Abstract: A cartridge for electronic article surveillance labels comprising a housing shaped to hold a plurality of electronic article surveillance labels in a stack such that the electronic article surveillance labels can be removed individually from a first side of the housing and a system utilizing such housing and a plurality of electronic article surveillance labels that are at least semirigid.

Abstract: A hand-held feeder for fasteners having a head and a shank comprises a handle configured to contain fasteners and a channel extending from the handle, the channel having a free end and a support slit extending from the free end toward the handle. The support slit is wider than the fastener shanks but narrower than the heads, so that when fasteners emerging from the handle encounter the slit, the shanks will drop down through the, slit while the heads remain accessible within the channel. The channel is designed to provide unobstructed access to the heads of fasteners having shanks extending through the slit.

Abstract: Flanged musket percussion caps are stored and dispensed from a portable hand held capper which has a linear channel defined in a housing formed of sheet material. The housing has a through channel which has a floor which is parallel to two partial top walls with a central slot. The top walls are connected to the floor by side walls which are inclined outwardly from the floor. By this inclined wall shape of the housing, the flanged caps are accommodated, while at the same time the narrow flanges of the caps are prevented from binding against any structure of the capper. The user presses a pusher forward to position a single cap through an outlet between a flexible steel spring and a dispensing wall, where the cap can be dispensed onto a black powder firearm nipple. The housing has a T-shaped hole in one side wall, through which caps can be loaded into the dispensing channel. Musket caps without a flange may also be dispensed from the capper.

Abstract: A backpack carried on the back of a vendor for transporting and dispensing packaged goods, such as food products or other merchandise. The backpack has a back wall, front wall, opposed side walls, a top closure, and a bottom wall defining a generally rectangular storage compartment. The backpack has at least one access opening at a lower end which is accessible to the hand of the vendor wearing the backpack. A plurality of packaged goods are supported in a vertically descendable disposition by a support member or receptacle installed in the storage compartment which has a lower portion disposed adjacent to the access opening and is configured to support the lowermost one of the packaged goods adjacent to the access opening such that it can be manually removed by the vendor while the backpack is being worn.

Abstract: A cylindrical golf tee carrier and dispenser which permits carrying a quantity of tees without accidental loss, while providing for easy removal of tees, one at a time, through an elastomeric dispensing end, and an attaching member mounted thereto for attaching the golf accessory to a golf bag.

Abstract: Disclosed is a golf ball carrier for conveniently carrying and protecting a plurality of golf balls. A sleeve of padded material, open at both ends, has an elastic band at each end to retain the balls. A ball can be extracted by squeezing the sleeve above the ball, and balls can be inserted by pushing them past the band. The carrier may also incorporate holders for golf tees, and other items and a shoulder or belt strap and attachment clasp.

Abstract: A chair for supporting and spacing reinforcement bars having a hollow-conical body for stackability, a planar base for support, an aperture allowing concrete to flow into and around the chair, and notches in the upper surface of the chair to retain the bars in the desired position.

Abstract: The dispenser is adapted to dispense different size cups, such as portion cups, and includes a housing for storing a plurality of cups in a nested stack and a flexible diaphragm covering the discharge end of the housing. The diaphragm includes a web section having a central discharge opening through which the bottom of the outermost cup of the stack extends to be grasped and withdrawn from the stack. The discharge opening preferably has a symmetrical polygonal shape, such as a hexagonal shape, and has an inner periphery configured to retain a stack of the smallest cups to be dispensed in the housing while permitting the outermost cup in the stack to be drawn from the housing.

Abstract: A flexible cap adapted to enclose a tube having an open end and used for storing items consists of an enclosure having an opening at one end, a closed end, and side walls and enclosing a space. A pair of aligned apertures through the side walls form with the space a bore through the enclosure transverse to the axis of the enclosure between the opening and the closed end. The opening is adapted to engage the open end of the tube. To dispense an item, the cap is bent by lateral flexion so as to align one of the apertures with the open end of the tube and the tube is inverted so that an item falls out under the influence of gravity. The amount of lateral flexion controls the alignment of the aperture with the open end so as to permit only one item at a time to fall out.

Abstract: A drinking-water service system for supplying individual cylindrical containers of drinking water to athletes. A storage and dispensing unit for storing the containers for semi-automatically sequentially dispensing individually the drinking water containers to athletes. A multi-stage storage and delivery control passageway has a rolling section generally inclined downwardly for receiving and storing the containers disposed side by side and gravity biased. An uprighting section receives the containers from the rolling section successively and its surfaces cause the containers to assume an upright position for travel downwardly to a dispensing section which has a dispensing outlet opening through which the containers are dispensed to a horizontal stand surface.

Abstract: A ball dispenser is formed by a cylindrical housing or tube with a piston slidable therein and biased to a dispensing end of the tube. A cap is connected by a bridging member the tube and projects over the axial center line of the cylinder and is formed with a concave spherical shape to receive the end of a ball contained within the dispenser. The dispenser is symmetrical on opposite sides of a central plane and an assess opening of mouth is provided adjacent to the cap through the side of the tube opposite the bridging section. The mouth is symmetrical on opposite sides of the plane and has its maximum opening at the central plane. The periphery of the mouth is defined by substantially V-shaped sides on each side of the plane with the bottom of the V shapes adjacent to the bridging section. The front edge or lip of the cap i.e.

Abstract: A presenting/dispensing system for chain-interconnected, cut-separable orthodontic/medical devices, organized into groups having a pre-selected number of patient-usable units, including a container constructed for housing such devices, and presenting/dispensing aperture substructure formed therein to allow for presenting such devices and dispensing a desired number of the same in an indexed manner. The system also includes check structure associated with the presenting/dispensing aperture substructure, which check structure is changeable, as a result of dispensing action, to a first condition that accommodates dispensing of such devices, and to a second condition, upon termination of such action, that resists slipping back of a chain of devices into the container.

Abstract: In a machine for dispensing stackable roofing washers individually and for driving fasteners through such washers, a shuttle is actuatable to displace a lowermost washer of one from a stack, either a small, circular or large, square washer. A gate is biased toward a lowermost position wherein it provides sufficient clearance for the lowermost washer but not any overlying washer to pass beneath it. A pawl mounted pivotally to the gate is biased to a lowermost position wherein the pawl engages a small washer displaced by the shuttle so as to restrain it against backward movement. A stop is adjustable so as to limit movement of a washer of whichever size is being displaced. A measuring bar is mounted via the stop. A screw gun, which provides a primary handle, and a secondary handle are mounted to an upright element so as to be independently adjustable.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing a plurality of razor blades and for dispensing the razor blades is disclosed. The dispenser includes a housing having side and end walls which define a cavity for storing and dispensing razor blades. The open top of the dispenser includes rails along the tops of the sidewalls for guiding the blades out of the housing. A dispensing slot is provided between the top of one end wall and the rails. A resilient arm integral with the housing is located below the razor blades for applying an upward force on the razor blades against the rails and for aligning a blade to be dispensed with the dispensing slot. The entire dispenser is molded of a thermoplastic. A disposal slot is vertically aligned with the radiused end of the resilient arm for enabling disposal of used razor blades.

Abstract: A control apparatus is provided for use in an article handling system having a conduit through which articles such as can ends in a facewise nested condition are conveyed from a first location to a second location. The control apparatus comprises a housing operatively interposed in the conduit and an elastomeric tubular sleeve member mounted in the housing and defining a through passage of a shape generally complementary to the shape of the articles. The tubular sleeve member is responsive to the level of pressure in a pressure chamber for applying a corresponding force about the periphery of the articles.

Abstract: A liquid dispenser for storing and dispensing liquids is disclosed. In one aspect the dispenser is a bottle such as that used for storing soft drinks, detergents and the like. The bottle is provided with a cup holder which includes an annular recess extending upwardly from the bottom of the bottle and which is dimensioned to receive therein several drinking cups. The cups, which may be drinking cups or measuring cups, are retained in the annular recess by spaced projections extending inwardly toward the longitudinal axis of the bottle. The projections are dimensioned so the cup lips are inwardly deformed as they pass over the projections. The bottles may be fabricated of plastic, paper or glass and the cups of plastic or paper.

Abstract: A container/dispenser for used plastic shopping bags which comprises a walled vessel having an open top and an open bottom to which is secured a converging lower section formed of flexible walls with an internal friction surface terminating in a small opening through which the inserted bags may be withdrawn one at a time when compressed in the vessel by a handled lid pressed into the vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing a supply of cups or containers comprises a housing for maintaining the containers in a stacked, telescopically interfitted relationship. An open lower end of the housing has a resilient diaphragm extending there across with a lower face of the diaphragm having a hole therein to allow the lowermost container to be withdrawn while retaining the stack in the housing. The diaphragm has a peripheral flange which extends axially of the housing about the open lower end. A circumferentially continuous clamp sleeve is interference fitted over the peripheral flange of the diaphragm to clamp the flange in position. The clamp ring further includes a radially inward directed collar flange joined to the sleeve at the lower end thereof and extending in close engagement with the lower face thereof to locate the clamp ring on the housing and prevent the diaphragm from being deflected away from the bottom edge of the tubular side wall.

Abstract: A device and process for handling headed fasteners to facilitate insertion into a workpiece opening includes a hollow tube and telescoping plunger arrangement, the tube containing the fastener or fasteners which are extended one at a time through a tube slot upon movement to a collapsed position of the device. The fastener is spring gripped by its head in the process of being laterally extended through the slot, and is fully ejected from the device as the device is longitudinally moved in a rearward direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing a supply of cup-shaped containers in a stacked, telescopically interfitted relationship comprises a tubular housing with a resilient diaphragm across the lower end. The diaphragm has a center opening through which the lowermost container extends. The diaphragm acts to retain the stack in the housing while permitting the lowermost container to be withdrawn. According to the invention, the diaphragm comprises a unitary piece of resilient, elastomeric material with the diaphragm having a resistance to elongation in directions circumferentially of the opening which increases progressively radially outwardly of the opening.

Abstract: A golf ball holder which is simplified so that no auxiliary springs, gates or the like are necessary to hold the balls in place, and so that simple manipulation of the ball makes insertion and ejection possible. The device uses the deformability of the material at the ball opening to detain the ball. An opening opposite the ball opening provides access so the ball can be pushed from the holder.

Abstract: A dispenser for gloves comprising a tubular body having a first end and a second end and having a spring disposed therein. The spring is secured to a moveable disc shaped member. A flexible mammillated shaped element having a first end and a second end is secured to the disc shaped member at the first end and secures a plurality of gloves therein. The second end of the mammillated member is secured to the second end of said tubular body. A top element which slideably fits over the second end of the tubular body has an opening therein and a diaphragm element having an aperture therein is secured over said opening. The spring urges the disc shaped member against the flexible mammillated shaped member containing the gloves allowing removal of one glove at a time from the aperture in the diaphragm element.

Abstract: A disposable plastic cup dispenser incorporating a spring for imparting biasing action to a stack of nested cups in the dispenser so as to render the cups available for individual and discrete dispensing thereof. The spring is in a compressed condition and extends intermediate the inner bottom wall surface of the container and the bottom of the lowermost cup of the stack of cups, thereby biasing the stack of cups towards a discharge or dispensing opening formed in the opposite end of the housing through which the endmost cup of the stack partially protrudes.

Abstract: An attachable bag holder for use with a bag having at least one carrying loop. The holder includes an elongated body terminating in opposed ends and formed with a loop receiving channel on an upwardly facing side and a manually engageable gripping surface on a downwardly facing side of the holder body. A retention structure formed for easy insertion and yet difficult removal or trapping of the bag loops in the holder upon attachment of the same is provided. The holder body is preferably formed with the U-shaped cross section which permits nesting of holders in a stacked relation. The manually engageable gripping surface is downwardly convexed and formed with finger indentations to transfer loading forces to each of the fingers on the user's hand, and provide a firm positive grip which combine to reduce fatigue. The gripping surface configuration also provides transverse, as well as longitudinal, rigidity to the holder. A holder dispenser and method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A device for storing and dispensing waste material containers and covers therefor is formed by a columnar member having two axially spaced storage compartments. The waste containers are stored in one compartment and the covers are stored in a second compartment. Each compartment is provided with a suitable opening for dispensing the container and/or cover. The device may stand freely on a planar surface or may be fixed to a wall or other support structure.

Abstract: A golf accessory for dispensing golf balls and tees is constructed of a hollow preferably transparent tube of about 44" in length. Golf balls are maintained in the tube and are biased by a spring which extends from the top to the bottom of the hollow space within the tube when the tube is empty. Ingress and egress of golf balls occur towards the top of the tube on the sides where there is provided an expandable opening with an opposed opening, which may also be expandable, to urge golf balls into and out of the hollow of the tube. The hollow tube may hold up to a dozen golf balls. The top of the tube provides a container for tees, being outfitted with a removable plastic cap. The golfing accessory is to be used with and inserted into a typical golf bag much in the same fashion that a golf club is inserted and removed from the golf bag.

Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing a supply of cups. The dispensing device includes a magazine which is adapted to house the supply of cups and also includes a dispensing assembly having a passageway associated with the magazine. Resilient members are supported to obstruct the passage of cups through the dispensing assembly. The orientation of the resilient members can be adjusted, moved, lengthened or shortened, to vary the amount of obstruction.

Abstract: A group of flanged lids or cups of substantially identical construction and arranged in nested relation in a container are dispensed from an open end of the container by an elongated yieldable tension element disposed astride the open end of the container and arranged to override the flange of the article adjacent the open end of the container thereby to release and to aid in ejecting the article from the container.

Abstract: A universal packaging system for objects such as electrical components, connectors, semiconductors, chips, etc. includes an elongated, hollow, tubular package formed of resiliently deformable material for containing a plurality of said objects, each object having an identical or substantially similar silhouette or profile and orientated with a predetermined axis of its profile, aligned along a common longitudinal axis or line within the tube. The tubular package includes a unitary, continuous wall of flexible material defining an elongated object receiving space having a first cross-sectional shape intermediate its opposite ends that is shaped and dimensioned for holding a plurality of the objects in said line along said common axis and maintaining each object in substantially the same orientation while permitting free longitudinal movement along the line within the tube.

Abstract: A dispenser for wiring accessories has an elongate plate-like configuration and comprises a baseplate from which projects a bar extending transversely across the baseplate to a width less than the width of the baseplate. A longitudinal groove in the bar parallel to the baseplate runs the full length of the bar. A lip faces the longitudinal edge of the bar into which the groove opens. The lip is parallel to and spaced from this longitudinal edge. The baseplate is extended at one end of the bar. A transverse cradle on this extension receives a wiring accessory and a longitudinal finger projects cantilever-fashion from the bar over the cradle and is spaced from the cradle to retain a wiring accessory in the cradle.

Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining the orientation of a plurality of components advancing toward a first location comprises a trough, secured to a vibrating feed tray, and a component cover plate for preventing the components from being canted within the trough. The cover plate exhibits a flap which at least partially overhangs a component disposed at the first location. The flap is adapted to have a flexibility sufficient to allow the component to be lifted from the tray, yet have a rigidity which prevents the component from canting at the first location.

Abstract: A golf ball package, holder and dispenser with a cylindrical plastic molded base or sleeve, a replaceable plastic cover, and a deformable dispensing hole in the base side.The base is a one-piece plastic molding and the aperture is formed with an elliptical shape in the molding without additional parts.

Abstract: The cup dispenser is disposed of an opening or openings 1b formed on one side face of the casing 1 of the dispenser and a receiving container 4 attached to each opening 1b provided with a cup pusher 41 connected to a coil spring 42. The opening 1b is attached with a delivery opening 3 which incorporates a membrane or membranes 32 each having a circular opening 32a. The set of cups 7 received in the receiving container 4 can be pulled out one by one through the delivery opening 3.

Abstract: A coin payout apparatus in a gaming device. The apparatus includes a coin hopper and a coin guide connected to the hopper for successively delivering coins in edge-to-edge relationship. A rotary arm is pivotally provided at the coin guide and has one end rotatably providing a coin ejector roller. The rotary arm is normally biased toward the coin in the coin guide by a biasing member. A supplemental coin ejecting member is provided at a position confronting the ejector roller. When the maximum diameter portion of the coin passes through the space defined between ejector roller and the supplemental coin ejecting member, the coin is urgedly discharged by the biasing force of the biasing member.

Abstract: A golf tee dispenser including a length of rigid cylindrical tubing adapted to receive a plurality of golf tees therein and a thin elastic member disposed and held in tension transversely through the center of longitudinal axis of the tube and through and between opposing apertures formed in the walls of the tube adjacent one end. The elastic member is adapted, when tensioned, to retain the golf tees within the tube and to manually dispense one golf tee at a time when the tube is generally upright, the elastic member and apertures are at the lower end thereof, and the golf tees are downwardly pointed. Various forms of the elastic member are also provided, along with releasable engagement means for attachment of the dispenser to golf equipment such as bags and carts.

Abstract: A dispenser of light-weight articles such as plates, trays, dishes, or the like which includes a storage tube for a stack of the articles to be dispensed, a resilient member disposed beneath the stack for urging the stack upwardly, a stop for holding the stack in place and fanning the topmost articles to permit individual dispensing. The stop is fully deflectable downwardly to permit loading and deflectable only a limited amount upwardly to facilitate individual article dispensing.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a seal for dispensing wet wipes from a container comprising a tube of generally tapered form having a relatively wide mouth for receiving wipes and a relatively narrow orifice for dispensing them, the tube being divided circumferentially into relatively rigid and relatively flexible axially extending zones, so that when a wet wipe is dispensed the orifice is capable of expansion.The seal according to the invention provides good dispensing action and prevents to a significant extent evaporation of the impregnated liquid.

Abstract: Boxes and bottles of pills and other medications are factory sealed in a tamper proof dispenser which permits the dispensing of only one bottle or box at a time. Once removed from the tamper proof container, a bottle or box cannot be repositioned in the container, while spring means are utilized to permit the singular dispensing of each bottle or box from the container.

Abstract: A clip dispenser for dispensing resilient, generally U-shaped plastic clips. The clips are useful in holding closed the folded over ends of a paperboard container for a foodstuff, such as a portable liquid. The dispenser is in the general form of a vertically disposed rack having a horizontal lower portion, the horizontal lower portion being twisted at about 35.degree. with respect to the horizontal. In use, a foodstuff container having a folded over and generally top portion is inserted upwardly into the endmost part of the horizontal portion to receive a clip. The container is then withdrawn, the clip pushed down upon the horizontal portions of the container, thereby concealing the container. The dispenser includes a reciprocating blocking gate for use when the rack is loaded with a new supply of clips. The end of the horizontal portion carries a recess through which the clips are dispensed, the recessed provided with a plurality of spring-urged detents which serve to maintain the clips in place.

Abstract: An automatic dispenser for pre-cut Z-folded web materials wherein the dispenser comprises a holder or support having an orifice through which the web materials are pulled. The orifice has outwardly rounded edges so that the web can be pulled with unequal pulling forces and from different directions. In some embodiments the orifice is provided with an obturator having two opening elements that are elastically coupled to one another. The obturator has round edges through which the web passes wherein one of the edges can be separated from the other.

Abstract: A compact dispensing device, especially useful in conjunction with disposable face masks, is provided which serves to store such masks and to serially dispense the masks in response to user demand. The dispenser preferably includes an elongated container in which the masks are stored and an apertured retainer secured across one end of the container. The retainer preferably presents a depending, inwardly converging sidewall around the aperture and the masks are interfitted such that the strap of the mask adjacent the retainer is positioned through the retainer aperture. The retainer aperture presents the same irregular cross-sectional configuration as the mask cross-section, with the masks being serially dispensed by simply pulling on the strap of the mask presented through the retainer aperture. In preferred forms, the depending sidewall has an inwardly-extending lip with the wall and lip cooperating to allow the masks to be singularly dispensed while retaining the remaining masks within the container.

Abstract: A dispensing container for dispensing articles one at a time. The dispensing container includes a hollow body for storing articles. A delivery throat forming a continuous depending extension of the body has a cross section proximate the cross section of the articles disposed in the hollow body to serially align the articles passing therethrough from the hollow body. The throat is formed with an upturned end defining a lower trap portion adjacent the end which permits only one article at a time to be moved to the end of the throat. An outlet aperture is formed at the end of the throat. A closure member is mounted at the end of the throat for movement between a first position closing the outlet aperture and a second position opening the outlet aperture.

Abstract: A sequencing drop chute apparatus receives a batch of electrical components and feeds them one at a time to a single line conveyor. The sequencing drop chute apparatus includes a support frame with an inclined surface attached to the support frame. A plurality of walls extend upward from an upper portion of the inclined surface and divide the upper portion of the inclined surface into a plurality of chutes. There is at least one chute for each electrical component of a batch of electrical components. A camshaft is rotatingly mounted upon the frame and includes a plurality of eccentric cams one of which is operably associated with each of the chutes for periodically blocking and periodically opening each of the chutes. The cams are arranged so that the plurality of chutes are opened one at a time thereby permitting the batch of electrical components to pass one at a time through the drop chute apparatus to the conveyor.

Abstract: A two-piece paperboard carton including a tray portion having an open top for receiving a plurality of articles, such as cotton swabs. A rectangular cover sleeve is slid over the tray portion so as to retain the swabs within the tray. The sleeve includes a generally elliptically-shaped opening substantially closed by a transparent, plastic sheet which is spaced from opposite score lines of the sleeve and is perforated along a line or seam perpendicular to the adjacent score lines. In order to gain access to the cotton swabs and dispense the same from the tray, the film is separated into two halves along the perforated seam. Upon removal of a swab from the tray through the seam in the film, the film will return to its initial position to create a dust barrier for the swabs remaining in the tray.

Abstract: Magazine for storing and supplying chip type circuit elements includes a tube having a bore formed therethrough in which the circuit elements are situated in stacked relationship for feeding toward an open supply end and wherein an elastic member is provided on the tube in the region of the supply end having a surface facing inwardly into the bore and wherein a keeper pawl extends inwardly from the free end of the elastic member into the bore at the supply end region, preferably slightly below the supply end, adapted to hold the leading circuit element under pressure prior to the same being supplied in one-by-one fashion and to prevent simultaneous supply of more than one circuit element from the supply end of the magazine and, additionally, to precisely locate each circuit element at the supply end. In one embodiment, longitudinally extending ribs protruding inwardly into the bore are formed on the bore defining surface of the tube which maintain the chip elements in precise mutual alignment.

Abstract: The invention relates to blocking device for use with a receptacle for cups pilable in each other. Upon discharge of the lowest cup, the next lowest cup is blocked. The blocking device is pivotable about a vertical axis and is provided with a curved surface or edge so shaped and positioned that upon the discharge of the lowest cup from the receptacle, the collar of said cup slides on the curved surface or edge and causes a rotation of the blocking device in a horizontal direction inwardly below the collar of the next lowest cup. After this occurs, a spring causes the blocking device to return to its normal position.

Abstract: A tubular device for holding balls and dispensing them. The device is shaped spherically at the bottom and supports the balls therein and is formed of elastic or resilient material, a slot at the bottom can be opened by temporarily deforming the device by hand, this will release one or more balls.

Abstract: A magazine for containing sheet films in a stack for use in an X-ray photographing machine has a substantially U-shaped, plate like pad mounted on the top plate of a casing of the magazine. The arm sections with narrow widths of the U-shaped pad are disposed on the side portions of the inner wall of the top plate along the longitudinal axis of the magazine. The free ends of the arm sections extend up to the edge of the top plate for partially delineating the edge of an opening for film passage. Through the opening, a sheet film is pulled out from the magazine, while sliding on the pad.

Abstract: A cup dispensing package comprises an axially collapsible cylindrical sleeve for storing a stack of nested, disposable cups. The sleeve comprises at least a pair of bands at its opposite end portions, axially extending, uniformly circumferentially spaced slits between the bands that define axially extending strips provided with circumferential cut scores, and a detent on one of the bands frictionally engaging the rim of a partially extending cup to retain the latter prior to its forcible removal. The strips fold radially outwardly then downwardly about their cut scores and transverse sections thereof in response to axially applied compressive force on the sleeve, by the user, as the cups are removed, thereby presenting a fully extended frictionally retained cup for dispensing until such time the cup supply is exhausted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-closing propellant charge package adapted for use with a gravity operated loading device of a power-actuated tool. The package comprises a tubular body having one end at least partially closed, the other end being open. A portion of the body adjacent the open end is deformed for holding the charges, it being possible to cancel the deformation of this portion to allow passage for the charges. More specifically, at least one cut-out is provided in the deformable portion, the portion being maintained in a deformed state by a resilient ring or other means.