Abstract: A display model resembling a vehicle that has been sectioned longitudinally by a verticle plane. The display model being constructed of a plastic or other material suitable for moulding, incorporates a simulated vehicle interior portion incorporated into the baseplate. Simulated seat and steering wheel and other interior components are also included within the display models interior. In addition, the display model may also include functional features, such as, an opening hood and door and illuminable lights.

Abstract: A modular mass display replica of a selected prepackaged product is disclosed that includes a plurality of vertically stackable display sections, each section having a four-sided prism configuration and a predetermined height, depth and width functionally related to a preselected number of the packaged products to be displayed in each of the display sections. Each of the sections is rigidly formed of a preselected plastic material, the outer vertical surfaces of each of the sections replicating the typical external visual trade dress of the preselected pre-packaged product for visually portraying or replicating the preselected number of products stacked in contacting relationship based upon the predetermined height, depth and width functionally related to the preselected number of the products to be displayed. The display sections may be attached to each other to permit removable vertical stacking of each of the sections and prohibit relative horizontal movement between adjacent ones of the sections.

Abstract: The present invention provides a collapsible riding companion as a criminal deterrent. In one embodied form, the riding companion includes a simulated human head and torso which sits against a seatback. The simulated head and torso is maintained upright against the seatback by draping a connected piece of fabric, which has a series of horizontal metal bar weights sewn into it, over the seatback. The torso may then be covered with a t-shirt or a zippered, collared shirt. In another embodied form, the simulated human head is retracted into the torso section and the fabric with the horizontal metal bars is removed from the seatback to cover the top of the torso. In this form, the riding companion becomes a lightweight, easy-to-carry rectangular case for travelling.

Abstract: An advertising device for a vending machine which can display the image of serving drinks out of a tea-kettle into a cup or the like. The device includes first and second displays installed inside of a transparent or semitransparent billboard in front of the machine. The first and second displays are controlled to operate in relation to the operation of the machine and display the images of serving drinks out of the tea-kettle and the steaming from the cup respectively.

Abstract: A member of sheet material has cut out portions and fold lines, so that when it is folded up and central areas attached together to form a spine display areas are provided in different planes. The display area may be used to display a photograph or picture having with any one of a large range of sizes. The bottom edge of the member may have a V-shaped cut-out so that it leans back slightly when erected.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device, preferably of molded plastic, having simulations of cold-cut slices of various common thicknesses, available for visual and tactile inspection, mounted edgewise on a point-of-purchase display board. Numerical quanta in direct proportion to slice thickness is printed adjacent each slice for allowing the purchaser to select slice thickness by number.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed herein having a base defining a display area between the opposite surfaces of a pair of plates in which a member is magnetically supported on a filament extending between one plate and the member which a magnetic is mounted on the other plate. Magnetic material or a second magnetic is carried on the member in attractive relationship to the first magnetic so that the member is magnetically suspended in the display area pulling taut against the filament. Articles to be displayed such as photos or the like are mounted for visual observation on the member.

Abstract: An inflatable plastic structure simulating a beverage can or bottle with a capped end. The upper end of the structure is provided with an annular lip projecting vertically from the peripheral edge thereof. The lip is adapted to be folded down over the end of the structure, and may be provided with a tubular ring inflatable separately from the structure to resemble the rim of a beverage can.

Abstract: A greeting card comprises a relatively rigid substrate and a layer of resilient material having a first part secured to a surface of the substrate and a second part preformed to define a self-sustaining and elastically deformable three-dimensioned graphic figure. The layer second part is unsecured with respect to the substrate and is in movable relation thereto. The resilient layer first part defines continuous expanse in adhesively secured relation with the substrate surface and the layer second part is perimetrically continuous with the layer first part. The layer first part defines an interiorly open perimeter constituting the border outline of a face and the layer second part defines a face contiguous with the border outline. Also disclosed is method for making such greeting cards. Envelope structure is shown which permits breathing of the card and non-deformation of the graphic figure in transit.

Abstract: An inflatable indoor/outdoor display figure is described in the nature of a stork 10. It is made free-standing by the use of a weighted bottom 36. FIGS. 1-4 on top of a rigid board-like material 38, which rests on the bottom panel 22 FIGS. 1-4, to give it a flat base. In FIGS. 1 and 2 the bottom panel 22 has reinforced holes 24 around its perimeter. Using mounting fasteners 26 it can be attached to the ground 28 for outdoor use. Adjustable straps 20 FIGS. 1 and 2 or the adjustable sleeve 42. FIGS. 3 and 4 can be pulled to various degrees to enable the inflatable figure to stand vertically on uneven or non-horizontal ground. An optional display area is also provided for permanent or non-permanent messages.

Abstract: A toy apparatus for generating a captive vortex comprises an upright transparent cylindrical enclosure filled with a selected quantity of a liquid and gas. A vane, sleeve and disk assembly coaxially mounted on a motor drive shaft, extending axially into the enclosure through its lid, is angularly rotated by the motor in response to manually operated electrical controls connecting a source of electrical energy with the motor.

Abstract: A shape memory alloy actuator for rotating a pair of rotary members simultaneously and symmetrically like a butterfly moves its wings. The two rotary members are rotatably connected to each other at each one end portion thereof and biased in rotating directions opposite to each other by a biasing device. A wire-shaped shape memory alloy extending in a direction intersecting the rotary plane of the rotary members and fixed at opposite end portions thereof are associated at the intermediate portion thereof with a connected portion between the rotary members. When heated, the alloy shrinks attempting to return to the original length it remembers, and pushes the connected portion to rotate the rotary members against the biasing device. When cooled, the alloy, being stretched, allows the rotary members to be rotated back to their initial positions by the biasing device. A butterfly device involving the actuator is also disclosed.

Abstract: A device for displaying decorative articles such as photographs, greeting cards, or the like having five sections which are pivotably attached to one another for rotation about the pivot in adjacent parallel planes so that the sections may be shaped to conform to various patterns such as the arch of a doorway or the outline of a window frame and folded into a single longitudinal section for easy storage and packaging. The display is adaptable to various size doorways by providing a slideable attachment with respect to the relative edge of at least two adjoining sections. The display may be utilized for supporting and displaying decorative articles in a convenient and attractive arrangement.

Abstract: A process for producing three dimensional pictures which begins with a photograph. A mold is first sculptured by affixing a picture of the image in the photograph to a pliable mass such as clay, and then sculpturing the mass using the picture as a guide as to where to place elevations and depressions. Next, the photograph is subjected to steps which result in the removal of the backing, and the lamination of the photograph with the backing removed in plastic. Next a "Vacu-Form" machine is used to heat soften the laminated photograph and then suction pull the combination over the mold. The mold and the photograph are alligned during the pulling step and the result is that the photograph takes on a third dimension which has eleveation and depressions placed as they should be placed by reference to the image in the photograph. The result is an article which retains a third dimension with no need of any supporting materials.

Abstract: An emotional gift device in the stylized representation of a human heart and which comprises a container having a three dimensional stylized human heart representation located therein. A motor which is not visable to the viewer operates a drive shaft which, in turn, rotates a cam upon actuation of a switch. The rotation of the cam causes the stylized representation of a human heart to oscillate in a manner similar to the pumping action of a human heart.

Abstract: Means and method are provided for creating giant simulated soft drink bottles, with distinctive shapes more particularly the type having generally longitudinally extended ribs which serve as trade dress. The construction utilizes a series of side panels which are laid out and sewn edge to edge, subsequent to which chalk lines are marked onto the side panels, indicating where the furrows between the longitudinal ribs are to go, and gussets are sewn along each chalk line and centrally restrained with a strap or the like which runs longitudinally of the bottle, so that when the top and bottom portions are installed and the unit is inflated, the trade dress ribs and furrows are well defined in the outer surface of the bottle.

Abstract: An inflatable display is adapted to be towed over the surface of a body of water and includes an inflatable body which in the disclosed embodiment has an elongated ballast along the bottom to provide a keel-like structure and a blower to continuously force air into the body to keep it inflated against the slight deflation that continuously occurs at seam lines, etc. A tether is extended from the body to a tow vehicle so that the float can be towed along lake surfaces, bays and beach fronts for promotional purposes.

Abstract: A self-mounting display calendar made of a multisheet paper pad having an upper mounting portion contained in a lightweight casing which is a packaging replica bearing distinctive indicia of a package design, e.g. serving as an advertising display, and a lower detachable portion on which calendar dates are printed, the two portions being separable along a tear line formed by two opposing edge notches and a number of two-dimensional perforations which occupy a major part of the tear line between the notches, a double-faced adhesive mounting being attached to the outer back side of the combined pad and casing. The resulting display device is readily mounted on a vertical surface with sufficient adhesive strength to resist the weight of the device and the force needed to detach each paper sheet bearing a calendar date.

Abstract: A manipulatable toy puppet is supportable on a human torso and also on a display support in a manner which resembles the torso-supported puppet. The puppet's arms are detachably secured around the manipulator's neck by Velcro-type fasteners, and the puppet's legs are secured about the manipulator's waist by an adjustable elastic band. The puppet figure is made of a soft plush-covered material to simulate animal fur. The display support has a humanoid-like portion which resembles the upper part of a human, and an arm support portion which resembles the upraised human forearm. Hence, the body of the puppet can be supported on the arm support portion, and the puppet's arms and legs can be mounted on the display in a manner which simulates the hugging-type pose in which the puppet is supported on a human being.

Abstract: A wine list display container provides a horizontal barrel having a horizontal division cut therethrough providing bisymmetrical upper lid and lower base portions, each having coinciding mating face portions. At least one hinge is provided for connecting the upper and lower base portions together in a hinged fashion, the lid being movable on the hinges between closed and open positions. A pair of spaced feet are attached to the base for securely supporting the horizontal barrel on a flat surface, such as a table. An inner rack mounted within the barrel and on the barrel base supports a plurality of substantially equally sized information cards which can contain for example individual information on differing wines. A plurality of equally sized information cards are provided which removably and temporarily can be attached to the rack within the barrel with the cards and the rack being contained within the barrel when the lid assumes a closed position with the face portions mating.

Abstract: A multi-sided display device assembleable from a plurality of sheets bound in book-like fashion by a binding allowing free movement of the sheets. Each sheet is cut-out to define a display flap which is selectively displaceable away from the uncut bound portion. The cut-out portions are adapted to form a self-locking coupling with an adjacent sheet to form a three dimensional device with a substantially regular polygon formed on a plane perpendicular to the sheets. The invention allows fabrication of the device from a flexible material.

Abstract: A simulated vehicle radar transceiver is molded as a single, unitary piece of plastic material in the form of an elongated body having a large end which simulates the visual appearance of a vehicle radar antenna, a smaller end, and a horizontal projection which is adapted to be clamped between the top edge of an automobile window and the top of the respective window frame.

Abstract: A display apparatus of the type wherein an object is supported by magnetic force to create the illusion that the object is floating or flying. In the apparatus, the magnetic force is balanced against gravity. Magnetized material is utilized which may be alnico, ceramic, or other compound or alloy or a material such as rubber bonded barium ferrite composition, the material being magnetized through the thickness or diameter of the material. That is, the magnetic material may be in the form of a flat elongated bar or a cylindrical bar or the like. The N pole is opposite the S pole over the entire surface area of the material as distinguished from a rod or bar that is magnetized through the length with the N pole at one end and the S pole at the opposite end.

Abstract: A three-dimensional product marker of one-part construction for mounting in the channel of a stocking shelf includes a generally rectangular flexible flat sheet which has an information-bearing front surface and support panels which extend outwardly from the side edges of the flat sheet and have information-bearing rear surfaces. A vertical slit is formed in the flat sheet near one of the support panels and is sized to receive the other of the support panels and thereby permit the panels to be pulled across and away from each other behind the flat sheet to impart a cylindrical shape to the flat sheet and place on the same side the information-bearing surfaces of the flat sheet and the support panels.