Abstract: Techniques for facilitating estimation of node processing capacity values for order fulfillment are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise: generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a current processing capacity value for an entity; and determining, by the system, a future processing capacity value for the entity based on the current processing capacity value and by using a future capacity model that has been explicitly trained to infer respective processing capacity values for the entity. The computer-implemented method can also comprise fulfilling an order of an item, by the system, based on the future processing capacity value.

Abstract: Techniques for facilitating estimation of node processing capacity values for order fulfillment are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise: generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a current processing capacity value for an entity; and determining, by the system, a future processing capacity value for the entity based on the current processing capacity value and by using a future capacity model that has been explicitly trained to infer respective processing capacity values for the entity. The computer-implemented method can also comprise fulfilling an order of an item, by the system, based on the future processing capacity value.

Abstract: The present invention is a snow brush container having a body attached externally to a vehicle to hold a snow brush, wherein the container having a means to be mounted to the vehicle. The container being attached to the part of the vehicle that has a gap between two parts in the body which allow an L-shaped hook of the container pass through the gap.

Abstract: The present invention is a snow brush container having a body attached externally to a vehicle to hold a snow brush, wherein the container having a means to be mounted to the vehicle. The container being attached to the part of the vehicle that has a gap between two parts in the body which allow an L-shaped hook of the container pass through the gap.

Abstract: Apparatus for making a container by means of a blank which is seamed along two opposite edges when these are juxtaposed includes a cavity tool and a core tool which move from an open to a closed condition to clamp a blank in its final shape whereupon material can be injected to seam the juxtaposed edges, the blank being movable into the cavity tool through a passage extending from the cavity through a wall of the cavity tool by blank drive means and an obturator being provided to close the passage and complete the internal surface of the cavity tool.

Abstract: A method of making a container, particularly a rectangular tray-like container, in which a blank is provided having side panels which are displaced to form the side walls of the container. The blank is clamped in its container - forming shape between mould tools with adjacent ends of the side panels juxtaposed end corner seams and a lip are injection moulded to seam the side panels and form a peripheral lip on the free edges of the side panels remote from the base panel. The mould tools shape the free edges of the side panels to an internally concave form between the juxtaposed side panel ends before moulding so that shrinkage of the moulding will accentuate the concavity to give a predetermined consistent shape to containers so produced and avoid unpredictable buckling and deformity.

Abstract: Apparatus for making a composite container comprising a blank and an injection moulding thereon, the apparatus comprises a pair of tools relatively movable between open and closed conditions in the latter of which they define a mould cavity for receiving a blank and injected mouldable material, and a pair of guides for holding a blank between the tools in their open condition, the blank being positioned to be engaged by one tool in its movement to the closed tool condition between the guides, the guides being insufficiently spaced apart to allow said movement of the one tool in their guiding condition, wherein each guide in the region of movement of the one tool therebetween includes a member movable between an operative guiding position and an inoperative position permitting said movement of the one tool by relative movement of the one tool and the guides.

Abstract: A composite product made of a blank of e.g. paper, card, plastics or metal foil, and a peripheral injection moulding of synthetic plastics material, formed on the periphery of the blank. The blank is formed adjacent its periphery to form a channel in which the inner region of the moulding engages the outer region extending from the inner region in the direction in which the internal surfaces of the channel face. Shrinkage of the moulding will tend to cause the blank to bow in the direction in which the channel faces.

Abstract: A composite product such as a lid for a container comprises a sheet material blank and a peripheral moulding formed thereon, wherein a marginal portion of the blank is displaced to project from the general plane of the central panel of the blank and the peripheral moulding includes an inner marginal portion bonded to the said marginal portion of the blank and is shaped so that on longitudinal shrinkage of the moulding the central panel of the blank will bow in a direction conforming with the direction of displacement of the marginal portion of the blank.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a method for making an article such as a container having a circular end wall and a side wall folded from the arcuate edge of the end wall, the article being first formed as a flat blank having two panels conforming to the base and side walls, the peripheries of the panels intersecting each other with a slit being formed in the common intersecting portions to form a pair of hinges at the ends of the slit enabling one panel to be folded upwardly with respect to the other between two mold tools without rupturing the hinges, plastic material being injected into the mold to join the folded panels into a unitary container or similar article.