Abstract: A compact portable dryer for damp outdoor gear has a tubular sleeve, an interspacing panel of reticulated foam, a ventilating plug and an air blowing plug. The tubular sleeve is a rectangle of canvas. It has strips of closures along both long edges, and both short edges. The closures along the long edges mate with each other in order to form the sleeve into a tube. The panel of reticulated foam is also a rectangle. It has a length between one pair of spaced edges that corresponds to the length of the tubular sleeve. Its thickness as well as length between the other pair of spaced edges are such that, when rolled into a cylindrical coil, the cylindrical coil has a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the tubular sleeve. The sleeve is plugged with the ventilating plug at one end and the air blowing plug at the other.

Abstract: A hospital waste receptacle is formed of two unitary blanks of corrugated paperboard, one blank forming a unitary outer container and the other blank forming a unitary inner container. The blank for the inner container may assume either of two forms to yield an inner container whose side walls either contact the side walls of the outer container, or alternatively, are spaced from them. The inner container is shorter than the outer container. The outer container has two main top closure panels, opposite to each other, with the inner top closure panel having a central opening for disposition of hospital waste therethrough. The outer top closure panel carries a pair of latches to secure it closed when the receptacle is full. The outer top closure panel also carries a pull out handle to assist in transporting the filled receptacle. In a modification, the top pull handle is omitted and opposite ends of the container provided with hand holes. A pair of spaced hollow beams extend along the sides of the container.