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The lettering guide name card has a flat printed area and an area covered by releasable adhesive-mounted parallel strips. Some of the strips are removed to provide lettering spaces, and the remaining strips provide guidelines for lettering.

An ink jet printer in which refined half-tones or shades of gray are produced while retaining high contrast capability using a dot matrix in which the dots are of the same density for the same shading plus or minus one drop of ink at selected dot locations within the matrix but with each dot being printed...     

A typewriter using an alphabet in which the letters are obtained from a single type of sign, the machine capable of being equipped with teletransmission and telereception devices, and means for use by the blind.

A stock certificate having a planar body with indicia thereon denoting the body as a single stock certificate. The body has two portions; the first corresponds to a first type of interest in the stock and has indicia thereon denoting the first type of interest; and the second corresponds to a second...     

A typing guide formed of a single backing sheet having footnote indicating indicia printed on the front surface of the backing sheet and footnote samples printed on the back surface of the backing sheet. The footnote indicating indicia provide a dual method of determining footnote spacing. The indicia...     

A printed illustrated text, printed alphabetical text and printed illustrated index are all correlated to a set of recordings intended for audio visual display and which are in turn topically arranged. In addition the illustrated index may by themselves be recorded in their entireties for audio visual...     

A biorhythm calculator comprising at least two members, a rhythm scale member and a key scale member. The rhythm scale member has a major surface having a biorhythm cycle thereon, the cycle being identified by numbers of the days of the cycle, with the numbers being divided into at least three groups...     

An apparatus for and method of comparing an inventory of a competitor's products with a supplier's suggested inventory are provided utilizing a competitor's part numbers sheet having a first arrangement of the competitor's part numbers thereon with a vacancy adjacent each part number for marking the...     

A directional sign for providing observers with directional information to a particular location or event and including a rectangular signboard with indicia provided on one face of the signboard describing the particular location or event. Three directional indicators are provided on the face of the...     

Full-scale representations of animal tracks indicating animal activity are located on a sheet. The sheet is placed outdoors in a natural setting where the tracks may be interpreted by an observer.

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...     

A medical history record filing system including a plurality of attachment sheets for holding medical test records and a plurality of medical record sets. Each medical record set includes a plurality of separable portions and at least one of the plurality of separable portions is adapted to be attached...     

The present invention relates to a micro-marking label to be applied to an article for identification. The label is formed from a thin microsized plate of generally transparent material which includes a marking indicia thereon. The indicia is divided into a plurality of digital areas each of which are...     

An audio-visual teaching machine so made that, when any one of a plurality of independent visual teaching contents respectively appearing in a plurality of windows is pressed with a finger, an audio teaching content corresponding to the pressed visual teaching content may be automatically reproduced...     

A race horse selector includes three discs mounted on a common pivot pin behind a cover disc. Different sized discs are used to expose the outer margins. The margins are divided into equal sectors and numbers 1-12 randomly distributed thereon. The cover member has four spaced openings, one spanning all...     

A device for removing self-adhesive labels from a substrate includes a blade portion and a handle portion. The blade has a first normally downwardly facing flat surface for contacting the substrate and a second opposed normally upwardly facing generally convex surface. The first and second surfaces come...     

A segment display wherein each segment is selectively energized to display, respectively, all numerals of the Arabian writing as distinguished from "arabic numbers". The segment display uses only seven or fewer segments for displaying all numbers by employing common use of segments for different numbers....     

A promotional coupon vehicle designed for display in association with a particular product line or for distribution by mail or other media to consumers. A first surface region illustrates the particular product and offers a discount on a purchase of the product line. A second surface region is delineated...     

A visualizer presentation device comprising a portfolio having a display cover hingably joined to a storage cover and the storage cover has detachably secured thereto at least one file of hinged transparent sleeves for receiving file cards. The display cover has corner pockets configured so as to receive...     

The paper described is a sort of graph paper on which shorthand may be written. The writing lines are dived into segments, each segment consisting of an arrangement of circles, squares or other shapes. The segments are repetitive. If the pen or pencil is set down in a square or other shape and writing...     

A coin carrying plastic card of a size for carrying in a card carrying section of a wallet or the like including a plastic card body of a first thickness, a hole in the plastic card body for receiving a coin of a second thickness, an edge on the card surrounding the hole, the hole being of slightly larger...     

An indexed pipe made of Polyvinyl Chloride, Cast or Ductile Iron, Clay, or Asbestos Cement that is buried in the ground or totally enclosed and requires access. The indexed pipe is marked in any accepted system of measurement, such as feet or meters, which would reveal pipe end locations during an excavation.

A perfumed pendant which has a three-dimensional configuration and comprises a front vinyl sheet having a design printed thereon, a back vinyl sheet having a design mating with the design on the front vinyl sheet printed thereon and welded at the outer peripheral edge thereof to the outer peripheral...     

A multi-page folder having a staggered array of interleaved pages successively flipped by manual actuation of a drawstrip. The folder includes a back cover panel bounded by a right fold line joining it to an overlying contiguous base panel, a central slot formed near the fold line joining the back panel...     

A duplicating stencil has its heading strip in the form of two separate regions separated by a perforation line. The holes on one region have a different arrangement from those on the other regions, so that tearing along the perforation line allows one region to be separated from the rest of the stencil...     

A typing or printing apparatus for communicating in the Chinese language, wherein the characters typed or printed represent separate sounds, and the characters of the font are currently employed characters of the Chinese language.

An article (e.g., a tire, a package, a label) having upon a surface thereof one or more identifying words composed of a plurality of letters chosen from an alphabet of distinctive letters. The letters, when uninverted, are readily distinguishable from one another upon comparison of the characteristic...     

A paper web is continuously printed with simulated engraving by an embossing die formed with projections for printing a dot matrix or a simple bar projection. In a printing operation, the embossing die acts on the backside of a preprinted web of paper with the embossed dot or bar pattern being in registry...     

A reusable greeting card formed of a single-folded sheet having the greeting message provided on the upper portion of the card. The sheet is vertically folded and has at least one removable first sender's signature section extending across the bottom of the card and attached to the card by a frangible...     

A plastic card mounting an IC memory of a credit card size called a music card stores encoded digital music information including tone, musical interval, musical length and loudness of each musical note and pause, and said music information actuates a synthesizer which generates music sound signal. The...     

For use in photographic package printing, selected negatives are cut from the film rolls and mounted in individual paper negative carriers, imprinted with bar-coded order details. A novel reader-feeder reads the bar-coded order on each of the carrier and stores the order in the memory of its microprocessor....     

A paper web is continuously printed with simulated engraving by an embossing die formed with projections for printing a dot matrix or a simple bar projection. In a printing operation, the embossing die acts on the backside of a preprinted web of paper with the embossed dot or bar pattern being in registry...     

Stock price tracking apparatus includes a base having at least one side; a chart removably mounted on each side and each chart including a first scale and a second scale; a lever associated with each side for monitoring a stock price to determine when to sell or retain a stock, each lever removably and...     

A puzzle including a plurality of symbols each of which is representative of at least two characters. Some of the symbols are adapted to be selectively converted to any one of the at least two corresponding characters, and some of the symbols are adapted to be selectively converted to at least one of...     

A phonetic alphabet in script form called soundwriting was first adapted to English with thirty-seven letters, each representing a separate speech sound. The script uses no silient letters or other learning blocks. Spelling is made regular using soundwriting. It is adapted to a keyboard. By adding additional...     

Carbon paper duplicating sheets, such as those used in credit-card transaction forms, are made easily destroyable after authorized use without hand-soiling by incorporating, into the tissue paper base of the carbon paper sheets, filament strands arranged in repetitively alternating angular relationship...     

Gypsum wallboard, for use in drywall construction, printed with suitable identifying indicia on the face using an optical brightener which is visible only under ultra-violet light. The wallboard is identifiable as to source, after the board is installed, and even after having been painted.

A label for affixing to a container comprising a longitudinal strip divided into a series of panels by a plurality of transverse fold lines, the first two panels forming a front cover and a back cover respectively for enveloping the remaining panel or panels of the strip when folded, the transverse fold...     

A greeting card having a confetti delivery system which is triggerable is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the card includes a rupturing adhesive on the inside of a leaf opposite a confetti packet attached to a different leaf. A removable protective coating or covering prevents the confetti packet...     

Card or postal media which comprises a storage member to retain audio information picked up by a microphone, a sound generating member including a speaker, a mode selection signal producing member to allow either record or playback to be selected, a controller performing record or playback according...     

A booklet is provided with a front cover having attached on the inside portion a conventional book of postage stamps. The pages of the booklet are perforated near the center of the booklet and the pages contain merchandise discount coupons for use by an individual who has purchased the booklet at less...     

The invention comprises a greeting card having first and second hingedly connected sheets with indicia thereon in conventional format, with the addition of a third hinged sheet juxtaposed with the second sheet and in sealed relationship thereto. The third sheet is sealed to the second sheet around their...     

A plurality of sheets each being substantially the same width and length are combined in a face-to-face relationship, with common first ends of adjacent sheets offset from each other a predetermined distance. The combined sheets are folded on a common fold such that one of the sheets is folded over itself...     

A photo check is provided in which a photograph of a person is disposed upon a check to make quick identification of the person authorized to sign the check. A photograph dispensing device is also provided for adhering a photograph of the person onto the check.

Fonts of characters of an alphabetic and numerical set thereof are described wherein each character of a set is formed from a dot-like pixel matrix and exhibits a predetermined constant and equal number of pixels. Any illegal alteration of the characters of the font set is avoided by forming the dot-like...     

A package for at least one diskette having a computer program recorded thereon. The package is formed of a planar sheet of paperboard which has been cut to a shape and folded along predetermined lines. The package includes a base panel on which the diskette is disposed, a pair of flap panels, each being...     

A device for writing in a shower or the like has a substantially flat support and a stack of sheets attached to said support and arranged so that the sheets are connected with each other along their upper edge and two lateral edges to prevent penetration of water between the sheets.

A greeting card is an article of manufacture comprising a piece of card stock having a message imprinted thereon. The message is uniquely appropriate for being sent or given by one person (or a plurality of persons) to another person who is related to the sender(s) in a professional or business way....     

A paper file folder has a repeating inked grid pattern. Each element of the pattern has printed lines surrounding an uninked background. The folder is used as an office product to provide decoration, a means for neat uniform labelling and a surface for optimal glue adhesion.

Molded-in advertising panels which may be integrally formed with any of the walls of a plastic shopping cart basket. The molded-in advertising panel includes a plate portion, molded with and recessed from the outer surface of the walls of the plastic basket, and a frame element. The frame element for...     

A conversion tab assembly for conversion of a top-index file to a side-index file, consisting of a base sheet having a tab portion at one end of the sheet, an adhesive to mount the tab assembly to the top-index file, the tab being adjacent to one side edge of the file, and the primary sheet having a...     

The present invention is a symbol 10 that includes a square array 12 of data cells 14 surrounded by a border 30 of orientation and timing data cells. The border 30 can be surrounded by an external data field 18 also including information data cells 20. The orientation and timing for sampling each data...     

Business form assemblies are provided in continuous form, separated by transverse lines of perforations, each of said assemblies including a three-part form. In one embodiment, the intermediate and lowermost form parts include repositionable labels carried by carrier plies, and carbon transfer sheets...     

The present invention provides a process for coating paper having printed ink on its surface which comprises applying and adhering a transparent plastic to said paper while said ink is wet. Preferably the paper used is newsprint and the ink used is carbon black. The present invention also provides an...     

A blanket for covering the printed document comprising an elongated sheet of flexible transparent material having a vertical height substantially equal to the vertical height of the document which is covered and a horizontal length substantially equal to the horizontal width of the document to be covered,...     

A transparent overlay that can protect a document from tampering has a transparent cover sheet, a layer of hot-melt adhesive over one surface of the transparent cover sheet, and an image formed on the exposed face of said hot-melt adhesive layer. The transparent cover sheet can be a simple thermoplastic...     

A note card is sized and shaped for repeated insertion into a shirt pocket. The preferably white card has lines for notes on a front side, and rounded corners to help the card slide into a pocket repeatedly with little resistance. The card is of a certain selected thickness and stiffness, for a ceratin...     

A learning aid permitting the student to insert a worksheet into a rigid body having space between two planes. One of the plaens is clear permitting the instructor to mark on it, performing the work demanded by the underlying worksheet. The instructor's marking is erased and the student attempts the...     

A writing pad containing a stack of horizontally aligned sheets, each of which is cut to the same size and shape. Initially, the sheets are stacked so that the corner edges of the stack are perpendicularly aligned with the top and bottom sheets. Preferably, the sheets in the stack are assembled in sets...     

A prescription pad comprises a plurality of units each comprising an associated preprinted prescription leaf and preprinted check leaf; the preprinted prescription leaf bears a preprinted prescription for a distinct pharmaceutical product as well as a zone for entry of patient information and a zone...     

An information bearing assembly comprises at least two cards each bearing informational indicia on both their front and rear faces. The cards are pivoted together via a pivot connection between the center of the lower edge of the first card and the center of the upper edge of the second card, so that...     

A sheet used for laying out or composing lines of text, art work and the like for subsequent photographic reproduction in the printing and graphic arts industries, in which the sheet has non-photographically reproducible indicia on one side or face thereof to facilitate aligning and positioning of the...     

A method of producing correspondence wherein stationery is equipped at a suitable location with a transparent pressure sensitive adhesive-backed label for coincidental typing with the stationery and which is removable thereafter for application to a blank envelope.

An information converter for use with a pre-printed information listing, such as a television programming guide listings chart comprising a transparent film means such as a plastic sheet for superimposing onto the listings chart such that substantially all of the listings presented on the television...     

The present invention deals with a variety of advanced perpetual calendars, combined calendars, multiple calendars.

A stack of sheet assemblies, each of which sheet assemblies comprises first and second sheets each having front and rear major surfaces and first and second opposite edges, a first layer of adhesive adhering a portion of the rear surface of the first sheet adjacent the first edge of the first sheet to...     

A fragrance-releasing insert for a magazine, book or the like comprises a leaf having four at least partially overlapping sheets. At least an adjacent two of the sheets including the first and second sheets are substantially cut through to define a first portion of a removable unit, and at least an adjacent...     

A referencing device has a corner constructed of two generally rectangular plies and closed along two adjacent sides to receive a larger generally rectangular sheet and with provision on the outer plies for informational indicia.

The present invention relates to a quality indicator for a gemstone and more particularly to such a quality indicator for a gemstone composed of a chart with coloration in a plurality of colors and an indication of a grading scale in terms of the grades expressed in and with reference to the colors of...     

An electronic printing system for scanning signature pages for signature jobs in which the pages of the document are placed face down in registered position on the platen of a scanner such that the signature images are side by side in the fast scan direction in order to enable an array to view both images...     

Disclosed is a method of confirming the identity of a patient with an individual to receive a treatment intended for said patient, by (a) obtaining a print identification characteristic of said patient; (b) obtaining a print identification characteristic of said individual to whom said treatment is intended...     

The disclosure is directed to a chart listing medications, dosage times, and notes. Tactile and visual medication symbols and marking elements denote specific times for taking specific medications. Medication containers are similarly marked.

A greeting card is constructed of at least one or two panels of a sheet-form material having at least a portion of one surface of at least one of the panels being substantially smooth and non-porous. All surfaces of the panels are printable. A thin sheet of static cling vinyl overlies and is electrostatically...     

A matchmaking or personal compatibility indicating device including a base member, a plurality of visually sensible indicator locations formed on the base member for indication of characteristics by the user of the device and apparatus cooperative with the first and second plurality of visually sensible...     

A card construction includes an envelope portion of a card in the form of a sleeve or pocket with an opening at the top which receives and holds a slideable pullout. A tab is formed by a reverse fold at the lower end of the pullout. The rear face of the envelope includes an aperture or window which engages...     

A lithographic print of a color photograph which includes printed lettering in an area where the density of the ink dots which reproduce the photograph is reduced to enhance the visibility of the printed lettering. The print is prepared by superimposing a screen having a substantially lower dot density...     

A laundry ticket is provided that has separable tag portions with adhesive strips on opposite ends on one side thereof. The tags are threaded through a button hole and the two adhesive portions brought together to attach the tag to a garment without the use of staples. The tags bear bar coded identification...     

The present invention relates to a method of protecting a philatelic item for alteration, which philatelic item bears a mark identifying an expert or owner of the item and possibly an additional distinguishable mark specific to the philatelic item. The invention further relates to a method of preventing...     

A greeting card for commemorating a particular date includes a front sheet having a obverse face, a reverse face and a pair of laterally spaced apart opposite edges, apertures in the front sheet configured and placed for presenting an image of at least a portion of the date at the obverse face of the...     

A yearly calendar with multi layered structure is disclosed consisting of fundamentally identical single-faced and/or fundamentally identical double-faced sub-calendars corresponding to different periods of the year and assembled in chronological order. In abstract a preferred embodiment is a single-faced...     

A method and device for reordering items stored as groups in an inventory of items which includes an order sheet and a group of labels deposited with each group of items. Each label has a part number corresponding to the item and an index mark printed on one side and a second side treated with a peelable...     

A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front of the...     

Most golf greens slope, which causes balls that are putted on them to follow curves, rather than moving in straight lines. An heuristic visual device is provided to assist a golfer in estimating how a putted golf ball will "break" on a sloping green. The invention provides graphic representations of...     

A greeting card with a rupturable tissue paper confetti package that spews confetti when opened by the surprised recipient. The confetti package is mounted on the inside of one of the card leaves and a water soluble transparent adhesive aligned on the other leaf is activated by moistening and then pressing...     

A greeting card includes a folder having mutually hinged front and rear rectangular panels, a tubular cookie cutter outlined to simulate an object separably attached to the front panel outside face and a cookie dry mix containing envelope separably attached to the front panel inside face. A cookie recipe...     

A multi-sheet overlay is placed over a basic television programs listing. Two of the sheets of the overlay are removably adhered together, one sheet being a transparent sheet and the other being a non-transparent sheet. The non-transparent sheet is selectively kiss-cut so that select sections of the...     

A rotatable binder insert for supporting and holding such articles as calculators or other electronic devices, to-do lists and check lists, self-stick removable notes, etc., that are used to supplement, or in conjunction with, information written on the pages of the binder. Inasmuch as such information...     

A plurality of pairs of identifying tags are provided. Each pair is made up of two identical tags, with each tag of each pair having a main, elongated, body-portion, preferably made of plastic, such as polyvinylchloride, in which is embedded a thin, elongated strip of flexible, pliable steel wire. In...     

A mailing device and method including a bar coded return label removably mounted to the original communication, but attachable to a return envelope supplied by the recipient. An original document includes a letterhead having the label removably mounted thereto which duplicates the identity of the sender...     

A method making a publication for use by organizations within a particular association which includes placing generic graphic representations on a plurality of page sets. The generic graphic indicia is subsequently enhanced by superimposing added indicia to the generic graphic indicia so as to depict...     

A garden planning kit including a book having a bottom panel, first spiral binder attached to a marginal edge of the bottom panel, second spiral binder attached to an opposite marginal edge of the bottom panel, and a plurality of transparent overlays. A first overlay is attached to the first spiral binder,...     

A reference-aid article which can be used as an index marker, game marker, or coupon marker is disclosed. The reference-aid is formed from a multi-faced substrate which is adapted to accept information on at least one of the faces. The substrate also has at least one marker member (18) and at least one...     

A conveniently personalizable paper product is provided by a piece of folded cardstock paper having one or more die-cut doors in the front half of the paper which, when the paper is folded together, align with designated message areas located on the inside surface of the back half of the paper. A layer...     

The disclosure is directed to a chart listing medications, dosage times, and notes. Tactile and visual medication symbols and marking elements denote specific times for taking specific medications. Medication containers are similarly marked.

A Garden information Kit has two elements which provide all the information necessary for successful planting, growing and harvesting of crops. The first element is a set of data cards both carrying information and having means to easily sort the cards carrying the desired information. The second element...     

A business form is provided ideally suited for use by an organization that delivers products, and/or which relies heavily on phone orders. A first paper sheet has a face, back, and first size. Indicia is disposed on the face, and a first pattern of repositional adhesive is disposed on the back. A second...     

A greeting card assembly including a basic greeting card member with a removable message insert assembly connected thereto. The basic greeting card member is provided with an insert mounting opening and insert anchor tabs which are connected to the removable message insert assembly. The removable message...     

An improved binder attachment having a frame and an article, such as a calculator, mounted thereto. The frame includes a center portion and two arm portions. A slot engaging element is mounted to each arm portion so as to define an opening therebetween. The article is received in the opening and has...     

A promotional note page includes a first page portion having space for writing notes, a second page portion in the form of a business card, and a separation line for separating the first page portion from the second page portion. Letterhead notation along at least one edge of the first page portion is...     

A romantic greeting card which has several distinct use zones for conveying romantic feelings from the sender to the recipient. One use zone is an adhesive zone that is covered by selectively removable sections of release paper for exposing a desired area of adhesive to be used for mounting a photograph...