Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a paper protector comprises an upper mold, a lower mold, and a central mold. The lower mold includes a frame section and support surface, while the upper mold includes a peripheral rim and guide projections fitted into the lower surface of the peripheral rim.

Abstract: A paper protector, using multiple sheets of paper, that can contain electronic goods, precision instruments or other objects requiring protection from shock, having a multiple structure provided with a primary blank (10) consisting of a central panel (11), which contacts the contained object M, inner panels (12), around the periphery of the central panel, which are set upright and surround the object, and first mid panels (13), which are folded outwardly from the extremities of the inner panels; and a secondary blank (20), consisting of a second mid panel (23) having a central opening of approximately the same form as the central panel, which surrounds the periphery of that opening and is positioned on either side of the first mid panels (13), and outer panels (24), which surround the exterior of the inner panels and are folded at an angle from the extremities of the second mid panel; and forming spaces (55) having a width equivalent to that of mid panels (13 and 23 ) and disposed between the inner and outer

Abstract: An image sensing head of an image reading device and a method of producing same are disclosed. The image sensing head includes a plurality of optical fibers and light emitting and light receiving elements supported in a manner to provide a unitary structure. The optical fibers of the light emitting side and the optical fibers of the light receiving side are each formed as a sheet and arranged such that the read-out ends of the optical fibers of the light emitting side are located in positions in which they supply read-out light beams to an image surface of a document and the light emitting ends thereof are located in positions corresponding to those of the light emitting elements while the read-out ends of the optical fibers of the light receiving side are located in positions in which they receive light beams reflected by the image surface of the document and the light receiving ends thereof are located in positions corresponding to those of the light receiving elements.