Abstract: A printable blank sheet includes a sheet with a first layer and a second layer attached to a bottom side of the first layer, slit-over-perforation line in the sheet, and an object held in the sheet. The slit-over-perforation lines define a periphery of the object in the sheet. The slit-over-perforation lines include cuts running through the first layer, and perforations running through the second layer underneath the cuts running through the first layer. A method for creating custom print objects includes running a printable blank sheet through a printer, wherein the sheet includes slit-over-perforation lines defining a periphery of an object in the sheet. The sheet is bent along the slit-over-perforation lines to weaken and separate the slit-over-perforation lines, and the object is detached from the sheet.

Abstract: A dual-chamber container with independent or combined access includes two individual chambers made of a breach-able material such as, but not limited to, a paper product. The container can be made from a unitary blank that is foldable to create a substantially triangular body. The triangular body includes a first and a second superimposed triangular chamber, each chamber having a distinct interior space for holding a dispensable substance. A first and a second access fin are positioned at each of a respective first and a second corner of the body, each access fin contiguous with a respective one of the first and the second chamber. The interior space of each chamber is individually accessible by removing a respective one of the access fins, thereby breaching it's respective chamber.

Abstract: A single-use, multi-chamber package for housing and common administration of at least two flowable substances. The package includes at least first and second product storage cavities; and at least first and second product application channels. At least one separation line selectively reduces the strength of a predetermined area of the package and generally defines a tab. Steps of use include: 1) applying a force to tab creation areas to separate a portion of a tab; 2) removing the tab from the blister package by tearing across the product application channels to form wings, exposing the interior of the product application channels; 3) rotating the wings to pivot the channel openings toward one another, and 4) applying a force to the storage cavities to dispense the products. The package may contain more than two substances by employing multiple storage cavities and application channels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapper for individually packaging absorbent articles for personal hygiene, especially tampons. The wrapper of the present invention is provided with an opening means comprising a tear tape and a stopper, the tear tape is used for opening the wrapper and the stopper prevents the wrapper from becoming separated into more than two segments of wrapper material upon being opened.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapper for individually packaging absorbent articles for personal hygiene, especially tampons. The wrapper of the present invention is provided with an opening means, which prevents the wrapper from becoming separated into more than one piece of wrapper material upon being opened.

Abstract: This invention provides a container (10) in the form of a sachet having a body (11) defining a reservoir (12). The body (11) includes a flexible first wall (13) having a line of weakness (14), and a relatively more flexible second wall (15) sealingly joined to the first wall (13), along its periphery. The line of weakness (14) is configured to open up to form an opening in the first wall (13) when the first wall (13) is folded about the line of weakness (14). The invention is characterised in that the line of weakness (14) is bent, resulting in the advantages that the first wall (13) opens in a controlled fashion and the container (10) is able to withstand relatively rough handling and a substantial amount of bending, without the first wall (13) opening accidentally along the line of weakness (14).

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface covering system including a first covering portion detachably connected to a backing and a second covering portion detachably connected to the backing, wherein the first covering portion and the second covering portion are spaced apart on the backing.

Abstract: A first embodiment of the packing film is a four-layered laminate film in which the following films are laminated in that order: a first oriented plastic film formed as an outer surface layer and provided with a first coarse surface portion, an aluminum foil or paper sheet, a second oriented plastic film provided with a second coarse surface portion which is overlapped with the first coarse portion, and a non-oriented plastic film formed as an inner surface layer. A second embodiment of the packing film is a three-layered laminate film in which the following films are laminated in that order: an oriented plastic film formed as a first surface layer and provided with a coarse surface portion, an aluminum foil, and a non-oriented plastic film formed as an inner surface layer. The oriented plastic film forming the outer surface layer is backed at its coarse surface portion by a thin surface layer and laminated to the aluminum foil through a binder layer.

Abstract: A substrate, such as the surface of goods or of packaging material for goods, is provided with a security device by applying, to the substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive tape carrying a security device in the form of a hologram.

Abstract: A container thermoformed from a relatively thin flat plastic film comprising an upright standing hollow containment formation having an upper flat rim to which a thin cover member is sealingly attached in a sealing pattern. The sealing rim encompassing the containment formation with at least a portion of the sealing rim extending outwardly from the hollow containment formation an amount adequate to permit it to function as a tab. The extending tab portion has a fault line on its underside traversing the tab at a right angle to a centerline extending outwardly from the hollow containment formation which when the tab portion is upwardly bent causes the tab to rupture at the fault line. The rupturing causes the outer tab portion to break away from the remaining tab portion while remaining sealed to the thin cover member which is also upwardly bent to create an outlet passage for flowable material between the remaining tab portion and the thin cover.

Abstract: A stress concentrator aperture-forming structure for containers or packages for flowable products, which allow controlled dispensing of the flowable products with one hand. The stress concentrator includes a substantially flat, relatively stiff sheet, one or more elongated, thin-walled, generally channel-shaped protrusion members, and a fault area crossing one or more of the protrusion members. An enclosed pouch containing the flowable products may also be attached to the stress concentrator. Rupturing the stress concentrator protrusion members across the fault line forms an aperture-forming pattern, which upon application of pressure to the container or package expands to form a larger aperture. Alternate embodiments incorporate the rupturable stress concentrator onto containers or dispenser packages including a pouch type package having a slit opening, whereby upon rupturing the stress concentrator, the flowable products flow out from the container or package through the stress concentrator.

Abstract: A stress concentrator aperture-forming structure for containers or packages for flowable products, which allows controlled dispensing of the flowable products with one hand. The stress concentrator includes a substantially flat, relatively stiff sheet, one or more elongated, thin-walled, generally channel-shaped protrusion members, and a fault area crossing one or more of the protrusion members. An enclosed pouch containing the flowable products may also be attached to the stress concentrator. Rupturing the stress concentrator protrusion members across the fault line forms an aperture-forming pattern, which upon application of pressure to the container or package expands to form a larger aperture. Alternate embodiments of the present invention incorporate the rupturable stress concentrator onto containers or dispenser packages for use with a wide variety of products.

Abstract: A card stock sheet prepared for subsequent severance along a perforation line in the sheet defined by a sequence of closely spaced perforations and a continuous score cut at one surface of the sheet, extending part way into the sheet and coinciding with the perforation line with the uncut portions of the sheet between the perforations maintaining sheet integrity and with the score cut line providing a smooth edge when severance occurs.

Abstract: In combination, a flexible sheet member including a plurality of bingo game cards, the upper surface of each card having indicia thereon in final bingo game form ready for use by players, the peripheral edges of adjacent game cards being adapted to be detached from each other whereby a selected number of the game cards can be detached as a uniform structure. The sheet member is disposed about a reel member. Also included is a dispensing container having a pair of support members positioned in spaced parallel relationship, the support members being adapted to retain the reel member in rotatable movement within the container. The container is provided with a dispensing opening through which the sheet member of game cards can be drawn and is also adapted to enable a selected number of game cards to be severed as a unitary group structure.

Abstract: A container package includes a series of similarly configured containers maintained in adjacent relation by a series of interconnected rings formed from a resilient deformable material each surrounding one of the containers of the container package. The rings may have one or more weakened portions that rupture in response to stress applied by a link connecting the ring to the container as the container is removed. The link may be an adhesive that attaches the ring to the container at a point adjacent a weakened portion or alternatively may be a bracket straddling the ring. Alternatively, a bracket having an inner cutting edge may straddle the ring. The cutting edge severs the ring as the container is removed from the package. The rupture of the ring in each of these embodiments prevents wildlife from becoming entangled in unruptured rings of plastic carriers once the package is discarded.

Abstract: An improvement is provided for a conveyer tape comprising an underlying flexible belt, a stock of parts disposed in a row along such belt, adhesive deposited on the belt in two bands flanking such row, and a cover tape extending in the length of the row over the parts to hold them on the belt, the tape being adhered on laterally opposite sides of the row to the belt by adhesive in such bands. The improvement involves providing two sets of perforations formed in the tape to demarcate therein two tear lines extending in the length of the tape and disposed on opposite lateral sides of the row of parts, laterally inwards of the adhesive bands. The perforations reduce the shearing strength of the tape along the tear lines to promote peeling at the front end of the tape away from the belt of a central strip of the tape lying between the tear lines and between border portions of the tape on either side of that strip and remaining adhered to the belt.

Abstract: A container package including a series of similarly configured containers maintained in adjacent relation by a series of interconnected rings formed from a resilient deformable material each surrounding one of the containers of the container package. A plastic strip that passes through a loop located on a container and attaches to its surrounding ring, or a bracket attached to the container straddling the ring, provides a permanent connection between each container and its surrounding ring. The rings are weakened either side of the connection so that on removal of a container from a ring the stress caused to the ring by the connection to the container ruptures the ring. This prevents wildlife from becoming entangled in unruptured rings of plastic carriers once the package is discarded.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a flat laminate part consisting of a substrate layer and a cover layer having an auxiliary pull-off means to so pull-off said cover layer or parts of said cover layer said auxiliary pull-off means comprising a preset cut or cuts or a preset breaking line or lines in said cover layer, said auxiliary pull-off means being improved by having a stiffened area in the surrounding of the preset cuts or preset breaking lines in order to facilitate the producing of the grasp parts for pulling off said cover layer or parts of said cover layer.

Abstract: A machine for making plastic bags, such as trash or garbage bags, includes a rotary sealing drum of variable diameter, the drum including one or more sealing bars for cross-sealing a flattened plastic film tube passing through the machine. A blanket tensioning system surrounds the drum and is adjustable to compensate for different drum diameters. The sealed film passes over a chill roll after leaving the drum-blanket assembly and is drawn over folding boards by pull rolls. The sealed and folded film is then perforated by a fly knife and is preferably also cut on the sides to produce a connected series of bags which may easily be separated from one another to make the bags suitable for easy dispensing packages. A variator assembly may also be provided to insure a proper skirt length between the cut-perforation and the bag seal.

Abstract: A package for adhesive-surfaced sheet-like articles which may be delicate is formed by mounting the adhesive surface of the article onto a two-part release-surfaced carrier, one part of which supports the periphery of the article and the other part supporting the interior area of the article. With such a package, adhesive-surfaced sheet-like articles can be accurately placed onto an adherend without danger of contaminating the adhesive surface or allowing tearing, curling, or distortion of the article.

Abstract: A rolled material marking arrangement, as for bathroom tissue, for example, which selectively indicates the beginning or free end of the roll. In different embodiments, the sectional marking can be from corner to corner; overlapping at corners; offset at corners; and, also decorative in configuration, in any of the suggested forms, typically extending continuously along the roll. The marking can also be laterally disposed on the rolled material.

Abstract: A container comprises a plurality of interconnected compartments having rim flanges therearound and being individually sealed by a lid sheet attached to the rim flanges after portions of a product have been placed in respective compartments, the lid sheet being provided with edge slits and the rim flanges being provided with cutout notches which facilitate the prying and lifting of a corner portion of lid sheet and tearing off of a part thereof to unseal and open only a selected one of the compartments without disturbing the other compartments. This container in a preferred embodiment of the invention is housed in an outer box which can be easily opened to expose only parts of the container for selective unsealing of the compartments as stated above, and which can be easily reclosed for further storing of any remaining portions of the product.

Abstract: A plastic bag such as trash can liners, grass and leaf bags, sandwich bags and the like is reinforced by placing spaced ribs therein, integral with the wall structure, the ribs having a rib-to-rib spacing in the order of 1/8 to 2 cm, the ribs being peaked and merging smoothly from a projecting peak to the thickness of the walls between the ribs, the peaks extending about 1.5 to 10 times the wall thickness of the film which is preferably, in the order of about 0.4 to 2.0 mils. Upon extrusion, the extrusion die is formed with small notches with rounded corners so that the ribs are extruded while the film material is extruded, and provide additional material in the region of the ribs which merges smoothly with the material being extruded to form the film. Such rib-reinforced bag structures may be produced by forming a continuous roll of such bags, the individual bags in such a roll being readily separated along predetermined lines of weakness.