Abstract: An apparatus for reducing the axle load of a multiaxle movable crane which includes a truck; a superstructure rotatably mounted on the truck; a main jib including a basic jib and at least one telescopic section, the basic jib having a plurality of rollers fastened in operative connection, the main jib being releasably fastened to the superstructure; and a semitrailer having a front end and a back end with a loading area, a first ramp-like beam and a second ramp-like beam arranged in a longitudinal direction of the semitrailer in the loading area so as to be parallel to and at a distance from one another, each ramp-like beam having a top edge and a contoured runway disposed along the top edge, the rollers being configured to the contour of the runway and operable to transport the main jib from the superstructure to the semitrailer.

Abstract: A one-piece nipple/collar includes a rigid collar having an exterior surface and an interior surface with a fastener thereon for detachably connecting the same with a nurser bottle or the like. A flexible nipple is molded over at least a portion of the exterior surface of the collar to form an integral, one-piece unit. The nipple extends along at least a portion of the exterior surface of the collar to a termination point that is spaced apart from the interior surface of the collar to avoid interference with the fastener.

Abstract: A child resistant cap assembly includes an outer cap member having a top wall and a substantially cylindrical side wall depending therefrom. On the exterior surface of the top wall is a key slot and an alignment aperture. An inner cap member for threadedly engaging a container neck is concentrically received within said outer cap member has a mark and key slot on its top wall. The outer cap member normally rotates independently of the inner cap member. When the outer cap member's alignment aperture registers with the mark on the inner cap member, the key slots are aligned allowing a key member to be inserted therethrough. Accordingly, the inserted key member is then rotated to simultaneously rotate the inner and outer cap. The top wall of the outer cap member also includes means for removably retaining the key thereon.

Abstract: A one-piece cap (10) for closing a liquid container to be installed for supply purpose in upside down position onto a liquid dispenser. Such container has a neck (14) on which the cap is sealingly mounted and through which a liquid supply tube (70) passes when the container is installed onto the dispenser. The cap comprises a lid (30) having a surface area substantially identical to the one of the neck (14), and a skirt (50) integrally projecting from the lid. The lid is provided with a central recess (32) including a tubular guiding portion (34) projecting from the lid in the same direction as the skirt (50). The guiding portion is sized and positioned to receive the supply tube (70).

Abstract: A closure for sealing the open end of a specimen collection container from the environment is provided. The closure includes a generally spherical-shaped ball having a passageway extending therethrough. The ball is capable of rotative movement between an open position and a closed position, with the passageway being aligned with the open end of the collection container when the ball is in an open position and being out of alignment with the open end of the collection container when the ball is in a closed position. The closure further includes a socket mountable on the open end of the collection container for accommodating rotative movement of the ball between an open position and a closed position. The socket includes an integral flexible seal which provides a perimetrical seat for the ball.

Abstract: A container assembly comprising a container for containing a fluid and a container closure. The container includes a neck having a mouth therein for passage therethrough of liquid in the container. The container closure comprises a closure cap portion adapted for releasable connection to the neck of the container. The closure cap portion comprises a generally annular-shaped skirt and at least three lugs extending generally radially inwardly from an inside surface of the skirt. The container further includes at least three bayonet provisions on an outer surface of the neck for matably receiving the at least three lugs of the closure cap portion, the bayonet provisions and the lugs being shaped and configured to releasably lock the skirt of the closure cap portion to the neck of the container.

Abstract: A folding box is provided including a bottom panel having a rear edge, a left edge, a right edge and a front edge. A lip extends along the edges of the bottom panel. A rear panel is permanently hinged to the rear lip. The rear panel has a left edge and a right edge. A rear left side panel is permanently hinged to the rear panel along the left edge of the rear panel. A front left side panel is permanently hinged to the rear left side panel along an edge distal to the rear panel. A rear right side panel is permanently hinged to the rear panel along the right edge of the rear panel. A front right side panel is permanently hinged to the rear right side panel along an edge distal to the rear panel. A front panel has a left edge and a right edge. The front panel's left edge is permanently hinged to the front left side panel along an edge distal to the rear left side panel. The front panel's right edge is permanently hinged to the front right side panel along an edge distal to the rear right side panel.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cap (8) for closing a container such as a drink can opened (6) by a breakable seal (5) by means of a pull strip (7) on the lid, the said cap (8) being removably mounted on or around the said pull strip (7) to constitute a movable tab pivoting about the rivet (9) on the lid (4) to be clipped on the peripheral lip (12) crimping the lid (4) on the body (1) of the container. It is characterised in that the clipping means comprise two resilient linking tabs (13, 14) symmetrically arranged in the median horizontal plane P of the cap (8) on either side of the longitudinal axis of symmetry S to form a space (15) in which a lug (16) extends from a horizontal strip (17) holding together the two release tabs (13, 14). The invention also concerns the use of the cap (8) as an advertising vector or an element of a game.

Abstract: An easily attachable/detachable lid mounted container includes a container body, a lid for covering the container body, and an easy attach/detach mechanism for reliably securing the lid to the container body and for easily detaching the lid from the container body. The easy attach/detach mechanism includes: an engagement plate provided on the lid and extending toward the container body, the engagement plate being resilient and bendable; an object engagement portion, provided on the container body, for engaging, when the lid is pressed toward the container body, with the engagement plate so as to secure the lid to the container body; and separation means, provided between the engagement plate and the object engagement portion, for separating the engagement plate from the object engagement portion when the separation means is pressed toward the container body.

Abstract: A liner (1) intended as inner packing in a container (11) for holding a fluid, comprising an upper (2) and a lower (3) rectangular web of essentially the same length and width, which are made of a flexible material and which are joined (4) to each other along portions of their outer edges (8, 9, 34), and at least one sealable opening (5, 6) in one of the webs (3) for filling the liner (1) with said fluid and then emptying the liner of said fluid in the container (11). The novelty of the invention is that the liner integrally comprises a pair of flap members (41, 42) at one of the outer edges (33) between the webs (2, 3), that one flap member (41) has been folded over the upper web (2), that the corner portions (13) of the liner adjacent to the essentially unfolded flap member (42) have been folded towards the center over the upper web (2), and that the liner (1) has been folded symmetrically at least twice towards the symmetry line (7) over the upper web (2).

Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a container, a cap for the container, and a dispenser valve for the container, the container being a one piece molded item having a front, a back, a left side, a right side and a bottom, with each of the sides having an outer wall and an inner wall, with the inner walls, the front, the back and the bottom forming the container with an open top, with the cap mounted on the container at the open top, and with the front of the container having an opening for receiving the dispenser valve and a second opening for receiving an inspection window. A sanitary napkin and tampon disposal container.

Abstract: A closure includes a promotion piece holding container within a cap to be installed onto a container such as a bottle. The promotion piece receiving container includes a top flange captured by a lip of a seal installed within the cap. The promotion piece receiving container includes a frangible band extending circumferentially around a substantial circumference of the container. The container can include a bottom flange arranged for convenience gripping and removing of the container from the cap, and a pull tab attached to the frangible band to assist in removing the frangible band to open the container for removal of the promotion piece.

Abstract: A treatment tank for a water conditioning apparatus includes a tank head with a wall with an interior surface and a noncircular rim that defines a first through hole in the wall. A generally cylindrical flange defines a first aperture and has a first nipple portion with a periphery and a noncircular portion radially extending from the periphery of the nipple portion. The noncircular portion is configured to matingly engage the noncircular rim so that contact between the noncircular rim and the noncircular portion prevents rotation of the flange relative to the tank head. A first fastener is engageable on the first nipple portion to secure the flange on the tank head through contact between the fastener and the tank head.

Abstract: In the handle (12) for cooking utensils (10), in correspondence with or in the vicinity of that of its ends connected to the cooking utensil there is provided a seat (14) into which the free end of the handgrip (12) of a spoon can be inserted a certain distance so that the widened part of this latter becomes located above the cooking utensil at a height less than the remaining part of the spoon, but not such that the spoon can withdraw from said seat by gravity.

Abstract: A non-round easy-grip composite container has a composite bottom closure and an outwardly-curled beaded top edge adapted to receive a membrane closure and a snap-on overcap. The composite container has outwardly-bowed curved front, rear and side walls and curved corners defining eight circular segments in transverse cross-section arranged symmetrically about perpendicular axes and at least some of which have different radii. Preferably, the container is of a combination rectangular and elliptical shape in transverse cross-section and the front and rear walls have a common predetermined radius in transverse cross-section which is larger than a common predetermined radius for the side walls in transverse cross-section. The corners also have a common predetermined radius in transverse cross-section.

Abstract: A spill-less wave bowl for use by pets and small children. The wave bowl is designed to prevent contents such as liquids in the bowl from spilling out over the edge of the bowl and from the bowl overturning. The spill-less wave bowl includes an inner bowl snapped to the inside of an outer shell. The inner bowl includes a bowl base in a lower portion of the bowl, sloping sides extending upwardly and outwardly from the bowl base and a circular bowl flange with snap arm disposed around an edge of an upper portion bowl. The outer shell includes a shell base in a lower portion of the shell, sloping sides extending upwardly and inwardly, an inwardly curved inverted concave-shaped lip which forms an interior concave-shaped cavity inside an upper portion of the shell. Around an inside of a center portion of the shell is a circular flange notch. The flange notch is used for receiving the snap arm of the bowl flange in a press fit for securing the inner bowl inside the shell base.

Abstract: A frozen confection holder is provided for use with a circular cup, preferably a plastic "tipper" cup suitable for a child. The frozen confection holder provides a lid mountable to the mouth of a cup, which an annular lip extending from the lid. The lip grips the mouth of the cup. A slot is provided in the lid and is sized and configured to grip a stick attached to a frozen confection. The lid is configured to direct the flow of melted liquid toward a drainage opening defined in the lid. Once the frozen confection on the stick has been consumed by the user, the stick and lid can be removed from the cup and the collected liquid may be sipped directly from the cup.

Abstract: A cup holder for use with beverage containers which enables the beverage consumer to more effectively grasp and hold the combined holder and container when consuming a beverage from the container, more effectively stabilize the beverage container when supported on a supporting surface and provide insulation between the exterior of the beverage container and the hand of the beverage consumer. The cup holder is constructed in the form of a planar blank of recyclable material which can be quickly and easily formed into a sleeve and set up without the use of glue, easily assembled onto a cup or beverage container without requiring manual dexterity, easily removed from the cup and recycled when combined with the cup or separated therefrom.

Abstract: A container including a combination of a bowl and a selectively detachable lid is disclosed. The bowl is a unitary structure including an upwardly projecting wall having a peripherally extending substantially U-shaped sealing lip. The selectively detachable lid is also a unitary structure including a body having a peripheral sealing lip which mates with the sealing lip of the bowl and at least one laterally extending tab member to assist in removing the lid from the bowl. Both the bowl and lid portions are preferably made from a resilient polymeric material suitable for both freezing and microwave reheating.

Abstract: A dispenser to dispense a granular material to a plurality of discrete locations, such as a tube of a reactor vessel. The dispenser includes a hopper to contain the granular material and has a discharge port to permit egress of material from the hopper. A conveyor receives material from the discharge port and transfers it to the plurality of discrete locations. The conveyor comprises a tray having a plurality of outlets spaced from the discharge port and each connectable to respective ones of the discrete locations. A barrier is interposed between adjacent ones of the outlets to inhibit transfer of material therebetween. A vibratory drive oscillates the tray and distributes the granular material uniformly on the tray. The drive induces movement of the material from the discharge port to the outlets along the tray.

Abstract: A container-and-closure sealing system embodied in a container and closure package, and method of making the same. The container has an open mouth surrounded by a cylindrical neck wall having internal threads and an open upper edge. The closure is a cap/dispensing cup type and has a skirt with external threads for threaded receipt within the container neck wall. A circumferentially continuous flange projects outwardly from the skirt and has a conical portion for cam engaging, trapping and sealing with the open upper edge of the neck wall as the closure is threaded into this wall. The closure skirt also has a circumferentially continuous plug-type sealing surface that extends radially outwardly from the skirt between the trapping flange and closure external threads for interference sealing engagement with the neck wall, as the closure is threaded thereinto.

Abstract: A dispensing gun for fluent products such as viscous adhesives and sealants. The gun includes a removably mounted nozzle and fittings for attachment to a product source such as a can or a hose. A valve body has product inlet and outlet passages with flow being controlled therethrough by a valve that includes a nose portion seated in the valve body, and a rod that extends through the nose portion of the valve and seats on tapered surfaces inside the end of the nozzle. The valve contains a shrouded internal spring biasing the valve to a closed position. A trigger engages the yoke carrying the valve and the valving rod and moves the yoke so that the rod and valve move between open, closed and intermediate positions. In one preferred form, the valving rod may be adjusted between positions wherein more or less product is dispensed in response to full trigger movement.

Abstract: A personal hydration system with an improved mouthpiece for use in providing fluid for delivery to a user. The mouthpiece includes a neck that is adapted to be mounted on a supply tube to a hydration system and which is joined to a resilient head. The head includes a dispensing face with a pair of lips that define a normally closed slit, through which fluid is dispensed from the mouthpiece, a perimeter and a minimum dimension between opposed points on the perimeter. The bite region extends from the perimeter to a shoulder, which joins the bite region and the neck. From a closed position, in which the lips extend against each other to close the slit and prevent fluid from being dispensed through the slit, the mouthpiece is deformable to a dispensing position in which the lips are spread at least partially away from each other to allow fluid to be dispensed through the lips.

Abstract: A glue head delivers lines or spots of glue onto a substrate, such as packaging materials, with precision positioning of the glue pattern, with short and balanced on/off compensation times essentially independent of glue pressure, and at high nozzle velocity. Pressurized glue advances into a plenum of the glue head preferably in a horizontal direction, then into a short and low-volume exit tube and through a nozzle, flowing in a direction perpendicular to the inflow direction. Flow to the nozzle is closed by a diaphragm valve comprising flexible elastomeric material which seats against the upstream end of the exit tube. An important feature is that glue actuator pressure is balanced, and smooth operation and glue delivery are achieved, by a rocker arm above the glue valve which, when the valve is closed by pushing the elastomeric material against the glue delivery tube, releases pressure on the glue at an upstream point in the glue plenum.

Abstract: The venting, precompression pump sprayer, includes a pump cylinder and a pump piston mounted for reciprocation within the cylinder. The piston applies a compression force to the fluid within a variable volume pump chamber. The piston has a hollow stem which serves as a discharge passage. A discharge valve seat is provided at the outlet end of the hollow stem of the piston. A discharge valve member is mounted for reciprocation within the hollow stem of the piston. The discharge valve member has a surface which is in sealing engagement with the valve seat when the pump sprayer is in the discharge closed position. Pressure is applied by the user to the spray cap member in order to reciprocate the piston and the valve member against the bias of a return spring. The discharge valve member has an elongated rod like region which extends downwardly to a valve inlet. An annular ring seal is mounted for liquid tight, sliding engagement on the discharge valve member's elongated rod like region.

Abstract: A one-piece molded body and housing unit for a pump dispenser, the housing comprising a pair of spaced side walls and a top wall. A vertical tubular support and pump cylinder are both spaced from the side walls and meet the top wall. Box-like channels are formed in the side walls and support trigger pins, spacing them in from the side walls. The mold includes blades on the upper mold half which extend down through the top wall to form the upper wall of the delivery tube. Additional blades on the upper mold half extend down through the top wall to form the channels and the trigger support pins in cooperation with mold surfaces from the lower half of the mold.

Abstract: An aerosol dispenser is provided which comprises a body (1), a closure (2) sealed to the body (1), and propellant (7) for dispensing material from the interior of the dispenser. The closure (2) is welded to the body (1) by a metal-to-metal weld. Preferably the welding is carried out ultrasonically. A method for assembling the aerosol dispenser is also provided.

Abstract: A hand held apparatus and method for creating an aerosolised mist of particles is described. The apparatus comprises a high pressure vessel containing a solution or suspension of the substance to be aerosolised in a high pressure liquefied gas, a manually actuatable valve and a spray nozzle. The high pressure liquefied gas is in a sub-critical state.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shirt pressing and finishing machine in which body buck assemblies are arranged upright between a pair of front and rear pressplates. The pressplates are provided with a metallic pipe having a superior thermal conduction through which steam is passed. The metallic pipe is contacted with the rear surface of each of the pressplates and bent into a state in which the front surface of each of the pressplates is heated uniformly. The pressplates are formed by sticking metallic plates from each other, and the rear surface of each of the pressplates is formed by a metallic plate having a superior thermal conductivity.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying information related to the weight of an article of clothing including a hanger-shaped frame and a scale for measuring the weight of an article of clothing disposed on the frame is disclosed. The apparatus may preferably include a visual indicator, such as a pointer and indicia, for displaying information to a viewer relating to the weight of the article of clothing, as desired. The scale may preferably be disposed within the frame and may be functionally connected to the frame such that the pointer moves within a slot in the frame as the scale measures the weight of the article of clothing. The indicia may be provided adjacent the slot to provide the viewer with visual information relating to the weight of the clothing as the pointer moves. In one embodiment, the scale may be calibrated within a predetermined range of weights where the indicia reflects more favorable attributes for a lighter range of clothing.

Abstract: Described is an aid for putting on elastic stockings having a closed toe portion, comprising: a substantially flat and flexible body (101) in the form of a single sheet of smooth material having a substantially triangular configuration; continuous closing strips (112, 113) provided along opposite edges (102, 103) of the body and extending along a part of the length of the sides (102, 103) of the triangular body (101); a coupling means (134; 146; 170) for coupling the closing means (112, 113) together, and a grip (105) provided near the top (104) of the triangular body (101) for removing the aid (100) from between a foot (64) and a stocking (63) applied around said foot. The closing means (112, 113) may be based on, e.g., Velcro.RTM., a zipper with a runner or a plastic zipper.

Abstract: An accessory for an automobile having an armrest structure or console intermediate the driver seat and the passenger seat includes a device adapted to cover the armrest structure. It is fabricated from cloth, leather, synthetic leather or other suitably pliable material. A top portion of the device rests atop the armrest structure while a side or skirt portion extends downwardly from the top portion alongside the armrest structure. One or more upwardly opening pocket arrangements on the side portion hold personal items (e.g., a beverage container, a pair of eye glasses, a mobile telephone, a pencil, a pen, a tape recorder, a calculator, a camera, a wallet). One forwardly opening pocket arrangement on the top portion holds a pad of paper and another holds business cards. The top portion of one embodiment includes a first leaf adapted to hold a laptop computer, a second leaf adapted to hold the pad of paper, and a third leaf that covers the pad of paper.

Abstract: A holder includes a holder body formed of flexible, resilient sheet material having tabs at its opposite edges. The holder body is formed of a non-skid, high-friction material such as rubber. In use, the holder body is wrapped about the article to be carried, such as a fluid-containing bottle, and carrier, such as a bicycle frame, forming an enclosure therefor. The tabs are secured to one another by Velcro.RTM.-type fasteners. By stretching the holder body about the article and the carrier, the article and carrier are releasably firmly secured to one another without slippage relative to one another or to the holder body.

Abstract: A Portable Exterior Vehicle Longload Carrier designed to assist in the safe and efficient transport of long loads. Two identical load carrying members are securely mounted by hanging a certain distance apart on a side of a vehicle allowing the long load to be transported along the vehicle's length. The load carrying members can be adjusted to mount securely to almost any vehicle and include padding on all surfaces coming into contact with the vehicle thereby preventing any vehicle damage. The load carrying members further include points to attach rope, wire, hook-end elastic bands or similar products to secure the load in place for safe transport.

Abstract: A method for transporting a flexible resilient strip longitudinally within a processing station so that a nominally curved lateral cross section of the strip is substantially flattened wherein the strip is advanced along an arcuate path to bend longitudinally and by that bending cause the nominally curved lateral cross section to collapse to a substantially flat lateral cross section without longitudinal tensioning of the strip.

Abstract: An aspirating jet piddler that has no moving parts and operates by swirling a textile tow line pneumatically to achieve a soft laydown with reduced tangling.

Abstract: In a variable-pitch tape feeder for feeding parts to a pick and place machine used to produce electronic circuit boards, a switch assembly is provided which controls the limits of a shutter movement and the tape advance distance dependent upon the desired pitch. The tape feeder uses a carrier tape to deliver parts to the pick and place machine. The parts are inserted into depressions at regular intervals along the length of the tape. To accommodate tapes of varying pitches, i.e., distances between parts, the feeder uses an electronic control unit to drive the tape feed mechanism and actuate a shutter. The shutter prevents small parts from escaping their respective depressions prematurely. The switch provides a stop surface which limits the rearward travel of the shutter and a flag which is detected by optical sensors to determine the position of the switch and thus the pitch desired by the operator.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided an explosively-actuated tool for use in setting fasteners into a substrate, comprising a barrel (2), a driving piston (6) mount within the barrel for driving the fastener into a substrate upon detonation of an explosive charge positioned at or adjacent the rear of the barrel, a firing chamber (8) defined in the barrel rearwardly of the piston, and a system capable of controlling the power of the tool by controlled venting of combustion gases from the firing chamber. The power control system comprises an exhaust port arrangement (14) leading from the firing chamber through the wall of the barrel, and a control member (16) for controlling the effective open area of the exhaust port arrangement. Particularly advantageously, the end of the control rod is provided with a concave arcuate control edge (16b) which provides a relatively uniform relationship between displacement of the control rod and the degree of opening of the exhaust port arrangement.

Abstract: A setting tool, actuated by highly compressed gases, for driving fastening elements into a receiving material, has an axially extending piston guide (7) forming an axially extending borehole (20) for a driving piston (21) axially displaceable in the borehole and made up of a head (9) and a shaft (8) projecting axially in a driving direction from the head. To return the driving piston (21) to a starting position after a fastening element is driven, three axially extending conical compression springs following one another and encircling the piston shaft are positioned between a stop (17) in the piston guide (7) and an end surface (18) of the piston head. Damping elements (14) are located between adjoining compression springs. In the compressed state of the compression springs, the coils in each spring are in a common plane with one another and are free of contact with one another.

Abstract: In a fastener-driving tool comprising a housing structure and a magazine, a structure fixed to the nosepiece is adapted to confine one of two sides of a leading portion of a strip of fasteners so as to guide the leading portion of the strip along fastener-guiding surfaces of the fixed structure. Moreover, a structure hinged to the nosepiece is adapted to be hingedly moved between an operative position and inoperative positions and is adapted when disposed in the operative position to confine the other side of the leading portion of the strip so as to guide the leading portion of the strip along fastener-guiding surfaces of the hinged structure. The hinged structure includes a polymeric cover hinged to the nosepiece, a holding member, and two wear guards, which are spaced one above the other, which are made of metal, and which are mounted so as to define the guiding surfaces of the hinged structure.

Abstract: A surgical device is described herein that can be used to fire different types and sizes of disposable loading units. In a preferred embodiment, the device applies parallel rows of surgical fasteners to body tissue and concomitantly forms an incision between the rows of staples during an endoscopic or laparoscopic surgical procedure. The device can be utilized with disposable loading units configured to apply linear rows of staples measuring from about 15 mm in length to about 60 mm in length and can be used to fire disposable loading units containing surgical clips and individual staples.

Abstract: A wire of predetermined cross section is provided and fed through a capillary having a bore of predetermined shape and sufficiently larger dimensions so that the wire can be fed through the bore without impediment and without being rotatable within the bore. The capillary is applied to the surface to which the bond is to be made with the smallest cross sectional dimension of the wire disposed between the surface to be bonded and any adjacent wires or bonds in order to minimize the possibility of contact with the adjacent wires or bonds. By utilizing a shaped wire having one narrow dimension and one wide dimension, the space between bond locations required to accommodate the wire can be decreased whereas the total current carrying capacity can be the same as in the case of round wires by having the same cross sectional area as the round wire since the wide dimension is directed away from any adjacent bond locations or the like. In other words, the wire to wire clearance is improved by using the shaped wire.

Abstract: A vertical pipe column assembly procedure involves the simultaneous welding and ultrasonic testing activity by using a plurality of welders progressing peripherally around a joint with the ultrasonic testing work similarly progressing peripherally around the joint between the welders. The temperature rise from welding activity is reduced by only partially completing the weld at a selected joint, then lowering the joint by the usual process of lowering or driving it downward one section length and completing the weld deposit at a lower work station. At the lower work station, ultrasonic testing again proceeds simultaneously between the peripherally progressing welders. An optional step used to improve joint strength, usable at selected joints needing the most strength, involves the application of an axial pull on the section above the finish welding activity. This axial pull places an axial stress in the partially completed weld.

Abstract: A reworkable cold welded microelectronic multi-chip module contains cold welded microelectronic chips in which the chip's cold weld metal bonding pads (3) are constructed of a metal having one hardness and the corresponding cold weld metal bonding pads of the multi-chip module's substrate (5) are of a different greater hardness, which, despite the difference in hardness, cold weld to one another. Two forms of Indium preferably serve as the metals. If for any reason the chip must be removed from the module, it is found that the cold weld breaks at a predictable location. A new microelectronic chip may thereby be cold welded to the module substrate as a replacement. New rework and testing procedures are thereby made possible.

Abstract: The container made of cardboard or similar material intended to the packaging of objects is formed from a blank which is comprised at least one flat rough form and which presents, when in flat condition, different components: a polygonal planar base intended to receive the objects to be packaged and walls adjacent to the base and intended to be straightened up with respect to said base in order to set the container in volume, a so-called "closure " panel being optionnally provided in order to close the container once the objects to be packaged have been placed on the base.

Abstract: A multiple-use, sealable flat envelope has a body of spunbonded olefin sheet. The body has one side edge with a mouth opening and a spunbonded olefin sheet closure flap extends continuously in one piece from the body on one side of the mouth opening. The flap has an inner surface facing and overlapping an edge portion of the body adjoining the mouth opening when the closure flap is folded back toward the body and fully extended over the mouth opening and against the body to close the mouth opening. Two adjoining but separate and spaced apart hot melt, pressure sensitive adhesive closures are provided on the spunbonded olefin sheet of the envelope proximal the mouth opening. One adhesive closure is located farther from the mouth opening than is the remaining adhesive closure.

Abstract: A message display apparatus for displaying messages and receiving mail includes a body which is attachable to a structure. A note pad is coupled to the front surface of the body. The front surface of the body also has a drawer slidably inserted into the interior of the body and a slot therein providing an opening into the drawer. A pair of spaced apart hooks downwardly extend from the lower end of the body.

Abstract: A storage phosphor reader comprising: a receiving station for receiving a cassette containing a removable storage phosphor; a movable extraction mechanism for extracting and replacing a storage phosphor contained in a received cassette; a bar code located on the cassette/storage phosphor, the bar code including dimension data of a storage phosphor contained in the cassette; a bar code reader located at the receiving station for reading the bar code dimension data on a received storage phosphor cassette; and control means for controlling the movement of the extraction mechanism relative to a received storage phosphor cassette as a function of the read dimension data.

Abstract: An electronic money system has an IC card for electronic money having a memory for maintaining money deposit and money debit information and another memory, such as an EPROM, for storing transaction data, including detailed information of transactions, such as the content of a typical receipt received from a retail store. The transaction information can be used at a later time in a personal computer so that an electronic record of household expenses can be maintained The transaction data that is stored includes the product name, price of the product, quantity of the product purchased and similar details of the transaction. The IC card memory can record the name and telephone number of a retail store where the card has been used or a network address can be recorded in the memory for use by a customer to access electronic direct-mail information by using a PC.

Abstract: In an electronic money storing apparatus in an electronic money transaction system for transmitting and receiving electronic money between electronic money cards holding electronic money, IC cards are loaded to each of a plurality of IC card read/write unit connected to a controller. Each of the IC cards holds electronic money and transmits and receives electronic money with another IC card in the electronic money transaction system. The controller reads and writes the electronic money of the IC cards loaded to a selected IC card read/write unit and transmits and receives the electronic money between that IC card and an electronic money storing media the external of the electronic money storing apparatus.