Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing sheet material, particularly metallic foil, positions each successively leading end region of the foil, after a preceding length of the foil has been severed, to stand freely in a generally upright condition away from a severing means which is preferably provided without sharp serrated cutting teeth to protect a user from injury during use of the dispenser, and to provide the user with ready access to each upstanding leading end region of the foil.

Abstract: Comestible cones with frozen edibles deposited thereon are safely and securely held and transported in a carrying bag. The carrying bag contains a handle portion which is positioned above the center of gravity of the cone-filled carrying bag and insures that said filled carrying bag is in stable equilibrium. The bag comprises two substantially planar sheets, one of which is juxtaposed behind and in registration with the other. Said two sheets are joined together along their bottoms, along a portion of their sides, and intermediate their sides along a plurality of spaced zones which taper diagonally downwardly toward one another to thus define a plurality of quasi-conical pockets. The non-joined portions of the sides of said sheets define upper panel segments. The cones are receivable in the pockets of the bag and are securely and safely held therein during transport of said cones from place to place.

Abstract: A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a V-shaped serrated cutting element mounted on a housing.

Abstract: A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a cutting element mounted on a housing. The cutting element is displaced in response to the movement of the withdrawn material by generating a displacement force, latching the cutting element against displacement in a normally guarded position in which the cutting element is inoperative for cutting, and thereupon unleashing the displacement force in response to a further movement of the material to drivingly displace the cutting element from the guarded position to a cutting position in which the cutting element is in a position to sequentially pierce and cut the sheet material that is subsequently moved toward the same. Methods of dispensing the sheet material and of wrapping items also are disclosed.

Abstract: A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a cutting element mounted on a housing. The cutting element is displaced in response to the movement of the withdrawn material by generating a displacement force, latching the cutting element against displacement in a normally guarded position in which the cutting element is inoperative for cutting, and thereupon unleashing the displacement force in response to a further movement of the material to drivingly displace the cutting element from the guarded position to a cutting position in which the cutting element is in a position to sequentially pierce and cut the sheet material that is subsequently moved toward the same. Methods of dispensing the sheet material and of wrapping items also are disclosed.

Abstract: A cutting tool for cutting corrugated shipping cartons open includes a cutting blade and a holding arrangement for the cutting blade. The holding arrangement includes a confining member and a support member on which the cutting blade is held in its active position by being accommodated in a recess and having a stationary finger holding the blade and which is mounted on the confining member for movement between first and second positions displaced 90.degree. relative to each other. A cover for the cutting blade is mounted on the confining member for pivoting between its closed and open positions. The holding arrangement includes a contact surface which engages the edge region of the respective carton at the side wall thereof, and a distancing surface which engages the top wall of the carton during the cutting operation with the cover in its open position and with the support member in its first position to determine the distance of the cutting blade from the top wall.

Abstract: A container lid convertible into a spoon constitutes a one piece water-impermeable sheet of a thermoplastic resin including a flat peripheral ring having a circular outer circumference defining an inner area of three-dimensional configuration including a diametral trough the front end of which flares outwardly and terminates in the plane of the ring. Wings extend laterally outwardly from the side edges of the trough. The front ends of the wings are located at the front end of said side edges. The side edges are weakened whereby as opposite points of the periphery of the lid are squeezed together the rear portions of the wings and of the trough collapse upon one another to form a spoon handle and the front portion of the trough is narrowed and deepened to form a spoon bowl.

Abstract: A drink-through closure lid for hot potable open-top containers, in which at least the portion of the lid that is in contact with the inner surface of a user's upper lip during the imbibing of the hot potable is composed of heat insulating material or an insulating layer to prevent harm or discomfort to the drinker.

Abstract: A flat paper lid for a container. The lid is formed with weakened zones such as crease-score lines which enable the lid, that at the time of purchase closes an open-mouthed container holding a ladleable mass of a comestible product, to be quickly and easily converted by manual manipulation into a spoon-like eating implement.