Abstract: A method of gaming in a mobile casino supervised from a supervisory location includes collecting data from the mobile casino and sending the data to the supervisory location. The data collected may include payoff information, gaming revenue information, video surveillance information, or geographic position information. The method may also include changing an operating mode of gaming equipment in the mobile casino based on the geographic position information.

Abstract: A method of gaming in a mobile casino supervised from a supervisory location includes collecting data from the mobile casino and sending the data to the supervisory location. The data collected may include payoff information, gaming revenue information, video surveillance information, or geographic position information. The method may also include changing an operating mode of gaming equipment in the mobile casino based on the geographic position information.

Abstract: A spittoon for servicing an inkjet printhead is provided, where the spittoon includes a bottom and one or more walls. At least one wall of the spittoon has an inwardly extending lip. The walls of the spittoon, taken in combination with the bottom of the spittoon, define a waste ink reservoir. The presence of at least one lip on the spittoon walls helps retain the waste ink when the spittoon is moved or tilted, minimizing ink spills.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of use opposes a short circuit failure mode in a printer having a printhead controller circuit driving an address bus connected to two or more printheads. A failure protection circuit associates one resistor group with each address line within the address bus that extends into at least two printheads. In particular, one address line resistor is placed in series between the address lead extending from a head driver IC within the printhead controller circuit and each printhead into which the address line extends. Where an address line shorts, the associated address line resistor protects the head driver IC from the short, allowing it to control the voltage potential of that address line in any printhead that has not failed. The user is then able to identify and replace the non-functioning printhead.

Abstract: A spittoon for servicing an inkjet printhead is provided, where the spittoon includes a bottom and one or more walls. At least one wall of the spittoon has an inwardly extending lip. The walls of the spittoon, taken in combination with the bottom of the spittoon, define a waste ink reservoir. The presence of at least one lip on the spittoon walls helps retain the waste ink when the spittoon is moved or tilted, minimizing ink spills.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of use opposes a short circuit failure mode in a printer having a printhead controller circuit driving an address bus connected to two or more printheads. A failure protection circuit associates one resistor group with each address line within the address bus that extends into at least two printheads. In particular, one address line resistor is placed in series between the address lead extending from a head driver IC within the printhead controller circuit and each printhead into which the address line extends. Where an address line shorts, the associated address line resistor protects the head driver IC from the short, allowing it to control the voltage potential of that address line in any printhead that has not failed. The user is then able to identify and replace the non-functioning printhead.

Abstract: The present invention is an ink jet printer for providing high quality output images. The printer includes an ink ejection device for ejecting ink onto a coated media. The coated media has a surface layer that has an ink absorption property that is temperature dependent. Also included is a heating device for heating the coated media to control the absorption of ink into the surface layer of the coated media.

Abstract: A method for the production of flexible pouches each possessing a sealed product-containing pocket and incorporating an integral collar-shaped structure located externally of the pocket to enable suspending of the pouch from a support. More specifically, the method contemplates the sequential in-line production or manufacture of such flexible pouches which are essentially constituted from a sealable, flexible packaging material and which may consist of either a single-layer film material or of a multi-layered laminate so as to enable the containment in the pouches of the most varied types of products possessing widely different properties. In addition to the foregoing, also disclosed is a flexible pouch having a sealed product-containing pocket and incorporating an integral collar-shaped structure which is produced by the inventive method.

Abstract: An antitheft security system is disclosed for automotive, marine, and other valuable personal articles such as objects of art and valuable collectible objects. A dealer/installer is provided with equipment comprising a main unit having a memory, a keyboard for data entry, and a visual screen for monitoring the data entry procedure and also for displaying to the dealer the precise locations on the article where it is to be marked. The unit randomly selects different marking locations on the article by calling up form its memory a programmed universe of several hundred possible marking sites for each particular type of item. An image of the item is displayed on the visual screen, which indicates the exact location where each marking is to be made. The security codes are applied by a portable hand-held marking head containing an electrostatic, noncontact ink jet spraying nozzle which invisibly microprints a unique, classified security code in a dot matrix format of alphanumeric characters onto the surface.

Abstract: A method of forming a flexible pouch which includes a sealed product-containing pocket, and which pouch also incorporate integral collar-forming structure adapted to enable the pouch to be suspended from an object, such as a bottle neck or the like. More particularly, the invention provides for a method of continuously forming a sequence of pouches, wherein the pouches are produced through successive process steps from two superimposed flexible sheet material webs having pocket-forming seals and collar structure formed therein. Additionally, there are provided flexible pouches incorporating sealed product-containing pockets and integral collar-forming structure through the inventive method.

Abstract: A flexible pouch which includes a sealed product-containing pocket, and which pouch also incorporates integral collar-forming structure adapted to enable the pouch to be suspended from an object, such as a bottle neck or the like.