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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4888473 | Wafer disk location monitoring system and tagged process carriers for use therewith A method and system for monitoring the process of a plurality of batches or semiconductor wafers or memory disks through a series of process operations and process carriers for use therein. Each batch is placed in a carrier in which it is transported to t... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4877948 | Combination bar code and mark-sense reader A combination reader capable of reading a document containing both bar coded and manually marked information. The read information is processed, displayed and stored.... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4874935 | Smart card apparatus and method of programming same A smart card (20) including a microcomputer (40). The microcomputer (40) being programmed with a smart card control program (50) and a data dictionary (52) defining the data to be stored in the microcomputer.... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4847473 | Card vending machine A pickle card dispenser comprising a cabinet having a front portion adapted to display the pickle cards in a vertically disposed manner with the vertically disposed cards being in communication with a plurality of card trays provided in the cabinet. The f... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4835377 | Programmer for identification system A tag has a memory programmable to store alphanumeric indications in a pattern identifying an object associated with the tag. The stored indications are convertible to signals transmitted to a displaced reader in an individual pattern at first and second ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4831242 | Control system for health club facilities and equipment A control system for a health club which stores user records including user activity data in order to monitor and control use of the club's facilities. A central controller includes a memory for storing the user records including attendance data and accou... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4829445 | Distributed routing unit for fully-automated flexible manufacturing system Segments-in-process (SIPs) of material are automatically routed through a material handling system by distributed routing units under the guidance of a host computer system. The material handling system comprises a network of intersecting material paths. ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4827110 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the location of wafer disks A method and system for monitoring the process of a plurality of batches of semiconductor wafers or memory disks through a series of processing operations. Each batch is placed in a carrier in which it is transported to the locations where the processing ... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4827109 | Photographic printing system A photographic printing system comprising a printer-processor; a plurality of non-contact IC cards in which various printing conditions, printer-processor operating conditions, and the like are stored; and an IC card read-write unit for reading and writin... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4825053 | System for weighing an article and for editing a label serving as a transport coupon The invention relates to an automatic system for weighing an article, with editing of a transport coupon. According to the invention, the system comprises, around a microprocessor (5), a scale (3), a payment card reader (11), a keyboard (4) for the custom... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4814592 | Apparatus and method for storing and retrieving articles A machine from which a customer can selectably purchase or rent a videocassette or return a previously rented videocassette. The machine comprises a videocassette storage device for storing a plurality of videocassettes in discrete, identifiable locations... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4807140 | Electronic label information exchange system An electronic label data exchange system has work posts adapted for data transmission with objects passing through the posts and with a central control. The objects are provided with electronic labels having a non-volatile memory which may be cleared and ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4800512 | Method and apparatus for determining and detecting data indicative of the condition of machines through a unique data probe including a test data probe portion and an identifying data sensing probe portion A measuring instrument for determining and evaluating data representative of the condition of a machine provided with measuring points is provided with a test data probe, incorporating a test data receiver and an evaluation circuit with memory for picking... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4755661 | Connection of electronic components in a card An improved data and/or program carrier housing structure in the form of a data card or the like which securely protects integrated circuit modules housed therein from physical damage. The card of the present invention is designed such that the illegal us... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4711994 | Security system for correlating passengers and their baggage A method, and its associated system, for maintaining a close and accurate security surveillance of both the passengers and their baggage on a public conveyance, to insure that, before departure, baggage is not loaded aboard the conveyance without a prior,... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4704517 | Automatic storage and retrieval system and method A system and method for automatically storing bar coded elements such as containers for electronic components in storage bins such as drawers in a cabinet and for providing access to only the drawer containing a desired element substantially eliminates hu... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4697072 | Identification card and authentication system therefor A card holder inputs personal identification number (PIN') data as secret data and transaction data (AMT) in an LSI in an identification card through a keyboard. The LSI calculates encrypted data (SAN) in accordance with the input data (PIN' and AMT). The... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4686358 | Programmable electronic-mechanical reversing flat key interactively communicatable with data processing means A metal flat key with depressions arranged in the key shank for receiving radially displaceably tumbler pins located in the lock rotor for use as a mechanical key outside and as a mechanical/electronic key inside a closing means with additional electronic... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4683553 | Method and device for protecting software delivered to a user by a supplier The invention relates to a method and a device for protecting software delivered to a user by a supplier. The method amounts to rendering the programs non-executable in the state in which they have been delivered to the users. With each program (Pi | 07/28/1987 |
| 4654512 | Machine readable information carrier An information carrying card has an EPROM device. Individual steps of a manufacturing or inventory scheme are operated using the card. Information can be added to or deleted from the card by a central processing unit or a local read/write device. The info... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4634846 | Multimode programmable stand-alone access control system A card reader operated in proximity to secured area control point including an operating system therein to provide multiple operating modes. The card reader is operable to provide access to a secured area by entry of an identification code, which is read ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4599509 | Access security control This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4588880 | Non-contacting code recognition system for code carriers on production line workpieces To permit ready change of information on information carriers applied to workpieces which travel along a production line, for example to control further operating, machining or assembly steps, non-contacting sensors, typically inductive elements generatin... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4493038 | Data recording machine A cash register with a keyboard (31), journal printer (47) and a check slip printer (32) is controlled by a microprocessor system with a CPU (102), a program ROM (105) and a RAM (106) including various registers for storing running totals of various types... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4471216 | System and process for identification of persons requesting access to particular facilities The user has a credit card incorporating electronic devices and/or circuits. The facility which is to be protected has an electronic device and/or circuit analogous to that of the credit card. The devices of the credit card and of the facility contain in ... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4458142 | Programmed electronic keycorder unit A miniaturized card unit, resembling a standard credit card, incorporates solid state counter, a multiplexer means, and a small battery. The counter may be incremented or decremented in accordance with a direction control signal. A multiplexer in the card... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4442345 | Apparatus for and method of recycling recording carriers, such as credit cards, including non-volatile erasable memories for identification data A credit card includes a memory having first and second zones in which are respectively stored variable and fixed data. The data stored in the first zone includes first, second and third bit fields respectively representing a card serial number, a card in... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4417136 | Method and apparatus for improving bank operation productivity A system for improving the processing of financial transactions using direct customer entry of the transaction data and automatic verification of this data during proof operations. Each customer prepares his own transaction slip via a remote terminal, whi... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4415802 | Cross identification system and lock The system described is a positive cross identification system finding use in assuring that the proper medicaments are used for the proper patient. In this system, a patient's identification (I.D.) number is read by an optical scanner. Next, the I.D. numb... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4387296 | Portable utility billing apparatus A lightweight portable utility billing apparatus is described for enabling a utility (private or public) meter reader to: (1) read utility meters of a number of utility customers on a selected route and obtain current meter value information from each cus... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4385231 | Unlocking system for use with cards An unlocking system is used with cards each having recorded thereon a secret number, a plurality of subnumbers, a specifying code for selecting at least one of the subnumbers, and an effective period. The system comprises a card reader for reading the dat... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4323771 | Automated time and attendance system An automated employee time and attendance system having a central processor and a plurality of sub-systems which are capable of providing data used by the central processor in payroll determination. Each sub-system is capable of maintaining clocking infor... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4309600 | Machine tool This invention has to do with an automatic manufacturing system and, more particularly, to a plurality of work stations to which a variety of workpieces are carried by a network of conveyors, in which means are provided to identify each workpiece and mean... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4214153 | Tape and tape reader arrangement for programmable controllers A tape and tape reader for industrial process programmable controller systems in which the I/O functions for process steps have been laid out in sequentially consecutive binary notation fashion computer data word form, in the order of sequence of the proc... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4208576 | Automatic reader of processing condition data for articles to be processed in an automatic processing system A pneumatic apparatus used for reading punch cards containing processing condition data for articles being processed in an automatic system. The apparatus has a pneumatic reading head for reading the punch cards, and the head has a plurality of air condui... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4194686 | Method of monitoring and controlling the travel and operation of the travelling accessory machines in a coking installation A larry car, a quenching car, a pusher and other such accessory machines travel along the length of a coke-oven battery. Each coke oven is provided with coded structure absolutely indicative of the oven-number of the oven within the battery. The travellin... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4126779 | Remittance processor Apparatus for processing batchs of remittance and transaction documents by operating an encoder in accordance with a program stored in memory. A central processor unit sequentially generates a plurality of groups of data signals in accordance with the pro... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4049950 | Animal food consumption monitor A system for determining and registering the amount of food consumed in a given period of time by each of a plurality of animals, such as cattle, comprising a feed station which the animals can enter individually and separately for feeding purposes. The f... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4010354 | Method and apparatus for tire identification Magnetically encodable tags in tape format are written sequentially with tire identifying data and applied to the sidewall material of a green tire. The encoded data may be read from the tire at any point in the tire manufacturing process and the signals ... | 03/01/1977 |
