Abstract: A system for visually indicating receipt of a radio communication directed to a user having an associated unique identification code. The system includes a radio transponder having an audio output, means for obtaining and storing the unique identification code; a speech recognition circuit operably connected to the radio transponder audio output and the stored identification code; and a visual indicator operably connected to an output of the speech recognition circuit, such that when the stored identification code and said audio input are substantially the same the visual indicator is driven to activation. A method is similarly disclosed.

Abstract: A system for visually indicating receipt of a radio communication directed to a user having an associated unique identification code. The system includes a radio transponder having an audio output, means for obtaining and storing the unique identification code; a speech recognition circuit operably connected to the radio transponder audio output and the stored identification code; and a visual indicator operably connected to an output of the speech recognition circuit, such that when the stored identification code and said audio input are substantially the same the visual indicator is driven to activation. A method is similarly disclosed.

Abstract: A system for visually indicating receipt of a radio communication directed to a user having an associated unique identification code. The system includes a radio transponder having an audio output, means for obtaining and storing the unique identification code; a speech recognition circuit operably connected to the radio transponder audio output and the stored identification code; and a visual indicator operably connected to an output of the speech recognition circuit, such that when the stored identification code and said audio input are substantially the same the visual indicator is driven to activation. A method is similarly disclosed.

Abstract: A system for visually indicating receipt of a radio communication directed to a user having an associated unique identification code. The system includes a radio transponder having an audio output, means for obtaining and storing the unique identification code; a speech recognition circuit operably connected to the radio transponder audio output and the stored identification code; and a visual indicator operably connected to an output of the speech recognition circuit, such that when the stored identification code and said audio input are substantially the same the visual indicator is driven to activation. A method is similarly disclosed.

Abstract: A hand-throwable flying toy comprising a convex/concave surface with central aperture and peripheral flange-like rim that can be sailed through the air for use in short-range games of catch and short-range target games is disclosed. When thrown over short distances in a manner to produce both translational and rotational motion, the disclosed toy hovers at the apex of its flight path and then drops vertically downward without tendancy to bank left or right. In the preferred embodiment, means are provided to help stabilize the motion of the toy during descent: edge spoilers facilitate low-drag air flow past the outer edge of the toy; aperture spoilers facilitate low-drag air flow through a centrally-located circular aperture bounded by a circumscribed lip; lower spoilers placed in an annular region on the lower surface of the toy surround the aperture and facilitate the production of a surface-bound doughnut of turbulence that provides the toy with resistance against banking motion.

Abstract: An improved delivery box assembly for a merchandising machine in which a door biased by gravity to a position at which it closes the delivery box opening is adapted to be pushed inwardly to rotate a pair of cranks carrying pins which ride in slots formed in crank arms carried by baffle pivots to rotate the baffle to a position at which it prevents access to the merchandise storage units of the machine before the door has been opened to an appreciable degree. An anti-jam flap prevents an article which is delivered while the door is open from falling into a pocket formed by the pivoted baffle and a stationary baffle thus to prevent jamming of the mechanism as the parts return to their initial position.

Abstract: A merchandising machine shelf supporting structure in which respective left and right hand cabinet panel supported lower guide rails receive rollers mounted at the rear of the shelf and in which left and right hand shelf supported upper guide rails receive cabinet panel carried rollers mounted adjacent to the front of the cabinet. As the shelf is moved manually from a housed or home position at which shelf carried plugs engage cabinet carried sockets the rollers and rails support the cabinet so that the force required to withdraw the shelf is relatively low. As the shelf approaches its intermediate position at which the shelf is to be loaded, pins on the shelf engage stops at the front ends of the lower guide rails and the shelf is permitted to pivot to a position at which the shelf rollers are received in recesses formed by elements secured to lower guide rails. After loading the shelf may easily be returned to its home position.