Abstract: A hinged container with a releasable closure for receiving a compressed down sleeping bag therein. The container comprises a pair of mating top and bottom members coupled at one end by a hinge; and the closure comprises a pair of bars which are rigidly coupled, respectively, to the top and bottom members and a pair of torsional shear bolts releasably coupling the bars together. These bolts are sheared by pivotal movement of two levers coupled thereto. The apparatus for compressing the sleeping bag into the container comprises an elongated, open-ended sleeve; a hydraulically-actuated compressing ram movable into and out of the sleeve; and an assembly at an end of the sleeve for releasably securing the container to the sleeve with an open end of the container aligned with the open end of the sleeve.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an article which can be used as a basket for carrying items such as food and drink on a picnic and also used for carrying cloths and shoes and at the picnic can be spread out or stretched out and used as a tablecloth or a picnic cloth.

Abstract: A pad of plastic open-mouthed pockets overlying each other and separably connected by a common base portion, the base portion being formed of selvage portions extending from the open mouth of the pockets and being secured together at the sides thereof and at spaced connections at the free edges thereof, and a support hanger secured to the base portion and having an extension extending beyond the base portion in a position to be secured to a surface, the pockets being individually separable from said base portion to form individual bags.

Abstract: A record package includes a disc record housed within an enclosure. The enclosure comprises thin membrane covers held in tension between a metallic outer frame and two inner rings. The inner rings include dust seals which are held against the disc record by the tension of the membranes. When the disc record rotates, the windage it creates lifts the dust seals from the disc record. The use of a clear membrane eliminates the need for a sight window when recording on the playing back from an optical disc record.

Abstract: A hermetically sealable and reclosable package includes a body member of semi-rigid preformed plastic having a first planar marginal portion and a central portion shaped to provide a packaging chamber. A base member has a second planar marginal portion and is adapted to close the packaging chamber. A mat is sandwiched between the body member and the base member, with the mat, body member and base member being of generally similar rectangular configuration. The mat is permanently attached to either the body member or the base member on all four side edges thereof. The opposite side of the mat is permanently attached to either the body member or the base member along one side edge and peelably attached along the remaining side edges. The package is opened by separating the peelable sides so that the body member or the base member may be rotated about a hinge defined by the permanently affixed side edge to expose the products of the package.

Abstract: A bracket assembly for storing a fishing reel comprising a bracket and a pair of retainer clips. The bracket is formed from a single strip of metal and includes a main body portion having an arcuate transverse cross section adapted to seat the arcuate foot portion of a reel to be stored. The retainer clips also have an arcuate transverse cross section and are adapted to slide over the opposite ends of the foot portion of the reel to securely mount the reel on the bracket. The concave under portion of each clip coacts with the concave under surface of the bracket main body portion to preclude rotation of the stored reel relative to the bracket. A pair of legs extend downwardly from each end of the bracket main body portion and terminate in flange portions which coact with fastener elements to mount the bracket on a suitable support surface with the bracket main body portion spaced from the support surface.

Abstract: A reclosable package comprises a body member of semi-rigid preformed plastic with a first planar marginal portion and a central portion shaped to provide a packaging chamber. A base member has a corresponding second planar marginal portion and a central panel to provide a closure for the packaging chamber. The body member and base member are permanently bonded along one pair of adjacent sides of the first and second planar marginal portions. A hinge is situated within the pair of adjacent sides, which automatically locks when the package is open and unlocks when the package is closed. The hinge may comprise a line of perforations with integral locking tabs situated in one of the sides, or in a mat interposed between the sides. Different patterns of cut configurations may be employed as the hinge as long as the hinge includes areas which protrude to hold the package open when the lid is rotated past 90 to the open position.

Abstract: An improved packaging for health care products such as self-administrable health tests which are designed to be used separate and apart from the outer package, including a lower base compartment for holding the products, and an upper auxiliary compartment formed by two side panels and two end panels which are manually movable between a closed position with the panels in upwardly convergent disposition to an open position with the panels in non-convergent position to allow manual and visual access to the products. An inner package insert is preferably included to separately hold the products in easy identifiable locations before and after use.

Abstract: A temperature resistant molded plastic device is described for use in boxes or packages such as pizza boxes where there is a tendency of large cover portions to sag downwardly to damage the soft pizza or other packaged products. In use, the saver is positioned near the center of the package to support the box cover for protecting the contents.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning and sterilizing ear lobe holes for pierced earrings utilizes a string of absorbent material having attached thereto a firm tip. Both the string and the tip are maintained in a sealed envelope adjacent a pad of absorbent material saturated with an antiseptic fluid in contact with the string to saturate the string with the fluid. When it is desired to clean and sterilize the ear lobe hole, the package is opened and the string and tip are run through the ear lobe hole. The string both cleans the ear lobe hole and imparts the sterilizing fluid to the hole.

Abstract: A cartridge comprised of a multiplicity of at least four smaller longitudinal pockets, each pocket containing a component of a multi-component of a self-setting mix to provide blending together of intermixing of the components when the bundle of pockets in the cartridge are ruptured in a bore hole by inward pressure from an anchor element. In one embodiment of the invention the pockets are formed in partially filled envelopes so that when the envelopes are packed together in longitudinal relationship, the resulting cartridge has a generally circular cross-section. The cartridge is held within an outer porous casing, such as netting. In another embodiment of the invention the pockets extend from a common base.

Abstract: The wrench holder comprises a pair of elongated, plastic members that slide or telescope together. Each of the members includes a body and a pair of bifurcated legs extending therefrom. The members pass through openings in a set of wrenches and telescope or slide together. Heads respectively at the ends of the elongated members retain the wrenches therebetween. A latching element at the distal ends of the legs and another latching element on the body in the region of the head enable the two members to be releasably interconnected.

Abstract: A box-shaped decorative dispensing container comprises a sleeve, a drawer within the sleeve, and a decorative external case on the outside of the sleeve. The drawer can easily slide out of the case, while the sleeve is restricted from sliding out of the case.

Abstract: A bundle of welding electrodes or rods are confined within a substantially rigid cylindrical tube of extruded plastics material, and each end portion of the tube receives a cylindrical cup-shaped body of an end closure member molded of a more resilient plastics material. The body of each closure member is slightly larger than the inner diameter of the tube and is press-fitted into the tube to form an air-resistant seal with the tube. Either closure member may be removed by pulling the body from the tube or by impacting the body with the welding rods within the tube, and each closure member is reusable and resealable with the tube.

Abstract: The specification discloses an album type package (10) for holding a magnetic tape cassettes, and particularly either of two different predetermined sizes of video cassettes (28). The package (10) includes covers (12, 14) hinged to opposite sides of a spine (16), on which is mounted a rectangular boot or tray (26) for receiving a cassette in edgewise relationship therein. A lug (36) on the back cover (14) positively retains the cassette in the tray (26) when the cover is releasably secured by a lock (30) to the tray and the package (10) is partially closed. Means (44) are provided for properly locating a second, relatively smaller cassette for engagement with the lug (36). Another lock (38) releasably secures the covers (12, 14) in fully closed position.

Abstract: The container (2) for small material samples is inseparable from an information-carrying element fixed preferably in order to be in evidence when using the container.

Abstract: A container for a plurality of surgical patties having a recess for receiving a number of surgical patties and a plurality of count slots for receiving locating strings attached to the patties so that each pattie may be readily counted by surgical personnel. Additional slots are provided so that the locating strings can be wound back across the pattie recess to hold the patties in the recess during shipping. Wetting fluid may be introduced into the recesses to wet the patties before they are used in the body. If a plurality of pattie recesses are used, channel recesses are provided to provide fluid communication between the pattie recesses to that wetting fluid may be distributed among the multiple recesses.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved display package comprising a first body member having a top wall, a cylindrically shaped side wall and a circumferential shoulder member extending outwardly from the terminus of the side wall and a second body member having a top wall, a cylindrically shaped side wall and a circumferential shoulder member extending outwardly from the terminus of the side wall. First body member and the second body member are cooperatively engageable through the use of snap means located on each respective circumferential shoulder member.

Abstract: A portable work station for transporting a device sensitive to external electrical forces and, in particular, to static electricity is provided. The work station which is manufactured from an electrically conductive composition which acts to shield the contents of the container from external electrical forces is provided with an electrically conductive window means and electrical charge grounding means all of which are in electrically conductive communication with each other. In one embodiment the work station is provided with an internal electrically conductive anti-static pad.

Abstract: A system for disposal of dangerous sharp articles and dangerous liquids, particularly those which represent the waste in certain medical procedures, includes an inner container and closure means and an outer wide mouthed, necked container whose receiving opening is closed against removal of material by a tapered, preferably conical insert which is divided into flaps and alternative covers, one to facilitate separation of syringe needles and thin barrels and the other to lock the outer container closed.