A receptacle including a body configured to receive refuse items and a mated handle is disclosed. The handle includes a base plate and a gripping portion connected by one or more sidewalls. The back side of said base plate contains a projection to allow the handle to mate with the body of the receptacle. The projection includes two regions offset from each other so that, when the body of the receptacle is formed by blow molding, the body can fill around the projection, thereby securely attaching the two. The handle can further include a cinch so that if a liner is used within the body of the receptacle, there is a place to tie it off on the handle. Multiple handles can be mated to a single receptacle body.

A method of manufacturing a custom sized plastic tote lighter in weight than heretofore known custom sized plastic totes is provided. The method comprises separating an injection molded tote into upper and lower portions by cutting the injection molded tote. A sleeve or middle portion of plastic material is secured to the upper and lower portions of the injection molded tote to create a custom sized plastic tote of a desired height. Alternatively, portions of different injection molded totes may be used to create a custom sized plastic tote. The sleeve may be made from different materials and may be made of multiple pieces.

A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body having a rear wall, a floor, the body and floor form a waste receptacle and a pair of axle straps integrally formed with the body. The axle straps each include a penetration with a strap bearing surface formed in penetration of the axle strap. The cart body may also include a longitudinal bearing surface with the strap bearing surface being aligned with the longitudinal bearing surface. The strap bearing surface is preferably cylindrical. A waste cart may be formed by adding an axle mounted to the body by the axle straps and wheels mounted to either end of the axle. A method of forming the carte body is also disclosed in which a pair of opposed pins are slid into the axle straps to form the axle strap bearing surfaces.

A free-standing plastic livestock confinement system includes hollow plastic panels assembled together to provide interconnected walls that create confinement areas. One of the walls provides a door opening and a door that can be closed across the opening. The door is a hollow plastic panel with an opening for an animal to place its head through for access to food. The door is molded with a bucket holder and the opening in the door over the bucket holder. The bucket holder is recessed such that a bucket received in the bucket holder will extend partially into the confinement area.

An article manufactured in a mould and which comprises a structural composite of plastics layers, the article having a wall defining an internal space for holding contents therein; wherein, the wall is formed from at least two layers of plastics materials; wherein a first of said layers comprises a thermoplastics material and at least a second layer comprises a thermosetting resin and a fibrous layer.

The present invention provides the composite material layer forming method of composite material container: wrap a continuous fiber around the surface of inner tank at a predetermined angle to form at least a layer of composite material, and tile an additive between composite material layers and/or inner surface and/or outer surface to prevent cracking along a fiber direction of the composite material layer.

A manufacturing method of a tank including a tubular body portion, and dome-shaped side end portions formed on both sides of the body portion, the manufacturing method includes forming a tubular compact serving as at least part of the body portion from one fiber reinforced resin sheet by winding the fiber reinforced resin sheet including reinforced fibers impregnated with thermoplastic resin is wound several times around a peripheral surface of a core from a direction perpendicular to an axial center of the core in a state where the thermoplastic resin is melted.

A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body with four upstanding side walls and corner sections therebetween, a floor, and a circumferential compression flange around the side walls and corner sections is disclosed. The waste cart may also include an axle and wheels mounted to a side wall and a handle assembly with lid also mounted to a side wall. The circumferential compression flange may have a generally consistent width and thickness at each of the side walls and corner sections and the lid rim meets the circumferential compression flange when the lid is closed. A method of forming a blow-molded waste cart body is also disclosed. The process includes melting a polymer material to form a parison, enclosing the parison in a main mold, pressurizing the parison within the mold and moving a secondary mold section onto the main mold squeezing the polymer outward to a gap between the secondary mold and main mold to form the circumferential flange.

A tow prepreg, made by impregnating a reinforcing fiber bundle with a matrix resin composition that comprises component (A): epoxy resin, component (B): epoxy resin curing agent, and component (C): pre-gelatinizing agent with a minimum viscosity temperature of 110 C. or lower, wherein, the temperature of minimum viscosity is determined to be the temperature obtained at the minimum viscosity that appears on the highest temperature side when a sample is prepared by adding and dispersing homogeneously 10 parts by mass of the component (C) to 100 parts by mass of bisphenol-A epoxy resin with an epoxy equivalent weight of 1906 g/eq, and by dissolving 10 parts by mass of a boron trichloride-octylamine complex into the mixture, and when the viscosity of the sample is measured by increasing the temperature at a rate of 2 C./min.

Protective coverings herein have a coated woven material with a first edge parallel with a warp direction and a second edge opposite the first edge, and have a first edge band proximate the first edge and a second edge band proximate the second edge. The coated woven material has a woven scrim made of a plurality of weft tapes and a plurality of warp tapes, but the warp tapes positioned in the first and second edge bands are high-shrinkage warp tapes and the warp tapes positioned in between the first and second edge bands have a shrinkage that is less than a shrinkage of the high-shrinkage warp tapes, and has a coating on at least one major surface of the woven scrim. The plurality of high-shrinkage warp tapes shrink upon application of heat. Methods of covering a load, such as stacked lumber, with the protective covering are also disclosed.