Abstract: A trash-receiving shopping bag device for allowing the user to reuse the plastic bags received while shopping at retail stores. The trash-receiving shopping bag device includes a container having bottom and side walls, and also having an open top; and also includes a lid being hingedly attached to the container; and further includes a handle being attached to the lid; and also includes a plurality of shopping bag support members being attached to the side walls and being spaced above the bottom wall inside the container.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an opening structure of a fuel tank having a fuel tank wall made of plastic layers including at least an outer layer, an inner layer and an intermediate layer, with an opening portion formed to be integral with the fuel tank wall. The opening structure includes a cylindrical portion extended from the fuel tank wall outward thereof to form the opening portion, an overlapping portion extended from an end of the cylindrical portion to enlarge the diameter of the opening portion and bent at a bent portion to form an outer surface parallel with an opening end surface of the opening portion, and a compressed portion with at least a portion of the overlapping portion compressed in a direction perpendicular to the opening end surface of the opening portion.

Abstract: A rake storage system to store a rake adjacent a sand trap of a golf course, and to selectively elevate the rake for use, includes an elongated container to be disposed underground adjacent the sand trap in a substantially vertical orientation. A rake is removably disposed within the elongated container. A mechanical lifting mechanism is disposed in the elongated container to elevate the rake. A releasable retaining mechanism is disposed in the container to retain the rake in the container, and includes a lip formed in the container, and a protrusion disposed on the rake near the distal end adjacent the rake head. The protrusion is engagable with the lip to retain the rake in the container when the rake is disposed in the container. A flange can be formed about the inside of the container. A collar can be disposed around the rake near a distal end adjacent a rake head to engage the flange when the rake is received within the container to substantially close the container below the flange and the collar.

Abstract: An arm mounted transporting tray for food containers which takes the form of essentially a flat base which has a raised lip around its peripheral edge. Within the flat base is located a groove arrangement which will conduct any spilled liquids to an opening formed within the base which will then be deposited within an internal reservoir that is formed within a graspable handle that is mounted on the undersurface of the base. Also mounted on the undersurface of the base is an upper arm engagement which keeps the tray correctly aligned on the user's arm.

Abstract: Adjacent a side wall of a casing, a strap supporting post 49a is formed integrally with and extends form the inner surface of the top panel 41a of the upper casing half 41. The strap supporting post 49a has a screw bore 51 extending from the end face of the projecting end thereof and therethrough deep into the top panel 41a. A reentrant cavity 56 is formed in one side wall of the casing such that the post 49a is positioned generally in the center of the cavity. A metal-made screw 54 is passed through a through-bore in the lower casing half 42 and threaded into the screw bore to fasten the upper casing half 41 and the lower casing half 42 together. A strap is hooked on the post 49a by being inserted into the cavity from one side of the post 49a to wrap around the post and then being pulled out of the cavity from the opposite side of the post.

Abstract: A multiple layer hinged enclosure utilizes two sets of parallel hinge pins to be able to stack as many layers as desired. An outer set of hinge pins is utilized by the cover and an inner set of hinge pins is utilized by intermediate layers to form an offset “shingle”effect.

Abstract: An injected blow molded container for use with a removable lid member is disclosed. The container has a circular base and a sidewall extending from the outer circumference of the base to the upper rim of the container. The upper rim of the container having a tapered lip that both securely attaches the lid member as well as providing for the easy removal of the lid. A method for the manufacture of the injected blow molded container having a tapered lip is also disclosed. In addition a mold assembly to be used in the manufacture of the injection blow molded containers is disclosed. The mold assembly includes a moveable core that engages with an injection mold assembly and a blow mold assembly to form the containers of the invention.

Abstract: Tubular containers can be produced by injection stretch blowmolding processes. Such processes comprise the biaxial stretching of the preform as the preform is being converted into the tubular container. The preform will be stretched longitudinally by means of a stretch rod and laterally by means of the pressure of the blowing gas. The tubular containers produced by these processes will have burst strengths three to five times that of other tubular containers and can be produced in a thin wall collapsible form. Further, the tubular containers can be single chamber containers or multi-chamber containers.

Abstract: A reversible lap top TV tray includes a flexible fabric housing with a rigid tray removably mounted within a depression in the top wall in the housing. The housing is substantially filled with a lightweight flowable granular material, so as to conform the housing to the shape of a support. A cup holder is removably connected through a hole in the tray to permit attachment of the cup holder to either the top or bottom surface of the tray, thereby permitting reversibility of the tray in the housing depression. A generally cylindrical rim portion extending around the depression retains the tray in position within the depression in the housing.

Abstract: In the construction of cylindrical tanks having end domes wherein the domes are attached by stir friction welding, a wagon wheel is placed inside the tank at the interface of the tank cylinder and the dome such that it provides backup support for the pressure exerted by the stir friction welding tool and strengthens the weld area and the tank by being welded into the tank by the stir friction welding process.

Abstract: A collapsible container comprising a peripheral side wall; a closed bottom at a lower end of the peripheral side wall and an opening at an upper end of the peripheral side wall; the peripheral side wall having at least three axial sections, with at least one relatively thin section located axially between upper and lower relatively thick sections; wherein at a transition area between the relatively thin section and at least one of the upper and lower relatively thick sections, the peripheral side wall is shaped to include a sideways oriented, substantially S-shaped cross section.

Abstract: An electrical fixture mounting device for hanging an electrical fixture, such as a fan or light, from a suspended ceiling having a criss-cross framework of perpendicular supporting members supported from an overhead support structure. The device includes a box having a closed top, an open bottom, a continuous side wall, and slots in the side wall extending inwardly from the open bottom and configured to engage the supporting members. A wire is fastened at one end to the box and at its other end to the overhead support structure to suspend the box from the overhead support structure.

Abstract: An electrical box for mounting particularly in hollow walls has claws attached at pull straps. The straps are shiftably guided in the axial direction of the box in guides thereof. Each strap has a serrated toothing which cooperates with a counter toothing at a springy tongue of the guide. The box can thereby be securely mounted by manually pulling the pull straps and thus clamping the claws behind the wall.

Abstract: An end wall for a can body has a central panel (7) surrounded by a conventional expansion ring (8) which is connected to an inner wall (16) of a channel portion by an upwardly extending deformable annulus (17, 18) so that during thermal processing of a closed can having this end wall, the deformable annulus changes shape to permanently increase the container volume. The deformable annulus protects the side wall and ends of the can from excessive pressure so thinner container materials may be used.

Abstract: A skin package wherein an article is enclosed between layers of thermoplastic film joined by heat sealing around the perimeter of the article and including at one side a strip, enclosed between the layers and projecting from them, which is heat sealed to one layer only and is non-adherent or only lightly adherent to the other layer.