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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7284493 | Easy-to-open sheet package body A sheet package body P has a first package body 1 and a second package body 2. The first package body 1 is disposed on the second package body 2 by overlapping in part, said overlapped portion L is set in a double chain stitch sewing mach... | 10/23/2007 |
| 6978565 | Device and method for communication with housekeeping services A device for communicating a hotel guest's instructions to hotel housekeeping services, and method for such is provided. The communication device provides a means for the guest to indicate whether or not to clean the room or other like instructions or commands. Addi... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6932668 | Method for a customer-controlled stuffed toy A customer-controlled method of stuffing a toy which provides a multi-media interactive experience for a customer that enhances the overall pleasure of purchasing a stuffed toy. A tangible embodiment of a personality is chosen by a purchaser. The tangible embodiment... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6899332 | Game piece and method of playing a game and supplying the game piece A method and an apparatus by which rules and record keeping in games employing miniature figures as game pieces are incorporated onto the base of the miniature figures themselves. Counters or wheels keep track of a character's characteristics and how they change as ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6561250 | Display device A display device includes a frame, a first screen, a second screen, a third screen and a fourth screen. The first and second screens each have a distal end that is movable generally in a first direction between a first limit position and a second limit po... | 05/13/2003 |
| 5903990 | Chinese sexagenary cycle calendar A Chinese sexagenary cycle calendar including a calendar stand, a celestial stem ball marked with the 10 celestial stem signs and revolvably supported within a ball socket at a front side of the calendar stand, and 12 individual animal pictures and one 12... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5815964 | Hidden message greeting card A greeting card kit which includes a greeting card containing a "hidden message." The greeting card includes an imprinted crossword puzzle type lattice having open squares and spaced numbers each keyed to either an "across" or a "down" heading. A recipien... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5269086 | Decorative photo/imagery display and date reminder A multi purpose decorative frame and special date reminder for multiple photos/images. The date/information which is positioned next to its allied photo/image, in a symmetrical frame. When the front panel is rotated the date/information and photo/image ca... | 12/14/1993 |
| 4777747 | Numerical price designating apparatus and method An inexpensive, quick change pricing display on a sign board employs one or more basic numerical arabic figure eight digits of a segmented construction. Each basic numerical eight is made up of designator segments that may have contrasting color with resp... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4729184 | Changeable digital display device A manually changeable digital display device capable of displaying the numerals zero through 9 comprises a background panel having an optic or brightly colored face and a one-piece foreground panel adjacent to and parallel with the background panel. The o... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4688341 | Apparatus for providing two indicators in association with goods in a store display An assembly for providing a visually discernible indicator and a bar code in association with goods to be sold, includes a tray having opposing side walls and a front panel containing the bar code in association with the goods; first and second clips secu... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4669611 | Package group A package group comprising at least two individual packages fastened together in stacked, registered superimposed relationship by a wrap around band. The wrap around band is adhesively attached to two adjacent sides of the package group symmetrically with... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4597209 | Changeable display device A changeable display device comprising a support member created out of a plurality of parallel rails forming display channels and said rails being attached together by cross members. Oppositely colored rows of back plates are mounted to said rails. Displa... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4565023 | Indicia display means Indicia display means comprising an indicia-bearing member having one or more sets of visible indicia located thereon in predetermined locations, and a mask member arranged to overlay the indicia-bearing member, the mask member having perforations or open... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4542603 | Display sign including changeable numeral characters A sign for displaying prices and other information, in which at least one numeral character is changeable to display any numeral from zero through nine. A plurality of flap members are each pivotably attached to a flat foundation portion of the sign by re... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4509280 | Three-dimensional greeting card A greeting and toy device comprises an animal simulating toy including a main body member consisting of a closed flexible soft envelope containing a soft resilient filler puffing the envelope and an animal part simulating section joined to the envelope an... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4475297 | Decoration for a novelty Novelty ornamentation such as for a cover in the form of a non-disposable sleeve for a disposable cigarette lighter of conventional design is disclosed. A novelty appearing and disappearing image presenting assembly is situated on one side of the sleeve a... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4472896 | Paperboard food carton A carton serving as a container for a food product, such as a hamburger. The carton in one embodiment is of the so-called clamshell type and includes an upper lid and a lower tray, both the lid and the tray being of generally truncated pyramidal shape. Th... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4404543 | Down marker indicator for football competition An improved indicia display apparatus particularly useful for displaying indicia indicating the number of down to be played in football competition and locating the position of the ball along the sideline, for example, the apparatus comprising an opaque o... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4381615 | Inexpensive writing instrument with illusion producing means A novelty writing instrument having cap and body members, each carrying part of an illusion producing device, is shown and described. By moving the cap and body members relative to one another, an illusion can be created.... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4332096 | Gravity flow display device A gravity flow display device which is usable for selectively and alternatingly exhibiting two different but conceptually related displays. The device has two thin transparent walled half-hourglass compartments through which displays at their rears are vi... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4330954 | Lighter cover The cigarette lighter cover is a novelty sleeve for the cigarette lighter which has a tubular body portion with a hollow interior space sized to receive the body of the cigarette lighter of conventional design. One end of the body portion is closed off to... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4318238 | Reversible, portable direction sign A reversible, portable direction indicating sign for use in road construction and maintenance work includes an upper indicia bearing panel rigidly attached to and spaced from an upright member and a lower indicia bearing panel rotatably mounted on the upr... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4299041 | Animated device A device in the form of a greeting card, display card, or the like, for producing a visual and/or a sound effect which includes a panel member or the like onto which is applied pictorial and/or printed matter in association with an effects generator, an e... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4209926 | Display device of louvre arrangement A display device of louvre arrangement wherein a display or exhibit is constituted by a group of parallel interleaved strips which are arranged in overlapping relation. The display device has a plurality of such groups. The display device has a driving me... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4101868 | Vehicle parking guide and signaling device A parking guide and signaling device for cars and trucks to assist the driver parking a vehicle safely in a designated parking area comprising a housing section with a window therein which is closed by a pane of transparent sheet material through which in... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4055011 | Calendars and display devices A calendar has transparent overlay pages which carry opaque calendar data areas and opaque picture portions which are superimposed on an underlying picture, with the opaque picture portions depicting the underlying obscured portions at a different season ... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4053340 | Method for producing display sign panel A method for producing a panel for a back-lighted display sign comprises the steps of impressing recesses about one surface of a planar sheet of rigid foam to reduce the sheet thickness in a pattern corresponding to a desired pattern of recesses. Aperture... | 10/11/1977 |
| 3962808 | Checklist device The embodiment of the invention disclosed herein is directed to a checklist device for providing an indication of tasks to be performed and tasks already performed. The checklist device includes a housing having a first receptacle therein for receiving an... | 06/15/1976 |
