Abstract: A rail for supporting edges of a continuous carrier strip, interconnecting serially arranged electrical components, comprises a continuous plastic extrusion which clips upon edges of the carrier strip and provides a spacer for separating reeled coils of the carrier strip when the same is reeled on a storage spool.

Abstract: Connected temporary fastening nails including vertically oriented connecting parts formed by making cuts at fixed intervals along the length of a continuous elastic part which is substantially square in cross-section and which has a hollow space in the interior of the continuous elastic part and a plurality of small diameter nails each provided through adjacent connecting parts at fixed intervals along the length of the continuous elastic part.

Abstract: A banknote packaging element, process, and separating apparatus utilize a plurality of envelopes for receiving sheet material. The envelopes are arranged in succession and have their undersides separately attached to an auxiliary belt. The auxiliary belt is formed of a continuous tear-off strip formed as an integral part of the envelope and adapted to be separated along perforated lines.

Abstract: A blister strip package comprising two coextensive sheets of heat sealable material provided with a first row of individual cavities for containing a product to be dispensed in one of said sheets, said first row of cavities being laterally aligned with a corresponding, opposing row of an equal number of second cavities in the same sheet, the cavity bearing sheet being heat sealed to the other sheet except in the areas defined by the cavities and, in one embodiment of the invention, being also heat sealed in areas spaced from the second cavities and adjacent to weakened lines for disruption of the covering sheet, whereby the second cavities can be pushed inwards and thus inverted to bear upon the covering sheet in order to thereby disrupt it at score lines or slits and to form a pull tab which can be grasped and pulled towards the aligned, respective pair of second and first cavities thereby peeling the covering sheet from the cavity bearing sheet and forming a direct access along predetermined lines to a sele

Abstract: A strip of at least two interconnected fastener means carrying double-faced adhesive foam tape for application to a workpiece. The fastener means includes connecting means between adjacent fasteners that is capable of normally maintaining the fasteners in a rigid co-planar relation but adapted to permit removal of a single fastener by manual manipulation and fracture of the connecting means. The single fastener being capable of being stripped off of the backing paper used on such tape without removal of the adjacent fastener and thereby providing a tail of backing paper which can be readily grasped to remove the backing paper from the adjacent fastener.

Abstract: The device is primarily adapted for use in hospitals and comprises a housing having a front window through which a digital display of sensed temperature is observed. The housing may receive one of preferably two probe holsters one of which has associated therewith a probe for oral use and the other of which has a probe for rectal use. Each probe holster is elongated in shape and has a passage for receiving a probe with the probe being fixedly wired into the holster so that the probe cannot be swapped between holsters. A holder is mounted on the top of the device and receives a cartridge of probe covers which are locked into the holder but are easily removed upon insertion of the probe into an individual cover. The holsters and associated probes are constructed to be autoclavable and gas sterilizable. The device is normally stored on a platform through which the batteries in the device are recharged between use of the device. The probe is of improved design and employs a thermistor sensor.

Abstract: A dual type dispenser for dispensing two materials in equal quantities consists of two barrels joined together and a plunger for each barrel. Since occasions may arise when the barrels are to be used separately, the junction between the barrels is separable, as by a sliding interlock. The plungers also, although initially attached together at the handle to make certain they are moved together, are arranged to be broken apart for use separately with the separated barrels.

Abstract: A packaging element is provided for mounting blister strips containing a course of medication for a patient. The element comprises a lamina foldable along a straight line dividing the lamina into a supporting member and backing member so that when the lamina is folded the one faces of the member lie adjacent.

Abstract: A package comprising two sheets of heat sealable material, one of the sheets being relatively stiff and being provided with cavities for dispensing a product, the other sheet covering the cavities and the stiffer sheet. The covering sheet is longitudinally perforated along at least one edge of the package a short distance inward from the edge thereof; and from the area of the perforations inwardly, terminating short of the cavities, there are unsealed areas facilitating pealing the covering sheet in the direction of the cavities giving access thereto, after releasing a portion of said covering sheet from the cavity bearing sheet by bending along the line of the perforations and peeling.

Abstract: A marker sleeve assembly (1) comprising a plurality of marker sleeves (2, 3, 4, 5, 15 or 16) each joined to a longitudinal connecting member (6 or 6'). The connecting member is formed integrally with the marker sleeves and is attached to the outer wall of each sleeve in the assembly. The marker sleeves are detachably joined to the connecting member so that an individual marker sleeve can be removed from the connecting member for application to an article.

Abstract: A package for strips of chewing gum, sweets, food, and other chewable and edible articles which are wrapped individually into flat packets arranged one above the other. Each of the packets at one end thereof is provided with an extension projecting in the longitudinal direction of the packet and beyond the content of the packet. Each extension has a hole therethrough through which extends a common pivot member which at its ends has a head or the like to keep the packets on the pivot member while all of the packets are pivotable about the common pivot member.

Abstract: A multiple compartment food package of a heat sealed thermal plastic material is provided with opening means associated with each compartment to enable individual units of food to be removed without affecting the airtight seal of the remaining food compartments.

Abstract: A crimping system for crimping electrical wire connectors which have a body with a plurality of longitudinal wire receiving openings in one end and a cap telescopically received in one face of the body for movement into the body from an open position to a crimped position to connect wires inserted into the openings. The system includes a carrier strip retaining the aforesaid connectors in open sided receptacles at spaced locations and a hand tool into which the strip is fed for the crimping of the connectors onto wires.

Abstract: A flexible tube container has a plurality of cells linearly disposed along the length of the tube. The cells are defined by a plurality of segmented weld lines, each segmented weld line extending the width of the tube. Each segmented weld line permits fluid communication between the various cells in the container and the formation of individual frozen confections within each of the cells upon freezing of the fluid therein. Dispensing of an individual frozen confection is easily done by bending the tube along any segmented weld line, which detaches an adjacent cell containing an individual frozen confection and immediately permits sanitary consumption of the frozen confection while it is hygienically protected within the detached cell.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for fumigating stored agricultural commodities such as grain and the like, includes an applicator for porous envelopes or sachets of prepackaged pesticides of the type which react with moisture in the air and produce a toxic gas. The applicator comprises an elongate strip constructed of a flexible, porous, non-hygroscopic material. The strip has two plies which are arranged in an overlying relationship and are interconnected along a side edge thereof, and includes a plurality of seams which extend laterally across the strip and regularly interconnect the plies, and form pockets shaped for receiving the prepackaged pesticide sachets therein. The seams form a flexible hinge between adjacent pockets and interconnect the same to facilitate folding. A sachet is inserted into each pocket, the pocket is closed, and the filled applicator is deployed onto the free surface of an aggregation of stored commodity and arranged in a flat and fully extended position thereover.

Abstract: An extender and header card for a medicinal dispensing device and a fixture base converted for filling the same. The device includes a plurality of article-holding units, each having flanges detachably connected along predetermined weakened lines and a chamber depending from each flange. A cover sheet is secured over the chambers and includes perforated lines corresponding to the weakened flange lines to enable each unit to be separated from the other unit. The header card includes a panel having a front face for receipt of prescription indicia thereron, a transverse weakened line extending along a lower edge and a plurality of longitudinal weakened lines extending parallel to one another from the edge of the transverse line to form a plurality of separable sections. Adhesive is provided along the lower edge of the card for securing the card to the dispensing device.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive label strip comprising a tape-like strip of label material that is overlaid on a tape-like strip of backing material; parting cut lines extend transversely across the strip of label material at regular intervals so as to form a plurality of unit label pieces; feeding cut lines in the strip of backing material define a plurality of feeding tongues having their connected portions oriented in the direction of forward motion of the label strip, and the feeding tongues are at positions that either correspond to the positions of the pairs of feeding cut lines of the label material or that roughly correspond.

Abstract: A package of adhesive pads for use on corns, callouses and the like is provided in the form of a sheet of pad material such as moleskin and a relatively thin sheet of plastic adhered thereto. Both sheets are die cut along a plurality of lines to form a plurality of pad elements. The lines of cut are interrupted to provide localized frangible connections between adjacent pad elements to permit the user to remove a selected element by breaking its connections to adjacent elements.

Abstract: A package for holding a supply of small articles of assorted shapes to be conveniently dispensed singly, having features enabling one or more articles to be separated from the package while leaving the remainder undisturbed.

Abstract: Belt loop plies cut from the same area of a fabric lay are stacked in individual stacks in the order which they are cut and each stack is formed into a chain of belt loops. Each chain is separated into individual loops while collating the individual loops to form groups of loops in which each loop has been cut from the same area on a fabric lay. The individual loops in each group are collated from each chain in side-by-side relation on a conveyor belt in the reverse order in which they were cut from the fabric lay and wound into a bundle so that the first group cut from the fabric lay is on the exterior of the bundle. The collated loops in the bundle can be removed and sewn to garment pieces cut from adjacent areas on the lay to maintain the same shading characteristics of the component pieces of the garment throughout its construction.

Abstract: A doctor or doctor blade is embedded in an enclosure or casing formed of plastic. The portion of such enclosure covering the region of a work edge of the doctor blade is connected with the remaining part of the enclosure by means of a reference fracture location in the form of notch-shaped weakening lines. These weakening lines determine the separation location between both of the enclosure sections or portions. After mounting the doctor blade, protected by the enclosure or casing, the work edge is exposed by separating the enclosure portion or section covering the work edge, whereas the remaining part of the enclosure remains at the doctor blade.

Abstract: A tablet containing compacted camphor powder is sealed in a capsule.

Abstract: A bobber stopper for use with a slide bobber includes a substantially flat, flexible member having three spaced-apart holes therein extending from one end of the member to the opposite end. The fishing line is passed back and forth through these three holes in a weaving manner such that the hole edges and related frictional forces retain the stopper on the fishing line in a desired location while still permitting the bobber to be manually moved along the line. The stopper is large enough so as not to pass through the center clearance hole of a slide bobber yet small enough to easily pass through the line clearance hole of a casting or spinning reel. Associated with such bobber stoppers is a dispenser which includes a center annular ring disc and a plurality of stoppers detachably joined thereto in an evenly spaced, outwardly-radiating, circular array. Once the fishing line is threaded, the stopper is able to be torn free of the disc and utilized as described.

Abstract: A tally system of article identification to be mounted on an article support such as a garment hanger is disclosed. In one form, tubular tallies are initially manufactured as an extruded tube and then severed into individual units of suitable length. In another form, they are individually manufactured. The article support may be provided with an upstanding boss or other projection over which the tallies are seated. The tallies and boss or other projection may be equipped with means for circumferentially indexing the tally to assure proper display. The tallies, as used, preferably have suitable information indicia applied to their exterior surface.

Abstract: A thin lightweight strip of booklets and method of making the same are disclosed. The booklets are comprised of one elongated sheet folded in thirds, then in half, then in half to define pages of the same size without the use of fasteners. The booklets are connected end to end to form a strip which is separable along perforation lines. The strip of booklets has a fold line between and adjacent the free ends of said sheet along one edge of said strip and only fold lines along the opposite edge of said strip. The strip of booklets is adapted to be sealed within an envelope.

Abstract: An inexpensive disposable antiseptic applicator swab made on a blister forming and sealing machine in which complimentary pockets are made in thermoplastic sheets to form a chamber that receives a crushable glass ampoule containing the antiseptic liquid. The thermoplastic sheets are then heat sealed, leaving an opening into said chamber, said opening being covered by a foam applicator tip through which the antiseptic liquid can penetrate.

Abstract: A multi-functional suppository encapsulator for molding, packing and administering suppositories comprising an inlet-guide groove having a plurality of identical, equally spaced holes perforated along bottom portion thereof; a plurality of container-bodies extending transversely from the convex outer surface of said groove, and having open ends thereof coaxially built-in with the peripheries of said holes individually so as to define therein bullet-shaped housings having smooth inner surface; a plurality of paired bridging strips in longitudinal alignment, with the longitudinal edges thereof parallel to said groove, each pair respectively formed on opposite sides of the close end of each said container-body and joining with adjacent pairs at ends of strips to form strip-junctures; and a plurality of recesses embed in-between and transversely to said pairs of bridging strips individually curving upward to a suitable distance along opposite sides of said close ends.

Abstract: For use in combination with a machine that has an endless conveyor for conveying a file folder to a tang assembly station and thence away therefrom, folder tang assembly apparatus that includes a frame, a feed assembly for indexingly feeding a plurality of webs having folded tangs nearly punched thereoutof, a stationary die plate, a stripper bar above the die plate, a pressure pad for each web reciprocally mounted in a die plate aperture to press the web against the stripper bar, tang punches reciprocally extended in the pressure pad for punching a tang out of a web, through a stripper bar aperture, and against a folder, a cinching device for each web to cinch the tang to the folder when the punches move the tang against the folder, a tang location quill carried by one of the tang punches for each web to properly locate the tang to be punched out of the web, a power operated lower die shoe for reciprocating the punches, and piston cylinders for moving the pressure pads to press the webs against the stripper p

Abstract: A pad dispensing device includes a receptacle having a dispensing slot in its top wall and a stack of pads contained in the receptacle, the pads being interconnected by elongated pull tabs having transverse lines of weakness at their junctions with the leading pads. The stack of pads is formed of a continuous web including longitudinally spaced pads which may be circular or other shapes, successive pads being connected by intervening elongated tabs, and the web being accordian folded to superimpose the pads. The pads are impregnated with an active ingredient. The leading tab projects through the dispensing slot and as a pad is withdrawn the next pull tab is exposed.

Abstract: A series of labels remain supported on a liner after a matrix of waste label material has been stripped from the liner. The adhesion of the matrix to the liner is weakened prior to stripping of the matrix by mechanically disturbing without severing, as by embossing, areas of the construction where the matrix overlies the liner. Areas where the leading ends of labels overlie the liner may also be similarly disturbed to make eventual peeling of the liner from the labels easier. In another aspect, the construction may be precrushed with a blunt die prior to die-cutting of the labels to eliminate "halo" effect upon stripping of the matrix.

Abstract: Packaging dividers are comprised of a plurality of axially linked-together separator sections. Each separator section is formed to have a preselected height and cross-sectional configuration which may be circular or cross-shaped. Each separator section is formed in axial attachment to its adjacent separator section with a reduced cross-section portion therebetween to constitute severing means. One or more separator sections may be separated from an adjacent separator section and positioned within a carton containing objects to separate said objects.

Abstract: A package of arrows for shipment and display is constructed from a sheet of corrugated board, which is cut out to provide openings and formed with flaps having potential apertures cut therein for holding the arrows. The arrows are mounted on the sheet by hinging the flaps up at an angle to the sheet and forcing the tips of the arrows through the potential apertures, with the string notches held by fitting over an edge of an opening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method wherein seedlings, raised in a paper cylinder assembly connected together by means of connecting portions having a separating line forming the separation course in each are continuously pulled out while separating the cylinder one by one and planting them in the field. In the separation of seedling cylinders, a transplanter is provided with rolls for pulling out continuous seedling cylinders and other rolls for separating the pulled out seedling cylinders into individual seedling cylinders. The latter has a faster rotating speed than that of the former and has a cone-like shape or is mounted so as to incline with respect to the former, thereby separating paper cylinders into individual pot bodies at the connecting portions, one by one, while moving the separation acting points progressively. The separating-line in each connecting portion has an unjoined separation-guiding-portion extending from one end to 20-70% of the height of the connecting portion.

Abstract: A printed product label is composed of at least two sections, at least one of which is provided with the label indicia pertinent to the product. One of the label sections is provided with an adhesive of one given type capable of affixing such label section permanently to the product. A second section is separably connected to the first section and is also provided with said given type of adhesive, but such adhesive thereon is employed to removably secure the second section to the product. The second section is additionally provided with a second adhesive of the pressure sensitive type that is masked to render it inoperative while the second label section is secured to the product, but which can readily be made operative when the second section is separated from the product and the first label section to adhere the separated second section to a backing member.

Abstract: Continuously connected fastener attachment stock formed by elongated plastic side members with cross coupling links. One of the side member has successively connected cross bars with each cross bar connected to one of the cross links. The other side member has successively connected head pieces with each head piece connected to one of the cross links. The stock is proportioned to be fed as an entity to a position within a machine where individual fasteners are sparated from the stock, with each separate fastener including a head piece, a cross bar, and coupling link interconnecting the head piece with the cross bar. Each cross bar is configured for feeding through the bore of a slotted hollow needle.

Abstract: A nail-like fastener having a substantially rectangular washer adapted to permit overlapping vertical stacking of a number of fastener/washer assemblies for use in a fastener driving apparatus of the type including a piston. The washers each include two substantially U-shaped recesses or cut-outs disposed one each near the midpoints of the top and bottom washer edges, such that the bottom fastener of a stack may be fired from the driving apparatus without disruption of the remainder of the stack.

Abstract: The tape splicing device includes a plurality of elongated tab members extending from a flexible marginal portion and an adhesive splicing strip adjoining each tab with the marginal portion. The tab members and the marginal portion are wound about themselves in roll form such that the marginal portion is in substantial surface contact with itself, and an underlying tab member is capable of at least some surface contact with an immediate overlaying tab member.The tape splicing device is made from a laminate of adhesive tape and flexible sheet that is scored, severed, rolled and trimmed to form individual independently removable elongated tab members and adhesive splicing strips.A dispenser for the tape splicing device includes a frame that holds a roll of the tape splicing device and permits its unwinding along a bearing surface. A resilient clip on the dispenser clamps the unwound portion against the bearing surface to permit detachment of individual tabs and splicing strips.

Abstract: Opposed strips of heat-sealable thermoplastic strips are advanced along a path past a pouch-forming and incomplete cut-out zone, a filling zone and a pouch-sealing and cut-off zone. Each incompletely cut-out pouch has a spout whose open end extends to opposed marginal bands of the strips. Nozzles are projected into the spouts at the filling zone. A tight fit of the nozzles in the spouts prevents escape of fluid around the nozzles during the filling operation. The marginal bands of the strips are gripped adjacent each spout to enable the nozzles to be pushed into the spouts. The filled pouches settle onto a conveyor while the marginal bands hold the open ends of the spouts at a higher level, preventing discharge of fluid from the spouts until the filled pouches are sealed. Sufficient height of the spout opening above the mean level of the filled body of each pouch tends to form a discharge-blocking pinch across the spout, and a still-higher level of the spout opening prevents the discharge of fluid by gravity.

Abstract: A device, and method for assembling same, is disclosed for the itemized dispensing of tabs having an adhesive coating on one side thereof, which tabs are polygonally shaped and obliquely, releasably mounted on a rolled strip of backing material. The device comprises a roll of such tabs disposed within a box having one side thereof with a triangularly shaped opening in its lower end. The triangular opening is defined by the box edge adjacent the opening and the lower side edge, which intersects the box edge at the angle of obliquity at which the tabs are disposed on the backing strip. As the backing strip is drawn through the opening, the leading edge of a tab will be exposed free and clear of the box edge, and the entire tab will be exposed free and clear of the lower side edge, whereby the tab may be peeled from the backing strip. As the leading edge of a tab is exposed free and clear of the lower box edge, one, and only one, entire tab is exposed exterior of the box.

Abstract: A nail clip is provided for use with pneumatically or hydraulically powered nail drivers. Each clip comprises a plastic strip consisting of a plurality of serially connected sleeves and a nail carried by each sleeve with a fracture line between each pair of sleeves.

Abstract: A novel nail clip is provided for use with power actuated drivers. Each clip comprises a plurality of impact fasteners each having a flange intermediate its ends, and a strip consisting of a plurality of serially connected fastener-supporting members each surrounding and supporting the driving or impact end of a separate fastener. The strip is formed to facilitate the shearing off of said fastener-supporting members singly in response to shearing forces produced when each member and the fastener which it supports are impacted by the hammer of a driver tool.

Abstract: A backstrip that overlies a portion of an aquarium includes a plurality of openings of different sizes and shapes through which accessories can be inserted downwardly into the aquarium. A cover is provided for each opening, and has a flange on its underside for engaging the walls of the opening, and some covers have break lines along which they can be separated into sections used to partially cover the associated openings.

Abstract: A plurality of individual, pre-formed cutting tips attached to one another in an adjoining series to form an elongate stick of tips for sequential attachment to the teeth or cutting portions of cutting tools. Each tip in the stick has a commonly oriented contact surface for attachment to the cutting tool, and a separate pre-formed cutting edge that forms the cutting edge of the tool once the tip has been attached. Attachment of a tip to a cutting tool is accomplished by positioning the contact surface of the lead tip in a stick proximate the tool, and severing the connection between the tip and the remainder of the stick. The tips forming the stick are preferably attached to one another by a meltable adhesive spread over their respective contact surfaces, such adhesive having a melting point lower than that of the tips. The respective tips in the stick are operatively connected to separate teeth or tools by the same adhesive.

Abstract: The apparatus and method of the present invention is adapted to be utilized with respect to packages of connected forms of the type having sprocket holes along the margins thereof which are adapted to be engaged by sprocket wheels in, for example, a print-out device for advancing the forms to an operating station in the device. The method comprises providing a strip having sprocket holes therein. The spacing of the sprocket holes on the strip is equal to the spacing of the sprocket holes on the forms. The strip is connected to the first form of the package with the sprocket holes in the strip in alignment with the sprocket holes in the margin. The strip or strips are then engaged with the sprocket wheels in the device which is then operated to advance the package of forms into the device.

Abstract: A label assembly includes a strip or web of backing material with a series of printed labels arranged in serial order. The backing material includes a die cut portion opposed to the label which remains adhered to the label upon application of the label to a container. The cut portion may include printing and serves as a promotional item with improved pilfer resistance.

Abstract: An assembly for delivery to a customer upon completion of a photo-finishing operation, comprised of a packet envelope which includes not only the film negatives and the finished prints of the latter, but also one or more cards bearing date strips detachably affixed thereto with pressure sensitive adhesive, wherefrom they may be stripped easily and affixed individually to each of the prints at the front or back thereof, as desired by the customer. Thus, each print may be dated conveniently despite the lack of clear margins on the prints for automatically printing the date in this area or on the backs of the prints.

Abstract: An article-holding, double-sling kit comprising four strips of thin, flexible material. Each one of a longer pair of strips contains a plurality of apertures along its entire length and through which hanging line is interlaced. One of these longer strips contains at least two parallel slots, proximate its center, through which the second is interwoven in crossed configuration. These strips are flexible in one direction and substantially rigid in the 90.degree.-opposite direction. Of the second pair of strips, shorter than the first pair, each containing a plurality of apertures, a first is foldable upon itself and serves as a slide to gather the double-sling hanging lines proximate to the article; the second shorter strip functions as a cleat through the apertures of which the four ends of line are reversibly interlaced to form a hanging loop.

Abstract: Sticker having an elongated lug outside of a sticking sheet which is formed by a part of a release sheet.In this sticker, a surface of adhesive supported by said sticking sheet is covered by a releasable sheet, which is provided with parting lines extending from a portion under the release sheet to a portion outside of said sheet for forming said lug.Said lug may be used for picking a portion with the fingers when the sticking sheet is stripped off.Said sticker is made in such a manner that parting lines for forming sticking sheets and lugs respectively are made by means of cutting dies provided on opposite sides of material which is held between said dies.

Abstract: An air-powered, self-feeding screw driving tool and screw-containing pods capable of being assembled into a continuous belt of screw-containing pods for use with the tool. The belt of screw-containing pods are coiled within a canister for selective feeding therefrom by an air-powered pawl operated star wheel. The pods are sequentially positioned forward of the bit of a carriage mounted air-powered screwdriver which is selectively operated in coordinated relationship with the orientation of the screw-containing pods by a common air source utilizing a single trigger control.Each of the screw-containing pods has means therein to retain a screw and to guide the screw as it is being driven into the workpiece.

Abstract: A letter and number kit for use in preparing signs or names and addresses including street numbers. The kit consists of a packet of thin metal plates, each having upper and lower longitudinally and transversely extending score lines to provide segments having a blank on one or both faces or a letter, number, or punctuation mark on one or both faces of each segment. The number of letters in the kit may be varied. Primary letters of the alphabet which are used more frequently than other letters are present in the kit in a greater number than secondary letters which in turn are present in the kit in a greater number than tertiary letters. For instance, in comparatively large kits from approximately eight to eleven of each of the primary letters, from six to seven of each of the secondary letters and from approximately two to five of each of the tertiary letters may be present.