Abstract: A telescoping carton particularly adapted for packaging food products is prepared from a pair of combination tray/cover components made from identical blanks of paperboard or the like. Each blank is folded and glued by the manufacturer and shipped to the user in its flattened knocked down condition. The combination tray/cover components have a plurality of side walls and preferably an auto lock bottom. The side walls are joined to one another along score lines to form corners, and the side walls at each corner are provided with a pair of converging score lines which extend from points along the edges of each adjacent side wall toward the corner formed by the adjacent side walls. The corner score lines and the adjacent converging score lines in each side wall form connected, tapered panels. When used as a tray, these panels are pinched together and form outwardly folded corners to effectively reduce the size of the top of the tray.

Abstract: A barbecue unit having a lower, open top member and a cover for placement over the lower member in either one or two locations. In a first, stored location, the cover is collapsed on the lower member so that, together, they require only a minimum amount of space for storage. In the second position, the cover overlies the open top of the lower member and the sides of the cover are supported by rigid bars on the upper, opposed sides of the lower member. A grill on the open top of the lower member thus can support food items to be barbecued, and the space above the grill and below the cover can be used to collect smoke for smoking the food items. The bars on the lower member are pivotally mounted thereon so that they can be retracted to allow the cover to be collapsed on the lower member for storage purposes. A number of pivotally mounted legs on the lower member support the same above a support surface and the lower member has a lower, inner grill for supporting charcoal briquettes.

Abstract: A personal security device is disclosed which comprises a trigger actuated aerosol canister contained in a two-piece telescoping housing. The canister contains a pressurized offensive odor containing gas such as mercaptoethanol which, when ejected from the canister, emits a loud shrieking noise. Additionally, the gas may, as an additional additive, contain a suspension of fine solid or liquid particles of paint or stain so that the device when actuated, discourages a potential rapist or attacker with offensive odor and noise and also identifies him with a stain. In one preferred embodiment, the telescoping housing also includes a flash-type light which is actuated by the same triggers which actuate the canister. The telescoping housing has a key ring attached at one end and may also have a mechanical whistle at the other end.

Abstract: A telescopic tanker for carrying fluid which has a wheel-mounted, extendible chassis with a first tank section and at least one other tank section that is telescopingly received within the first section. The tank sections are movable between their telescoped and untelescoped positions, and the tanker is adapted to be attached to a towing vehicle.

Abstract: A multi-purpose baking pan is formed from a bottom pan member having a convex bottom surface and a pair of side members having a number of pairs of spaced apart holes. First and second end pieces are adapted to mate with respective pairs of holes in the side members of the bottom pan portion to form a baking pan of predetermined size. Different sized baking pans may be formed with the same structure by moving one or both of said end pieces to different pairs of holes along the bottom pan portion. A cupcake holder or similar plate having a number of holes therein may be mounted within the baking pan. The bottom portion of the pan member has a convex shape to mate with the end pieces and form a batter tight fit.

Abstract: A telescopic 4-sided extension fits inside the frame of the shopping cart and is attached thereto with clips or a spring loaded catch for slidable vertical movement.

Abstract: A container assembly formed of two cup-shaped container halves which are combined with their open end portions in telescoped relation and being secured together by way of a coupling sleeve. The coupling sleeve is internal in the preferred embodiment, but may be external. The overlapped free end portions of the container halves may be disposed immediately adjacent one another, or may be separated by the coupling sleeve. Except when the coupling sleeve is located externally, the raw edge of the free end of the inner free end portion is always protected by the coupling sleeve. The coupling sleeve may have a socket in which one or both of the free end portions is seated. The container halves are formed of metal and the coupling sleeve is formed of a plastics material and bonded to a coating on the metal halves.

Abstract: A tissue cassette which includes an open-topped, perforated base member adapted to receive a tissue specimen, a perforated lid member adapted to cover the base member and be secured thereto in a closed position, and one or more gates joining the lid members to the base member in an open position wherein the gates will break when flexed.

Abstract: This invention serves several functions in a utility manner. One of the utility functions is to provide a container for receiving mail in an enclosure which is expandable when the mail load is heavy in volume. The other associated utility functions are those normally present in the vicinity of a yard marker. The utility yard marker consists of a frame, an anchoring component, covering over the frame, securing arms for objects, and an enclosed storage area for winter weather products, as well as other associated functions.

Abstract: Samples of materials, such as biological materials, are stored in liquid nitrogen in containers arranged as sliding sleeves wherein the outer sleeve is longer than the inner sleeve and has an apertured protruding edge so that a sealed wire can be threaded therethrough.

Abstract: A container having two chambers when assembled, comprises two container halves with each at least four walls rigidly connected with one another. Pairs of the outer chamber walls of each chamber are disposed parallel with one another, one pair forming right angles with the other pair. The walls of one pair are laterally extended beyond one of the walls of the other pair. The chambers of the container house articles of daily use, some disposed upright in the chamber of one container half, while articles in the chamber of the other container half are placed horizontally. Foot means are mounted on the outside of one of the laterally extended walls of one of the container halves, and are adapted for being placed or mounted on a base, whereby the laterally extended wall bearing the foot means is the bottom wall of the container and can be affixed to a table.

Abstract: Improvements in an offshore platform and submarine storage facility for highly chilled liquified gas, such as liquified natural gas, are disclosed. The improved facility includes an elongated, vertically oriented submerged anchoring frame to which one or more insulated storage tanks are moveably mounted so they can be positioned at a selected depth in the water. The double piston tank is constructed with improved seals to transfer ambient water pressure of the selected depth to the cryogenic liquified gas without intermixture. This transferred pressure at the depth selected aids in maintaining the liquified state of the stored liquified gas. Structural improvements to the tank facilitating ballasting, locking the double piston cylinders together and further facilitating surface access to the tank for inspection, repairs and removal, and structural improvements to the platform are disclosed.

Abstract: A container includes two elongate tubular members, one telescoped within the other. The inner tube has an access opening in one section of an upper wall portion through which articles can be placed into and removed from the interior of the tube when the inner tube is withdrawn from the outer tube, the access opening being effectively closed when the inner tube is again telescoped into the outer tube.

Abstract: A tubular body member has telescopingly received therein a tubular ash receiver member, closed at its outer end and having a through access opening in the side-wall thereof which is normally covered by an arcuate, extended-wall portion of the body member. A helical tension spring acting between the outer end of the body member and the inner end of the ash receiver member serves to yieldingly constrain the ash receiver member in fully closed position with respect to the tubular base member whereat the access opening is covered by the body member extended-wall portion. In use, the ash receiver member is pulled outwardly of the base member to uncover the access opening, abutment stop means being provided to temporarily maintain the ash receiver in this open position against the urging of the tension spring.

Abstract: A reed holder comprises a base member and a cover member. The base member includes at least one elongate, rigid member defining a planar, reed-receiving surface and at least one reed retaining member for removably securing a reed against the reed-receiving surface. The cover member defines an open-ended enclosure co-extensive with a predetermined portion of the planar reed-receiving surface for enclosing a tip portion of a read. Coacting assembly structures on the base member and on the cover member are provided for effecting non-removable assembly of the base member with the cover member.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disposable cat litter chamber. Being unique in nature this design provides increased sanitation features, minimized odors, and disposability. The box may be formed in various shapes, but the preferred embodiment is that of a "milk carton" type construction, only somewhat taller and elongated. The cat enters the chamber through a flexible expansion type door at either or both ends. This chamber remains entirely sealed at all times except for slits in the door. Windows for light emission would be glazed with cellophane or equivalent. All excretions and resulting odors are confined within the chamber. This invention also totally eliminates the unsightliness of conventional cat boxes and also prevents any litter from being expelled out of the box during use. The chamber can be made of cardboard or other suitable material so that the entire unit may be disposed of after use. This feature prevents any necessity for direct or even visual human contact with the litter.

Abstract: An overhead dispenser having vertically telescopic movable shelf units.

Abstract: An adjustable card box to hold a multiplicity of the slide-type bingo cards in an upright viewing position and in a manner such that they can be rapidly flipped through comprises two trays, one of which fits and telescopes within the other. A finger-operable locking means serves to lock the position of one tray with respect to the other to permit expanding and collapsing of the space encompassed by the trays to facilitate storage of the box and to permit a player to accommodate the number of cards he wishes to play. The card box has front and rear upward extending flaps pivotedly mounted to the sidewalls, which in the open position serve to support the cards in the viewing position. The flaps can be folded down into the box flat to permit storage of the box and carrying of a vertical stack of playing cards on the box.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjustable and rotatable stovetop cooker having two telescoping halves. Each half also includes opposed handles which allow the cooker to be picked up and rotated 180 degrees to allow cooking a package of food on both sides.

Abstract: A container to be attached to a shoestring or the like and adapted to contain information regarding the medical condition and/or identification of the wearer. The container is made of two halves formed from a resilient plastic material, which define between them a cavity in which a specially-shaped piece of paper with the necessary information can be placed.

Abstract: A dispenser package has an outer case which is open on one end and which receives, in its other, partially closed, end, a snap-fitted dispenser assembly. The actuating stem of the dispenser extends out of a small opening in the end of the outer case to which the dispenser is fitted. A closely fitted inner container is filled with the fluid product to be dispensed and is then press fitted into the outer case, provision being made to vent the trapped air during assembly. The inner end of the inner case is seated against the dispenser assembly and so provides additional direct support for maintaining the dispenser in place.

Abstract: A cigarette case is provided with adjustable features to accommodate cigarette packages of varying lengths and widths. A longitudinally slidable insert serves to accommodate variations in package length while a swingable side panel attached to the insert is biased inwardly to accommodate variations in width of the package. A hinged package lid engages the lid of a hard-pack cigarette package for simultaneous opening therewith.

Abstract: A plastic sample container with an attached collapsible funnel comprising several frusto-conical rings which interlock with one another in a raised position to form a funnel attached to an upright neck of the container. The funnel may be collapsed into the form of separate rings which rest upon radially extending upstanding support members attached to the top of the container. When the funnel is collapsed, the upper surfaces of the supporting members, the upper edges of the individual frusto-conical rings, and the top of a removable cap for the neck of the container all fall within a plane generally parallel with the bottom of the container, allowing several of the containers to be stacked one upon another. Graduations are provided on the side of the container, which is preferably constructed of tough translucent material, permitting visual ascertainment of the volume of a sample contained therein.

Abstract: A two-part package includes a sleeve for receiving a tray. One surface of the sleeve has openings formed therein for receiving dimpled detents formed in the tray. As the tray is fully positioned in the sleeve, the detents engage the openings and retain the tray thereby inhibiting unwanted opening of the package and release of contents. Upon exertion of sufficient manual force on the sides of the sleeve, detent action is overcome and the package is opened as desired.

Abstract: An elongated, two-piece, hardshell, digestible gelatin capsule, to be taken orally, comprising a C-shaped body member into which may be inserted a liquid, and a digestible hard-shell gelatin cap member formed with a stepped free marginal edge portion complementary to the body member, telescopically registrable with the free upper end of the body and welded thereto in overlapping hermetically sealing, closing relation.

Abstract: A container and method of adhesive bonding of two telescopic container halves wherein each container half has a cylindrical body, the inner container portion being circumferentially loaded to temporarily reduce its diameter and being forced in centered relation to the outer portion into a bead of adhesive laid in the interior of the outer portion to coat the raw edge on the inner portion, the inner portion shearing through the adhesive without wiping it off from the interior of the inner portion and thereafter the hoop stress on the inner portion being relieved so it springs out and squeezes excess bonding material from between the inner and outer portion and thus obtains thin film adhesive bond with good stress shear characteristics while holding the film in compression therebetween during curing or setting of the adhesive.

Abstract: A housing construction for an electrical switch construction having one housing member partially telescoped inside another housing member to have a pair of opposed ears on the one housing member respectively project through a pair of opposed slots in the other housing member together with a cover member secured to one of the housing members to hold the same in their assembled and telescoped relation. Each slot is defined in part by a pair of opposed surfaces one of which comprises a flexible biasing section. Each ear has opposed edges respectively press-fitted between the opposed surfaces of its respective slot and flexing the biasing section thereof outwardly from its respective other surface whereby the biasing sections hold one of the edges of the ears against the other surface of the slots.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a combination container for the shipping and display of small articles such as jewelry. In its display condition, the container provides a shadow box.

Abstract: A container and method of adhesive bonding of two telescopic container halves wherein each container half has a cylindrical body, the inner container portion being circumferentially loaded to temporarily reduce its diameter and being forced in centered relation to the outer portion into a bead of adhesive laid in the interior of the outer portion to coat the raw edge on the inner portion, the inner portion shearing through the adhesive without wiping it off from the interior of the inner portion and thereafter the hoop stress on the inner portion being relieved so it springs out and squeezes excess bonding material from between the inner and outer portion and thus obtains a thin film adhesive bond with good stress shear characteristics while holding the film in compression therebetween during curing or setting of the adhesive.

Abstract: Capsule body, in particular for use with a joined capsule for a pharmaceutical preparation, and method of and apparatus for producing it.

Abstract: A safety container for containing and dispensing particulate matter such as pills and the like. Two members have concentric, cylindrical walls which are slidably engaged with each other, and have oppositely disposed end walls to form an enclosure. Sliding engagement and movement is in both a longitudinal and transverse direction creating registration of two apertures in order to obtain access to the contents of the container. Tabs, projecting from the end walls, are used to grip the safety container and prevent the container from being set down unless it is in a closed position.

Abstract: An offshore submarine storage facility for highly chilled liquified gas, such as liquified natural gas, is disclosed. The facility includes an elongated, vertically oriented submerged frame. An insulated storage tank is movably mounted to the frame so as to be positionable at various depths in the water. The tank is constructed to transfer external ambient water pressure to the liquified gas without intermixture. This transferred pressure aids in maintaining the liquified state of the stored liquified gas.

Abstract: Meter box apparatus for containing and securing an underground utility meter, including a cylindrical meter box for use as a meter pit, the meter box being fabricated in two complementary sections of substantially semicircular cross section with diametrically extending flanges, the flanges being held together by C-clamps for assembling the two sections, a meter box cover including a cylindrical body, the cylindrical body being insertable into the cylindrical meter box, both the box and the cover having complementary threads molded into the walls for adjusting the height of the apparatus, and an apertured bar adjustably positionable with respect to the height of the meter box and secured between said two sections for securing the meter.

Abstract: A watertight battery box comprises an upwardly open base and a downwardly open lid which rests on the upper edges of the base. One edge of the base has a recess therein for receiving the battery cables, and the lid has a downwardly opening channel therein for receiving the cables. In use, water can rise around the battery box without entering the battery box, because the lid traps air beneath itself but has little or no buoyancy.

Abstract: Cookware that is especially constructed such that a basic unit is adapted to be built upward thereby making a deeper pot or the like.

Abstract: A package for alternatively displaying and enclosing an article such as a wristwatch. The package includes a base, an article holder slidably and removably positioned in the base, and a cover adapted for alternate disposition with respect to the base so as to alternatively provide for relatively open display and for substantially complete enclosure of the article. The package in its enclosure mode can be utilized as a shipping container. In its display mode, the package is utilized to display the article to prospective purchasers and in this mode the relationship of the cover to the base provides a stop means whereby the slidable removal of the article holder, and accordingly the article, to those unfamiliar with the operational manner of the package is prevented, and accordingly provides a measure of security for the retailer using this package.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling and storing baggage or cargo within an aircraft fuselage including a fuselage door and a plurality of storage platforms with each platform consisting of a flat rectangular base and two upwardly extending side walls closely juxataposed to the shape of the fuselage. The platforms are capable of stacking one atop another when not in use adjacent the fuselage door. Each platform can move longitudinally relative to the aircraft fuselage away from and back towards the fuselage door in a telescoping sequence such that the uppermost platform will move away from said stack first and such that the lowermost platform will always return to said stack first.

Abstract: A packing container is formed of a pair of cylindrically shaped axially elongated hollow bodies disposed in coaxial alignment with one fitting telescopically into the other. A row of teeth is formed on and projects outwardly from the inner hollow body and the row extends in parallel with and for the full axial extent of the inner hollow body. The teeth extend in the circumferential direction of the inner hollow body. However, the teeth extend for only a fractional angular portion of the circumferential dimension of the inner hollow body. Threads are formed on the inner surface of the outer hollow body adjacent its open end and the teeth interengage with the threads. Both the teeth and threads extend at the same oblique angle to the longitudinal axis of the hollow bodies. The teeth have a rectangular cross-sectional shape while the threads are formed as buttress threads.

Abstract: A plurality of frame members. Each of the frame members have a truncated pyramid shape of successively reduced size. The members are able in one condition, to be stacked one upon the other to form an enlarged truncated pyramid shape box and in a second condition to be nested one within the other. A cover for the uppermost one of the members and a plate insertable in a slot in a wall of the frame member to partition the box are provided.

Abstract: A housing assembly for non-mechanical printers consisting of a base frame having a second housing cover slidably mounted thereon through telescoping slides and a first housing cover slidably carried by the second housing cover through telescoping slides, the first housing cover being slidable over the second housing cover, the second housing cover and first housing cover being slidable beyond the base frame.

Abstract: A container for enclosing a portable stove either in a first fully assembled configuration having one height, or in a second partially dismantled configuration having a second lesser height, the container comprising two saucepans serving as covers and telescopable together to accomodate the stove having either said first or second height, the saucepans having two sets of selectable latch elements vertically spaced along their sidewalls to latch the saucepans at one of the selected heights, and the latch elements being supported on sidewalls which are so shaped that the saucepans can be telescoped together with the latch elements sliding freely between them without snagging on adjacent sidewalls.

Abstract: A merchandise container including a box-like base having an opening in its top wall. A box-like insert within the base projects through the opening above the base top wall, the top wall of the insert having an opening for accommodating an article of merchandise. A double walled shell has a liner within it, the liner projecting below the bottom edge of the shell and fitting snugly around the portion of the insert projecting above the base. A core is located between all the double walls of the shell to maintain a spacing between them. The container is formed of no more than five pieces of folded and glued paperboard, namely, the pieces forming the base, the insert, the shell, the liner, and the core. The insert includes a platform upon which the merchandise rests, and locking means for preventing removal of the insert from the base. Both ends of the shell may be open, the upper end being closed by the top wall of the liner.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing, protecting, and carrying first and second snow skis having their bottom surfaces placed adjacent to each other is disclosed, in the preferred embodiment, as a container. The container is thin-walled, elongated, and hollow and includes container portions arranged in a telescopic relation. The preferred three portions of the container can also be locked at any of several desired step locations intended to conform to differing length skis. First and second snow skis are removably captured within the interior of the container first by a protrusion formed integrally with a closed end of one of the container portions which engages and holds the ends of the skis, second by a sloped bottom surface formed integral with the closed end of another container portion which urges the ski tips upward, and third by a depression in the ski case.

Abstract: An ash tray comprising a first portion having a bottom wall and a continuous wall upstanding therefrom, the continuous wall having a lip on its free end, and a second portion, the second portion having a plurality of concentric members telescopically connected, a first of the members having a free edge thereon shaped complementarily to the lip and engageable therewith to connect the first portion to the second portion, and a screen disposed in the second portion forming a barrier between the bottom wall and an opening defined by said second portion.

Abstract: A posting tray, or similar record holding tray, includes two side rails which are adjustably movable toward and away from one another, and are releasably fixable in any given position of adjustment, to suit the tray for record cards of various different widths. Each side rail is part of a C-shaped member having two laterally inwardly extending legs at its opposite ends. The legs are connected to the front and rear walls of the tray. The two legs associated with each wall overlap one another throughout a portion of the range of adjustable movement of the side rails, and are out of such overlapping relationship throughout another portion of the range of adjustable movement, to maximize the side rail spacing variation range. The overlap of the legs which does occur may be accommodated in either the vertical plane or the horizontal plane.

Abstract: A casing formed by a hollow enclosure molded integral from a polycarbonate material, with at least a portion of the enclosure having a sinusoidal, cross-sectional configuration. A method of manufacturing a casing of the above type.

Abstract: A childproof container for particulate substances such as pills, tablets or the like, air being expelled from the interior of the container when the container is closed whereupon atmospheric pressure prevents the container from being opened again until the interior is vented to atmosphere in the prescribed manner.

Abstract: A pipe for consumption of tobacco and other smokable substances, comprises a collapsible, telescopic body in the shape of a truncated cone, closed at its base and open at its narrow end to form a mouthpiece, the sidewall of the body having a first carburetor hole and second stem hole; a stem inserted into the body through the second hole and extending downwardly toward the base of the body and a bowl attached to the exterior end of the stem for the holding of the smokable substance.

Abstract: A housing for surface connections in buried electrical cables which protects the electrical components thereof from flooding and other environmental conditions and which is adapted for easy expansion in both width and/or height and modification as demand requires. The electrical components coupled to the cable are insulated from flood water by air contained within an inverted cover positioned over the components and a portion of the base upon which they are supported. The amount of space available for the electrical components can be readily expanded without alteration to the existing base and components through the use of an adapter capable of supporting additional components and accommodating a larger cover.