Abstract: A condiment container has a base and an upwardly extending sidewall that together define a storage space. The upwardly extending sidewall terminates in a perimeter lip that defines an opening for accessing the storage space. The condiment container also includes an attachment arm extending downwardly from the perimeter lip to a terminal end. A nesting aperture is positioned behind the attachment arm to enable nesting.

Abstract: A serving tray is provided with multiple compartments, each compartment having distinct peripheral walls having a pair of bands of accordion, style pleats separated by a smooth section of wall running the entire perimeter of the walls. The bands of accordion style pleats allow the container to be folded at the pleats to compress the container to provide three volumes which are easily identifiable. The band of accordion style pleats include pleat locks which can be manually activated to prevent the band of accordion style pleats from being compressed.

Abstract: The present invention of an assembled clothes hamper mainly has an entire clothes hamper designed as a hamper body in the shape of a vertical barrel to be assembled by a bottom seat, a top ring as well as a plurality of partition rings; all the said members are fitted with, interlocked and firmly clamped by a pair of vertical side frames to form a clothes hamper to be assembled by a customer and advantageous for detaching every member into a simplest form to facilitate the stacking package, increase the shipment, the storage and the selling.

Abstract: An adjustable underground utility housing with a lid for access from above ground is disclosed and comprises a housing formed with upstanding wall portions defining a cavity having an upper opening to support a lid and a bottom opening. The housing has utility piping inlet and outlet openings through which the piping enters and exits the housing for servicing a facility. The openings each have flexible closures for preventing dirt from entering the openings into the cavity of the housing. The closures are sufficiently flexible for sliding down over the utility piping yet sufficiently resilient to prevent the dirt from entering the housing cavity. The closures can be formed with overlapping horizontally oriented bristles, with a sheet of rubberized material having a centrally located vertical slit, or with this same sheet of rubberized material with the addition of horizontal slits to form reinforced stiffened fingers.

Abstract: The present invention is a container assembly that includes an inner tube formed from a plastic that is substantially inert to bodily fluids and an outer tube that is formed from a different plastic. Collectively, the container assembly is useful for providing an effective barrier against gas and water permeability in the assembly and for extending the shelf-life of the container assembly, especially when used for blood collection. The outer surface of the inner tube and/or the inner surface of the outer tube are provided with a matte finish that forms an array of peaks and valleys. The valleys form circuitous paths that accommodate a flow of air to facilitate insertion of the inner tube into the outer tube. The circuitous paths also allow air to vent during processing to low pressure.

Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a collapsible container (10) comprising a base panel (11); opposed side wall panels (13) and opposed end wall panels (12), the side wall panels (13) and end wall panels (12) being movable to an upright position relative to the base panel (11) so as to define corner zones at their junctions; and corner posts (25) releasably connecting adjacent side wall panels (13) and end wall panels (12) where they adjoin one another in the upright position, each corner post (25) having connecting formations (26, 28) for receiving and connecting the side wall panels (13) and end wall panels (12) thereto. The invention also extends to corner post (25) suitable for a container (10) formed of sheet material so as to define corner zones at a junction between side wall panels (13) and end wall panels (12) of the container (10); to a blank of sheet material for a collapsible container (10); and to a method of erecting a collapsible container (10).

Abstract: A liquid storage container that includes a body, a neck, and a neck opening in which the center axis of the neck may be oriented at a substantially vertical angle. The container includes a bottom wall that supports the container in a first substantially horizontal position and a front wall that adjoins the bottom wall and slopes upward at an obtuse angle from this bottom wall. This obtuse angle allows complementary angular rotation, i.e., tilting, of the front wall of the container beyond the obtuse angle, to a second substantially horizontal position in which the front wall supports the container. This rotation results in the center axis of the neck tilting from a substantially vertical angle to an oblique angle to provide variable angles of access to liquids stored therein using liquid transfer devices.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a tank formed by a partially cylindrical body extended by a cylindrical part of smaller section by the intermediary of a tapering junction section, with a reinforcement ring located at the junction between at least one of the cylindrical parts and the tapering part, the ring having a machined interior surface to correspond over half of its width with the form of the exterior surface of the end of the cylindrical part and over the other half of its width with the form of the exterior surface of the end of the tapering part.

Abstract: A removable handle for use with a cooking implement, including a grip portion with a top surface, a bottom surface, a front end, and a back end. A support post wire with a first support post end and a second support post end, the first and said second support post ends being parallel, is securely attached to the grip portion. A lock wire with a hook end and an anchor end is securely attached to the grip portion. A button is disposed in the grip portion, the button being arranged and configured to deflect the hook end downwardly. The first and the second support post ends are arranged and configured for insertion into a pair of support recesses disposed on the cooking implement, and the hook end is arranged and configured to engage a portion of the cooking implement.

Abstract: A can end is provided that has a three part chuck wall. The first chuck wall has an angle of 20 degrees to 35 degrees as measured from an axis perpendicular to the can end. The second chuck wall has an angle of 4 degrees to 27 degrees as measured from the axis. The third chuck wall has an angle of 18 degrees to 32 degrees as measured from the axis. Tooling adapted to manufacture the can end is also provided. Additionally, a seaming chuck is provided that has a recess that is adapted to avoid contact with radii of curvature along the chuck wall during seaming of the can end to a can body.

Abstract: A vacuum-release waste receptacle designed to prevent vacuum adherence of a plastic liner disposed within the present receptacle upon removal of the liner. The present invention provides a waste receptacle including a plurality of air baffles formed on the inner sidewalls of the receptacle and projecting inwardly into the interior space of the receptacle and to its bottom wall. The air baffles are fabricated to a predetermined dimension, which is calculated to provide an indentation of sufficient depth in the filled plastic liner to create air conduits between the plastic liner, the air baffles, and the inner surface of the receptacle. The air conduits permit the ingress of atmospheric air into the receptacle providing for vacuum-release of the plastic liner upon its removal. Various alternative embodiments of the present waste receptacle are disclosed featuring different configurations of the air baffles.

Abstract: A collapsible container such as a drinking cup has a disk-shaped bottom and a disk-shaped cover which fit one within the other and engage by catches. A molded inner cup body has its base connected to the bottom and a mouth surrounded with a ring which seals to the cover and springs up from the bottom to erect the cup when the catches are released.

Abstract: A device for the hanging of screw-top bottles and tubes such as shampoo bottles and toothpaste tubes on a shower curtain rod, towel rod, storage rack, toothbrush rack or any other bar, rail or line. The device has threads on its bottom or lower section that screw to the top or neck of a shampoo bottle or tube and threads on its top or upper section that screw into the cap of the bottle or tube. The device also contains a hanger that hangs it over a rod or bar. The device allows bottles and tubes to be stored out of the way while still allowing for easy and safe access to the stored bottles and tubes.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a tube case having first and second sections wherein the open ends of the two sections can be slid together to provide a carrying case for elongated items, such as fishing rods, rifles, golf clubs, golf bags and the like. One section is smaller in cross-section than the other such that the closed end of that section can be inserted into the open end of the other section to provide a more compact assembly for storage and shipment. The sections of the tube case are designed so that a portion or an edge at the open end of the outer case abuts a shoulder on a latch plate or bracket on the other case to both provide a stop when the open ends of the two sections are placed together for carrying an article, and further to properly orient the ends of the two sections so that latches can be readily and simply engaged and latched to lock together the two sections.

Abstract: A holder is provided having a receptacle which is suitably sized and arranged for slidably receiving a cylindrical beverage can therein. A handle is coupled to the receptacle to extend generally in a longitudinal direction of the receptacle spaced radially outwardly from the receptacle. A lock mechanism on the receptacle is arranged to restrict both rotation and sliding movement in a longitudinal direction of the receptacle of the cylindrical beverage can in relation to the receptacle.

Abstract: A brake oil extractor includes a bottom base, oil storing tank and a cover. The bottom base is secured on a stationary object by bolts. The oil-storing tank has its polygonal wall correspondingly fitted in the polygonal engage groove of the bottom base. Thus, the cover can conveniently be turned open and separated from the oil storing tank for pouring out the brake oil inside the oil storing tank, able to avoid the brake oil leaking out or splashing over a user because of improperly holding the oil storing tank when turning open the cover.

Abstract: A modular combat load system which is man-portable, light weight and easily moved from one location to another and which allows the military to supply troops with mission critical consumable supplies, such as drinking water, in a combat environment. The system has sixteen modular combat load units stacked on a pallet. The modular combat load system may be a disposable modular combat load unit which includes a mission requirements unit load container designed to hold a plurality of individual disposable combat modular storage units of varying size. Each individual storage unit may be used for storage and transport of food, water, medical supplies, ammunition and other consumables used by military troops in a combat zone.

Abstract: A portable repository for discarded smoking products and incidental trash consisting of a hollow body having a closed upper surface and a pivotable bottom member providing a variable degree of closure for the lower surface, the bottom member normally providing a recessed cavity. An aperture is provided near the upper end to access the cavity for trash deposit having an appended ledge for butt snuffing and perforations in the sidewall for tying the repository to a support post.

Abstract: A cutting and fillet board with drain is adapted for removable attachment to a conventional IGLOO® ice chest cooler and other similar ice chest coolers. The cutting and fillet board has a planar, generally rectangular board member fabricated of a high-density polymer and includes a raised peripheral wall. The board member has a generally smooth filleting surface designed for use during cutting, cleaning, and filleting fish. An attachment means facilitates removable attachment of the board member to an upper surface of an ice chest cooler top. A pair of drainage portals facilitate drainage from the filleting surface, while drain plugs serve to prevent drainage onto the ice chest cooler top. A cutting instrument retention means provides for temporary storage of a desired cutting instrument.

Abstract: A flexible container for the transportation of fluids having means to keep the container in a sufficiently rigid shape that it can be moved and handled using conventional techniques until empty at which time the container can be collapsed for ease of shipment and storage.