Abstract: An emergency kit contains a metallized foil punch adapted to form a cap for the user and containing a metallized foil sheet in the form of a poncho, the foils having gold metallized outer surfaces to facilitate detection and silver metallized inner surfaces for maximum retention of body heat. The pouch also contains a supply of vitamins.

Abstract: Sheet materials are provided which are photoluminescent by virtue of their coating.These sheet materials comprise a textile or other flexible sheet material substrate to which adheres a coating layer consisting of one or more synthetic resins admixed with a photoluminescent complex, the latter comprising (a) a phosphorescent metal sulphide such as zinc, calcium, cadmium or strontium sulphide and (b) a first substance which absorbs energy of short wavelength and emits it within the absorption spectrum of the said sulphide and with or without (c) a second substance which is fluorescent and which imparts to the said sheet materials a daytime coloration different from their nighttime coloration.The sheet materials may be textile sheet materials useful for the production of garments, in particular safety garments and furnishing fabrics. Self-adhesive materials may also be produced.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement of the inventor's French patent No. 2,323,343.The present invention comprises three improvements of which the first provides that the sleeves are adjoined by an oblique folding line which extends from the armpit to the neck; the second provides that the sleeves are adjoined horizontally to form a "T" with the rest of the garment and the folding lines extend transversely to the sleeves; the third improvement provides a strip enveloping the garment partly or completely as soon as the garment is folded to a strip.These improvements increase the comfort in use of folding waterproof garments.

Abstract: A folded structure having utility as the base structure for fanciful novelty structures. The structure is comprised of a base sheet and four outer sheets. The base sheet has eight alternate convex and concave folds. The four convex folds pass through the center of the base sheet and the midpoint of the four sides of the base sheet. Four concave folds pass through the center of the base sheet and through each of the four corners. Four smaller outer sheets are connected to the outer edge of the base sheet. The outer sheets are bisected by convex folds extending outwards from the four respective corners of the base sheet. The resulting structure is a hingeable, flexible, easily-opened structure that can be folded flat making it a useful base for novelty structures.

Abstract: This invention concerns a waterproof garment for protection against rain made from a waterproof sheet material which garment consists of an assembly of preformed, permanent, parallel folds which when gathered give the garment the appearance of a band the final width of which is substantially the same as the width of a belt.

Abstract: A shoe-stiffening material useful as a stock material to stiffen selected parts of a shoe, which material comprises: a flexible fabric material saturated with a latex composition comprising a natural or synthetic elastomeric polymer, such as styrene-butadiene rubber, and a cross-linking system comprising a peroxide agent, a vinyl polymeric activator and a metal oxide catalyst, which system is adapted to effect cross-linking of the polymer at a temperature and in a time period employed in the shoe-manufacturing process, the sheet material optionally coated on one or both sides with an adhesive thermoplastic polymer, whereby the flexible sheet material may be employed between an outer leather and an inner shoe liner, and forms a bonded, stiff stock material as a box toe stiffener or shoe counter.