Abstract: A variety of configurations of implant management devices are provided. The configurations provide different combinations of features for maintaining a location of an implant with respect to the device and managing filaments of the implant. One exemplary embodiment of a device includes a generally rectangular-shaped body having an implantable body retainer, an opening disposed a distance apart from the retainer and configured to receive a ligament graft therein, and a fold extending across the body and intersecting the opening. Folding one end of the body towards a bottom surface of the body along the fold can form a filament loop engaging region to hold in tension a filament loop extending from the implant. Additional filament(s) associated with the implant can be managed by various filament retention features. Methods for preparing a ligament graft for implantation by relying upon indicia formed on a surface of the device body are also provided.

Abstract: A tie-on headband positioning device using post and rail separated slots for compact spreading of headband material in a flat configuration providing compacted storage, shipping, and display of the headband. The device is likewise suitable for use with other elongated flexible bands other than headbands, such as scarves, socks, or hose.

Abstract: A retail-ready garment package (1) adapted for mailing, comprising a compressed garment (17) in the form of a flat tablet having self-supporting rigidity, the package having opposed major faces (3,5) joined by an edge portion (7), and an address surface on at least one of the major faces for providing a mailing address of an intended recipient.

Abstract: An apparatus for hanging garments is disclosed. The apparatus includes a hanger device, and a substantially rigid support mechanism coupled to the hanger device. The support mechanism includes a slit extending through at least part of the support mechanism, and one or a plurality of button holes on at least one side of the slit, such that when a garment with one or a plurality of buttons is on the hanger device, a side of the garment with the one or a plurality of buttons extends through the slit so that at least one of the one or a plurality of buttons is inserted through at least one of the one or a plurality of button holes.

Abstract: An adjustable dress form has a plurality of body panels and adjustment mechanisms securing between each of the body panels. There are a total of at least four body panels, and the adjustment mechanisms include preferably twelve adjustment mechanisms. A neck girth adjustment mechanism has four extension loops. The four extension loops are attached to an upper portion of each body panel. A turn button is mechanically connected to a plurality of gear teeth on four gear tooth arms that make up the four extension loops. The four gear tooth arms are attached to the upper portion of each at least four body panel. The four extension loops comprise the plurality of gear teeth on the four gear teeth arms. The gear teeth arms engage at about 90° angle to each other and are vertically staggered.

Abstract: An adjustable dress form has a plurality of body panels and adjustment mechanisms securing between each of the body panels. There are a total of at least four body panels, and the adjustment mechanisms include preferably twelve adjustment mechanisms. A neck girth adjustment mechanism has four extension loops. The four extension loops are attached to an upper portion of each body panel. A turn button is mechanically connected to a plurality of gear teeth on four gear tooth arms that make up the four extension loops. The four gear tooth arms are attached to the upper portion of each at least four body panel. The four extension loops comprise the plurality of gear teeth on the four gear teeth arms. The gear teeth arms engage at about 90° angle to each other and are vertically staggered.

Abstract: A non-tumble dryer comprises a cabinet and a drawer configured to support an article to be dried and slidably mounted to the cabinet. An air supply system provides air to a drying chamber formed at least partially by one of the cabinet and the drawer for drying the article supported by the drawer. The non-tumble dryer can function as a pedestal whereby the top of the cabinet can be configured to support a laundry appliance in an elevated position. Alternatively, the cabinet can overlie one or more laundry appliances.

Abstract: A torso, around which clothes can be wound, includes a curved incision on the backface. Preferably, an elastic member is provided at least on the periphery of the incision. The torso may also include a first opening on the backface, an elastic member formed to cover the first opening, and a curved incision on the elastic member, where the incision is exposed from the first opening. Preferably, the incision is formed along the longitudinal direction of the first opening. Furthermore, the first opening may include at least two projections formed on its periphery, and the elastic member may include at least two holes formed at positions opposing the projections, respectively. A fixing member may be provided for fixing the elastic member, and the fixing member includes a second opening having the same shape and size as those of the first opening and formed at a position opposing the incision.

Abstract: A shirt finishing machine includes a torso 2 for putting on a shirt 1 and a pair of right and left supporting arms 3. The upper part of the supporting arm 3 is provided with a lower iron 9 for setting an extremity end 1b of a sleeve 1a, a fixing instrument 14 for fixing a cuff 1d of the sleeve 1a to the lower iron 9, and an upper iron 10 for pressing against an upper surface of the lower iron 9 and for press finishing the extremity end 1b of the sleeve 1a. A movable iron 9a presses a lower surface of the extremity end 1b of the sleeve 1a inserted into the lower iron 10 at the time of pressing with the upper iron 10.

Abstract: A shirt-smoothing device includes a lower part and an inflatable body fixed thereon. Because the inflatable body must be at least the same size as the shirt to be smoothed, the device has considerable height, however, the rigid components in the area of the inflatable body are lowerable to handle the device more easily and, more particularly, to stow it away easily. An internally disposed supporting frame and a button strip tensioner disposed in front of the inflatable body can be lowered after use into the lower part, whereby the inflatable body, which is exclusively connected to the supporting frame at the top becomes folded. The same applies to flexible inflatable support bodied and support nets disposed between the inflatable body and the supporting frame. The storage space required for the shirt smoothing device can be substantially reduced by the invention and the handling and storage thereof simplified.

Abstract: A foldable limb for a model includes two or more segments pivotally coupled together for forming the foldable limb and for allowing people to easily dress the model. One of the segments includes a ball and a pivot shaft engaged through the ball. The other segment includes a coupler having a socket rotatably engaged with the ball and a post extended from the socket for slidably receiving a hook. The hook is hooked to the pivot shaft and a spring may bias the hook to resiliently engage with the pivot shaft.

Abstract: A shirt pressing apparatus includes a buck upon which a shin can be loaded before transferring the buck into a cabinet for pressing and finishing of the shirt. Movable with the buck is a pair of rods which have attached thereto cuff clamps. In accordance with the invention, each of the cuff clamps includes a pair of longitudinally chamfered pinch bars which are mounted in a clamp housing and biased into engagement with each other. The pinch bars are preferably made of Teflon.TM. and are readily replaceable when worn. The cuff portions of the shirts to be pressed are loaded between the pinch bars of the cuff clamps from below while the rods are located adjacent the buck. Thereafter, the rods are extended away from the buck to place sleeves of the shirt in tension during the pressing and finishing operation. When the shirt is finished and comes out of the cabinet, the rods remain in their extended positions during unloading of the shirt.

Abstract: A primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved joint structure for a window dummy to ensure that any joints can be easily rotated, turned or bent within a remarkably wide angle, and which shows good appearance. This joint structure comprises a hollow member including two half members each of which is formed with at least one of slidably engaging section capable of slidably engaging each other; and at least two connection members whose one end is fixed to a rod of arm, leg, or the like and the other end is rotatably connected to the other connection member in the hollow member. Further each of the connection member is independently fixed to the half member of the hollow member. One of the connection member is formed with means to prevent from interfering with the other half member fixed with the other connection member.

Abstract: A display former or frame is adapted to receive folded on or about it a garment such as a shirt and has a support for the shirt collar. A locking support frame provides two bars, over one of which a lower or tail portion of the shirt is folded and the other bar has a hook engagement with the upper part of the former frame in order to secure the fully folded shirt on the former. Arms of the hook engagement may have a resilient motion to retain the bar in engagement with the hooks. Gripping means is also shown provided for receiving outer shoulder portions of the shirt to facilitate their folding behind the former and to obtain a taut fit of the shirt about the former.

Abstract: An improved board-insert used in fabric painting and dyeing, in which the flat board is provided with a series of notches or cutouts about its peripheral edge surface, so that any two, oppositely-disposed notches may be used for holding an enwrapped, large rubber or elastic band, which rubber band may then be used as a straight-line guide or edge surface for aiding the fabric painter or dyer in the development of his or her design during the fabric-dyeing process, so that vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines may be more perfectly formed during the painting process.

Abstract: A device for displaying panty hose comprises a hollow body formed from front and back portions joined together. The front and back portions include outer surfaces contoured to simulate a human trunk and abdomen. The hollow body is somewhat flattened so that the distance between the outer surfaces of the front and back portions is less than the depth of a human trunk and abdomen. Desirably, the body includes flattened areas at its bottom resembling truncated legs. A mounting stand is formed as a basin-like bowl with a hollow into which the flattened areas of the body fit. The mounting stand also includes pockets for receiving the legs of a pair of panty hose.

Abstract: A form for lettering and illustrating shirts is disclosed, said form being a stiff, generally rectangular sheet with a handle projecting from its upper edge, arm tabs projecting outward from its upper side edges, and clips disposed along its lower edge for holding a shirt flat on the form. The clips employed have a fixed portion bound to the form's face and a pivoting portion biased against said face. The clips also include an extensible lever on their pivoting portion. A notch is provided beneath one of the form's arm tabs to relieve stress upon shirt' underarm seams.

Abstract: A body relief display device comprises a first torso form shaped as a relief of a body part and including a first outer contour, and a second torso form shaped as a relief of a body part and including a second outer contour, the second torso form being substantially identical to the first torso form. The first torso form is mounted on top of the second torso form. The second torso form also includes a flat surface formed as an extension of the second outer contour. A frame may be mounted on the flat surface. An article of clothing, for example, a swim suit may be fitted onto the first torso form, which is on top of the second torso form. A multiplicity of the devices may be hung by the frames of the second torso forms from a stand. In this way, a multiplicity of different articles of clothing can be presented for viewing and one can leaf through the display devices as the pages of a book.

Abstract: A shirt is packaged on a flexible shirt board without the need for pins or clips to maintain the integrity of the folded shirt by using a shirt board which is coated with a transient adhesive. In the folding process portions of the skirt are adhered to the transient adhesive by a steam iron. A transient adhesive coated collar board may also be used to support the shirt collar. To unpackage the skirt, it is simply unfolded and pulled away from the shirt board at the adherent portions. A preferred form of transient adhesive for use in the process is also disclosed.

Abstract: A shirt-type garment having a turn-down collar and a central row of buttons is folded longitudinally and transversely folded into approximately rectangular shape with a button at the back of the folded garment near a lower transverse fold. A cardboard panel having a width and length approximately equal to the width and length respectively of the folded garment, a tab at its upper end of a size and shape to fit under the garment collar, a central hole large enough to receive a button spaced from the lower end of the panel and a narrow slit extending down from the hole almost to the lower end of the panel, is placed on the back of the folded garment so that a button is received through the hole in the panel.

Abstract: A cardboard folding liner for shirts, blouses, pajamas, and similar garments which are foldable into a flat compact package for shipment and display, the liner having a pair of inwardly foldable wing panels adjoining each longitudinal side of a rectangular center panel and delineated by two pairs of weakened fold lines. In the folded state, the wing panels clamp portions of the garment between them and the center panel, the folded state being maintained by a closure which consists of a closure flap in the form of an integral laterally protruding extension of one of the two inner wing panels which cooperates with a closure notch in the top edge of the other inner wing panel.

Abstract: Disclosed are a support sheet for folding, fixing and packing a suit of collared clothes and a method of packing the clothes making use of the support sheet. The support sheet is made of a sheet of paper or a plastic and is provided with a number of slits for fixing respective parts of the clothes to the support sheet in a suitably folded state, thus eliminating the use of clips and, particularly, at least needles which may injure the user's finger and damage the clothes during packing and unpacking, so as to shorten the time and reduce the cost of packing work and to enable the user to easily separate the clothes from the support sheet, as well as to reduce the amount of packing material to be wasted after the use.

Abstract: A folding liner of cardboard for men's shirts, women's blouses, and like garments, which are folded into a flat package for shipment and display, the liner having a pair of inwardly foldable wing panels adjoining each longitudinal side of the center panel, lateral fold lines between the inner wing panels and the center panel, and intermediate fold lines between the inner wing panels and outer wing panels, whereby a portion of the inwardly folded sleeves of the garment is clamped by the outer wing panels, as they are folded over the inner wing panels, so as to dispense with fastening pins or edge clamps. The inner wing panels include a flap-type or hook-type closure which holds the wing panels in their folded position. Special panel shapes and cutouts facilitate the folding operation or provide liner-free areas on the package.

Abstract: A device for folding a shirt includes a stiffening panel about which the shirt is adapted to be folded. The stiffening panel has a slit for insertably receiving a sleeve of the shirt such that the slit is operable to clampingly fasten the shirt to the stiffening panel and thereby obviate the need for pins.

Abstract: A clip for retaining shirts or similar articles of clothing in a folded position about an insert is disclosed, wherein the clip has a general "U" shape with two arms connected by a yoke portion. The inner sides of the arms closest together are denticulated to grip material inserted therebetween. The ends of the arms are bent outwardly so as to extend in an outward direction as far as the outermost faces of the remaining portion of the arms.