts on each side meet and are fastened together at approximately mid-vehicle, pulling the cover down to snugly fit the contour of a particular vehicle.