Abstract: An air supported enclosure for the protection of a vehicle from the harmful effects of the outdoor environment comprising a flexible sheeting totally surrounding but not touching the vehicle. Access into the enclosure is gained by a slide fastener which extends around three sides of the enclosure. The enclosure is ventilated to minimize temperature differentials between its interior and its exterior therefore also minimizing the formation of condensation in its interior.

Abstract: A puppet includes a body, a head disposed above the body and a flexible spine for connecting the back of the head to the back of the body. A cable assembly is used for actuating the head in vertical and horizontal motion. The cable includes a sheath and a flexible yet stiff cable within the sheath. The sheath is fixedly embedded in the torso of the body. The cable passes through the sheath, out the top of the body and is secured fixedly to the underside of the head in an area corresponding to the neck of the puppet. The cable extends out from a distal end of the sheath.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device in a chair, especially an adjustable chair (1aa) having an articulation means (7) between a seat member (3) a back rest member (8a), so as to allow an alteration of the angular position therebetween, the alteration taking place by a pivoting said back rest member (8a) around a pivoting point (8) whilst said seat member (3) is displaced along a predetermined sliding path. The invention is characterized in that the device comprises one or more curved sliding means (1), the radius of curvature (R) of said sliding means (1) or the center (4) thereof being arranged in accordance with given functional properties of said chair (1aa), which in turn means that for example an increase of the tangential angle (.alpha.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for drilling and shaping tile at a worksite has a base assembly with a support arm extending upright therefrom. A horizontal housing, rotatably connected at one end to the support arm, houses a slide assembly which supports a router; the slide assembly including a set of wheels for rolling and guiding the router radially in relation to the support arm. An adjustable annular collar about the support arm fixes the height of the horizontal housing and the associated router with respect to the support arm. Further adjustment of the height of the router in relation to the base assembly is accomplished by using a turnbuckle assembly which lowers the support arm into and withdraws it from the base assembly. A work tray supported on the base assembly has markings to position and guide the tile with respect to cutting tools rotatably fixed to the router for drilling holes in and linearly and arcuately shaping the tile. The cutting tools are cooled and lubricated by a liquid recirculating system.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a strap for wearing the apparatus on the wearer's wrist. A three-axis attitude sensor senses when the wrist in a position which places the hand near the wearer's mouth. An alarm is actuated by the three-axis sensor and warns the wearer that his hand is near his mouth. The apparatus is particularly suited for use with a calorie counter for counting calories consumed by the wearer during a given time period.

Abstract: A plant growing receptacle including a frame of rigid self supporting material, having an open top and closed bottom, a custom shaped liner having open top and sealed bottom that is inside and closely fitting to the frame, and plant growing medium in the liner occupying a substantial portion of its volume. Framing openings in the front face of the frame. Holes in the liner at a number of the framing openings. A vertically oriented tube in the growing media, sealed at the bottom end, open at the top end, and having openings along its length, larger toward its top than toward its bottom, for delivering water to the growing medium. Slats in the frame for rigidity and for defining the framing openings. Means for hanging the liner in the frame.

Abstract: In a method for coating strip material by means of an electron beam line evaporator, deflecting in a time-invariant program the electron beam to a plurality of dwell points arranged along a path normal to the direction of strip travel, sensing film thickness in a time-variant programmed mode at a plurality of positions arranged along a course normal to said direction of strip travel and subsequent to said path in said direction of strip travel, controlling in accordance with said programmed mode the dwell of said electron beam at selected dwell points to provide uniform film thickness distribution on said strip.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a person in the martial arts. In the apparatus a display screen has four block-regions. Each block-region has means for rapidly and prominently displaying the word "block". Each region corresponds to a zone on the person's body. An attack-region has means for rapidly and prominently displaying the word "attack". The apparatus has means for displaying each region, one at a time, in a variety of sequences.In practicing the method, the person observes the apparatus which displays a randomly selected sequence of instructions. Each instruction is either to block one of four zones or to attack. The person responds to each instruction in turn, either by blocking his corresponding zone or by making an attack move.

Abstract: A sail comprises a number of pluralities of radial panels. Each panel comprises a pair of lengthwise parallel edges. Each of the pluralities is oriented to radiate from a corner of the sail. The panels of each plurality are oriented and angled to each other to converge near the corners, to overlap more of each other near the corners, to diverge away from the corners and to overlap less of each other away from the corners.

Abstract: A generally egg-shaped eyedrop dispenser, with a nozzle provided on top of a squeezable hollow body. On top of the hollow body about the nozzle is a bumper having a smooth, generally dome-shaped, top surface substantially surrounding the nozzle. Both the body and bumper having a generally round shape when viewed from the top. The bumper reduces the consumer's fear of inadvertently jabbing his eye with the nozzle while applying eyedrops to his eye from the inverted dispenser. The bumper also makes it easier to apply eyedrops by allowing the consumer to rest the bumper on the bridge of his nose or on his brow while dispensing the eyedrops.

Abstract: A disposable container in which samples can be routinely prepared for analysis. The container has a generally cylindrical magazine containing a plurality of open top sample preparation chambers, each of which is provided with an inlet/outlet port at the bottom, thereof; and a distributor valve beneath the magazine. Channels are provided in the top of the valve, extending between openings in the top of the valve, so that each channel provides fluid flow communication between the ports of the chambers located above the openings in the channel. The valve and magazine can be rotated relative to one another about the central axis of the magazine, so that the openings in the channels can be located beneath the ports of different combinations of chambers to provide fluid flow communication between different chambers.

Abstract: Gaming apparatus for a table hockey-type game in which a puck is projected across a playing field by a squeeze apparatus which may be operated by the fingers of one hand. A plurality of goals may serve either as goals or barriers according to the requirements of different variations of the game. The playing field comprises a flat surface bounded by walls at the corners of which the goals are located. The squeeze apparatus comprises a pair of arms each connected to the other by a curved spring which biases the arms towards an acute angle to each other. The squeeze apparatus is also used for goal tending.

Abstract: Apparatus for checking the weight of filled containers delivered from a supply conveyor traveling at a predetermined speed and for delivering the weighed pieces to a pick-up conveyor; in which at least one weighing unit provides a guide for receiving a container from the conveyor and for guiding the same to a weigh station at diminishing speeds from the conveyor to the weigh station and a rotatable plow for removing the piece from the weigh station; from a stopped position adjacent the piece at the station at increasing speeds to the pick-up conveyor. The weigh station is disposed intermediate the conveyors and where two units are used, the weigh stations may be positioned along a straight line.

Abstract: Electrical monitoring circuitry simultaneously and continuously tests a three-wire ground-type AC outlet for proper line voltage, polarity of the wiring and external ground resistance. The circuitry includes a single indicating lamp, preferably a light-emitting diode, which illuminates only when the proper conditions tested for exist at the outlet. For optimum convenience, the circuitry is incorporated in a male/female outlet adaptor which, in use, is plugged into the wall outlet to be tested, thereby to establish via the phase, neutral and ground prongs of the adaptor the necessary test connections of the circuitry to the wall outlet. The adaptor includes one or more jack receptacles internally connected to the adaptor ground prong for receiving static charges from external equipment and draining same to the building ground when the light-emitting diode illuminates.

Abstract: A cosmetic package has matching shallow trays of cosmetics individually coupled closely one above the other to an upstanding cylindrical post for relative rotation of the trays about the post axis in planes normal to the axis. A rectangular solid block forms a stable base that provides support for the post and for a cosmetic applicator receptable alongside which the trays are disposed when they have an aligned mutually stacked relation overlying the base. The base also supports a removable cover enclosing the tray stack, the post and the receptacle with applicators. The tray coupling to the post permits removal of any selected tray from the package for replacement or replenishment merely by displacing the tray a given angular distance from its aligned mutually stacked relation overlying the base. Such coupling is by way of a partially cylindrical cut-out in the rim of the tray, the cut-out being open along the height of the outer edge of the rim to permit lateral ingress and egress of the post.

Abstract: A closure (10) for a bag (not shown), such as a plastic bag for freezing shaped lumps of ice for cooling drinks, consists of a channel member (14) adapted to receive an insertion member (16). Before the insertion member (16) is pressed into the channel member (14), the end of the bag (not shown) is inserted between the two, being closed in a fluid-tight manner when the two members, in the example shown interconnected by a hinge (27), are pressed together.The closure makes it possible to close bags for freezing ice lumps in a fluid-tight manner, allowing the bags to lie down in a deep-freeze cabinet without leaking and also making it easier to open the bags than when these are closed by means of knots of the like.

Abstract: A storable water curtain sanding aid system for use with a work surface undergoing sanding, which includes filter for separating water from particulate matter, and a tray that is easy to deploy under the work surface and one of which the unused portion can be stored during the sanding operation. Spigots in a support frame for attaching to a vehicle, supply water to the work surface. The water is caught in the tray and delivered, with particulate matter from the work surface, by a pump to the filter, and water again from the filter to the spigots. The tray includes a plurality of frames along its length which contriubute to its stability and form, and aid in folding during storage. An erection pivot mounted on the frame biases the frame to an upright position when it is drawn from storage. In a preferred embodiment it is fastened to the tray bottom and biases vertical frame sections by way of a bottom frame section.

Abstract: Porous desiccant material, such as silica gel, activated alumina, molecular sieves or mixtures thereof, is efficiently regenerated for reuse as a drying agent by irradiating a bed of the desiccant material with microwave energy preferably having a frequency of from 2400 MHz to 2500 MHz or from 900 to 915 MHz to heat and substantially affect only moisture adsorbed by the material and to vaporize the moisture in consequence of the heating of the moisture, the vaporized moisture being purged out of the bed with a forced draft of scavenging air while the bed undergoes irradiation by the microwave energy, and the resulting mixture of scavenging air and vapor being disposed of by discharging the mixture to an effluent receiving region isolated from the bed.