With Access Means For Manual Content Removal (e.g., Desk Tray) Patents (Class 206/555)
  • Patent number: 5593075
    Abstract: A holder for parking garage keys and rectangular documents is to be used for storing credit card sized pass-keys, credit cards and similarly dimensioned items inside motor vehicles. The holder has a fold-and-finish construction. The holder comprises a back face, a front face connected to the back face at the bottom of the holder, and two side faces connected to the back face at the sides. The front face has a substantial indentation and beveled top edge so as to allow easy access to the contents of the holder. The holder is intended to be mounted in an motor vehicle in order to provide ready availability of parking garage pass-keys or other cards or documents, such as credit cards and visas, that might be necessary while travelling by motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Inventor: Donald A. Schumer
  • Patent number: 5533318
    Abstract: The invention is a newspaper storage and bundling system, comprising a bin having a bottom panel and four side panels attached to the bottom panel and perpendicular to one another, defining a storage space. A lip connects the side panels opposite the bottom panel. Four reels extend downward from the lip, each near the center of one of the side panels. A rope assembly comprises a rope assembly spacer and four rope ends extending from the rope assembly spacer. The rope assembly spacer is placed on the bottom panel and the rope ends are each wrapped around one of the reels. Newspapers and the like are collected inside the storage space into a newspaper pile, until it reaches the lip. The rope ends are then unwrapped from the reels and are brought together around the newspaper pile and are tied into a knot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Inventor: Marie R. O. Murat
  • Patent number: 5513746
    Abstract: The present invention provides a portable display device for transporting and displaying material. The display device has a main, base tray component and a display member component. The base tray component and display member are semi-permanently attached. The display member component has at least one internal cavity and one associated external receptacle and is movable relative to the base tray component between a closed transport position and an open display position. When in the closed transport position, the base tray and display member are nested, and when in the open display portion, the display member component is generally upright and transverse relative to the base tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Inventor: James K. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5497877
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a single sheet sandpaper delivery system which includes at least one stackable tray having a support surface, with at least two sides, wherein one of each said sides is connected an opposing edge portion of the support surface and extends generally normal thereto, and wherein the support surface has an edge portion laterally spacing the sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Ali Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Ali, Terry L. Ali
  • Patent number: 5467871
    Abstract: A key chain note holder includes a fiat housing (10) having a transparent side (17) and an opaque side (18). An elongated slot (12) extends into the housing between the sides for slidably receiving a note card (13) having a white, reusable writing surface (13A), and a brightly colored opposite surface (13B). The housing also includes a hollow shaft (20) extending thereinto for slidably receiving an erasable marking pen (21), and another hole (14) for receiving a key ring (15) for carrying one or more keys (16). The note card and pen can be removed from the housing for note taking, and replaced therein for convenient storage when done. The note card can be reinserted into the slot with the writing surface facing the transparent side of the housing, so that the notes are conveniently visible; the housing also protects them from accidental erasure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Inventor: Norman DeField
  • Patent number: 5445265
    Abstract: A storage container comprising an outer shell and an insertable drawer member configured and dimensioned for receiving and storing information-bearing discs and accompanying printed matter. The insertable drawer member includes features to store the discs by contacting non-information bearing surfaces thereof as well as means for selectively retrieving the printed matter together with the disc from the outer shell. The container of the invention additionally comprises a tamper seal formed integral therewith which fractures the first time the drawer member is withdrawn from the shell for determining whether the storage container has ever been opened to access its contents after it was sealed at the factory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Reynard CVC, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur G. F. Herr, Robert W. Johnson, Toby S. Welles
  • Patent number: 5415514
    Abstract: Sheets are stacked in a container substantially open at its front, and which has a pair of sidewalls and an upright back wall having a pair of edges each secured to a respective adjacent edge of the sidewalls. After a stack of sheets is formed within the container by depositing them through the open front of the container, the bottom of the stack or container is supported, and the supported stack and the container are lifted and moved from a first location to a second location. Because of the open front, the container can be slipped from around the stack to leave the stack standing at the second location free of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Inventor: Floyd S. Butterfield
  • Patent number: 5366213
    Abstract: Documents before and after scanning are handled by providing a document container having: a bottom, two side walls, and one end wall; a lid hinged to the body near the one end wall, the lid defining a top and an opposite end wall; the bottom having a cutout opposite the one end wall to facilitate manually removing a stack of documents from the container when the lid is open; and a latch for releasable holding the lid closed against the body. The document container is supported at an angle with fits lid open and the one end wall at the top on a container support having a pair of tabs for aligning a bottom edge of documents placed in the container and limiting the height of a stack of documents placed in the container. A stack of documents is loaded in the document container and the container is closed and latched. The container is then transported with the aligned edge of the documents down to a document scanner input station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Polachak, Robert J. Brasch
  • Patent number: 5363974
    Abstract: A two-tier stackable tray assembly (10) is provided comprising a first and second trays (12,14) including a bottom wall (22) having guide rails (28) and a first U-shaped bracket (1) including a bottom leg (60), a top leg (62) and a bight portion (64). The bracket bottom leg (60) is received by the guide rails (28) of the first tray (12) in snap-fitted relation and the top leg (62) is received by the guide rails (28) of the second tray (14) in snap-fitted relation above the first tray (12). A three tier stackable tray assembly (20) is provided comprising an additional third tray (16) and a second U-shaped bracket (2). The third tray (16) includes a bottom wall (42) having guide rails (49) and the second U-shaped bracket (2) includes a bottom leg (160), a top leg (162) and a bight portion (164).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: American Trading and Production Corporation
    Inventor: Eric P. Chan
  • Patent number: 5360106
    Abstract: A wafer transporting/storing method includes steps of accommodating one wafer in each flat casing, and transporting/storing the casing. A wafer carrier includes a flat casing, one side surface of which is opened as a wafer entrance/exit, a cover for closing the wafer entrance/exit, and a cover urging device, disposed between the casing and the cover, for urging the cover in a closed direction. The flat casing has a space for accommodating one wafer. In the carrier, at both sides of intermediate portions of the upper and lower surfaces of the space are end portions inclined in the directions from each intermediate portion toward both ends of each of the upper and lower surfaces so that an interval between the upper and lower surfaces of the space becomes narrower toward both ends of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakayama, Masuo Tanno, Kazuhiro Mori
  • Patent number: 5348147
    Abstract: A cardboard carton is constructed that is particularly useful for holding a stack of paper so that individual cut sheets from the stack may be readily removed. The carton bottom has an open top and substantially open ends and closed sides, while the carton top has a Z-fold top panel, and one or more tear strips between adhesive connecting the carton top to the carton bottom and the main part of the carton top. The carton bottom, with its open top facing downwardly, is either moved over a stack of paper, or formed over the stack of paper. Then it is rotated 180.degree. about a horizontal axis (as by pivoting a U-shaped continuous conveyor about a horizontal axis), and conveyed to a station where it is moved with respect to a carton top so that the open bottom of the carton top goes over the carton bottom, and then is glued in place. Two opposite flaps on the carton lid may be glued to the bottom surface of the carton bottom panel to provide a lifting space beneath the carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas M. Gottfreid
  • Patent number: 5310061
    Abstract: A cartridge in a book format for accommodating two decks of word-puzzle playing cards. The cartridge includes a top plate and a like base plate simulating the front and rear covers of a book whose inner surfaces, when the book is closed, are then in parallel relation. The top and base plate are interhinged by a slat that simulates the spine of the book. Formed on the inner surface of the base plate are two side-by-side compartments, the two decks of cards being received in these compartments. Formed on the inner surface of the top plate is a rectangular flange within which the two compartments nest when the book is closed, the flange then simulating the pages normally sandwiched between the covers of the book. Printed on the face of each card is a puzzle represented by two words, each having the same number of letters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Inventor: Maurice S. Kanbar
  • Patent number: 5310059
    Abstract: A cassette for a photographic element of the kind used in computed radiography comprises a first cassette portion and a second cassette portion that are telescoped together during assembly to form the cassette. The first portion has a rectangular panel and edge walls extending around three side edges of the panel. The second cassette portion comprises a rectangular panel on which the photographic element is permanently secured. An edge wall is attached to one side edge only of the rectangular panel of the second cassette portion and it extends between the edge walls of the first cassette portion when the two portions are assembled together. A locking mechanism carried by the cassette portions holds them together in assembled relation but is easily released by an actuator for removing the second cassette portion and the photographic element so they can be delivered together to a computed radiography reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Robertson
  • Patent number: 5253757
    Abstract: A drawing receptacle can be adapted for use with the drawing output of such computer-directed printers, such as a laser printer. Such drawing receptacles can comprise a base, drawing retention means located about the base forming an open receptacle top and being adapted to retain drawings inserted into the open receptacle top, and a receptacle floor which is yieldably carried by the drawing receptacle above its base and within the drawing retention means and which is adapted to support drawing stacks of variable quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Ball State University
    Inventor: James S. Locker
  • Patent number: 5249686
    Abstract: A system is provided for packing, shipping and automated unloading of stacks of box blanks so as to minimize damage to the box blanks and facilitate the insertion of the box blanks into an automated packaging machine. A fitted shipping case, filled with stacks of box blanks and upper and lower inserts, has a plurality of holes in its upper and lower flaps for cooperating with an automated unloading machine. Inserts enclosed in the shipping case minimize damage due to shifting of the box blank stacks, provide added resistance against case failure during transit, and cooperate with the automated unloading machine to facilitate removal of the box blank stacks from the shipping case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald L. Brookman, Everett C. Grollimund, Gary E. Grollimund, Steven F. Spiers
  • Patent number: 5219090
    Abstract: A holder has two main walls, a plurality of transverse walls, and an internal partition extending parallel to the two main walls to divide the holder into two compartments. At one side the holder has a first opening, which gives access to the first compartment, and a second opening, which gives access to the second compartment. The holder further comprises a cover arrangement with a first cover, which in the closed position closes the first opening, and a second cover, which in a closed position closes the second opening and extends both over the first opening and the second opening. The first cover is connected to the partition via a first hinge and the second cover is connected to the first cover via a second hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Norbert C. Vollmann
  • Patent number: 5207329
    Abstract: A filling tray is made in a rectangular shape having three side edges formed into two vertical end walls and a vertical back wall and the other side edge formed into oblique flanges and comprises two elongated grooves transversely disposed on the top thereof at two opposite ends, a plurality of ribs transversely and latitudinally formed on the bottom thereof, and two elongated rails formed on the top edges of the vertical end walls. By inserting the elongated rails of the filing tray into the elongated grooves of a similarly constructed filing tray, a plurality of filing trays of the same structure can be attached together, with one rising above or behind another, for arranging papers conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Inventor: Shih -Ming Hwang
  • Patent number: 5154291
    Abstract: A plurality of storage trays are arranged for a stacked relationship relative to one another defined by side walls mounting projections on top surfaces of the side walls received within slots directed through bottom surfaces of an adjacent side wall of an overlying tray. The tray structure defines a cavity between a forward edge of a floor and a rear first wall. A rear second wall is spaced relative to the first wall to mount spaced flanges therewithin, wherein the flanges are further received within openings within an overlying tray. A ratchet plunger is positioned medially of the first rear wall to provide selective projection of a compact disc positioned on the floor in communication with the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Inventor: Francis Y. Sur
  • Patent number: 5152405
    Abstract: A note pad holder and note display bar is shown. It comprises a base having a front, a rear, and a deck member, the top of the deck member having means for retaining a block of postable, self-adherent notes, a note display bar, and bar support means pivoted to the base, the bar support means supporting the note display bar above the base when said support means is folded upwards to a substantially erect position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Schriner
  • Patent number: 5147041
    Abstract: A generally rectangular container for the storage and protection of sports cards having a rigid Internal Enclosure (6) which is slidably insertable and completely removable from a rigid External Enclosure (8).The External Enclosure (8) incorporates two Fingergrip cutouts (8a) and (8a') located to the front and to either side of the External Enclosure (8) to permit grasping the Internal Enclosure (6) for removal. The Internal Enclosure (6) has the capacity to store a plurality of cards and permit random access of such cards by utilizing spaced Bottom Rails (6a) and (6a') which create a gap sufficient for the insertion of a finger or fingers to raise any specific card, or series of cards, up and out of the card stack. The front panel insert (10) to the Internal Enclosure (6) is transparent, thus permitting visibility of the first card in any sequential ordering of cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Inventors: Richard Lemieux, Terrence Neufeld
  • Patent number: 5096368
    Abstract: Sheets are stacked in a container substantially open at its front, and which has a pair of sidewalls and an upright back wall having a pair of edges each secured to a respective adjacent edge of the sidewalls. After a stack of sheets is formed within the container by depositing them through the open front of the container, the bottom of the stack or container is supported, and the supported stack and the container are lifted and moved from a first location to a second location. Because of the open front, the container can be slipped from around the stack to leave the stack standing at the second location free of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Inventor: Floyd S. Butterfield
  • Patent number: 4988002
    Abstract: A container for receiving stacks of sheets which are connected with each other in a corner by means of staples. The support surface (1) provided for supporting the stacks has a recess (31) in an area aligned with the stapled corners of the stacks. The recess allows the stapled corners to be deflected downwardly. The support surface (1) is uneven, its uneven shape being selected such that the stack to be received is supported at least along an elevation in such a way that the inherent stiffness of the stack is broken so that the stapled corners can be reliably deflected down into the recess (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ulrich Fischer, Frank Goeltenboth, Hans-Juergen Kurze, Heinz Wagner
  • Patent number: 4967909
    Abstract: A cartonboard container for housing and facilitating removal of sheet products one at a time. The container includes a receptacle for housing a stack of individual sheet products. The receptacle has a top wall, bottom wall and a side wall encompassing and connecting the top wall to the bottom wall forming an enclosure. A sliding closure member is disposed about the receptacle which is selectively reciprocally slideable axially along the receptacle between a closed position covering the dispensing aperture and an open position. A pair of interior hinged panels attached to the sliding closure member extend inwardly into the container to elevate one end of the stack of sheet products when the sliding closure member is moved toward the open position. This allows for easy grasping of the transverse edge of one sheet product for removal through the dispensing aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Gary E. McKibben
  • Patent number: 4964683
    Abstract: A first housing has an opening for a toothbrush handle. A second housing within the first housing automatically rotates to an open position upon the removal of the toothbrush, exposing the pills or other medicine contained within the second housing to a potential pill taker. In a second embodiment, a toothbrush having a serrated handle cannot be removed from the housing until the pill drawer is first opened. In a third embodiment, the toothbrush cannot be reinserted in the first housing without first moving the second housing containing the pills towards the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Inventors: Steven L. Sugarek, Chester A. Sugarek, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4946031
    Abstract: This holder is particularly intended for a sheet block and comprises a tray-shaped body having a missing front edge and defining a holding seat for a stack of sheets. The tray-shaped body has the rear edge thereof which is inclined forward so that the front edges of the stack sheets are offset to each other, and is slidably supported by a base body upwardly closed by the tray-shaped body. The base body has front and rear edges which have a forward inclination corresponding to the inclination of the rear edge of the tray-shaped body and defines a plurality of compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Assignee: Nava Milano S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giulio Confalonieri
  • Patent number: 4919287
    Abstract: A display unit for a consumer product such as a compact disk, digital audio tape, cassette tape or video tape. The display unit includes a frame having at least one generally rectangular opening adapted to receive the consumer product therewithin. The opening is defined by parallel top and bottom frame portions joined by parallel side frame portions. The frame has a front side through which the consumer product can be placed in the opening and a rear side opposite thereof. The display unit is also formed such that one of either the top and bottom frame portions or the side frame portions is spaced apart by a greater distance then the corresponding vertical or horizontal dimension, respectively, of the consumer product and the other of either the top and bottom frame portions or the side frame portions is spaced apart by a distance substantially the same as the corresponding vertical or horizontal dimension, respectively of the consumer product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Inventors: Wayne J. Haskett, Leonard Andersen, John A. Andersen
  • Patent number: 4919290
    Abstract: A salvage-facilitation device in the form of an open-topped wastebasket in its upper region, and in its lower region providing a plurality of receptacles for the convenient sorting and accommodation of pre-sorted storage of discard items; and the provision of the plurality of receptacles immediately adjacent the wastebasket hopper encouring an automaticness of the user to pre-sort the discard items, for more assurance of resource-conservation and higher salvage value of the variety of discard items typically discarded in many offices or similar situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Inventor: L. Kathleen Wadel
  • Patent number: 4899886
    Abstract: A package for displaying and dispensing cards, including a front panel and a rear panel forming a recess therebetween in which cards may be placed. The front panel has an opening therein through which the cards may be seen and through which a finger may touch and push on the card. A resilient biasing means is placed in the recess at a position between the cards firmly in the recess. A cam surface is formed along the edge of the recess with the opening so that when the card is pushed toward the opening, a single card engages the cam surface and part of it moves out of the recess so that it may be readily grasped and removed from the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventor: Norman A. Johansen
  • Patent number: 4860904
    Abstract: A back, two sides continuously decreasing in height from the back toward the front, a bottom and a front, significantly lower than the back, are secured together to form a paper stacker. The bottom is domed at is midpoint between the sides with the dome extending from the front to the back. A pair of quarter round moldings are disposed at the juncture of the sides and bottom and extend from the front to the back. Thus, there is formed a right parallelapiped with an essentially open front and slopping sides. The back can be extended by an extension attached to the stacker by teats which are attached to the sides of the extension and fit into slots extending through the back of the stacker at the junction with the sides allowing the back of the stacker and extension to form a coplanar surface when so attached. Multiple slots and teats are deployed at essentially equal intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Inventor: Henry R. Williams
  • Patent number: 4848584
    Abstract: A dispenser for a stack of sheet material comprising sheets joined in the stack by a narrow band of pressure-sensitive adhesive on one side of each sheet adjacent one end. The dispenser includes a support surface for the stack, holding structure for holding the bottom sheet to the support surface, and an abutment for engaging an edge of the pad opposite the adhesively joined sides of the sheets for restricting peeling forces being transferred to the bottom sheet of the pad during separation of the top sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: David C. Windorski
  • Patent number: 4838422
    Abstract: An open-ended data storage container for the storage of a disk cartridge, such as an optical disk or magnetic disk with data stored thereon. Two engaging members form an enclosure with a spring like retainer member for containment or ejection of a disk cartridge from the data storage container. Mating rails on the top and bottom surfaces of the data storage container allow for engaged stacking of like data storage containers horizontally or vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Empak, Inc.
    Inventor: Barry Gregerson
  • Patent number: 4834242
    Abstract: A shippable quantity of sheet products includes a shipping pallet, a bottom cap member, positioned on the pallet, and a plurality of supplies of the sheet products stacked in one or more layers on the bottom cap member. Each of the plurality of supplies of the sheet products including a stack of the sheet products, a stack cover, having a top and four sides, with the stack cover positioned on top of the stack of sheet products, and a stack tray, having a bottom and four sides. The stack tray, receiving the stack of sheet products, has a pair of generally vertical perforation lines on each of two opposing ones of its four sides. Each pair of the generally vertical perforation lines defines an access tab therebetween which may be at least partially separated from the side of the tray by tearing along the perforation lines. This exposes the side of the stack of sheet products in the tray. A shim in the bottom of the tray supports the stack of sheet products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: The Standard Register Company
    Inventors: Donald A. Selack, Robert J. Smith, Roland R. Weeks
  • Patent number: 4807758
    Abstract: A tote box for discrete sheets from a reproduction apparatus, such as an electronic printer, has a bottom wall on which the sheets are stacked. Four side walls project upwardly from the bottom wall, and handles on two opposite side walls can be grasped by a person to lift and remove the tote box loaded with sheets from the reproduction apparatus. When sheets are delivered face down into the tote box with the first page facing downwardly, the entire stack needs to be inverted as it is removed from the box. In order to unload and invert the sheets, the tote box is turned first ninety degrees onto the back wall of the box and then, by grasping handholds formed in the bottom wall, the box is turned another ninety degrees to completely invert the box, thereby leaving the stack of sheets on a support with the first sheet facing upwardly. The box is removed from the stack of sheets using the handholds on the bottom of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Charles R. Hubbard
  • Patent number: 4789065
    Abstract: The invention discloses a box-like container open on one side thereof. A removable wall is slidably received through the open face of the box-like container, the wall being smaller than the open face, and having extending tongues on each of the ends that are larger than the open face. Slots are provided in the walls of the box confronting the tongues, and the wall is retained in the box by engaging the tongues in corresponding openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Inventor: Ray Roy
  • Patent number: 4773638
    Abstract: The deposit drawer includes a first slide which is guided carriage-like in a longitudinal channel open at one side which is provided in the deposit drawer by a second slide guided carriage-like in a longitudinal channel of the first slide and having a detent angle put in place thereon; and by a fashioning of both slides in such fashion that the upper surfaces of the deposit drawer, first slide, and second slide merge flush into one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Computer Gesellschaft Konstanz mbH
    Inventors: Konstantin Koutoudis, Guenter Reisacher, Dieter Wurster
  • Patent number: 4765482
    Abstract: A pad dispenser for moistened treatment pads includes a wide mouth container and a pad elevator which is receivable within the container. The pad elevator has a generally planar pad support platform to whose periphery are joined a plurality of spaced, resilient collets. A generally vertically directed grasping stem is formed in the middle of the platform. A plurality of treatment pads or disks are positionable in a generally on edge array on the pad elevator's platform. Access to these pads is afforded by raising of the pad elevator within the container. Once raised, the pad elevator will be maintained in its elevated position by a sliding interference fit between the elevator collets and the container sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Company
    Inventor: Anthony D. Delia
  • Patent number: 4746110
    Abstract: A depositing port and a dispensing port are disposed adjacent to each other in a banknote depositing and dispensing machine. A slidable shutter is provided to cover the dispensing port and depositing port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Chiba
  • Patent number: 4738364
    Abstract: A portable medicine protector for maintaining the temperature of medicine stored therein from rising above a threshold temperature and for preventing the temperature of medicine stored therein from falling below a second threshold temperature. The present invention consists of hollow walled container which has a cavity formed therein. The container is filled with a suitable liquid, (e.g. water, BLUE ICE, etc.) which may be frozen in an ordinary household freezer environment. A depression or cavity is formed in the container for receiving medicine, such as bottles of liquid medicine. The bottom and sides of the cavity include a plurality of ribbed members to prevent direct contact between a medicine bottle and the side walls of the container. By preventing point contact of the medicine with the side walls of the container, freezing of the medicine is inhibited and in most cases prevented. An outer casing consists of a sleeve of insulating material which in the preferred embodiment is pliable foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Medicool, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Yeager
  • Patent number: 4696399
    Abstract: A notepaper dispenser for holding and dispensing sheets singly from a pad of notepaper with the sheets held in the pad by a narrow band of adhesive on one side of each sheet and adjacent one end is disclosed which has a support surface for the pad, a clamp for holding the bottom sheet in an area spaced from the band of adhesive in fixed position in relationship to the support surface and an abutment for engaging an edge of the pad opposite the end of the sheets joined together by the adhesive for restricting peeling forces resulting from peeling the top sheet being transferred to the bottom sheet of the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: David C. Windorski
  • Patent number: 4691826
    Abstract: An information recording carrier-holding frame comprising a substantially perpendicular depression peripheral wall defining a depression with a bottom wall; planar lugs provided at at least two opposed side portions of the depression peripheral wall and projecting to the inside of the rectangular depression; and a support provided in and rising from the bottom wall and spaced from the depression peripheral wall portion opposed to the depression peripheral wall portion which is located on the insertion side of the information recording carrier and has no planar lug. An information recording carrier-holding sheet is also disclosed which comprises a plurality of such information recording carrier-holding frame laterally and vertical arrayed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Slidex Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Ozeki
  • Patent number: 4674635
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a single cup-shaped paper coffee filter from the top of a stack of filters 100 is described which includes a base 11 having upper and lower surface, 11a and 11b in which the upper surface is for splaying the stack of filters. A compression plate 13 supported by a pivot pin 14 is mounted adjacent the upper surface of the base for splaying the stack of coffee filters, and a backstop 17 is mounted adjacent to the compression plate on the top of the base for bending the stack of coffee filters enabling a single coffee filter to be dispensed from the stack. The base includes suction cups for mounting the apparatus to a hard surface while dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Inventors: Donald H. Huldin, Janice C. Jordan
  • Patent number: 4667828
    Abstract: A dispenser for holding a pad or stack of paper sheets joined by bands of pressure-sensitive adhesive along one edge portion of each sheet. The dispenser includes a support surface for the pad, and means for holding the bottom sheet to the support surface comprising a slot communicating with the support surface through which the bottom sheet on the pad passes, and a clip which attaches that bottom sheet to a rib on the dispenser to retain its position through the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Bruce E. Samuelson
  • Patent number: 4634001
    Abstract: A box, particularly for holding floppy discs, has an outer sleeve enclosing a drawer. The drawer can be withdrawn partially from the sleeve to a position where pins moulded inside the sleeve and sliding in grooves in the sleeve limit the withdrawal. The drawer and sleeve can then be swung with respect to each other and the drawer moved back on itself. The open box is self-supporting in this invert-V configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Inventor: Thomas C. V. Wakelin
  • Patent number: 4630731
    Abstract: A preformed plastic blank and a brochure holder assembled therefrom. The holder includes a front panel with an adjoining bottom panel and two adjoining side panels. Adjoining each side panel is a back panel. Each panel has a raised center portion to provide for enhanced torsional rigidity, and the adjoining panels have perforations at their common edges. To facilitate access to the brochures, the bottom panel has an inclined surface formed therein sloping downward from the rear of the holder toward the front to urge any brochures held therein towards the front of the holder. The assembled blank is held together by complementary projecting hollow fingers and cavities formed on the marginal portions of the back panels and on a flap pending from the bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Lewis L. Albery
  • Patent number: 4623073
    Abstract: A card and pamphlet dispenser or vendor box comprising a rather flat vertically elongated box with a rearwardly sloping bottom wall spaced slightly from the rear wall of the box to define a transverse slot through which the cards or pamphlets may be withdrawn singly; the vendor box further comprises a mounting structure or hanger having a rear plate, a spacer plate, and two flanges which are adapted to engage a variety of common supports so that the box may be mounted from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Inventor: Ernest E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4605577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for packaging and a method of using double-faced adhesive tape. A strip of waxed or otherwise non-stick material is folded to form a pocket in which a piece of double-faced tape having a hold tab at one end thereof is inserted such that the hold tab projects from without the pocket. To apply the tape, the wrapper and projecting hold tab are positioned between two pieces of material that are intended to be taped together. A pull tab, which is connected to the wrapper, extends out from between the two pieces of material. Pressure is then applied to the material surrounding the hold tab in order to retain the hold tab in position, and the pull tab is pulled away from the hold tab and tape. As a result, the non-stick wrapper is removed from the tape, leaving the double-faced tape and the attached hold tab in position between the two materials that are being taped together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Inventor: Steven H. Bowytz
  • Patent number: 4593816
    Abstract: A container for storing and transporting letter mail and other flat articles, comprising a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, a bottom member and a rim member extending outwardly from the side walls and end walls along the perimeter of the container, which are integrally formed as a unit. The side walls, end walls and bottom member define an enclosure for receiving articles. A removable cover member is provided for being positioned substantially in registration with the bottom member to cover the enclosure and protect the contents of the container. The container is preferably comprised of a lightweight material and manufactured using a thermoforming process. Rib members are disposed at pre-determined positions on the side walls, end walls, bottom member and cover member to provide structural integrity for the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Inventor: Keith A. Langenbeck
  • Patent number: 4511034
    Abstract: A kind of diskette case includes left and right case bodies. A flange is set on the periphery of the interior side of each case body. A cylinder is set on the center of each case body. By means of the sturdy structure of periphery flange and cylinders this case can protect diskette held therein from being damaged by outside physical changes, dust, dirt, moisture, sunlight etc. An elastic tongue plate with semi-circular opening on its center of edge of upper side is connected to the lower side of the right case body to allow diskette can be pulled out from and put into the case with fingers very easily after opening the case. Meanwhile a label used to fill out diskettes number and name is provided to stick on case's back for easy-finding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Inventor: You-Chwen Pan
  • Patent number: 4499128
    Abstract: An extruded plastic tray has along the upper side of its rear portion a forwardly opening "C"-shape channel into which "C"-shape clips slideably engage by bowing the bights of the clips so that the arms of the "C"-shape clips can pass between the arms of the "C"-shape channel on the tray. In the bights of the clips are "I"-shape slots through which the ends of divider strips may be forced so as to bend back the side edges of the stem of the "I".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: American Desk Mfg. Co.
    Inventor: Myron A. Strausheim
  • Patent number: 4415079
    Abstract: A holder for accommodating a variable number of photographic prints comprises a housing having a viewing window against which the uppermost print is resiliently biased. The holder includes a slide which may be partially withdrawn therefrom to gain access to the prints, the resilient bias being suppressed during withdrawal of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret