Abstract: The invention provides a portable display apparatus. The portable display apparatus includes a clipstand that attaches to a barreled device and is used to display information, including holding other metal-backed items. The clipstand surface has a magnet embedded so that different faces can be attached to the clip surface and allow different information to be displayed, and different items to be held. The present invention also includes a clear plastic sleeve, the tag, attached to a metal bar to allow the tag to stick to the magnet. Different cards can be placed into the tag, and the tag may be written on with an erasable marker to allow for different displays. The clipstand may be displayed on a table attached to a barreled instrument or worn on a lanyard.

Abstract: The invention provides a portable display apparatus. The portable display apparatus includes a clipstand that attaches to a barreled device and is used to display information, including holding other metal-backed items. The clipstand surface has a magnet embedded so that different faces can be attached to the clip surface and allow different information to be displayed, and different items to be held. The present invention also includes a clear plastic sleeve, the tag, attached to a metal bar to allow the tag to stick to the magnet. Different cards can be placed into the tag, and the tag may be written on with an erasable marker to allow for different displays. The clipstand may be displayed on a table attached to a barreled instrument or worn on a lanyard.

Abstract: The invention provides a portable display apparatus. The portable display apparatus includes a clipstand that attaches to a barreled device and is used to display information, including holding other metal-backed items. The clipstand surface has a magnet embedded so that different faces can be attached to the clip surface and allow different information to be displayed, and different items to be held. The present invention also includes a clear plastic sleeve, the tag, attached to a metal bar to allow the tag to stick to the magnet. Different cards can be placed into the tag, and the tag may be written on with an erasable marker to allow for different displays. The clipstand may be displayed on a table attached to a barreled instrument or worn on a lanyard.

Abstract: The invention provides a portable display apparatus. The portable display apparatus includes a clipstand that attaches to a barreled device and is used to display information, including holding other metal-backed items. The clipstand surface has a magnet embedded so that different faces can be attached to the clip surface and allow different information to be displayed, and different items to be held. The present invention also includes a clear plastic sleeve, the tag, attached to a metal bar to allow the tag to stick to the magnet. Different cards can be placed into the tag, and the tag may be written on with an erasable marker to allow for different displays. The clipstand may be displayed on a table attached to a barreled instrument or worn on a lanyard.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to various aspects of providing game play. Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods allow for game play on a variety of unmanned terminals including, but not limited to, automated teller machines, taxi cab payment systems, fuel pump payment interfaces, a variety of other kiosks, and handheld devices. In an embodiment, a disclosed device allows for exchanging communications between a gaming facilitator and a gaming partner.

Abstract: A support for a coating instrument includes an advertising image. The support is movable between a non-extended position and an extended position in which the support projects outward away from the shaft for contact with a surface on which the instrument is placed. The advertising image may be formed on a substrate that is adhered on an outer surface of the support. Alternatively, the support may be configured as a three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A game play system comprises a banking system that includes at least one terminal configured for financial transactions and an acquirer transaction server coupled with the terminal, the acquirer transaction server configured to provide game plays to a user through the terminal. The game play system further comprises a game play authority in communication with the acquirer transaction server, the game play authority configured to receive game play requests from the acquirer transaction server and game play information from one or more authorities associated with various game plays.

Abstract: This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying--such as by focussed laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the flow of liquid from a conduit into a tank to maintain a selected level, which is an improvement on the conventional type of float-operated flow valves which use a diaphragm clamped between two flanges and positioned over the end of the conduit through which liquid is supplied at a selected pressure. There is a small opening in the center of the diaphragm and there is a second small opening in the second flange of the flow means. The improvement of this invention, is the use, instead of a float mechanism, a pressure-sensitive diaphragm which is responsive to the hydrostatic pressure in the liquid at the level of immersion of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is adapted to close and open the second small opening, and thus to control the flow through the first valve.

Abstract: In the hydraulic fracturing of deep geologic formations for the production of fluid hydrocarbons, and where vertical fractures are formed, a method is described, using seismic geophysical techniques, for determining the azimuth and length of the fractures. This is accomplished by injecting into the formation through the fracture a selected fluid, or producing the fluid hydrocarbons from the formation into the fracture, until the formation, over a selected distance from the walls of the fracture, has a different gas saturation from the condition in the formation farther from the fracture. This condition is mapped by seismic methods.

Abstract: A seismic wave generator and method of using it, which comprises a vertical array of sources at known spacings, for detonation in a seismic wave propagating medium of known seismic velocity; means to initiate the sources in time sequence in a selected series of known different time intervals and recording the seismic waves at a distant location to provide a first electrical signal; and correlating the first electrical signal with a second electrical signal derived from the pattern of initiation, as modified by the travel times of the waves between the several separate charges.

Abstract: In the injection of fluids into subsurface geological formations, such as for the purpose of recovering a mineral in that formation, it is important that the flow progress of that fluid is known at all points in the subsurface. This information is provided by injecting a selected fluid into the formation. This fluid may be a gas, or a liquid, or a mixture of gas and liquid. When this fluid is in the subsurface formation there will be a mixture of gas and liquid in selected proportion in the formation. This mixture in a geologic formation overlain by a shale, for example, will have a much higher reflection coefficient. A source of seismic waves is operated at the surface, and the received reflections are compared between spaced positions on the surface.

Abstract: This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying--such as by focussed laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.

Abstract: A method of fracturing a deep borehole to form a vertical fracture, and of determining the azimuth of the resulting fracture, comprising pumping a pressurized fracture fluid into said well through a pipe from the surface, to provide a bottom hole pressure P which is less than the normal fracturing press (NFP), and generating a series of sharp pressure pulses (SPP) of selected magnitude, such that when added to the pressure P, provide pressure peaks greater than the NFP. By providing arrays of seismic sensors at the surface and determining the direction of propagation of the seismic waves generated by the SPP, the azimuth of the fracture can be determined.

Abstract: This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying--such as by focused laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.

Abstract: This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying-such as by focussed laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.

Abstract: An underground combustion operation in which combustible material, in a selected geologic formation at a selected depth, is burned by forcing air under pressure down a first well into the formation, and collecting products of combustion at a second well, a selected distance away from the first well. The overburden above the formation is supported, in part, by the combustible material, which might be viscous oil, tar, etc. This material is ignited at the first well and a flame front is formed which burns in the form of a circular front, which moves radially outwardly as a function of time and the rate of air supply. A plurality of electronic tilt meters are positioned at or near the surface of the earth, in at least one linear array directed along the radius from the first well to the second well. Combustion air is provided and the outputs of the tilt meters are amplified and recorded as a function of time.

Abstract: In the process of recovering minerals, such as hydrocarbons from shallow tar sands, and the like, one method is to create a shallow horizontal fracture within the tar sand. The size and shape of the perimeter is determined, and one or more secondary boreholes are drilled to the formation inside of the perimeter of the fracture. Pressurized air is injected into the fracture and the hydrocarbons are ignited. After a selected period of burning is carried out, the radius to the burn front, surrounding the recovery area, from which the hydrocarbons have been removed, is determined by placing a source of seismic waves at a selected point over the fracture, and a long array of seismic sensors colinear with the source.The source is energized for different conditions of pressurization in the formation and fracture. The reflected seismic waves are converted to electrical signals, which are compared for all sensors.

Abstract: A seismic method for mapping horizontal fractures in the earth resulting from the application of fluid pressure, at a selected point, at a selected depth, in the earth, comprising the steps of creating a seismic wave in the earth over the expected position of the fracture, and detecting the seismic waves reflected upwardly at a reflecting interface, at or near the fracture, at each of a plurality of seismic sensors, in at least one radial array. The received signals are recorded for each of two conditions: a first case, when the fracture is pressurized, and filled with fluid, and the roof of the fracture is separated from the base of the fracture; and a second case when the fracture is depressurized, and the roof of the fracture rests on the base. Some sensors will show a different character of reflection signal in the two cases. For these sensors the points of reflection are within the outer perimeter of the fracture.