Abstract: Prefabricated fingers suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board for use in conjunction with card edge connectors are provided on a lengthwise strip which may be cut to the desired size to correspond with the number of fingers which are to be mounted on the board. The strip, which may be formed in a roll, includes a pair of parallel carriers. The fingers extend between and are integrally formed with the carriers and are spaced along the lengths thereof and in substantially coplanar relationship therewith. After severing one of the carriers, the resulting free ends of the fingers may be aligned in overlapping relation with the circuit conductor ends to which the fingers are to be joined.

Abstract: Fastener attachment stock to be separated or divided, e.g., by cutting, severing, rupturing or shearing to provide a plurality of fastener attachment devices each preferably having substantially an H shape. The stock in its most preferred form includes two undivided elongated and continuous plastic side members having a plurality of plastic cross links coupled to and between each of said side members, each of said links being preferably spaced equidistantly apart from each other.The stock of this invention provides for a completely waste-less or scrap-less fastener attachment dispensing system in the hands of the ultimate user while also permitting the automatic repetitive dispensing of large numbers of fastener attachment devices under positive feed control and at a rapid rate without the necessity of frequent system stock reloadings (as necessitated using the stock of the prior art).

Abstract: A display pack for the display and sale of an article or articles of mechandise such as a hair brush or comb which exposes a part of the article so that its quality can be tested by a prospective purchaser yet contains the article well enough to make pilfering from the card difficult. In one type of pack an article is held on a backing sheet by two flanged, transparent cover elements mounted by their flanges on the backing sheet and covering opposite ends of the article leaving the part between exposed. In another type of pack a single cover element encloses, for example, the handle of a hair brush, and another part of the article, for example the back of the brush, is held by an opening in the backing sheet. The cover elements can be made in pairs by vacuum forming sheet material with a raised central portion surrounded by a continuous peripheral flange and cutting the elements apart across the raised portion.

Abstract: Disposable plastic film gloves are prepared from strip film material in two layers which are heat sealed in the outline of the five fingers of a glove and simultaneously die cut to remove the material between the fingers and to the side and base of the respective gloves. The gloves are formed in a strip with the three center fingers of each glove fitting the curved base or wrist opening of the adjacent glove. The heat seal at the fingers adjacent to the wrist opening of the next glove is arranged with a perforation or serration outside the heat sealed portion in the wrist portion of the succeeding glove. This structure permits a strip of gloves to be rolled or provided in reversed overlapping layers for continuous dispensing and permits each glove to be pulled off from the succeeding one with all of the intermediate portions cut out and the wrist opening completely open and ready for use.

Abstract: A continuous strip of terminal posts comprises a plastic carrier strip through which the posts are inserted at regular spaced apart intervals. The carrier strip is of a thermoplastic material and has a generally H-shaped cross-section. The posts extend between the sidewalls of the carrier strip and through the web portion thereof. The individual posts are removed from the carrier strip at the time of insertion into a printed circuit board by an insertion punch which has a chisel-like end such that it splits the carrier strip during insertion.

Abstract: A reel-windable container carrier stock which is formed from a thin resilient plastics sheet material and wound upon a reel with substantial numbers of carriers in the strip for machine application of the strip to containers such as cans to form multipacks. The longitudinal center portion of each carrier in the strip is formed with certain curvilinear tabs to increase the mass of the plastics sheet material on each side of the longitudinal center line of the strip to provide that as the carrier is wound upon the reel the carrier will have a reel configuration with a central annular circumferential hump. That reel configuration provides for excellent high speed winding characteristics of the carrier stock.

Abstract: A strip of plastics tags is formed by successively displacing portions of the strip from the plane of the strip along longitudinally spaced lines transverse of the strip, and, before contact between said displaced portions and the remainder of the strip is lost, replacing said portions in the plane of the strip.

Abstract: A battery terminal includes a ring and a plurality of upstanding fingers extending inwardly of the ring. Each finger includes an inwardly and outwardly-directed shoulder. The inwardly-directed shoulders are engageable with a male battery terminal and the outwardly-directed shoulders are engageable with a female battery terminal. Also, a polarizing shroud is provided having an opening to the inwardly-directed shoulders of the terminal or an opening to the outwardly-directed shoulders to provide the required polarization.

Abstract: A multi-container package in which containers are firmly bound together as a unit by means which retain the cylindrical bodies in substantially axially parallel relationship for safe transportation and handling but permit manual separation of one container from the rest of the package without dismantling the pack. The containers of each package are bound together adjacent their tops and adjacent their bottoms, with substantial lack of relative movement between the containers, but the connecting means between rows of containers and between containers of each row are weakened in such manner that only limited movement imparted in a predetermined direction is required for separating one container from the rest.

Abstract: Apparatus for the conveyance of components punched out from a strip of material with the formation of a punched grid out of the working area of a press includes a feeding mechanism for conveying the strip of material into the working area of the press. At least one controllable ejector is arranged in an upper die for ejecting the punched-out components during the return stroke of the upper die onto the strip of material itself which is the conveyor. Lugs are punched into a remaining portion of the strip of material to be processed, behind the punched-out component, these lugs serving to retain the punched-out and dropped-off components on the strip of material.

Abstract: A screw package comprising a carrier strip through which the screws extend transversely with the essentially flat under surface of the screw heads resting against the upper surface of the strip. The strip has holes the diameter of which is closely related to the shank diameter of the screws. Around each hole there extend arcuate slots, between the ends of which comparatively weak webs have been left, or deep weakening lines, in such a manner that, as a screw is driven in, a washer consisting of the carrier strip material will be separated from the carrier strip to be clamped between the under surface of the screw head and the work piece wherein the screw is applied.

Abstract: A storage and merchandising display package for button cells in which the cells are inserted in apertures and adhesively held against a backing material which, in the preferred embodiment, for Zinc-Air cells, has preferential barrier properties to extend the shelf-life of the cells. The package includes an openable cover which surrounds the cells to prevent accidental shorting or physical dislodgment thereof and which may also carry instructions as well as product or company identifying indicia thereon to enhance the sales appeal of the package and also serve as a product locator. The package may also be formed of absorbent material or material impregnated with an electrolyte neutralizing agent to prevent electrolyte leaking from the cells from damaging adjacent packages.

Abstract: A wire marker comprising an assembly of (1) an adhesive element for carrying identification information that has pressure sensitive adhesive on one of its surfaces and (2) a backing covering the adhesive on the adhesive member, wherein the assembly has a pair of spaced apertures through which a wire to be marked is inserted, after which the backing can be removed from the adhesive element and the adhesive element folded over to form an identification flag on the wire.

Abstract: Pierce nuts are provided in finished form as similarly oriented and spaced parts of a strip, held together by metallic connectors which are sufficiently flexible to permit coiling the strip for purposes of feeding the pierce nuts in an uninterrupted and predictable sequence severing and applying the end nut of the strip to a panel. In a preferred form flanged pierce nuts are completely formed from a rigid metal bar having laterally extending flanges of reduced thickness on opposite sides of the bar, the nuts being separated by slots extending across the strip into the flanges to reduce the cross-section of the connecting material and thus impart flexibility to it. The strip is sufficiently rigid in a longitudinal direction to permit pushing the strip into the severing and applying tool.

Abstract: There is disclosed a web of record assemblies and a method of using same. The web is a composite web constructed by using both a longitudinally extending web of supporting material and a web of label material releasably adhered to the supporting material by means of pressure sensitive adhesive. The composite web is formed into a plurality of record assemblies by means of a plurality of transversely spaced-apart lines of partial severing in the supporting material and by either butt cutting or die cutting the label material. The label material of each record assembly is, according to one embodiment, partially severed along a longitudinal line and the supporting material is completely severed along the same longitudinal line. The label material on one side of the longitudinal line is divided into record sections containing one or more labels.

Abstract: A multi-container package for articles, such as orange juice in a frozen state, which includes a lid panel separated by divider zones or perforated zones into equispaced lid portions and a container means suspended beneath each lid portion and including sealing means to hold the lid portions to the container means.

Abstract: A packing containing electrical components, consisting of a strip of flexible material having holes in which the connection wires of the components are secured with a sliding fit. The components are inserted into a mounting panel by moving the wire ends into the panel.

Abstract: An electrocardiogram (EKG) data strip is constructed with contiguous, repetitive segments to allow individual heart lead tracings recorded on the segments to be readily removed from the EKG data strip after the tracings have been completed so that the segments can then be inserted directly into a permanent record form.The EKG data strip of the present invention has a first longitudinal line of perforations along one edge, a second longitudinal line of perforations adjacent the other edge and a plurality of transverse lines of perforations extending across the EKG data strip between the first and second longitudinal lines of perforations. The transverse lines of perforations are located at spaced intervals along the length of the EKG strip to thereby divide the central part of the strip into a plurality of longitudinally aligned segments, each of which has a predetermined width between the longitudinal perforations and a predetermined length between two adjacent transverse perforations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for packaging products in containers while the containers are continuously moving along a path is disclosed herein. The containers are sequentially dropped from a nested stack towards an apertured conveyor that defines the path for the containers and a negative pressure is produced below the conveyor to assist in drawing the containers into the apertures of the conveyor. The conveyor moves the containers to a filling station where the product is flowed into the containers at several different locations, so that the containers are filled in stages while being moved by the conveyor. The filled containers then progress to a cover applying station and are preferably arranged in at least a pair of rows with a continuous web of heat sealable cover film heat sealed to the filled containers at the cover applying station.

Abstract: There are disclosed various embodiments of record assembly webs. The record assembly webs are formed into separable record assemblies. Each assembly includes a record that can be applied to merchandise. One record part of the record can be readily removed from another part using one hand.

Abstract: An article of manufacture is provided which enables nails to be fed serial fashion to a nail-driver device. The article of manufacture comprises a strip shaped to provide a series of apertured nail flanges connected to each other by a mechanically weakened linkage, and nails disposed in the apertures of the flanges.

Abstract: A multi-ply strip somewhat longer than the circumference of the average human neck has two oppositely-facing arcuate edge portions toward the center of the strip to accommodate the contours of the neck. In one form, the opposite short ends of the strip have angularly cut-off corner portions to facilitate detachment of the strip from a roll of strips.

Abstract: A belt-forming package, intended for use in packaging radiographic dental films is presented. The package is characterized in that the film materials are separately packed in such a way that taking one film packet out of the belt is facilitated by the provision of zones of less mechanical strength at the circumference of each separate packet. Opening of the separate packets puts no problems as a lip-like portion having an asymmetric wave-type form is overlappingly sealed to another portion so that the rupturing of the seal between both portions, causing the opening of the concerning separate packet is facilitated.

Abstract: A childproof design for packages for tablets, pills and the like includes a conventional base foil provided with indentations or cups to receive the tablets. A cover foil is provided, as a seal, over the base foil. The package is rendered tamperproof by the inclusion of cavities in the base foil within which the cover foil can be grasped and peeled off but which are concealed and inaccessible until an individual tablet package is severed from the whole pack.

Abstract: A roll of flexible material is divided into multiple table place setting sections. Each place setting section includes a relatively recessed circular portion formed in the flexible material and also eating utensils which are attached to the flexible material. The sections are separated from each other by perforations for removal of one or more as desired.

Abstract: Dowels being united to a stripe by severable straps consisting of the material of the dowels, said stripe being adapted for being inserted into the magazine of a shooting or blowing apparatus, characterized in that each dowel is provided at its front face opposing the rammer of the shooting or blowing apparatus with at least one recess extending in longitudinal direction of the stripe.

Abstract: Apparatus for permitting blind rivet elements to be installed utilizing automatic insertion equipment. A blind rivet carrier element having a predetermined width and thickness is adapted for receiving the body of the blind rivet, blind rivet bodies being uniformly disposed longitudinally along the carrier element. The blind rivet body is removably secured to a surface of the carrier element. Indentations are disposed longitudinally along the carrier element to provide for flexibility of the carrier element and simplifying the adaptation thereof to automatic insertion equipment.

Abstract: A novel packaging system for use in packaging and distributing medicines, comprising a portable means supporting a plurality of packages in vertical, depending position, these packages having a flimsy, non self-supporting, sheet forming a lower, compartmentalized, medicine-holding means and also having, integrally connected to the package, an upstanding, upper, label of relatively rigid, self-supporting cardboard, which includes downwardly facing bearing surfaces formed by the laterally projecting bottom edges of the label for cooperation with, and to facilitate suspension on, the aforesaid portable apparatus.