Abstract: A package for food products comprises a first container and a second container, which are filled respectively with a solid or solidifiable food product and a food product which can be used as a garnishing for the solid or solidifiable product.The first container is generally dish-shaped and has a rim with at least one straight side, and a straight edge located adjacent the bottom of the container and parallel to the straight side of the rim. The straight side and edge together define a flat side face of the first container.The second container is generally flat and has dimensions such as to allow it to be applied against the flat side face of the first container. The second container is at least partly compressible in order to expel the garnishing product contained therein.

Abstract: A probe cover holding and dispensing arrangement for an electronic thermometer includes a chamber in the thermometer housing to receive a carton containing the probe covers. A tear-away flap on the carton exposes some of the covers. An aperture in the chamber, closable by a sliding cover, provides access to the exposed covers.

Abstract: A thermoplastic bag structure comprising a front and rear bag wall, a bottom and an open mouth top portion, said open mouth portion being characterized by having two pairs of single film handle loops each of which are located at opposite ends of said open mouth portion, the handles of each pair being side-by-side and each handle is an integral single film loop extension of said front and rear bag walls. The bag structures can be unitized by providing a detachable tab at the bag mouth opening and unitizing the bag structures through this tab. The method of forming said bags involves providing an end sealed collapsed thermoplastic film tube and removing plastic to form a bag mouth opening and handles at one end thereof. The resulting bag is an ungussetted bag which can be unitized into a pack by providing a detachable, unitizing tab at the bag mouth opening.

Abstract: A bag pack and individual bags characterized by having handles which are integral extensions of the front and rear of said bag. The bags have a mouth which includes stress relief curves on both sides of an upperly extending tab. The tab includes at least one orifice adapted to securely surround a suspension means. Below or below and above and closely adjacent to said orifice is bonding means fastening all of said bag structures together and simultaneously contributing rigidity to said orifice. Below said bonding means an above the points of maximum amplitude of said stress relief curves is a line of preweakening in said tab to accommodate tear-off of individual bag structures from said pack.

Abstract: A pad of plastic bags comprising a plurality of bag units stacked upon one another, each unit comprising two open-mouthed pockets separated by a selvage portion between the open mouths, the open mouth of one pocket being in the reverse plane from the open mouth of the other pocket whereby when the unit is folded over on the selvage portion the open mouths of both pockets face in the same direction, and transverse score lines in the selvage portion adjacent each open mouth to permit tearing away of each pocket in the unit from the selvage portion, the selvage portions of all the units being connected to form a base portion.

Abstract: A sheet metal tray for retaining corrugated fin strips for heat exchangers has a plurality of upright partitions spaced laterally apart to accommodate the corrugated strips. The tray has an open end wherein the bottom wall of the tray projects beyond the adjacent ends of the partitions and is formed with a plurality of inwardly extending notches adapted to interengage with spaced heat exchanger coolant tubes supported on an assembly fixture.

Abstract: A pad of plastic bags comprising a plurality of bag units, each comprising a bag-forming pocket and a selvage portion, the pockets having front and rear walls and sealed edges and the selvage portions being integral with the pockets and also having front and rear walls, the selvage portions being connected to form a base portion, and the units each having a transverse slot forming an open mouth for the pockets and acting to separate the pockets from the base portion.

Abstract: A dual compartment powder cartridge including a porous shell formed by fusing the lapped side edge portions of a blank of sheet material to a central portion thereof to form two compartments, a pointed closed first end on the cartridge, powder in the dual compartments, and a sealed second end on the cartridge for closing the compartments. A machine for forming a dual compartment cartridge including a first station for scoring a strip of material with spaced parallel score lines, a second station for folding the strip of material along the score lines to cause opposite edge portions to be placed in lapped engagement with each other and with the central portion of the strip, and a third station for ultrasonically welding the lapped portions to provide a seam between two adjacent compartments.

Abstract: A tear-off pad and rail clip assembly (10) is disclosed. The assembly (10) includes a plurality of individual sheets (11a), each having a top edge. The sheets (11a) are cooperatively connected at their top edges to form a pad (11) having a top edge (12). A mounting plate (14) is constructed of a flexible resilient material and includes a tongue section (23). The mounting plate (14) is pivotally mounted to the pad (11). The plate (14) is rotatable between a down position and an up position. The plate (14), when in the down position, has a top side (18) having an apex position generally above the pivot and the top side (18) has generally downwardly depending segments (18a) and (18b), wherein the plate (14) is rotatable to an intermediate position between the up and down positions, wherein the top side (18) of the plate (14) is below the top edge (12) of the pad ( 11) when in the intermediate position.

Abstract: A plastic bag having front and rear walls, an open bag mouth, and a detachable tab upwardly projecting from the front and rear walls centrally along the bag mouth. The tab is integral with the bag walls at a pair of opposed readily severable areas below the bag mouth, and non-integral with the bag walls between the severable areas. The bags are provided in packs with the bag secured at the tabs.

Abstract: A plastic bag unit comprising a box having a removable flap covering an aperture in the front wall of the box, and a pad of bags positioned within the box, the pad comprising an upper base portion from which depends a stack of bag-forming pockets having open mouths, the pockets being connected to the base portion by score lines, and the open mouths facing the aperture; the base portion having connections at each side acting as anchoring counterforces against forward pull of individual pockets through the aperture, and the wall portion framing the aperture acting to exert additional counterforce against the forward pull, whereby the resulting pockets are simultaneously removed from the base portion, extracted from the box and fully opened by a simple forward pull.

Abstract: A coffee filter package which can be commercially distributed on top of a coffee can and retains a supply of nested coffee filters therein. The coffee filters are subsequently utilized by the consumer for filter dispensing. The package includes a cylindrical upper receptacle portion for receiving the supply of filters and retaining them in a compacted, pleated form. A peripheral skirt portion depends from the lower end of the receptacle for snapping onto the lid of the coffee can.

Abstract: A wicket bag packet for use in conjunction with automatic and semi-automatic packaging apparatus comprises a stack of flattened flexible packaging bags, each of the bags having an open end and having wicket holes adjacent to the open end, and a wicket including a substantially rigid upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion preferably being a flexible, tubular binding member extending upwardly through the wicket holes in each of the bags and joining with the substantially rigid upper portion of the wicket to form a continuous flexible loop for holding the packaging bags together in the stack.

Abstract: A food package and storage unit including a carton, a tray having an opening at the top adapted to be readily slid into and out of one end of the carton and a flexible separator sheet interleaved between thereby to separate food items positioned in the tray. A second sheet extends in a direction transverse to that of the separator sheet to wrap the ends of the food items.

Abstract: A storage unit for use in storing a prosthetic heart valve in conjunction with a plurality of heart valve orifice measurement gauges that includes separate container units (11 and 12), which container units can be selectively connected and disconnected by a connecting unit (13). Opening units (14) are provided for each container unit (11 and 12) to allow access to secondary container units (16) contained therein. The secondary container units contain separately the prosthetic heart valve and heart valve orifice measurement gauges under sterile conditions. Object indicia (18) are provided on the container units (11 and 12) to indicate the contents and size of the heart valve stored within the storage unit. Substantially opaque package unit envelops the first and second container units (11 and 12), though a window unit (21) is provided to allow visual observation of the object indicia (18).

Abstract: A package of resealable polymeric bags is formed by stacking the bags formed with a flap having a strip of pressure-sensitive adhesive extending beyond the flap such that the sealing flap of each successive bag is the mounting means for that bag in the package, and each bag is positioned with the open side exposed on the top of the stack to afford easy insertion of an article in the bag, removal of the bag from the stack, a folding and sealing of the flap.

Abstract: A printer thimble element storage case is disclosed having a front cover hingeably connected through a spine to a back cover. The inside of the back cover has attached thereto an element tray including a top surface spaced away from the inner surface of the cover and having a plurality of wells formed therein matable about the printer thimble elements. A spindle concentrically mounted in the bottom surface of each well securely retains the thimble elements. A top surface of the element tray is of generally rectangular configuration and slopes away from the edge thereof downwardly and toward the inner surface of the back cover, terminating in a mating surface and a stop ledge. The front cover includes, on an inner surface thereof a tray cover including a wall having an engagement edge formed thereon for receipt of the element tray.

Abstract: A pad of plastic open-mouthed pockets overlying each other and separably connected by a common base portion, the base portion being formed of selvage portions extending from the open mouth of the pockets and being secured together at the sides thereof and at spaced connections at the free edges thereof, and a support hanger secured to the base portion and having an extension extending beyond the base portion in a position to be secured to a surface, the pockets being individually separable from said base portion to form individual bags.

Abstract: A reclosable package comprises a body member of semi-rigid preformed plastic with a first planar marginal portion and a central portion shaped to provide a packaging chamber. A base member has a corresponding second planar marginal portion and a central panel to provide a closure for the packaging chamber. The body member and base member are permanently bonded along one pair of adjacent sides of the first and second planar marginal portions. A hinge is situated within the pair of adjacent sides, which automatically locks when the package is open and unlocks when the package is closed. The hinge may comprise a line of perforations with integral locking tabs situated in one of the sides, or in a mat interposed between the sides. Different patterns of cut configurations may be employed as the hinge as long as the hinge includes areas which protrude to hold the package open when the lid is rotated past 90 to the open position.

Abstract: A hermetically sealable and reclosable package includes a body member of semi-rigid preformed plastic having a first planar marginal portion and a central portion shaped to provide a packaging chamber. A base member has a second planar marginal portion and is adapted to close the packaging chamber. A mat is sandwiched between the body member and the base member, with the mat, body member and base member being of generally similar rectangular configuration. The mat is permanently attached to either the body member or the base member on all four side edges thereof. The opposite side of the mat is permanently attached to either the body member or the base member along one side edge and peelably attached along the remaining side edges. The package is opened by separating the peelable sides so that the body member or the base member may be rotated about a hinge defined by the permanently affixed side edge to expose the products of the package.

Abstract: A bundle of welding electrodes or rods are confined within a substantially rigid cylindrical tube of extruded plastics material, and each end portion of the tube receives a cylindrical cup-shaped body of an end closure member molded of a more resilient plastics material. The body of each closure member is slightly larger than the inner diameter of the tube and is press-fitted into the tube to form an air-resistant seal with the tube. Either closure member may be removed by pulling the body from the tube or by impacting the body with the welding rods within the tube, and each closure member is reusable and resealable with the tube.

Abstract: A bag dispensing package includes a stack of flat bags and a surrounding flexible receptacle, conveniently in the form of a plastic bag. Each flat bag within the receptacle includes a pair of opposed walls, one of the walls having a manually graspable flap on an outwardly facing surface and the other wall including an extension that extends outwardly from the remainder of the bag. The flexible receptacle includes an access opening arranged to communicate with the manually graspable flap of the uppermost bag of the stack while the remainder of the receptacle retains the extension of the outermost bag within the receptacle. The access opening is normally closed, being defined by a pattern of perforations so that when it is desired to utilize the bags, the opening is formed by tearing the receptacle along the pattern of perforations. The uppermost bag is then removed by grasping the manually graspable flap and pulling the bag outwardly of the receptacle.

Abstract: An improved package for carded merchandise includes a collapsible box having first and second opposing side walls, a bottom wall extending between the first and second side walls and attached thereto at first and second fold lines; a top wall is connected to the first side wall along a third fold line and the top wall is attached to the second side wall. There is also a releasable interconnection device for interconnecting the top wall and the second wall.

Abstract: A thermoplastic bag having front and rear walls with smooth upper edges defining an open bag mouth. A pair of laterally spaced integral loop handles extend upward from the bag mouth and include detachable mounting tabs projecting laterally inward from the handles at an intermediate point along the height thereof. The tabs are remote from the bag mouth and, in a bag pack, form the securing area for the bags.

Abstract: A system for making sweets and similar articles of food available to the user. The system comprises a holder adapted to be affixed to e.g. an automobile dashboard, and a package, preferably a blister pack, containing the sweets, and adapted to be slid into the holder so as to rest upon a support. The package can be opened so that the sweets, lying on the support, can be taken out individually.Preferably several unit packs are interconnected and can be separated by perforations or other tearing lines.

Abstract: A package for a cryogenically frozen liquid material which includes an enclosed flat pouch formed by two layers of a cryogenically durable, transparent, thermoplastic polymer film having heat-sealed inner edges with laminated fins extending outwardly along at least about 15% of the pouch periphery, the fins being extensions of the 2 film layers and having a heat-sealed area along their inner edges, and also at least in a marginal area adjacent their outermost peripheral edge. The invention also includes a protective supporting package to enclose and securely hold the pouch and its contents.

Abstract: Lateral packaging for holding together articles (8, 8a, 13, 13a) superimposed according to their original orientation.The lateral band (1) enclosing the periphery of a group of articles (8, 8a, 13, 13a) presents at least two series of parallel and superimposed slots (7, 7a) in which are engaged the angles or the sides (9, 9a, 14, 14a) of the rims of the articles (8, 8a, 13, 13a) superimposed according to their original orientation, the said slots (7, 7a) being provided in alternate manner on the sides (3, 3a) of the band.The invention is used for the lateral packaging of articles.

Abstract: The package comprises two trough-shaped containers, one of which receives a filling of a food product and the other of which receives auxiliary garnishing products intended to be applied to the food product at the moment of consumption. The containers are interconnected at their free edges with the interpositioning of a laminar sealing element.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a package for the display, sale and eventual use of page-markers which is formed of a sheet of paperstock material of a generally polygonal configuration defined by a pair of generally parallel spaced side edges and generally parallel spaced top and bottom edges with at least two lines of weakening disposed generally normal to each other, a first of lines of weakening being spaced below and in parallel relationship to the top edge, the second of the lines of weakening being spaced inboard and parallel to the side edges and extending between the first line of weakness and the bottom edge and defining therewith at least a pair of page markers joined to each other along the second line of weakening, each of the pair of page markers having a U-shaped cut line opening toward the first weakening line to define a page-engaging tab, and means in the form of an opening between the top edge and the first weakening line for thereby suspending the package for display purposes.

Abstract: A segmented multi-product package assembly contains articles such as hypodermic syringe tip caps. The package assembly includes a tray which contains a plurality of receptacles having open ends associated with an upper surface of the tray. These receptacles are arranged so that sealing areas on the upper surface lie between adjacent open ends. A cover is removably sealed to the sealing areas and covers the receptacles. The cover is partially removable from the tray to expose a selectable number of articles while the unused articles remain protected in sealed receptacles.

Abstract: A shipping carton which contains other product cartons is designed so that it can be cut open with a knife without exposing the contained product cartons to damage by the knife. At least one side wall of the shipping carton is inwardly bowed so that the inner product cartons will be shifted away from the edges of the bowed side wall thereby leaving an internal void adjacent to the edges of the bowed side wall. A knife can be inserted through the edges of the bowed side wall into the void to cut the shipping carton without cutting the inner product cartons.

Abstract: A shipping carton which contains other product cartons is designed so that it can be cut open with a knife without exposing the contained product cartons to damage by the knife. At least one side wall of the shipping carton is inwardly bowed so that the inner product cartons will be shifted away from the edges of the bowed side wall thereby leaving an internal void adjacent to the edges of the bowed side wall. A knife can be inserted through the edges of the bowed side wall into the void to cut the shipping carton without cutting the inner product cartons.

Abstract: A specialty package in which a plurality of flexible cloth bags are shipped with the bags neatly folded in flattened condition and arranged side-by-side in separate layers, simulating separate compartments, within an outer shipping container. The compartments are provided by rectangular pieces of sheet material which are equal in number to the bags and which serve a dual purpose, functioning as expanders for display of the bags at the point of sale.

Abstract: A recloseable bag package is provided by closing the top of a filled bag to form a neck, preferably trimming the walls of the bag to the same height, folding over a portion of the neck, preferably only once, and sealing the folded over portion of the neck to a side wall of the bag using a composite tape comprising a length of a first tape having a non-setting adhesive coating on one surface and a length of a second tape overlapping one edge of the adhesive coated surface of the first tape. The first tape seals or reseals the bag, and the second tape provides a tab for peeling the first tape partially from the bag to open the package and also provides a vehicle for coupons or other printed matter. Apparatus is provided to close, trim and fold the bag and to form and apply the lengths of composite tape.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for protecting thermolabile goods from degradation or destruction from high temperatures by surrounding the goods with a compound having a melting point about 3.degree. to about 5.degree. C. lower than the thermosensitive temperature of the goods and a heat capacity sufficient to protect the goods when the temperature of the environment exceeds the temperature of the goods. A representative compound is sodium sulfate decahydrate also known as Glauber's salt. In a preferred embodiment, the compound prior to use is melted, absorbed in a bibulous material, and then sealed in a plastic bag. In still another preferred embodiment, the method surrounds the compound with a layer of outer insulation which is adjacent to the outside container, which is made of cardboard, paper, and/or wood.

Abstract: A card for mounting and displaying snack foods and other products packaged in bags is provided, which has a matched pair of locking tabs defined therein. The tabs are forwardly deflected to receive the reversely folded end flange of the bag therebehind, and are then forced rearwardly through the plane of the card to position the upper corners of the bag therebehind. This will provide secure, two-point support for the product bag, while also permitting ready removal at the point of sale. Generally, a multiplicity of bags will be mounted on the card, arranged in rows and shingled columns thereon. In certain embodiments, the tabs are desirably formed with nibs on their upper edge to deform and thereby better grip the bag, as is most desirable when the bag is made of a flaccid material.

Abstract: A dispenser for a pad of advertising materials for dispensing and presentation on a one-by-one basis. The dispenser includes a hanger for supporting the sheets of advertising material. The hanger is attached to the sheets by a pivot through the sheets and the hanger so that the hanger can be rotated 180.degree.. In a first position, the hanger is engaged with a price channel as is commonly used in retail outlets. The hanger uses a tab punched into the hanger to engage the price channel when it is in this first position. Upon rotation of the hanger on the pivot 180.degree. to the second position, the hanger is attached to a vertical surface by an adhesive strip affixed to the rear of the hanger.

Abstract: A system for the packaging, shipment, storage, and reconstitution of dry pharmaceuticals includes a flexible bag manufactured from two layers of plastic laminated film and a rigid port-forming member. In the system, the package is used for shipment and storage of dry pharmaceuticals and for their reconstitution in a liquid solution and their intravenous administration. A plurality of such packages may be handled as an assembly by flexible plastic strips both during processing and packaging and during the reconstitution of the dry medicine as a liquid solution. The flexible plastic strips are formed with a plurality of cavities. Each cavity of the strip has a plurality of sites located in its central portion and adapted to engage and retain the port-forming member and to protect its opening from contamination. A plurality of such package assemblies can be enclosed within an outer protective bag to provide protection against moisture and the effects of the environment during shipment and storage.

Abstract: A package containing a stack of rectangular, plate-shaped parts such as electronic components to be subsequently utilized comprises an elongate tube having a rectangular internal cross section corresponding to that of the parts. A stop member abuts against each end of the stack adjacent the corresponding extremity of the tube. At least one stop member is frictionally slidable in the tube with a clamp fit and has a portion projecting beyond the corresponding extremity of the tube. The arrangement of the two stop members with respect to the stack and the tube is such that, regardless of which extremity of the tube happens to come into contact with an object during transport of the tube, the position of the stack within the tube remains substantially unchanged. The projecting portion of the frictionally slidable stop member enables such stop member to be removed from the tube when it is desired to utilize the stacked parts.

Abstract: A pad of plastic units comprising a plurality of bag pockets overlying each other in layers, each pocket having an open mouth and an extension of its rear wall, there being a score line in the extension defining the edge of the rear wall of the bag when the bag is severed from the pad. The extensions of all the pockets being secured together to form a base portion for the pad, and welds or similar connections at the side of the base portion which form side anchors to provide a counterforce when a forward pull is exerted at the mouth of an individual pocket, whereby the bag is completely opened simultaneously with its being severed from the pad, and a handle constituted by a slit or similar device in the base portion to permit entry of the fingers of a hand or any other desired support means which will act to support the pad while an individual bag is severed therefrom.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imposed means of ensuring that the sealing edge(s) of a flat, for instance rectangular, detergent-containing sachets is (are) kept closed. The sealing edge is of the type which is sealed with such a glue that it opens in the water of the washing machine at a temperature above room temperature. The improved means consists in that said sealing edges of the sachets may be bent as they are packaged in a box, as a result of which premature opening of the sachets is prevented during transport or after they have been introduced into the washing machine.

Abstract: This invention relates to an integral multi-compartment combination package and stirrer device. A hollow tubular body is bonded together with end caps and one or more compartment separators are bonded inside the hollow tubular body. A die cut slot in the tubular body forms an opening to each compartment and the contents are contained in the compartments with a tear-away or perforated sealable tab affixed atop of each compartment emptying slot. The user can remove the tab to empty the contents of one or more of the additives into a beverage and then utilize this package itself to stir the additives into a hot or cold beverage. Other conventional opening methods may be used as alternatives to the tear-away tab method.

Abstract: A disposable shipper-dispenser comprises telescopingly assemblage carton top and bottom members. The bottom member includes spaced sidewalls, an open top and an open front. The sidewalls have downwardly and forwardly inclined bag-handle-guide edge portions and a vertically extending intermediate edge portion defining a stop at the forward end of the inclined portion. Each of the sidewalls additionally includes a vertical front edge which is spaced forwardly from the stop edges to define a bag-handle spreader-hanger therebetween.

Abstract: A meditation supporting device is disclosed including a variety of religious or inspirational messages as indicia upon scrolls which are separately inserted into capsule-like containers, a plurality of the capsule-like containers, with a variety of the messages, being disposed within a large display container for selective removal therefrom to permit extraction of their individual message-containing scrolls for the purpose of assisting in or promoting religious or inspirational meditation, discussion or the like.

Abstract: A utensil for reconstituting a two-component dehydrated dish includes three approximately cup-shaped container members having each a bottom wall and an annular wall transverse to the bottom wall and bounding an open side of the member opposite the bottom wall. A first container defines a cavity dimensioned to receive the other two members substantially entirely. The bottom walls of the first and of a second member are imperforate, the bottom wall of the third member being formed with a plurality of perforations. Positioning means permit the second and third members to be positioned in the cavity of the first member in respective positions in which the bottom walls of the second and third members are transversely offset from each other and from the bottom wall of the first member, and the second and third members are open in the same direction as the first member.

Abstract: A packaging unit for the packaging of fruit or like articles, comprises a rigid open-top box-like container made of plastics, and a plurality of substantially rectangular pocket trays disposed vertically in the said container, with one side resting on the bottom of said container. Each pocket tray is made of foamed plastic sheet and presents a plurality of staggered parallel rows of upwardly directed pockets, in which the top rim of each pocket has an approximately triangular shape in plan, with curvilinear convex sides, the vertexes of each triangular pocket being arranged at a higher level than the sides joining the said vertexes, whereby two adjacent pockets of one row and the intermediate pocket of the adjoining staggered row define, in correspondence of the common vertex, a triangular pyramidal projection. The side of the triangular pyramidal projection, which is part of the said intermediate pocket, is concave.

Abstract: A composition, cartridge, and process for bedding anchorage rods, particularly in mine galleries.A mixture of silicate solution and sand/powdered silica are provided in one chamber of an anchoring cartridge. A breakable liner is provided in the cartridge between the mixture and a portion of plaster to be admixed therewith. The cartridge is placed in position and the anchorage rod is inserted thereby breaking the liner and securing the rod in place.