Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative pressure wound closure system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate closure of the wound by preferentially contracting to provide for movement of the tissue. Preferred embodiments can utilize tissue grasping elements to apply a wound closing force to the tissue.

Abstract: An improved joint is provided for modular furniture. The joint includes a dovetail shaped tab and a corresponding slot. The tab is held in the slot such that the tab is maintained in an elastically bent position while the item of modular furniture is in an assembled configuration. The tab and slot provides increased stiffness and rigidity to the piece of furniture while allowing the piece of furniture to be assembled without fasteners such as screws or nails.

Abstract: An assembly for coupling a first component with a second component. The assembly may comprise first and second connectors respectively associated with the first and second components, a first biasing member carried by either the first or second connector, and a second biasing member also carried by either the first connector or the second connector. When mated together, the first and second connectors are biased in a first direction by the first biasing member thereby constraining relative movement between the connectors in the first direction. The connectors are also biased in a second direction by the second biasing member thereby constraining relative movement between the connectors in the second direction, wherein the second direction is oriented at a non-zero angle relative to the first direction. And the connectors are relatively slidable in a third direction different from the first and second directions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a construction kit for a collapsible frame structure (1), wherein the construction kit is characterized in that the construction kit comprises flat components of type A (15, 25, 35) and components of at least one type B (20, 30, 40, 45), which are each formed in the shape of rectangles, which each have two long sides and two edge sides, wherein the components of type A (15, 25, 35) and of type B (20, 30, 40, 45) each have a thickness D and each have an identical length L and an identical width W, the components of type A (15, 25, 35) and of type B (20, 30, 40, 45) are each subdivided into n equally large sections of length L/n, which are bounded by n+1 sectional boundaries, wherein the edge sides of the components of types A and B (20, 30, 40, 45) form the respective outer sectional boundaries and the central vertical line between the long sides of the respective components forms the central sectional boundary, wherein the central vertical line is an axis of symmetry S, and wh

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a wine bottle packaging divider and display. The method and apparatus comprise of a divider with opposing side edges and opposing top and bottom edges. The divider has a partitioning line dividing the divider into a first section and a second section, wherein at least one of the first section and the second section is capable of displaying an advertisement. The divider also has at least one pair of elongated openings, wherein each of the at least one pair of elongated openings has an end in proximity to one of the opposing top and bottom edges, wherein said at least one pair of elongated openings is capable of being opened to the one edge and slidably coupled onto a vertical wall for displaying the advertisement. The divider is folded along the partitioning line to fit within a container for packaging the glass bottles.

Abstract: A ceiling-mounting baffle system including vertical panels. In one embodiment, the system includes a suspension bar mountable from a ceiling or other overhead structure and a vertical panel mountable to the suspension bar. The suspension bar includes a plurality of mounting segments spaced axially along the bar. To mount the panels to the suspension bar, the panel includes a hook element which may be disposed proximate to a top of the panel. The hook is configured to detachably engage a mounting segment to secure the panel to the suspension bar. In one embodiment, the hook element is associated with a recurved mounting slot integrally formed in the panel which receives the mounting segment of the suspension bar. The mounting segment is movable through the slot to hook the panel to the suspension bar.

Abstract: An assembled slotted partition apparatus for repeated use within three dimensional packing containers towards describing containment and cushioning regions therewithin. The apparatus is constructed so as to preclude against its own inadvertent disassembly between and during repeated uses, and relies upon the utilization of primary and secondary interlocking panel members operably receiving one another through the utilization of aligned slots. Primary and spacer locking elements align with each other upon assembly of the primary and secondary panels to describe a partition apparatus in which all structural portions remain intact for reuse in further shipping operations, without any reassembly and/or reattachment of the primary and/or secondary panels to one another.

Abstract: A partition assembly for dividing the internal space of a container comprising first and second sets of intersecting planar dividers, the sets of dividers having interengaging vertical slots which are locked at some or all of the points of intersection. The slots of the first set of dividers are defined by tabs cut from the first set of dividers and connected by vertical score lines to the first set of dividers. The vertical score lines of the first set of dividers are substantially colinear with the vertical slots of the second set of dividers. The tabs are folded along the score lines outwardly from the planes of the first set of dividers and into the planes of the second set of dividers and are permanently joined to the second set of dividers.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus comprising first and second planar elements, e.g. of cardboard, which may be assembled together to form a structure, e.g. a cross brace of a bottle crate. Each of these elements has a slit which extends to an edge of the respective element and into which the other element may be introduced. The slits of the two elements have linear portions which are aligned in a predetermined direction when the elements are assembled. The slit of the first element is formed to provide a flap which extends transversely with respect to the predetermined direction and which is pivotable about a folding line which extends obliquely with respect to the predetermined direction. The second element has an aperture in which the flap is engaged with the elements are assembled.

Abstract: A carton divider formed of crossing partitions interlocked by interengaged slots extending partially through the partitions from the opposite edges thereof. The slots include continuous hook slots having communicating inner, outer, and intermediate portions, and arrow slots divided into inner and outer portions by cross bars. Each hook slot intermediate portion defines a laterally directed tab extending through the inner portions of an arrow slot. The cross bar of the arrow slot in turn extends through the inner portion of the hook slot and is retained therein by a shoulder defined by the hook slot immediately inward of the tab and overlying the inner portion of the hook slot. The inner portions of both slots include areas narrower than the width of the remainder of the respective slots.

Abstract: A bottle-carton divider is formed by interlocking partitions each having a laterally projecting tab located along the length of, and extending into the half-height vertical slot of the partition by which the interlock with a cross-partition is effected. A tab-receiving opening is formed in each partition having an edge at a location spaced below but in alignment with an edge of the vertical slot. When the divider is assembled, the locking tab on any partition engages and overlaps the referred to edge of the tab-receiving opening of the interlocking partition, producing a pair of oppositely-directed abutment interfaces which restrain the locking tabs against disengagement in both directions, and in both the opened condition and one of the two possible collapsed conditions of the divider.

Abstract: Interlocked partition strips are shown and described wherein each strip has a number of spaced parallel slots which divide the strip into segments or sections. All but one end segment have lock tab projections near one edge extending into the slots in one direction. Also, the one end segment and all other segments but the remaining end segment have lock tab projections spaced inwardly from such one edge, the latter projections extending through the slots in the same direction, but opposite to the direction in which the projections adjacent the edge extend. Thus, each slot has two spaced, oppositely directed lock tabs extending through it. At the opposite edge of each strip are spaced tab receiving openings to be interfitted with lock tab projections of a transverse strip.

Abstract: A bottle-carton divider is formed by interlocking cross-partitions each having a laterally projecting tab located along the length of, and extending into the half-height vertical slot of the partition by which the interlock with a cross-partition is effected. A tab-receiving opening is formed in each partition having an edge at a location spaced below but in alignment with the referred to vertical slot. The shapes, comparative sizes, and other relationships between the vertical slot, the tab, and the tab-receiving opening formed in any partition are such that, when the divider is assembled, the locking tab on any partition engages and overlaps the referred to edge of the tab-receiving opening of the adjacent, interlocked partition, producing a pair of oppositely-directed abutment interfaces which restrain the locking tabs against disengagement in both directions along the line of intersection between the two, both in the opened condition and in the collapsed condition of the divider.

Abstract: A partition assembly having interlocking longitudinal and transverse partition strips to form compartments or cells for the reception of bottles, cans or other containers. The strips have sections that form the walls of the cells and are defined by spaced slots in each strip extending from one edge and a substantial depth into the strip and relatively shallow notches in the opposite edge of the strip in alignment with said slots. A set of sections, including the section at one end of each strip, has tabular projections near one edge extending into the slots in one direction, and a section at the opposite end of the strip has a tabular projection extending into a slot but in the opposite direction, the slots of the longitudinal strips interfitting with the slots of the transverse strips with the tabs of one interlocking in notches of the other forming a partition assembly.

Abstract: A bottle-carton divider is formed by interlocking cross-partitions each having a laterally projecting tab located along the length of, and extending into the half-height vertical slot of the partition by which the interlock with a cross-partition is effected. A tab-receiving opening is formed in each partition having an edge at a location spaced below but in alignment with the referred to vertical slot. The shapes, comparative sizes, and other relationships between the vertical slot, the tab, and the tab-receiving opening formed in any partition are such that, when the divider is assembled, the locking tab on any partition engages and overlaps the referred to edge of the tab-receiving opening of the adjacent, interlocked partition, producing a pair of oppositely-directed abutment interfaces which restrain the locking tabs against disengagement in both directions along the line of intersection between the two, both in the opened condition and in the collapsed condition of the divider.