Abstract: There is disclosed a portable box intended for the filing of papers such as thin flexible credit card receipts and the like. It comprises a container into which is slid and snugly fitted a lining insert having at least two opposed side panels and a bottom panel. The insert panels, which line corresponding walls of the container, are formed with parallel grooves running continuously transversely and opening into the upper borders of the side panels. Flat partition members are slid into these grooves so as to define compartments having openings for the filing of papers. A closure member is snugly fitted into the container, freely resting over the panel upper borders, and is formed with appropriate slots giving access to the compartments as well as with inner furrows into which the upper ends of the partition members are housed. Finally, the container and insert are surrounded by a case to give the box the appearance of a book, which case includes a cover closing over the closure member.

Abstract: A storage file for diskettes and the like which includes a container, first and second side rail members, a cover, and a lock for locking the cover to the container. The storage file is arranged to be supported by a support rail which has a horizontally extending slot. When the storage file is supported by the support rail and locked, the container is simultaneously locked to the support rail by an arrangement which requires the cover to be lifted from its closed position before the container can be removed from the support rail. The storage file may be used to store floppy or rigid diskettes by arrangements which include racks for rigid diskettes which support the diskettes by their lower edges, and dividers for floppy diskettes.

Abstract: The insert for a shelf in the inside door of a refrigerator comprises an angular part having a vertical and a horizontal plate and is preferably made of plastic material, which angular part is insertable into the shelf and connected with the inner surface thereof. A bar, which is known per se and has slidable sliders, is combined with the vertical plate of the insert. In either lateral flank of the vertical plate of the insert there is arranged a groove, and on either inner surface of the shelves there are arranged webs opposite to each other, which engage in the grooves when the insert is inserted in the shelf.

Abstract: A holder device for printed circuit boards which can be easily accommodated in tote boxes and is particularly suited for the manual placement and removal of the circuit boards. In one embodiment the holder device includes a frame or holder member into which slotted holding members for the circuit boards are received by track members. In another embodiment the holder device is integrally formed with two slotted facing surfaces connected with a common hinge. The holder devices are used as common wall dividers in the tote box and can receive printed circuit boards on both sides thereof. They are attached to the box by flanged ends for insertion into the slotted facings of the tote box wall. Slotted holding members for the circuit boards having varying slot configurations can be readily inserted into the frame members or molded into the integrally formed unit to meet the requirements of the customer.

Abstract: A floating as well for a covered gas storage tank is provided which rests on the tank cover until enough gas is introduced into the tank to inflate a gas collection membrane. The stress loads created by an increasing volume of stored gas on the gas collection membrane are diverted from the tank cover and through a series of cables attached to the floating gas well. The stress load is ultimately transmitted to the tank wall.

Abstract: A hanging file folder support assembly is provided comprising a pair of support rails securable to the sides of the drawer and a plurality of support bars spanning the distance between the side rails, said bars insertable in slots in the side rails. This system is adaptable to support hanging file folders which run between the sides of the drawer, parallel to the sides of the drawer or both. The system is also adaptable to support hanging file folders at or below the level of the top of the sides of the drawers.

Abstract: A utility bin for enclosure in structures such as furniture, cabinets, and closets for storage of such objects as magazines, newspapers, books, wearing apparel and linen. As storage for wearing apparel and linen, forward and rear pivot arms on each end of the bin control the movement of both the upper and the lower area of the bin outward to a tilted position. As storage for magazines, newspapers, and books, the bin also has an automatically positioned panel for support of upright placed contents. Rollers attached to the support panel contact a downward sloping rear to front surface such as the bottom to effect movement forward for contact with the contents of the bin when the bin is placed in home position. Flexible retainers such as chains attached to the rear of the support panel and to the rear of the enclosure structure retain the upright support panel to the rear when the bin is moved outward allowing unobstructed access to the contents of the bin.

Abstract: A storage tank for liquids is provided with a vertically movable horizontal deck which separates a liquid above the deck from a liquid below the deck. The deck and tank have line and pulley mechanisms to prevent the deck from skewing or tilting during vertical displacement. The liquid above the deck can be the same or different than the liquid below the deck but generally they have different densities so that the deck can float at the interface between the liquids.

Abstract: A containment manhole is disclosed which includes a hollow body having a closed bottom and an open top. A concentric opening is provided in the bottom to receive an underground tank fill therethrough and a circular, resilient seal is provided to seal the junction between the tank fill and the manhole bottom. Optionally, a drain valve may be provided in the manhole bottom to lead any spillage directly back to the tank fill. The manhole terminates upwardly in the machined ring and includes a gasketed junction with the ring. The ring includes an upper shoulder upon which the cover peripheral lip can rest and a lower shoulder of size to enable the cover peripheral edges to rest. An O-ring seal is provided intermediate the cover and the top ring to provide a first sealed junction and a circular gasket is affixed on the lower ring edge to provide a second seal when the cover is in position.

Abstract: A cosmetic carrier adapted for use alone or for placement in the bottom of a larger container to contain a plurality of cosmetic bottles and the like from bumping and tipping in transit. The carrier comprises an open topped resiliently rigid container having sidewalls and a bottom. A vertically disposed ribbon of elastic material horizontally crisscrosses the container between a plurality of first points on one area of the sidewalls and a plurality of second points disposed between the first points on a second area of the sidewalls opposite the first area to create a plurality of generally triangular areas within the container each being bounded on two sides by the elastic material and on a third side by a portion of the sidewalls.

Abstract: A storage and display device for floppy disks and the like including a molded base unit having a tray for supporting the disks on one edge thereof, a plurality of dividers for separating quantities of the disks within the tray, and hangers pivotally attached to each end of the base unit for suspending the storage container relative to a pair of parallel supports. The hangers are pivotable between a position in parallel side-by-side relationship with the corresponding end surface of the tray and a position extending upwardly relative to the end walls of the tray.

Abstract: Spectrophotometer purge apparatus comprising a sample compartment including a plurality of walls defining a first sample purge volume. The apparatus may further include a volume reducing wall and fastening means for removably fixing the volume reducing wall within the sample compartment to thereby define a second sample purge volume smaller than the first sample purge volume. A purge gas inlet introduces purge gas into the sample purge volumes. Further the apparatus may comprise a movable partition forming one of the plurality of walls and the volume reducing wall. In such an embodiment, the fastening means may further include means for removably fixing the movable partition to thereby define the first sample purge volume. The apparatus advantageously enables the sample purge volume to be adjusted as required to thereby optimize purge efficiency in a spectrophotometer.

Abstract: The Specification discloses a parallel-piped freezing frame having a plurality of compartments for freezing of flexible bags of plasma or other biological fluid. A slidable freezing plate is mounted within each compartment and cam means are provided for directing the freezing plate downwardly and laterally against a side wall of the component. The freezing plate and associated planar wall thereby mold the flexible bag into a flat but slightly wedge-shaped configuration. A freezing medium such as alcohol circulates through the freezing frame to freeze the contents of the flexible bag.

Abstract: Safety closures resistant to tampering comprising a cap, a rotary safety ring, and a locking member, usually located below the rotary safety ring, said closure requiring that the locking member be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. The locking member includes a first engaging means which engages a second engaging means located on the neck of the container to which the safety closure is attached. The locking member, prevented from rotation by the engagement of the first and second engaging means, is attached to the rotary safety ring by a connection, which should be broken whenever the closure has been tampered with. The connection may be a fragile tear pin, or a peel pin, a tamper resistant safety closure comprising a snap cap, capable of being removed only when a thumb tab extends past an annular ridge, that engages (via, e.g.

Abstract: A circuit board container assembly includes a box (10) with internal side wall slots (16 and 17) for receiving dividers (21 and 22) in which are formed vertical slots (28, 29, 31 and 32) and into which are placed printed circuit boards (11). Thee dividers are color coded to indicate discrete offset positionings of edge tabs (23, 24, 26 and 27) on the respective dividers. The offset positioning of the edges permits the selection of dividers which are mounted in the wall slots to provide spacings of the bottoms of the divider slots at distances closely proximating the width of the circuit boards placed in the slots so that the boards are snugly held during transport of the box.

Abstract: A desk assembly is disclosed utilizing a framework for supporting side and back panels and file drawer slide assemblies. Adjacent frameworks may be clipped together to form a credenza; they may be spaced apart and joined together by a desk top slab; an extension may be added to form an L-shaped desk unit. An accessory-holding track assembly is included formed from an extruded track with exposed and internal channels. Accessories are positioned in the exposed channel; support members are positioned in the non-exposed channels. Identical slide drawers are utilized, with boxes therein of differing heights. Drawer fronts of differing heights corresponding to the different heights of the boxes are utilized. The entire framework is filled with file drawer boxes of differing heights, and the module is fronted by corresponding drawer fronts of differing heights. A file drawer compressor or follower is used, resiliently biased against the sides of a file drawer.

Abstract: A pill bottle having a conventional closure is provided with a flexible member for dividing the interior of the bottle into two compartments, one for the total supply of pills and the other for the daily dosage of pills. Upon removal of the conventional closure, the flexible member can be deflected to cover the total supply of pills or, in other words, to close the total supply compartment so that when the bottle is inverted to dispense a pill, the pill can only fall from the daily dosage compartment.

Abstract: A storage apparatus for removably receiving planar members, such as business records. The storage apparatus comprises a storage container having front and rear wall portions and a pair of spaced rods extending horizontally therebetween. A file envelope is adapted to be removably inserted into the storage container. The file envelope is formed with front and rear upstanding walls, each including an aperture located along the side edge. The apertures engage the pair of spaced rods in the storage container to enable the file envelope to be placed on and slidingly supported by the rods. Removable securing members are placed along the side edges of the file envelope to secure the file envelope on the rods in the storage container. In another embodiment, the apertures are located along the bottom edge of the envelopes such that the envelopes are supported on the top of the rods.

Abstract: An elastomeric composite strip, impermeable to petroleum vapor and useful as a seal in a floating roof tank, having thereon a layer of woven or nonwoven fabric or cloth of a polymeric material with a substantially lower coefficient of friction than the material otherwise comprising the surface of the elastomeric strip thereby providing a slick face adapted to essentially always contact a surface with which it has slidable contact with little or no sticking.

Abstract: A system for holding small articles in a luggage boot consists of a base plate, board or panel and wall elements. The base panel has recesses into which the edges of the wall elements are fitted from above and in which they are held in relation to the bearing forces exerted on them by the articles.The base panel may be assembled from a plurality of base elements to the size required. A plurality of wall elements can be interconnected. Additional means are provided to secure the wall elements on the base panel.

Abstract: An arrangement for sealing the space between the outer rim of a floating roof and the inner wall of a tank includes a primary seal coupled to and extending between the inner wall of the tank and the rim and a secondary seal mounted on the rim of the roof and extending upwardly and outwardly and into contact with the inner wall of the tank above the primary seal. The primary seal comprises a flexible vapor barrier element. The secondary seal is made highly flexible and readily able to conform to the inner wall of the tank by use of a support structure in the form of a plurality of support plates mounted on the rim of the roof in side-by-side relation with overlapping but unjoined edges. The support plates support and force a pair of wipers mounted on top of the plates into contact with the inner wall of the tank.

Abstract: A floating vapor seal is suspended in a slotted gauge well that extends through a floating roof of a petroleum product storage tank. It has a flexible, product resistant layer that contacts the inside walls of the gauge well near the level of product in the well. The floating roof contacts the product around the gauge well and has a seal between it and the outside of the well.

Abstract: An improvement in a storage tank for a liquid having a floating roof and at least one stationary vertical member penetrating the floating roof through a well defined by an opening therein surrounded by a well wall partially in and partially above the level of a liquid stored in the tank, with the improvement being a vapor seal, covering the area between the vertical member and the well wall, positioned about at but above the liquid level in the well to thereby reduce the space in which vapor from the liquid can first accumulate and then be dispersed with vertical movement of the floating roof.

Abstract: An open top tank for storing volatile liquids has a circular floating roof buoyantly supported on the surface of the stored liquid within a confining cylindrical shell of the tank. Adjustable sealing means extends between the roof and the top of the shell for sealing the gap between the roof and the surrounding shell. The adjustable sealing means includes a plurality of cylindrical annular sections of different diameters nested one inside another in telescoping relationship, the sections being coaxial with the shell and positioned above the floating roof. Limit means interconnects adjacent ones of the sections for limiting the vertical movement of each section relative to the next adjacent outer section and the outermost section relative to the surrounding shell. The limit means transfers the weight of any section in its lowest position through the limit means to the tank shell.

Abstract: A floating cover assembly encompassing in a first condition a method and apparatus for tensioning a floating cover for a liquid storage reservoir wherein the surface level of the stored liquid varies and in a second condition, a method and apparatus for maintaining a liquid storage reservoir. In the apparatus of the above inventions, a peripheral envelope formed at least adjacent a portion of the peripheral edges of the floatable sheet is adapted to be inflated with a compressible fluid, such as air, for proper tensioning of the sheet as the level of the stored liquid varies in the reservoir and for preventing wrinkling of the sheet while, in the second condition, the peripheral envelope is adapted to be filled with a non-compressible fluid for providing a ballast for the sheet during maintenance operations thereof while the sheet is inflatably supported for maintenance of the sheet and/or reservoir.

Abstract: Card storage system in which cards such as file cards are suspended in a box, tray or other receptacle by means of laterally extending shoulders on the cards. The shoulders incline inwardly and downwardly from the upper portions of the lateral edges of the cards and tend to keep the cards centered laterally as well as upright in the receptacle. The system can be utilized with existing receptacles as well as new ones.

Abstract: A spring-loaded drawer partition formed of plate members that slide along opposed side walls of a drawer, each including tab extensions extending therefrom toward the inside of the drawer and constituting spring members. A box member extends between the plate members, having open ends which house the tab extensions thereinside. Stop members are included inside the box member, bearing against the tab extensions, yieldably biasing the plate members against the side walls of the drawer.

Abstract: A flexible plastic rectangular container for dispensing bulk rolled paper is molded with a stiffened top lid attached by an elastic hinge pre-stressed to hold the lid open. The stiffened lid has a skirt portion with latching projections to engage recesses in the container ends when the lid is closed. Manual application of a torsional couple to the container ends so distorts the container as to release the projections from the recesses, upon which the pre-stress on the hinge forces the lid open.

Abstract: This invention relates in general to card filing devices and more particularly to a card file case comprising a one piece receptacle for the cards to be filed with angled projections at the front and back of the receptacle which are an integral part thereof for retaining the cards in an angular position from the verticle.

Abstract: A utility basket for use in the upper or lower rack of a dishwasher. The utility basket comprises an elongated, narrow structure having side walls, end walls and a bottom. A gate is hingedly affixed within the utility basket to one of the side walls thereof. The gate is swingable between first and second positions. In its first position the gate lies against the side wall to which it is hinged and the entire utility basket is available to receive long flatware such as cooking spoons, spatulas and the like. In its second position the gate extends transversely of the utility basket serving as a partition to divide the utility basket into a first ordinary table utensil receiving portion and a second, shorter small wares receiving portion for small items such as measuring spoons, jar lids and the like. Means are provided to maintain the gate in its first and its second positions.

Abstract: A drawer divider system having one or more generally planar divider members extendable in an upright position between the front and rear of a drawer to partition a drawer interior, and a follower block extendable laterally from each divider member for positioning at a desired distance from the front of the drawer for holding objects and coacting friction means on the divider member and the follower block permitting lengthwise adjustment of the follower block along the divider member and retention of the follower block in a desired location.

Abstract: A floating cover that is spaced inwardly from the side of an upright tank is electrically grounded to the tank by a plurality of cable loops disposed in substantially vertical planes around the cover and spanning the space between it and the tank side wall. One side of each loop is secured to the side of the cover while the opposite side of the loop engages the side of the tank. The loops are compressed laterally between the cover and the tank side wall to maintain sliding electrical contact with that wall as the cover moves in the tank.

Abstract: In a floating cover for inside a tank a plurality of spaced parallel support bars extend across the tops of laterally spaced horizontal pontoons that support them. Metal sheets covering the spaces between the bars have edge portions resting on the bars and clamped against them by clamping bars to form a deck. The deck may be provided with vertical sleeves, in which posts of different lengths can be mounted for spacing the deck different distances from the bottom of a tank.