Abstract: A slide chart in which the sleeve and the slide have mutually engaging flaps which click past one another upon insertion of the slide into the sleeve but engage to prevent withdrawal of the slide from the sleeve.

Abstract: A global time calculator includes an insert and a sleeve. The insert is marked on both its sides (or on a single page slide insert on one side) with vertical columns of incremental time designations, and may or may not contain a stop mechanism. The insert is slidable and connected with the sleeve so as to be shiftable in a vertical direction. Both sides of the sleeve (or in some embodiments a single side of the sleeve) have areas for obscuring vertically aligned time designations that are in excess of unobscured time designations.

Abstract: A signal outputting device of optical ruler is disclosed. It includes a first guide seat formed with an internal axial chamber for receiving a reflecting plate therein, a second guide seat including a slide block axially movable within the chamber and a resilient lever having a fixed end disposed on the slide block, and a sensor disposed on outer side of the slide block. An inner side of the sensor abuts against a free end of the resilient lever. The slide block is disposed with two first stopper sections spaced from each other by a certain distance. The sensor is positioned between the first stopper sections. A section of the sensor, which contacts with the free end of the resilient lever, is formed with a guide channel axially parallel to the moving direction of the slide block. In the case of change of the distance between the first and second guide seats, the accuracy of the optical ruler for measuring length will not be affected.

Abstract: A slide rule permits rapid calculations of parameters used in the Six Sigma quality analysis program. For a given number of defects per product and a known number of parts per product (opportunities), the device permits rapid calculation of the number of defects per million opportunities as well as various statistical relationships, with a single movement of the slide.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for readily determining the value of the imaginary number "i" raised to different exponential powers. Calculations pertaining to the imaginary "i" are commonly encountered in engineering, mathematical and scientific calculations and analysis. In accordance with the present invention, the value of "i" raised to any magnitude of exponential power is readily determined based upon the values of the "ones" and "tens" place of the exponent, including whether the "tens" value is an even or odd integer. Different apparatus are provided for readily calculating the value of the imaginary number "i" for any natural number of exponential power.

Abstract: A retirement calculator for calculating a salary replacement value independent of current salary and a method of computing a total salary replacement value are disclosed. The retirement calculator is made up of a sleeve having an open end and a plurality of windows, and the calculator has an insert with a plurality of age values and a plurality of preliminary salary replacement values printed upon it. When the insert is inserted or positioned in the open end of the sleeve, one of the age values is visible through one of the windows on the sleeve. The preliminary salary replacement value corresponding to the visible age value is then visible in another window.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for readily determining the value of the imaginary number "i" raised to different exponential powers. Calculations pertaining to the imaginary "i" are commonly encountered in engineering, mathematical and scientific calculations and analysis. In accordance with the present invention, the value of "i" raised to any magnitude of exponential power is readily determined based upon the values of the "ones" and "tens" place of the exponent, including whether the "tens" value is an even or odd integer. Different apparatus are provided for readily calculating the value of the imaginary number "i" for any natural number of exponential power.

Abstract: A slide calculator includes a sleeve having a plurality of windows for presenting data from three variables arranged in matrices of rows and columns. Opposite sides of the sliding card include data with the rows and columns interchanged. The sleeve surrounding the sliding card is lined with a transparent plastic.

Abstract: A new device including a new arrangement of dive tables is disclosed for planning non-decompression dives. The invention utilizes two separate scales, movable relative to one another. The first scale shows the pressure group scale, the bottom time or residual nitrogen scale and surface intervals aligned by relationship to pressure group. The second scale shows depth scales, repetitive dive group, pressure group, and no decompression time limits scale. Windows in the second scale allow the observation of pressure group scales and corresponding bottom time on alignment of bottom time from scale one with depth from the second scale.

Abstract: A slide rule comprises, to calculate the parameters of a stairway to be installed between lower and upper floor surfaces, (a) a first scale on a stationary body denoting the number of risers, (b) a second scale on a first slide denoting the elevation of the upper floor surface above the lower one and associated with a first arrow on the body, (c) a third scale on the body denoting tread depths and associated with a mark on the first slide, (d) a fourth scale on a second slide denoting the horizontal spread of the stairway and associated with a second arrow on the body, (e) a fifth scale on the body denoting the number of treads, and (f) a sixth scale on the second slide denoting the length of the stairwell and associated with a third arrow on the first slide. The first arrow indicates on the second scale the height of the risers when the number of risers on the first scale is aligned with the elevation of the upper floor surface on the second scale.

Abstract: A device for providing the modulus and loss factor values of a damping material based upon temperature and frequency which includes (i) an insert having (a) temperature isotherms on one side, and (b) graphs of the modulus and loss factor values for the damping material as a variable of temperature and frequency on the other side, and (ii) a sleeve for the insert which has (aa) a temperature isotherm display window for displaying the temperature isotherms on the insert, (bb) a frequency scale proximate the temperature isotherm display window, and (cc) a means for highlighting a modulus value and a loss factor value from the modulus and loss factor graphs provided on the insert.

Abstract: A logic design slide rule comprises, in a preferred embodiment, front and rear cover plates coupled together; interior slide channels formed between the covers; and a plurality of slides disposed between the covers and able to move horizontally from left to right within the channels. The slides may be moved to display indicia on beams for observation through a single column of truth-table windows and to display corresponding indicia printed on interior slide plates for observation through an array or grid of K-map windows, which column and grid of windows are located in the front cover of the slide rule. Indicia are also displayed through a set of output variable slots, preferably in the rear cover. Operation of the preferred slide rule will aid the designer to obtain a minimum set of combinational logic functions for up to four input variable from a given truth-table.

Abstract: An estate and gift tax estimator having a two-sided pocket part consisting of separate layers of semi-rigid material, whereby each layer is provided with a series of windows for viewing an insert card which is slideably engaged between the two layers defining the pocket. The insert card has a series of columns of numerical data corresponding in location to the windows on the outer layers, such that at least one column corresponds to taxable assets and the other column is a calculation of the estate tax applicable to that amount of taxable assets thereby allowing for the estimation of taxes between the calculated levels. The columns are adjacent to each other such that when a number corresponding to a taxable asset appears in a window, the corresponding estate tax estimate appears in the adjacent window. The insert card is interchangeable and may be oriented in any manner in the pocket part while providing accurate estimations of the estate tax.

Abstract: A musical scale determining device which takes the form of a conventional slide rule configuration. The device includes a sheet material body. Upon both the front and back surface are printed conventional musical notes in specific arrangements. A cursor is movably mounted on the body with the cursor including a plurality of transparent windows through which are to be observed the conventional musical notes on both the front and back surfaces of the body. Movement of the cursor in various positions is to disclose to the user a wide variety of different types of musical scales.

Abstract: A manual calculator useful in registering and converting whole and fractional numbers from one numbering system to another numbering system in which a plurality of slide members are arranged in an array within a cover, with each said slide member being movable relative to the cover between first and second positions. The slide members each bear indicia indicative of the selected ones of two states, and the cover defines an elongate window in which the indicia borne by the slide members are visible in an array indicative of a selected number series in a first numbering system.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a slide calculator for determination of flash-to-background distance for studio photography when using color filters over the flash. By use of the calculator, known factors, such as lens f-stop, film speed, flash guide number (GN), background density (darkness), desired degree of color (including shades of gray and white) saturation of said background and filter exposure factors can be used to determine the working distance of a background-flash with a color filter over the flash. An electronic flash meter is not required.The calculator includes a front panel with a window-like aperture and a back panel. Two slide members are positioned and movable between the front and back panels. Indicia is provided on the front panel and is generally arranged adjacent the window like aperture. Indicia is also provided on the slide members and is arranged for exposure at the window.

Abstract: A slide rule for selecting bearing materials has a base plate, a fixed cursor having first, second and third portions spaced apart from one another and fixedly attached to the base plate, a first sliding ruler slidably mounted between the first and second portions of the fixed cursor, an indicator cursor having an indicator cursor line and fixed to the first sliding ruler, a second sliding ruler slidably mounted between the second and third portions of the fixed cursor, and a fixed ruler mounted on the opposite side to the second sliding ruler with the third portion of the fixed cursor interposed therebetween. The fixed cursor has a fixed cursor line in the vicinity of its left end. The first sliding ruler has logarithmic graduations which indicate levels of bearing surface pressure. The second sliding ruler has logarithmic graduations which indicate sliding speeds, PV values and periods of lifetime of various bearing materials.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a slide calculator to make the determination of flash-to-subject working distances (WD) easy and accurate for amateur and professional photographers. Light sources other than flash can be used. The calculator uses known factors such as lens f-stop, film speed, light ratio, flash guide number (GN), flash power setting and filter exposure factors to determine working distances even when using multiple flashes simultaneously. The indicia on the slides and the indicia adjacent the appropriate windows on the panels are arranged in a predetermined manner and relationship to each other to permit the desired working distance to be determined accurately. Working distances for several flashes (each flash having a different purpose) can be determined and their affect on each other is compensated for in the calculations. Then the several flashes can be used in combination to achieve a desired lighting effect with correct exposure.

Abstract: A chord speller is provided and consists of a housing with a vertical slide member and a horizontal slide member intersecting and overlapping the vertical slide member. The horizontal slide member has a plurality of musical notes thereon while the vertical slide member has a plurality of musical chords and indicators showing which of the musical notes are needed for making each of the musical chords.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a method and device for determining the ease with which a cow may give birth to a calf. It includes a slide rule having two movable slides and a fixed slide. The fixed slide includes a predicted calving score scale at one end thereof and a hoof circumference scale at the other end thereof. One of the moving slides includes a pelvic height scale, and the other moving slide includes a pelvic width scale.The method of the present invention involves measuring the pelvic height and pelvic width of a cow which is about to give birth to a calf. Next, the hoof circumference of the calf is measured prior to the time that it is born. The measured pelvic height, pelvic width, and hoof circumference are lined up on the slide rule and this results in indicators on the two movable slides being positioned adjacent a predicted calving score. The predicted calving score indicates the ease with which the cow will give birth to a calf.

Abstract: A refund coupon redeemable at a cash value at retail stores when a proof-of-purchase comprising a portion of a given product's packing packaging is affixed to the coupon. The coupon includes coupon indemnification indicia thereof corresponding to product identification indicia on the product and location indicia means indicating a location on the coupon for affixation of a portion of the product's packaging carrying the product identification code. The coupon identification indicia and the location indicia are positioned on the coupon proximate each other to facilitate a visual comparison of the coupon identification indicia and the product identification indicia affixed to the coupon.

Abstract: Apparatus for presenting tidetable data in a form visually readable to the average person in terms of the year, month, day and hour of occurrence, exacting information regarding current flow, i.e. the direction of current flow, the relative strength of current flow, and the period of current flow, at a given location. A preferred apparatus is comprised of a stator, and slide. The stator is suitably an elongate member along a horizontal side of which days of the week are scribed and scaled off in consecutive order, preferably with each daily period being further sub-divided into a morning period and evening period. The morning and evening periods are in turn sub-divided into hourly periods. A vertical scale provided on the stator ranges from a base line of zero upwardly, or in a positive direction, to a high point representative of the tidal range, and downwardly below the base line of 0, or in a negative direction, to a low point representative of the tidal range.

Abstract: A slide-rule is obtained by superpositioning and connecting three plates (1, 2, 3) into the middle one of which slots (20, 21) are milled, and thereafter cutting off the boundary areas (5, 6, 7, 8), including the boundary areas (5, 6) of the middle plate (2), into which the slots (20, 21) do not extend.

Abstract: An analog computer for solving and displaying an answer to a multivariable problem includes a bottom plate upon which a matrix of the solution set to the problem appears. Overlying the bottom plate is a series of aperture plates, corresponding in number to the number of variables. Each plate is provided with an aperture dimensioned to display the solution subset corresponding to the solution to the problem for a variable value as set by the positioning of the plate. When each plate is so positioned, the solution to the problem defined by the variable values set appears through all the apertures.

Abstract: A graphical logic computer is formed by apertured parameter slides that are moved back and forth in an envelope between an apertured cover member and a back panel. The cover member has an event network with paths that branch from and connect event windows formed by the apertures in the cover member. Event indicators are disposed on the back panel in position to be observed through the event windows provided none of the parameter slides obstructs its view. The parameter slides have logic windows, and the position of each parameter slide with a logic window or solid portion aligned with an event window corresponds to a logical input, the combination of two or more such imputs providing a logical output. For each combination of slide positions, a single path is observed through the event network to a logically determined result.

Abstract: A mid-tone calculator for determining density reproduction to maximize color reproduction in a lithograph tone process. The calculator includes a base having a longitudinal guideway therein, an original density scale thereon and a density compression scale thereon. A lower slide is reciprocally shiftable in the guideway. An upper transparent slide is reciprocally shiftable in the guideway and overlies the lower slide with the slides being shiftable in the guideway with respect to one another. One of the slides has a high density indicator and the other of the slides has a low density indicator thereon. One of the slides has a plurality of tone reference number curves and the other of the slides has a tone intersect line thereon. A transparent cursor is longitudinally shiftably mounted on the base, overlies the slides and is shiftable with respect thereto, and has a half tone placement indicator thereon.

Abstract: A calculating device for a bowling game whereby a bowler can readily ascertain an optimum approach starting location for throwing a bowling ball along a path which will maximize the number of pins knocked down. The calculating device comprises a first member having a first hairline and first and second indexes. The first index has indicia corresponding to bowling pin locations expressed in terms of distance from a given location, such as the marginal edge of a standard bowling lane. The second index has indicia corresponding to target marker locations expressed in terms of distance from the given location. A second member is slidably associated with the first member. The second member has a scale having indicia, corresponding to approach starting locations expressed in terms of distance from the given location, associated with the first hairline and second index. A cursor is slidably associated with the first and second members.

Abstract: A calculating device comprising a rockable cradle having a number of parallel grooves formed in its upper surface, each of which supports a beam provided on at least one of its faces with a calculating scale so that the beam has sliding movement within the groove, along its longitudinal axis. A cursor line which lies normal to the longitudinal axis of the sliding beams is marked on the upper face of the rockable cradle. In typical use a slidable beam having a question scale marked on one of its faces is moved so that a question integer on the question scale registers with the cursor line thereby providing a rotating torque about the axis of rotation of the rockable cradle. A further slidable beam having an answer scale marked on one of its faces is moved so as to provide a rotating torque in antiphase direction to that provided by the question scale beam, the antiphase torque being adjusted to such a magnitude that the cradle is balanced and the beams are horizontal.

Abstract: A tidal time indicator for determining tide times at various locations on a specific stretch of coastline comprises a pair of complementary charts. One of the charts is in the form of a map having index marks representing the various locations and which marks are spaced apart at distances corresponding to the known tidal time differences between the particular locations. The other chart is in the form of a rule having a time scale and index marks representing different days, each of these index marks being positioned relative to the time scale at the high or low tide time on the particular day for a reference location on the map chart. Thus, by positioning the rule chart relative to the map chart so as to register a date mark with an index mark on the map chart representing the reference location, the tide times at the other map locations can be read directly off the time scale adjacent their respective index marks on the map. To prepare the charts, information is obtained from Tide Tables.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a slide chart, utilizing high speed, straight line gluing and folding machinery, from a unitary blank having a flat sheet separated into three segments, a first and second segment being provided with openings and forming the faces of the manufactured slide chart, and a third segment having scored lines longitudinally extending therethrough to form a railed slide located between the faces of the manufactured slide chart. The method comprises applying glue to the longitudinal edges of the second or third segment, folding the second and third segment onto each other, applying glue to the longitudinal edges of the first or third segment, folding the first and third segment onto each other, and trimming the transverse edges of the resulting slide chart assembly, thereby freeing the slide to move between a pair of rails and the faces of the slide chart to provide a finished slide chart of substantial precision.

Abstract: A sheet of two contiguous detachable leaf members is folded and separated to form slide and sleeve components of the calculator. Fold lines in the sheet are formed parallel to a separation or tear line that divides on leaf member from the other leaf member. In assembling the slide calculator the leaf members can be separated before or after the folding operation. In various embodiments of the invention an information readout is provided on reverse sides of the calculator including one embodiment wherein the printed format of the slide and sleeve components is applied to one surface only of the respective leaf members. The slide component can be formed of two or more generally rectangular elongated slide segments folded into overlapping disposition, with data applied to each side of the slide segments.

Abstract: A construction comprising a sheet of two contiguous detachable leaf members is folded and separated to form slide and sleeve components of the calculator. Fold lines in the sheet are formed parallel to a separation or tear line that divides one leaf member from the other leaf member. In assembling the slide calculator the leaf members can be separated before or after the folding operation. A marginal portion provided on one of the leaf members enables the sheet to be secured by adhesive or other suitable form of attachment to a newspaper or magazine, a package container, or a package label.In various embodiments of the invention an information readout is provided on reverse sides of the calculator including one embodiment wherein the printed format of the slide and sleeve components is applied to one surface only of the respective leaf members.

Abstract: A slide rule cursor which is adapted for use with conventional slide rules to provide direct resolution of the resultant value of parallel and/or series impedances. The cursor is not only movable axially along the body of the slide rule in a conventional manner but is also movable perpendicularly to the axial direction of the body of the slide rule. The cursor has printed on it a series of curves from which unique values of a special coefficient referred to as .mu..sub..theta. may be readily obtained for each network of parallel and/or series impedances. This value of .mu..sub..theta. relates the individual impedances in the network through a series of relationships discovered by the inventor to the resultant value of impedance and its angle.