Abstract: A display unit for exhibiting a plurality of display materials on a parallel planes spaced relative to each other as well as relative to a wall or other surface. The display unit includes a base, securable to the surface and a plurality of substantially identical spacer elements. The spacer elements are removably securable to one another in a stackable relationship. Each spacer element includes facilities for receiving and aligning other spacer elements in registration therewith and removably securing the spacer elements to one another as well as the base. A mounting facility securable to the spacer elements includes a transparent window for exhibiting the display material. In an additional feature, the display unit base includes a reversible backing member which is removably secured thereto to provide a variety of colored or textured backgrounds upon which to exhibit the display material.

Abstract: A sailing boat with an A-shaped mast pivotally connected to the topside of the cabin and sloping forwardly from the connection points. A backstay holds the mast in its inclined operating position. The jib and the mainsail are furling sails and are attached to forestays connected between the forward portion of the vessel and the mast.

Abstract: An automatic case erector and sealer apparatus useful in the erecting of packaging cases, boxes and cartons from flats, utilizing case puncturing and gripping pins, spraying adhesive onto the interior surfaces of the case flaps, while the flaps are in a semi-open position, and sealing the minor and major flaps of the erected flats with compression to thereby secure the major and minor flaps for subsequent filling of the formed case, box or carton with consumer goods.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a high speed cold adhesive curing process and apparatus therefor, useful in the assembly and fastening together of fibrous surfaces such as the surfaces of corrugated Kraft paper cardboard boxes. The invention is directed to a process for adhering two fibrous surfaces together by means of a liquid cold cure adhesive comprising: (a) spraying liquid cold cure adhesive on the interface surface of one of the fibrous surfaces in a thin discrete particle pattern; and (b) pressing the two fibrous surfaces together under high pressure sufficient to cause the solvent carrier in the cold cure adhesive to disperse into the interstices of the fibres of the two surfaces, thereby enabling the cold cure adhesive particles to rapidly secure the two surfaces together.