Abstract: Apparatus for producing a continuous animated display of one or more images within a single display frame space utilizing sequenced illumination patterns or arrays of groups of optical fibers for illuminating each of a plurality of sub-frame images in a pre-programmed, timed sequence to achieve one or more animation techniques imparting continuous animated motion to the one or more images for producing the desired animated motion on a planar surface.

Abstract: A fishing lure storage and display apparatus is provided which features transparent storage receptacles releasably suspended from a hanging rod allowing the lures to be easily viewed and readily accessed. The storage receptacles retain the lure in isolation from the outer environment thus sustaining the shape, color and scent of the lure and protecting it from crushing damage or entanglement. The receptacles can take on a variety of forms such as a flexible polypropylene pouch or a tubular member constructed from a semi-rigid plastic.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting cuttings, filings, and other particles by attaching a portable receptacle along an interior wall of a metal cabinet or container utilizing an array of magnets for temporary attachment to catch and retain the particles in a flexible receptacle or on a magnetic liner or a low density fabric.

Abstract: A well water level sensing apparatus using a pressurized air column in contact with the water at its distal end to derive a correlated value dependent upon the length of the air column which is converted for retrieving stored water levels from memory and displaying the retrieved water levels on a visual display. The water level sensing apparatus may be manually initiated or programmatically controlled for continual monitoring.

Abstract: A portable hand-held apparatus for inserting one or more optical fibers into one or more insertion points in a flexible or semi-rigid panel having a uniform planar surface, positioning and adhering the fibers at the insertion points, playing out a pre-selected length of fiber and cutting the fibers at the selected length for collection in groups or bundles for attachment to one or more illumination devices.

Abstract: A ballistic projectile velocity measurement apparatus including two screens spaced apart at a known fixed distance for providing time measurement start and stop signals indicative of the passage of a ballistic projectile through a light curtain formed by contiguous focused light beams from plural infrared light sources which causes a perturbation or fluctuation in the light intensity level received by one or more photo-optic sensors to calculate the speed or velocity of the ballistic projectile. A calculation and display unit for receiving the time measurement signals, calculating the speed or velocity of the ballistic projectile and storing and displaying the sensed and calculated information is connected to the screens and controlled by keyboard command.

Abstract: A disposable pathogen barrier of a material which is highly elastic and stretchable, yet tear-resistant, and capable of being placed in proximate contact and covering an entirety of a variety of elongated, tubular-shaped intra-oral medical or dental tools or implements which emit lightwaves in pre-determined ranges without distorting, interrupting or shifting the wavelength of the emitted light, or the receiving of reflected light, by the use of, in a first embodiment, an optically transmissive end and, in a second embodiment, an optically clear film to provide the required range of transmissivity of light.

Abstract: The present invention is an interior illumination system utilizing one or more optical fibers that have one or more sections of an outer protective coating removed in pre-determined areas and shapes along the length of the fiber. These fibers may then be arranged in groupings or designs at one or more points within the interior of the structure and secured in place via a transparent sheet that is attached to the wall of the structure. Light is then introduced from at least one end of the fibers by one or more light sources so that the area adjacent to the optical fiber groupings is illuminated. Further, the present invention also allows for the intensity of light to be adjusted by a control based upon the light effects desired and to switch the lights on and off.

Abstract: An apparatus for carrying articles on one's back having a bottom and upstanding wall for resting against the back of the user with cooperating strapping systems overlying each other and extending between the bottom and upstanding wall for retaining the articles within the confines of the straps and a transparent sheet protector for overlying the contents to protect the contents from inclement weather.

Abstract: A valve device including a cylindrically-shaped space and a displaceable piston dimensioned to fit and move between forward and rearward stop positions within the space, having a first opening connection or inlet to the hydraulic system and a second opening connection or outlet to the tightening piston in the space and an openable check valve positioned in the outlet such that the check valve allows fluid to flow only in one direction from the cylindrically-shaped space to a hydraulic tightening piston in a sawing gear for adjusting the tightness of a saw chain.

Abstract: A tethered ball toss game is described in which a number of tethered balls arranged at both ends of a series of cords and secured to the ends of the cords by knots are tossed from a prescribed distance toward a number of horizontal bars positioned between upright supports which are retained in perpendicular angularity to the underlying support surface by bottom supports. Each of the horizontal bars are relocatable in a vertical direction along the side supports to other pre-determined points for engagement with the side supports by engaging a retractable latching member into a cooperating hole so that the bar is secured in the desired position. In this fashion the distance between the bars can be altered to vary the difficulty and skill levels of the game. Alternative embodiments of the game are also contemplated where the length of the bars is varied by changing the shape of the side supports to accommodate shortened horizontal bars.

Abstract: A protective martial arts practice target pad for use in the practice of various martial arts activities in which blows and thrusts are directed at a human subject is comprised of a resilient energy-absorbing base member sized to protect the body area of the human subject at which one or more blows or thrusts are directed, support and gripping straps for stabilizing and positioning the pad over the body area of the human subject adapted to be held using the arms and hands and a pre-determined target space defined by one or more protrusions extending outward from the pad along one or more sides of the target space to provide immediate feedback by contact or lack of contact indicating either a misdirected or properly directed blow or thrust falling within the pre-determined target space. The target space may be configured as various shapes conforming to the shape of the extremity used for the blow or thrust.

Abstract: An illuminated display makes use of optical fibers and a programmable controller for varying the brightness intensities and colors emitted by color changeable LEDs through the optical fibers. The illuminated fiber optic display is carried on a planar surface and may be incorporated on an article of clothing. By using color-variable LEDs suitably connected to corresponding fiber optic bundles, eye-catching, color-changing displays can be created with fewer interconnections, fewer light sources, and fewer optical fibers.

Abstract: A multiple-panel roof system has panel edges in a shape of like plows which are interengaged with corresponding channels formed in opposing panel edges. A layer of resiliently compressible foam extends from the outer panel surface adjacent to the plow, down the sloped surface of the panel, and covers the tip of the plow. A sealant bead is placed within the channel on its lower wall. When the opposing edges of adjacent panels are fully interengaged, the portion of compressible foam at the tip of the plow and the portion of the foam on the outer panel surface are each compressed by corresponding locations on the channel to form a pair of watertight seals. In addition, the sealant bead is displaced by the plow as the plow enters the channel, until the sealant bead fills the region between the plow and the channel, thereby forming a third seal.

Abstract: An apparatus for mooring watercraft to a dock makes use of a mooring clamp with at least one rearward-pointing teeth. The tooth and other inner surfaces of the clamp define a serpentine path for engaging a mooring arm from the watercraft to a docking member attached to the edge of the dock. The docking member is mounted substantially vertically and is sized to engage the serpentine path of the clamp lying substantially in the horizontal plane, the mooring apparatus permits the craft to rise and fall vertically without subjecting the mooring clamp to undue stress. At the same time, the features of the serpentine path inhibit accidental unmooring of the craft from natural forces until manually released.

Abstract: The present invention is a channeled roller, used in association with flexible webs, which is provided with a pressurized gas flow, and which may be used to remove web wrinkles, clean webs and rollers, brake rollers, and heat, cool, moisturize, and dry webs. In operation, gas flow travels through the roller channels and applies non-contact forces to the web, thereby removing wrinkles and providing other types of beneficial web treatment.

Abstract: A web tracking and repositioning apparatus having at least one pivoting conveyor roll pivotable and rotatably supported at its center about a bearing assembly through which extends a longitudinal fixed shaft with said bearing assembly connecting to the conveyor roll positioned at its weighted center about the bearing assembly and extending outward toward fixed support members and extending through a pair of oppositely exposed guide blocks pivotally mounted to the support members whereby cooperative engagement of the pivoting conveyor roll and the guide blocks coaxially mounted at the opposite ends of the conveyor roll a web of material conveyed over the conveyor roll is steered centrally following misalignment due to uneven tension in the conveyed web of material.

Abstract: Heat transfer fluid compositions comprising (a) a terpene component, comprising at least one terpene; and (b) an alkylbenzene component, comprising at least one alkylbenzene; wherein the components are provided in an effective amount such that the 5resultant composition retains the liquid phase at temperatures in the range from about 0.degree. F. to below about -120.degree. F., preferably from about 0.degree. F. to about -175.degree. F.