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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7446971 | Expandable magazine-based library Described herein is a mobile data storage magazine for interacting with a docking station. The magazine can include a magazine frame containing a plurality of operatively interconnected disk drives, a first contact element associated with the magazine frame capable ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7349175 | Media cartridge storage device for an autoloading data storage and retrieval system A cartridge storage device includes a housing having a front and a back. A plurality of cells are mounted in the housing, each cell adapted for receiving a media cartridge. A drive mechanism drives the cells towards a front opening in the front of the housing for al... | 03/25/2008 |
| 6553456 | Library device and logical number allocating method therefor A library device, that is able to remote-actuate a recording/reproducing apparatus. The library device includes a recording/reproducing unit for recording or reproducing the information using a removable recording medium, a plurality of housing unit that ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6038638 | Pausing and resuming applications running in a data processing system using tape location parameters and pipes A system, method and program product for freeing tape drives so that long running jobs on a computer can be paused when other applications need the drives and restarted when the drives are available again. This is accomplished by pausing and resuming appl... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5602706 | Double-cassette-type magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus A double-cassette-type magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus wherein a cam gear allows the second over-stroke lever to shift in advancing and retracting manners and, following these movements, a mode lever and the second head mount are allowed to move... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5485325 | Magazine storage system for recording strips A magazine storage system for storing and retrieving recording strips. The system includes a magazine, having shelves for storing the strips, and a loop-shaped drive. The strips are transported between the magazine and the drive by conduits having air jet... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5479312 | Tape cartridge system implementing variable sized tape cartridges designed for use on the same recording/reproducing apparatus A tape system for implementing tape cassettes of variable size which includes both large-sized and small-sized tape cartridges each housing a memory element having a set of terminals for electric connection with corresponding terminals of a tape player, t... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5031057 | Tape moving mechanism for automatic time cassette changer A mechanism in an automatic tape cassette changer for engaging and moving tape cassettes from a tape cassette container to engage a tape cassette player/recorder. The mechanism comprising an engagement mechanism on a rail and a cam mechanism, where the en... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5021902 | Tape changer for loading and unloading a magazine of magnetic tape cartridges A magazine in which a plurality of cartridges are contained as vertically moved stepwise by a distance separating two successive ones of the cartridges. The lift has a plurality of lift steps alternately engaged by a latching member. A rotary disk having ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4918547 | Door opening and closing mechanism for an automatic charger for recording media An automatic changer for cassette tapes suited for the use in an automobile or the like is described a tape container which holds a plurality of cassette tapes fits into an automatic recording medium changer for selecting, playing, and recording tapes, fo... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4879613 | Cassette tape recorder for multiple cassette tapes A tape recorder includes: a cassette tape compartment in which a plurality of cassette tapes are detachably mounted; a capstan for coaxially mounting the plurality of cassette tapes housed in the cassette tape compartment; a roller provided for each of th... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4858051 | System for the recording and/or playback of signals A recording and/or playback machine (1) for tape-shaped record carriers (20) is equipped, for indicating continuous recording times, with a counter (45) having an indicating element (46) which travels along the entire length indicating scale (26) of a pre... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4858032 | Device for extracting still picture frames from a moving image video signal and recording same on a magnetic recording medium Disclosed herein is a magnetic recording device simple in arrangement, in which, while a motion picture is being recorded, a unitary part of the motion picture is extracted to perform a still picture recording operation with high picture quality.... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4797759 | Tape recorder mode selector device for plural cassette tapes A tape recorder mode selector device equipped with a set of mode selecting members for operations such as record, play, fast-forward and rewind, a tape selector member and a capstan for selectively driving one of a plurality of cassette tapes loaded paral... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4794467 | Apparatus for automatically supplying and selectively reproducing a plurality of cassettes and for avoiding the reproducing of degraded signals In an apparatus for automatically supplying and selectively reproducing a plurality of cassettes, the error rate for each cassette and for each reproduction is automatically generated and stored in a separate area of a memory and, when the error rate exce... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4777547 | Container receiving cassette loading structure for automatic cassette-tape changer An automatic changer for cassette tapes suited for the use in an automobile or the like constituted of a tape container capable of containing a plurality of cassette tapes and a table for supporting the tape container. The tape container is provided with ... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4768112 | Interlocked reverse mode change-over mechanism for dual cassette tape recorder A tape recorder device of the double cassette type wherein reproducing operation on a second tape driving mechanism can be automatically started continuously after completion of reproducing operation on a first tape driving mechanism and which is greatly ... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4752842 | Tape driving system for a magnetic transfer apparatus The tape drive device for a magnetic transfer apparatus comprises a master tape and a slave tape wound about a rotary drum and kept in intimate pressure contact with one another by air jetted from a rectangular nozzle formed in an air guide member enclosi... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4736900 | Motor control apparatus for reel-to-reel tape drive system A motor control apparatus including a first motor (16) driving a first reel (2) a second motor (26) driving a second reel (1), independently operable to the first motor, and a unit (5) for tensioning a tape being transported between the first and second r... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4681273 | Apparatus for driving tapes A tape driving apparatus is disclosed which is operable to shift all of tapes simultaneously so as to position items recorded on the tapes in a predetermined position or to record informations on the tapes. The tape driving apparatus includes a plurality ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4612590 | Tape drive device for telephone answering device In a tape drive device for a telephone answering device, an idler is rotated by a motor and displaced selectively according to the directions of rotation of the motor so that the idler is brought into contact with a desired one of the first and second cap... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4589607 | Magnetic recording tape driving apparatus A magnetic recording tape driving apparatus comprises a motor, two pairs of reel shafts on which a pair of reel hubs of each of two cassette tapes are mounted, two capstans for the two cassette tapes, a head base plate supporting two magnetic heads and tw... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4558831 | Apparatus for driving tapes A tape driving apparatus is disclosed which is operable to select a desired tape among a plurality of tapes and to move the selected tape so as to position one or more items recorded on the tape in a predetermined position or to record information on the ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4445000 | Automatic telephone answering apparatus An automatic telephone answering apparatus includes an outgoing message tape drive mechanism; an outgoing message tape switching mechanism; an incoming message tape drive mechanism; an incoming message tape switching mechanism; and an escape mechanism. Th... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4413328 | Storage subsystems employing removable media and having a digital display on each recorder In a storage subsystem employing removable record media such as contained in a cartridge, each storage recorder has a multidigit alphanumeric display located immediately above a cartridge receiver. The symbols on the display are arranged to be aligned wit... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4394697 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic record/reproduce apparatus comprising drive force transmitting means including levers that are actuated by one drive motor to drive a reproducing magnetic medium and a recording magnetic medium, and rotating means having cams that are driven by... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4114834 | Tape drive system and one-way clutch mechanism An improved tape drive system for an apparatus (a telephone answering device in the exemplary, preferred embodiment of this invention) which employs one or more dual reel tape cassettes or cartridges. The tape drive system of the present invention require... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4001882 | Magnetic tape editing, previewing and animating method and system In editing magnetic tape, in particular video tape, improvement in the editing taught by U.S. Pat. No. 3,787,617 is achieved by arresting the respective tapes on the edit tape deck and the source tape deck precisely at the "edit" point by observation on a... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3946160 | Telephone answering device with plural message recording tapes The speed of either the feed reel or the take-up reel of a tape cassette is detected as an indication of the amount of recording time left on the message recording tape. When about five minutes or less of recording time is left, and when no incoming messa... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3938194 | Method of and apparatus for obtaining synchronous movement between two media A method and an apparatus are described to enable one of two independently driven strips to be stopped for a predetermined period and then restarted in synchronism with the other strip which has been running continuously. Stoppage markers are provided on ... | 02/10/1976 |
