Abstract: An improved water filter unit including a casing having a removable snap-type cover with the casing mountable to a surface or free standing. The casing including a plurality of removable different type water filter cartridges, each of which includes a pair of different water filters, connected to a manifold formed in the casing. The casing including a pair of change water filter indicators.

Abstract: An indicia display device is disclosed together with several processes for forming the device from a single piece of paper stock. The device includes a freely rotatable pivotless wheel element having indicia fixed thereon, a circular pocket for pivotlessly and rotatably containing the rotatable wheel element in the circular pocket, a viewing opening through which indicia on the wheel element are selectively visible, and a support guide along the perimeter of the circular pocket which abuts and guides the rotatable wheel element during rotation.

Abstract: A coin dispenser and numerical register (10) having first, second, third, fourth and fifth numerical wheels (13), (15), (17), (19) and (21) and first, second and third coin receptacles (23), (25) and (27), mounted in a portable housing (11), is described. The first coin receptacle has a sleeve (37) for mounting a plurality of coins (35) while the first numerical wheel is mounted on a shaft (49) with an associated registering gear (51). The first coin receptacle and the first and the second numerical wheels are serviced by a common wire (47). The wire forms a spring (47b) that is disposed in the sleeve of the first coin receptacle for advancing the plurality of coins after an upper most coin is removed from the receptacle. The wire also forms a pawl (47c) in ratchet engagement with the registering gear of the first numerical wheel and an associated registering gear of the second numerical wheel.

Abstract: An information recording device containing a body in the form of a thin plate having at least one and preferably three wheel wells rotatably receiving an alpha wheel, numeric wheel and a color coded wheel. The first two wheels are mounted in wheel wells formed in the top surface of the body and have portions extending past one of the side edges of the body positioned under windows in the top cover exposing a single letter or number. The third wheel is mounted in a wheel well formed in the bottom surface of the body--overlapping and underlying the first two wheel wells--and also has a portion extending past the other edge of the body. The third wheel contains color segments viewed by window apertures formed in the body and the bottom cover plate covering the other surface of the third wheel. Each wheel well has a rear hollow recess and a flexure cavity thus formed. A flexure strip bridges the cavity behind the line of circumference of the well.

Abstract: An indicia display device formed from a single piece of paper stock comprising a rotatable wheel element having indicia fixed thereon, a circular pocket for pivotlessly and rotatably mounting the rotatable wheel element in the circular pocket, and a viewing opening through which indicia on the wheel element are selectively visible.

Abstract: A door sign device includes an actuator mounted on the inner door surface of a door that has inner and outer door surfaces so that a user can move the actuator between first and second actuator positions, and a follower mounted on the outer door surface so that the follower can be move between first and second follower positions that each correspond to a respective one of the first and second actuator positions. Coupling components are included for coupling the actuator to the follower magnetically so that the follower follows actuator movement, and indicator components responsive to the follower being in the first follower position indicate that a predetermined sign applies.

Abstract: A display button includes a front body member which has an opening or window. A disc-shaped member is rotatably mounted behind the front body member and retained there by a retainer member wedged or friction-fitted into a rearwardly folded circumferential lip or ear of the front body member. The disc-shaped member has at least one slot into which an indicia carrying insert can be inserted either through a slot of the window or of the retainer member. A plurality of distinct and unique indicia are affixed to the disc-shaped member on the side which faces the front body member, positioned so that each indicia can be brought into registry with and selectively displayed through the window.

Abstract: An indicator for taking medication having a first plate with a background color and at least one colored portion of a different color, a second plate independently movable on the front face and having a images formed so that the colored portion is visible through at least one of them so as to form a plurality of indicator positions. The plates are movable relative to one another and releasably fixable in each of the indicator positions in which the colored portion is visible through a respective one of the images. In addition, the center area of the plate may have its own images and be independently movable relative to a surrounding outer ring. Further, a pill dispenser with a plurality of radial grooves containing pills may be attached under the second plate. The first and second plates have openings; when they are aligned, any pill within the corresponding groove may be removed.

Abstract: A lid construction adapted to be utilized on bowls and the like includes a lid member having top and bottom surfaces, a first set of indicia disposed upon the top surface of the lid member, a rod member extending through and upwardly from a center portion of the lid member, and at least two rotatable discs including a first rotatable disc mounted on the lid member and rotatable relative thereto about the rod member, the first rotatable disc including a cut-out portion extending therethrough defining a window and a second set of indicia disposed thereupon, and a second rotatable disc mounted on top of the first rotatable disc and rotatable relative thereto about the rod member, the second rotatable disc including a cut-out portion extending therethrough defining a window.

Abstract: A rotary drive mechanism for toys, kinetic sculptures, and the like, employs a pawl and ratchet mechanism to transmit driving torque between a driving wheel and a driven inertia wheel. The driving wheel may itself be driven by means of a drive string that may frictionally engage a circular drive surface to permit the driving wheel to be rotated independently with limited slippage between the string and the drive surface. A fixed and uniform amount of energy can be imparted to the driving wheel and the driven wheel through a spring that is connected to the drive string and preloaded by a predetermined amount. A second inertia wheel can be mounted coaxially of the one inertia wheel and both wheels may operate with random motion through an interference coupling. The pawl and ratchet mechanism in one embodiment forms an escapement to provide intermittent drive to the wheels. The inertia wheel is rotationally unbalanced with a weight offset from the axis of rotation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a rotary indicating device adaptable to, for example, wheel covers for motor vehicles. The device includes a rotary base member having, on its front or rear surface, a plurality of indication regions which respectively consist of completely the same desired images and arranged at equal angular intervals about a rotary axis of the rotary base member. When the rotary base member rotates at more than a predetermined rotational speed, an observer located at a predetermined position with respect to the device can view a distinct constant image, appearing at a predetermined position of the rotary base member, due to the after image phenomenon.

Abstract: A display device for use in constructing remote controlling billboards, bus destination signs, and the like has a two-sided display disc which is carried on a pivoted support. The display disc is rotated by the application of force from a piezoelectric crystal drive to a point on the support which is off of the axis of rotation of the support. The crystal drive responds to DC voltage of one polarity or the other to rotate the display disc to expose a dark side or a light side to the viewer.

Abstract: A marker for separately indicating a plurality of related materials comprising a base plate including a first section having at least one numeral row circularly arranged thereon and a second section having an area on which a plurality of predetermined items are printed. A plurality of pointers are rotationally situated in the center of a first section of the base plate, and an indicator is situated in a second section of the base plate. The indicator includes a guide groove extending through the area where the printed items are indicated, and a plurality of sliding pins slidably situated in the guide groove to immovably point the items when required. The pointers are independently moved relative to each other without influencing the other pointers and are marked to be distinguished from each other. The sliding pins of the indicator are marked to correspond to the pointers respectively for recording necessary information by mutual cooperation.

Abstract: A toy or novelty is disclosed which is in the form of standing mobile and has a series of parts each pivoted to another and each provided with eccentric weights. The weights and the arrangement of the pivots may be operative to pivot the parts from a position aligned with each other to a position extending from each other when the stability of the parts is sufficiently disturbed from the condition of stability when such parts are filed or folded. Alternatively, the parts may simply rock in an undulating fashion from the extended condition of stability. Some of the parts may have printed matter thereon which make sense or nonsense in one condition of stability or make sense or more sense in the other condition of stability. Some of the parts may include two parallel walls substantially to enclose other of said parts in the filed position. The parts may be circular in form and of reduced diameter in ascending order in one condition of stability.

Abstract: An ornament has a frame. There is a central fixed disc attached to the frame and a picture of the central fixed disc. An annulus surrounds the central fixed disc and is rotatably mounted in the frame. A magnet is positioned in the annulus. Weighted figures are mounted on the rotatable annulus. The figures bear a relationship to the picture on the central fixed disc. A magnet can rotate the annulus by magnetic effect on the magnet in the annulus so that the weighted figures rise and fall as the annulus rotates to change the displayed scene.

Abstract: This foldable composite panel comprises a core of a rigid material divided into an even number of equal areas by articulation devices, a rotary element centered on the core and also made from a rigid material and including articulation devices, the rotary element being angularly movable between a first position in which the articulation devices of the rotary element and the articulation devices of the core are coincident, and a second position in which the articulation devices of the rotary element and the core do not coincide, the core and the rotary element being sandwiched between two lateral sheets. The articulation devices of the core and rotary element are rectilinear and are preferably orthogonal and corresponding.

Abstract: An educational game comprising in combination: (a) a segmented disc having indicia in at least one of the segments; and (b) a spoke-like configuration pivotally secured to the disc adjacent the center thereof whereby selected segments of the disc can be aligned with the spoke-like configuration, the spoke-like configuration having a plurality of divided areas extending radially and outwardly thereof away from the disc, indicia in at least one of the areas corresponding to that on the segment and further common indicia on the segment and the area. The spoke like configuration and disc can be rotatably and removably mounted on opposite sides of an apertured container.

Abstract: A device for displaying indicia is provided comprising:(a) at least one cover member having at least one visual display means on at least one surface thereof; and(b) at least one display member slidably movable by gravity with respect to at least one of said cover members within a predetermined area underlying said cover member, said display member having at least one prepositioned indicium on at least one surface thereof, said indicium registering with at least one of said visual display means, whereby said display member slidably changes position with respect to said cover member under the force of gravity in response to rotation of said device in a substantially vertical plane to change the registry of said indicium with respect to said visual display means.In preferred embodiments of this invention a perpetual and yearly calendar is provided.

Abstract: The rotatable wheel assembly includes a wheel member rotatably sandwiched between a pair of cover members. Grommetless securing means are provided on at least one of the cover members for securing it to the other cover member through an axial opening in the wheel member. The grommetless securing means, which in one embodiment constitute an adhesive patch formed on at least one of the cover members, also function as a pivot for rotation of the wheel member with respect to the cover members. In other embodiments of the invention, the grommetless securing means comprise an adhesive patch member, which can be formed as an appendage to one of the cover members, that spans an opening in one of the cover members to adhere to the other cover member through the axial wheel opening.

Abstract: An indicia display device including an outer casing having at least one opening or window. A non-planar guideway is provided within the casing and a sheet of flexible material is mounted for rotation within the guideway and conforms to the non-planar configuration of the guideway. The sheet carries indicia, such as numerals, words, or the like, which is disposed in a generally circular pattern about the axis of rotation of the sheet, and the window is located in alignment with the pattern of indicia. By rotating the sheet within the guideway, the indicia can be successively exposed through the window to the viewer.

Abstract: A communications device including a display panel having a plurality of symbols arrayed thereon in a circle, each of the symbols indicating a particular idea to be communicated, and a pointer projecting radially from the center of the circle. An indexing mechanism is provided for producing incremental relative rotational movement between the pointer and the display to cause the pointer to be aligned with the next successive one of the symbols upon receiving a single manual input. Preferably, there are two display panels facing in opposite directions and a pointer corresponding to each panel. Each symbol on one panel has counterpart on the other and the pointers move in synchronization.

Abstract: A two-sided portable scoreboard for simultaneously displaying a set of two-digit scores both frontally and rearwardly upon a single setting thereof. A pair of disks is sandwiched between a front and rear plate for each set of scores to be displayed. The disks are axially mounted so that a portion of each overlaps a portion of the other, their centers being positioned so that one is slightly more than a radial distance from the other. At least one of the disks has a transparent center section that has a diameter roughly equal to one-half the overall diameter of the disk. A set of scoring symbols are selectively positioned and uniformly spaced around the circumferential portion of both sides of each disk. Windows, or other viewing portions, are placed in both the front and rear plates so as to allow a desired sequence of scoring symbols to be viewed therethrough as the disks are rotated.

Abstract: A hand held microfilm reader wherein the film is maintained within the reader housing and the controls for positioning the film are easily manipulated by one hand. An optical system provides an intense automatically focused image projected onto a screen for viewing by the user. The light source is a conventional lens end bulb that has been rendered uniformly directional by its having been mounted in pre-aligned relationship with respect to a clip which is configured to be precisely registered with remaining portions of the optical system.

Abstract: The device comprises a casing in the form of a circular ring having two conically converging outer surfaces provided with symbols and two identical circular discs inserted in the casing and provided each with an arrow. The discs which lie in parallel planes are held together by a bolt and are rotatable in the casing independently of each other in both directions. On the inner side of the casing there are provided recesses, the number of which corresponds to the number of the symbols. In each disc there are provided locking means, which reenter in one of the recesses for locking the disc during its rotational movement.

Abstract: A biorhythm cycle indicator includes a housing having a plurality of substantially sinusoidal shaped windows shaped to define the extremes of a given cycle with an indicator continuously visible within each window indicating the deviation from the norm within the cycle. The indicators comprise markings on the face of a pair of meshed gears driven at a rate defining the cycle with the markings on the face thereof visible within the window. A clock motor is provided for continuously driving the plurality of indicators, each at a rate defined by its cycle. Adjusting knobs and shafts are provided for adjusting the cycle to that of an individual's biorhythm cycle.

Abstract: A portable score keeping device for use in strenuous games such as tennis, racket ball, Ping-Pong, etc., suitable for attachment to the wrist or the waist of the player, is constructed so that successive points and games as they are scored may be fed into the device and totals shown through windows visible to the player. A novel ratchet and pawl arrangement facilitates the feeding in of data to the device and prevents errors which might be caused by improper registering or accidental movement of the mechanism during play.

Abstract: A calculator for use by an individual on a strict diet such as a diabetic to expedite food item selection for a complete single meal in accordance with a predetermined calorie, carbohydrate, protein and fat diet plan. The device includes a plurality of smaller diameter circular discs having viewing apertures rotatably affixed to a larger disc which cooperate for rapid selective registration of complete daily meals from a plurality of entrees or primary foods, the device including daily meal plans for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The device, through movement of the discs, also allows for individual food item exchange per meal in accordance with a particular dietetic plan to allow the individual a variety in the selection of food items to be consumed.

Abstract: A rotary indicating device comprising a rotary drum supporting respectively rotatably a plurality of indicating plates, a ring-shaped spring fitted on one side surface of the rotary drum and resiliently pressing the respective rotary shaft portions of the plurality of indicating plates in a direction along the diameter of the rotary drum and a member for turning the plurality of indicating plates in turn with the rotation of the rotary drum so as to be able to be simply assembled and to stably hold the indicating plates in the indicating position.

Abstract: A credit card or the like having permanent indicia thereon for designating an authorized user of the card and one or more rotatably adjustable discs with coded indicia thereon which may be viewed through a window in the card to complete a coded designation of authorized use.

Abstract: At each of four spaced-apart locations between stiff sheet members two, but preferably three, discs are rotatably supported by pivot elements. The upper and lower discs have a smaller diameter than the disc between them whereby an annularly-shaped marginal face surface of a central disc is exposed. Each marginal face surface and the face surface of the smaller discs contain printed indicia which is selected by rotating the discs for positioning into an aligned relation with window openings cut into the sheet members. These window openings are, in turn, aligned with window openings in a selected one of a plurality of cover sheets. A peripheral edge segment of each disc extends outwardly beyond the edges of the sheet members.

Abstract: A multi-dial, manually operable indicator employing color-coded, alphabetical and numerical indicia which are indicative of railway or road vehicle destinations, regardless of whether they may be local or outbound, major or minor vehicle defects requiring repair, other varied information requiring matching of indicia for proper vehicle selection, and other indicia affording useful information to the driver of the associated vehicle or highway or railway personnel. A novel clutch mechanism which is effective under the control of a single knob affords selective dial rotation while other manually operable knobs effect pointer operations indicative of the condition of special vehicle equipment such as refrigeration apparatus or the like.