Abstract:
A toy glider in the form of an animal figure has an animal body form fuselage including a longitudinal axis, generally parallel sides, a front end and a rear end. A pair of wings in the form of animal wings are attached to the fuselage in a horizontal plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fuselage. A nose section in the form of an animal head and attached to the front end of the fuselage and a tail section is attached to the rear end of the fuselage. A wing in the form of a pair of animal wings has a depending pylon, matingly engageable and latched into the aperture of the fuselage, and including a means for disengaging the wing pylon from the fuselage to permit use of the toy as an animal form without the wings. A plug is provided to close off the aperture in the fuselage when the wings are removed.
Abstract:
A lamp shade is provided in the form of a translucent material in a generally tubular shape disposed about the vertical axis of a light source. The shade has an optical transmittance in the horizontal plane passing through the centroid of the light source, and a greater optical transmittance through the portion of the shade extending below the horizontal plane. A preferred embodiment controls the optical transmittance providing variable reflectance on the inner surface of the shade, and includes a generally reflective upper end closure having a means for supporting the shade, and a generally reflective convex cone below the light source.
Abstract:
A low voltage strip lighting assembly has an elongated flexible insulator strip having a base including two sides and a top surface having elongated slits that retain flat electrical conductors. A miniature wire terminal lamp bulbs are adjacent to the top surface of the insulator strip with terminals extending from the top surface of the insulator strip into a slit in the insulator strip to electrically contact one side surface of a respective flat conductor at any point along the length of the insulator strip, whereby the application of electrical power from an external source to each of the respective conductors will light the bulbs. A generally U-shaped lens covers the light bulbs and has legs engaging the sides of the insulator and inwardly-biased and secured to the insulator by the engagement of ribs into matching grooves in the insulator.
Abstract:
A light bar system for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of forward-facing lights and a plurality of rear-facing lights transversely spaced on a bar across a motor vehicle, the forward-facing lights sequentially operated in a pattern moving from one light to the next light in a pattern in a preferred direction, and the rear-facing lights simultaneously operated in a pattern moving from one light to the next light in a pattern in the direction opposite the forward-facing lights.The lights are sequentially operated in patterns generated from varying audio frequencies of a siren signal generator producing wail or yelp signals of changing frequency, wherein selected lights are switched on at selected frequency bands in the changing frequency siren signal, and at least one specific forward-facing light and one specific rear-facing light in the light bar are energized at each selected frequency band.
Abstract:
A low voltage lighting fixture has a lamp housing having distal and proximal ends and is made of heat conducting material. A low voltage lamp is supported in an integral socket on a central axis in the distal end of the externally finned housing. A generally planar thermal barrier made of poor heat conducting material is provided at the proximal end of the lamp housing, and a tubular transformer housing, including a low voltage transformer means, is coaxially attached to the proximal end of the lamp housing in abutment with the thermal barrier. In a preferred embodiment convective cooling air passages are provided between the lamp housing and the thermal barrier, and additional convective cooling passages are provided between the thermal barrier and the transformer housing, whereby lamp heat is dissipated by the cooling fins with limited thermal conduction to the transformer. In an alternate preferred embodiment a male screw base is provided on the distal end of the transformer housing, whereby the fixture may be directly screwed into a conventional lamp socket.
Abstract:
A cylindrical tubular arrow shaft having a head end and a nock end with a length "L" is provided with a prestressing tension wire of approximately a length "L" with one end anchored at the head end of the arrow shaft and the other end anchored at the nock end, the tension wire having at least one elastomeric washer closely fitting the inside diameter of the shaft tube and supporting the tension wire coaxially with the shaft tube, the elastomeric washer spacing being approximately equidistant along length "L".
Abstract:
A thermoplastic cylindrical clamp is manufactured by heating a flat sheet of thermoplastic material, thermoforming the softened sheet over a mold having two parallel and semicylindrical shapes with a narrow planar space between them and a coplanar flange surrounding, trimming the thermoformed sheet so the semicylinders are open at each end, locally heating the narrow planar portion between the semicylinders to the softening point, bending the softened portion so the semicylinders form a complete cylinder and cooling the part in the cylindrical shape.