Abstract: A waste receptacle which features structure that permits changeable installation of display art items, as well as the display of embedded or removable three-dimensional items.

Abstract: A container is provided with grip enhancing protrusions of various shapes and sizes, which are raised and integrally formed on the container. The surface provides protrusions to enhance the ornamentation. The container is formed of two body portions which are laminated. The first body portion is of a flexible material which could formed of aluminum or plastic, and protrudes through protrusions provided in the second body portion which could be formed of a more solid material. The second body portion may be of a metal, cellulose, or plastic material.

Abstract: Modular storage bins provide for the bulk containment and storage of various commodities and goods, and are particularly useful in the kitchen or pantry for the storage of foods and spices. One or more identically sized open sleeves are installable beneath or alongside an existing cabinet or shelf, or alternatively may be placed atop an existing countertop or shelf. A mounting plate may be provided for additional attachment security for the sleeves, if desired. Each of the sleeves are adapted for the containment of one or more specially configured bins, with the bins being provided in various sizes. The largest bins have dimensions which are integral multiples of the smaller bins, i.e., the largest bins are two and three times the width and height of the intermediate sized and smallest bins. Thus, two half width bins, or a two by two matrix of four intermediate bins, or a three by three matrix of nine of the smallest bins may be installed in any given sleeve.

Abstract: A container (1) provided with profiled wall and roof panels (2, 3) which are secured to each other via welded U-profiles (5). One leg (6') of the U-profiles (5) comprises an inwardly extending flap (8) for the subsequent mounting of transverse suspension devices (9). The container can hereby be equipped with suspension devices for the suspension of goods at any time in operation, without it being necessary to take the container out of service to perform a time-consuming subsequent mounting by riveting or welding of rails or profiles.

Abstract: A remote control receiver box assembly includes a body and a casing wherein the body is enclosed by the casing, the body having three concave portions defined in an outer periphery of the body and each of the concave portions being made of transparent material such that a signal receiving element is disposed in the body and is located behind each of the concave portions, the casing having three openings defined in a periphery thereof and when the body is inserted in the casing, each of the concave portions is in alignment with the opening corresponding thereto.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a cover for a cooking pot, the cover formed by a cover ring fashioned as a zone of an imaginary spherical section directed toward the pot and of a cover surface resting on the cover ring, whereby the width of the cover ring amounts to a few cm and the average ring diameter of the cover ring approximately corresponds to the inside diameter of the pot.

Abstract: A vessel for holding a liquid includes an outer shell and an inner shell and means connecting the outer and inner shell, the outer shell and inner shell forming a cavity between them. At least the outer shell is of optically transparent material. The cylindrical cavity between the shells is capable of storing decorations or information visible from the exterior of the vessel, and these decorations or information can be selected by the user and changed by the user as desired, by opening the cavity.

Abstract: A roller bottle for trans-membrane co-culture of cells includes an exterior receptacle with a longitudinal axis having a first chamber surrounded by a sidewall. The exterior receptacle has a first neck at one end having an opening therethrough providing fluid access to said first chamber. The roller bottle further includes an interior container with a longitudinal axis and a second chamber, the interior container being located coaxially within the exterior receptacle. The interior container has a second neck at one end providing fluid access to the second chamber. The exterior receptacle is formed from a material that is substantially impermeable to gas and liquid and is sealed in a substantially fluid tight fashion forming the first chamber that has fluid access by the first neck. At least a portion of the interior container is formed from a microporous material.

Abstract: An improved beverage helmet mug which contains a window area, simulating the viewing window of a helmet. The mug has a body having a liquid-holding interior area and an exterior shape simulating a particular helmet style, of a particular helmet wearer, and has a convex front side having a window area in the shape of said viewing window. A section of a photographic image, showing the eyes and surrounding facial portion of said wearer and formed in the shape and size of said window area is affixed in the window area. Surface designs on the mug simulate exterior designs on the helmet. In addition, the mug of the present invention is constructed such that it may be used with a beverage container securely and releasably held therein, with beverage contained directly by the mug, or as a collector's item.

Abstract: A hollow plastic container including a coextruded translucent plastic outer layer, an opaque plastic inner layer, and a viewing stripe of translucent or clear plastic material extending longitudinally in the inner layer. In one form the container viewing stripe is in the inner layer made of clear plastic material placed behind a thin translucent layer. In another form, the stripe is made of the same translucent plastic material as the outer layer. In a further form an additional inner layer is provided of translucent or clear plastic material. The hollow plastic container is made by coextruding a parison of at least two plastic layers to form an outer translucent plastic layer and an inner opaque plastic layer, and simultaneously coextruding a viewing stripe in the inner layer and extending longitudinally of the parison. This method allows production of a distinct viewing stripe of the same nominal outside color of an otherwide opaque plastic container.

Abstract: A container for gasoline with extended viewing capabilities comprising: a container having an essentially flat base, large generally rectangular side walls, and short parallel front and rear walls, the lower edges of the walls being in a rectangular configuration and coupled to the periphery of the base, the container also having an upper surface having a generally rectangular periphery coupled to the upper edges of the walls, one wall having a rectangular aperture therein extending vertically for the majority of the height of one wall, the upper surface having a circular aperture with an upstanding threaded flange adjacent to one wall and an upstanding handle adjacent to the rear wall; and a hollow nozzle having an upper free end and a lower end formed with the coupling components having internal threads adapted to be removably coupled to the threads of the container; and an imperforate cap having internal threads adapted to fit over the threads of the container for sealing purposes.

Abstract: A container constituted of a microwave transparent material for the heating or cooking of foods or comestibles through the intermediary of microwaves at a high degree of efficiency and with an enhanced temperature uniformity.

Abstract: A pour spout for conducting a liquid, such as fuel, from a portable ventless container to a tank which includes a mechanism for enabling a user to readily determine when the tank is full and when fluid flow from the portable container into the tank has stopped. The mechanism includes a window in a wall of the container and a deflector connected to the pour spout which extends into the interior of the container for directing air bubbles entering the container through the pour spout toward the window. The window permits a user to visually determine when the displaced air bubbles stop flowing which is an indication that the tank is full and flow of the liquid has stopped. The window may be in the form of a translucent thin wall section, a transparent pane mounted in the wall, or the container itself may be translucent throughout so that the displaced air bubbles may be seen when directed to a location adjacent a wall.

Abstract: A highly-drawn and blow-molded polyester bottle is disclosed have a barrel resin layer forming a bottle wall with a circumferential yield point of higher than 1,800 kg/cm.sup.2 and a heightwise yield point of higher than 800 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A dental mouthwash product is provided that includes a dispensing container with at least two discreet compartments. In a first of the compartments is a liquid component containing hydrogen peroxide. In a second of the compartments is a liquid component containing sodium bicarbonate. The hydrogen peroxide-containing compartment has an outer wall formed completely of opaque material. The compartment containing the sodium bicarbonate has an outer wall of a material whose clarity is sufficient to view the liquid level therewithin. A closure mechanism is sealingly attached to an upper end of the dispensing container. A structure for inhibiting gurgling of the liquid that can occur upon dispensing is provided in the form of either a vent pipe, a divider wall or a U-shaped divider wall. Additionally, there is provided a child-proof mechanism in the form of a release-button controlling opening of a sealing cover on the closure mechanism.

Abstract: A sealed display device comprises a case for encasing a meter such as a speedometer, tachometer, odometer and the like, viewable through a display window or opening formed in the case, with a transparent cover sealed over the opening. The case has an annular lip surrounding the opening and adapted to receive a peripheral edge of the transparent cover. A layer of sealant is placed between the lip and the cover to seal the cover to the case. A plurality of spaced support members support the cover in spaced relationship to the lip so that a sufficiently thick layer of sealant may be placed between the cover and the lip to prevent breakage of the seal due to differences in thermal expansion and contraction between the case and cover. Angled areas may be milled from the case in surrounding relationship to the lip to define areas for accommodating a thicker layer of sealant than could otherwise be accommodated.

Abstract: Containers including bottles of either cylindrical, rectangular or other geometric or sculptural form having at least one selected area of a sidewall thereof providing a depression or indentation to receive at least one article; solid, liquid, granular or other material therein. After placement of such article in this area, the article may be retained therein through adhesives or other adherents or the area may simply be overlayed with a covering film to retain the article. The covering film may simply cover this particular area and preferably would be clear over the area to allow viewing of the article or may include labelling materials which substantially surround the container with a clear area maintained over the indented or depressed area and similarly, the container may be silk screened or otherwise decorated with clear covering film being limited to the depressed or indented area.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette accommodating case has a cover member having a pocket for receiving one end portion of a magnetic tape cassette and a casing member having rotation stopper projections. At least (a) peripheral portions of the cover member and the casing member, which edge portions confront at least the thickened portion of the magnetic tape cassette, and (b) side wall portions of the cover member and the casing member, the side wall portions including the pivotably assembled portions, are molded with a resin, which is more slidable than the other portions of the cover member and the casing member. The other portions are molded with such a transparent resin as to allow the case to be seen through. A method for manufacturing such a magnetic tape cassette accommodating case utilizes a first slide core slidable in a direction of inserting a cassette, and a second slide core movable substantially orthogonal to the direction of moving the first slide core.

Abstract: A keepsake transparent capsule having two compartments, one to receive a two dimensional item and the other to receive a three dimensional item, the capsule capable of being secured to a key chain or other physical item for visual inspection and display. The capsule includes an exterior tube and a piston member inserted within the tube.

Abstract: Spherulites grow in such sections as neck, neck end, bottom center or bottom periphery of a hollow bottle-shaped container of biaxially oriented blow-molded polyethylene terephthalate where the resin is not substantially subjected to orientation, thereby to improve the thermal resistance, stiffness and content resistance of such sections to almost the same extent as the biaxially oriented sections of the container such as shoulder and cylindrical sections thereof. The aforesaid sections of the preformed piece before being blow-molded or of the blow-molded container where the resin is not substantially subjected to orientation are first heated at 120.degree.-180.degree. C. for 3-8 minutes and, then, annealed at room temperatures, with a result that such sections have a spherulite texture of an increased density and are opacified in white or milky white.

Abstract: A decorative window for use with a sanitary product dispenser such as a dispenser for dispensing tissue, paper towels or liquid soap. The window is substantially transparent and is mounted to the front cover of the dispenser. A decorative strip support releasably engages the window from within the dispenser. The decorative strip support member includes at least one flexible latch bar which is engageable with a latch bolt receptacle in the window. A decorative strip cut to the appropriate size can be inserted against the inside surface of the window with the decorative strip support removed. The decorative strip support can be reinserted against the window such that the latch bar engages the latch receptacle thus pressing and supporting the decorative strip between the window and the decorative strip support and automatically compensating for decorative strips of different thicknesses.

Abstract: A toy includes a base, a character figure on the base, and a dome-shaped housing on the base over the character figure. The housing includes inner and outer transparent shell portions which cooperate to define an enclosed cavity therebetween, and transparent liquid having sparkling particles suspended therein is received in the cavity. A second embodiment of the toy includes an opaque housing having a window therein. The window includes spaced transparent inner and outer shell portions which cooperate to define a cavity therebetween, and a transparent liquid is received in the cavity.

Abstract: A display case including first and second display case halves which may be formed individually, or with an integrally formed living hinge portion. Each display case half includes a peripheral edge portion in facing relation with the like edge portion of the other half, the edge portions including matingly coating pegs and apertures, alternately positioned, or located, so that the parts are keyed, one to the other, to form an enclosure with aligned display openings. One end of the case is provided with spaced parallel span rails which define a compartment, into which illumination means may be inserted. The case may be provided with a handle for portability, or may be provided with suitable fasteners for fastening to a fixed member, such as a wall or a ceiling. A centrally located cross member is provided in one embodiment, with a hub for receiving a record aperture thereon. The display openings may be provided with means for receiving transparent or translucent panels or the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tamper-indicating radiation-proof film container. The container comprises a canister having an opening defined therein, and a closure member having a peripheral canister-engaging portion. A tamper-indicating seal is located between adjacent contact surfaces of the canister-engaging portion and the canister, and the closure member is translucent for enabling the condition of the tamper-indicating seal to be viewed. Shielding means are provided for shielding the contents of the container from ionising radiation. The shielding means may be in the form of an intermediate lead layer and an inner barium-impregnated plastics layer which lines both the canister and the closure member. The tamper-indicating seal incorporates indicia containing information relating to the contents of the container.

Abstract: A tape-cartridge case comprises a lower plate, an upper plate and side walls projecting from the respective lower and upper plates, and when a tape cartridge is accommodated in the case, side surfaces of the tape cartridge are surrounded by the two side walls. However, only one of the two side walls opposes to a bar code that is provided on the side surface of the tape cartridge, so that the bar code can quickly and accurately be read by a bar-code reader through the single side wall.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided wherein an organization includes a lower container of a trapezoidal cross-sectional configuration accommodating a lid defined by a further trapezoidal cross-sectional configuration, wherein the lid is complementarily received upon the container and includes a pivoted entrance door, as well as a handle mounted on the lid receivable within a recessed cavity to permit vertical stacking of containers and lids. Each lid includes plural pairs of "L" shaped brackets to align and position a container thereon. A modification of the invention includes a disposable intermediate lid plate positioned between the lid and the container to receive disposed components of a lesser volume to minimize cleaning and maintenance of the container during use.

Abstract: Window/cassette cover combinations and more economical methods for assembling the window in the cassette are described. A planar window is: rectangular and includes a pair upper lips, each an opposite sides, and a pair of lower riges or ledges, each on other sides; generally square and includes an upper discontinuous lip and a pair of lower ridges or ledges on opposite sides; or circular and includes an upper continuous lip and a lower continuous ridge or ledge. In each of these three embodiments, the upper lips and lower ledges or ridges cooperate to receive the borders of a window opening formed in the cassette cover, and a label can be applied between the windows and optionally covering one or more windows. In each embodiment of the method, the window is flexed to position opposing ledges under the borders and the window is returned to its original planar position so that the upper lip abuts the top of the border.

Abstract: An insulated drinking mug which includes a transparent section and a fluid receiving section telescopically received therein. Demountable entry means for introducing a placard between the sections and then sealing the entry such that the entire assembly is water tight.