Abstract: An outerwear garment having a highly unique design and display feature. The outerwear garment of a particular fabric material includes a plurality of parallel slits which form a plurality of strips of fabric within a visual area. A display panel is secured to the inside of the fabric material such that a depiction is positioned to correspond to the visual area and partially visible through the slits. The slits may be cut generally horizontally, vertically, or at an inclined angle. When the fabric material is wetted, the strips become distorted in various ways to reveal increased portions of the respective depictions within the respective visual areas. Multiple visual areas can be created on the garment to provide an unlimited number of different designs, patterns, textures, and visual effects.

Abstract: An outerwear garment having a highly unique design and display feature. The outerwear garment of a particular fabric material includes a plurality of parallel slits which form a plurality of strips of fabric within a visual area. A display panel is secured to the inside of the fabric material such that a depiction is positioned to correspond to the visual area and partially visible through the slits. The slits may be cut generally horizontally, vertically, or at an inclined angle. When the fabric material is wetted, the strips become distorted in various ways to reveal increased portions of the respective depictions within the respective visual areas. Multiple visual areas can be created on the garment to provide an unlimited number of different designs, patterns, textures, and visual effects.

Abstract: In a twisted, free-standing structure having four sides, each with a diagonal crease, and a central region wherein the creases cross, the improvement wherein the central region is reinforced by means chosen from the group consisting of a thermosetting polymeric material and one or more pieces of stiff reinforcing material bent to conform to a crease.

Abstract: A photoreceptive sheet having a surface adapted to carry a reproductive image, the surface of the sheet bearing a photoreceptive layer including a microfoam of a plurality of voids in a mixture of a photoconductive substance and an insulating binder, the photoreceptive layer being capable of receiving an electric charge, responding photoelectrically to light, and discharging photoconductively to form the image.

Abstract: A brassiere is provided in which weights which approximate the weight of the breasts are suspended from non-stretchable straps passing from the cup over the shoulders and down the back. The mass of each breast and its counterweight remain in dynamic equilibrium throughout athletic activity so that stress on breast tissue caused by activity-induced bouncing does not occur. The counterweight system also frees the brassiere design from the necessity of conventional chest-binding circumferential straps, making possible a looser and more comfortable design.

Abstract: Each mattress comprises a plurality of valved cells or cylinders held by a cover in side by side relation. Each cell is made from flexible, essentially inelastic material, and comprises upper and lower cylindrical sections of equal diameter interconnected by one or more corrugated cylindrical sections of smaller diameter. Each lower cylindrical section has an orifice which connects the interior of the cell with an air plenum that extends along the entire underside of the mattress, and which registers with a valve that projects from the inner surface of the plenum opposite the cell orifice. Each orifice may be supported by a small, collapsible section of the cell in a normally open position, so that when a load is applied to the top of the cell it automatically closes the orifice against the registering valve; or, alternatively, the valve may be insertable manually into the orifice to seal it until once again manually removed.

Abstract: A method for forming a colored liquid deposit in image configuration on a surface including means for periodically varying the distance between the surface and the liquid to provide breaks in contact between said surface and said liquid.

Abstract: Coding of a group of characters for recognition by a machine and by a human viewer is provided by coloring each character with a predetermined plurality of colors arranged in predetermined locations within a character configuration. Each character configuration in a set of characters is segregated into a plurality of sectors and each sector is coded by a predetermined one of a plurality of colors which differs from the color coding of an adjacent sector. Apparatus for forming the color-coded characters by printing and by a photoelectrophoretic process is disclosed. Apparatus for automatically recognizing characters colored according to the predetermined code comprise color detecting elements positioned in an array at a reading station for generating output electrical signals representative of the color-sector coding and circuit means coupled to the detection means for translating the color-sector signals into an electrical signal representative of a character in a set.

Abstract: Coding of a group of characters for recognition by a machine and by a human viewer is provided by coloring each character with a predetermined plurality of colors arranged in predetermined locations within a character configuration. Each character configuration in a set of characters is segregated into a plurality of sectors and each sector is coded by a predetermined one of a plurality of colors which differs from the color coding of an adjacent sector. Apparatus for forming the color-coded characters by printing and by a photoelectrophoretic process is disclosed. Apparatus for automatically recognizing characters colored according to the predetermined code comprise color detecting elements positioned in an array at a reading station for generating output electrical signals representative of the color-sector coding and circuit means coupled to the detection means for translating the color-sector signals into an electrical signal representative of a character in a set.

Abstract: Coding of a group of characters for recognition by a machine and by a human viewer is provided by coloring each character with a predetermined plurality of colors arranged in predetermined locations within a character configuration. Each character configuration in a set of characters is segregated into a plurality of sectors and each sector is coded by a predetermined one of a plurality of colors which differs from the color coding of an adjacent sector. Apparatus for forming the color-coded characters by printing and by a photoelectrophoretic process is disclosed. Apparatus for automatically recognizing characters colored according to the predetermined code comprise color detecting elements positioned in an array at a reading station for generating output electrical signals representative of the color-sector coding and circuit means coupled to the detection means for translating the color-sector signals into an electrical signal representative of a character in a set.