Abstract: A system for distributing business cards including a sheet having a header portion, a body portion, and a tracking code printed thereon, a mailing sleeve having an open end and a closed end and being sized to accommodate the sheet in a folded configuration, and a separable retention pouch formed from the closed end of the mailing sleeve is provided. The body portion of the sheet is divided into at least two business cards, each being separably attached along perforated lines. The header portion of the sheet is sized and/or shaped different from the at least two business cards. Each of the at least two business cards is further divided to include a tab portion, separably attached along perforated lines.

Abstract: A lettering and numbering kit including a plurality of a plurality of character segments is provided. The plurality of character segments have two different lengths and are shaped so as to form any number from 0-9 or any letter of the alphabet when so arranged in combination.

Abstract: A camouflage material comprising a reflective layer disposed beneath a camouflage layer. The camouflage layer includes a plurality of spots forming a camouflage pattern. The camouflage layer is also characterized by the ability of light to transmit through a portion of the camouflage layer and reflect off of the reflective layer.

Abstract: A band adapted to be worn on a limb of a person or animal includes a fabric member and an elastic member attached to the fabric member. A first half of a fastening system is attached to an inner surface of the elastic member, and a second half of the fastening system is attached to the fabric member on the outer surface thereof only around a portion of its perimeter so as to define a space between the outer surface of the fabric member and the second half of the fastening system, the space adapted to be used as a pocket. The band is adjustable to accommodate limbs of various sizes by adjusting a position along the second half of the fastening system where the first half of the fastening system is detachably connected.

Abstract: A band adapted to be worn on a limb of a person or animal includes a fabric member and an elastic member attached to the fabric member. A first half of a fastening system is attached to an inner surface of the elastic member, and a second half of the fastening system is attached to the fabric member on the outer surface thereof only around a portion of its perimeter so as to define a space between the outer surface of the fabric member and the second half of the fastening system, the space adapted to be used as a pocket. The band is adjustable to accommodate limbs of various sizes by adjusting a position along the second half of the fastening system where the first half of the fastening system is detachably connected.

Abstract: An identification band includes an elongated member having a front face and a rear face, and having a first opening therein adjacent a first end and a series of openings therein adjacent a second end, the elongated member being formed from a material adapted to accept digital printing ink. A stud is disposed in the first opening, the stud adapted to be passed through one of the series of openings after the band is wrapped around an object. A digital image is printed on at least one of the front face and the rear face of the elongated member, the digital image being composed of digital printing ink.

Abstract: A band adapted to be worn on a limb of a person or animal includes a fabric member and an elastic member attached to the fabric member. A first half of a fastening system is attached to an inner surface of the elastic member, and a second half of the fastening system is attached to the fabric member on the outer surface thereof only around a portion of its perimeter so as to define a space between the outer surface of the fabric member and the second half of the fastening system, the space adapted to be used as a pocket. The band is adjustable to accommodate limbs of various sizes by adjusting a position along the second half of the fastening system where the first half of the fastening system is detachably connected.

Abstract: An accessory for wheels includes a body, two appendages extending from the body, each of the two appendages having a securing mechanism and an aperture, and each of the two appendages being wrapped around a diameter of a spoke and the securing mechanism being placed in the aperture, thereby securing each of the two appendages about the spoke.

Abstract: A system for retaining and displaying a piece of material is provided. The system includes an intermediate fixation system which is attached to the lower surface of the material. A lower layer is provided having an upper surface to which the material is affixed by the intermediate fixation system. The lower layer is sized such that the outer periphery thereof extends beyond the outer periphery of the material. An upper layer having an outer periphery sized such that it extends beyond the outer periphery of the material is sealed to the upper surface of the lower layer. The upper layer has an opening passing therethrough which is sized such that a portion of the upper layer surrounding the opening overlies and is sealed to the outer periphery of the piece of material on its upper surface. An adhesive layer is applied to the lower surface of the lower layer.

Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping a stack of coins is formed by a flat sheet of paper having first and second opposite edges generally parallel with each other, an adhesive applied to an area of the sheet of paper adjacent to at least one of the first edge or the second edge, and first and second score lines generally parallel with the first and second edges for facilitating folding of the sheet of paper. The first and second score lines are spaced such that when the first edge is folded over onto itself along the first score line and the second edge is folded over onto itself toward the first edge along the second score line, the first and second edges overlie and the sheet of paper adheres to itself in the area of the adhesive, thereby forming a sleeve, which when opened, has a diameter corresponding to a diameter of the stack of coins.

Abstract: A band to be worn on the limb of a person or animal is provided. The band includes an outer member having an inner surface on which is provided one of a mating pair of fastening elements. A strap is attached to the outer member adjacent an end thereof, so as to define a space between the strap the inner surface of the outer member. An elongated inner member formed of a flexible elastic material is also provided. Attached to either end of the inner member are pieces of the other of the mating pair of fastening elements. One end of the inner member passes through the space defined between the strap and the inner surface of the outer member, and both ends thereof are detachably connected to the outer member via the mating pair of fastening elements.

Abstract: A system for retaining and displaying a piece of material is provided. The system includes an intermediate fixation system which is attached to the lower surface of the material. A lower layer is provided having an upper surface to which the material is affixed by the intermediate fixation system. The lower layer is sized such that the outer periphery thereof extends beyond the outer periphery of the material. An upper layer having an outer periphery sized such that it extends beyond the outer periphery of the material is sealed to the upper surface of the lower layer. The upper layer has an opening passing therethrough which is sized such that a portion of the upper layer surrounding the opening overlies and is sealed to the outer periphery of the piece of material on its upper surface. An adhesive layer is applied to the lower surface of the lower layer.

Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping a stack of coins is formed by a flat sheet of paper having first and second opposite edges generally parallel with each other, an adhesive applied to an area of the sheet of paper adjacent to at least one of the first edge or the second edge, and first and second score lines generally parallel with the first and second edges for facilitating folding of the sheet of paper. The first and second score lines are spaced such that when the first edge is folded over onto itself along the first score line and the second edge is folded over onto itself toward the first edge along the second score line, the first and second edges overlie and the sheet of paper adheres to itself in the area of the adhesive, thereby forming a sleeve, which when opened, has a diameter corresponding to a diameter of the stack of coins.

Abstract: An article of clothing has a trim of thermoplastic material, which encapsulates a peripheral region of a fabric layer and is provided with a multiplayer structure preferably including at least one retroreflective layer. The article of clothing is manufactured in accordance with a sealing method utilizing RF, sonic sealing, heat sealing, and vibration sealing performed simultaneously with cutting excess of the thermoplastic material.

Abstract: A fundraising method and a kit for use with such a method are provided. The method involves providing volunteers with a fundraising kit having a predetermined capacity for holding coins, and allowing time for the volunteers to collect coins and to at least partially fill the fundraising kits with collected coins. Completed fundraising kits are collected from the volunteers and each volunteer is entered in a prize drawing for each completed kit collected from that volunteer. All outstanding fundraising kits, whether or not completed, are collected from the volunteers at the end of a predetermined time period and, again, each volunteer may be entered in a prize drawing for each completed kit collected from that volunteer. In instances where prizes are to be awarded, at least one prize winner is chosen from the entries for the prize drawing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an insulative and wrappable band having a coil and at least one film of reflective material. The coil includes a length and a width, where the width has a bowed shape extending along the length. Further, the coil is preloaded to curl from an open position to a curled position, where the open position is where the length is generally straight, or flat, as opposed to being curled. The film of reflective material provides the insulative properties to the band and is placed along the length in at least one localized area for reflecting radiative temperature changes. Radiative temperature changes is defined to be the transfer of heat and/or cold through radiation. The film of reflective material is any material capable of reflecting radiative temperature changes and may be a metalized foil.

Abstract: A beverage can cap for attachment to a beverage can having a top wall surrounded by a peripheral and circular lip and a tab opener attached to the top wall is provided. The beverage can cap includes an upper layer sized and shaped to fit within the peripheral and circular lip of the beverage can, the upper layer having a substantially circular periphery, and a lower layer having an arc-shaped outer periphery which corresponds to a portion of the substantially circular periphery of the upper layer. A pocket is defined by the upper layer and the lower layer, which pocket is adapted to receive the tab opener of the beverage can when the beverage can cap is installed on the can and the lower layer is disposed between the tab opener and the top wall of the beverage can.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reflector, including at least one flexible reflective element wrapped around a bicycle member, a backing in contact with an first end of the at least one flexible reflective element along a portion of a periphery of the backing, thereby defining a pocket, and a second end of the at least one flexible reflective element placed in between the backing and the at least one flexible reflective element by cooperation of the a second end being held in place by the pocket.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making retro-reflective articles are described which can be made without visually disturbing seam lines, In one embodiment molds having retro-reflective elements have serrated edges along boundary lines of retro-reflective elements are used. In another embodiment the molds are provided with mold lines aligned with edges of the molds and so spaced from the edges that molds can be placed adjacent to one another as part of a grid pattern wherein seam lines are a part of the grid pattern and thus visually hidden. In another embodiment, rather than grid lines being introduced into the molds used to form retro-reflective sheets, the grid lines are formed directly on or in the retro-reflective material itself during or after creation. Articles made with molds having mold lines exhibit a regular grid pattern, but without an asymmetric seam line appearing on the article.