This invention relates to a backpack having enclosed compartments suitable for storing and transporting articles requiring thermally insulated and waterproof protection. The backpack is comprised of two-sections, one of which is a thermally insulated compartment for carrying articles that need to be kept cold or warm. The structure of the apparatus is flexible and formed from a combination of composite material sandwiched between an inner and an outer flexible material. Shoulder or carrying stra...

Disclosed is a permanent magnetic direct current motor apparatus which provides high constant torque and constant speed through a large stepping angle under varying output shaft load conditions. The apparatus includes a rotor, a plurality of stators and an electronic control device for providing a constant torque and speed. The rotor is constructed of a cylindrical homogeneous core having an outer, segmented ring formed from a plurality of permanent magnets. The magnets are of alternating polari...

An apparatus is disclosed for controlling operating pressure within a mold cavity of an injection molding die. Finely detailed, and parts having thin walls are molded with the invention providing a process for eliminating defects. There is a pressure control apparatus which is preset to provide varying degrees of negative and positive pressure during the mold cycle, and to reset to repeat the procedure for subsequent cycles. The procedure includes a cleaning stage for preparing the mold cavity f...

A wrist and hand support device to be worn on a user's hand in combination with a glove for supporting and strengthening the user's arm and hand movements to thereby minimize hyperflexion and hyperextension and generally assist the user to increase proper control of a golf club during a golf swing, is disclosed. The device includes in combination a wristband that is disposed about a wrist joint over the glove about the area of the transverse carpal ligament, the radius and the ulna bone structur...

A device worn on a musician's wrist used in combination with a fastening means on the lower end of a clarinet for supporting the weight of the clarinet and thus relieving the strain on the musician's thumb and hand muscles. The device is to be worn about the wrist and thumb and attached to an instrument comprising an elongate flexible means having an attachment means at one end and a wrist band at the opposite end. There is a means to secure the flexible means to a lower end of the instrument. T...

The board game apparatus is intended primarily to provide a game involving trading, negotiating, and sailing. In order that the principle of the invention can be readily understood, a single embodiment thereof is discussed. The object of the game is to accumulate wealth through transporting goods on a cargo sloop and trading with other players. The game apparatus allows the sloops to be realistically sailed from port to port purchasing and trading cargo. Movement of the sloop is governed by wind...

This invention relates to a device which serves as a stand for a golf club. In addition the device can be used to mark the location of the ball, clean the accumulation of debris from the bottom of the golfer's shoe, and clean the debris often formed on the face of a golf club. The device consists of a rod with various bends so as to lodge a golf club. The rod is covered with a frictional material to aid in the balance of the golf club. There is a first vertical member which is used to stand the ...

In certain types of firearm competition bowling pin-like objects are shot at, with the goal of knocking them off of a platform. To accomplish this with conventional bullets having a standard tapered bullet requires great skill. This invention relaxes the precision requirement by using a bullet which has a sawtooth section cut from the face of the bullet. A bullet fired from a firearm normally rotates axially due to the rifling in the gun barrel. The rotation coupled with a sawtooth edged slug ca...

There is a rail connecting and alignment device for a railway track disclosed for interconnecting I-shaped rail members. The connecting and aligning device is vertically supported on rail ties, and in turn supports the I-shaped rail member which may lie such that abutting ends are located over a space between rail ties, and the abutting ends are located within the connecting members. The present invention is concerned with the alignment and connection of railway track. More specifically, the inv...