Abstract: A method for wrapping a roll of steel or other coiled material which includes the selection of a tear-resistant sheet of proportions to accommodate a steel roll. The sheet is folded along lines parallel to its width, and holes are punched through the folded sheet at the upper and lower ends of the sheet, forming a plurality of upper holes and a plurality of lower holes. The sheet is unfolded and ropes or strings are threaded through each set of holes. A roll of steel is placed on the sheet and the sheet is wrapped circumferentially around the roll and secured with adhesive tape. The strings are then drawn tightly, pulling the sheet radially over the roll of steel such that the sheet overlaps the aperture of the core of the roll. The overlapping portions of the sheet are bent inside of the core, and inner diameter protectors are placed in the core to secure the sheet. A system for wrapping a roll of steel is also disclosed.

Abstract: A coil packing line in which coils are packed by a plurality of operation processes is provided. The coil packing line is provided with a plurality of work stations, stationary skid mechanisms, carriage mechanisms and a plurality of reciprocating mechanisms. Each operation process has a corresponding work station. The stationary skid mechanisms are provided at each work station for supporting a coil at the work station. The carriage mechanisms are provided between each work station for removing a coil from an upstream stationary skid mechanism, supporting the coil and depositing the coil at a downstream stationary skid mechanism. The plurality of reciprocating mechanisms independently move at least one carriage mechanism back and forth between the upstream and downstream stationary skid mechanisms.

Abstract: An annular article-wrapping member includes a shrinkable wrapping material is wound on the outer periphery of an annular article to be wrapped in such a manner that the direction of shrinkage of the shrinkable wrapping material coincides with a circumferential direction of the outer periphery of the annular article. The overlapped portions of the wrapping material subsequently are joined together. The shrinkable wrapping material is heated to be shrunk to provide an intermediate wrapping member having sleeve openings having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the annular article. Sleeve forming portions of the intermediate wrapping member together in a ring-shape along an inner periphery of the annular article. The portion of the shrinkable wrapping material disposed inwardly of the joined portion is removed by cutting, thereby obtaining the annular article-wrapping member.

Abstract: A method for continuously producing air filters made from synthetic materials is described, wherein an essentially continuous length of filter material is passed through a series of ultrasonic welding means to form a pocket into which a frame can be inserted. The pocket is then ultrasonically welded closed. Individual filters are then cut from the length of filter material. The process may also be used to create synthetic bag filters.

Abstract: An annular article-wrapping member is includes a shrinkable wrapping material which is wound on the outer periphery of an annular article to be wrapped in such a manner that the direction of shrinkage of the shrinkable wrapping material coincides with a circumferential direction of the outer periphery of the annular article. The overlapped portions of the wrapping material subsequently are joined together. The shrinkable wrapping material is heated to be shrunk to provide an intermediate wrapping member having sleeve openings having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the annular article. Sleeve forming portions of the intermediate wrapping member together in a ring-shape along an inner periphery of the annular article. The portion of the shrinkable wrapping material disposed inwardly of the joined portion is removed by cutting, thereby obtaining the annular article-wrapping member.

Abstract: A molded two-piece suture package is disclosed which encloses and defines an oval channel in which sutures may be wound. The oval channel has two semicircular end sections connected by straight side sections. An opening in the channel is provided at the juncture of a straight section and an end section, permitting sutures to be withdrawn from the channel at the end of a straight section. In a preferred embodiment the interior wall of the channel is formed by alternating engaging sections formed in the respective package pieces. To prevent the wrapped suture from becoming entrapped when the two pieces are engaged, the top and bottom of the channel is alternately raised and lowered in alignment with the alternating wall sections, causing the wound suture to bridge those areas where it may become entrapped between the mating package pieces. Entrapment of the suture end at the outside of the channel is prevented by alternately recessing the outer wall of the channel.

Abstract: A package light-tightly enclosing a photosensitive web roll for use in cooperating apparatus comprises an opaque leader joined to the web and wrapped circumferentially at least twice around the roll and a pair of thin, readily foldable, disk-shaped, opaque end caps covering the roll ends. Each end cap has an inner annular portion that is folded into and sealed inside one of the roll core ends and an outer annular portion that is folded over the corresponding roll end periphery and onto the adjacent lateral edge portion of the first leader convolution. A pair of opposite lateral edge portion recesses extend inwardly from the leader opposite lateral edges, by an amount slightly exceeding the folded-over end-cap outer-annular-portion width, at a circumferential site on the leader where the first leader convolution ends.

Abstract: A light-tight enclosure for storing and dispensing a roll of photosensitive web material wound about a hollow cylindrical core having open opposite ends. The enclosure comprises a flexible opaque bag with opposite sidewalls extending between opposing rearward and forward portions and opposing upper and lower portions. Each sidewall has a central aperture therein congruent with each core end. The rearward portion defines a closable opening for receiving the roll. A shallow neck portion projects from the forward portion to an end thereof defining an exit slot for dispensing the web material. A collar fits tightly inside each core end, with an annular flange thereon facing axially outward. An annular ring is attachable to each collar in spaced, inward-facing relation to the flange.

Abstract: A process for increasing the shipping efficiency of an interleaved or herringbone rick of tires includes the steps of forming a herringbone rick within a container or enclosed restraint, then compressing the rick with a horizontal wedge or plate. Typical compression percentages range up past 30 percent reduction in height. The space above the compressed rick is then filled with an additional rick, or the compressed rick is banded or fastened to an underlying pallet. The compressing plate is withdrawn from the rick. The resulting compressed rick increases the efficiency of shipping tires, with no resulting damage.

Abstract: A holder for protection and handling of a brittle electrical conductor element, such as a ceramic superconductor, limited in its ability to withstand tensile and compression forces exerted thereon and bending along its axial length beyond a predetermined arcuate path. The holder has a flexible housing which encompasses and protects the superconductor element. A helically disposed strengthening element is integral with the housing. The strengthening element resists tensile forces exerted on the housing in an axial direction and resists radially imposed forces on the housing isolating the superconductor element from these forces. The strengthening element also provides for limited arcuate bending of the housing for limiting the bending beyond a predetermined arcuate path.

Abstract: The wrapping includes two front end discoidal lids with cylindrical perimetral covers, suitable to surround the coil; each of the two lids is made up of at least two parts (21, 23; 25, 27) defined by radial planes, as two half-covers, which are assembled one after the other, each resting on the top part of the coil B, and making the coil itself resting on rollers 35 rotate; the two lids are made so that they overlap when they are assembled on the coil axially opposite to one another.

Abstract: A strip of light sensitive material wound in a coil onto an open-ended core 2 is package in tearable light tight wrapping material 6, 7 which protects the rolled web while leaving an exterior end 3 of the coil exteriorly accessible. The light tight wrapping material 6, 7 is tearable by pulling on the exterior end 3 to commence unwinding of the coil from the core. The wrapping material is formed with a circumferential portion 6 and two end flange portions 7 which latter have their inner margins 11 tucked within the open ends of the core 2 and light-tightly sealed thereto.

Abstract: A self-supporting, stand-up, peripherally sealed, flexible, dispensing pouch has a construction which comprises (a) a circumferential, flexible wall that defines a compartment which contains fluidic material; (b) an inverted portion of the flexible wall that extends into the compartment; and (c) a self-supporting rim formed by the confluence of the flexible wall with the inverted portion.

Abstract: A device for wrapping a plurality of objects together into a tape-wrapped bundle includes a frame having an open-mouth recess, a quantity of one-sided cohesive tape, a pair of advance rollers mounted on the frame and selectively operable to advance a length of the tape, with the sticky substance thereon facing away from the recess, across the mouth of the recess such that, when objects are thereafter inserted into the recess, the advanced tape length will be gathered in the recess, a pair of relatively movable jaws, mounted on the frame and operatively arranged to selectively press together portions of the leading and trailing tape parts proximate the mouth of the recess, a wiping blade mounted on the pressing member for horizontal movement therewith but mounted for selective vertical movement relative thereto for progressively increasing the length of such pressed-together portions in a direction toward the objects, and a guillotine cutting blade assembly for cutting the extreme ends of the leading and trail

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound-up into a product or package roll about which there is placed a wrapper or envelope which retains together the package roll. For easier handling of the product or package roll such is provided with an endless carrying loop. This endless carrying loop is formed by a carrying element, such as a knotted cord, rope, string or the like which extends through an internal opening or hollow interior of the product or package roll and to the outer side or surface of such product or package roll.

Abstract: A protective wrapper made of sheet metal for individual cylindrical ribbon coils of coiled metal sheeting to protect the coils individually from damage and from atmospheric corrosive agents. The wrapper is constructed from two discoidal end caps having a band defining a sleeve open at one end and an annular, radially inwardly projecting flange at the other end. The caps are disposed at opposite ends of the coil with the band or sleeve thereof extending toward each other. Each sleeve has an axial extent so that they overlap along marginal edges at the open ends over the coil. Each flange has pleats or corrugations extending radially increasing in depth toward the center of the coil. Each end cap flange has a center opening which will align coaxially with the center of the coil. A tubular insert for each end is inserted into the center of the coil and each insert has a radial flange extending outwardly to overlap the corresponding end cap flange.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for packaging a number of disc-like information recording media each having a hole at its center portion. The disc-like information recording media are collected with the holes thereof being aligned with each other to form a cylindrical assembly with a through-hole, and an elongated member is inserted into the through-hole and a pair of collars are set on the elongated member from both ends thereof so as to fix the cylindrical assembly with respect to the elongated member. Thereafter, the cylindrical assembly is wrapped by a shrinkable material and encased in a container comprising upper and lower halves each having at least one assembly-receiving portion with a configuration substantially equal in dimension to the semicylindrical half portion of the cylindrical assembly. The container has an engaging arrangement comprising L-shaped extending portions and L-shaped shelf portions so that the upper and lower halves are stably coupled to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for increasing the volumetric efficiency of a shipping container of standard tire carcasses is shown as a powered attachment to a standard warehouse tug or forklift. A horizontally extending steel plate, extending forward from the front of the tug, is powered for vertical motion by a double action, two stage hydraulic cylinder. The plate is enclosed by tightly fitting sliding stripper bars, which are spring-loaded into both the top and bottom surface of the plate; the stripper bars have a bronze wiper bushing at the point of contact with the plate, and are powered for wiping motion across the plate by a pair of balanced hydraulic cylinders.A vertical set of powered outriggers is installed on vertically acting hydraulic cylinders to provide a reacting force against the roof or side wall corners of a shipping container.In use, a standard, interleaved rick of tires is installed in a normal manner within a container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a sausage type food product. It comprises an initial phase in which a tubular envelope, more particularly a natural or artificial casing, is filled with edible contents, more particularly a minced meat based composition, and a final phase in which one or more treatments are performed, more particularly steaming, drying, smoking or cooking, and before the final phase the edible contents are formed into a ring which is closed on itself.

Abstract: An adsorption filter is provided by a tank which contains an adsorbent material that is capable of removing impurities from a fluid stream. Filtering may be done by the mass transfer zone principle of adsorption. The tank is formed with an elongated outer shell which is closed at one end and open at the other. An elongated core with an open upper end and a fluid opening at its lower end is centered in the open shell by a funnel that has a centrally located rod and a conical outer wall that contacts the top of the shell adjacent its open end which allows adsorbent material to be poured into the space between the shell and the core. The length of the shell is preferably at least two times as long as the mass transfer zone of the adsorbent material while the fluid opening at the lower end of the core is preferably on the order of three fourths as long as the mass transfer zone. A cap that has a port in fluid communication with the space between the shell and the core is formed by a ring of screened apertures.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for arranging paper rolls coming, e.g. from a winder into a package suitable for delivery. The rolls are identified, end-labelled, and their width, weight and diameter are measured, whereupon a package is formed of a suitable number of rolls at a wrapping station. According to the invention, the rolls are transferred, each in its turn, to a positioning station, where they are identified and end-labelled one by one, whereupon the identification data and measurement data of each roll as well as of a preceding roll, if any, placed in the waiting position of the positioning station, are compared with the specification data of the package to be delivered. When said data of the rolls correspond to the specification data of the package, the rolls are transferred to the wrapping station, whereas, in the contrary case, the rolls are shifted to the waiting position of the positioning station. Thus, this acts as a sort of a buffer store for paper rolls.

Abstract: Pancakes of recording tape are packaged using stiff, expanded-plastic spacers, each having a web against which pancakes can rest in a stack of alternating pancakes and spacers. Each web terminates in an annular recess from which at least one deformable protuberance projects, and the core of each pancake is pinched between facing proturberances. A protective or reinforcing rim at the outer periphery of each web is sufficiently thin not to touch the rims so that each pancake can be held tightly against the adjacent webs while the stack is under axial compression, e.g., by a plastic shrinkwrap. By thus restraining both each pancake and its core, there is no core drop, upset or core rotation, problems besetting prior packages of pancakes of magnetic recording tape.

Abstract: A rigid packaging material having a coating of heat-sealable, anti-static plastic. A fiberboard sheet substrate is coated with a lamina of polyethylene made electrostatic-free by the addition of an organic anti-static compound. When skin-packaged with a film of heat sealable, anti-static plastic material, a static-sensitive item is completely enclosed by a static-free barrier package.

Abstract: A light-tight, self-contained canister for preventing a roll of core wound photosensitive media, used in a microfiche or microfilm reader-printer, from being damaged or exposed to actinic light during shipping, storing and dispensing. The canister includes an open ended opaque tubular sleeve closed at both ends by opaque end caps lockingly interconnected by a rigid tie bar extending longitudinally between the end caps along the core of the photosensitive media. At least one end of the tie bar includes a pair of resilient fingers. The fingers deform upon pressure engagement with a central receiving aperture formed in the end cap. Each end cap also includes a hub portion sized to rotatively support the roll of core wound media within the canister. Also, in an alternative embodiment, the fingers may be associated with the aperture and deformable upon engagement with the tie bar.

Abstract: A system is provided for interchangeably packaging different types of bicycle cables and different types of bicycle locks in selected combinations. Each bicycle cable is separately enclosed in a bicycle cable package interchangeable with other, identical bicycle cable packages. Each bicycle cable package includes a bubble pack covering a coiled cable beneath a bubble. The bubble has an annular interior wall which defines a cavity and also a plurality of spaced, coplanar slots. Interchangeable bicycle lock packages are also provided. Each of the bicycle lock packages includes a stiff backing having divergent, coplanar tabs adapted for insertion into the corresponding slots in the interior bubble wall of each cable package. The cable packages are mutually interchangeable, as are the bicycle lock packages. By selectively assembling a bicycle lock package with a bicycle cable package, numerous different cable and lock combinations can be packaged and sold together as a unit.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for attaching a sheet of packaging material to a wall of a bore of a coil of metal wherein the sheet of packaging material is fed into and discharged from a mandrel case and automatically attached to the wall of the bore of the coil by the pinch rollers contacting the wall and biasing forces of swing rollers supported on the mandrel case.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of wrapping a spool with metal ribbon, as well as to the spool and to the ribbon designed to carry out the method. The method is particularly characterized by the fact that, while the ribbon (12) is still being profiled only transversely, it is first kept tangent to the band (7) of flanges (4), then, as it is being deformed elastically, it is wound progressively and, as winding proceeds, the edges are fixed on said binding (7) of the flanges (4) by applying stresses on the median portion in such a way as to cause it to bulge outwardly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a cylindrical package in which a cylindrically shaped coil of a long steel strip having a peripheral surface, two end surfaces and a hollow cylindrical center is completely wrapped with a wrapping sheet material so as to have neatly folded closures on both end surfaces with a ring member inserted into the cylindrical hollow center of the coil. At first the wrapping sheet is wrapped around the coil so as to project from either end of the coil by a length l greater than the thickness t between the outermost layer and the innermost layer of the coil. The projecting portions are folded onto the end surfaces by pusher plates with pleat forming rods provided therebetween to form crease lines.

Abstract: This relates to method and apparatus for the packaging of a tubular shirred casing strand within a wrap sleeve. The wrap sleeve is provided with end portions which extend beyond the casing strand, and these end portions are heated and folded and deformed by way of a plunger which functions as a piston within a mold structure so as to define a rigid substantially solid end cap which is integral with the wrap sleeve.

Abstract: This relates to the encasing of shirred casing strands for the purpose of maintaining the shape thereof during soaking and subsequent to the soaking until such casing strands are applied to a stuffing horn. Each casing strand is encased in an overwrap casing which is applied in tubular form and preferably is in the form of netting. The overwrap casing is shaped at least at one end of the casing strand to define closure panels by twisting the overwrap casing at that end of the associated casing strand so as to reduce the diameter of the overwrap casing and to facilitate the reverse folding of the overwrap casing. The opposite end of the overwrap casing may be closed in a similar manner or by a simple gathering of the material of the overwrap casing and the application of a conventional clip. This abstract forms no part of the specification of this application and is not to be construed as limiting the claims of the application.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for fixing a protective sheet to a roll of material such as fabric or carpet, and having a longitudinal bore therein, in which the roll is covered with a sheet of paper or plastics material, for example, the width of which is greater than the width of the roll, the ends of the sheet are folded over the ends of the roll and are inserted into the ends of the bore, and a gripper element is introduced into the ends of the bore and is deformed permanently by expanding it radially outwardly into contact with the ends of the sheet and urging these ends against the inner wall of the bore.

Abstract: An annularly segmented generally cylindrical pick-up container is disclosed for use in combination with bounce crimping apparatus which texturizes a multi-filament yarn of synthetic resinous material. The container includes a plurality of annular baffles which divide the container into a corresponding plurality of substantially annular chambers. The container is rotated while a texturized multi-filament yarn of synthetic resinous material is deposited into the annular chambers. As one chamber becomes full, the rotational axis of the container is moved to a new position so that the texturized material will begin filling the next radially outwardly adjacent annular chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for applying a filter sleeve to a continuous length of drainage tubing. The filter sleeve is gathered and packed endwise on a tubular mandrel. The mandrel is received within a dispensing canister mounted on trench-digging and drain-laying equipment between a supply of drainage tubing and a trench plow and laying boot assembly. The drainage tubing passes through the mandrel as it progresses from the supply to the laying boot which installs it in the trench, and one end of the filter sleeve is connected to the tubing whenever filter covering is desired. When so connected, the filter sleeve is continuously pulled by the tubing off the mandrel and about said tubing, through a feed controller in the form of an annular diaphragm at the exit end of the mandrel.