Abstract: An illuminated natural gas display panel assembly simulates the generation and transmission of natural gas to different classes of users by means of a plurality of elongated strips of light-transmitting arrays, each strip made up of a plurality of LEDs and with different light-sequencing circuits for individually controlling the rate and direction of sequencing of the lights to represent a desired pressure level and direction of flow along each said array; and different colored light elements are employed to aid in giving the optical illusion of different pressure levels along each of the light-transmitting arrays.

Abstract: A chair specially adapted for providing added comfort and support to an elderly person is provided. The chair includes a seat member and arm rests which are disposed laterally of the seat member. A support frame is provided for supporting the seat member and the arm rests. The support frame includes a base frame defining a hollow cavity. A foot support assembly for supporting the feet and leg portions of the elderly person are provided. The foot support assembly is slidable relative to the base frame and has the capacity to be selectively stored in the hollow cavity of the base frame when the foot support assembly is not in use.In a preferred example of the present invention, the base frame has a rear edge and the foot support assembly includes a platform slidably connected to the base frame.

Abstract: A personal memo device adapted to be worn around the wrist. The device is made from a flexible sheet-like material and has a message-receiving portion upon which a message can be written and wrist straps extending from opposite sides of the message receiving portion. The free ends of the wrist straps can be secured together with adhesive or with interlocking hooks formed in the straps to secure the device around the user's wrist. The device may also be provided with a confidentiality flap that can be folded over the message-receiving portion to conceal a message written thereon. The devices are preferably provided in a pad.

Abstract: An identification tagging device which has a rectangular base unit with raised sides to form a tag receiving region is disclosed. The sides are provided with tabs to retain the removable label. A shaft, which includes a plurality of enlarged areas, extends from one end of the base. A locking device, placed in the base, consisting of a circular section having a diameter slightly greater than the enlarged locking areas, and a smaller circular section, with a diameter less than the enlarged locking areas. An alternate permanent locking device is also provided.

Abstract: A flashing advertising sign is provided for indoor use. The sign is of box-like transparent construction having parallel front and rear panels and elongated upper and lower panels having facing retaining channels which slidably secure a flat placard. Photovoltaic cells positioned in the upper panel supply energy to a rechargeable storage battery. A timing circuit periodically directs electrical current from the battery to light-emitting diodes which illuminate the placard.

Abstract: An attachable informational booklet attachable to an elongated member is provided. The booklet includes a plurality of information providing segments. Each segment is a generally flat member having front and rear faces and including a mechanism for providing transcribed information to a user thereof. Each of the plurality of segments is connected to at least another of the segments such that the booklet can be folded so that at least two of the faces can oppose one another. The booklet further includes a coupling mechanism for coupling two opposing faces together, wherein the coupling mechanism can couple the booklet together around the elongated member thereby attaching the booklet thereto.

Abstract: A display supported on the roof comprising a case and a flexible panel. House number indicia is on the panel. The case is connected to the roof of a house structure and the panel is movable from a storage position wherein the panel is disposed in the case to a display position wherein the panel extends a distance from the space so that the house number indicia is observable or visible from a position above the roof.

Abstract: A mounting web includes a matrix of transparent pockets mounted to the web, wherein the pockets each include an access opening slot permitting reception of a picture web within each pocket. The mounting web is arranged with support heads mounted to a rear wall of the web for securement within a hanger plate, with the hanger plate having a channel to resiliently engage and secure the mounting heads.

Abstract: A picture frame made from a flexible magnetic sheet material is disclosed which is part of a mailer including a gift card and envelope. The gift card has a front surface carrying parallel strips of double-sided adhesive tape each having an outwardly facing releasable adhesive on one side to which the picture frame can be attached to display a photograph between the picture frame and card. The recipient of the mailer can peel the flexible picture frame from the card, remove the photograph, and magnetically attach the picture frame to a metal surface to display the photograph. Also disclosed is an embodiment wherein the card is a display card made from a magnetically attractive material.

Abstract: An apparatus for framing a member, such as a picture, includes a first element for engagement with the member. The first element has an elongate recess. A second element has a different aesthetic appearance than the first element. The second element includes a portion which extends into the recess of the first element. The first element has means for lockingly engaging the second element to secure the first and second elements together.

Abstract: An album page for insertion and centering of rectangular images is disclosed.A storage and display page includes a backing sheet for supporting the image, and at least one pocket comprising a transparent sheet located in face-to-face relation with respect to the backing sheet. The pocket is defined by attachment between the backing sheet and the transparent sheet along the bottom of the pocket and along two opposing side edges of the pocket and along two opposing side edges of the pocket. Two brackets extend upwardly from the bottom edge, and retain the images in a fixed and centered position.

Abstract: A fire-resistant seating component. In a first embodiment, seat backs and pans are equipped with an enclosure containing a fire-retardant material which can flow out of early-release openings in the enclosure. The enclosure comprises at least one meltable zone which causes dispensation of the fire-resistant material at a temperature which is below the ignition temperature of the seating component. The enclosure is located at the lower portion of either a seat pan, a seat back, or both, so that burning rubbish such as paper cups and similar flammable debris disposed under a seat can be extinguished by the fire-retardant material as it flows vertically downward into the space beneath the seat. In a second embodiment, interior spaces within a seating component are coated or filled with non-combustible material to reduce the transfer of heat and the spread of fire. Such material may completely occupy the interior space within the component, or the material may simply coat the interior surfaces of the component.

Abstract: A display is disclosed which produces multiple visual displays in an intermittent manner which includes a display housing having a perimeter wall which is transparent during visual display and is an opaque mirror between visual displays. The perimeter wall of the display housing is a composite structure which preferably includes a transparent cylindrical substrate which is coated with an optical film and an opaque mask which defines display windows. Multiple visual displays are produced by a rotating display base which carries rows of rotating display elements. Preferably, the display elements are elongated triangular elements having three image faces which bear images which create the visual displays. The triangular display elements are arranged in a triangular configuration wherein the rows intersect one another at acute angles and are carried by the rotating base. The rotating base includes three display positions and each of the triangular elements includes three display positions.

Abstract: An improved photo display device of the type having a housing with frame and double photograph envelope providing dual photo viewing as presented within the frame, a first improvement consisting of an alternative picture rotating mechanism that includes both a manual ratcheting system on one side of the housing and a motor drive or automatic ratcheting system on the other side, and a second improvement that consists of a unitary housing/frame formation that receives a spindle assembly directly through the front frame which is then secured by side entry and snap-fit of right and left ratcheting knob assemblies.

Abstract: A card device, comprising an elongated blank folded to form a front panel and a back panel and including a fastener means to form a card with one unsealed end. The front panel has a die cut opening of a predetermined size and shape with a clear window panel covering the opening and displaying a first image thereon. An image enhancing slidable insert sized to be inserted between the front and back panels through the unsealed end is provided and includes an outwardly facing surface contrasting with the first image to enhance the first image. A second image is placed on the inwardly facing surface of the back panel, including a visible image portion and a background portion which is aligned to substantial reduce the visibility of the first image. Accordingly, insertion of the slidable insert enhances the first image and removal of the slidable insert causes exposure of the second image to the substantial exclusion of the first image.

Abstract: A multi-purpose, front-loading display frame includes a front frame member having a window section for viewing a display item disposed therebehind and a rear frame member for releasably supporting at least one interchangeable display item. The front frame member is hingedly secured to the rear frame member so as to allow for pivotable movement of the frame members between a closed position, in which the frame members are disposed closely adjacent to one another so that a display item supported on the rear frame member is disposed behind the window section for viewing, and an open position, in which the frame members are pivoted apart from one another to permit removal and replacement of the display item. A closure member is mounted on at least one of the front and rear frame members for releasably maintaining the front and rear frame members in the closed position thereof.

Abstract: A badge included a badge plate and multiple and interchangeable means of fastening the badge to clothing or other items that are releasably attached, allowing the means of fastening to be interchanged. The means of fastening the badge includes a clip, a pair of military style pins, an alligator clip, a horizontal pin or a magnet.

Abstract: A simple, yet well-constructed illuminated sign has characters appearing as glistening ice chunks. The illuminated sign includes a light source which is surrounded by a diffusion member. This illuminated sign also includes a reflecting member disposed on one side of the light source and a diffusion panel disposed on the other side of the light source. This illuminated sign further includes a generally opaque sign panel with raised transparent characters having a chiseled ice-like configuration whereby the light from the light source, following multiple diffusion and reflection, passes through the raised transparent characters to form a lighted sign with characters which appear as if they were chiseled from blocks of ice.

Abstract: A frame, including a plurality of frame elements 1 and at least one connecting corner element 5 on which the frame elements 1 are mounted in intersected relation, is provided to form a readily accessed enclosure to accommodate therein an article, a glass plate to allow viewing of the article, a backing plate at the rear and an illumination louver. At least one of the frame elements 1 is mounted to the connecting corner element 5 for relative angular movement therebetween, to facilitate easy opening of the enclosure and access to the space defined therein.

Abstract: A display system for two-dimensional displays wherein images are applied (e.g., photographically, printed or the like) to transparent sheets and transported through a viewing machine, the sheets being sequentially positioned in a back-lighted viewing window. The sheets are suspended from rods and stored behind the back-lighting area. The rods are arranged in a desired sequence in a storage rack having an entrance and exit. A chain is entrained on a circuitous pathway through the machine. The pathway starts at the exit end of the storage rack referred to as a pick-up station, then passes over the back-lighting area, extends downwardly between the back-lighted area and the window, passes under the back-lighting area and behind the stored display sheets to a return station that receives the sheets and directs them to the entrance to the storage rack, and then back to the pick-up station. The images are inverted on the sheets with the sheets suspended from the rods, e.g.