Abstract: A golf glove having a base line and a plurality of yardage lines. Each of the yardage lines is spaced a predetermined distance from the base line and each yardage line is associated with a predetermined distance. The base line is alignable with a bottom portion of a golf flag and the upper end of the golf flag is alignable with one of the yardage lines wherein distance associated with the yardage line aligned with the upper end of the golf flag indicates the estimated distance between the individual and the golf flag.

Abstract: A ball bat having a bat handle, a handle end of the bat, a bat head, a center of gravity and weights on the bat handle end for offsetting the center of gravity in the direction of the handle end. The bat also may have grooves in the bat wall to lighten the bat head, and an inward projecting acorn-shaped weight at the handle end.

Abstract: An airline travel board game for use by at least two players to accumulate bonus mileage and monetary status, and a method of playing the same. The airline travel board game includes a game board (10) having a playing surface (12) provided with a plurality of interconnected spaces (18), some of the spaces bearing the names of geographical locations and some bearing directional commands. A plurality of instruction cards (70, 76, and 82) associated with certain of the spaces of the game board, in conjunction with the spaces bearing directional commands, may dictate a change in a player's position on the game board, a change in a player's monetary status and/or a change in a player's total bonus mileage. Thus, real life trials and tribulations associated with air travel are simulated during play. Preferably, the players consecutively take turns until one player has accumulated a predetermined amount of bonus mileage required to win the game.

Abstract: In an indoor-outdoor golf game layout comprising a building providing a building enclosure therein. A putting area within the building enclosure having putting cups therein for receiving golf balls. A series of golf ball hitting stalls positioned at an outer edge of one side of the building enclosure which stalls protectively isolate the golfers therein and with each of the stalls having a golf ball hitting area therein adjacent the putting area. An uncovered outdoor fairway area located outside of the building enclosure extending away from the golf ball hitting area. The fairway area is so positioned relative to the golf ball hitting area in the building enclosure that golf balls may be hit from an outer edge of the building enclosure onto the fairway area from the golf ball hitting area.

Abstract: A Multiple Play Lottery Game for use as a promotional game or casino-style game. The game may be adapted to a dispensable card or a video format; particularly, it incorporates elements of active play by the player and player determination of the level of risk engaged as well as attributes of prize control.

Abstract: A parlor game is described which combines the strategic decision-making of managing a sports team with the financial management of owning a professional sports franchise. A baseball game is played using a wheel which is spun to simulate a pitch, and a ball tossed into the wheel to simulate a hitting attempt. A legend on the wheel aligned with the location in which the ball comes to rest in the wheel is read to establish the outcome of the hitting attempt. No hitting attempt results in balls and strikes being read from the wheel as indicated by an external indicator. Different legends on the wheel correspond to different skill levels assigned to players on the teams. Currency provided with the game is used to upgrade the skill level of players, and to buy and sell concessions and media ownership rights. A player on a team may be challenged on a particular play by a player on the opposing team, the skill level of each player determining the probability of that player's success in the challenge.

Abstract: A wood golf club head equipped with steps which extend transversely on an upper surface of the head or a single large dimple of specific dimensions and location that extends over the rear portion of the upper surface of the club head.

Abstract: The shock absorping structures of a game racket handle comprise a throat portion, and a handle. The throat portion is characterized in that it has a unitary handle abutment extending therefrom. The handle is unitary body of a foam material of appropriate rigidity and elasticity. The front section of the handle encases the handle abutment and has a wall thickness being appropriately greater than that of the rear section of the handle. The rear section of the handle comprises a hollow frame of an appropriate length disposed therein. The vibrational force generated by an impact of the ball on the string is transmitted to the handle abutment, where most of the vibrational force will be absorbed effectively by the front section of the handle made of a foam material.

Abstract: A board game has two chance taking devices such as spinners, dice for generating two numbers. A first number selects the number of a question on a question card from a deck of question cards that must be answered correctly. On the board is imprinted a first, direct path of connected spaces from start to win and a second, serpentine path of connected spaces that periodically intersects the first path at common, intersecting spaces. Each player's token is moved a particular number of spaces determined by the second change taking device. Complexity is introduced by what happens when a token is on an intersecting space at the start of a turn. If the question is answered correctly, the token advances along the direct path. If answered incorrectly the token moves one space onto one or the other side of the direct path onto a loop of the second path. Which side it moves is indicated on the question card. On one side the token is advancing and on the other side it is retreating.

Abstract: A soccer game including a support board mounting a simulated soccer playing field thereon includes goal housing mounted at each end of the playing field and support rods positioned adjacent the playing field at each end thereof, with each support rod mounting a plurality of tally spheres for maintaining scoring of the game during playing thereof. Stick members are utilized to direct a playing sphere throughout the playing field to effect scoring.

Abstract: A golf club for use as a sand wedge and as a putter, in which the ball-engaging face of the club head has a rectangular central opening through which sand can pass during a stroke while the club is used as a sand wedge. Upper and lower flat ramp surfaces are dimensioned, angled and spaced so as to contact the golf ball at intermediate portions between the outer and inner edges of the ramp surfaces. The upper and lower edges of the ramp surfaces are spaced apart by a distance approximately equal to the diameter of the golf ball to be driven, so as to avoid undesirable binding or cutting of the ball.

Abstract: A golf putter is shaped and has the shaft thereof connected to the clubhead thereof so that the club has a center of percussion that extends for essentially the entire length of the clubhead. The shaft is attached to the clubhead internally of that clubhead.

Abstract: This invention relates to a game comprising a playing board (1); a dome (2) attached to the board; and cubes (3) positioned within the dome. In corresponding games known from the prior art, the cubes are unfixed and can be moved by hands, as a result of which moves against the rules are possible. In the game according to the invention, the cubes (3) can be moved and turned without touching them by hands, because the playing board (1) and the cubes (3) are provided with interlocking pegs (4) and holes (5) which enable the cubes to be turned while preventing their sideward displacement when the playing board is tilted.

Abstract: Sources of video signals representing an object (e.g. an aircraft), optionally movable, and a scene provide data stored in frame stores (b 1,5). Distance (optionally variable) from the observer of the object and near and far distances at transitions between features in the scene are stored respectively in frame store (4) and (7a, 7b). Within the boundaries of the object and in the neighborhood of the lines of transition, between features of the scene, quantities stored in object and scene stencil frame stores (3, 6) vary from 0 to 1. All frame stores are read simultaneously, driven by a microprocessor (2), the picture point scanning element sequentially. A comparator (11) compares distances, and the results of the comparison, together with the values stored in the stencil frame stores, determine the tone displayed at each element. Near features obscure distant ones, and sharp transitions are softened.

Abstract: A therapeutic wrap is disclosed herein for applying heat or cold compression to a body or limb area, which includes a single waterproof bladder, casing or envelope having coupling straps for securing the wrap to the body or limb. The bladder is provided with multiple compartments formed by heat-sealed buttons or spots in fixed spaced relationship defining a curved passageway compartmentalizing the bladder interior. A twist cap permits introduction of a heated, cooled or iced medium such as a solid or fluid into the passageway. The bladder or casing includes a fabric composed of a combination of nylon fabric coated with a vinyl thickness presenting an irregular outer surface and a smooth inner surface, and a display area is carried on the exterior surface thereof between adjacent straps. The straps are sewn to the cloth-like roughened surface and a sealing plastic strip covers the stitching for reinforcement and sealing purposes.

Abstract: A game which combines skill and chance is disclosed for one or more players. According to the game, each player chooses, beforehand, the outcomes of actual athletic contests. The athletic contests are played in the course of a playing season by existing teams belonging to existing leagues. There are weekly contests, playoff contests, and a championship contest. Each player records his own choices and successes in a bound booklet preprinted with the opposing teams for each of the weekly contests, for the playoff games, and for the championship contest. A group record is kept on a board containing the names of each of the players, and provision for manually inserting the total number of successful choices of each player for each successive week, the cumulative successful choices of each player for all of the preceding weeks of the contest season continuing through the playoffs and concluding with the championship contest.

Abstract: A heating apparatus suitable for use in medical heat treatment of an affected portion of a human body employs a cavity resonator supplied with high-frequency energy from a high-frequency power supply unit. The cavity resonator comprises a cavity formed of a conductive material and at least one inner protrusion in said cavity generating a standing wave electric field for heating a body or body part introduced into the cavity. The inner protrusion may be a separate conductor or may be formed by deforming a portion of the conductor forming the cavity. A highly concentrated standing wave electric field and a surrounding electromagnetic field are produced in the cavity resonator when it is energized from the high-frequency power supply unit. The concentrated standing wave electric field intensively heats a desired local portion of the body and deep parts of the body may be heated satisfactorily.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a novel racket frame stringing machine, which generally comprises a guiding plate having a front holding arm and a rear holding arm to fix a racket frame. A string holding mechanism is located between the front and rear holding arm for fast moving and clipping. The present invention is aimed to resolve the problem often seen in conventional types of stringing machine.

Abstract: A hand-operated implement, which is a shock-producing or vibration-producing implement, having an attenuating handle. The implement has a handle attached to the implement, which handle has a central core, a gripping surface and a gel shock- or vibration-absorbing material positioned adjacent to or recessed in the core and under the gripping surface, wherein the gel shock- or vibration-absorbing material is a gel having a cone penetration between about 100 and 350(10.sup.

Abstract: A miniaturized pinball machine serving as a funny toy is provided. The pinball machine includes a machine body, a ball-feeding device mounted between a ball-storing room and a ball path for feeding from the room to the path a ball to be propelled by a propelling medium through the path to an inclined board, a striking device striking the ball on the board to delay and/or prevent the ball from falling into the room, and a plurality of springing devices back springing on the board the ball bumping thereagainst.