Abstract: A plastic needle package is disclosed with parallel partitions defining compartments in which needle constraining projections are provided by controlled deformation of the partition top and to facilitate removal of needles each partition is interrupted between its ends to encourage bending of the package to expose needle extremities for access.

Abstract: A display system is provided for consumer fluid product containers of the tubular, crimped-end type. A carton whose top panel can be folded back to reveal the contents and form a display board receives a tray having a series of parallel rows. Each row or trough has one or more individual pockets formed by low partitions, and each pocket has a plurality of members projecting from either pocket side to releasably grip a received crimped container end. The pockets of any one row are skewed from the pockets of the row before it or behind it, creating a close packing, mutual support and fixed positioning of the containers inside the carton.

Abstract: A sample organizer that will retain a number of fluid samples such as blood samples, for example, wherein each such sample is contained in an individual plastic collection tube. The plastic collection tubes fit into horizontally defined apertures which allow the tubes to be inserted without undue force. The apertures are specifically designed to allow secure insertion and retention of blood samples, for example, without promoting hemolysis. The fluted carriage design also prevents the sample collection tubes from spontaneous dislodgment. Sample organizers may be "stacked" or nested due to the lightweight frame design and further, provide for fluid sample identification such as number, name, source, verification, etc.

Abstract: A three-component tray-type packaging unit for semiconductor wafers, compatible with automatic equipment, includes a wafer carrier enclosed between a tub-shaped lower portion for receiving the wafer carrier and a matching lid. The wafers are fixed at four contact points-namely, in the wafer carrier by two rows of spring tongues arranged tangentially with respect to the wafer, and in the matching lid by two rows of inwardly projecting retention cones.

Abstract: Book style cassette holders or albums are mass produced from sheets of thermoplastics material by unwinding a relatively rigid or stiff thermoplastic sheet from a roll and successively thermal forming the sheet into a plurality of pairs of adjoining trays in side-by-side relation connected by flexible spines and surrounded by marginal portions. The thermal formed areas, preferably composed of two rows of album trays with two sets in each row, are successively severed from the sheet into blanks. Each tray portion of a blank has a bottom surrounded by a hollow peripheral wall with the hollow face of the wall surrounded by a rim providing a pocket. The blanks are fed successively, hollow face upwardly, through a plurality of stations which successively apply adhesive in the pockets, deposit cardboard stiffeners in the pockets, feed a flexible cover sheet and, if desired, a film sheet over all or part of the cover sheet. Printed sheets can also be deposited on the cover sheet and thus covered by the film sheet.

Abstract: A tray for supporting a taco in an upright position. The tray may be formed by molding or die forming. The midportion of the tray sides contacts the taco to hold it upright, while the ends of the tray are enlarged to inhibit tipping over of the tray and taco.

Abstract: A tray assembly having a self-contained drinking cup and utensils. The drinking cup is removably mounted on the tray and is movable between a folded storage position and an upright usage position. A clip on the side of the tray holds the cup in its storage position. The tray is also covered with a cellophane seal which is bonded to the clip. The clip engages a rod extending across the interior of a housing containing the trays so that when a tray is removed the clip automatically breaks the cellophane seal and releases the cup.

Abstract: A slide file sheet includes a film holding plate having a plurality of rectangular recesses aligned with each other in rows and columns, frame supports for retaining frames of slide films in the respective rectangular recesses and protrusions provided at corners of the rectangular recesses of the plate to keep the slide films received in the recesses away from the bottoms of the recesses. According to the invention, the slide file sheet comprises a flexible cover attached at its one side edge to one side edge of the film holding plate to cover one surfaces and/or emulsion layer surfaces of slide films so as to securely protect them from dirt, fingerprints, scratches and the like, thereby facilitating handling the slide file sheet and always obtaining clear projected images of the films without any troublesome scraping operation.

Abstract: Cassette storage devices are provided for storing a plurality of cassettes in respective cassette cases which have a base and a door movably connected to the base, the base having upstanding side portions and the door extending between the upstanding side portions of the base. The storage device comprises at least one receptacle for receiving a respective cassette case, and engagement means at peripheral portions of the receptacles for frictionally engaging the base portion of a respective received cassette case without substantially blocking the openable door so as not to interfere with opening of the cassette case door. In the devices of the invention, the doors of the cassette case can be opened relative to the base portion while the respective cassette case is, and remains, engaged in the respective receptacle of the storage device. Preferably, the storage device has a plurality of receptacles adjacent each other and/or in back-to-back relationship.

Abstract: There is provided an improved surgical kit, including a pair of trays, one of which is adapted to be received inside of the other. Each tray includes a plurality of embossments in its bottom for receiving various surgical supplies. After the completion of the surgery the inner tray is adapted to be flipped over and applied as a top to the outer tray with various post-operative materials contained therein.

Abstract: A lens tray for holding optical lenses aligned horizontally in a lateral array wherein the tray is capable of holding lenses in such manner that the active surfaces of the lenses do not contact any foreign surface that may mar or scratch the active surfaces.

Abstract: A puzzle assembly having a plurality of pieces which are identical and which interfit without interlocking are assembled in a recess of the base of a container and the container is closed by a cover hinged to the base. When the cover is closed, the puzzle pieces are disposed between top and bottom walls formed respectively on the cover and the base. The pieces are made of a resiliently yieldable material and their normal thickness is greater than the spacing between the walls when the cover is closed so that the pieces are clamped between the walls and are held against sliding even though only some of the pieces have been assembled. The puzzle has a design on both sides and the top and bottom walls are transparent so that both designs may be viewed with the cover closed.

Abstract: A tray structure for holding a plurality of carded packages and including an internal partition structure with raised portions for cushioning the product and notches for receiving portions of the packaging card.

Abstract: Packaging box for a cheese, comprising a base with an upper surface, a lateral rib and transverse ribs on the upper surface which define a recess, and a tray located in the recess and having a length and a width which are less than those of the recess, the thickness of the tray being greater than the depth of the recess.

Abstract: A tray having a plurality of parallel troughs is made from vacuum-formed polystyrene. Each of the troughs contains a pair of side walls, with adjacent walls of adjacent troughs connected together by respective flat, elongated ledges. The periphery of the tray is surrounded by a flat flange which is parallel to the ledges. The length of the troughs is greater than the length of two or more individual conductors which are side-mounted within the troughs. The width of the troughs corresponds to the combined height of a connector with its flat cover loosely fitted thereon and not fully latched to the body of the connector. The depth of the tray corresponds approximately to the width of the connector. Embossment projections are formed in the flat bottoms of the troughs and project into the space between the body of the connector and its loosely mounted cover.

Abstract: A two-piece telescoping shelf adaptor construction adaptable to be supported on a shelf structure in a flat or inclined position and adjustable to accommodate varying shelf depths comprising first and second members each being formed having a similar number of spaced parallel adjacent guide channels extending thereacross, the first member having a front wall extending across the front edge thereof and the second member having a rear wall extending across the rear edge thereof, the guide channels each including a floor portion and spaced upstanding wall portions extending across the first and second members to form separators between the adjacent channels, the upstanding wall portions on the second member having cross-sectional shapes and being spaced to slidably receive and telescopingly cooperate with the upstanding wall portions on the first member whereby the first and second members can be moved relative to each other in order to achieve a desired length between the front wall of the first member and the

Abstract: A product display and merchandising device adaptable to be supported on a supporting surface comprising a unitary base member having front, rear, and opposed side walls and an inclined floor portion extending therebetween, the floor portion including a plurality of upstanding wall portions forming a plurality of guide channels, a plurality of spaced track members removably attachable to the floor portion and positioned within the guide channels for supporting products positioned thereon, the guide channels extending between the front and rear walls for maintaining and guiding products positioned on the track members in parallel rows therebetween, the floor portion being supported in an inclined position by the front, rear, and side walls whereby rows of products positioned within the guide channels will slide along the guide channels on the respective track members towards the front wall to maintain the products in each respective guide channel adjacent the front wall, the floor portion also including wall po

Abstract: A shippable assembly comprises:(a) a first mold having a recess therein, and cast and hardened material in said recess, and(b) a protective package on the mold.The package may comprise a second mold having a recess therein, and cast and hardened material in that recess.

Abstract: An organizer for a medical procedure comprising, a syringe having a hollow barrel, and an elongated cap releasably attached to a distal portion of the syringe. The organizer has a tray having an upper wall, and a syringe recess in the upper wall shaped to releasably receive a distal end of the cap with the syringe in an upright position.

Abstract: A substantially rectangular inoculum tray is provided with a reservoir in the upper surface thereof having at least one apertured side wall with the bottom surface of each aperture being at least at the level of the bottom surface of the reservoir. A plurality of parallel identical grooves are formed in the upper surface of the tray with one end of each groove being in communication with a respective aperture. The bottom surface of each groove is disposed below the bottom surface of the reservoir so that upon introducing a liquid medium into said reservoir a pressure head will be formed so that a uniform distribution of the liquid will occur from the reservoir into each individual groove.

Abstract: A blow molded display package and case has a plastic base including upper and lower spaced walls and a peripheral side therebetween with the upper wall having a plurality of depressions or recesses formed therein separated by surface portions lying in a common plane. The depressions have a predetermined configuration selected according to the configuration of objects to be placed therein such that the objects extend above the depressions no further than the plane of the support surface portions. A transparent cover plate overlies the upper wall and is supported on the support surface portions against the objects in the recesses to retain the objects therein. The upper wall of the base also includes at least one frustro-conical depression formed therein having a base portion sealed to the lower wall of the base and a key hole shaped knock-out formed therein, thereby to rigidify the base while providing means for mounting the case on a wall.

Abstract: A container for food articles including a tray upon which the articles can be stacked, and opposed side members hingedly secured to the tray to retain the articles in the stacked disposition. The side members are moveable between an open position where the articles can readily be stacked or removed from the tray, and a closed or raised position where the sides are secured in place and the articles are restrained from lateral movement relative to the tray due to the inward shape of the side members. Cooperating means are provided in the lower portion of the inward portion of the side members and in the tray to hold the side members in the raised position. The side members can be formed such that in the closed position they are substantially open along the top to expose the top of the stacked articles, and along the ends or sides a small portion of the articles can be exposed to enable access for insertion of the articles into the container or facilitate their removal.

Abstract: A collapsible display carton including an integral internal spacer panel for holding packaged articles in spaced relation.

Abstract: A workpiece loader includes a processing tray having two parallel sets of substantially V-shaped grooves adjacent a surface thereof, the grooves of one set alternating with and having a depth greater than the depth of the grooves of the other set. The workpiece loader further comprises an aligning tray having a plurality of substantially V-shaped grooves adjacent a surface thereof and parallel to each other, the grooves of the aligning tray having a depth greater than the depth of the grooves of the other set and having a periodicity equal to the periodicity of the grooves of the other set, the aligning and processing trays being positioned in tandem so that the grooves of the other set are aligned with the grooves of the aligning tray.

Abstract: A display package in which a number of articles are packaged in a container and wherein a single article may be viewed through the cover of the container.

Abstract: A tray-like structure is proposed for use in such as a restaurant for presenting a credit card slip to a customer for signature, the structure comprising a flat broad thin body having shallow rectangular recesses in the flat upper surface thereof to receive the credit card and the credit card slip in adjacent disposition with their left lateral edges in rectilinear alignment so that the specimen signature on the card is adjacent the signature on the signed credit card slip. Each recess or a part thereof has a depth which reduces to zero at one edge, the part may be a ramp at a corner of the recess. A pen recess, also having reducing depth towards one end, finger gripping recesses in opposed lateral edges of the tray, and a further recess opening into an edge of the body for receiving documents therein, may also be provided.

Abstract: A novel dental kit is provided which contains all of the necessary implements, instruments, medicaments and supplies for performing root canal therapy. The kit comprises a housing having a pair of spaced rails for supporting a plurality of hand held dental instruments in an openly accessible position. In addition, a plurality of holder assemblies are mounted to the housing and each holder assembly contains a single type of tooth working implements and maintains them in an openly accessible position. Preferably two reservoirs are formed in the housing, one for holding a sterile liquid, such as alcohol and the other for holding an irrigatory fluid. A pump is also mounted to the housing for pumping the sterile fluid to either an accessory or a main well.

Abstract: A container for the storage and transport of a bicycle, partially disassembled, having a hinged cover and multi-level contours for storing bicycle components in relative spatial isolation.

Abstract: Tray apparatus for use in business establishments includes a tray and a calculator for enabling patrons to verify and make arithmetic calculations.

Abstract: A rack for flexible elongated articles is in the form of a flat pallet having grooves on opposite sides thereof. The grooves are chevron shaped, the apices of the grooves being comprised by a plain portion of the pallet disposed at the level of the bottom of the grooves. A flexible article having two legs with a bend between them is thus supported with its legs in opposite groove portions, with the bend portion in the plain portion of the pallet. The grooves on one side of the pallet can be in reversed order from those on the other side of the pallet. Also, the number of articles that can be held can be doubled by providing grooves at two levels on each side of the pallet, the grooves in one level being in reversed arrangement from those at the other level on the same side of the pallet.

Abstract: An organizer jewelry tray for an organized containment of earrings for pierced ears. The tray surface defines an organizer section having a recess with a pair of projecting pins or posts for receiving the clasp portion of the pin. An adjacent land defines apertures for receiving the post portion of the decorative body of the earring. The edge of the tray is configured having a lip so a plurality of trays may be vertically stacked. The tray may be variously configured, for example, having a square, rectangular or circular shape.

Abstract: A fabrication procedure for crystal resonators in which belted component holders are used, each accomodating the constituent elements of a resonator. When the above-mentioned elements are assembled, the component holders serve the purpose of assembly fixtures. The assembled resonators are retained in the component holders which thus also provide a packaging function for the final products. The component holders have elastically deformable clamps which accomodate the constituent elements of the resonators to be assembled and have support sections which receive the crystal element of each resonator.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for conducting a microbiological radiorespirometric assay. The device comprises a support member which includes a plurality of pairs of chambers. One chamber in each pair contains a radioactive labeled substrate which is capable of being metabolized by at least some microorganisms to yield a radioactive gas. The other chamber in each pair contains a means for collecting radioactive gas. The two chambers in each pair are in communication with each other by means of a passageway, which opens into each of said chambers at the upper portion thereof. There is also disclosed a method for determining whether microorganisms contained in a sample material will metabolize a radioactive labeled substrate in the device. The method comprises placing said material in contact with a radioactive labeled substrate, collecting any gas which is evolved, exposing a photosensitive material to said collected gas and determining if a spot is produced on said photosensitive material.

Abstract: A root canal treatment kit includes a lower plastic tray of polystyrene formed with recesses for accommodating root canal treatment apparatus and materials formed with an outermost lip for supporting a transparent cover and an inner lip adjacent the outermost lip upon which legs of an upper plastic tray rest. The upper plastic tray is also formed with recesses for accommodating apparatus and material installing rubber dams in connection with root canal treatment above apparatus on the lower tray. The transparent cover encloses both trays and the root canal treatment apparatus and material stored in the recesses. The rubber dams are installed, then the upper tray is removed, and then the materials and apparatus on the lower tray are used to complete the root canal treatment.

Abstract: A thermoformed plastic tray of unitary construction is provided for holding loaded ice cream cones while resting on a supporting surface without the tray tipping regardless of how few or how many cones up to capacity are in the tray. The tray has a plurality of sockets, e.g., three, for holding the cones, the sockets being defined by a rigid hemi-conical surface and a planar sidewall which gives imperceptibly upon insertion of the cone. The defined sockets hold the cones at a slight angle from the vertical position so that the cones extend upwardly and inwardly over the tray such that the center of gravity of the combined tray and ice cream cone or cones is always close to the center of gravity of the tray, thereby greatly increasing stability and permitting the tray to be quite small and light in weight.

Abstract: A rectangular tray for packing and conveying spheroidal fruit, and more particularly for separating layers of fruit lying on top of one another in packing crates. The tray is provided with depressions for accommodating one item of fruit each. The depressions are arranged in rows which are parallel to one side of the tray, adjacent rows being staggered with respect to one another. In order to increase the resistance to bending of the tray with respect to two mutually perpendicular central axes extending parallel to the sides of the tray, in at least some of the rows of depressions at least two depressions in one row are connected together by stiffening channels disposed at an angle to the sides of the tray. The stiffening channels are recessed into one side of the tray and project from the other side of the tray.

Abstract: A corrugated or fiber board two-piece H-divider container comprising an H blank that has been erected and glued upon itself and body blank that has been erected and glued around the H-divider. The vertical divider panels of the H-piece are folded at the bottom along a hinge line that includes two spaced crush score line areas interrupting a slit score line. The divider panels each have a pair of integral end wall panels to which marginal flaps of the body blank are secured.

Abstract: A Chrismas tree ball display cabinet and storage cabinet has a plurality of drawers of styrofoam with a grid of ball-fitting spherical recesses in the top surface of each, a vertically spaced succession of ledge-like shelves supporting the styrofoam drawers, and in the preferred embodiment a compartmented drawer for Christmas tree ball accessories; a vertically sliding door gives access to the contents, and transparent plastic construction for the cabinet and white color for the styrofoam in preferred embodiment make the assembly when filled with Christmas tree balls an effective display for store or home as well as for storage.

Abstract: An inexpensive, disposable tray for anesthesiological use is formed with a central compartment for receiving the patient's head, preferably on a supporting cushion, and arrangements of compartments and recesses on opposite sides of the central compartment to hold specific instruments and medications used during anesthesia in an ordered array according to the sequence in which such articles are employed. The tray is dimensioned to fit across the end of an operating table. Projections along one edge support a suction tube and a manometer.

Abstract: A generally L-shaped tray type display container formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard which is designed to display different type of books and binders at different angles to afford views of various sides and ends of the articles displayed.

Abstract: A container for dental equipment is equipped with six minitrays (2 to 7), which can be removed and sterilized individually, each of which comprises a handle (8) on its upper side and legs (9) on its underside. A minitray (2) is provided with elongated recesses (a to f), three similarly constructed minitrays (3 to 5) are provided with holes (9) for receiving root canal instruments and two further minitrays (6, 7) are provided with larger holes (h, k) for receiving glass tubes for holding treatment material. The four minitrays (2 to 5) have substantially the same dimensions, whereas the two latter minitrays (6, 7) are half as wide as the other minitrays.

Abstract: A display unit for confectioneries includes two symmetrical elements defining planes connected to each other by means of cross-members, each formed by pairs of pins or shanks coupled together coaxially. The planes are larger on the upper part of the display unit to form a large surface allowing the insertion of graphics for identifying the product to be shown. The planes are larger at the lower part of the display unit and are provided with bent portions.

Abstract: A filing sheet for microscope slides comprising;a unitary rotary plastic sheet having a plurality of rectangular recesses depressed from the outer periphery and spaced apart by longitudinal partition wall and lateral partition wall in lateral and longitudinal relationship, each of said rectangular recesses being defined by a pair of side walls of longitudinal partition walls and a pair of lateral partition walls for receiving a microscope slide;microscope slide-retaining means projected inwardly into said rectangular recess from a pair of side walls of said opposing longitudinal partition walls and having a space for inserting a microscope slidebetween the end of said slide-retaining means and an opposite lateral partition walls;an air-ventilation opening provided on the side portion of the plane of said rectangular recesses under said slide-retaining means;fingertip recesses provided in the borderline of said adjacent rectangular recesses and protruded downwardly from the plane of said rectangular recess;upr

Abstract: The invention relates to a food serving tray for use with apparatus for preparing wholesome meals for patients in hospitals, rest home residents, airline passengers, prisoners and the like. The tray has a plurality of dish size openings extending through the tray. Each dish size opening includes a raised circumferential bead for supporting a dish having a circumferential notch around the lower portion of the dish. The tray has a raised edge along the tray perimeter and tray guiding notches are formed in one side of the raised edge around the tray perimeter for guiding the tray along suitable tracks of a heater shelf rack. The tray can include a series of dish or food supporting indents in the tray surface. Half-size trays are also included in the invention with tray guiding notches in opposing sides of the raised edge around the tray.

Abstract: A package and device for collecting urine wherein the parts comprising the device are packaged so that they are removed in the order that they are used and are maintained in a sterile condition prior to use.The device includes instructions, cleansing means, a container, funnel assembly, a cap for the container and an identification label packaged in such a manner so as to be sterile before use and removed aseptically in the order that such parts are used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a serving tray for the serving of a meal comprising at least one dish and at least one drink in a drinking vessel, the tray comprising a number of recesses in the form of bowls for the components of the meal. According to the invention a hole extends through the tray is provided in shape and size to form an opening for the insertion of the thumb of a hand so that the tray can be carried with the thumb on the upper side of the tray while for the rest of the hand there is provided a downwards pointing surface against which the hand can rest and support the corresponding portion of the underside of the tray.

Abstract: A wound clip rack has a base and a plurality of groups of flexible support fingers projecting upwardly from the base. Each group of flexible support fingers is adapted to support one wound clip. Each group includes at least one and preferably two pairs of flexible support fingers, the fingers of each pair being spaced apart from one another and having facing support surfaces.

Abstract: A tray for holding IC packages including cylindrical cases having preformed leads flared radially outward from the bottom thereof with flat portions of the free ends of leads being in a common plane. The tray comprises a top plate having a plurality of funnel shaped openings in it, a rim around the perimeter of the plate, and a flat bottom. Each opening has a cylindrical bottom portion for receiving a case with leads thereon being located in the flared upper portion of the opening and below the surface of the plate. The top and bottom edges of trays are dimensioned so that the top of a first tray nests inside the bottom of a second tray. By merely turning these nested trays over, packages in openings in the first tray sit with the flat portions of leads on the bottom of the second tray. The rim limits transverse movement of packages set on the plate when the tray is shaken to cause them to fall into associated openings.

Abstract: An insulated tray for holding and serving food or the like, either directly on the tray or in receptacles supported on the tray. One embodiment comprises upper and lower cover members made of thin impervious material, preferably plastic sheet material, the space between said cover members being filled with insulating foam, preferably plastic foam, the edges of said cover members being joined around the periphery of the tray, the upper cover member being dished to form one or more receptacles for holding food or the like, the upper cover member being formed with a groove extending around one or more of the dished portions, the lower cover member being formed with a complementary tongue, whereby a plurality of the trays may be stacked with the tongue of one tray nesting in the groove of the underlying tray, the tongue and groove forming a seal around the dished portion. In another embodiment, the lower cover member is omitted.