Boise Cascade Corporation

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Robert J Hough

Teddy M Westphal

Donald H Ellerbrock

John E Bacon

Ray Ponder

A support bracket is affixed to a medical gas outlet. The support bracket supports one or more elements of a gas circuit coupled to the medical gas outlet and prevents deformation of a lock spring of the medical gas outlet. The medical gas outlet can be a wall mounted vacuum or oxygen outlet.

Medical gas outlet with support bracket

A compartmented composite container package is disclosed including a tubular composite body wall member closed at one end by a metal closure member, the one end of said body wall member containing a cup for receiving a first product, characterized by the provision of a separator member that is connected with the open end of the cup by a snap-fit connection to isolate the first product from a second product that is introduced into the remaining space within the tubular wall member via the other end thereof. In order to further isolate the products from each other, the separator includes a radially enlarged cylindrical flange portion that circumferentially engages the uniform cylindrical inner wall surface of the tubular body wall member, thereby to cooperate with the snap-fit connection to provide a double sealing result.

Compartmented composite container including a snap-fit separator member

A protected easy-open metal end for containers is disclosed that contains a scoreline which defines on the central portion of the end a removable panel portion and a residual lip portion. A layer of synthetic resin hot melt material is deposited on one of the central panel surfaces opposite the scoreline, whereupon after the hot melt is solidified, the end is post heated to effect softening of the hot melt so that the metal end surface is wetted thereby. The resultant bond between the hot melt and the metal end is so great that severing of the removable panel from the end effects corresponding severing of the hot melt layer to provide protective hot melt layers on the edges of each of the panel and the residual lip portions. The hot melt layer may be applied to the same or the opposite central panel surface that contains the scoreline, or on both surfaces to provide two-side protection.

Method for protecting metal ends

An assembly of a patch top container end and a reusable circumferentially-flanged closure member is disclosed, together with a method for forming the container end and introducing the same within the closure member, characterized in that the container end includes a circumferential tab portion which is folded back through an angle of 180.degree. to a position between the body portion of the container end and the body portion of the closure member. The closure member is then mounted on the open end of a container with the closure member flange extending about the container, the container end being bonded to the extremity of the container end by a temperature or pressure responsive material.

Method for forming patch top container end and closure member assembly

A promotional token adapted for attachment to the pull tab ring opener of an easy-open container, characterized in that the token, which is preferably formed of a synthetic plastic material, includes a mounting portion adapted for insertion in the finger opening of the ring, and connecting means for removably fastening said token mounting portion in said ring opening. The connecting means may comprise a plurality of resilient lug means circumferentially spaced about the periphery of the mounting portion of the token, a continuous groove contained in the outer peripheral wall surface of the mounting portion, or lateral wing portions that extend outwardly from the mounting portion across the adjacent portions of the ring opener.

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Ballwin, MO, United States of America

Robert J Hough