A timepiece with mobile decorations includes a casing incorporating a timepiece movement; a drive motor encased in the casing and functioning at arbitrarily set hours; a dial disposed in front of the casing and bilaterally openable and closable about a fixed shaft; a dial opening/closing mechansim, encased in the casing and operable by the drive motor, for opening and closing the dial; and mobile decorations interposed between the dial and a front face of the casing and functioning while the dia...

A carrying device is provided for a bucket-type receptacle having an open upper end with an outstanding rim thereabout. The carrying device consists of a ring which encompasses the bucket-type receptacle under the outstanding rim, a U-shaped handle to be gripped by a hand and a mechanism for attaching both ends of the U-shaped handle to the ring. The handle will extend upwardly above the open upper end of the bucket-type receptacle to be carried by the hand. The circumference of the ring is adju...

A device readily attaches to an elevatable legrest of a wheel chair for supporting and retaining the leg of an individual sitting in the wheel chair upon the legrest. The device is composed of a single sheet of resilient material configured at one end into a clamp for detachably clamping the device to the elevatable legrest and configured at the other end into a support for releasably supporting and retaining the leg upon the legrest when the legrest is at any desired elevation.

A shredder-compactor apparatus has a hopper for receiving refuse material to be processed and a compaction tube arranged to receive the refuse material from the hopper. A rotary auger screw extends along the hopper and through the compaction tube and coacts with a breaker bar located in the hopper to shred and tear the refuse material in response to rotation of the auger screw. As the auger screw rotates, the shredded refuse material is transported axially through the compaction tube and compact...

An axial-flow molecular pump has a first active magnetic bearing for axially supporting and controlling a pump member comprised of a set of permanent magnets on the upper end of the pump member cooperating with a set of permanent magnets fixedly mounted at the upper end of a pump housing, a first electromagnet coacting with the sets of permanent magnets and operative when energized for controlling the axial position of the pump member, and an axial sensor for detecting axial displacement of the ...

A ball game comprises a transparent barrel-shaped housing having mounted therein a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart baskets. A game ball is disposed within the housing and a series of manually-actuated paddle assemblies are arranged around the base of the housing operative to place the game ball in flight towards one of the baskets. The floor of the housing is inclined downwardly from the periphery of the housing and has a plurality of centrally located ball receiving openings. The in...

This invention is concerned with the method and apparatus for forming a pattern on a substrate. More specifically, it is intended to remove the fringe of the film thinly attached at the sides of the film formed at the time of forming by CVD method and thereby to make a film of high quality. In this invention, by adding the method and means of selectively removing the fringe of the film to the method and device of forming a pattern film on the principle of so-called ion beam CVD method, the metho...

A printer of the thermal transfer type reproduces original gradated image comprised of individually gradated image elements into the form of printed gradated image having image density determined by number of printed image elements per unit section. A latch circuit latches successively an input train of gradated image bit data corresponding to the individually gradated image elements. A data processor successively converts the received input train of gradated image bit data into an output train ...

An apparatus for detecting ophthalmic diseases in a patient's eye includes light projection system for projecting a laser beam at a spot in the eye. The light scattered from the eye is photoelectrically detected and converted into an electrical signal which is subsequently used to determine the protein concentration essential to ophthalmic disease detection. A monitor is provided in the light projection system for monitoring light scattered from the cornea of the eye on which the laser beam is p...

A multi-functional electronic timepiece has a melody function to play a musical piece and musical hand operation function to operate hands in a normal or reverse rotating direction in match with the sound emission. A plurality of basic hand operation patterns are prepared in a ROM and a predetermined number of basic hand operation patterns are selected in accordance with pattern selecting data which is easily able to change by manufacturer or user to operate hands in match with various musical p...