Abstract: An E-block shipping comb includes a frame adapted to support an E-block assembly. A guide element of the frame is adapted for positioning the E-block assembly in the frame. A movable latch is movable between first and second positions. In the first position, the E-block assembly is free to be placed into or withdrawn from the frame. In the second position, the E-block assembly is held in position in the frame.

Abstract: A package for carrying and transporting a pizza product or like food article in which a combination device is used both to support a top panel of the package and prevent it from contacting the pizza product and to slice the pizza product at the place of consumption.

Abstract: A storage container for an optical compact disk is described which includes a base tray, a cover and a disk tray. The inventive storage container includes protrusions on an inside portion of the cover for securing large booklets and promotional material. A motion limiting mechanism is formed along an entire length of a portion of the cover near the base tray for limiting the amount of rotation of the cover with respect to the base to approximately 180 degrees. The disk tray is adapted to snap securely into the base tray and includes a hub located in a cylindrical recess for engaging a centralized hole of the compact disk.

Abstract: A versatile, ecological, and economical package including, in one form, plastic inner and outer rings or circular frames, and two recycled paperboard face sheets. The inner and outer rings each have an annular portion and a face portion inwardly extending from opposite ends of the annular portions. Each of the face portions form an opening. The face sheets each have a diameter larger than the diameter of the openings so that the face sheets are retained within the outer and inner rings. The rigid inner and outer rings arid the semi-rigid face sheets collectively provide rigid package faces. Also disclosed are variants in the construction of the rings and holder as well as certain accessory elements. In another form, a holder or package of unitary construction includes two protection sheets, and a side portion at the peripheries of the protection sheets and extending between the protection sheets.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding a disc cartridge. The holding apparatus may be assembled with a plurality of other holding apparatus to form an array for use in a disc display. Discs may be removed from a disc cartridge without removing the cartridge from the array.

Abstract: A tray is provided for supporting electrical connectors of the type having an elongated dielectric housing within which electrical terminals are secured. The housings can vary in length according to the size of the connectors. The tray is adaptable for supporting different sizes of connectors with housings of different lengths. The tray includes a first support for supporting adjacent ends of a plurality of the electrical connectors in a side-by-side array thereof. A second support is movably mounted on the tray to a plurality of different positions spaced from the first support for supporting opposite ends of different sizes of the connectors.

Abstract: This invention relates to a combined minidisc box, especially a kind of combined minidisc box which can be connected with each other with its left, right, top and bottom sides. The combined minidisc box comprising an upper case and a lower case, wherein the lower case having flanges which can be fitted with grooves of the upper case, two sides of the upper case having respectively a continuous interval dovetails and dovetail slots. Each dovetail and dovetail slots of one side being faced to each dovetail slots and dovetail of the other side, at the top of the upper case having fitting holes and the bottom having fitting posts. The two continuous interval dovetails and dovetail slots of the combined minidisc box can be fitted and connected respectively with continuous interval dovetail slots and dovetails of other combined minidisc boxes.

Abstract: A package for cigarettes comprising an outer housing and a partitioned pouch fitted into the outer housing so that the front wall of the housing the bottom of the housing and spaced apart end walls of the housing form a forst compartment in which cigarettes are placed and means to releasably seal said first compartment and with the rear wall, bottom and end walls of the outer housing forming a second releasably sealed compartment to receive articles placed therein for storage.

Abstract: A beverage container is disclosed herein. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a housing having an open bottom. The open bottom includes a front face, and the front face has an edge defining the open bottom. A handle is connected to the cover for lifting and lowering. An aperture is located on the front face for protrusion of a spout of a beverage container. The front face of the cover may have include a decorative panel, including or a decorative attachment. The housing may also have a coolant pack placed inside for thermal insulation. A method of placing the beverage container cover of the present invention over a wine container including a spout is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A lighttight package for rolled light-sensitive material includes a core, light-impervious flanges at opposite ends of the core, a roll of the light-sensitive material wound on the core between the flanges, and a light-shielding circumferential wrapper enclosing the roll. The flanges each have a circumferential groove extending radially inwardly from the periphery thereof into which the axial margins of the wrapper are folded radially inwardly and inserted and retained, preferably by a clamping action. The groove is defined between opposed wall sections of the flange and at least one of the wall section can be relatively flexible to facilitate insertion of the wrapper margin therein. The inner termination of the wrapper margin within the groove can be re-entrantly bent and a cord or string can be laid within the re-entrant bend to provide greater security against premature withdrawal of the wrapper margins from the groove.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a plastic holder assembly for loosely holding a plurality of microtiter sample tubes, which includes a tray having a plurality of holes for receiving the tubes and having opposite vertical end walls, each of which have two spaced vertically extending slots and a horizontally extending recess between the slots; a retainer releasably nestable in the tray having a corresponding plurality of holes and having opposite vertical end walls corresponding to the end walls of the tray; a U-shaped handle extending horizontally outwardly from each of the opposite retainer end walls, each handle having two legs which slide into the tray slots respectively when the retainer is nested in the tray; a tab projecting horizontally outwardly from each of the retainer end walls between each of the two legs which snap into the tray end wall recesses respectively when the retainer is nested in the tray, the retainer having an elongated slot parallel and directly adjacent each of the end walls, whereby i

Abstract: A tool box has a bottom portion, a pair of side portions, a back portion, a front portion, and a cover rotatably mounted adjacent the back portion. The cover has a horizontal section and a slanted section sloping downwardly from the horizontal section. A partition plate is positioned in the interior of the tool box and has a row of pegs extending upwardly from the top of the partition plate. The upper ends of the pegs can contact or be in close proximity to the horizontal section of the cover when the cover is in its closed position such that tools disposed on the pegs are secured in position. A shaft is rotatably supported along the front portion and has structure attached along its length for engaging the cover to secure the cover in its closed position. The shaft is rotated by an actuating member so that the engaging structure can be brought into contact with the cover to seal the cover.

Abstract: A semi-conductor transport container is described, which includes a box, a door and an actuated rotary retainer attached to the sidewall of the box to thereby prevent movement of the wafers within a wafer cassette during transportation and storage. The rotary retainer includes flexible fingers that apply a slight force against the wafers when the box is engaged with the box. The rotary retainer is simple, requires less moving parts, and rotates automatically, completely away from the wafers when the box is disengaged from the door. Also, the box seals with the door, when engaged with a door, thereby creating a particle free storage area.

Abstract: A tool holder includes two panels having a bottom portion coupled together by a base so as to form an erectable triangular configuration. One of the panels includes a number of cavities for receiving tools. The other panel includes a number of covers temporarily secured to the other panel and disposed according to the cavities for temporarily covering the cavities so as to retain the tools in the cavities. The cavities are inclined so as to stably retain the tools when the covers are disengaged from the panel.

Abstract: A packaging display system includes a first set of cartons packaging a first group of products and a second set of cartons packaging a second set of products. Each of the sets and groups are divided into subsets and sub-groups. The products of the first group are selectively matable with the products of the second group, with only some of the first sub-groups products properly mating with only some of the second sub-group products but not with other products of the second sub-groups. Color coding is provided on the cartons for indicating which of the products of the first; sub-groups properly mate with the second sub-group products. The color coding includes patches of different colors with a same color patch appearing on the cartons of the first and second sub-groups packaging products of the first and second sub-groups which properly mate.

Abstract: A floppy disk accommodation device has a synthetic resin sheet for accommodating and storing a plurality of floppy disks in a stable state. The synthetic resin sheet has one or more floppy disk accommodation recesses 3 formed at respective positions thereon. In a lower portion of each floppy disk accommodation recess 3, a bag-like floppy disk detachment-free accommodation section 5 is formed. The surface of the floppy disk accommodation recess 3 is formed, above an upper opening of the accommodation section, with stoppers 6 for preventing detachment of the floppy disk 4. The recess surface is also formed, between the opening of the bag-like floppy disk detachment-free accommodation section 5 and the stoppers 6, with a ridge 7 for providing a gap between the back surface of an upper portion of the accommodated floppy disk 4 and the floppy disk accommodation recess surface.

Abstract: An organizer device for orthopedic equipment normally found in cast removal situations comprising a plastic box with a closed lower surface, an opened upper surface and a peripheral wall therearound, the box being vacuum formed with recesses and projections therein, a central recess having a semi-cylindrical end formed into one peripheral wall for the receipt of the cord of a saw, the central recess having a semi-cylindrical central extent extending to a central extent of the container, and the central recess having enlarged projections extending upwardly from the end of the recess remote from the end recess for supporting the head of a saw; and a plurality of supplemental recesses formed on opposite sides of the central recess.

Abstract: A carton containing two tiers of necked bottles. The bottles in the upper tier are inverted from the bottles in the lower tier, with the bottle necks of the upper tier extending between the bottle necks of the lower tier. The bottle necks extend through spaced separator sheets containing flaps that prevent contact between adjacent bottle necks. Partitions prevent contact between adjacent bottles in each tier. The carton is sloped in to a relatively small top panel, and the top panel is provided with a handle.

Abstract: The use of two identical clips designed for use in holding stacks of JEDEC type trays for electronic devices in a manner to protect the devices comprises a platform supporting rails engagable with the end tabs on the trays to support the trays and the clips. A latch is provided to hold the clip in place and a handle is provided to grasp the stack of trays.

Abstract: A sharps disposal system providing a frame and a container having an opening and being selectively mountable to the frame. A lid is pivotally attached to the frame and is selectively movable into engagement with the container when the container is mounted to the frame. Engaging the container with the lid closes the opening except for an aperture through which sharps can be inserted into the container but which impedes insertion of human hands. Engaging the container with the lid also impedes removal of the container from the frame. The system employs a means for selectively locking the lid into engagement with the container. The system further provides a cover for selectively sealing said opening.