An artificial reef comprising a string of open bodies, a floatation device and an anchoring device.

Insect attractive compositions contain acid-hydrolyzed defatted cereals (protein hydrolysis percent .gtoreq.70%) which have been neutralized (pH 5 to 9), preferably, after being concentrated 2 to 10 times in strongly acidic media.

A lightweight magnetically attractive display device includes a relatively thin sheet-like intermediate layer which is adapted to be magnetically attractive at spaced intervals and which is supported in a generally planar configuration, and an outer face sheet adapted to be attached to the device in front of and adjacent the intermediate layer so that magnetized indicia characters can be removably attached to the device, against the outer layer, by the magnetic attraction between the intermediat...

A magnetic switch for attractive latch which has an attractive latch including a permanent magnet with a hole in its center, in which a ferromagnetic plate being fixed at its one side surface and a ferromagnetic plate, which has a projection in its center, being installed freely detachable at the other side, and the projection is set to be freely movable inside of the center hole of the permanent magnet, outside surface of the fixed permanent magnet being provided with a switch, which has an ins...

A floating apparatus for use in an attractive floater railway includes a magnetic rail mounted on the underside of a track. The magnetic rail comprises sheets of ferromagnetic material laminated together and is formed to have a cross section in the shape of a trapezoid or a quadrant of a circle with faces of the rail including a horizontal surface and a vertical surface. A guiding electromagnet is disposed opposite to the vertical surface and a supporting electromagnet is disposed opposite to th...

The present invention relates to an arrangement enabling edge-to-edge joining, by means of a magnetic attractive force, of a first edge portion 811a) of a first panel (11) in a display system to a second edge portion (12b) of a second panel (12), a first magnetised strip (11e) being applied to said first edge portion (11a) and a second magnetised strip (12b) being applied to said second edge portion (12b). The magnetised strips (11e, 12d) are assigned such magnetisation directions (s-n; n-s) tha...

A method is disclosed for forming a paperweight which has the resultant sculpted form of a crumpled sheet of paper. The method includes the steps of heating a vinyl sheet until it is soft and pliable and wrapping that sheet about a metal weight to take the above mentioned rigid form when it is cooled down.

An attractive facial image determining system, including a first detecting section for detecting lateral angle points of both eyes in a facial image; a second detecting section for detecting oral angle points; a constructing section for constructing a rectangle which is formed of a line segment made by a side that passes through the lateral angle points of both eyes detected by the first detecting section, and an opposed line segment that passes through both oral angle points detected by the sec...

The device has prongs for entering a mass of hair, for instance a twist, and a handle for thereupon levering the device over through approximately 180.degree. to spread the twist over the mass of hair at the back of the head and thereupon to drive the very long prongs into the mass of hair to bind and hold the twist to the back of the head and unify such twist with the mass of hair at the back of the head.

Apparatus for handling material by magnetic attraction comprising an elongated tubular member of nonmagnetic material with a magnet slidably received in the tubular member. The magnet is movable along the length of the tubular member between starting and dwell positions to carry magnetically attractive articles or material along the tubular member. A nonmagnetic barrier engages the tubular member between the starting and dwell positions to prevent the articles or material attracted by the magnet...