Abstract: A fraud detection system is disclosed for telephone PBX calls. The system includes a fraud data server for buffering the call detail records relating to inbound 800 number calls and outbound international calls. A threshold manager is connected at its input to an output of the fraud data server for detecting numerical counts exceeding preselected threshold values, in predetermined fields of the call detail records, and generates an alarm. The output of the threshold manager is connected to an input of the fraud data server for buffering the alarm incident to respective call detail records. A computer workstation is connected to the fraud data server for receiving packets of call detail records relating to alarm data, in a filtered preselected format. The workstation includes a monitor for displaying the alarm data on a graphical interface.

Abstract: Telephone fraud is monitored by effectively interfacing workstations with a fraud data server. Multiple customers may have their respective workstations coupled to the data server with attendant limited access to ensure security. A workstation manager and alarm manager cooperate with a management system database to process login and alarm detail requests from the various workstations. The managers are coupled to a single shared memory. The interface between the workstations and the fraud data server is by means of a message-based interface which standardizes the various functions of the workstation.

Abstract: A tab for releasably closing a dispensing opening in a container panel. The tab is particularly adapted for use in conjunction with circular end units, and the tab is provided with fold lines in opposite edge portions of the grip portion of the tab so as to permit the grip portion to be of the required material width while at the same time reducing the effective length of the bend or fold line between the grip portion and the tab body portion thereby permitting the fold line to be disposed closely adjacent the periphery of the end panel of the end unit.

Abstract: This relates to the handling of thin soft temper material during the feeding thereof and in formation of such material into individual components in a punch press. Most particularly, a pull tab formed of a plastics material-aluminum foil laminate is being formed. In order to control the movement of the stock through the punch press, the stock is longitudinally stiffened by the formation of longitudinal ribs therein. The ribs are preferably formed by the stock feeding mechanism. The work product is blanked and formed substantially in its entirety in regions of the stock outside of the stiffening rib areas and prior to the final severing of the work product from the stock, the stiffening ribs are flattened. In the separation of the work product from the stock, there is material removal in a punching operation along the areas previously containing the stiffening ribs.

Abstract: An easy open reclosable end unit which includes a metal end unit securable to a container body by means of a seam and having a dispensing opening therein. The dispensing opening is closed by a removable closure initially bonded to the end unit and being peelable therefrom. A cam mechanism is provided for effecting the initial rupture and peeling of the closure with the cam unit being lockable with respect to the closure after the end unit has been seamed to the container. The raw edge of the metal defining the dispensing opening is provided with a guard member and the closure has a plug portion tightly fitting within the guard member and interlocking therebelow to effect reclosing.

Abstract: An easy opening beverage can wherein the closure is of the push-in type. The dispensing opening in the container is defined by a sealing ring into which there is engaged a peripheral flange of the closure member with the closure member being held initially with respect to the sealing ring only by a mechanical interlock. Pressure within the can tightly forces the closure member into sealing engagement with the sealing ring and normally prevents removal. A lever is connected to the sealing ring to effect distortion thereof and bleeding-off of pressure from within the can so as to relieve the holding pressure on the closure member, after which the closure member may be readily pushed into the can in an opening action.

Abstract: This relates to the handling of thin soft temper material during the feeding thereof and in formation of such material into individual components in a punch press. Most particularly, a pull tab formed of a plastics material-aluminum foil laminate is being formed. In order to control the movement of the stock through the punch press, the stock is longitudinally stiffened by the formation of longitudinal ribs therein. The ribs are preferably formed by the stock feeding mechanism. The work product is blanked and formed substantially in its entirety in regions of the stock outside of the stiffening rib areas and prior to the final severing of the work product from the stock, the stiffening ribs are flattened. In the separation of the work product from the stock, there is material removal in a punching operation along the areas previously containing the stiffening ribs.

Abstract: A rectangular tape seal end closure for closing pour openings in a round end panel of a pressurized container wherein the tape extends to the circular peripheral seaming chuck guide groove. The tape has a pull ring pull folded over the body of the tape and normally would form corners therewith which would encroach upon the chuck guide groove. In this invention, these corners are cut off to clear the chuck groove and novel ribbing reinforcements are provided which reinforce the body of the tape to resist blow-out and which bridge the cut off areas and function to strengthen the tape to counter notch-effect stress concentrations because of cutting off of the corners.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method utilizing an apparatus defining an open ended mold cavity, operable in conjunction with a piston supporting a closure cover for a container to be formed in the cavity which is shiftable inwardly into the open end of the cavity. The method involves introducing a blank of heated plastic material into the mold cavity inwardly of the open end thereof first introducing gas or a similar fluid or fluent material and then a beverage or a similar fluid or fluent material under pressure into the cavity at a point spaced outwardly of the blank and inwardly of the closure cover and piston after the latter has been shifted into the outer end of the cavity to seal the latter. The introduced gas is under sufficient pressure for pre-blow molding blank and the subsequently introduced beverage is under sufficient pressure to complete the blow molding of the blank in the mold.