"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London ; 1830
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7416221 | Multiple fold product and method of making the same A multiple fold product includes a relatively rigid substrate, such as paperboard, which has upper and lower surfaces. Slots are selectively cut into the substrate at the desired fold locations. The slots divide the substrate into an array of interconnected rectangu... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7316517 | Binder with pull-out internal poster The present invention provides an incentive for buying a ring binder or a spiral notebook. The incentive is provided by having the binder or notebook include one or more internal folded sheets, preferably in the form of poster panels, which may be disposed within th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311336 | Spine assembly There is provided a spine assembly for a book cover or loose-leaf folder. The cover or folder comprises a channel shaped spine member (4) connected by way of a hinge portion to cover boards and an associated device, perhaps incorporating a compass (36)... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7249257 | Digitally watermarked maps and signs and related navigational tools Maps and signs are embedded with plural-bit data in the form of digital watermarks. In one embodiment, the plural-bit data includes location information with respect to a map. A handheld reading device extracts the location information from the map. The reading devi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247129 | Outsert-forming method A method and apparatus for forming informational items such as outserts and booklets may include folding a sheet of paper having product information printed thereon by making a plurality of folds in the sheet of paper to form a first folded article; (b) making a fol... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231293 | Method and assembly for determining a route The present invention provides a method and assembly which determines a route using a computer system, a map and a user operated sensing device. The map shows a geographic area and includes coded data that is indicative of the map and reference points on the map. Th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7201308 | Methods for identifying and registering constellations The subject invention provides a system for identifying images in the nighttime sky for the purpose of, for example, honoring and/or memorializing people, places, and events. In accordance with the subject invention, the images are defined, at least in part, by star... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182723 | Informational item final folding apparatus A method and apparatus for forming informational items such as outserts and booklets may include folding a sheet of paper having product information printed thereon by making a plurality of folds in the sheet of paper to form a first folded article; (b) making a fol... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184570 | Methods and systems for steganographic processing Electronic content data that is copied without authorization can be traced back to its source using steganographically encoded information. Such arrangements are useful, e.g., where electronic content is rendered to an audience—one of whom may be making an illicit... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175586 | Methods of forming outserts A method of forming an outsert having printed information thereon is disclosed in which a plurality of parallel folds are made in a sheet of paper in a first fold direction using a plurality of pairs of folding rollers and stop members to form an intermediate folded... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155833 | Viewing and display apparatus position determination algorithms Celestial object location devices with sensor arrays of having less that one sensor for each of three orthogonal components of gravity and magnetic field vectors. The accuracy of position sensing is enhanced by estimating “missing” sensor input based on input fr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7121992 | Informational item forming machine and method A method and apparatus for forming informational items such as outserts and booklets may include folding a sheet of paper having product information printed thereon by making a plurality of folds in the sheet of paper to form a first folded article, the folds in the... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118134 | Folded integral composite image product and method of making A dual sided integral composite image product and method of make same. The image product includes a first support substrate having a separate image layer thereon and a second support substrate having separate image layer thereon. The second support substrate being s... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7098931 | Image management system and methods using digital watermarks Digital watermarking technology is used in an image management system. Images are uniquely identified by digital watermarks. The images are stored so as to be indexed according to their unique identifiers. In the preferred embodiment, related images are linked toget... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090252 | Folded integral composite image product and method of making A dual sided integral composite image product and method of make same. The image product includes a first support substrate having a separate image layer thereon and a second support substrate having separate image layer thereon. The second support substrate being s... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7068180 | Celestial object location device A hand-held electronic celestial object-locating device assists in identifying a celestial object or directing a user to a desired celestial object. The device is useful for locating or identifying any celestial object including stars, constellations, planets, comet... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050603 | Watermark encoded video, and related methods Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizable obj... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7004507 | Combined poster book system and method A flat sheet of paper, or other thin flexible material, has information printed on one side in the form of a plurality of discrete panels or areas of text or images, while the entire other side is taken up by a large-scale, poster-like pattern. The panels or areas o... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6994194 | Flight bag apparatus and method A carrying case for storing and transporting various items. The carrying case is especially useful as a flight bag. The carrying case includes an organizing flap hinged to the carrying case, and one or more organizing pockets or internal flaps that are hinged to the... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993152 | Hiding geo-location data through arrangement of objects The present invention provides steganographic-embedding techniques. In one implementation a digital watermark signal is mapped to a set of spatial positions. Physical message objects are positioned according to the set of spatial positions. The signal is provided on... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6979045 | Window system for convertible motor vehicles The present invention is a window system for convertible motor vehicles that incorporates the use of woven fabric made from vinyl coated polyester yarn in such a way that it (1) reduces the “greenhouse effect” that occurs when the soft-covering system is on the ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6964413 | Booklet forming method and apparatus A method and apparatus for folding a single sheet of paper into a booklet. The method includes depositing adhesive along a linear path on the single sheet of paper and folding the sheet by making a plurality of folds parallel to a first direction, thereby forming a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964016 | Method of paginating printed material A printed material to be folded a plurality of times is paginated by displaying an unfolded leaf and assigning page numbers to pages on the face and back of the unfolded leaf through computer processing. The number of rectangles corresponding to the number of pages ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950519 | Geographically watermarked imagery and methods An image is digitally watermarked to convey position data about the subject of the image, such as latitude, longitude and elevation of a point depicted therein. Additional information, e.g., about camera attributes, camera angle, and 3D warp-characterizing polynomia... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6902197 | Methods of forming informational items A method of producing a folded item having printed information thereon to provide information to the user of a product is disclosed. The method comprises (a) folding the sheet by making a first fold in the sheet in a direction parallel to a first direction; (b) fold... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6752427 | Folding booklet A folding booklet is disclosed having a booklet cover and one or more of booklet pages in which are formed a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal fold lines defining a plurality of longitudinal panels and a plurality of transverse fold lines defining a plurality o... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6669235 | Methods of forming informational items A method of producing a folded item having printed information thereon to provide information to the user of a product is disclosed. The method comprises (a) forming a first article having a first end, a second end, a length along a first direction, and a... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6644694 | Wearable folded map A foldable, weather-resistant reference guide for wearing on the arm, torso, or leg. The foldable, weather-resistant reference guide is attached to a soft, flexible keeping member that holds the reference guide in a folded configuration. The keeping membe... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6516547 | Laminated country map or road map A map, having a printed map sheet made of paper sheet and having a printed image and transparent plastic films applied either as a laminate or as a lining, optionally PET film, on the front and reverse sides of the map sheet, also has fold lines of a fanf... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6482085 | Customs declaration form for non-impact printer Forms, such as mailing forms, constructed as a single sheet or multiple sheets of standard paper size, which are printable by a single pass through a standard non-impact printer are described. Certain variations of the forms can be configured to be extend... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6454307 | Reading device with a movable binding which alternately allows access to one or two sets of pages An accordion-folded page book with a binding which compresses the pages of the book but is not permanently fastened in one location, thereby allowing the binding to be moved from one position which allows access to one set of pages, to a second position w... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6410114 | Folded sheet materials The invention provides a sheet material (10) having a first set of folds, the sheet material further comprising a rotatable disc (8) attached thereto.... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6390508 | Method of producing a customized chart As part of a method of producing a customized chart for use with chart recorder apparatus, a user desiring the customized chart is provided with a list of questions including, for example, the size of the chart; the graduations of the chart with respect t... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6354985 | Fold pattern In a map with a pattern of folding lines along which the map can be folded, it is easy to find geographical regions shown on the map due to two portions connected via a common center area and each having a plurality of folding lines in equidistant portion... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6306072 | Method and system for production and decentralized delivery of printed products The inventive method bases on a consequent realization of the following two conditions: firstly on the consequent separation of the "immaterial or virtual sphere" of information from the "material or real sphere" of the paper and secondly on the consequen... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6276723 | Travel brochure having corresponding map and flip-up brochures A travel brochure includes a sheet having at least three vertical fold line portions defining respective first and second left panels and first and second right panels. Each defines an upper edge. A map corresponds to a selected geographic area and is pos... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6209919 | Folder A folder comprising a sheet (1) which is pleated in a concertina-like fashion (10, 11, 12) and which, in a pleated state, is folded around fold lines (14, 15) that extend perpendicularly to the pleat line (10, 11, 12) in the pleated sheet, wherein the she... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6189933 | Technique for reducing a large map into a compact paging format A large rectangular map, or chart, that is reduced to small and uniformly-sized display areas, in a top half section and bottom half section, having leaves in each section for easy directional leafing (right to left, left to right, up tab, down tab) to al... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6158777 | Information sheet and a method for its folding A system for folding a sheet of material is provided. Creases are formed in the sheet representing fold lines for the sheet. A plurality of first indicia markings are provided on the sheet with each first marking being positioned so as to align with a res... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6120228 | Wallet size pocketed booklet A wallet size pocketed booklet which has been adapted to hold a card having the dimensions of a conventional credit card, and is particularly designed to be carried in the credit card compartment of a wallet or similar size compartment holder. The use of ... | 09/19/2000 |