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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1989
J David Robertson, Atlanta, GA (US);
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A variable number of articles of similar size and shape are maintained in a face contacting compact interrelationship by a device including an elongated base element having a flat planar upper surface, an abutment element fixed in position on the base element at one end thereof and having an upwardly projecting article engaging surface substantilly normal with the flat planar upper surface of the base element, a sled slidably mounted on the base element and having an article engaging panel projecting upwardly and in generally parallel relation with the article engaging surface of the abutment element so that one or more articles are held between the article engaging surface and the article engaging panel, movement of the sled in a direction away from the abutment element being opposed by friction between the sled and the base element.