Abstract: A matching card game where players are dealt five cards apiece. Each player tries to match the cards with the dealers hand. Any matches between the players match cards and the dealers cards wins. Progressive jackpots are included with subsequent card games. An automated casino card game version monitors the tracking, and jackpots of players at gaming tables. The automated version includes a table, player LED displays on one side of the table for displaying credits available for a progressive jackpot, a dealer control panel on the opposite side of the table, and a central processing unit, the player LED displays, the dealer control panel and the central processing unit together monitoring the tracking, and jackpots of each player at the player LED displays.

Abstract: A bottled water/tap water cooler and compact oxygen generator system combined within a single housing structure. The oxygen generator includes an air compressor for generating compressed air and uses two molecular sieve beds that operate one after the other. As a first molecular sieve bed absorbs nitrogen, up to approximately 95% pure oxygen is allowed to pass therethrough to a flow meter and into a diffuser which passes the oxygen into a purified drinking water reservoir supplied by the bottled water or filtered tap water. After the first molecular sieve bed is full, the second molecular sieve bed activates and starts absorbing nitrogen while allowing oxygen to pass therethrough, simultaneously, nitrogen is vented from the first molecular sieve into the atmosphere. The first and second molecular sieve beds alternate with one another allowing the system to run continuously by using timer controlled dual 3-way valves.

Abstract: A pool brush for cleaning all narrow areas of a pool such as corners, stairs, seats, and where walls intersect as well as the intersection of where all floor areas meet the walls. The brush has a head with a substantially cylindrical body and semi-spherical rounded ends. All the brush bristles are perpendicular to and uniformly mounted approximately 1/4 inch center to center from one another across all rounded surfaces of the brush head. Each of the adjacent bristles on the rounded surfaces is angled approximately 10 degrees from one another. A side cross-sectional view of the cylindrical body shows the bristles expanding outward at approximately 280 degrees.

Abstract: A process and system for repairing electromechanical cables having an external armor wire layer using a butt welding technique and an arc vanishing machine. A short (break) in a cable having both an external and inner helically wrapped wire layer over an inner conductor(s) is located using conventional techniques. After the inner conductor(s) and inner wrapped layer are repaired (i.e., spliced), the outer wire layers are reconnected using a butt-end welding process and form individual arc shapes. The cable automatically passes through dies on headers to vanish (displace) each of the arcs to the end of the cable. A safety system activates an alarm to shut down the system when a jam occurs before any cable wires break. The system is reactivated after the jam is cleared.

Abstract: An optical coherence tomography(OCT) and spectral interferometry imaging probe for the automatic screening and diagnosis of cervical and skin cancer in vivo. The probe eliminates the old techniques of having to perform Pap smears followed by a biopsy, known as colposcopy. The novel probe is cylindrical in shape and has a disposable outer plastic shield. Inside the probe is a motor driven rotatable casing having a planar optical fiber bundle array therein. The fiber bundle array has plastic light coupling lenslet arrays on both ends. The exposed end of the probe has one lenslet array disc that couples light between the probe and an interior of the cervix area being examined. Both the casing and the bundle array rotate relative to the outer probe walls. Inside the casing is a rotatable motor driven scanning mirror which couples passes light from an incoming second fiber bundle array to the lenslet array on the inside end of the rotatable casing fiber bundle array.

Abstract: A metal holster for allowing a magnetic doorstop to be held in place so that the holster can be attached to handtrucks. The magnetic doorstop can be triangular wedge shaped with at least one exterior side portion having a magnetic surface. The holsters can be made from aluminum and have a metal portion inside for attracting the magnetic doorstop, or the holster can be completely made from a magnetically attractable metal. The holster can be rectangular box with an opening in one side, and a string bent tab inside for further keeping the doorstop within the box. The box can include a ledge portion such as a pin across the opening. An expandable clip allows the holster/box to be attached side legs and members of the handtruck. Another embodiment takes advantage of a pre-existing side leg and cross-member cavity in the handtruck.

Abstract: Metal and wood composites are used to create framing members (studs and tracks, joists and bands, rafters, headers and the like.) for lightweight construction. Metal is utilized for its high strength, resistance to rot and insects, cost stability, and potentially lower cost through recycling. Metal that can be used includes roll formed steel approximately 18-22 gauge. Wood is used primarily for its lower thermal conductivity, and availability. The metal components form the primary structure while wood, either solid or other engineered wood, provides some structure and a thermal break The invention connects J-shaped or triangular shaped metal forms to wood sections. The metal flange ends can have various J, C, L, right triangular, triangular, T and straight line cross-sectional shapes. The wood is fastened to the metal by machine pressing of the metal to wood. Alternatively the fastening includes nails, staples, screws, and the like, and also by adhesive glue.

Abstract: A three piece pet food/water dish that gives the appearance of a single pet dish having a bottom ground engaging diameter having a greater diameter than the exterior of the top edge. The dish invention includes a bottom, center and top bowls. The bottom bowl has inwardly sloping sides and an interior cavity has an upwardly projecting solid triangular cross-sectional shaped stem. The center bowl has round sides with a diameter less than the interior cavity diameter of the bottom bowl has a downwardly projecting hollow triangular cross-sectional shaped stem which mateably interlocks about the upwardly projecting solid stem in the bottom bowl. The center bowl also has an upwardly projecting hollow triangular cross-sectional stem in the interior cavity. The top bowl has inwardly sloping sides has a downwardly projecting solid triangular cross-sectional shaped stem which mateably fits into and interlocks with the upwardly hollow stem in the center bowl. The top bowl being used for pet food and drinking water.

Abstract: Fiber reinforced plastic FRP formed about concrete piles and columns. The FRP components generally includes an exterior shell and an interior protruding portions. The concrete filled FRP tubes are enhanced by prestressing the concrete core, thereby increasing the bond with the tube and placing the tube in an active hoop tension. The prestressing can be developed by either post-tensioning a series of strands(or tendons) that are placed inside the core, or by using expansive core materials which do expand upon curing and will therefore impose an active pressure on the confining tube. The bond can be developed by either internal resin grids, FRP spirals, FRP orthotropic grids, sand-resin coating, bonding agent or protruded ribs. The system can be used as a fender pile, bearing pile, bridge pier column, or any structural column. The system can be made by pultrusion, SCRIMP, REM, centrifugal methods or hand lay-up.

Abstract: A method has been developed to calibrate the relative radiation response of sensors in an array by substitutional analysis of the sensor outputs caused by a radiation field wider than the array. The array is positioned in the wide field in such a way that the sensor positions in the array are exchanged once by translation in order to calculate ratios of neighboring detector sensitivity and once by rotation in order to calculate ratios of mirror detector sensitivities. There is no dependence on dose reproducibility, field flatness or symmetry. The method requires that the profile shape produced by the machine during each measurement be reproducible and that the array movements do not affect the scattering conditions.

Abstract: A swimming pool cleaning device powered by pressurized water running into the pool from an outlet jet port connected to the pool pump. The device has two hose sections, the first being approximately one foot is screwed into the outlet jet port. Attached to an opposite end is a swivel connector which is connected to a second hose that is approximately as long as the pool itself. The second hose has floats positioned along the exterior and wear rings for protecting the hose from wear and tear effects from using the apparatus. Attached to the second hose is a cleaning head having angled through-hole exit ports, which when water is flowing through the hoses causes the head and second hose to rotate relative to the first hose. Second and third versions include using brush sleeves over hose or rings and the cleaning head. A cage having a chlorine table can be located in the head.

Abstract: Detachable bottle and food holding subtrays and clamps for attaching onto the raised ridge edges on trays used in highchairs, strollers, booster chairs, and activity chairs. The clamps can be a single component having a curved upper flange for fitting about the raised ridge of the existing tray, and an upper bent flange having an end which abuts against a lower surface of the tray. Dual cylindrical bottle subtray holders and flat planar food subtray holders can snap onto the clamp leaving the bottles and food in the subtrays at a lower level than that of the tray out of reach of a sitting child. Another clamp has a general C-shape with either a screwable post or spring biased post locking the clamp to the raised edge of the existing tray.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing the evaporation and moisture removal from moisture laden products in a dryer. The invention combines the inventor's prior U.S. Pat. No. 4,719,761, with a rotating drying drum having filters at the output area, and a separate pump for allowing condensation from a chilled coil to drain off, while a desiccant formed from pads or a rotatable wheel is part of a continuous feedback loop for recycling moisture. A condenser is positioned between the desiccant and the drying drum and is used as a heat exchanger for both the air inlet to the drum and the air outlet from the drum. Additionally, the evaporator drain pipe can form an additional heat exchanger when the pipe is used in the pathway of air passing from the desiccant to the evaporator coil. The invention is useful for drying various items such as clothes, agricultural products, wood, vegetables, fruit and electric components such as wafers.

Abstract: A portable and collapsible cradle for supporting any shaped breast prosthesis such as but not limited to a triangular shape, a teardrop shape and an asymmetrical shape in a natural nondeformed state. The platform has upside down U-shaped rods pivotally connected to one another by pins. Chains and cords having one expanded position and one collapsible position allow the rods to form a cross orientation to one another. A flexible material having a central stretchable portion surrounded by a fabric material is supported in a trampoline fashion by the rods. Fasteners such as hook and loop, and snaps allow flap edges on the material to wrap about portions of the U-shaped rods and the chains/cords. The stretchable portion of the material allows for all types of breast prosthesis to be supported in a natural undeformed state. The material can include filly doily edges for giving the cradle a pleasingly aesthetic appearance when assembled.

Abstract: Natural Language search system and method for retrieving relevant documents from a text data base collection comprised of patents, medical and legal documents, journals, news stories and the like. Each small piece of text within the documents such as a sentence, phrase and semantic unit in the data base is treated as a document. Natural language queries are used to search for relevant documents from the data base. A first search query creates a selected group of documents. Each word in both the search query and in the documents are given weighted values. Combining the weighted values creates similarity values for each document which are then ranked according to their relevant importance to the search query. A user reading and passing through this ranked list checks off which document are relevant or not. Then the system automatically causes the original search query to be updated into a second search query which can include the same words, less words or different words than the first search query.

Abstract: A security attachment system for windows having laminated film covering the glass panes. The system includes positioning two-sided tape that overlaps both an edge portion of the film and a side portion of the adjacent window frame. A hollow flange track having a right-angled cross-sectional shape is positioned over the tape. The flange track has a stepped up bottom which fits about the raised pre-existing spline between the glass and the side frame. Screw type fasteners are inserted into the flange to it to the sides of the window frame. A snap on cover plate with bulbous shaped prongs fits over a longitudinal opening in the flange track. Flange tracks and their respective cover plates are provided for each of the four edges where the window frames meet the glass panes. The security system increases the tensile strength of the glass and film cover and is useful against projectiles and during hurricane storm conditions.

Abstract: A floppy disk cartridge adapter having a removable coin shaped memory disk. The 3 & 1/2 inch size cartridge adapter can fit into conventional personal computer disk drives. The small coin shaped magnetic disk has a diameter of approximately 1 inch, and can be easily snapped into and removed from the cartridge adapter. The coin disk fits on a spindle that is side by side to the floating drive plate used in regular 3 & 1/2 inch floppy diskettes. The spindle can be attached by various drive systems to rotate simultaneously with the rotating drive plate. One version is belt driven, another has the coin disk snap onto a spindle supported wheel whose sides frictionally rub against the drive plate wheel, and a third version has the coin disk snap onto the spindle supported gear wheel whose sides contain teeth which mateably engage like side teeth on the drive plate wheel.

Abstract: An output nozzle for allowing plural air flow passage channels in different directions from a gas/electric yard/lawn air blower. The blower uses nozzles having a primary airstream for blowing debris such as leaves, dirt and trash upward above an obstacle such as grass and curbs and a second airstream for propelling debris outward over the obstacle. One version uses a second smaller nozzle upwardly angled at a slight angle of approximately 45 degrees from the upper surface of the main exhaust nozzle. Another version uses a flapper shut off valve in the second nozzle for selectively opening and closing the second nozzle. A still another version uses an extension member having a swivel base for allowing the second airflow exhaust to be directed into different angled directions therefrom. A still another version has a slidable second nozzle having one position closing off airflow, and a second position where airflow passes out from the second nozzle.

Abstract: An optical coherence tomography(OCT) and spectral interferometry imaging probe for the automatic screening and diagnosis of cervical and skin cancer in vivo. The probe eliminates the old techniques of having to perform Pap smears followed by a biopsy, known as colposcopy. The novel probe is cylindrical in shape and has a disposable outer plastic shield. Inside the probe is a motor driven rotatable casing having a planar optical fiber bundle array therein. The fiber bundle array has plastic light coupling lenslet arrays on both ends. The exposed end of the probe has one lenslet array disc that couples light between the probe and an interior of the cervix area being examined. Both the casing and the bundle array rotate relative to the outer probe walls. Inside the casing is a rotatable motor driven scanning mirror which couples passes light from an incoming second fiber bundle array to the lenslet array on the inside end of the rotatable casing fiber bundle array.

Abstract: A hull configuration for the planar surface region in the tunnel area between hulls(pontoons) in a fishing type catamaran. In the tunnel bottom surface is a raised frontwardly located center section adjacent the bow forms a venturi where low pressure is formed by incoming waves passing about the squared off rear portion of the center section. Behind the center section is a raised longitudinal stabilizer running to the rear(stern) of the boat which diverts and splits incoming air coming from the bow section to each side of the tunnel. Adjacent to the center section are two raised side stabilizers which straighten out incoming air and reduce the turbulence effects therefrom. On the rear ends of the two side stabilizers and the center section are through-holes that allow for venting excessive pressure from inside the tunnel to the interior of the bilge of the boat.