Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Abstract: An endoscopic biopsy forceps mechanism encompassing a device of integrally designed parts for selectively opening and closing the biopsy forceps cutting jaws of the forceps and dramatically reduce the number of individual parts in the entire device thereby rendering a forcep mechanism of a more simplified construction, more reliable in operation and concurrently reduce the manufacturing and assembly costs.

Abstract: An endoscopic biopsy forceps device incorporating a novel and unique camming arrangement for selectively opening and closing the biopsy cutting jaws of the biopsy forceps which will render the entire device of a simpler construction and reliable in operation, while concurrently making it considerably less expensive to produce.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming the rim on a foam plastic container such as a cup by use of a segmented rim former. The cavity in the rim former is contoured so as to produce a curled rim that is flat on the top. The flat top of the rim is parallel to the bottom of the cup.The apparatus comprises a segmented rim former with a combination of linear and curved surfaces that form a noncircular container rim.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a plastic sleeve to a rigid base article, such as a glass bottle. A blank of plastic is wrapped around a mandrel and seamed to form a plastic sleeve. The bottle to which the sleeve is to be applied is preheated and longitudinally aligned over the mandrel. A pressurized fluid is introduced between the plastic sleeve and the mandrel to form a fluid cushion upon which the plastic sleeve can slide without binding or wrinkling. As the pressurized fluid is introduced, a stripper sleeve is actuated to engage the lower edge of the plastic sleeve and block the passage of the pressurized fluid therefrom. Thus, the plastic sleeve is inflated slightly about the mandrel. Then the stripper sleeve is moved upwardly to telescope the plastic sleeve onto the aligned bottle. A gasket is secured to the upper base of the mandrel, upon which the bottle rests during the transfer operation.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or nestable container having a unitary sidewall formed from a double-ended sheet of a heat-shrinkable thermoplastic material, the inner suface of which is adapted to contact a liquid product to be contained in said container. The ends of the sheet are joined to one another forming a liquid-tight seam extending from the top to the bottom of said container. An open mouth at the top is defined by the upper portion of the sidewall. The container sidewall tapers inwardly and downwardly from the open mouth for a major portion of the height of said container. The thickness of the sidewall increases continuously and progressively over this major portion from a lesser thickness at the top thereof to a greater thickness at the bottom thereof. The density of the sidewall continuously and progressively decreases over this major portion from a greater density at the top thereof to a lesser density at the bottom thereof.

Abstract: A method for controlling the movement of a web of material. The web material advances in a forward direction, thus creating an unsupported loop which characterizes the festoon arrangement of the invention. Web material is advanced into the festoon depending upon the size of the festoon. Web material is withdrawn and returned to the festoon on an intermittent basis independently of the flow of material into the festoon.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it to shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A fabricating apparatus for cuplike containers, including a continuously moving conveyor defining a closed path and having a plurality of spaced mandrels with an external configuration corresponding to the internal configuration of the containers. Processing assemblies located adjacent to a main conveyor act in timed relationship with the main conveyor to (a) preheat the mandrels, (b) form cylindrical sleeve blanks from a continuous web of thermoplastic material and telescope the sleeve blanks onto the mandrels, (c) simultaneously cut bottom disc closures from two continuous webs of thermoplastic material and deliver the discs serially to the mandrels, (d) rotate the mandrels carrying the sleeve blanks and discs as they are subjected to heat to shrink each sleeve blank about a mandrel in overlapped relationship with a bottom disc, (e) fuse the disc to the overlapping portion sidewalls of the container and (f) form a curved rim at the top of the cup to complete formation.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting the bottom disc used in the manufacture of disposable drinking containers. A web of foam plastic container bottom material is fed through a rotary cutting die. Discs of foam plastic material are then sequentially positioned so that they can be affixed to container sidewalls which are moving in seriatim fashion past the cutting apparatus. The direction of movement of the web of foam plastic material through the cutting apparatus is periodically reversed so that the maximum number bottom discs can be cut from the web of material. The method of moving the web of material in an intermittent flow plus the movement of the severed discs is also set forth in detail.

Abstract: An arrangement for cleaning paint rollers after their use. The paint roller is held between bearings within an enclosure, and is freely rotatable on said bearings. The enclosure communicates with a source of cleansing fluid which is directed through an elongated orifice along the length of the roller. The orifice in the enclosure is displaced above the axis of the roller, and the force of the cleansing fluid impinging on the surface of the roller, causes the roller to rotate and become cleansed on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it to shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may also be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A sleeve forming method wherein a rectangular sheet of thermoplastic material is formed into a tubular shape having overlapped end portions that are sealed together by directing heated air between the end portions to soften their facing surface and pressing the end portions together to form a seam. The seam preferably is liquid-tight, so that the sleeve may be utilized to form the sidewall of a cup or nestable container wherein the sleeve is heat-shrunk about a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel to give the container sidewall its desired shape. A two-piece container can be formed by sealing a bottom disc member to the end of the sidewall, and a one-piece container can be formed by collapsing and fusing the end of the sidewall sleeve to close the bottom of the container.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a machine for making a plastic covering on a rigid base article which in the illustrated form comprises a glass bottle and a conforming shrunken plastic covering thereon. The plastic is fed in oriented sheet form to the turret apparatus, cut into lengths and wrapped and seamed on successive mandrels as sleeves. Bottles are simultaneously processed to preheat condition and indexed over the sleeves, the latter telescopically assembled on the rigid base article, i.e., the bottle, and the combination carried to a heat tunnel. The plastic sleeve shrinks into snug surface fit on the adjacent surface portion of the rigid base article.The bottle is preheated in one of two embodiments by: (1) a preheat tunnel on the machine which raises the bottles from room temperature to about 220.degree. F., or (2) the preheat is carried over as latent heat in the glass bottle from the annealing lehr, a part of the bottle manufacturing process.