Abstract: This invention relates to a moulded container which comprises at least two container portions, each consisting of a bottom wall segment and a side wall, each side wall being integrally moulded with its associated bottom wall segment and retained in an upstanding relationship with respect thereto, the bottom wall segments being interconnected to form a bottom wall of the container, each bottom wall segment being connected with respect to the remainder of said bottom wall in a manner to permit flexing of the bottom wall whereby said moulded container may be moulded with said container portions disposed in a first configuration in which said bottom wall segments are inclined with respect to one another to dispose the side walls in a position facilitating removal from a mould and subsequent nesting of the containers and thereafter said bottom wall segments may be hinged along each hinge line to a container configuration.

Abstract: The invention is a disposable pet dish for feeding and watering pets. The disposable dish is presented in several embodiments to stand alone or to fit a variety of support frame structures. Such support frame structures, as part of the invention, may be of a wire frame type structure or of a monolithic molded frame type structure. The disposable dish may be formed in several configurations to fit the support structures. The disposable pet dishes are easily transported when travelling and eliminate the need for constant washing. It is a sanitary approach to pet feeding, to keep an area clean so that insects, rodents, and other pests are kept under control, and to provide a simple effective means of controlling the eating habits of pets.

Abstract: An open container which is nestable with an underlying similar container and which is provided with wedge members and one or more locking members. Each locking member on the overlying container, in response to a relative rotation of the two nested containers, will engage and ride upon a guide surface of a corresponding wedge member of the underlying container until such locking member comes into engagement with an abutment surface of such wedge member, to secure the containers in a relative angular position established thereby. Subsequent similar containers may be stacked, nested one in another, and in a similar manner, be secured in a common angular orientation.

Abstract: A stackable tapered tube body has an annular inwardly directed bead or corrugation in the region of the sealant layer. This provides that the tube bodies do not touch each other directly and that in particular the sealant layer is protected when tube bodies are stacked together.The beads or corrugations are produced by the tube shell being gripped substantially over its entire periphery, and deformed.

Abstract: A unitary, one-piece salt grid, not subject to disassembly during shipment or installation in a brine tank, which is nestable into other grids for convenient shipment or storage prior to placement into the brine tank. The unitary salt grid includes a generally planar platform suitable for supporting and elevating granular salt above at least a portion of a concentrate brine in the bottom of the brine tank by spanning the interior area of the brine tank at a spaced position above the bottom of the tank, reinforcing ribs forming an integral part of a lower side of the platform to maintain the shape of the platform under the weight of the salt on an upper surface of the platform, and a plurality of supporting feet also forming an integral part of the platform and adapted to engage the bottom of the brine tank and support the platform at the spaced position above the brine tank bottom. The supporting feet include hollow frusto-conical sections such that the salt grids are nestable into one another.

Abstract: A unitary nestable reclosable container is formed from a thin-walled clear flexible plastic or the like and includes a box-like base forming a receptacle for screws, bolts, etc. A lid is integrally joined to the base by a hinge and includes a peripheral groove having walls releasably engaging substantially planar side walls of the base for providing a sturdy closure. The peripheral groove further provides a wall which releasably locks with an upper portion of the base end wall providing a specially designed reversed taper spaced from a lower end wall portion by a restraining shelf. Each side juncture between the lid and base is substantially within a plane provided by the side wall while a label placed across such juncture forms a reliable seal.

Abstract: A sifter, shaped to nest within a similarly shaped sifter, includes a tapered, hollow body, a handle connected to the body and extending outwardly therefrom, and an actuating mechanism extending along the outer surface of the body for driving an agitator positioned within the body.

Abstract: A planter kit having component parts for assembly into a planter including a container, a transparent cover nesting in the container, and a dry, compresssed growing medium constrained between the container and the nesting cover. The planter kit is mounted in a cardboard package which is folded upon itself to form a pair of matching planar leaves and which has a through opening in at least one of the leaves of a size such that the container bottom and side projection through the opening with the rims of the container and nesting cover being matted between the leaves. A planter kit and package assembly is thus provided which maintains the nesting relation of the individual planter components during storing and shipping and which provides a space-saving display for the sale of the planter kit.

Abstract: A shipping and display container for cut flowers includes a stackable box having means for supporting a partly filled bucket of water in which the stems of the cut flowers are placed. The box is formed from a blank which, when folded to the box configuration, effects an improved seal at the lower corner regions of the box to retard leaking of water from the box. A false bottom holds the bucket in place. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the flower bucket is molded from plastic and has integral side flanges which extend downwardly from the mouth of the bucket in a somewhat pyramid shape to define a self-supporting arrangement for the bucket. The lower edges of the flanges are upturned to provide a water receptive trough to retard leakage of water from the box.

Abstract: A paint tray of a generally rectangular configuration having a flat bottom portion and an upwardly sloping bottom portion with surrounding upwardly extending side walls for containing paint is molded of a high density polyethylene plastic material and constructed with removable legs, the legs being molded of a generally L-shaped configuration having a pin member on one end thereof for engagement with a socket formed in the bottom of the tray for tight fitting interfering engagement therewith. The removable legs provides a design for easy molding and provides a construction which is stackable with the legs removed for ease in shipping.

Abstract: A stackable plastics pallet for packaging semiconductor discs on a gas-ti foil covering, said pallet having a plurality of circular depressions each for accommodating a semiconductor disc, and means for securing the discs between the pallets, the securing means being in the form of sloping part-sector shaped surfaces surrounding said depressions, with two opposite sets of sloping surfaces clamping the semiconductor discs at their outermost rims and immobilizing them thereby.

Abstract: A container is provided and comprises a deformable metallic container body adapted to contain a product therein and having a bottom wall and a side wall which has an a tubular upper portion terminating in an open end and a deformable metallic closure for said container body. The closure has a main body portion adjoined at its outer edge by an annular flange with the flange having a roughly U-shaped cross-sectional configuration defined by a bight with an inner leg portion and an outer leg portion extending from opposite ends of the bight; and, the inner leg portion adjoins the main body portion and the outer leg portion is disposed radially outwardly of the open end and terminates therebeneath.

Abstract: A nestable fruit harvesting container is formed from a metal basket-like frame and a flexible bag which is supported within the frame. The frame is generally frusto-conical in shape and includes vertically spaced top and bottom rings and a plurality of side braces which extend between the top and bottom rings. The bottom ring is smaller than the top ring, and the side braces diverge outwardly and upwardly from the bottom ring to the top ring. The bag includes a generally frusto-conical side portion which is confined within the side braces and a bottom portion which closes the bottom of the bag. The upper edge of the bag is secured to the top ring, and a reinforcing strip is secured to the inside of the bag opposite each of the side braces.

Abstract: A container for storage and transportation on end of several rolls of plastic sheet or film, said container having three sides, and at least one end with a plurality of openings therein adapted for an end of each roll to be anchored in each one.

Abstract: A molded plastic crate for eggs packaged in cartons and adapted to receive a plurality of layers of multiple cartons in a manner to releasably retain and to protect the individual cartons against damage during handling. The configuration of the crate permits stacking when filled or nesting when empty, resists lateral deflection of the side walls, and facilitates removal of the individual cartons for merchandising the eggs directly from the crate.

Abstract: The popcorn container and handle assembly includes a popcorn package having an open-top relatively shallow pan which has an annular rim and a detachable utensil gripping the rim of the pan. A transparent expandable plastic cover having substantially the same shallow outline as the pan extends across and into the pan, with the peripheral edge of the cover disposed between portions of the rim. A charge of popcorn kernels and cooking oil is confined between the pan and the cover. The detachable utensil is made from a single piece of solid metal wire of circular cross-section having the opposite ends thereof secured permanently together by welding to form an endless utensil. The utensil comprises a non-circular expandable and contractable loop for engaging the upper and lower surfaces of the rim of the pan and an elongated expandable and contractable handle of generally U-shape configuration extending from the loop.

Abstract: A pipeline weight container comprising a self-supporting container having a hollow body with an open top. Hollow legs extending from the body, away from the open top. The legs are spaced and shaped (a) to be locatable and a close fit over a pipeline of predetermined diameter and (b) to be stackable with two other similar units, one inside the container and the other outside. There is also disclosed a method of locating a pipeline in a predetermined position comprising positioning over the pipeline a plurality of units at intervals. Each unit comprises a pipeline weight as described above. The container is filled with sufficient weight of a material to locate the pipeline.

Abstract: The specification discloses a package for a plurality of semiconductor chips which enables both visual and physical inspection and testing of the chips prior to the opening of the package. The package includes first and second transparent plastic sheets each having an array of depressions formed therein. The sheets are adjacently disposed and the depressions are mated and nested with one another in order to form a plurality of discrete compartments for containing the semiconductor chips. The sheets are attached about the peripheries to form a package for transmitting the chips. Apertures are formed through each of the plastic sheets in the region of each of the compartments, the apertures being smaller than the chips to constrain the chips within the compartments while allowing access to the chips through the apertures to enable physical testing of electrical characteristics of the chips.

Abstract: A disposable plastic lid for a container includes a generally round closure wall and a depending peripheral skirt for engagement with the container. The closure wall includes an improved stacking facility by which a plurality of such container lids may be stacked one on top of the other in a manner which precludes the stacked lids from being jammed together. The stacking means also retards materially any tendency for the lids in the stack to slip sideways with respect to each other which provides a very stable stack without supplementary supports.