Abstract: An apparatus for making photographs from a video image including a video system for creating the video image and for displaying the video image to the subject, a photographic system for producing a photograph from the video image, and a computer for transferring the video image from the video system to the photographic system. The computer system digitizes the video image signal from the video system, stores it in a digitized format and converts it to an analog signal for display by the video system and for producing photographs by the photographic system. And a method of producing photographs from a video image using the above apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle tailgate assembly for use with load carrying vehicle which use an open cargo compartment. The tailgate assembly includes a frame having a central opening, an air permeable screen to permit the free flow of air secured within the central opening, a material shield hingedly mounted to the frame sized and shaped to fit substantially completely over the entire screen to prevent the loss cargo when the cargo consists of small objects, and a latching mechanism for selectively latching the material shield to the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bicycle stand assembly and storage structure. The bicycle stand assembly inludes an elongated suport member for supporting a bicycle in an upright position and a housing adapted for removable connection to the frame of the bicycle. The housing includes a first housing member and a second housing member. Each housing member had an inside surface for intimate contact with the bicycle frame. Fastening members connect the first and second housing members with the frame between the members. The first member additionally includes cylindrical projections for removably connecting the support member. The storage structure includes a first mounting member having an inside surface for mating connection with the bicycle frame and a second mounting member for connecting the first mounting member to the bicycle frame. The storage structure further includes a clip member adapted which is removably attached to the first mounting member.

Abstract: A compact wide angle rear view mirror mountable on a handlebars of a small vehicles includes a convex reflecting surface held in a frame having straps for fastening the frame to the handlebars.

Abstract: Disclosure herein is a beverage carrier having two basic embodiments. The first embodiment includes flexible water-resistant container having a flexible container with a bottom and upstanding walls and a top opening. The container further includes a removable flooring for supporting beverages in the container, nesting in the container adjacent the bottom. A separator is provided for spacing apart beverages in the container from one another. Another embodiment provides a like structure with the flooring having a coolant for cooling the beverages.

Abstract: An operator powered skateboard including a platform, a drive assembly mounted to the platform about a pivot axis for axial displacement. The drive assembly including an external power assembly engaging a skateboard axle for causing rotation of the axle in one direction and a handle connected to the external power assembly for selectively engaging the power assembly. The skateboard including at least two pairs of wheels, one pair connected to the drive assembly, the other pair mounted to the platform about a second pivot axis for independent axial displacement.

Abstract: A roller-type map or shade holder is provided which is operated by an electric motor. In one embodiment, a simple drive clutch arrangement decouples the motor drive shaft from the map roller when the map is fully unwound or rewound.

Abstract: A fitted cover for tool boxes including a first member having a top, back and side portions. The top and side portions define an open face. The top and side portions include a border adjacent the open face and extending therein. The first member including a tensioning member extending from one side portion to the other side portion. A second member defining a first portion being sized and shaped to fit compatibly over the first member open face. The first and second members including a plurality of fastening means along the periphery of the second member and the border of the first member.

Abstract: An exercising device for doing a variation of a push-up exercise. The exercising device includes a base, a platform rotatably connected to the base having a plane of rotation, a support extending upwardly from the rotating platform, approximately perpendicular to the plane of rotation, and a handle removably connected to the support, the handle capable of rotation, independent of the support and the platform. And novel exercises using the above device.

Abstract: A vented tailgate construction for dumptrucks, pickup trucks and other vehicles which permits the free flow of air through the tailgate thereby decreasing air drag caused by the tailgate, increasing fuel efficiency, and increasing the field of rear vision for the vehicle operator. The tailgate construction discloses a shutter mechanism for preventing the loss of cargo when the vehicle's cargo compartment contains loose, fine, small and/or light particulate matter which might otherwise pass through the vented tailgate construction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite permanent magnet and a circuit which employs a plurality of such magnets. The composite magnet combines discrete sections of a first magnet material with at least one discrete section of a second magnetic material. The first material has a high residual magnetic strength and a moderate energy product. The second material is many times more expensive than the first material and is characterized by a high residual magnetic strength and a high energy product.Also disclosed is a circuit combining a plurality of such composite magnets. The circuit combines the above magnets in such a way that there is a reduction in magnetic leakage in the circuit.

Abstract: A branch-off of at least two substrates leaving an end of a recovered sleeve is effected using a heat activatable sealant, and a thermally conductive member which has a fin-shaped protruberance by means of which heat can be conducted into the crutch region between the substrates to activate the sealant. The thermally conductive member can also function to urge together circumferentially spaced portions of the sleeve to define conduits for the substrates. This urging function can be supplemented or carried out totally by a separate clip.

Abstract: An electrically insulating, overcoated bulky sleeve is disclosed comprising a tubular sleeve prepared from bulky (i.e. low density, high surface area) continuous filament yarns and an overcoating. When an electrical conductor is positioned therewithin, the large surface area of the bulky yarns of the interior of the sleeve provides an intimate fit for an expanded range of conductor diameters. For applications where a void-free impregnation of the sleeve interior between the overcoating and the conductor is desired, the large interior surface area of these sleeves can promote retention of the impregnation composition. The overcoated sleeve can be expandable, deforming to allow pull-back and return or fold-over, and/or conforming to accept transitions in conductor diameter. The overcoated bulky sleeve can be employed in a method for electrically insulating a conductor, which method may further include an interstitial impregnation step.

Abstract: A wrap-around sleeve for enclosing a cable join has opposing edge portions which can be held together to maintain the sleeve in a wrapped configuration. An adhesive coated flap lies under the edge portions to form a seal between them. When the enclosure is to be re-entered, a central part of the sleeve is cut away, and a new sleeve installed to bridge the butts of the old sleeve which are allowed to remain on the cable. In order to avoid leak paths between the edge portions of the remaining butts, adhesive from the flap is allowed to flow between the edge portions on original installation. This is achieved by providing localized separation between the original edge portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wraparound protective closure in sheet form having a specially profiled transverse-edge which is enveloped when the closure is overlappingly wrapped around an elongate substrate and a method of protecting an elongate substrate using said closure. Repeating structural units along the profiled transverse-edge comprise spoiler-edges which run at right angles to the transverse direction of the profiled transverse-edge and cause air trapped along the enveloped, profiled transverse-edge to form into discrete pockets away from the spoiler-edges when the closure is overlappingly wrapped around the elongate substrate instead of forming a continuous channel along the enveloped edge. The wraparound closure is preferably a dimensionally-recoverable wraparound closure, most preferably a heat-shrinkable wraparound closure, and especially a closure comprised of a polymeric composition.

Abstract: A closure for a telecommunications splice case is provided, which comprises a wraparound sleeve secured for example by a rail and channel closure. Re-entry is achieved by cutting of the old rails and channel and removing a central portion of the sleeve, and shrinking a new sleeve across the butts of the old sleeve. If the new sleeve is to seal properly, there must be no leak path along any gap between the remnants of the old rails. Deformations are provided on the flap of the original sleeve, or at the base of the short rail, to allow adhesive on the inside of the sleeve to fill the area between the rail.

Abstract: A patch closure system for joining heat recoverable sheet material, especially for covering a substrate where the joined material is to be recovered around the substrate, comprises a layer of adhesive on one surface, a part of which is a pressure-sensitive adhesive and the remainder of which is a heat-activatable adhesive. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is of such an area and is placed such that, when the patch is placed over the overlap between the edges of the heat recoverable sheet material, the patch will continue to cover the overlap when the sheet material is recovered, even if the heat-activatable adhesive layer has not been used to attach the patch to the sheet material.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a dimensionally recoverable article comprises forming a plurality of separate component parts thereof, joining the component parts together to form the article, cross-linking the polymeric material from which the parts are formed after they have been joined together, and then expanding the article.The process enables dimensionally recoverable articles of complex shape to be manufactured by high speed moulding processes or extrusion processes without the need for curing of the article during formation thereof.