Abstract: A token or coin holder is provided having a substantially rigid body with spaced substantially parallel top and bottom walls and opposing side walls connecting said top and bottom walls and cooperating therewith to define a coin or token chamber having an open end to receive coins or tokens to be contained by the holder and to dispense the same, the top wall includes an aperture portion extending longitudinally therethrough through which tokens and coins carried thereby may be viewed and manipulated, the holder having an inclined ramp disposed in a closed end of the token chamber associated in cooperative relationship with an undulated surface extending along an inner face of the bottom wall and a sawtooth configured surface extending along an inner face of the top wall opposite the undulated inner face of the bottom wall which cooperatively operate to retain a plurality of tokens or coins aligned in a longitudinal array within the token chamber with successive tokens in the array being disposed in a partial

Abstract: A liquid fingernail cosmetic composition is provided containing at least one nail enamel film former resin, at least one organic solvent and at least one essential oil or essence component in an amount sufficient, upon activation, to provide an enhanced fragrance scent for a sustained period of time, e.g., at least about 24 hours, said essential oil or fragrance essence being activated by the formation of a nail enamel film from said coating composition.

Abstract: A polishing tool for automobiles is provided having a main body of bristles and a crevice tool on opposite sides of a brush block and a handle with a further cleaning medium which has a multitude of uses including removing accumulations of foreign matter from generally inaccessible crevices on the surface of an automobile by simply reversing the head or the handle when cleaning and polishing the outside of an automobile. The polishing tool can be readily used with damaging painted or plated surfaces of the automobile.

Abstract: A hair highlighting device suitable for use in color treatment of selected strands of hair separated from a head of hair is provided having a sheet of flexible liquid-impermeable sheet and a sheet of non-woven fibrous textile material of a size co-extensive with the sheet of the flexible liquid-impermeable material bonded together. The sheet of non-woven fibrous textile material has releasable self-adhering surface characteristics operative to maintain opposing overfolded contacting surfaces thereof with selected strands of hair interposed therebetween in a liquid sealed relation about the periphery of the selected strands of hair sufficient to prevent seepage of treating fluid therefrom and afford self-supporting frictional engagement during processing of the hair.

Abstract: A method is provided for soldering using tin-containing solder to substrate surfaces that are gold plated wherein a selected portion of the gold plated surface is treated by impacting with a high velocity stream of fine nickel containing abrasive particles to remove all the gold from the treated surface and then effecting joining to the treated surface by conventional soldering techniques.

Abstract: A security gate includes an installation and release mechanism that is operable with one hand. The gate comprises two panels which are extendible with respect to each other and lockable in the extended position. This makes it possible for the gate to expand across a wide variety of door openings. A handle located centrally on the top of the gate is connected by a pair of cranks and a pull rod to a pair of plungers which contact one side of the door frame. Spring bias on the plungers normally force the plungers into contact with the door frame. Slots in the upper and lower plunger links permit the plungers to accommodate irregular door frames. The handle is employed to withdraw the plungers from contact with the door frames and, conversely, the absence of handle pressure causes the gate to position itself solidly against the vertical door jamb. The handle is also employed by the operator to carry and position the gate in the doorway, allowing one-handed operation.

Abstract: A package device is provided for transporting heated carry-out food by a consumer which includes a box within which the food may be securely carried and support members to elevate the heated food from the bottom surface of the box, thus preventing the bottom portion of the food from becoming soggy while it is being transported.

Abstract: A toy wheeled vehicle such as a toy truck which is intended to be pushed along by a child includes electronic circuitry which is capable of emitting a plurality of different sounds similar to the sounds of a real truck. The actual sound of a truck's internal combustion engine is digitized and stored in a microprocessor along with other sounds such as those generated by a starter motor, horn, backup beeper and the like. In addition, the microprocessor is capable of synthesizing additional realistic vehicle sounds such as those generated by air brakes and the like. A starter switch first activates the starter motor sound and then the engine sound at idle speed. A speed sensor senses both speed and direction of travel and varies the engine sound in response to the sensed speed. The backup beeper sound is automatically generated along with the engine sound when the truck is moved in reverse. The microprocessor not only stores all of the digitized sounds but also controls all of the operations of the truck.

Abstract: A conveyor system is provided suitable for use over linear and curved paths of travel including sharp bends and turn-arounds which includes a conventional link-type chain, a plurality of separable article carrier members in adjacent orientation which are releasably connected to respective pivot joints of the link-type chain to form a train of consecutive article carrier members having a substantially continuous planar upper face, each of the article carrier members being constructed at is opposite ends to cooperate with the immediately adjacent carrier member, and a support associated with the train of consecutive article carrier members to guide the path of travel thereof.

Abstract: A rotatable blade assembly suitable for use on a rotary power lawn mower is provided having an elongated bar member adapted to rotate in a substantially horizontal plane within the housing of a rotary lawn mower to which is detachably secured at diametrically opposed ends thereof cutting blade elements having cutting edges formed at oppositely facing edges which can be secured to the bar member without the need for special tools for removing the blade assembly from the shaft of the mower motor.

Abstract: A therapeutic device is provided for assisting in the maintenance of an erection in a male penis which is a continuous ring prepared from a solid elastomeric material which is very soft, highly extensible and exhibits a very low modulus, the ring having a circular inner diameter and circular cross-section which is of a size adaptable to be readily placed about and snugly engage the base end of a penis with sufficient radial compressive force applied to the penis to restrict outward veinal flow of blood from the penis without complete occlusion of arterial blood flow.

Abstract: A security gate includes an installation and release mechanism that is operable with one hand. The gate comprises two panels which are extendible with respect to each other and lockable in the extended position. This makes it possible for the gate to expand across a wide variety of door openings. A handle located centrally on the top of the gate is connected by a pair of cranks and a pull rod to a pair of plungers which contact one side of the door frame. Spring bias on the plungers normally force the plungers into contact with the door frame. Slots in the upper and lower plunger links permit the plungers to accommodate irregular door frames. The handle is employed to withdraw the plungers from contact with the door frames and, conversely, the absence of handle pressure causes the gate to position itself solidly against the vertical door jamb. The handle is also employed by the operator to carry and position the gate in the doorway, allowing one-handed operation.

Abstract: A toy wheeled vehicle such as a toy truck which is intended to be pushed along by a child includes electronic circuitry which is capable of emitting a plurality of different sounds similar to the sounds of a real truck. The actual sound of a truck's internal combustion engine is digitized and stored in a microprocessor along with other sounds such as those generated by a starter motor, horn, backup beeper and the like. In addition, the microprocessor is capable of synthesizing additional realistic vehicle sounds such as those generated by air brakes and the like. A starter switch first activates the starter motor sound and then the engine sound at idle speed. A speed sensor senses both speed and the direction of travel and varies the engine sound in response to the sensed speed. The backup beeper sound is automatically generated along with the engine sound when the truck is moved in reverse. The microprocessor not only stores all of the digitized sounds but also controls all of the operations of the truck.

Abstract: A formal marching shoe suitable for use in "corps style" marching maneuvers having a heel-free outer soleunit with a substantially planar ground engaging bottom surface, the shoe upper having a close encircling foot enclosure adapted for closing in a conventional manner by laces and the outer soleunit of the shoe extending upwardly in a curving, arcuate course from the rear heel-receiving end of the shoe to joinder with the outer surface of the rear of the shoe upper.

Abstract: A portable fire extinguisher apparatus is provided which is disposable comprising(a) a container which is suitable to be grasped in one hand that is adapted to receive fire extinguishing medium under pressure having a sealed outlet port in one end thereof; and(b) discharge means for said container which contains means for permanently opening said sealed outlet port that provides means for directing the flow of fire extinguishing medium dispensed from said container.

Abstract: An adherent chromium deposit is obtained on a substrate by means of a process which involves applying an adherent iron containing deposit to the substrate, anodic treating the iron containing deposit and depositing chromium on the treated, iron containing deposit from a bath containing a halogen releasing compound selected from the group consisting of iodine releasing compounds, bromine releasing compounds and mixtures thereof. Supplemental catalysts such as sulfates, simple and complex fluorides, borates, carboxylates, chlorides, chlorates and perchlorates can also be present. The process can further include the step of activating the substrate in an acid bath or an iron or an iron alloy plating bath prior to iron plating from an iron salt containing bath.

Abstract: Nickel and/or zinc contamination can be handled by increasing the bath's level of tolerance to nickel and zinc, thereby eliminating the need to use precipitants. The instant invention relates to the use in a trivalent chromium bath contaminated with zinc and/or nickel, or an effective amount of a compound represented by the formula R-S, where S is selected from the group consisting of sulfinates, sulfonates, and the acids and soluble salts thereof, and R is either an aliphatic group having from 1 to 6 carbons, or an aromatic or heterocyclic group having up to 12 carbons. Preferably R is an unsaturated hydrocarbon and contains carbon to carbon unsaturation alpha or beta to the sulfur atom.

Abstract: An aqueous electroplating bath for nickel, cobalt, nickel-cobalt, nickel-iron, cobalt-iron or nickel-cobalt-iron is described which contains, as a brightening agent, a quaternary amine sulfobetaine of the formula ##STR1## wherein N.sup.+ is a heterocyclic tertiary amine group,R is a halogen or lower alkyl group,R' is a hydrogen, lower alkyl or R"C(O)--groupR" is a lower alkyl group anda is 0-5.These brighteners may be prepared by the reaction of a heterocyclic tertiary amine with an alkali metal halohydrin sulfonate.

Abstract: Polyvinyl chloride polymers are made more heat degradation resistant by the incorporation of a diorganotin salt of an unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid ester and a hindered phenolic antioxidant.