Abstract: A nail polish application system may include a nail polish applicator to apply a curable nail polish to a nail of a user. An energy source may emit energy to selectively cure the curable nail polish. A sensor may be provided to detect a boundary of the nail of the user. The energy source may be configured to direct the energy to (i) the detected boundary of the nail during a first curing stage or (ii) to an area within the detected boundary of the nail during the first curing stage, and to (iii) avoid directing the energy to an area outside the detected boundary of the nail during the first curing stage.

Abstract: A benchmark marking tool includes a marking plate having an upper surface formed in a flat shape so as to mark a benchmark on the upper surface, a stud extending from a back surface of the upper surface of the marking plate and buried in a structure such as a floor of a building to fix the marking plate, and an outer peripheral flange provided around the marking plate and buried in a coating layer applied to the structure. The marking plate is provided such that the upper surface is located to be flush with or below an upper surface of the coating layer formed on the structure when the marking plate is located in the structure of the building.

Abstract: An organization and attachment device for detachably holding an insert. The device includes a first section with a first magnet section, a second section with a second magnet section, and a connecting section joining the first section and second section. The device also includes a linking device engaged with the connecting section. The linking device includes a linking member with a first end and a second end, and a first fastener connected to one of the ends of the linking member. The holding device can be arranged in multiple positions in which the linking device is stored. In each position in which the linking device is stored, the linking device is held in place by at least one of the magnet sections. In one position in which the linking device is stored, the linking device is completely enclosed by the first and second magnet sections.

Abstract: A visual indicator used to indicate a disposition of an end of a tape comprises a colored layer, and one or more layers of elongate polymer elements, or one or more polarizing layers, or one or more dichroic filter layers. When the tape is stretched as a piece is torn or cut away, an orientation of the polymer elements, or a polarization configuration, or a thickness of the dichroic layers is changed, changing a color, opacity, or reflectance visually evident at the end of the tape. In other embodiments, the visual indicator comprises one or more visible lines that run diagonally across the width of the tape, either in successive sections or along the entire length, so that a discontinuity between the line at the end and at an adjacent point on the remainder of the tape indicates the disposition of the end and an approximate amount of tape remaining.

Abstract: A tool for assisting a reader in grasping the thought expressed in a group of words on a page is disclosed. The tool is a flexible film card which has a window adjacent contrastingly colored film segments of the card. A group of words may be viewed through the window, and the window may then be moved by the user from one group of words to the next. The groups all around the window may be viewed through the colored segments of the card, thus allowing the reader's eyes to review and anticipate the passages of words which he has read or those which he is about to read while still focusing his attention on the group of words in the window.

Abstract: A substrate panel is revealed, comprising a plurality of substrate strips where each substrate strip has a plurality of substrate units and a plurality of appropriative ID marks. Each ID mark is corresponding to and formed on each substrate unit. All of the ID marks are different in a manner to simultaneously recognize both the relative locations of the substrate units to the substrate strips and the relative locations of the substrate strips to the substrate panel. In a preferred embodiment, the ID marks are disposed on exposed surfaces of the substrate units so that it is still visible after semiconductor packaging. Therefore, during or after semiconductor packaging processes, any defect found can be traced back by the ID marks on the substrate units to recognize the locations of the substrate units in the substrate panel for failure analysis to improve PCB manufacturing processes or semiconductor packaging processes for better production yields.

Abstract: A reading focus card that may be used to isolate a block or line of text and act as a concentrator to encourage and promote left to right eye-tracking. The focus card may be used in a variety of ways and may be provided as a kit and assembled by a user. The focus card includes aligned notches and aligned windows in front and rear sheets opening to a left margin of the card. A transparent plastic insert is installed in the windows. Front and rear sheets are held in assembly by an adhesive that allows the sheets to be picked apart multiple times and different inserts installed depending on the individual needs of the user.

Abstract: A tool for assisting a reader in grasping the thought expressed in a group of words on a page is disclosed. The tool is a flexible film card which has a window adjacent contrastingly colored film segments of the card. A group of words may be viewed through the window, and the window may then be moved by the user from one group of words to the next. The groups all around the window may be viewed through the colored segments of the card, thus allowing the reader's eyes to review and anticipate the passages of words which he has read or those which he is about to read while still focusing his attention on the group of words in the window.

Abstract: A bookmark includes a seamless elastic band which is stretchable to loop around a group of pages in a book and around a cover of the book in order to identify a page place in the book. The band includes a slider thereon which has a front surface are that receives an image which is on one side of a sticker. When a bookmark is placed on a book, the slide is moveable along the elastic band while the elastic band is stationary, so that the slider can be placed at different locations on the cover of the book.

Abstract: An educational device and method in which a user can learn the pronunciation and meaning of words using a word isolator with a window and a slide. The word isolator is placed over the unfamiliar word. The slide is manipulated to expose only a portion of the word at a time, thereby helping the user break down and identify the unfamiliar word.

Abstract: A bookmark (40) consisting of two alterable open book icons (30) (60) plus an adjustable highlighting device (24). Bookmark (40) provides for marking books with both single column pages and double column pages. Markings are made to a quarter of the text on a page and to a quarter of the text on a column. Paragraphs and sentences of five lines or more may also be marked. The markings will be retained even if bookmark (40) were to fall out on opening the book. Under normal usage, a single line-of-text can be marked. The bookmark (40) is usable in both soft-cover books and larger hard-cover books.

Abstract: An apparatus having a generally triangular shape and for helping a person read includes a housing with oppositely spaced edge portions and oppositely spaced end portions integral with the edge portions. The housing further has substantially planar top and bottom surfaces with respective openings formed therein and a slot formed generally medially between the top and bottom surfaces of the housing. The apparatus further includes a plurality of colored films selectively positionable into the slot and for assisting a user to differentiate a group of words in a line from a remainder of words in other lines.

Abstract: A marker device for to a user the location in a piece of literature where the user was previously reading. The marker device includes a panel member for positioning between pages of literature. The panel member has a front side and a back side. A front surface of the front side has indicia thereon. The panel member has a top end and a bottom end. A marking membrane for producing markings on the front side of the panel member is releasably positionable on the front side of the panel member. The markings are producible on the panel member adjacent to the appropriate indicia relating to positions on the pages of the literature when the marking membrane is depressed against the front surface of the panel member, and deletable when the marking membrane is separated from the panel member.

Abstract: A cartridge (1) for an injection device carries a code represented by a number of bars (2, 3, 4, 5) mainly perpendicular to the axis of the cartridge. The bars (2, 3, 4, 5) are mainly transparent and are each along its whole length provided with an optical grating which diffracts and reflects light impinging the surface carrying the code so that a minor part of this light is reflected from the surface of the bar as a set of light beams of which beams at least one is detected for the indication of the presence of the bar when said bar passes a reading light field. The reflections from the bars may be interpreted as representing “1”s and “0”s in a binary code.

Abstract: A book mark is provided for marking a selected line and column of a book. The book mark includes a flat elongated member, first and second page indicators and a column indicator. Each of the first and second page indicators includes an indicia positioned on the flat elongated member. The column indicator indicates a specific column in a book having dual column pages.

Abstract: A document holder includes upper and lower plastic sheets superimposed on each other to define a document holding space therebetween. A saddle member of a flexible and heat sealable material is heat sealed on two corresponding edges of the upper and lower sheets to form a stiffened ridge, and first and second straddle portions that extend along an entire length of the stiffened ridge. A rider has a riding portion slidably disposed on the straddle portions and a tab index holding portion exposed outwardly of the stiffened ridge into which a tab index can be inserted to classify the documents held in the document holding space.

Abstract: A book mark is provided for marking a selected line, column, and page of a book. The book mark includes a flat elongated member, first and second page indicators, a line marker, and a column indicator. The flat elongated member has a first end, a second end spaced apart from the first end, and a middle region situated between the first and second ends. Each of the first and second page indicators includes an indicia positioned on the flat elongated member. The line marker marks the selected line, is fixed relative to and spaced apart from the first and second page indicators, and is situated in the middle region of the flat elongated member. The column indicator indicates a specific column in a book having dual column pages.

Abstract: A kit is disclosed for improving reading comfort or increasing interest in reading, the kit comprising at least two differently-colored transparent overlays. Also disclosed is a method for improving reading comfort or increasing interest in reading comprising the steps of sequentially placing each of at least two differently-colored overlays over the material being read, subjectively determining which of the differently-colored overlays provides the maximum eye comfort while reading or creates the greatest interest in reading, and placing the overlay that provides maximum eye comfort or interest over the material being read.

Abstract: An electronic bookmark for a copy holder that aids a user's ability to ascertain viewed text on paper retained by the copy holder is provided. The invented copy holder includes vertically adjustable indicating device that directs the user's attention to text adjacent without the use of a guide or illumination of the paper, so that text is not obscured or distorted. The copy holder comprises a backboard for retaining paper thereon and a plate rotatably coupled thereto. The plate has a bottom surface configured to releasably couple the plate to the backboard without interfering with paper interposed therebetween. The indicating device comprises a display that extends along a top surface of the plate. The display preferably comprises an array of electrodes, such as a liquid crystal display, light emitting diodes, or signal lamps, with desired segments of an array activated for directing a users attention to a selected portion of text on the document.

Abstract: A bookmark that identifies a line last read as well as whether the line is on a right page of a book or a left page of the book. Disposed upon a first side of the bookmark is a left page designator which includes an arrow for pointing to a line of text and an alphabetic designation for denoting the left page of the book. Disposed upon a second side of the book is a right page designator which includes an arrow for pointing to a line of text and an alphabetic designation for denoting the right page of the book. The alphabetic designation on the second side of the bookmark is arranged to be upside down with respect to the alphabetic designation on the first side of the bookmark.

Abstract: A bookmark for marking a page and line in a book. The bookmark includes an elongated planar body having an upper terminal portion that provides a relatively large flat surface for the display of matter such as decorative and whimsical designs each of which includes a dominant design element. The bookmark further includes a finger engaging indicator piece that substantially corresponds in size and shape with the dominant design element of the imprinted design and is slidably movable along a slit provided in the body from a first position overlying the design element to a second line marking position.

Abstract: A protective jacket includes a central panel and two end panels, at least one of which has a material strip easily removed by hand along a vertical perforation. This material strip has a circular opening at an end to hold a magnifying lens and a slotted portion at an opposite end which defines a tongue with which the material strip can be hung from a top edge of any page in a book. The material strip can thus be used as both a magnifying lens and a bookmark. A protective jacket according to a further embodiment of the present invention includes a plastic magnifying lens suspended from an interior surface of the protective jacket. An even further embodiment of the present invention includes a plastic magnifying lens suspended from the binding of a book. The present invention is not limited to books, but can be utilized with all types of printed materials, such as maps.

Abstract: A bookmark for making a page and line in a book. The bookmark includes an elongated planar body having an upper terminal portion that provides a relatively large flat surface for the display of matter such as decorative and whimsical designs each of which includes a dominant design element. The bookmark further includes a finger engaging indicator piece that substantially corresponds in size and shape with the dominant design element of the imprinted design and is slidably movable along a slit provided in the body from a first position overlying the design element to a second line marking position.

Abstract: A placemark has mutually magnetically attractive surfaces disposed opposite one another. The magnetic surfaces are connected to each other by a flexible connecting web, such that they can be separated from each other and closed again on opposite sides of a sheet, for example a page of a book. The placemark is held in position on the sheet by the force of the magnetic attraction between the magnetic surfaces. Thus, the magnetic surfaces grip the periphery of the sheet between them. The placemark further comprises preferably a marker web which extends from the connecting web.

Abstract: A self-sticking removable marker arrow system in which a series of consecutive marker arrows are defined either transversely or longitudinally on a strip of sheet material with a pressure sensitive adhesive being applied on the strip on the contact surface of the marker arrows in the area of the heads and at least some of the area of the shafts thereof. Means are provided such that individual marker arrows can be detached from the others on the strip for use as a removable marker or signal on a document and in tailoring and dressmaking and the like.

Abstract: An apparatus wherein a line reader support housing is mounted to an articulated framework that in turn is securable to a support table. The line reader housing includes a transparent reader bar in operative relationship with a step motor to effect vertical repositioning of the reader bar relative to an underlying sheet member.

Abstract: A bookmark that locates a particular page in a book and a specific line on that page includes a body having an elongated slot with an indicator rotatably and slidably mounted in the slot to identify the desired page and line. On one side of the bookmark the indicator includes indicia which point in one direction and on the other side of the bookmark the indicator includes indicia which point in an opposite direction so that no matter which side of the bookmark faces a reader when the book is opened, the indicia will always point to the desired page and line.

Abstract: An indicating device for use with x-rays and similar light transmitting substrates is constructed as a flat, rigid, translucent material coated on one side with a light transmitting temporary adhesive which will temporarily secure the indicator to the substrate at the point of interest.

Abstract: A book mark that locates an exact line, column, and page in an open book having two or one column pages. The bookmark body is encircled with a slide with an index line that can be moved vertically to align with any line of the text. Two sets of indicia are on the body. One set indicates the desired page, the other set indicates the desired column. In use, the body is first oriented so that the indicia indicating the desired page and column are at the upper portion of the right hand page. And then the slide is moved to indicate the line on that desired column and page.

Abstract: A flexible elongated transparent computer page place marker having a longitudinal marking surface for locating specific printed lines of information on a standard printed computer page and raised projections extending from the underside thereof for engagement of the tractor drive holes on the computer page. The marker includes a longitudinal slit having a plurality of column locators positioned within the slit and slidably moveable therein for locating column information on said computer page. In one embodiment, the marker includes a tab at one end thereof adapted to be placed under a computer printed page when the marker is supported on top of the page to secure the marker to the paper and aid in positioning thereon.

Abstract: A programming aid device for aiding in the interpretation of collimated fields of data in a computer printout. The device includes an inscribed data record which is in a format which corresponds to the collimated fields of the computer printout. When the device is positioned in association with a single row of the computer printout and properly aligned, the data record identifies the data fields of the computer printout. Eyecatcher data is provided in the data record to match up with identical eyecatcher data in the selected row of the computer printout to aid in the alignment of the data record with the selected row of the computer printout. The device also includes an information section for interpreting data in the selected row of the computer printout in accordance with designator data associated with predetermined fields of the data record.

Abstract: A device is shown in the preferred embodiment of the present invention for holding a knitting pattern and for indicating the pattern position. The pattern is held to a pattern support face of a pattern support member by a clip member. The pattern position is recorded and visually summarized at a single location by a single notation member. Specifically, the notation member includes an elongated bar member movably mounted on the pattern support member for visually underscoring the row of the pattern. Further, and simultaneously, the notation member includes members for indicating other pattern information, shown in a first preferred form as indicators slidably mounted in grooves formed in the elongated bar member and in a second preferred form as pegs receivable in apertures formed in the elongated bar member which indicate the pattern position by indicating numerals forming a pattern position guide.

Abstract: A sheet of opaque plastic the shape and dimensions of a book page, with an arrow cutout shaped in the sheet extending beyond the page on the right edge as viewed when a book is opened, to indicate as to whether it is the upper or lower part of either page where the user's reading was interrupted. Also, a self-adhesive movable arrow label positioned on the right or left edge of the opaque plastic sheet to indicate the exact line on either page where reading was interrupted. This enables a reader to locate the exact line where reading was interrupted without looking over approximately eighty lines on two pages by glancing at both arrows. In addition, by viewing only five lines through an elongated rectangular cutout, eye strain is reduced.

Abstract: A reading instrument for magnifying certain chosen printed material on a page or sheet of paper and for visually isolating the chosen material from other, adjacent printed material, the instrument including an opaque plate that is provided with a slot, an elongated magnifying lens attached to the plate in alignment with the slot, a permanent magnet spaced from the lens and attached to the plate and a flat lamina of a ferrous material that is positioned under the printed page so as to inhibit the plate from sliding along or falling off of the page due to its magnetic attraction to the lamina.