Abstract: A single blank of sheet material is configured to be formed into a folding carton having a bottom panel, mutually opposed side panels, and mutually opposed end panels, with front and back top panels that are arranged to be closed over a top opening of the folding carton to close the top opening of the carton and form a carrying handle for the carton. The folding carton is assembled solely from the single blank of sheet material without the use of glue or adhesives or any other manner of securing one carton component to another that is separate from the single blank of sheet material.

Abstract: A strand of synthetic textile yarn is fed continuously in a relaxed condition downwardly through a bulking chamber having a series of vertically spaced successive baffle plates with adjacent baffle plates extending from opposite sides of the chamber and at opposite downward inclinations in the path of the downwardly feeding yarn for haphazard curling of the yarn at the plates and progressively greater accumulation of yarn at each successive plate. Steam is applied to the yarn accumulation at the lowermost baffle plate and suction means above the chamber imposes an upward draft to the steam, with the steam acting on the relaxed and accumulated yarn for substantially complete development of bulk therein. The bulked yarn falls between and from the baffle plates onto a reciprocating plate that acts to loosen the bulked yarn and minimize entanglements.

Abstract: A strand of synthetic textile yarn is fed continuously in a relaxed condition downwardly through a bulking chamber having a series of vertically spaced successive baffle plates with adjacent baffle plates extending from opposite sides of the chamber and at opposite downward inclinations in the path of the downwardly feeding yarn for haphazard curling of the yarn at the plates and progressively greater accumulation of yarn at each successive plate. Steam is applied to the yarn accumulation at the lowermost baffle plate and suction means above the chamber imposes an upward draft to the steam, with the steam acting on the relaxed and accumulated yarn for substantially complete development of bulk therein. The bulked yarn falls between and from the baffle plates onto a reciprocating plate that acts to loosen the bulked yarn and minimize entanglements.

Abstract: A method and means for multi-color dyeing textile yarn wherein yarn is present in perforate cylindrical cans for dyeing, with the yarn being in a maze of tortuously extending coils progressing axially within the can as occurs when yarn is collected in an upright can from a crimping or bulking operation. The cans are first positioned on movable J-shaped cradles with their cylindrical axes horizontal and are then immersed sequentially in a plurality of dye baths in which the cans are only partially immersed. Between immersions in sequential dye baths the cans are reoriented by rotating them about their cylindrical horizontal axes to cause dyeing of at least partially different portions of the maze of yarn in the cans in the different dye baths so that the resulting yarn strand, which extends randomly in the maze throughout differently dyed portions, will be unpredictably randomly dyed in different colors and lengths of color.