Abstract: A hair decoration including a hair engaging member, such as a clip or barrette, a plurality of elongated flexible members, such as ribbon or monofilament, extending lengthwise from and each secured to the hair engaging member, and a plurality of discrete decorative elements, such as beads, stones, gemstones, beads, miniatures, and miniature cartoon characters, figurines, letters, flowers, birds, insects and animals.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for dispensing and labeling a selected length of cord from a spool of bulk material. One embodiment of the invention consists of at least one spool of cord from which a length of cord is drawn and an apparatus for measuring, labeling, tracking and cutting the selected length of cord. After the length of cord has been measured, a label is applied to the cord at the selected length from a lead end of the spool. The label is imprinted with at least one pair of functionally related identification elements, such as bar code indicia, and is adapted to be wrapped around the cord, to identify the cord and facilitate severing the cord from the spool. The information contained on the functionally related elements is entered into a computer, either manually or by scanning, for pricing and inventory control.

Abstract: A telescopic handle construction for an umbrella having an arrangement of a shaft support for the umbrella shaft. An outer handle with a sleeve internally fixed on the elongated handle. The sleeve and elongated handle telescopically collapse over the shaft adapter guided by movement of a pin fixed to the shaft adapter and engaging a Z-shaped slot in the sleeve. The elongated handle locks in a closed or opened position by engagement of the pin in one of two constricted ends on the Z-shaped slot.

Abstract: A new drill-type cranial perforator is disclosed of the type which comprises a front drill head assembly made up of a leading inner drill and a trailing outer drill, and a rear support and drive assembly adapted to enable both drills so long as the leading inner drill is encountering a resistive surface and to disable both drills when the leading inner drill stops encountering the resistive surface.The leading inner drill has at least one drilling flute with a forward cutting edge including a reentrant cutting segment axially rearward from the outer end of the forward cutting edge and extending inwardly towards the longitudinal axis of the perforator.

Abstract: A book having a binding wherein the pages thereof are bound together by two or more transverse segments of adhesive spaced apart by one or more segments devoid of adhesive or other means for restraining movement. The cover of the book is formed by a unitary sheet of flexible material having a spine section intermediate and intergral with the front and back cover sections. The front section of the cover is secured to the first page of the book block while the back section of the cover is secured to the last page of the book block thereby leaving the spine section of the cover unattached from the book block and spaced apart therefrom. Upon opening the book to a page, the spine of the book block bends in a concave manner and the segments along the spinal edge of the opened page which are devoid of adhesive, bow or wedge outward over the opposite page preventing the pages from turning and maintaining the book in a flat position.

Abstract: A container for fluids comprising a single piece, integrally formed, thin walled, self-supporting member defining a non-collapsible rigid hollow body of fixed shape having orthogonally related end walls with a first pair of the adjacent orthogonally related end walls spaced by a wall segment at an acute angle to each forming a hand grip section, and a second pair of orthogonally adjacent end walls opposite the first pair and having an elongated nozzle extending from one of the end walls adjacent the intersection of the second pair with the nozzle having means for flexing to and from a storage position adjacent the one of the end walls.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing cylindrical articles such as kegs from a pallet on which the articles lie on their sides in a plurality of rows, has a pusher member which moves behind each row of articles in turn and pushes the row from the pallet to an adjacent discharge conveyor. The pusher member is suspended from a carriage that is movable horizontally in a sub-frame. The sub-frame is pivoted so that the pusher member can be raised to enable it to clear the remaining rows of articles on the pallet when it is moved back to its initial position after pushing one row of articles from the pallet. A pallet conveyor extending beneath and at right angles to the discharge conveyor moves the pallet after each row of articles has been removed so as to position the next row of articles for engagement by the pusher member.

Abstract: A magnetic field sensing transducer which converts magnetic field intensity into a magnetostrictive strain and transfers that strain to an optical fiber employs a thin wall, hollow, cylindrical shell around which is wound a ribbon of an amorphous metallic magnetostrictive material. In another embodiment, the entire shell is formed by turns of the ribbon of magnetostrictive material. The optical fiber is coiled around the magnetostrictive cylinder formed by the wound ribbon and at both its ends, the optical fiber is affixed to the shell. The shell is covered at both its ends by caps and forms a thin wall resonator having three normal axisymmetric modes of vibration. The torsional vibratory mode is here of no interest because it does not appreciably couple to the optical fiber. Any one of the other two axisymmetric modes of vibration can be made dominant by selection of the appropriate length to radius ratio of the cylindrical shell.

Abstract: A tape driving apparatus is disclosed which is operable to shift all of tapes simultaneously so as to position items recorded on the tapes in a predetermined position or to record informations on the tapes. The tape driving apparatus includes a plurality of pairs of first and second rollers and associated tapes, the first and second rollers having a polygonal cross section, each tape being wound on the corresponding first roller from its one end with one face thereof inside and on the corresponding second roller from the other end thereof with the other face thereof inside.

Abstract: A miniature radio receiver for receiving coded radio transmissions pertaining to the actual or predicted state of the weather and storing the information in a memory from which information can be read out on command. In one embodiment, the radio is small enough to be attached to the wrist and has a display face on which information pertaining to the weather is presented. In another embodiment, the receiver is provided with a voice synthesizer which responds to a read out command by audibly announcing the weather information stored in the memory.

Abstract: A stereotactic instrument for precise insertion of an electrode in the brain for treatment of certain nervous system disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. A rectangular frame surrounds the head and is supported by four pins pressed against the skull. The front and back segments of the frame support radio-opaque vertical markers for alignment with the midline of the brain. The left and right segments each support a pair of adjustable radio-opaque markers for alignment with the anterior and posterior commissures of the brain. Adjustment is by turning knobs connected to a rod and gear system. Bridges between anterior and posterior markers parallel a reference line between the commissures of the brain's third ventricle. Adjustable brackets on the bridge support an arc bearing an electrode carrier.