The new composite flexible sheet material comprises a base sheet structure made up of a thermoplastic resin layer which is flowable or fusible at predetermined sealing conditions, plus a polyester backing layer non-flowable or non-fusible at said conditions. The thermoplastic layer is thicker than the backing layer. Adhered to the thermoplastic layer is a layer of polyester fibrous material not flowable or fusible at said sealing conditions. The fibrous material layer is capable of being substan...

A method of and apparatus for making packets, the method comprising folding the packet material round a former, securing the packet material to form an open-ended packet, collapsing the former so as to allow easy removal of the packet from it, and blowing the formed packet off the former by means of one or more jets of air.

A mulch packet for application to soil surrounding a plant. The packet includes a perforated base sheet of moisture impermeable material, and a moisture degradable cover layer is joined to the base along the periphery, as well as at the central postion, of the packet. A mulch material, and in some cases fertilizers, minerals and soil additives, are located within the compartment between the base sheet and the cover layer. The central portion of the packet is provided with a series of knockout co...

A disposable flexible envelopelike container and a new sheet material are taught. The container is convertible to a pocket applicator for applying packaged messy spreadable compositions such as various polishes, cleaners, pastes, oils, paints, stains, waxes, and many other compositions. The envelopelike container is easily manufactured by automated techniques. It has opposing walls formed of flexible sheet material. The sheet material preferably employed has a flexible self-supporting organic po...

A hinged lid packet for cigarettes has an integral inner frame consisting of an inwardly recessed panel extending from the front wall. A pair of side flaps extends perpendicularly from the sides of the recessed panel, and the lower portions of the side flaps are partly sandwiched between the inner and outer flaps which form the side walls of the packet.

A photographic cartridge assembly includes a photosensitive film disk rotatably received between opposed parallel walls of a thin cartridge casing. The casing is adapted to be opened, to release the disk for processing and printing, by prying the casing apart until it fractures at one edge and then tearing the casing from the fracture toward the opposite edge. In order to insure that the resulting opening is at a predetermined location in the casing, and is large enough to remove the disk, chann...

A packet holder for holding a plurality of packets of soft drink mix or the like is formed from a longitudinal elongated sheet having three transverse score lines, the sheet being bent along the score lines to form a back element, a bottom element, a front element, and a top element. The top element includes a tongue adapted for engagement with an aperture in the back element and a window for receiving the plurality of packets. The front element may be advantageously used as a convenient display...

A reservoir, particularly for cigarette packets, stores rectangular arrays of packets on vertically-spaced platforms. The reservoir is filled or emptied by moving successive batches of packets transversely off (or onto) a conveyor on which packets are moved in line, e.g. from a cigarette packing machine to a cigarette wrapping machine. When a platform is completely full it is indexed upwards and another platform moved from a store to take its place. The spacing between adjacent platforms in the ...

A digital system comprising a synchronous fastbus for interconnecting a cluster of devices such as processors and for interconnecting a plurality of said clusters. Information is transferred over the synchronous fastbus using a parallel digital word information packet. All required bus control signals including acknowledge and non-acknowledge signals take place within the same packet transfer fastbus cycle time. A command information packet is transferred over the fastbus separately from a respo...

A strip of packets containing bulk material which may be powdered, granular, beaded, or the like, the strip being formed from a heat-fusible material, each of the packets including a wall and fused end portions for confining the bulk material, and a fused seam extending longitudinally of the strip of packets and being located in a wall of each packet and extending through the fused end portions of the packets, and perforations extending through the end portions and the portion of the fused seam ...