Abstract: A portable exercise device including a support structure and a pair of opposing handrails pivotably connected to the support structure. The handrails are movable between a storage position and a use position. A platform is selectively positionable on the handrails for adjusting a vertical position of the platform relative to the handrails.

Abstract: The method of applying constraints across a generally extensible and configurable resource delivery system as a basis for identifying or calculating the relative impacts of each constraint on resource delivery to various points and, through the use of constraint release mechanisms, developing prescriptive courses of action to optimize and increase the certainty of delivery of the resource, or in the reverse sense, restrict delivery of the resource. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method for characterizing the availability and potential use of water resources alongside associated impacts in order to identify and time the various policy decisions and investments needed to ensure access to water supplies over time given multiple stakeholders and uncertain, variable supplies and demands where such embodiment provides additional methods generally applicable across the full scope of embodiments of the invention.

Abstract: An improved sole contour for a wedge golf club head is provided comprised of one or more V-shaped cuts (16) into the sole of said club head creating multiple bounce sole contours (26) for sand play, while eliminating the dangerously raised leading edge (28) that limits the utility for play of conventional sand wedge golf clubs. Said V-shaped cuts (16) are made substantially parallel to the grooves of the club face (12), and the more forward surface (24) created by any V-shaped cut (16) is substantially parallel to the impact surface (12) of the club head, while the rearward surface (26) is employed to provide whatever bounce surfaces (14), shapes, and angles (b) that are desired for play.

Abstract: Improved Fasteners of the Slidingly Engagable type are provided in uni-directional and multi-directional orientations, in single and double-sided configurations, and in a range of designs which also include provisions for attaching certain embodiments of such fasteners to a substrate material. A method of economically producing such fasteners and products incorporating such fasteners in diverse materials is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for creating, using and modifying multifunctional website hot spots including software that identifies, programs and activates hot spots with a plurality of functions wherein the functions include a shopping mode for selecting and purchasing items on a website or in a video, a digital call mode for facilitating videoconferencing and telephone calls over a globally accessible network, a digital storage area for selecting, retrieving and playing selected digital media files, a bid mode that facilitates audio and video communication during multi-task communication interface for conducting an auction and/or accepting bids, an interact mode for communicating a user with a live streamed digital media file, a link mode for directly linking to pre-identified URL addresses and an entertain mode for retrieving and activating digital media files, wherein the functions are selected based on user inputs or predetermined parameters and are activated by clicking a predetermined hot spot.

Abstract: A method employing a photolithography mask for producing microtextured antireflective surfaces is disclosed. The photolithography mask is used during the exposure of photoresist to a pattern of ultraviolet light. The exposed photoresist is subsequently processed to obtain a microtextured surface possessing antireflective properties. The antireflective surface profile comprises an array of sub-micron protuberances that may reside in a periodic arrangement, a quasiperiodic arrangement, or in an arbitrary non-periodic arrangement. The antireflective surface is designed for visible light. It may be scaled-up to large areas, and is suitable for replication into inexpensive polymer materials.

Abstract: The present invention is a safety device used in an infant crib or playpen to protect its occupant from the individual hard (typically) wood vertical support posts (i.e., slats). A padded cushion is fastened around the entire crib slat, and has a solid, vertical support piece which is used to stabilize the pad in an upright, fixed position at all times. The safety support piece (i.e. stabilizing object) prevents an infant or toddler from pushing down on the pad and using it as a step to climb out of the crib.

Abstract: The invention is a round, flexible, hollow tubular insert to be affixed in a central position within pressurized sprinkler pipes, water pipes and water mains. The insert will be employed to prevent sprinkler pipe, water pipe and water main ruptures due to the water within the sprinkler pipe, water pipe or water main freezing. The insert is constructed of a thin-walled, flexible material that is capable of being deformed (e.g. compressed), thereby absorbing the expansion pressures exerted by the water in a frozen state (i.e., ice). The insert is constructed with guides to maintain a position in the center of sprinkler pipes, water pipes and water mains to absorb the radial freezing of water. By such absorption, the outer sprinkler pipe, water pipe or water main itself will not be over-pressurized, thereby avoiding the possibility of a rupture. Upon the thawing of the frozen water, the flexible, hollow, tubular insert will return to its original shape.

Abstract: Color is used to divide a towel (8) into sections. A larger section (10) lay adjacent to a smaller section (12). The larger section (10) is designated to remove perspiration from the user's face/body while the smaller section (12) is designated for the user to remove perspiration from fitness machines. Furthermore, an arrangement to retain small, personal belongings may be provided by either a retaining device (14), or a storage pocket (22).

Abstract: A bookmark, which by shape and proportion clenches a sheaf of pages of a book, and which is easily resettable, using a sliding motion, during a reading session. The invention is a rigid-planar tool comprising a stabilizer(1), a market (2) and a connector(3). The bookmark is placed on the left side of an open book so that if the reader is at page 100, the stabilizer(1) is placed at page 90 and the marker (2) is placed at page 100. When the reader turns the page, she slides the bookmark so that the marker(2) clears the page margin while the stabilizer (1) remains within the page margins at page 90. The reader then reverses her motion to clench the newly turned page between the marker and the stabilizer. The bookmark is reset and clenching the sheaf of pages 91 to 102.

Abstract: Burial capsule with an internal inert gas atmosphere for use to contain the human corpse, or other valuable items, and to protect such items from decay and/or decomposition for an infinite period of time. The burial capsule comprises a one (1) piece elongated, cylindrically shaped enclosure, accomplished by chemically welding two (2) identically configured, homogeneous plastic parts together along a common interfacing surface area. The enclosure contains a single, minute aperture at each opposing end, into which a compatible plastic material female reducer means is chemically welded. A plastic hose adapter is temporarily installed into each reducer; a remote vacuum pump is attached to one (1) adapter, and a remote inert gas means is temporarily attached to the other adapter. The simultaneous activation of the pump and gas means effectively evacuates essentially all of the contaminated gases, and injects an oxygen free, inert gas, environment directly into the confines of the burial capsule.