Abstract: A doll having a cloth body stuffed with pellets coated with fragrant oil has external features emulating the appearance of an aged person. These features include folds, emulating wrinkled skin, in a flexible covering extending over the head and face of the doll. The flexible covering is gathered into folds and stretched for attachment to a torso portion of the body at a narrowed neck, and folds also extend from lip and nose features of the doll face.

Abstract: A keyboard for a small, portable computing device includes a pair of mating sections that can be folded together after they are pulled apart. The sections are releasably held together by a spring and by a sliding attachment structure that holds them in alignment. When the sections are pulled away from one another to release the sliding attachment structure, they are held together by a pivoting sliding attachment structure that allows folding.

Abstract: A computing system includes a pivoting mounting structure for mounting one or more electronic devices. The mounting structure is itself mounted to pivot between an operating position, within the computing system, and a service position, with the pivoting mounting structure extending outside the computing system for the installation or removal of electronic devices. A releasable latch prevents movement of the mounting structure from its service position.

Abstract: The display of a notebook computer includes a privacy filter extending over the display screen to limit the viewing angle within which the image on the screen can be discerned. To allow for normal viewing when the privacy feature is not required, the privacy filter is movable from the screen by sliding into a cavity extending from one side of the screen to be rolled onto a roller or to be stored partly behind the screen. Alternately, a privacy filter is provided that is electrically switchable between a mode in which the viewing angle is limited and a mode in which normal viewing is permitted. The movable privacy filter includes closely spaced louvers surrounded by clear plastic or, alternately, a polarizer. The switchable privacy filter includes a liquid crystal device and a polarizer.

Abstract: A circuit card includes a key receptacle and at least one movable braking member, holding the circuit card in place within a card receptacle of an electronic device when a key is not fully inserted within the key receptacle. When the key is so inserted, the circuit card can be easily removed. Preferably, the key includes a releasable latch holding the key within the key receptacle.

Abstract: The individual keys in a set of keys are configured to fit together in a compact arrangement, with the heads of the keys being in alignment with one another in one direction and stacked against one another in another direction, and with the shanks extending essentially in alignment with one another but spaced apart along the heads. A set of keys may be formed using two outer key configurations or by using the two outer key configurations, together with a central key configuration. One or more of such sets of keys may be stored in a holder including pockets for their storage.

Abstract: A curbside mailbox wherein the outgoing mail compartment is located under the incoming mail compartment behind a single carrier service door. The incoming mail, when inserted, drops behind the outgoing mail compartment and falls into a deep mail storage area, to be retrieved by the owner through a locking rear access door. The rear access door retains a mechanical key lock and acts like a hasp fitting over a flange that is built into a upper rear wall. This feature allows the owner to double lock for added security or single lock placing a combination lock on the flange if the owner desires not to carry a key or give access to key for someone authorized to remove mail. The locking mailbox further includes a channel on top for a highly visible address display, a mounting channel on lower front to allow for quick and easy engagement, and a post cover assembly for safe and attractive installation.

Abstract: A bottle used to dispense a fluid for cleaning a toilet bowl is configured to provide for refilling the bottle. Such a bottle includes a reservoir, a metering portion, and a cover, which is removable to expose an opening within the reservoir for refilling. The cover may include the metering portion, or it may be formed as a cap at an end of the reservoir opposite the metering portion.

Abstract: A device for determining whether a rotating stream of water from a sprinkler has been successfully jumped by a person at a player position includes a first sensor generating an first signal as the stream of water passes a first location and a second sensor generating a second signal as the stream of water passes a second location, which is aligned with the player position. The device determines whether the second signal follows the first, indicating whether the stream of water has been blocked by the person, having failed to jump. The device then provides an audible of visible indication as a result of this determination. The device may also display a count of successful jumps.

Abstract: A decorative relief pattern is applied to one or both sides of thermoplastic slat material by rolling an embossing roller in contact with the side(s) to receive the pattern. The embossing roller has an inverse relief pattern which is an inverse of the relief pattern applied to the slat material. A transfer roller applies an ink layer to the embossing roller, with the resulting thickness of the ink layer varying according to features of the inverse relief pattern. Depressed areas of the inverse relief pattern receive relatively little ink. An air stream from an air knife is applied to the ink layer, with ink being preferentially cleaned from relatively smooth areas of the inverse relief pattern. Then, a portion of the ink remaining on the embossing roller is transferred to the slat material along with the formation of the embossed pattern in the slat material.

Abstract: The central elongated portion of a valance is mounted to an external surface, such as a headrail of a vertical blind assembly or a vertical wall, by a number of brackets, with the valance being attached to each bracket at a pivot point formed by a bracket tab extending into a first slot of the valance and at a latching point formed by one of a number of teeth of the bracket extending into a second slot of the valance. At each bracket, the valance can be straightened by adjusting a distance to the external surface and by adjusting a rotational angle of the bracket about the longitudinal axis of the central elongated portion of the valance.

Abstract: A valance includes central and end members formed from a single piece of extruded stock, with the central member having mitered corners at each end, and with each end member having a mitered end and a square end. The extruded stock has an inner surface including upper and lower attachment slots and an outer surface including upper and lower trim strip receiving slots. An “L”-shaped corner bracket connects each end member with the central member, extending within the upper and lower attachment slots. A decorative trim strip having heat-formed corners extends within the trim strip receiving slots of the end members and the central member. After the extruded stock is cut to a predetermined length, end sections are cut using a saw, with each end of the stock placed against a first stop within a mitering fixture.

Abstract: A computing system includes a security register, in which a flag bit is set whenever a clock pulse and scan code are transmitted from the microcontroller in the system keyboard. The presence of this flag bit indicates that an associated code, which is stored in an output buffer of the keyboard/auxiliary device controller of the system has been sent by the keyboard, as a result of a keystroke, instead of by a program executing within the CPU of the system. The security register is read and reset as the associated code is read from the output buffer. An application program can use the data from the security register to determine if data has come from the surreptitious entry of data through keystroke emulation.

Abstract: An adapter bracket is configured for mounting a relatively small electronic device, such as a 3½-inch drive device in a bay within a frame structure configured for mounting a relatively large electronic device, such as a 5¼-inch drive device. The relatively small electronic device is mounted either by means of screws extending upward through the bracket into holes within the lower surface of the small drive device, or by means of screws extending through elastomeric grommets, mounted within the adapter bracket, into holes within the sides of the small drive device. The adapter bracket also includes sidewalls that are mounted within the bay in the manner of a standard version of the relatively large electronic device.

Abstract: A plug for stopping the flow of bone cement in a bone channel, such as the intramedullary bone canal, or a previously prepared channel, includes an actuator and a number of flexible beams extending around the bone plug. The actuator is removably attached to a rod within an insertion tool used to deploy the bone plug at a predetermined location within the channel. Within the tool, the rod is pulled to move the actuator into a position applying a compressive force to act between the ends of each of the flexible beams. This compressive force causes each beam to buckle outward, into contact with the channel. The rod is then released from the actuator, and the tool is withrawn from the channel so that bone cement can be applied to hold a prosthesis in place within the channel in a proximal direction from the bone plug.

Abstract: A fixture is configured to provide external fixation of a fractured distal radius by including a first number of holes for pins extending downward from the fixture into one or more bone fragments and a second number of holes for pins extending downward from the fixture into the shank of the radius. The fixture also includes a sliding block through which rods extend to hold pins directed laterally into the fragment(s). A sliding plate including a number of holes aligned with the first number of holes is moved by a pair of setscrews to clamp the pins extending through the first number of holes. The second number of holes includes a hole within a sliding structure allowing a single pin to be moved with a fixture to provide extension between the fragments and the shank of the radius.

Abstract: A computing system includes a pivoting mounting structure for mounting one or more electronic devices. The mounting structure is itself mounted to pivot between an operating position, within the computing system, and a service position, with the pivoting mounting structure extending outside the computing system for the installation or removal of electronic devices. A support member, mounted to pivot on the mounting structure, is manually moved between an extended position, in which the frame of the computing system is contacted to prevent movement of the mounting structure away from the service position past the operating position, and a retracted position, in which the mounting structure can be moved between the operating and service positions without contact between the support member and an adjacent structure.