A device to provide a face lift without surgery comprising one member securely attached to a user's head and a second member slidingly attached to the first member with the second member have two ends each end being attachable to the face or other part of the head of the wearer with tension adjusting means as a part of the second member.

An improved underwater breathing apparatus includes a net bag suspended from an interior portion of a donut-shaped float with a compressed air diving tank being supported within the bag. One or more breathing hoses may be attached to the tank, and each hose may be of a fifty foot length or more. Conventional second stage regulators are attached to the free ends of the hoses so that divers may perform shallow water dives without the necessity of carrying compressed air cylinders on their backs.

A media positioning means for a printer having first and second transport mechanisms which are positioned in opposed relation with each other to form a common throat therebetween. Each of the first and second transport mechanisms includes first and second endless belts, a cross bar whose ends are secured to the belts, and grippers mounted on the cross bar to enable first and second record media inserted in the throat to be individually gripped thereby and positioned in side by side or overlappin...

An ink roller device for use with a printing head of a hand labeler, or the like: an ink roller holder including a mounting assembly having a clip adapted to be removably mounted to the hand labeler; a pair of arms extend from the mounting assembly; each of the arms has a round notch at its free end; this notch has an entrance cut which is made narrower than the inside diameter of the notch; spring means bias the arms so that their free ends may be brought close to the type characters of the pri...

A ribbon tracking system includes guide means and roller means thereon which automatically tilts in the proper direction to correct for errors in tracking of the ribbon. A crowned pulley is floatingly supported and journaled on a curved guide post or shaft wherein the pulley is caused to be axially moved along the post or shaft by reason of corrective forces, in a direction opposite the tracking error for correcting the attitude of the ribbon.

An improved thermally sensitive printer for recording characters on a thermally sensitive medium is provided. An exothermic printing head includes a substrate and a plurality of selectively energized resistance elements supported on the substrate, the resistance elements being energized during a printing operation to print characters on a thermally sensitive medium in contact therewith. A rotary platen is provided for bringing the thermally sensitive medium into printing contact with the resista...

A pressure applying element, a sheet to be printed, and an ink ribbon, an interchangeable form carrying printing indicia, and a pressure absorption plate are arranged in vertical sequence to be pressed together by the pressure applying element in the printing process whereby the pressure absorption plate absorbs the applied pressure, the ink ribbon being wound on a delivery spool and a wind-up spool mounted for rotation in a cassette housing, the cassette housing forming a guide delivering ribbo...

An animal snare comprising a length of multiwire, multibundle steel cable, a wire swivel with a wound section disposed about one end of said cable, a metal washer substantially the same outer diameter as said wound section of said swivel positioned on said cable between the wound section of said swivel and the end of said cable, a lock having openings through which said cable is threaded, said lock comprising a bent strip with two sections at an acute angle and two openings in each section, one ...

Apparatus for holding an end portion of a printing blanket on an associated printing cylinder is provided and employs an elongate holding bar and bar support which cooperate to hold such end portion in position in a highly efficient manner and the apparatus has double eccentric means for quickly attaching and detaching the holding bar relative to the bar support.

An inking ring and wheel for code daters, the ring being formed as an elongate length of ink absorbent strip material of generally rectangular cross-section arranged secured end to end to define a ring, said ring being seated in a thin wall U-shaped shell whereby the outer portion of the ring extends radially from the shell so that a portion thereof is disposed outward of the shell. Preferably, the strip is formed of foam rubber and the shell is formed of uncured rubber. A slurry of a solvent an...