Abstract: Improved composite units for displaying merchandise are provided generally comprising a rack having hook members releasably mounted thereon. A safety bumper guard may be connected to the rack to prevent an inadvertent encounter with a hook member of the display that may otherwise result in injury to a pedestrian shopper. The safety bumper guard is releasably connectable to the rack, extends beyond and surrounds the free ends of hook members mounted thereon. Goods packaged in blister packs and wrappers with headers may, for example, be removably mounted on the hook members. According to one embodiment of the invention, the rack is vertically adjustable in a pair of substantially parallel upright channel members. A plurality of the racks may be simultaneously mounted in the channel members.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece wherein the timekeeping circuitry is formed of bipolar transistors and C-MOS transistors integrated on a single integrated circuit chip substrate is provided. The electronic timepiece includes timekeeping circuitry for producing timekeeping signals and a display device for displaying time in response to the timekeeping signals. At least a portion of the timekeeping circuitry is formed of C-MOS transistors formed on an integrated circuit chip substrate, a further portion of the timekeeping circuitry being formed of bipolar transistors formed in the same integrated circuit chip substrate as the C-MOS transistors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for controlling the period or pulse width of pulses applied to exothermic printing elements of a thermal printer to effect printing. Control of the period or pulse width is in response to variations in applied voltage and ambient temperature. A pulse generator for this purpose may include such elements as a varistor, a constant voltage element and a thermistor.

Abstract: A game apparatus having random gamepiece selection for a number of players. The game apparatus has a hopper for holding a plurality of coded gamepieces and player controlled mechanisms for random selection of the gamepieces and troughs for holding the gamepieces so selected. Each player has a coded game board for positioning and holding corresponding selected gamepieces.

Abstract: In a printing device, printing type rings are mounted on a rotatable, grooved shaft. Each ring has associated therewith a pawl and a selecting mechanism for engaging the pawl with a selected groove on the printing type ring whereby a selected character on the ring may be brought to an inking position and then to a printing position. Retraction of the pawl by said printing mechanism disengages the pawl and allows the ring to reach a rest or stand-by position.By the use of the retractable pawl a printing device is provided in which only those rings which are about to be used for printing are rotated, and the load on the inking mechanism is greatly decreased. The printing device may therefore be decreased in size and in energy consumption and the wear on the various members of said device is greatly decreased.

Abstract: A ceramic capacitor operatively connected to a piezoelectric oscillator for compensating for the temperature dependence of the oscillator frequency is provided for thereby optimizing the accuracy of an electronic timepiece.

Abstract: A web-feeding mechanism for a compact printer which can feed at least one web of paper at selectively variable feeding rates is provided. A pair of rotatably driven web feeding rollers is positioned on a first side of the web of paper to be fed, and cooperates with a pair of selectively displaceable idler rollers correspondingly positioned on the other side of the web. The respective feeding rollers are each capable of being driven at a different rotary speed. The respective idler rollers are selectively displaceable between a first position out of engagement with its associated web feeding roller, at which time web feeding by the feeding roller corresponding thereto is prevented, and a second position in engagement with the paper web and the web feeding roller corresponding thereto for feeding the web therebetween at the feeding rate of the feeding roller.

Abstract: A thermoplastic control complex for releasably securably bonding and debonding distinct elements together is provided. An elongated exothermic electrical conductor having a predetermined resistivity for each lengthwise unit thereof is provided with a thermoplastic resin selectively positioned along the length thereof. The complex is disposable between two distinct elements so that the thermoplastic resin is selectively transformed from a non-sticky substantially solid state to a substantially liquid state in response to a current being flowed through the exothermic conductor, whereby the thermoplastic resin, in the liquid state, effects wetting of the distinct elements for effecting subsequent releasable securable bonding of the elements together.

Abstract: Electronic components having parallel leads are mounted equidistantly by means of said leads on tape. The tape is wound in a spiral and packaged in a box prepared from a box blank. The box has a hinged opening in the side thereof through which the tape and the electronic components mounted thereon can be fed either manually or automatically without opening the package itself.

Abstract: A sea terminal having compartments for storage of fluids and adapted for the transfer of the fluids between the compartments and a ship. The sea terminal is constructed to eliminate the need for swivel hose connections as the ship swings in relation to the terminal. In another embodiment, the sea terminal may be sufficiently large to include drilling apparatus thereby providing a self-contained terminal which can drill into a sea bed, pump sub-sea oil into the compartments in the terminal and transfer the oil to a cargo ship. Alternatively, the sea terminal may be transported to a discharge point for discharging the oil.

Abstract: This invention relates to box blanks and to assembled package boxes for the display of small commodities such as tooth brushes and razor blades, the boxes having hanger portions so that they can be conveniently suspended for display.

Abstract: An improved device for the introduction of fluids into blood vessels, and, particularly, into veins, includes a cannula-containing portion fitted with a valve which is normally closed. A connector portion can be connected to a source of fluid such as IV, special medication or alimentation. The connector portion is so shaped that it can be joined tightly to the cannula-containing portion, simultaneously and automatically opening the valve so that fluid can pass in sequence through the connector portion and through the cannula. A metal cannula can be used where fluid is to be supplied for moderate periods such as a few hours. Where fluid is to be supplied for longer periods, provision is made for introduction into the blood vessel of a cannula of a plastic which is low in thrombogenicity and tendency to cause phlebitis.

Abstract: An artificial fingernail package has a transparent portion through which one or more artificial fingernails are visible enabling a possible purchaser to select fingernails by placing her finger beneath the transparent portion and looking through the transparent portion. The artificial fingernails may be loose or secured to a retaining frame.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece wherein the timekeeping circuitry utilizes semiconductor-insulating substrate integrated circuitry for effecting high frequency operation is provided. The timepiece includes an oscillator circuit adapted to produce a high frequency time standard signal and is comprised of at least one inverter stage coupled to a high frequency time standard. A divider circuit formed of a plurality of series-connected divider stages produces a low frequency timekeeping signal in response to the high frequency time standard signal being applied thereto. A display is provided for displaying time in response to the timekeeping signal being applied thereto. The oscillator circuit, divider circuit and display include integrated circuit elements and at least the inverter stage of the oscillator circuit includes at least one complementary coupled pair of P-channel and N-channel conductive field-effect transistors having a semiconductor-insulating substrate construction.

Abstract: A device for displaying and storing articles includes a wall structure which defines at least one chamber which is open at one end and which is adapted to receive in its interior a plurality of articles arranged one behind the other with one of the articles situated nearer to the open end of the chamber than the other articles. A pusher engages in the chamber that one of the articles which is most distant from the open end of the chamber, and a spring structure cooperates with the pusher to urge the latter toward the open end of the chamber so that the pusher tends to advance the articles out of the chamber through the open end thereof. A retainer structure is situated at the open end of the chamber for retaining the articles therein in such a way that the particular article which is nearest to the open end of the chamber can be manually removed therefrom, whereupon all of the articles are advanced by the pusher until the next article occupies the space previously occupied by the withdrawn article.

Abstract: A camera which has a shutter-control structure for cocking and releasing a amera shutter and a film-transporting structure for transporting film is provided with a drive for driving both the shutter-control structure and the film-transporting structure. A drive-control is provided for controlling this drive in such a way that when it is operated first the shutter-control is operated to cock a shutter of the camera, while no drive is transmitted to the film-transporting structure, and then when the shutter is cocked by the shutter-control structure, the drive to the latter is terminated while during the continued operation of the drive, the drive therefrom is transmitted to the film-transport structure.

Abstract: A touch sensitive input particularly suited for use with an electronic wristwatch, an electronic calculator or a combination thereof is provided. The touch sensitive input includes a touch sensitive contact connected to the input of a detector circuit, the detector circuit input being normally referenced to a first potential for producing a detector circuit output signal representative of the first potential. Engagement of the touch sensitive contact selectively references the detector circuit input to a second potential and in response thereto produces a detector circuit output signal representative of the second potential. The detector circuit includes at least an MOS or C-MOS input stage.

Abstract: A time correcting apparatus for an electronic time-piece having a digital time display including a selecting switch for selecting the digit of the display to be corrected, which digit is visually identified, and a correcting switch for correcting that digit. Time correction is achieved by the combined operation of the two switches.

Abstract: A printer has a plurality of print hammers displaceable between a rest position and a print position, and respective deformable elastic bodies maintained in a deformed position by each print hammer in its rest position and biasing the print hammer toward its print position. Respective magnetic circuit control means are selectively operable to hold each print hammer in its rest position and to release the print hammer for displacement to the print position by the respective elastic body.

Abstract: A mounting is provided for mounting a tuning fork type crystal vibrator in a hermetically sealed oscillator envelope. The mounting comprises a pair of discrete elements depending from the oscillator terminal tag and each element includes a shoulder connected thereto, an arm connected to the shoulder and forming an elbow therewith, an inwardly arranged finger connected to the arm and forming an elbow therewith, a downwardly arranged flange from the finger and a cradle member depending laterally extending between the flanges and connecting the flanges. The mounting elements are arranged in the oscillator envelope so that each cradle member supports a tine of the tuning fork vibrator.