Abstract: Container bodies for a photographic film cartridge which has solved white powder generation problem by devising the Rockwell hardness, a blend of lubricants, a blend of polypropylene resins or a combination of a particular resin composition and groove formation. While, moistureproofness to can be improved by thickening the gate mark portion.

Abstract: A combined alarm system and window covering assembly has a top housing assembly, a bottom housing and a covering. A conductive wire extends from the top housing assembly down to the bottom assembly and up from the bottom assembly to the top housing assembly and is used for raising and lowering the covering and the bottom housing. The conductive wire is electrically coupled to an alarm device. An enclosure is adapted to cover to the top housing assembly and an alarm device is disposed in the enclosure. A rotatable electrical connector and a roll-up mechanism for raising and lowering the covering and the bottom assembly may also be disposed in the top housing. The rotatable electrical connector electrically couples the alarm device to the conductive wire. An optical fiber may replace the conductive wire.

Abstract: A sleeving device includes two side brackets. These brackets are secured to the side edges of a flap of a shipping box that contains a roll of sleeving material. The side brackets each engage a respective side edge of the flap in a respective channel. One of the side brackets further includes a guide that forms a funnel-shaped opening that facilitates the loading of film into the pockets of the sleeving material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the vertical packaging of webbing rolls. The system consists of a tier of webbing rolls consisting of a bottom tray, a plurality of webbing rolls positioned thereon, each roll enclosed within a cushioning sleeve and a top cap. The system components are preferably fabricated from corrugated material which has inherent cushioning characteristics and serves to deflect any damaging shipping impacts.

Abstract: A packaged roll of paper or other sheet material has a protective sheet of material wrapped around the circumference of the roll with overlapping longitudinally-extending edge portions secured together. The said protective sheet extends beyond the roll at opposite ends to provide projecting protective sheet portions which are crimped radially inwardly over the outer annular portions of the ends of the roll and a header assembly is located internally of the crimped over projecting protective sheet portion at at least one end of the roll.

Abstract: A storage device for storing Christmas lights assembled from a vertical core section, a pair of horizontal end sections, and a sheath. The device is constructed from corrugated cardboard. Each opposing end of each of the four sides of the core section includes both a foldable flap and a slot, which is formed adjacent the fold line of the flap. The horizontal end sections, located at either opposing core section end, each include a centrally disposed opening defined by four inward sides. Each inward side has a width substantially equal to the core section sides and includes an inwardly extending tab. When the core section is inserted into the centrally disposed opening, the tabs are received by the slots to secure the core section and end section together. Each end section also includes four locking regions, each locking region having a first folding element and a second folding element.

Abstract: A dispenser for rolled sheet material includes a container having at least one open end and a cap to close the open end. A slot is disposed along the length of the container parallel to its longitudinal axis with a flange extending from the slot and a cutting edge along the outer most edge of the flange. A thumb print size frictional surface is centrally located on the upper surface to permit the user to press the sheet material onto the upper surface to secure it during cutting on the cutting edge. A number of grooves may be disposed along the length of the flange parallel to the slot.

Abstract: In a container for a photographic film cartridge having a body and a cap fitted to said body, the improvement comprising that said cap is molded from a resin containing more than 20% by weight of a low-pressure linear low-density polyethylene which is a copolymer of ethylene and butene-1 and has a density of 0.90 to 0.93 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt index of 8 to 60 g/10 minutes.In the case of the molding resin for the cap of the invention, heat resistance is high, and this resin smoothly flow in a molding machine though temperature of the molten resin is relatively low. Accordingly, coloring troubles hardly occur, and molding cycle can be shortened. This resin is also superior in injection moldability, and molding troubles such as roping, camber, kink and deformation are rare. Mold shrinkage is also little. Since fitting strength of the cap and container body is large, the cap is scarcely detached during packaging process.

Abstract: A cap of a container for a photographic film cartridge is disclosed, which comprises a polyethylene resin having 4 to 60 g/10 minutes of melt index, more than 4000 g/cm.sup.2 of bending elastic modulus, more than 55 D of Shore hardness and more than 70% crystallinity. Therefore, the cap is produced without coloring troubles or molding troubles even if it does not contain a lubricant and has a sufficient fitting strength at a high temperature.

Abstract: A package for a photographic film cartridge which comprises a paper tube treated with a moistureproofing treatment. The paper tube contains a photographic film cartridge and has moistureproof caps fitted to both end openings of the paper tube. The inside surface of the moistureproof caps is joined to the inside or outside surface of the paper tube by thermal adhesion. In this package, since the package is composed of a naturally decomposable paper tube as the main material, the package can be made compact and lightweight, and waste treatment is easy.

Abstract: A container made up of a smooth, seamless, synthetic resin tube with air permeable end caps which removably fasten to each end, used for transporting animals. A holder made of corrugated paper with aligned holes on opposite panels through which the containers are inserted and held.

Abstract: A shipping container for fiber optic coils includes a pair of semicircular ody elements forming a generally circular body providing a circular chamber and having axially and outwardly extending flanges abutting along their mating edges thereof and radially extending projections at their axial ends. A pair of end caps have a cylindrical sidewall portion abutting the axial ends of the circular body, an end wall spaced therefrom, and radially extending projections aligned with those of the body. Fastening elements secure the flanges and projections in assembly. The container may be assembled about a coil supported on a winding mandrel by placing the two elements thereabout and securing the flanges to retain the coil therewithin. The body and coil may be removed from the winding mandrel and the end caps placed thereon. To remove the coil, one end cap is removed and the container aligned with the coil mounting fixture; the other cap is then removed and the coil moved outwardly of the body.

Abstract: Container bodies for a photographic film cartridge which has solved white powder generation problem by devising the Rockwell hardness, a blend of lubricants, a blend of polypropylene resins or a combination of a particular resin composition and groove formation. While, moistureproofness can be improved by thickening the gate mark portion.

Abstract: A protective cover is disclosed for covering material contained on spools, such as solder. The cover includes a plurality of tabs which are contained in a cavity to receive the spool. Each of the protective tabs has a horizontal slot engage a flange of the spool to retain the cover about the spool when the spool is placed in the cavity within the cover. One embodiment of the invention includes an elongated slot in one side of the cover to permit material stored on the spool to be withdrawn without removing the spool from the protective cover.

Abstract: A note roll (A,C) is disclosed for a dispensing device, (10,30) the note roll includes paper having a first side (11a) which is clean for note writing. A second side (11b) of the paper includes a self-stick adhesive strip (B,B') by which indeterminate or pre-determined lengths of paper may be dispensed from the roll with sufficient self-stick adhesive for attachment to a desired surface. Self-stick adhesive (B) is disposed on the paper of the note roll along its length and down a medial portion so that paper may be dispensed in indeterminate lengths with a strip of adhesive along the back. Multiple pre-determined pieces (13) of paper may be dispensed at one time or may be torn at perforations (12).

Abstract: A light-tight cassette, and method of making same, for enclosing and dispensing a roll of photosensitive web material. The cassette comprises a folded fiberboard housing having a plurality of housing wall portions with oppositely projecting lateral edges which define opposite sides of the housing. The plurality includes two planar wall portions that extend perpendicularly to each other to respective ends thereof which are disposed in spaced alignment to provide an opening between them. Two extruded plastic light-locking members are attached to those wall portion ends, respectively, one such member extending across the opening toward the other member to form a web exit passageway therebetween. The one member includes a resiliently flexible, inwardly projecting cantilever portion that is biased toward an opposing portion of the other member, both such portions having light-locking material thereon.

Abstract: A cartonless recyclable package for protectively enclosing a product, such as photographic film, comprises a recyclable plastic container and mating cap with recyclably compatible plastic labels thereon bearing product information. One such label on the cap has readily tearable tab portions extending therefrom and tautly secured to the container, to tear apart when the cap is first removed. A second label, secured to the container and overlapping the tearable tab portions, includes inner and outer sheets separably adhered together. The outer sheet can be peeled back to reveal information on the interfacing surfaces of both sheets, and then re-adhered to the inner sheet. A third label, separably adhered to the first label on the cap, may be peeled away and re-adhered to some other surface for reference after the product has been removed.

Abstract: A cartonless recyclable package for protectively enclosing a product, such as photographic film, comprises a recyclable plastic container and mating cap with recyclably compatible labels thereon bearing product information. One such label on the cap has readily tearable tab portions extending therefrom and tautly secured to the container, to tear apart when the cap is first removed. A second label, secured to the container and overlapping the tearable tab portions, includes inner and outer sheets separably adhered together. The outer sheet can be peeled back to reveal information on the interfacing surfaces of both sheets, and then re-adhered to the inner sheet. A third label, separably adhered to the first label on the cap, may be peeled away and re-adhered to some other surface for reference after the product has been removed.

Abstract: In a container for a photographic film cartridge having a body and a cap made of a high-pressure branched low-density polyethylene resin and fitted to said body, the improvement comprising that said polyethylene resin has a melt index of 7 to 40 g/10 minutes and a density of 0.918 to 0.930 g/cm.sup.3 and contains 0.05 to 1 wt. % of a fatty acid amide lubricant and that the bending rigidity of said cap is 1200 to 4000 kg/cm.sup.2.This resin for the cap is superior in fluidity, and molding troubles and coloring troubles at molding remarkably decrease. The molding cycle is also shortened. This cap is superior in fitness to the container body, and moisture sealing is improved.

Abstract: A light-tight cassette for a roll of light-sensitive photographic material, which may be readily assembled, and is constituted by a tubular body portion and molded end caps. The end caps have uniformly spaced outer and interior flanges forming a channel engaging the end margins of said body portion, said outer flange having along its corner portions extensions which have an axial dimension exceeding the axial dimension of the interior flange. The interfitting relationships between ensure maximum effectiveness in protecting light tightness.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cartridge for packaging a roll film. The cartridge has a film outlet that is composed of upper and lower lips, each lip has a light-shielding ribbon attached to the inside thereof. Both extended side edge portions of the ribbon attached to the lower lip are slightly bent downwardly. Both extended side portions of the ribbon attached to the upper lip are also bent downwardly at a slightly larger angle than that of the lower lip. Consequently both side edge portions of both upper and lower lips overlap in a more complete manner or are more positively joined together.

Abstract: A container body for photographic film cartridge composed of a resin comprising more than 70 wt. % of polypropylene resin, 0.01 to 2 wt. % of a fatty acid amide lubricant, 0 to 1 wt. % of an antioxidant and 0.01 to 1 wt. % of an organic nucleating agent of which the surface has previously been treated with a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of aliphatic metal salts, metal salts of alkyl lactic acids and metal salts of lactic acid.The container body of the invention is excellent in dropping strength, transparency and odor. The injection moldability is also excellent, because of good resin fluidity and high crystallization temperature.

Abstract: A golf practice net apparatus which includes an elongate cross-member having arm portions pivotable between a deployed position in which the arm portions are aligned with one another and a storage position in which the arm portions are in adjacent, generally facing abutment to one another. A net is secured along both arm portions of the elongate cross-member and is folded and unfolded in response to pivotal movement of the arm portions between the deployed and the stored positions of the cross-member. The cross-member is mounted on a pair of spaced apart support assemblies formed of assemblable and disassemblable components.

Abstract: A cartridge or cassette for light and pressure sensitive web-type media material includes a generally rectangular housing board received between a pair of identical housing ends, to retain a spool of such media material therein. The housing is formed with an exit opening in a front wall defined by an inwardly-extending flap parallel to the top forming a light-trap passage. Media material from the spool is guided through the light-trap passage with the outer pressure sensitive surface in non-contacting relation to the housing. The spool is formed with a central core which has an outer cylindrical surface free of discontinuities or irregularities. A pair of end flanges are received on the core having radial surfaces in close relation to the convolutions of the web.

Abstract: In a container for a photographic film cartridge having a body and a cap made of a high-pressure branched low-density polyethylene resin and fitted to said body, the improvement comprising that said polyethylene resin has a melt index of 10 to 50 g/10 minutes, a density of 0.920 to 0.935 g/cm.sup.3 and a molecular weight distribution of 3.3 to 8.5 and contains 0.01 to 0.9 wt. % of a lubricant.This resin for the cap is excellent in fluidity, mold shrinkage, moldability, etc., and molding troubles and coloring troubles at molding remarkably decrease. The molding cycle is also shortened. The resin is particularly suitable for molding using a mold for many pieces at once.

Abstract: A package for light sensitive materials, such as photographic film, generally includes a cylindrical body fabricated from wound paperboard or plastic and includes a closure member at each end to define a light excluding container. The body of the container includes end rings affixed to the body and capable of receiving either a fixed or a removable closure at each end. The ring is permanently attached to the cylindrical body and may provide cooperating means for receiving a removable closure on either or both ends of the container. A closure is removably secured to at least one end of the container by interengagement with cooperating threads or a bayonet joint. Each closure, whether permanent or removable, also includes a centering device which extends into the core of the wound film package and supports the film in a position out of contact with the interior of the container.

Abstract: A unique composite shipping container (10) comprises a straight tubular sidewall (12) of predetermined polygonal cross-sectional configuration which is preferably formed from corrugated fiberboard. Opposite open ends of the sidewall (12) are closed by foam end caps (14), which are preferably formed from expanded polystyrene to close the container and cushion the product (16) therein against shock. The end caps (14) are secured to the sidewall (12) by tape (18) or other suitable fastening techniques to seal the container (10).

Abstract: A magazine for light-sensitive materials comprises a tubular body and side plates covering each of both sides of the tubular body. The tubular body is formed by bending a sheet material having folded portions at both ends so as to form a slit between both ends and having such a structure that an upper part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near one end and a front wall part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near other end. A cured resin is provided within a space formed between the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part and a portion of the upper part corresponding to the folded portion. Otherwise, a forehead portion having a upper edge and a lower edge is formed of the bent material in an area between the upper part and the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part.

Abstract: A light-tight cassette is disclosed for handling and dispensing a roll of photosensitive web material. The cassette comprises a plurality of side walls erected or formed from a single sheet of material in which the ends thereof are folded back upon themselves in a triangular configuration to define a pair of faceted tubes. When the cassette is assembled, a narrow web exit passageway is defined by two opposed facets of the respective tubes. The side walls comprise first and second side walls of convexly outwardly curved cross sections adjacent the tubes. A pair of end closure caps serve to close the side edges of the side walls and to support the roll and core for unwinding rotation.

Abstract: A gun barrel cleaner comprises an elongated flexible shaft having a universal coupling secured to each opposite end and several different cleaning tips selectively threadably and detachably engageable with either universal coupling. One cleaning tip, a gun barrel bore obstruction remover, comprises a cylindrical body portion having a concave face at one end and securing means at the other end for attaching the tip to the shaft. A compact cylindrical container for storing and conveniently transporting the gun barrel cleaner is provided. In addition, an improved method of attaching a cleaning patch to a gun barrel cleaning tip having a patch receiving slot is provided.

Abstract: A light-tight, self-contained canister for preventing a roll of core wound photosensitive media, used in a microfiche or microfilm reader-printer, from being damaged or exposed to actinic light during shipping, storing and dispensing. The canister includes an open ended opaque tubular sleeve closed at both ends by opaque end caps lockingly interconnected by a rigid tie bar extending longitudinally between the end caps along the core of the photosensitive media. At least one end of the tie bar includes a pair of resilient fingers. The fingers deform upon pressure engagement with a central receiving aperture formed in the end cap. Each end cap also includes a hub portion sized to rotatively support the roll of core wound media within the canister. Also, in an alternative embodiment, the fingers may be associated with the aperture and deformable upon engagement with the tie bar.

Abstract: A container for a photographic film cartridge, of which mean thickness of peripheral wall is from 0.4 to 1.2 mm, and which is molded using a resin, comprising a polymer of which the content of propylene unit is more than 70 weight %, having a melt index of 16 to 80 g/10 minutes, having an yielding point of tensile stress of higher than 250 kg/cm.sup.2, having a bending elastic modulus of higher than 10,000 kg/cm.sup.2, and having a notched impact strength at 20.degree. C. measured by Izod testing machine of higher than 2.0 kg.cm/cm. This container is thin, and has superior fitness of its cap and body than conventional containers.

Abstract: A storage and dereeling apparatus is provided for storing and dispensing magnet wire or other reeled material. The storing and dereeling apparatus includes a container member in which a reel of magnet wire is placed with the axis thereof vertically disposed; and the apparatus includes a cover member. The cover member is automatically indexed to either of two rotational positions; and the cover member is releasably latched in a storage and transporting position wherein the cover member is adjacent to the spool of wire, to a preferred dereeling position wherein a space is provided intermediate of the reel of wire and the cover member to allow dereeling of the wire, and to an alternate dereeling position wherein the space between the reel of wire and the cover member is somewhat larger.

Abstract: Package of a plurality of unitized film rolls of polymeric wrapping film. Each roll is suspended on its core within the bulk package so as to be separate from each other film roll in the package, and so as to be physically spaced from confronting surfaces of the package. The film on each film roll is thus available to the customer free from distortion, abrasion and edge damage.

Abstract: A storage, shipping, display and dispensing package includes providing maximum protection for roll material during shipment by allowing the material to be shipped with its backing up, while permitting dispensing and display of the material face side up without rewinding. End pieces held adjacent the roll material by core inserts prevent coning while supporting the roll for rotation. The core inserts are barbed to preclude accidental withdrawal and have low friction bearing surfaces which ride in the end pieces and rotatably support the roll within the container. An access opening in the front face of the container permits the carpet to be dispensed and selectively positioned slots and tabs allow like containers to be stacked one above the other and locked together.

Abstract: In the manufacture of cylindrical tubes for containers, a foil web and at least one fibre web are helically wound on a heated, rotating mandril. The foil web is wider than the fibre web and its edges lie outside the long edges of the fibre web. The foil web and the fibre web are fed in to the mandril at an angle such that the free edges of the foil web are placed against each other and welded together.

Abstract: A carton for cutting and dispensing sheet material in flattened form with a cutter mechanism for effecting same. The cutter is part of an upper bar suitably attached to the top wall member of the carton with the top normally maintained open by a spring carried by one or both of separate plastic end cap members. The upper bar also carries a pair of parallel plate-like members which extend laterally for substantially the full length of the carton and engages and wipes past a pair of similar parallel plate-like members on a lower bar attached to the front panel. This wiping action places the sheet material, which is manually positioned to overlie the lower bar, in tension with the cutter severing the tensioned sheet material.

Abstract: A plastic container for storage and shipment of thin wire which is convoluted on a plastic reel has a bottom wall which is detachable from one end portion of a cylindrical barrel having windows for transparent or translucent plastic panes whose inner surfaces are flush with the inner surface of the barrel and whose edge faces are provided with tongues or grooves for complementary grooves or tongues in the edge faces bounding the respective panes. The windows are connected to each other by webs which are recessed or embedded into the material of the barrel.

Abstract: A container for a line or cable for towing an aerial target, the container having a streamlined cylindrical body stowed under the towing airplane, with an open rear extremity into which the cable cartridge or loader is inserted. A pyrotechnical release device located near this rear extremity permits release of the line after the towing maneuver is completed. The loader is a tubular casing in which a piston is frictionally mounted. The cable is coiled in the casing on top of the piston. The front and rear ends of the cable project from the rear extremity of the loader.

Abstract: There is a plurality of lengths of gift wrap sheet material of different patterns, color or finish on a single core, each sheet having a different width such that the under-rolled sheet is partially exposed for visual appreciation, the whole being overwrapped by a transparent film.

Abstract: A plastic bag such as trash can liners, grass and leaf bags, sandwich bags and the like is reinforced by placing spaced ribs therein, integral with the wall structure, the ribs having a rib-to-rib spacing in the order of 1/8 to 2 cm, the ribs being peaked and merging smoothly from a projecting peak to the thickness of the walls between the ribs, the peaks extending about 1.5 to 10 times the wall thickness of the film which is preferably, in the order of about 0.4 to 2.0 mils. Upon extrusion, the extrusion die is formed with small notches with rounded corners so that the ribs are extruded while the film material is extruded, and provide additional material in the region of the ribs which merges smoothly with the material being extruded to form the film. Such rib-reinforced bag structures may be produced by forming a continuous roll of such bags, the individual bags in such a roll being readily separated along predetermined lines of weakness.

Abstract: A container for transporting and protecting forming packages of fiber strands, and especially glass fiber strands, is disclosed. The container comprises a tray to which the forming package is attached, a pair of end caps for protecting the fragile edges of the forming package of strand having means thereon for frictionally engaging a covering tube, and a covering tube frictionally engaging the pair of end caps and covering the end caps, the tray, and the forming package of strand. The composite container protects the strand from damage during transit and especially from damage to the edges of the forming package due to bumping. The composite container allows unwinding of the strand without the necessity of removing the forming package of strand from the container.

Abstract: There is disclosed a textile package which offers the advantages of strength, ease of assembly, and low cost. A plastic hub is passed through a hole in each end panel. The hub consists of a flat section for bearing against the outer face of an end panel, a large central sleeve which passes through the hole in the end panel and is inserted into one end of a central connecting tube, and several peripheral lugs which pass through smaller holes in the end panel which surround the central hole. The hub is secured to the end panel by nuts on the inner face of the end panel placed over the lugs, and the central sleeve is secured to the connecting tube by circumferential sharp-edged ridges. Looking at the package from outside an end panel, the central sleeve is hollow as are one or more of the lugs. This permits each end panel to be fixed to a mandrel so that the package can be turned as fabric is wound around the connecting tube.

Abstract: A cassette for holding a roll of flexible material such as copy paper including a housing and a core on which the material is wound rotatably mounted within the housing. Braking means is provided for exerting a retarding force on the core as it is rotated with respect to the housing. The housing includes a plurality of components and locking means for connecting the components whereby the locking means is destroyed upon disassembly of the components.