Abstract: A compact, manually-manipulable device constituting an assembly of golfing related accessories and aids secured in and retractably extendible from a body or housing of the device. Included as independent functional elements of the device are a divot fixer, a probe-like club face groove cleaner, and a wire brush. Additionally, a ball marker is removably secured in the body of the device. Each of the probe, brush and divot repairer components is quickly and easily selectively slideably extended for functional use, while positive securement to the body of the device is preserved. The device may conveniently be carried in one's pocket for ready retrival. The device is known by the trademark POCKET CADEE.

Abstract: There is provided an adjustable archery arrow rest mounted on a threaded pressure button support shaft extending through and secured in a window wall of an archery bow. The arrow rest is formed with a unitary mounting yoke assembly including a pair of spaced parallel leg-like plates. An inner one of the plates is presented toward the window side wall of the bow. The opposed plates of the yoke assembly are formed with aligned transverse tapped bores into which the threaded button support shaft extends in threaded engagement. On their opposed inwardly-presented facing surfaces, the yoke plates are formed with cooperating fragmentary threaded sectors defining an inwardly tapering opening for receiving a mating bolt. Threaded advancement of a bolt into the tapered threaded opening forcibly urges the yoke arms apart, frictionally to stress engaged threads and to lock the yoke on the threaded pressure button support shaft.

Abstract: A bowstring-mounted peep sight providing, in combination, a relatively large open sight window for ensuring good vision over a substantial field to be surveyed, and a small, centered, peep hole for enhanced target accuracy,A hub-like ring defining the small diameter peep hole is supported by ribs or vanes radiating toward fixedly to engage a larger circumscribing field-viewing frame.Desired multiple capabilities, including both better overall field identification and viewing, and sharper target sighting, are made feasible in a single, dual-function mechanical structure. Staggered string slots in side channel guide walls allow one to effect stabilized fixed and locked positions of the sighting device on the bowstring without resort to serving.

Abstract: A mailer for use with computer printing techniques. The mailer utilizes die-cut window envelopes provided with a transparent window web an undersurface of which is coated with a chemical composition. A sheet contained in the envelope and visible through the window is coated on its surface presented to the window with a second, different chemical composition. The coating compositions are characterized in that impression of impact printing forces against the window web and applied therethrough to the underlying coated sheet produces impact-pattern-correlated visual imprints on the envelope-housed sheet, the imprints being clearly viewable through the transparent web of the envelope window.

Abstract: There is described a nocking point assembly in which two differing plastics compositions are used in nocking point components. A softer, elastomeric first material physically engages the bowstring to provide enhanced, non-damaging gripping, while an oversleeved, second arrow-nock-contacting component of a harder plastics composition serves to ensure wear resistance in use. Each component is in the form of a hub-like disc with an integrally-joined tubular shank, the disc and the shank being slit to obviate any need to detach the bowstring when mounting the nocking point components. A separate split or open metallic ring is crimped in place over the intersleeved shanks to secure the assembly as a unit. The slits in the plastic elements, as assembled, are preferably misaligned and are staggered with the split in the locking ring to establish and preserve a round cross-sectional configuration.

Abstract: An arrow point with a selectably-adjustable, incrementally-stepped array of weight-regulating elements. The weighting elements are demarked lineal component segments of an elongate rod or bar which is deeply grooved radially at incremental, lineally-spaced positions along its length. The rod is threaded at its forward end for coupling engagement with a threaded neck portion of the arrow point. Prior to sleevedly assembling the arrow point with the shaft of the arrow, the segmental rod is severed at a particular pre-set groove to leave a selectable number of weight segments attached. The latter remain as a secured, weight-adjusting core component of the arrow point assembly. An O-ring seated in a diminutive, outwardly-opening annular groove formed in a sector of the rod forwardly of the segmental array bears upon an enveloping inner wall of the body of the point assembly to stabilize and to lock the rod frictionally within the core of the arrow point.

Abstract: A ratchet nut runner is energized either manually or by a non-manual power source such as a battery, on-line electrical power or a pneumatic supply. A tubular body or housing, which contains speed-reducing and power-amplifying structures, serves also as the handle or hand grip for the device. A driven drive shaft which extends coaxially from the housing is connected to a head of the device through a pivot joint assembly. An important feature of the drive device is that the housing-enclosed drive shaft is pivotable from a non-manual power drive mode in which the drive shaft is coaxial with a tool-engaging stud or coupler, to a configuration in which the drive shaft extends normally of the coupler for rotation of the drive head manually. A switch which connects non-manual power to the drive shaft operates to cut off power when the device is disposed in a manual mode of operation.

Abstract: An arrow rest assembly includes a mounting plate for securement to the side window wall of an archery bow. The plate is rotatable in a plane paralleling the window wall or bow riser and is also shiftably positionable against the wall or spaced therefrom. The resulting two degrees of freedom facilitate orientational adjustment, thereby to support the assembly in a desired location and attitude. The arrow rest includes a generally horizontal arrow shaft support arm on which a generally vertical arrow-shaft-abutting leg is slidably mounted. The leg may be locked in a selectable position along the lineal expanse of the support arm. A shaft extending upwardly of the support arm at an end thereof adjacent the bow window is journaled for arcuate pivotal articulation of the arrow rest support elements in a tubular sleeve formed in the mounting plate of the assembly.

Abstract: A new-type silicon material is produced by hydrogen ion implantation and subsequent annealing, the annealing being preferably in two steps. The present invention raises surface mobility of a silicon wafer and produces a buried high-resistivity layer beneath a silicon surface layer. The resulting products are particularly useful for the improvement of yield and speed and radiation hardness of very large scale integrated circuits.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for automatically developing, maintaining and repetitively duplicating a selectable predetermined temperature profile for replicating and amplifying a sequence of a stretch of DNA or RNA through use of a polymerase. An array of sample-containing vessels is supported in a reaction chamber through which a heat transfer medium in heat-exchange relationship with the vessels. The temperature of the air is controlled as a function of time to provide a preselectable sequence defining a temperature profile. The profile is cyclically repetitively reproduced to effect amplification of the desired sequence of DNA or RNA.

Abstract: A self-standing game assembly for indoor and outdoor use and having a standard including a bounce-back base supporting a height adjustable post. A post-mounted backboard projects upwardly from the post and a stress-responsive safety hoop or ring, pivotally secured at a base of the backboard, carries a hanging, tubular basket. The backboard is imprinted with indicia designating reference impact areas for use during the playing of various games involving a thrown ball directed toward the backboard. The base of the assembly is generally wedge-shaped, and is contoured to present to a ball dropped through the basket a pitched or angled impact face which serves to direct a ball which has fallen through the hoop, and which has then impinged on the pedestal to return toward a player positioned in front of and facing the backboard.

Abstract: A two-component shelf-like or tray assembly of two end-joined interlocking panels each fabricated of molded plastics compositions. Abutting, inter-joinable end walls of the panels are of reciprocal structural configurations, making it possible to use a single mold in fabricating the panels themselves. The panels are pivotally interengageable and manually manipulable to lock and to assume a continuous, lineally extended, expanse constituting a stable, composite, unitary structure having a generally flat or planar support surface. Integrally formed auxiliary structures permit arrangement of a plurality of panel assemblies as a tiered, vertical array. Panels either of the same or of dissimilar longitudinal dimensions may be combined to provide shelves of selectable overall length.

Abstract: A connector for coupling an endoscope to a video camera to facilitate an enhanced viewing of endoscope-invaded examination and surgical zones on a video monitor screen, to which the camera perceived image is transmitted. The coupler combines three axially-aligned and rigidly joined component elements including a first adapter for quickly and easily connecting and disconnecting an endoscope, and a second adapter for connection to a video camera. A joinder element is interposed between and connects the two adapters to one another. The three components of the coupling apparatus are fixed against rotation relative to one another, while the first adapter permits rotation of the endoscope with respect to the coupling apparatus and the attached camera. Fluid-tight seals are provided between the elements of the coupling apparatus and between its adapters themselves and endoscope and camera.

Abstract: An adapter for placement between to intercouple an arrow shaft with a nock for reproducibly establishing a selectable preferred orientation between a reference vane on an arrow shaft and a bowstring-receiving slot of the arrow nock which is affixed on the arrow shaft at an end thereof. The adapter and the nock carry annular markers or a scale indicia, and the adapter and nock indicia are manually rotationally displacable with respect to one another to establish selectively and reproducibly desired annular orientational relationships between the plane of a shaft-carried reference vane and a plane defined by the bowstring slot in the arrow nock. The adapter may be tapered or otherwise adapted to accommodate nocks having diameters which are less than the size of the arrowshaft.

Abstract: An arrow rest support shaft or rod with enhanced positioning capability is described. Simple, precise and manually effected positioning of an arrow rest is achieved. A bolt or a threaded stud extending through a predrilled and tapped hole in the bow window is threaded in and locked in place by a bow-abutting lock nut. An elongate shaft projects through and is slideably positionable in an elongate bore extending coaxially through the stud. An arrow rest or a plate for supporting a rest, is attachable to an end of the shiftable shaft. An important feature of the invention comprises an improved and manually- actuable assembly for easily and reliably fixedly securing the slideable arrow-rest-carrying shaft in selectable positions, and immobile with respect to the encircling, bow-mounted stud.

Abstract: An arrow point for hunting practice and for archery target use. The point has a smooth, uniquely-contoured, enveloping wall and includes a probe-like head, a body section, and an intermediate coupler section. The head is formed with a relatively large, forwardly-projecting, tapering tip blending with and extending forwardly from a generally cylindrical, rearwardly-displaced end sector. The body section is also generally cylindrical but has a diameter exceeding that of the head. The intermediate coupler section, which is coaxial with the head and the body section, defines longitudinally-spaced, double-inflection zones including a first zone as a junction blended with the head, and a second zone at a junction blending at the body section. The structure described has a peripheral configuration facilitating penetrating entry of the arrow point into a mat-like target.