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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6428322 | Film image display system A developed film is illuminated to project its image onto a rear projection screen. A transparent case with a clear liquid filled therein is arranged, and the film is accommodated in the case. A writable transparent or translucent sheet is arranged over a... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6129553 | Film image display system A developed film is illuminated to project its image onto a rear projection screen. A transparent case with a clear liquid filled therein is arranged, and the film is accommodated in the case. A writable transparent or translucent sheet is arranged over a... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5991100 | Compact view scope The compact view scope enables an observer to view miniaturized textual and pictorial images mounted in the scope. The compact view scope includes axially co-extensive outer and inner cylindrical bodies. The interior of the inner cylindrical body is hollo... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5060390 | Navigation aid A navigation device is disclosed, having a lens across an opening at one end of a case, and a compass across an opening at the opposite end of the case. A transparency holder is positioned between the lens and the compass, adapted to receive a map transpa... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5003698 | Apparatus for viewing a representation of the celestial vault An apparatus for viewing a representation of the celestial vault including a tube bearing a ring of graduations that indicate the dates of the days of a year, and a tube bearing a ring of graduations that indicate the hours of a day. The tubes are axially... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4920672 | Medical pendant with enhanced visibility In one embodiment, the medical pendant includes a hollow center, elongated plastic housing with two opposing open ends. The housing is made of a material that is translucent and diffuse light into the housing's interior. A magnifying glass is sealingly mo... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4532728 | Portable viewer for photographic slides The viewer is constituted by a monolithic housing in plastic material, presenting a window with side guides and an external slot for inserting the slides, said window separating a chamber closed by a lens, from a receptacle containing a source of light an... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4530570 | Transparency viewer A device is adapted for viewing transparencies disposed circumferentially on a disk. It comprises a case (10) adapted to contain a disk (12). A pin (15) is adapted to mount the disk (12) for rotation within the case (10). The disk (12) may be driven in ro... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4250644 | Hand held microfilm reader A hand held microfilm reader wherein the film is maintained within the reader housing and the controls for positioning the film are easily manipulated by one hand. An optical system provides an intense automatically focused image projected onto a screen f... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4249330 | Medical pendant A pendant type capsule is provided to be worn on the person as jewelry and having within an air and water-tight cavity therewithin a small microfilm containing the medical history or medical and personal characteristics of the person carrying or wearing t... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4234244 | Portable microfilm viewer A portable microfilm viewer for viewing a microfilm contained in a cassette. The viewer includes a housing with a lens system mounted therein. The cassette is removably received on a film transport mechanism which both supports and drives the film. A sour... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4117615 | Viewing panel for producing multiple images of a design A supporting frame with a handle has a transparent supporting plate mounted therein. The plate supports a thin transparency over the exposed surface of the plate. The transparency has a multiplicity of demagnifying fresnel lenses formed therein in abuttin... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4105319 | Microfiche carrier A plastic microfiche carrier has a central clearance for enabling an insertion of a replaceable microfiche film in the carrier. The corners of the carrier are tapered to facilitate an alignment of the carrier, and therefore the microfiche in a library fil... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4059913 | Slide display A foldable slide display of folded paperboard material which includes a folded back panel and a viewing box hingedly connected to the back panel for folding movement between an upright condition and a folded collapsed condition and wherein the viewing box... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4034540 | Portable dual spool microfilm reading device A portable dual spool cassette type microfilm reading device capable of storing a large quantity of microphotographic information in a relatively small space. The cassette contains a band of microfilm having information frames disposed in rows and columns... | 07/12/1977 |
| 3957358 | Viewer for microreproduction on a transparent film A device for viewing microreproductions on a transparent film has a lens and a film supporting means which has a pair of frame members adapted to clamp the film therebetween through magnetic attraction of one of the frame members to the other, either the ... | 05/18/1976 |
