A wrapping band for converting cut standard food cartons into a toy building block, which in the form of a continuous band comprises five surface elements. Each surface element is hinged to the adjacent element or elements along a line or lines, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the band. The surface elements are connected as follows: a first end element having a closure slot for engagement with a closure tongue; a top element having a plurality of circular projections or pegs; a se...

A novelty bottle cap-toy top which, may be used to seal a bottle and/or a toy top. The bottle cap-toy top comprises a hollow shell of generally semi-spherical configuration and a stem. The hollow shell has a top flat outer surface and opposite thereto a lower opening through which there is an inwardly extending sealing portion adapted to engage and seal the throat of a bottle. The stem, generally perpendicular to both the top flat outer surface and the plane of the lower opening, extends from th...

A method of and an apparatus for determining the dielectric breakdown chateristics and size of membrane-sheathed particles such as living-organism cells and the apparent size of such particles after breakdown of the membrane, makes use of two measuring orifices traversed by an electrolyte across which an increasing electric field is applied during the measuring process in which the particles successively traverse one of the orifices. The current through the measuring orifice deviates from the li...

Therapeutic products using processed cherry pits. The pits are removed from the cherries, and then washed, cleaned, dried, and sorted. The whole cherry pits are inserted into bags or containers made of a mesh flame-retardant material. The bags of cherry pits are included in an outer device, such as a cushion, U-shaped neck device, or a huggable stuffed animal character, forming a therapeutic product. The material forming outer device or product is preferably coated with a mildew-resistant, flame...

A free spinning annular cylinder-like hollow body, having a leading and trailing end which are open at the ends. The leading end contains a balanced, uniformly and heavily weighted dense rim for generating gyroscopic forces. When the device is propelled forward with a spinning motion about an axis in substantially the direction of flight, the body is gyroscopically stabilized, in reference to direction, attitude and orientation. The weighted rim also shifts the body's center of gravity toward th...

Apparatus is provided for cooling and sizing thermoplastic extrudates comprising a continuous hollow porous sleeve of eventual shape of the extrudate, said sleeve having a series of adjacent transverse sections, alternating sections thereof being connected to a first liquid coolant system with sufficient pressure to force cooling liquid inwardly and the remaining alternating sections being connected to a second liquid coolant system under sufficient reduced pressure to draw a portion of the cool...

A hand-held amusement device has a variety of features that encourage manipulative activities in and/or by a person's hand. These features may include various combinations of a base that is configured for rocking back and forth on a support surface; a cylinder that rotates relative to the base; a plunger that telescopes relative to the base; a clip that slides back and forth on the base; a lever that pivots back and forth on the base; a hole that extends through an end of the base to facilitate ...

A building component for facilitating a construction of a snow man/woman. A spherically-shaped body is provided that has an outer surface and an interior, the interior substantially lighter than when the interior is filled with snow. An adhesion surface is provided on the outer surface of the spherically-shaped body that substantially increases the ability of the outer surface to adhere snow to the spherically-shaped body. The spherically-shaped body and adhesion surface form a building componen...

An animal toy is configured to stimulate at least one sense of an animal during play by said animal. The toy includes a shell formed of a first pliable material and having an interior; a pouch formed of a second pliable material and contained within the shell during play; a play stimulation item wholly contained within the pouch and configured to issue an emission detectable through the pouch and the shell by at least one sense of said animal; an opening formed in said shell for admitting the po...

A hand-held amusement device has a variety of features that encourage manipulative activities in and/or by a person's hand. These features may include various combinations of a base that is configured for rocking back and forth on a support surface; a cylinder that rotates relative to the base; a plunger that telescopes relative to the base; a clip that slides back and forth on the base; a lever that pivots back and forth on the base; a hole that extends through an end of the base to facilitate ...