Abstract: A card game is played on a felt covered semicircular table top with player stations along its arcuate edge. Pairs of cards of a deck are dealt face up until a pair consists of two cards of unequal rank. The two cards are respectively designated a B card and a P card. Cards of the deck are thereafter dealt face up until a conclusion card is dealt that is equal in rank to either the B card or the P card. A player makes a color wager on the color of a card that is dealt face up, a HI/LO wager on the rank of the card that is dealt face up and a P/B wager on the rank of the conclusion card.

Abstract: A device and method are set forth for shuffling a stack of N cards. The stack is positioned at a cutting station where the card stack is cut into unequal portions (N/2)-A and (N/2)+A. The cards from each portion are then deposited in an interleaving fashion. The additional quantity of cards A of one of the portions is transported from proximate the center of the stack N to the top of the shuffled stack. Further cutting and interleaving randomly distributes the cards in the stack.

Abstract: A new card game is set forth where a player wagers that a hand to be assembled in the round of play will be a Blackjack, 21, 20, 19 or 18. Four playing cards are selected and exposed from which the best ranking blackjack hand is assembled. If the assembled hand matches the player's wager, wager is won. If it does not match, the wager is lost.

Abstract: A tamp assembly comprises a first elongated hollow tubular member having first and second open ends, the second end having an edge with one or more notches or scallops, and a second elongated hollow tubular member for receiving the first member and an open end for inserting the second end of the first member and a closed end for tamping the second end of said first member thereagainst.

Abstract: A bag holder comprises a scoop and a locking ring for engaging the scoop and maintaining a bag in position on the scoop. The scoop is a hollow device with a mouth and a base. A channel extends inwardly from the mouth of the scoop towards the base. In use, a bag is retained in an open position between the ring and the base of the scoop, and a user funnels debris into the mouth, through the scoop, and into the bag.

Abstract: A system is set forth for cooling the circulating oil of an air cooled motorcycle engine having an oil pump and a mount for an oil filter, oil from the pump delivered to the filter and from the filter back to the engine for re-circulation. The system includes an engine guard secured to the motorcycle, at least a portion of the guard defining a closed chamber having a supply end and a return end. A diverter disposed between the filter and mount is adapted to direct oil to the chamber supply end, through the chamber for cooling thereof and, from the return end back to the diverter for supply to the filter and return to the engine. An adapter is disposed between the diverter and filter for certain model engines to turn the mount, diverter filter assembly so that the system can be provided for these engines.

Abstract: A personal watercraft mooring system is set forth which includes a vessel, such as a pontoon boat, houseboat or deck boat and a mooring at the vessel's stern adapted to berth at least one personal watercraft. According to one embodiment, the mooring can also be displaced to reduce drag imposed by it on the system. In another embodiment, the mooring can be raised from the water to stow the watercraft.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming multiple cavities in the tissue of a patient into which hair transplant grafts are placed is disclosed. In one form, the apparatus is a cartridge comprising a housing, a guide, and a depressor. The guide comprises a plurality of dilator accepting passages located in the housing or in a template in the housing. The depressor is a plate or actuated plunger located at a first end of the dilators which, when depressed, forces the dilators from the guide into tissue of a patient. In a second form, the apparatus comprises mating male and female templates. The male template includes a number of downwardly extending spikes for engagement with a number of downwardly extending hollow guides on the female template. The spikes of the engaging male and female templates are pressed into the tissue and the male template is removed, leaving cavities formed by the hollow guides of the female template, into which hair grafts are located.

Abstract: A casino table game played by a dealer and one or more players seated at player stations at a table. After a player places an ante wager, the dealer depresses a dealer spin button on a control panel to cause one of a plurality of indicium on respective arc segments of each of two dealer reels of a slot machine to randomly appear on a payline of the machine. Thereafter, the player may place a combination bet on a prospective appearance of any of a plurality of combinations of indicia on the payline. Additionally, the player may make a proposition bet on a prospective appearance of a predetermined combination of indicia on the payline. After the dealer operates a player enable button on the control panel, the player operates a player spin button at the player's player station to cause one of a plurality of indicium on respective arc segments of the player reel to randomly appear on the payline.

Abstract: In a first embodiment, a columnated light beam is transmitted to a lens aperture of continuously variable size. The lens aperture is coupled to the tremolo arm of a solid body electric guitar. Light from the lens aperture is focussed upon a photosensitive surface of a photo-transistor. The photo-transistor provides a tremolo voltage that is an analog of the position of the tremolo arm. In a second embodiment, a potentiometer has its shaft coupled to the tremolo arm. The wiper arm of the potentiometer provides the tremolo voltage.

Abstract: A card game is disclosed. Each player places a first bet. A dealer deals himself four cards, three cards are dealt face-down and his last card is dealt face-up, the dealer then deals each player three cards face-down. Each player may then elect to stay or replace one of his three cards. Each player may then elect to stay or replace a card again. If the player elects to replace a card, he must place a second bet. Each player's hand is then compared to the best three-card hand of the dealer, with the party having the highest hand as determined from a pre-set schedule of hands declared the winner. In a variation of the game, the player wins a jackpot amount if he places a jackpot bet along with the first bet and is dealt a predetermined winning hand in his first three cards.

Abstract: A baseball is connected by a rope to a swivel at a top end of a pole that has its bottom end anchored to the ground.

Abstract: A nestable and stackable storage unit including a lid and container is disclosed. The container comprises a base having an upwardly extending wall. The lid is a substantially planar member having top and bottom surfaces and peripheral edge. The lid can be connected to the top of container by pressing a rim located on the wall into a first groove located on the bottom surface of the lid. The lid can be connected to the bottom of the container by pressing a lip located on the base of the container into a second groove located on the bottom surface of the lid. The units can be stored by locating each lid on the base of the container, and nesting the units within one another. Each lid includes a ridge and recess on its top surface for allowing stacking of the same or different size containers upon one another.

Abstract: An improved game of Pai Gow Poker is disclosed in which a player is permitted to make a jackpot wager along with the first bet, with the player winning the jackpot wager when he is dealt a predetermined seven card jackpot holding.

Abstract: A push in a game of Pai Gow Poker is eliminated by determining whether or not corresponding predetermined entities in a banker's holding and a player's holding have numerical values that are either both odd or both even.

Abstract: This invention consists of a flexible vinyl chess mat having two handles on opposite sides, both disposed in opposing positions to each other and centered on the perimeter of the square shaped chess mat, so that when the chess mat is folded in half, both handles line up with each other, making a doubled carrying handle. On one side of the chess mat a typical chess board is printed on the rubberized vinyl side. On the reverse side of the chess mat, when turned over, to expose the cloth backing side, a fastening means is positioned around the perimeter of the chess mat, and permanently attached, creating, when folded in half and fastened, an inside pocket area in which chess pieces and accessories may be carried and stored. The chess mat, when unfastened and emptied, and laid flat on a flat surface, is ready for chess play. The same mat can then be converted into a carrying case for convenient transportation and storage of chess pieces and accessories.