Abstract: A deer scarecrow is presented which comprises a main essentially rectangular body with upper collapsable arms. At the upper part of the body is attached a simulated head which may be wrapped around and secured to a suitable limb. Upper arm streamers and lower leg streamers of brightly colored material are attached to the arms and main body. A scent-emitting device is located within a pouch sewn into the main body and a noise-making device is also located in a separate pouch on the main body. When in use, the deer scarecrow would frighten a deer's sense of smell, sight, and hearing. When not in use, the entire device rolls up into a small cylindrical compact unit. The deer scarecrow is highly portable and may be positioned such that the deer are frightened from one area and run into another area where the hunter awaits.

Abstract: A sight glass apparatus and method limiting external pressures on the sight glass. The sight glass apparatus has a pair of flanges wherein each of the flanges includes a tubular top portion which abuts the respective pipes. The tubular top portion includes a circular cut-out for providing a victaulic type connection for a clamping means to clamp to the respective pipes and a conical section which tapers into an annular rim section having a plurality of apertures wherein a bottom portion of the annular rim includes a center aperture being co-axially aligned when mounted to the pipes. An O-ring is mounted in a recess with a cylindrical glass tubing for observing the fluid or the like. The sight glass apparatus further includes machine precisioned shoulder studs with threaded ends. The ends protruding through the apertures of each of flange when connecting the sight glass apparatus together.

Abstract: A normally upstanding road marker including a conical body is provided with a special base formed of an elastomeric material for inducing self-righting movements to return the road marker to an upstanding position subsequent to its having been tipped over. The base is provided with a peripheral edge of undulatory configuration which allows the base to be large enough to induce the self-righting movements without being excessively heavy.

Abstract: A method and a device to aid in recollecting to retrieve an umbrella left in a building including an eye device on the handle of the umbrella with a identification plastic panel attached with a spring clip through the eye. The identification device is unclipped from the umbrella when the umbrella is left behind upon entrance to the building and is immediately clipped onto a key ring on which automobile or residence door keys are clipped. If the umbrella is forgotten, the next use of the key ring will automatically remind the user that the umbrella has been left behind. After the umbrella has been retrieved, the identification device is unclipped from the key ring and reattached to the eye device on the umbrella for the next use.

Abstract: There is disclosed a garment wear monitor for recording the number of times an article of clothing is worn. The monitor is removably or permanently affixed to a clothing hanger, or is removably affixed to the garment directly. Each time the garment is worn the garment wear monitor is advanced by one number manually or automatically. The garment wear monitor may also display the date on which the garment was last cleaned. A threshold indicator serves to remind the user to have the garment cleaned when a predetermined number of wearings have taken place. The garment wear monitor may display the number of wearings and the date of last cleaning by a mechanically movable scale or by an electronic digital display.

Abstract: A combination ornament and identification device for vehicles formed so as to be detachably secured to a surface of a vehicle and containing an attention attracting indicator which comprises a disposable container such as the type used for comestibles from which the comestible has been substantially removed, said device optionally carrying a plurality of streamers. The device includes a mount for attachment to the surface of the vehicle, the attention attracting indicator and fastening element for fastening the disposable container to the mount.

Abstract: An air brake adjustment marker for use on a vehicle having an air brake system attached to the undercarriage of a vehicle. The air brake system incudes an air supply, an air canister connected to the air supply and attached to the undercarriage. The air brake system further includes members movable with respect to the undercarriage. The movable members include a push rod extending from the air canister that moves between a retracted position to a first extended position and to a second over-extended position. A brake mechanism is operably connected to and movable by the push rod. The adjustment marker includes a chain attached to the push rod and having a predetermined length corresponding to the first extended position. A snap is attached to one end of the chain and a clamp is attached to the other end.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a sight glass(10) that utilizes both reflected light at a glass to air interface(40) as well as the light transmitted through a glass to fluid to glass interface(44) to form a light pattern that is indicative of the true fluid level. By requiring that light always appear in either an "air" or "fluid" channel(42,46), any absence of light is assumed due to film coated surfaces or to other abnormal conditions. An absence of light is a signal that maintenance is required.

Abstract: An aerosol spray dispenser of flowable pharmaceutical product is provided with a flotation stabilizing arrangement such that it will float in water in a stabilized erect position even when empty of product; a scale is associated with the dispenser so that the depth at which it floats can be read by comparing the position of the surface of the water in which it floats with graduations on the scale. The stabilizing action may be obtained by placing the dispenser in a floatable bottom-weighted vial, with the scale located in the exterior of the vial, and the combination of vial and dispenser then floated in water. In other embodiments the vial need not be used, in which case the dispenser itself may be bottom-weighted to assure its stabilized erect flotation and the scale placed on the exterior of the dispenser; or, a cap may be provided for the dispenser which is positioned on the dispenser while both are floated in the water, the cap being top-weighted so that the assembly floats stably upside-down.

Abstract: A wind deflection device includes a vertically-oriented elongated body having diverging side walls. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of brackets are mounted between the diverging side walls and have apertures which will snap onto and grip a vertically-oriented vehicle aerial. In a second embodiment of the invention, a continuous longitudinal bracket of a rubber-like material is utilized, which has a longitudinal slot will snap onto and grip the vehicle aerial. The brackets in both embodiments of the invention are designed to grip that portion of a pennant which is wrapped around the vehicle aerial. A third emodiment of the invention utilizes a bust-like configuration mounted on the forward side of the wind deflector, which is designed to represent a mascot of a collegiant or professional sports team.

Abstract: An illumination meter dial device comprises a transparent base plate (32); a black semitransparent layer (38) coated on the transparent base plate so as to form marks (28 or 30); a black opaque layer (40) coated so as to cover a margin and an outer periphery of the mark formed by the black semitransparent layer (38); and a white semitransparent layer (42) coated so as to cover a margin of the black opaque layer (40) and all over the dial plate except the marks.

Abstract: An improved temperature transducer for use with a KYZ pulse data recorder. A temperature sensor provides a temperature signal proportional to ambient temperature. An integrator circuit and comparator circuit responsive to the temperature signal provides pulses at a frequency which is proportional to temperature. The pulses are provided over the standard three-wire KYZ pulse cable to the input of the data recorder. The circuit is extremely low power, highly accurate, and requires only the three-wire KYZ connection. No external power supply or cable is required, since the circuit draws its power from the pull up resistors in the KYZ data recorder input. Also disclosed are techniques for improving accuracy and minimizing power consumption in the circuit, and an improved integrator circuit.

Abstract: A radiation detector with temperature readout has a multicolored LED display divided into segments of zero degrees to 9 degrees centigrade colored green, 10 degrees to 19 degrees centigrade in yellow, and 20 degrees to 100 degrees centigrade in red. Alternatively, two red segments are provided for ranges of 20 degrees to 64 degrees centigrade and 65 degrees centigrade and above, respectively. The radiation detector is automatically zeroed at ambient upon use and provides a readout of temperature rise above ambient throughout a scan of a subject. In one design, only one LED for each segment of the display is illuminated at a time. An audible signal is sounded at an increasing pulse frequency as the display is illuminated from the green segment to the red segment of measured temperature rise above ambient with a constant tone for temperature rises above about 20 degrees centigrade. In an alternative design a timing circuit allows the detector to self operate for a predetermined length of time.

Abstract: An emergency signal balloon apparatus having a helium canister, an emergency signal balloon, a predetermined length of tether line, a valve assembly and a two part canister housing within which all of the components can be carried. The balloon is constructed of ultra-light, high-strength material, such as Mylar, and most of it would have an iridescent color, such as hunter's orange, with the upper portion having large wedged shaped sections of a highly reflective silver material. The balloon would further have large black letters, "CALL 911" which is the universal distress telephone number. Each of the letters of the message is bordered with highly reflective material so that when light strikes the material at night the message is clearly reflected and is highly visible.

Abstract: The pressurized magnetic float level indicator for recipients containing liquids at high pressure and temperature of the invention comprises a tubular body with a vertical axis which is closed at its ends and communicates at the top and bottom with a recipient containing liquid whose level is to be indicated, within which there is a float provided with a magnetic element designed to orientate a plurality of rotary magnetic dipoles aligned in parallel with the tubular body, the float being provided with inner rings and being pressurized with an evaporating mixture having a steam pressure which varies with variations in the internal temperature of the float along a curve corresponding to the variation of the pressure with the temperature of the liquid contained in the recipient and in the tubular body externally to the float, this steam pressure within the float at least partially balancing out the pressure outside it.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a previously unattainable yet desirable function of monitoring, at a remote location and/or in a remote (non-intrusive) manner, the condition of a valve operator to signal a need for more thorough inspection and for possible maintenance of the valve or valve operator; the method and apparatus including the relating of output power (motor load) of the valve operator motor to the valve operator stem load, setting up a threshold value for the power parameter based on a maximum allowable operator thrust depletion; and periodically monitoring actual power parameter values at a remote location for comparison to the threshold value.

Abstract: A calorimeter of the liquid flow type. The calorimeter includes a chamber in communication with a medium to be delivered to the chamber at a steady rate of flow. It also includes a heat exchanger having a liquid flowing therethrough at a steady rate of flow in a non-recirculating manner. The chamber is submerged within the heat exchanger and formed so as to release the heating medium from the chamber into the liquid as the liquid is flowing through the heat exchanger. The calorimeter also is capable of measuring an increase in temperature from a first point to a second point as the liquid is flowing at a steady rate through the heat exchanger. As a result, the calorimeter can measure the heating value of a heating medium at preselected intervals or continuously.

Abstract: A method and device for indicating the swelling of a casing or the like having a wall with at least one generally planar portion prone to deformation by pressure buildup within the casing. The device comprises an elongate strip of visible frangible material adapted for spanning superposition with the planar portion of the wall and means for securing opposing ends of the frangible strip to the casing to restrict movement of the ends perpendicular to the planar portion of the wall. Increasing bulging of the wall deflects the frangible strip to the point of fracture thereof. In another embodiment, gaskets may be interposed between the ends of the frangible strip and the wall of the casing to provide a clearance therebetween, thus increasing the permissible degree of bulging of the wall which may occur before deflection of the frangible strip.

Abstract: A coiled bookmark which is designed for mounting on the book binding or spine of a book and is positioned in a cavity provided in the pages of the book adjacent to the spine, when not in use. The coiled bookmark is constructed of a resilient, preferably transparent material having a built-in "memory" or bias for selectively coiling in the bookmark cavity and extension from the bookmark cavity across selected open pages to mark the pages when the book is closed on the extended bookmark. Multiple coiled bookmarks may be provided in spaced relationship along the book spine for marking several pages simultaneously.

Abstract: A high speed infrared temperature measuring device which consists of a lens barrel in an instrument housing, a sensor in the lens barrel to read an infrared target signal, a processing circuit for the signal, an automatic circuit for the thermoelectric cooler and a black body compensation circuit and means to read and record the processed signal.