Abstract: A guide facilitating the formation of decorative patterns in the grass of lawns delineated by grass cut at different elevations, and constituting a planar template cut to the contour of a desired pattern and adapted to be laid on the ground, a guide strip of flexible sheet material adapted to be laid along an edge of the template with its plane disposed vertically, and support members attached to the guide strip at intervals along its length, and also to an edge of the template. The support members may be anchored relative to the ground either by spikes drivable into the ground, or by weights placed on the template.

Abstract: Stake-out curtains for automobiles consisting, with respect to a window of an automobile, of a pliable sheet of one-way viewing material wound on a spring roller and extendable therefrom to cover the window and secured in its extended position by electromagnetic means, an operating circuit for the electromagnetic means so arranged that said electromagnetic means will be actuated, and the one-way viewing sheet reeled on its roller, whenever the automobile engine is started.