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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367450 | Memorabilia system and method A trunk houses an infant outfit and infant blanket appointed to clothe and swaddle a newborn infant on the momentous journey home from the hospital. Also included by the container are a plurality of cards adapted for documenting the joyous journey. The infant outfit... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7305785 | Shadow box page A shadow box scrapbook page adapted to hold and secure three-dimensional objects for storage and display. The page includes a binder portion having openings to receive standard rings or posts common to binders, and a frame device, having a front, back and side, top ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7236292 | Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays A front plane laminate useful in the manufacture of electro-optic displays comprises, in order, a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer, a layer of an electro-optic medium in electrical contact with the electrically-conductive layer, an adhesive layer and... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7159348 | Sports stickits A novelty item that can be applied to a person's skin and the item has a plurality of segments which are held in alignment by tabs. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150117 | Back-lit stenciled post cover A post assembly with illuminated information includes a hollow tube extending upwardly from a ground surface, the tube having a sidewall with textual or graphical information cut therethrough. A lighting assembly is disposed within the hollow tube, and a transparent... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6760987 | Attachable and variable numeric character A variable numeric character from which any individual numeral from zero to nine may be formed. The variable numeric character is preferably a substantially hollow rectangular figure having both a horizontal and vertical bisecting leg. Individual segments of the leg... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6658773 | Label with luminescence inside A fluorescent label for a computer keyboard key. The label is adhesive backed, having two layers of plastic vinyl such as Mylar and is rectangular and corresponds with the size of the key face and the character or message on the key. A kit is a sheet, hav... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6524412 | Method for forming and applying a roadside display system A method for forming and applying a roadside display system is disclosed. Character-shaped are formed in a thermoplastic polymer resin material with a highly reflective face. A readily available sheet cutting die press allows the characters, numerals or l... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6490835 | Vinyl siding wall ornamentation A vinyl siding wall ornamentation packaged as a self-contained kit including one or both of an already assembled vinyl siding design, and a plurality of vinyl siding strips to be assembled according to predetermined plan, for overlaying the wall in substa... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6472994 | Emergency guidance system A line of illuminated electrically powered exit indicators, each having a power backup is mounted on one surface of a non-conductive tape-like support which is flexible enough to be formed into a roll and bend around corners. The exit indicators and the e... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460279 | Custom display and storage system A custom display storage system includes storage and display assemblies. The storage assembly includes an album or scrapbook containing pages for mounting graphic works and other generally planar objects. The display assembly includes a display unit joine... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6338214 | Modular sign display The present invention 10 discloses a kit for creating messages 18 for road signs 14. Included is a road sign blank 20 having a plurality of ferrous-like strips 22 mounted thereon, wherein the strips are sized to receive properly sized magnetic letters 24 ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6212807 | Variable character display system A variable character display and a method for making and using the display is provided. The display is composed of three layers of material including a substrate layer having an adhesive side and a non-adhesive side of a first color. A backing layer is se... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6021593 | Outdoor advertising sign A new outdoor advertising sign for displaying advertising letters in a secure manner. The inventive device includes a sign portion including a wooden back portion. The wooden back portion has a metal peripheral frame secured around an outer periphery ther... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5918398 | Custom display system A custom display system includes framing and display assemblies. The framing assembly includes a mat subassembly with mats having character string windows. The display assembly includes a display base with character units mounted thereon and forming a cha... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5899010 | Static cling banner A reusable sign/banner system which includes flexible static cling vinyl indicia and a sheet of flexible, smooth, non-porous, flaccid plastic material. The indicia are electrostatically adhered to the plastic sheet. The indicia are cut in a plurality of s... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5885398 | Laser printing for harsh environments Permanent care label fabric is coated with a water-based acrylic or acrylic/urethane coating. The coating is dried and the coated fabric is fed into a standard laser printer. The permanent care instructions are laser printed on the coated fabric and the p... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5698297 | Method of applying guide markings to writing surfaces Improved method of applying guide markings to a writing surface such as posterboard. The guide markings are visually perceptible at a writing distance away from the posterboard, and substantially imperceptible at a viewing distance away from the--writing ... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5628854 | Letter mover A device for the manipulation of letters on a changeable letterboard. A slide, with a tacky frontal adhesive face for temporary attachment of letters to be moved, is withdrawn into a closely mating outer case, the case stripping the letters from the adhes... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5595829 | Posterboard Improved posterboard is formed from a rectangular posterboard having vertical side edges and horizontal top and bottom edges. Guide marking are applied to the posterbboard. The guide markings are visually perceptible at a writing distance away from the po... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5585160 | Fluorescent foil A fluorescent foil is formed from a translucent/transparent foil material having admixed therewith coloring matter and fluorescent matter. A translucent layer substantially impermeable to ultraviolet rays is provided on one side of the foil material. A tr... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5458938 | Mounting laminate having recessed adhesive areas A mounting laminate can be used as a mounting sheet on which undersize items can be mounted for processing in devices equipped with stacked sheet feed mechanisms. The mounting laminate has three primary layers: (a) a masking layer, preferably paper, forme... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5417604 | Kit suitable for forming decorative signs A modular constructional toy kit for use in forming signs is made up of modular elements, each of which comprises a body portion having a planar forwardly facing surface with a bounding periphery having a regular geometric shape, and coupling elements for... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5304410 | Cutting cloth web having mounted backing material and related method A cutting cloth web having a multilayer construction comprises a generally elongate base layer of material having a first surface disposed on one side and having a second surface disposed on its side facing oppositely thereof and includes a generally elon... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5226993 | Set of ornaments An ornament set includes a plurality of ornament units having double-sided adhesive sheets adhered to the back thereof, and a retainer strip adhered to the front sides thereof to hold the ornament units in a predetermined relationship. A method for manufa... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5214870 | Sign and assembly method An illuminated sign assembly is provided, of the type that includes illuminated alphanumeric characters lying on a dark background, wherein the characters and/or color can be readily changed at low cost. The sign includes a thick rigid structural plate (2... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5090146 | Repositionable sign figures Repositionable sign figure which may be adhesively affixed to a sign backboard comprising a sign figure comprised of a flexible, resilient material, and backwardly projecting flanges from the edges of said front surface, whereby a portion of the front sur... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4986573 | Layout sheet 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 thereo... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4900392 | Slidable indicia alignment and transfer device An alignment and transfer device for transferring selected indicia from a backing sheet to a substrate which includes a slide movable along a track. A protector sheet with a release agent is secured to the track. A grid transfer sheet is attached to the s... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4821439 | Composite label A composite label comprising a base sheet or layer having a contact adjes at its rear surface enabling the separation of the base sheet from a storing or stock means and the sticking to a useful carrier means and a cover sheet adapted to be completely or... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4793724 | Printing support and method for placing labels on a transparent record medium An improved printing support and method for use in a conventional dry lettering printing machine of the type having a print station, a rotatable printing support having print characters thereon, and means for causing the machine to execute a print cycle w... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4654101 | Method of making a changeable display sign A method of making sign component pieces to be interfitted in close abutting relationship. The preferred method aspect of the invention involves imprinting upon one or more flexible rectangular translucent cover sheets successive horizontal bands of repea... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4559732 | Method of applying signs A method of applying a sign to a translucent or transparent panel such as a glass frontage of a shop. The method comprises applying a film of material onto one side of the panel, providing a mirror image of the sign visible on the film to a viewer on the ... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4521923 | Name belt with selective letter inserts A decorative name belt includes laminated layers of belt material between which is disposed an elongated support member having opposed flanges with spaced apart slots formed therein for receiving decorative indicia members such as monogram letters or the ... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4510006 | Personalized laminated display On-the-spot designed personalized laminated displays such as placemats, menus, posters and the like and the method of manufacturing same is disclosed. The laminated displays of this invention use inexpensive materials and are substantially unlimited in th... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4479319 | An adhesive sign and method of making An adhesive sign and method of making in which the sign is easily transferred to a receiving surface in one application. The sign is comprised of a material having a predetermined thickness from which characters forming a sign are cut out, leaving the cha... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4440590 | Manufacture of signs A method of making a sign is described which comprises taking a transfer material and a temporary support sheet, the transfer material comprising a transparent or translucent carrier sheet bearing on one side a plurality of transferable indicia, which are... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4395297 | Bonding process for securing objects to a smooth surface An object is secured to a flat surface by contacting a thermally activated sheet with a solvent rendering the normally non-tacky sheet in a tacky state. The now tacky sheet is attached to the flat surface with the aid of a template while the object to be ... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4380874 | Sign-making method Methods for sign-making using dry transfer of letters from carrier sheets allow any of a number of different character sizes and row spacings to be provided. A carrier sheet bearing characters of a desired size is positioned relative to a carriage in depe... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4374887 | Sign making apparatus Apparatus for sign-making using dry transfer of letters from carrier sheets allows any of a number of different character sizes and row spacings to be provided. A carrier sheet bearing characters of a desired size is positioned relative to a carriage in d... | 02/22/1983 |
