Abstract: A sanitizing system for sanitizing currency bills at a retailer has a sanitizing apparatus that has an inlet for the insertion therethrough currency bills by a customer, the sanitizing apparatus including a reader for reading the currency bills to establish the total monetary value thereof, and for issuing a receipt to the customer reflecting the total monetary value. A reader located adjacent a cash register at the retailer reads the receipt and accepts the total monetary value as cash tender for merchandize being purchased. A counterfeit detector tests the currency bills and rejects currency bills that do not meet predetermined genuine criteria.

Abstract: A sanitizing apparatus for sanitizing sheets, typically currency bills, has a housing defining a sanitizing chamber with an inlet and an outlet for the ingress and egress, respectively, of the currency bills. An intake conveyor conveys the currency bills into the sanitizing chamber into the sanitizing chamber and an outlet conveyor is arranged in the sanitizing chamber along a conveying direction and spaced away from the intake conveyor across a gap therebetween. An upper ultra-violet (UV) lamp is located above the gap and a lower UV light is arranged below the gap. An electrical system causes the upper UV lamp and the lower UV lamp to direct UV light onto an upper surface and a lower surface of the currency bills they are conveyed into the sanitizing chamber and travel across the gap, the UV light being selected to have an intensity to sanitize the currency bills as they pass through the sanitizing apparatus.

Abstract: A stacked marker is formed by stacking individual stackable markers where each stackable marker is a fully functional marker and each stackable marker can be selected for use and then reassembled to store the restackable marker. Each stackable marker is originally assembled as an otherwise ordinary marker, but with a temporary utility cap, which, upon being inserted into a rear receptacle in another marker, is left therein to form the permanent cap for other markers. When fully assembled, the stacked marker becomes a multi-unit final assembly that affords one the use of a plurality of different types of markers that are snapped together during non-use and taken apart to select individual markers during use.

Abstract: An ink composition or system for writing instruments constructed with a polyester fiber reservoir and a porous oriented fiber nib. This ink system will write on both black and white surfaces. On black surfaces, it will reveal itself as being opaque and metallic almost iridescent in appearance. On white surfaces, a tint of color is observed with distinct flecks of silver. The ink system is composted of water as a carrier, a permanent water-based binder, a colored pigmented permanent water-based dispersion of sub-micron particle size, a unique aluminum dispersion of specific particle size in a special carrier, a humectant, a surfactant that lowers surface tension, an anti-settling additive, a preservative and a base acting as a pH adjuster.

Abstract: An ink composition or system for writing instruments constructed with a polyester fiber reservoir and a porous oriented fiber nib. This ink system will write on both black and white surfaces. On black surfaces, it will reveal itself as being opaque and metallic almost iridescent in appearance. On white surfaces, a tint of color is observed with distinct flecks of silver. The ink system is composted of water as a carrier, a permanent water-based binder, a colored pigmented permanent water-based dispersion of sub-micron particle size, a unique aluminum dispersion of specific particle size in a special carrier, a humectant, a surfactant that lowers surface tension, an anti-settling additive, a preservative and a base acting as a pH adjuster.

Abstract: A barrel shaped holder defines a fluid reservoir and is provided with an applicator at its front and a plug at its rear end. A valve independent of the applicator is interposed between the reservoir and the applicator, and is arranged to be in normally closed condition and opened by an actuator which extends through the reservoir in abutment with both the valve and the plug. The plug is flexible and resiient so that manipulation of the plug operates the actuating rod and the valve.