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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7254855 | Multi-purpose hand tool and scribing apparatus utilizing multi-purpose hand tool A multi-purpose hand tool has a first member having a first portion and a second portion. A second portion member is slidably and pivotally coupled to the second portion of the first member. A coupling assembly pivotally couples the second member to the second porti... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7043850 | Transparent measuring device with seam allowance guide A transparent measuring device having a planar structure, a plurality of markings, at least one window, and a seam allowance guide. The planar structure has an upper surface and a lower surface, and the markings are formed on the lower surface of the planar structur... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6950731 | Traffic pattern approach computer A mechanical computer used in tandem with a GPS to approach, enter and fly the traffic pattern of any uncontrolled airport. Pilots must navigate to a relatively small area or approach point before entering the traffic pattern of an uncontrolled airport. While airpor... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6658746 | Navigation plotter A navigation plotter is made of a thin, flexible, transparent, light weight plastic with a straight-edge. The straight-edge has a distance scale. There is an reference point at the mid-point of the distance scale used to determine true course. The remaind... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6134796 | Aircraft navigational plotter A simple easy-to-use aircraft navigational plotter is disclosed. The device is used in conjunction with the signals and readouts received from a pair of VOR (Very high frequency Omni-directional Range) stations. A pair of plotter arms is rotatably connect... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5983509 | Marine navigation device Device for positioning and orienting a boat on a navigational chart by data supplied by a communication via satellite (Global Positioning system), more commonly designated G.P.S., comprising two superposed disks, one serving as lower protractor (D1) provi... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5241754 | Navigational aid for use with a map, chart, or the like A pair of members (8) and (9) are joined by a pair of parallelograms (11) and (13) and when the members (8) and (9) are semi-circular in shape, they provide an apparatus and method whereby they may be positioned adjacent each other to form a circular memb... | 09/07/1993 |
| 4941264 | Device for reading directly from a chart the heading to be followed by an air or sea-going vehicle A device is provided for directly reading from a chart the heading to be followed by an air or sea-going vehicle, comprising a disk with, at its periphery, a circular coaxial graduation of the "compass card" type movable in rotation with respect to this d... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4879812 | Aerial map navigational aid A pair of transparent pressure sensitive stick-on film disks in the form of compass roses and a pair of transparent film VOR arms are removably attached to the center of the roses by cooperating male/female snap mechanisms. The VOR arms can be manually ro... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4866852 | Aeronautic chart removably attachable course and position locator An aeronautic chart course and position locator is removably attachable by means of an adhesive backing to an aeronautic chart. The locator is made from a clear supple polymer film and comprises a 360 degree compass rose and a rotatable course and mileage... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4720921 | Navigational instrument A navigational instrument for measuring bearings and distances on maps comprising a first leg and a second leg. Each leg is transparent in part for convenient use while reading a map. Each leg, additionally, is tapered toward a lower end, defining a tip a... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4637143 | Plotting device A course plotting device comprises substantially parallel first and second legs, substantially parallel third and fourth legs which are pivotally connected to the first and second legs so that they cooperate therewith to define a collapsible parallelogram... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4512087 | Navigational aid device A navigational aid device of the type comprising a disc supporting a map, especially a chart, a protractor being movable over said map, a first carrier movable in the longitudinal direction of said disc, and a second carrier which is movable on said first... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4499665 | Course correction calculator A novel course correction calculator, consisting of a sheet of transparent material 1 with inscribed reference line 2, centering points 3 and 4, radial lines 5 and 6, circular arcs 7 and circles 8, is provided whereby a heading correction and a speed corr... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4347669 | Navigational calculating device This disclosure relates to a new navigational calculating device which provides a mechanical means of solving position finding problems by solving a plane right triangle. It is an alternative to traverse tables, trigonometric formulas, and chart plotting ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4327500 | Computational aid device for Ekelund ranging A computational aid device for Ekelund range determinations comprising a e member adapted to be placed over a bearing/time plot and including two leg members to be aligned with intersecting bearing rate lines faired through the plot, and a range scale po... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4283861 | Plotting device A plotting device for use on a nautical or air chart for course finding in which there is a body portion which has graduations which are in scale with the chart with which the device will be used. There will also be a straight edge on this device and a ro... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4270278 | Wind vector resolution device The disclosure teaches a device for creating an infinite number of vector triangles such that a vehicle's speed may be set as one leg of a vector triangle and the apparent wind's speed and direction may be set as a second leg, solution of the third leg yi... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4208805 | Navigational calculating device This disclosure relates to a new navigational calculating device which provides a mechanical means of solving position finding problems by solving a plane right triangle. It is an alternative to traverse tables, trigonometric formulas, and chart plotting ... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4096635 | Navigational computer This disclosure pertains to a navigational computer having three arms slideably and pivotably secured to one another. A pair of compass roses are affixed at the intersection of one arm to each of the adjacent arms. Angularly disposed indicia, on the compa... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4095342 | Radio navigation aid A navigation aid for visually indicating to an aircraft pilot or other user the distance and bearing to a destination by use of radio navigation information from two pre-located sources. The axis of a compass rose representative of the destination is pres... | 06/20/1978 |
