Abstract: A heating device includes a case having a plurality of openings and a plurality of slits are defined in bars of the case so that a plurality of heating boards are engaged with the slits of the case at an equal distance. A power control device is connected to the case and includes a power line having a plurality of male connectors. Each heating board includes a heating layer sandwiched between two isolation plates. Two wires are connected to the heating layer and each wire has female connectors, which are connected with the male connectors of the power line. The heating layers of the heating boards dispense heat evenly from the openings of the case.

Abstract: A disposable product dispensing pouch having first and second generally rectanguloid plastic sheets having first, second, third and fourth distal corners and first and second inner respective opposed facing sides. The first and second sheets are affixed together on an affixing line forming a perimeter of a product-containing portion between the inner and outer opposed faces. The product-containing portion includes a generally trapezoidal main portion and a nozzle portion in permanent fluid communication with the main portion. The main portion has an area of being 70% and 90% of the area of the first and second plastic sheets and has portions extending to near the first, second and third distal corners of the sheets. The nozzle portion is oriented generally toward the fourth corner and has an area of between about 5% and 20% of the area of the main portion.

Abstract: A door assembly for a recreational vehicle has a molded mounting frame and a molded flange. The mounting frame and the door have integral hinge pin lugs. Spring-loaded hinge pins are captured within the hinge pin lugs and allow the door to swing open or close. A latch secures the door assembly in a closed position. The door may be thermally insulated. The hinge pins may be stainless steel. The latch may be a locking mechanism. The door securely conceals the door frame fasteners when the door assembly is in the closed position. One hinge pin may be fixed to one hinge pin lug.

Abstract: A support assembly for supporting a rotating shaft relative to a structure in which a first magnetized member is attached to the shaft for rotation therewith, a support member is connected to the structure and at least one damper member connects the support member to a second magnetized member for supporting the second magnetized member in a portion relative to the first magnetized member. The respective magnetic fields of the first and second magnetized members are such that radial deflective movement of the shaft, and therefore the first magnetic member, causes corresponding radial movement of the second magnetized member which is dampened by the damping member.

Abstract: A magnetic particle damper apparatus is provided for damping motion between two relatively movable members. The damper apparatus comprises first and second conductor members each attachable to one of the relatively movable members. The conductor members are disposed with confronting surfaces having a gap therebetween filled with a quantity of magnetic particles. A magnetic element is attached to one of the conductor members, producing magnetic flux which is substantially confined to a magnetic flux path defined by relatively magnetically permeable regions and relatively magnetically non-permeable regions of the conductor members to flow across the gap and through the magnetic particles. The magnetic field causes the magnetic particles along the flux path to adhere to one another and to the confronting surfaces of the conductor members producing a force opposing relative motion between said movable members and dissipating energy when the conductor members move relative to one another.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for winding a lifting cord. The device comprises a rotatable shaft (14), a wrapping guide (22) and a winding drum (12) mounted on the rotatable shaft (14) such that the winding drum (12) rotates with the shaft (14) and is free to move axially along the shaft (14). One end of the lifting cord (24) is attached to the winding drum (12). The wrapping guide (22) is configured to engage the lifting cord (24) such that as the shaft (14) and winding drum (12) rotate, the lifting cord (24) wraps around the winding drum (12) in even turns without overlapping and forces the winding drum (12) to travel axially along the shaft (14).

Abstract: A drill design aide for designing a drill having a plurality of positions wherein a user is able to access the drill design aide through a graphical interface which displays a drill being designed. A drawing module within the drill design aide enables a user to create and edit the drill being displayed upon the graphical interface. A count track module enables a user to create an initial formation and reshape the initial formation to a next formation without a user completely redrawing the next formation. A drill resize module enables a user to resize a previously designed drill having a first number of positions to a new drill having a different number of positions than the originally designed drill by either increasing or decreasing the number of positions within the drill.

Abstract: A sleeping brassiere is provided having a pair of shoulder supports, the shoulder supports extending to a back support, the back support extending from the back toward the front of the wearer and having a portion encircling the wearer and a pair of cup-shaped breast supports. Each of the breast supports has a generally crescent-shaped portion curving generally around the outside and top of the wearer's breast. The crescent-shaped portion has an upper end adjoining the shoulder supports and a lower end adjoining the portion of said back support encircling the wearer at a position generally between and below the breasts of the wearer when the brassiere is worn.

Abstract: This invention describes a sensing device useful as a wet condition indicator, and is composed of a sensing element that produces electric energy when it becomes wet, and an informing means such as an integrated circuit/piezoelectric buzzer (speaker), light source or electrochromic device. The sensing element incorporates small amounts of non-toxic, non-allergenic substances and operates as a battery when wet. That battery produces enough electric energy to power the informing device without need of any other circuitry or batteries. This has the advantage of lower cost so that it can be used for a wet condition indicator in disposable diapers. One sensing element is incorporated in each diaper, and can be discarded with it, while the informing element is reused.

Abstract: A vault insertable into a coin and/or token collecting device and having a portion which is openable upon such insertion and closeable and lockable upon removal therefrom for storing coins and/or tokens received from the collecting device. The vault includes an electronic memory device for storing information relating to the vault, such as a vault serial number, and for supplying the vault information to the collecting device upon insertion of the vault into the collecting device. While the vault is contained within the collecting device, information from the collecting device may be supplied to the memory device for storage therein and information stored within the memory device may be supplied to the collecting device in response to a request signal from the collecting device.

Abstract: A drill design aide for designing a drill having a plurality of positions wherein a user is able to access the drill design aide through a graphical interface which displays a drill being designed. A drawing module within the drill design aide enables a user to create and edit the drill being displayed upon the graphical interface. A count track module enables a user to create an initial formation and reshape the initial formation to a next formation without a user completely redrawing the next formation. A drill resize module enables a user to resize a previously designed drill having a first number of positions to a new drill having a different number of positions than the originally designed drill by either increasing or decreasing the number of positions within the drill.

Abstract: A composition and method for the treatment of snoring comprising an effective amount of discorea villosa and zingiber officinale in a physiologically acceptable carrier, to be administered in the form of nasal drops or spray in the nasal passages of a subject prior to sleep.

Abstract: A novel method for repelling rodents such as rats and mice is provided, including the step of placing an effective amount of camomile in an area where rodents are not desired.

Abstract: An awning retractable by being wound onto a roller and associated with legs permitting it to be maintained in position above the area to be sheltered when unrolled. The roller (1) is hollow, and the legs (2, 3) of the awning, which are foldable so that in the folded state their length is about one-half that of the roller, are adapted to fit into the roller when the awning is rolled up. Instead of being permanently attached to a mounting wall for the awning, the roller is preferably fastened to the free edge of the awning so that it accompanies the unrolling thereof.

Abstract: A safety device for an awning with a permanently installed housing (2) for accommodation of the awning roll (2); with a shutter section which contains the extensible end of the be secured to the housing by means of a locking mechanism, and which in its retracted position serves to close a run-out opening in the housing; and with a warning device adapted to be actuated upon the retraction of the shutter section into the housing through the mechanical cooperation of a first means provided in the shutter section and of a second means provided in the housing, where the warming device is disposed on one of said means that is displaceably mounted and where the warming device provides a visible indication that distinguishes the condition of the shutter section in which it has not yet been fully retracted into the housing and interlocked with it from the condition of accomplished interlocking, thus providing assurance that locking has actually occurred.