Abstract: A fingerprint card holder assembly to be used with fingerprint cards having a layer of transparent adhesive material on their front surface where a person's individual fingerprints are received and recorded. The fingerprint card holder assembly has a base mounted on a support platform. A fingerprint card guide is mounted on the top surface of the base for aligning the fingerprint card. A fingerprint card locking unit is pivotally mounted on the base and it pivots from an upright position to a horizontal position that locks a fingerprint card against the top surface of the base. There is structure on the bottom surface of the fingerprint card guide and also on the rear surface of the fingerprint card locking unit to prevent the adhesive on the top surface of the fingerprint card from sticking to either of these respective members when the fingerprint card holder assembly is being used.

Abstract: A device for washing a ball cap in a dishwasher formed from a male top frame assembly and a female bottom frame assembly that nest together in a stacked formation. The front ends of the respective frame assemblies are pivotally secured to each other and there is structure for latching their rear ends together. There is a sufficient spacing between the respective frame assemblies when they are assembled together so that a ball cap placed between them is not wedged therein but free to move about. The ball cap device has been designed to be placed in a conventional dishwashing machine for washing a ball cap.

Abstract: The PMMA (Polymethyl methacrylate) plastic used to produce one-piece intraocular lenses is modified by a novel thermoplastic pressure forming process to produce a much tougher material with improved mechanical properties. The improved material exhibits greater ductility and fatigue resistance than conventional cast PMMA sheet, resulting in a one-piece lens that is less prone to breakage from implantation or use.

Abstract: A wheelchair having an active anti-tipper assembly to prevent its rider from tipping over backwards when the backrest frame is reclined rearwardly. The anti-tipper assembly has a pair of laterally spaced linkage members whose top ends are pivotally connected to the backrest frame. The bottom ends of the linkage members are pivotally connected to leg members at a point intermediate their length. The leg member in turn have their top ends pivotally connected to the rear ends of the longitudinally extending bottom frame members of the wheelchair frame. The linkage members are adjustable in length. The anti-tipping leg members have rollers secured to their rearward ends.

Abstract: The foot massage device is in the general form of an elongated tubular body member that has a plurality of pressure point members disposed on its outer surface. The tubular body is wide enough so that both feet of a person can be applied to the device at the same time. The tubular body has a left end portion, a central portion and a right end portion. The left and right end portions each have a convex outer surface along their longitudinal dimension and the central portion has a substantially constant outer diameter. In the preferred embodiment, the foot massage device has a permanently closed right end and the left end has a removable plug or cap so that either hot or cold fluid may be placed in the hollow tubular body to give the user beneficial results therefrom.

Abstract: A dome shaped decorative lighting fixture that is marketed in kit form with its individual components easily assembled and disassembled. The dome shaped decorative lighting fixture has been designed to be mounted in a ceiling either below a skylight and/or within a housing built into the ceiling. If used in a built-in housing, there would be light fixtures mounted therein which would illuminate the light transmissive panels of the lighting fixture. The panels are held securely in place solely by gravity with each panels H-channel member structure on its respective top and bottom edges interlocking with the adjacent light panels H-channel member structure.

Abstract: A dirt and grease protective cover for the outer rear panel of the trunk of an automobile and its rear bumper. The cover is formed of a flexible sheet of material having a plurality of first hook and loop fastener strips attached to its rear surface adjacent its top edge and a plurality of second hook and loop fastener strips attached to its rear surface adjacent its bottom edge. The flexible cover sheet is mounted in the trunk of a vehicle so that it may fold out and cover the rear of the automobile with the rear surface of the cover sheet and this rear surface would be folded against itself when in its retracted position in the trunk.

Abstract: A handgrip that may be installed on the handlebar of a jet-ski, a motorcycle, or bicycle. The grip has three major components which are the major tubular handgrip member, a tubular sleeve, and an end cap. The major tubular handgrip member has the tubular sleeve member slid on over its outer surface and until it abutts an annular ridge. The end cap is then inserted over the tubular neck portion until it abutts the tubular sleeve. An adhesive on the tubular neck portion holds the end cap in position. The tubular sleeve is made of open cell foam material which is gripped by the palm of the rider's hand. The tubular sleeve functions to prevent blisters to the rider's hand.

Abstract: A recorded music enhancement system (RMES) utilizing a recording media such as audio tape or compact disc with a separate track for a control waveform or digital code which controls secondary stimuli, such as pulsing lights, so that they pulse in time with the music, or are otherwise coordinated with the music in some artistic arrangement. This system has a triac to switch the power on and off to the lights or other secondary stimuli, and includes a tone or digital code detector which receives the input waveform from the extra track on the recording medium and operates the triac as a function of the input waveform, in essence causing lights or other stimuli to reproduce the rhythm variations of the music as it is played from the tape or other recording medium.

Abstract: An elevated wall reservoir system that has a floating cover assembly that lies directly on the top surface of the body of liquid. The peripheral edges of the cover assembly extend beyond the edge of the liquid and are resiliently secured by tension cables that are attached to tension towers. The tension cables hold the cover assembly in position on the top surface of the liquid and permit the cover assembly to travel upwardly or downwardly in response to the liquid level. Thus the cover assembly is always supported by the liquid and tension in the tension cables. The elevated wall reservoir system allows existing reservoirs to be modified to increase their storage volume by twenty or fourty percent without the need of utilizing additional land area. The elevated wall reservoir system can also be used on new installations.

Abstract: A disposable allergy skin testing kit that is formed from a top layer sheet, a membrane sheet, and a bottom layer sheet. The bottom sheet has a plurality of recesses formed at predetermined locations to form chambers into which a predetermined antigen has been deposited. The membrane sheet covers these chambers and forms a liquid tight seal. The top layer sheet has an aperture formed in it above each of the antigen chambers. A pushbutton needle assembly is mounted in each of these apertures and it has a disk-shaped pushbutton with a needle extending downwardly from its bottom surface. Flexible support arms attached to the edge of the apertures and the disk-shaped pushbutton allow it to be depressed a sufficient distance in order to rupture the antigen chamber and travel downwardly entirely through it so that the needle penetrates into the patient's skin taking antigen with it.

Abstract: A retro-fit gas system for controlling the firing rate of the Colt M16 automatic carbine that involves removing the original short gas tube that has a predermined length and which has a longitudinal axis extending from its front end to its rear end and replacing it with a novel twin gas tube assembly. The gas tube assembly has a first gas tube whose front portion passes through a longitudinally extending lower bore hole in a junction block. A second gas tube has its front end removably inserted in a longitudinally extending upper bore hole in the junction block. A vertically extending cross passage bore hole in the junction block connects with gas ports in the respective first and second gas tubes thereby providing an extended length of gas travel passage distance for reducing the cyclic rate of fire of the Colt M16 carbine.

Abstract: A sofa that is convertible into a platform bed has a transversely extending stationary frame. A left arm assembly, a right arm assembly and a back assembly are attached to the stationary frame. The sofa seat and back cushions are removable from a support surface located above the stationary frame. A plurality of laterally spaced telescoping slide assemblies have their rear ends secured to the stationary frame. The telescoping slide assemblies each have an elongated rear telescoping member, at least one elongated intermediate telescoping member and an elongated front telescoping member and all of the telescoping members have a top wall surface that remains in substantially the same horizontal plane when they are in their retracted position and when they are in their extended position. The cushion support platform assembly may take one of several forms but they all stow in a position above the stationary frame and below the seat cushion.