Abstract: The invention relates to a box-like container for flat mailings in the upright position, comprising a stack support, which may be removed from the container open at the top, a base, two narrow front face walls and two lateral longitudinal walls. The mailings are arranged with the largest sides thereof facing the front face walls. The inner sides of the lateral longitudinal walls comprise straight long recesses, open to above, arranged at regular intervals perpendicular to the base, which are wider in the longitudinal direction of the lateral longitudinal walls than the slot like openings thereof to the container interior. The stack supports have formed elements at both lateral ends thereof which may only be slid into place in the long recesses perpendicular to the base with a positive fit connection through the slot like opening.

Abstract: A container for gasoline for use in a two-cycle engine has indentations formed on its four sides so that when viewed from any of the four sides it presents the appearance of the Arabic numeral two, indicating that it is for use with two-cycle engine fuel. The container includes a recess in one of its sidewalls for receiving a smaller container for oil for mixing with the gasoline before insertion in the engine. The oil container may be similarly contoured to give the appearance of the Arabic numeral two.

Abstract: A laundry basket includes a bottom wall and a contiguous sidewall extending up from the bottom wall that defines an interior of basket. A first handle is attached to the contiguous sidewall and includes a first grip and a first knuckle guard that is disposed spaced outward from the first grip in a direction away from the interior of the basket. The basket can include a second grip on a wall opposite the first grip and can include a third grip on an elongate wall that is opposite a curved hip hugger basket wall.

Abstract: A hand-held container for paint and painting implements. The body of the paint container includes an internal reservoir for holding paint and a magnet housed within the body for securing a paint brush or the like within the reservoir. An automatically adjusting, flexible handle that includes a living hinges provides a means for holding a person's hand against the exterior of the body. The paint container also includes a body that is dividable into multiple compartments. A textured surface covers a portion of exterior of the handle and the body and creates a non-slip surface useful for gripping the container. A portion of the container is shaped in a manner that allows the container to function as a pitcher for dispensing fluids such as paint. Stabilizing legs formed on or attached to the front portion of the container allow the container to be also be used as a paint tray.

Abstract: Outdoor and indoor debris receptacles that can be formed from molded plastic. The receptacles include an open upper end with a D-shaped configuration and a closed bottom end with a substantially circular bottom configuration. The receptacles can have a generally cylindrical shape and a flat side wall having a triangular tubular shape for allowing the receptacle to be laid on its side so that rakes and brooms can move debris fully into the D-shaped opening with ease. At least one handle located on the apex of the D-shaped opening allows the container to be easily lifted to a vertical standing position, and curved interior wall surfaces allow debris to easily slide toward the bottom of the container. Embodiments allow for different sizes of container, and extras such as lids, wheels and supports for tools. such as but not limited to rakes, hoes, and shovels to be carried and stored by the receptacles.

Abstract: A container system includes interchangeable components to form an enclosed container. A base in the form of a pallet, a sidewall and a cover are assembled to form an enclosed container. The containers include nesting portions on the pallet and cover so that containers may be stacked when assembled and the components may also be stacked when in storage and nest to resist lateral sliding. The sidewalls include a first embodiment with single wall construction and a second embodiment with double wall construction. The walls are a corrugated plastic construction and include spaced apart reinforcing rods extending into the flutes. The double wall sidewall includes an inner wall with vertically extending flutes having reinforcing rods inserted into spaced apart ones of the flutes while the outer wall has horizontally extending flutes with one or more reinforcing rods inserted therein to provide added strength.

Abstract: A one-piece, molded plastic container (10) comprises a base (16) and a circumferential sidewall (20) extending upwardly from the base. The upper end (18) of the sidewall forms an open top of the container which is closed by a lid (19). A bail (14) for lifting and carrying the container is integrally molded with the container body in a mold (100). The ends of the bail attach to bosses (22a, 22b) integrally molded therewith into the container sidewall. The spacing of the bosses is less than 180° in one direction about the circumference of the container, so the container, when lifted by the bail, does not hang vertically. A base section (14b) of the bail has a substantially uniform thickness throughout the length of the bail.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention modules for both the display and transport of books are described. Each module of the one embodiment comprises an interlocking feature for coupling two modules together with an open side of the modules facing horizontally outwardly. The interlocking feature further permits a user to partially rest a upper module on the front portion of the topside of an underlying module to align and steady the potentially heavy upper module before coupling the modules. The one embodiment modules are also configured for being stacked together with the open side of the modules facing upwardly for transport.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transporting and/or storing an especially liquid medium, which comprises a relatively thin-walled plastic inner container (1) that receives the medium and an outer container (4) that encloses the inner container like a trough. At the top, said inner container (1) is provided with a filling opening that is configured as a threaded tube (2), and at the bottom, if required, with a drain opening (3). The outer container (4) consists of a pallet-type support (5) that supports the inner container (1) on its underside and a jacket (6) that adjoins the support (5). The inner container (1) is secured in the outer container (4) by means of a cover plate (8) fastened on the outer container (4).

Abstract: An adapter for use with at least a pair of dispensers, to provide for convenient stacking of a plurality of dispensers one upon the other, one of such adapters being arranged intermediate each pair of vertically stacked decanters, during usage. The adapter includes a series of ribs and flanges, that provide convenient seating and stable support for a variety of the decanters when stacked one upon the other. The adapter includes an aperture approximately centered thereof, through which a beverage may be brewed, into the decanter arranged therebelow, and the adapter being applied to a beverage brewer during usage, as during a beverage brewing cycle. The cap provides for closure of the adapter aperture, to provide the adapter with the attributes of a lid, and to help retain the warmth of any beverage contained within its dispenser upon which the adapter is applied.

Abstract: A plastic lined concrete tank includes a floor, an upright wall having a lower edge adjacent the floor, a plastic wall lining on an interior surface of the wall, and a plastic waterstop structure inhibiting penetration of water between said floor and said lower edge of the wall. The waterstop includes an anchor embedded in the floor and an upper flange which overlaps the lining. A sealed joint is provided between the upper edge of the flange and the lining. The flange and the lining are fused together to form a supporting structure at a position lower on the wall than the sealed joint, whereby outward bending of the flange away from the wall lining at said joint during shifting of the wall relative to the floor is inhibited and outward bending of the flange away from the wall lining at a location remote from said joint during shifting of the wall relative to the floor is promoted. The tank also includes a plastic floor liner and a floor liner attachment member fused to said anchor.

Abstract: A tubular member is releasably mounted on a base and encircles a trash bag that rests on the base. Once the trash bag is filled, the tubular member is released from the base and removed from the filled trash bag. The filled trash bag can then be removed and discarded.

Abstract: Packaging methods and apparatus for bonding a lidding web to a tray web, characterized in that the lidding web is placed under tension in both the longitudinal and lateral directions before being bonded to a tray web. A tray web having recesses and channels that form a conduit when the tray web is overwrapped with a lidding web is provided. A lidding web has microperforations to control the transfer of gases.

Abstract: A container with a container body includes two side panels and two end panels respectively upstanding from the edges of a four-sided base and a two-part lid, which can slide to a container top uncovering position and then pivot to a storage position. A securing device and a second securing device holds each lid part against the underlying top edges of the panels when the lid part is in a container top covering position. A third securing device couples each lid part, when in a storage position, to a side panel. A socket on each side panel is engaged by elements of the first securing device to facilitate pivoting of the lid parts from the container top uncovering position to their storage positions.

Abstract: An improved material packaging system includes a plurality of nested liners removably attached to each other to form a unitary liner structure and a receptacle having a circumferential attachment lip for detachably securing said unitary liner structure to said receptacle. The unitary liner structure has an elastic attachment device for detachably securing the unitary liner structure to the receptacle attachment device by expanding the elastic attachment device circumferentially, fitting the elastic attachment device over the attachment lip and into a position below the attachment lip, and releasing the elastic attachment device to permit the elastic attachment device to compressibly mate with the receptacle below the attachment lip. Each of the liners has a pull grip for gripping the liner to remove the liner from the unitary liner structure and perforations disposed between the pull grip and the elastic attachment device for tearing the liner when a tearing force is applied thereto.

Abstract: What is proposed is an oil container which is suitable for use in optimizing the oil balance of an internal combustion engine or a transmission, particularly an automatic transmission, and which has low weight and can be produced in such a way that adverse effects with respect to the reliability of the overall system are virtually excluded, and a process for producing same. To this end, the oil container is to be designed in such a way that the volume flow capable of entering the oil container through said at least one inlet opening (8) is invariably greater than the volume flow capable of discharging through said at least one outlet opening (12), said oil container being constituted of multiple components using at least two plastic housing components (1, 2, 3), at least two of said plastic housing components being joined to each other by laser welding.

Abstract: A container constructed of parts that are injection molded using a synthetic resin molding technique includes a base, side walls and end walls. The side and end walls are movable between a first position in which the side and end walls are collapsed in the interior of the base and a second position in which the side and end walls are erect for being engaged at the corners by over center latches that are also molded of a synthetic resin material. The latches fit within recessed areas of the side or end walls such that when the latches are in a locked or unlocked position, the latches are contained entirely within a recessed area, which is recessed with respect to the exterior surface of the walls. Thus, when the latches are in the latched or unlatched position, the latches do not project outwardly beyond the exterior surface of the walls.

Abstract: A collapsible container includes a rectangular bottom, a front and a rear rectangular wall pivotally turnably connected to a front and a rear edge, respectively, of the bottom along two folding lines, two rectangular side walls pivotally turnably connected to two lateral ends of each of the front and the rear wall along two folding lines, and two locating flaps pivotally turnably connected to two lateral edges of the bottom along two folding lines. Each of the two locating flaps is an isosceles triangle having two equal lateral sides separately corresponding to a diagonal of the side wall. Moreover, fastening elements are correspondingly provided on an inner surface of each side wall and an outer surface of the locating flap to enable detachable connection of the side walls to the locating flaps and accordingly free collapse and extension of the container.

Abstract: A paint tray comprises a main body member having an interior surface and an exterior surface, and including a bottom floor, a right side wall, a left side wall, a pan end wall, and a reservoir end wall, wherein the right side wall, the left side wall, the pan end wall and the reservoir end wall each extend upwardly from the bottom floor to terminate in an upper edge. A plurality of apertures are disposed in the main body member. In use, tape is adhered to the exterior surface of the main body member at the plurality of apertures. A thin liner is placed onto the main body member at its interior surface so as to adhere to the adhesive surface of the tape at the plurality of apertures.

Abstract: A revolveable laundry hamper for individually storing laundry in a plurality of chambers into which garments and items requiring laundering can be separated according to wash cycle required. The laundry hamper consists of a box-like structure having four side doors with fasteners on each door and the underside of the structure to hold a laundry bag open. The entire structure is mounted on a turntable to be rotated to select the appropriate laundry bag for the item to be washed.