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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4608664 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are justified along one physical dimension to a predetermined line of justification. A plurality of physical parameters are employed in the justification, each of the parameters is assigned a compression and an expansion adjustment ratio... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4575813 | Automatically balancing and vertically justifying a plurality of text/graphics-columns Text and graphics are recursively (includes iteratively) distributed among a set of balanceable columns capable of receiving text and graphics. The recursive distributions are at successively varying columnar depths (all columns in each recursion have a c... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4431295 | Photocomposing machine and method Character matrices are stored in and retrieved from a magazine automatically. The matrices can be complete discs or pie-shaped "petals" which are assembled to form a disc. A single pivotably-mounted support arm is used to support the spinning disc, and to... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4335941 | Photocomposing machine The photocomposing machine has an integral keyboard and is especially useful in composing headlines and similar graphic material. A zoom lens is used to provide infinitely variable magnification of the characters. An especially simple manual zoom lens mag... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4291381 | Process for running width adjustment A process for running width adjustment of adjacently positioned characters reduces the spacing of certain characters to enhance the visual impression of composed text. The process classifies the letter and symbols of the font into a plurality of groups ac... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4162846 | Photographic type composing machine and method Style changes, size changes and character spacing all are accomplished by the use of a single drive motor. This is done by providing style-changing and size-changing means which are operable by relative movement in the same direction as the character spac... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4148571 | Photocomposing device and method Described are improvements upon my machine in which the character spacing drive system also is used to change the size and/or style of the characters. One improvement is the provision of a "pi-character" insertion and rules-forming system which uses much ... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4097875 | Shaft encoder A shaft encoder of negligible moment of inertia. A grating provides a grid pattern of transmitted light. A mirror on the shaft sweeps the pattern. A lens focuses the sweep over a mask of like grid pattern. A photocell is activated by light transmitted thr... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4059833 | Recording position adjuster A recording position defining apparatus includes a beam generator for generating a modulated beam in accordance with a signal to be recorded; a beam deflector; a beam detector fixed at a predetermined position; a clock signal generator for generating cloc... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4044363 | Laser photocomposition system and method Type characters are formed on a photo-sensitive surface by projecting a laser beam directly onto the photo-sensitive surface while moving the beam rapidly upwardly and downwardly, moving the beam steadily in a horizontal direction, and blanking the beam a... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4008480 | Photocomposition escapement drive system The use of a stepper motor of large steps, with a pulley type mechanical motion reducer system using a flexible cable for dividing a step of the motor into a divided output motion, and an alternative embodiment wherein a second stepper motor in the form o... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3971044 | Electronic horizontal shifting and variable print width in a buffered printer In a buffered printer in which lines of graphic code bytes representing characters to be printed are successively advanced to a line buffer where they are sequentially sampled and the results used to modulate a laser beam undergoing successive scans of a ... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3946407 | Manually operated photocomposing apparatus A photocomposing apparatus is disclosed which makes use of a camera means, memory means and display means, which can select character from a character matrix and store all of the characters thus selected as an image signal in the memory means, which can d... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3934257 | Non-impact printer A non-impact printing system in which a photoconductor is illuminated with a light image of the character to be printed while applying a voltage across the photoconductor and a transparent insulating belt held in contact with the illuminated portion of th... | 01/20/1976 |
