Abstract: A bulk mail card is separable into two portions along a perforation line. One of the portions is configured as an index card having necked apertures for storage in a rail type card file. The index card carries stored reference information relating to an advertiser. The remaining portion serves as a direct response medium such as a return mail card, discount coupon or redemption coupon.

Abstract: A spoon, which comprises a sheet of plastic bags received in a bottom cap which is secured to the body thereof. Plastic bags can be drawn out of the bottom cap one by one, for wrapping up the spoon therein. A retainer ring is provided to sleeve on the handle of the spoon so as to secure a plastic bag to the spoon. Every plastic bag can be removed from the spoon each time after use, so that a new plastic bag can be used to wrap the spoon and the spoon can be repeatedly used without the need to wash.

Abstract: A tool for stripping jackets from cable insulation comprising means for holding a portion of the cable and means for clamping the cable against the holding means and cutting the jacket. The clamping and cutting means includes a surface for bearing against the exterior of the jacket on the cable and a cutter member for cutting the jacket, the cutter member being adjustable toward and away from the cable to vary the depth of cut of the jacket of cable held in the holding means. A cable jacket clamping and cutting device may be mounted on a tool having a pair of perpendicular, intersecting channels for holding cable and a releasable, spring-loaded lever arm for urging the device against cable held in either of the channels at a point above the intersection of the channels whereby the tool is rotatable and slidable relative to the axis of the cable to cut the cable jacket around its circumference and parallel to the axis.

Abstract: An indexing system for a reference book which is printed on the edge of the pages opposite to the binding so as to be visual when the book is closed; the system including primary, secondary, and further subdivided portions of the book identified by large letters, succeedingly smaller letters, and color coded marks to represent respective portions of the book where the contents relate to words having a first letter corresponding to the large letters, a second letter corresponding to the next smaller letter, and a third and succeeding letters represented by still smaller letters or a color coded mark.

Abstract: A hair trimmer is provided having a housing provided with a stationary cutter and a cutter which can be driven relative to the stationary cutter, the housing comprising a comb attachment which is adjustable relative to the housing. The housing is provided with a rotatable annular adjusting element which forms part of a spiral-groove coupling between the housing and the comb attachment.

Abstract: Razor construction including a soluble body carried by a razor head or cartridge in a yieldable manner by a leaf spring. The soluble body is urged into skin contact to deposit a shaving aid thereon. The razor head defines a chamber in which the soluble body is housed with the leaf spring urging the body through an opening in the razor head. Various spring shapes are disclosed. A fixedly mounted body of a shaving aid may also be carried by the razor head or cartridge.

Abstract: Device for cutting the stalk (22) of a flower or a plant, said device comprising two elements (1,2) being movable in respect of each other and being pressed away from each other by a spring (20) and being provided with cavities (9,25,14) which, in the most impressed position of the elements, are forming a bore in which a stalk (22) can be brought. The cavity (14) in said first elemnent (2) is having the shape of a support surface for a stalk (22), a knife (10) being provided in the cavity (9) of said second element (1) with which the stalk laid on the support surface of the first element (2) can be cut when the elements (1,2) are pressed towards each other.

Abstract: A knife sheath having front and back panels made of flexible material is lined with elongated flexible magnets affixed to the inner surface of the panels. The magnets grip the blade of the knife holding it in the sheath. Non-magnetic material separates the ends of the magnets at the sheath opening to facilitate entry of the knife blade into the sheath. A stiffener plate extending from a belt loop to the back panel prevents the connection between the belt loop and that panel from buckling when the knife is withdrawn. The stiffener plate may extend into the space between the sheath panels a substantial distance and have a flange on the edge thereof for preventing contact between the knife point and the edge of the sheath.

Abstract: The picture book is used with a pen containing a water-soluble ink, and at least a portion of the book is covered with resinous coating. Accordingly, while reading and reviewing the book, children may imaginatively paint or write on the book by means of the pen and thereafter wipe off the painted portion for reuse.

Abstract: A handy bookbinder comprises at least one cover and a spine member. The spine member is formed with an adhesive face at one surface thereof. The spine member may or may not be attached to the cover at one side portion of its adhesive face. In the case where the spine member is attached to the cover, for use, sheets of paper to be held together are placed on the cover, and the spine member is bent and attached to one side of the whole of the sheets, and is attached to the uppermost sheet. Thus, the sheets are held together very easily as if a book were bound. If it is desired to add a new sheet or sheets to the book or to remove one or more of the existing sheets, the spine member may be stripped from the cover or the last sheet and the foregoing one side of the whole of the sheets. After the desired addition or removal, the book can be rebound in the same manner as described above.

Abstract: An optically-readable identity card has an inner core layer of material which inhibits light from the optical reader from passing through the body of the card. The inner core material is a plastic vinyl colored either black, gold, silver or any metallic color.

Abstract: A razor cleaning implement (10) used to remove the accumulated debris between the blades (102) of a twin bladed razor (100) wherein the implement (10) includes a cleaning head element (21) mounted on a shaft (22) which is attached to an enlarged gripping member (13).

Abstract: A postcard comprises a postcard material, and a sticking material adhered on the postcard material for covering at least a part of the postcard material. The sticking material comprises a base material formed with a heat adherent resin layer on its main surface, whereon an adhesion retarding layer which reduces the adhesive force of the heat adherent resin layer to weaken adhesiveness to the postcard material is formed. A perforation is formed extending from one edge of the base material to the other edge thereof at a portion where the adhesion retarding layer is formed, and the base material can be cut by the perforation. Accordingly, the sticking material can be easily peeled off from the postcard material, enabling access to various information formed thereon.

Abstract: A utility knife comprises a hollow casing formed by a pair of elongated members pivotally mounted one to the other at one end of the casing. A blade passage is provided at another end of the casing. The elongated members are adapted for movement in substantially parallel planes between aligned closed functional and open diverging positions. The casing is provided with a mechanism adapted to carry and selectively position a blade. The utility knife further comprises a locking member pivotally mounted to one of the elongated members and adapted in a closed position thereof to secure the elongated members in their aligned closed position.

Abstract: The invention relates to marking of industrial products or individual parts thereof by burnt-in alphanumeric symbols and/or company symbols. To be able to apply in a space-saving and cost effective way a machine-readable, informationally identical additional coding, this additional coding is applied, integrated in the symbol, in such a way that distinctly deeper burnt-in locations, which are in themselves machine-detectable, are arranged along the trace of each and every symbol at several predetermined places distributed in a manner individual to the symbol. The deeper burnt-in locations may take the form of a blind hole, for example in the case of cast workpieces, or of a through-hole, for example in the case of sheet metal components. The additional coding can be applied in the same operation as the basic marking without noticeable time loss and without requiring additional space.

Abstract: A variable color print of an image including an image medium having a plurality of differently oriented local image regions. Each region includes a number of periodic variations in an optical characteristic of the medium which extend substantially in a first direction within that region and are generally parallel to each other in a second direction transverse to the first direction. Each region further includes a number of periodic variations in color which extend in the first direction and are generally parallel to each other in the second direction and are generally aligned with the periodic optical variations in that region. The periodic optical variations selectively prevent viewing of one or more of the color variations at different viewing angles to generate changes in color of the viewed image as the viewing angle changes. A method of forming such a variable color print is also disclosed.

Abstract: A razor formed as a unitary moulding comprises a main body 1 including a cap member 3 and two side walls 4 and a guard member 6 connected to the body 1 by spring fingers 7 and living hinges which permit the guard member to be located in guide means 9 which guide the guard member for limited displacement during shaving.

Abstract: A utility knife having a main body formed from a pair of body portions which are assembled together. The main body has an opening at the front with means to prevent the pair of body portions from spreading apart and with means to prevent the blade from swaying from side to side.

Abstract: Identity card, comprising a sheet of synthetic material having a decoration pattern as is customary for papers of value and provided with information essential for the identification of the user or the object pertaining to the identity card, said decoration pattern and said information consisting of sublimatable coloring agents dissolved in said synthetic material and bound to said synthetic material. The identity card preferably comprises a sheet of polyester material. The decoration pattern and the information preferably consist of one or more of the coloring agents Sublaprint Blue 70.013, C.I. Disperse Yellow 61, C.I. Disperse Red 60 and/or C.I. Disperse Blue 3.

Abstract: A carburetor and chain oiling assembly and method of manufacturing the same for use in a chain saw. The assembly generally comprises a carburetor section, an oil pump section and a cover connecting the two sections. The cover can connect the oil pump section to the carburetor section forming a cover for a carburetor fuel diaphragm and a working chamber with an oil pump diaphragm. The cover has a gas conduit between the carburetor housing and the working chamber such that gas pulses from an engine crankcase can be supplied to the working chamber to operably move the oil pump diaphragm to provide a continuous and automatic metered flow of oil to a saw chain.