Abstract: An automated typesetting system is disclosed for use in the production of commercially-printed products, such as engraved, embossed, or lithographed letterhead, envelopes, business cards, and the like. The automated typesetting system is a computerized system for accurately and efficiently typesetting copy and includes a graphic template containing text and object blocks and a database containing information to be populated into the template blocks as well as instructions on how to format each of the blocks. Information from the database is optionally electronically proofchecked, populated into the template fields, formatted and typeset according to design specifications, arranged in maximally-efficient production format, and sent to print. The system may be interactively coupled with an order tracking, billing, shipping, and inventory control system.

Abstract: A dynamic stabilizer comprising an elastomerically cushioned weight coaxially and movably mounted on an elastomerically cushioned support rod. In the preferred embodiment, the stabilizer includes a support rod, end caps, a vibration-absorbing mechanism, and a weight. The support rod is a generally cylindrical, elongated rigid member. The end caps are removably attached to each end of the support rod along the longitudinal central axis of the support rod. A threaded shaft, coaxial with the longitudinal central axis of the support rod, projects from the free end of one end cap to permit the stabilizer to removably attach to a threaded aperture in the forward face of a bow, or to a threaded aperture in a shock dampener or other archery bow accessory. The free end of the other end cap includes a threaded aperture, also coaxial with the longitudinal central axis of the support rod, to permit the removable attachment of other bow accessories to the stabilizer.

Abstract: An archery bow shock dampener includes three main components—a base, a vibration-absorbing body, and a securement ring. The vibration-absorbing body is formed of an elastomeric material, such as a visco-elastic polymer and is sandwiched between the base and a securement ring. Within the vibration-absorbing body is a central disk having a shaft mounted to one face and projecting outwardly through the vibration-absorbing body and through an opening in the securement ring. An integrated threaded shaft on the base permits the shock dampener to be mounted, in a conventional fashion, on to the body of a bow while the threaded shaft on the central disk permits additional accessories, such as stabilizers, to be connected to the dampener. The dampener also includes an integrated washer, disposed between the vibration-absorbing body and the securement ring, which may tightened against the vibration-absorbing body to eliminate any sag that may occur if additional accessories are mounted on the dampener.

Abstract: A persuasion organizer and calculator with which attorneys and others required to form and develop persuasive arguments may create, modify, and control a knowledge base and a persuasive calculus without the need for a knowledge engineer. By eliminating the knowledge engineer from the process of creating and maintaining a knowledge base, the present invention minimizes the problems of ambiguity and confusion found in the prior art. The present invention provides a structure for litigators that allows simple, non-expert creation and modification of decisional frameworks, objective and subjective probabilities, and standards of proof. Furthermore, the present invention allows the user to analyze the elements of a persuasive argument (including matters, issues, facts, laws, evidence, witnesses, and the like) to predict the strength of such an argument and determine elements which may require additional support and resource allocation.

Abstract: A puzzle packet which includes a greeting card containing a "hidden message. " The message appears only on a see-through sheet which is detachably fastened to overlie a panel of the card in registry with a panel-imprinted crossword puzzle-type lattice. The lattice has filled and open squares, and spaced numbers each keyed to either an "across" or a "down" heading. A purchaser of the greeting card, having noted the message, detaches the message-imprinted sheet and encloses it in a small envelope attached to the card. Should the one to whom the purchaser then sends the packet be unable to solve the puzzle to learn the message, he may resort to the preprinted answer in the small envelope.

Abstract: A tie is secured to a handle by being passed through an aperture in a clip. The clip is then firmly secured to the handle. The tie has an enlarged end, or an obstruction secured to its end, to prevent it from being removed through the aperture in the clip.

Abstract: A soft-sided carrying case or travel bag having individual business document and paraphenalia storage compartments, an umbrella storage retainer, and a compartment suitable for storing clothes is combinable with an improved garment bag which may be folded in half and retained in that position by a neck and collar configuration on the top of the bag. A strap structure on the garment bag is selectably attachable to the travel bag carrying handle, thus avoiding the need for any specialized hooks, rings, slips, buckles or the like on the carrying case.

Abstract: A container for a cream, gel, or the like, includes a bottle or jar, a top or primary cap, and a secondary or inner cover which is positioned over a top opening in the jar and compressed into sealing engagement therewith by the closure of the cap on the jar. The inner cover includes a resilient frusto-conical wall portion positioned between an outer rim a central hub. As the cap is threaded onto the jar, a top wall of the cap engages and depresses the hub of the inner cover, and flattens the frusto-conical wall which then exerts radially outward pressure on the rim to sealingly engage same with lip on the opening of the jar.

Abstract: Improvements in a handbag or the like are disclosed which include an additional umbrella compartment adjacent the bottom of the bag being accessible through an opening in the bottom surface of the bag. The additional, out-of-the-way compartment is formed inside the handbag in soft-sided fashion, i.e., without the need for a rigid tubular compartment being added to the bag. Access to the compartment is obtained through a selectively closable opening positioned longitudinally along the bottom surface of the handbag. The opening may further extend partly up one or more of the end surfaces of the bag.

Abstract: A card for displaying price or other graphic information is mountable on a price rail of a conventional store display shelf, stand, or the like, and includes a central information carrying portion, and opposed tabs extending therefrom which are adapted to be retained in a conventional price rail. One of the tabs includes a remote enlarged portion suitable for containing information thereon and connected to that tab by a rib or a bridging portion which extends from an edge of that tab which is not retained by the price rail when the card is mounted therein.

Abstract: In the treatment of articles with a sterilant gas such as an alkylene oxide, and the circulation of the gas throughout a treatment chamber containing the articles to be treated, a gas circulating system completely devoid of electrical contacts, switches, electrical motors and other potentially dangerous electrical components which could cause explosive ignition of the sterilant gas. The circulation system includes a fluid-driven turbine-like impeller completely isolated from the sterilant gas, and drivingly coupled to a fan blade which serves to force the gas through conduits and to circulate and recycle the sterilant gas throughout the treatment chamber. In a second embodiment of the invention a magnetically coupled drive is used to actuate the sterilant-circulating fan.

Abstract: A spool-like protective device facilitates the mounting of a plurality of razor-sharp broadhead blades on an arrowhead while protecting a user's hands from being cut by the blades. The body of the device includes a tapered central bore adapted to receive an arrowhead and an array of blade receiving slots extending radially from the central bore and aligned in conventional evenly arcuately spaced orientation for receiving three and four blade or more broadhead arrows. Further, at least one side wall of each slot includes a protuberance extending therefrom into the slot forming a surface for frictionally engaging a blade positioned in the slot to prevent undesired movement of a blade once it is substantially inserted therein. An outer generally cylindrical surface on the body is adapted for being grasped by a user to facilitate handling and rotation of the arrowhead when manipulating the blades thereof while maintaining the user's finger's a safe distance from the razor-sharp blade edges.

Abstract: A highly stable, double-junction, modular reference electrode for assay of low-level halide concentrations, sulfides, perchlorates, silver, mercury, and other heavy metals, and including upper and lower axially in-line, readily accessible and conveniently fillable compartments for retaining electrically conductive compositions, an intercoupling removable plug constituting fluid-tight means bridging axially between the compartments and carrying a conduit providing a fluid permeable electrically and ionically conductive path between the compartments, an external cable lead projecting through a sealing cap closing the upper compartment for establishing electrical contact with a conductive medium contained in the upper compartment, a removable sealing plug at a lower open end of the lower compartment, and a conduit extending axially through said plug and providing a flow-restrictive fluid permeable path between the lower compartment and a test system external of the electrode.