The present invention relates to a bob or float for use with fishing lines and more particularly to a sectional float which is slidingly mounted on a fishing line in a novel manner.

A diver's floater is disclosed having a spherical float body with a circumferential groove thereabout in which a line may be stored, which line connects the float body to the diver. A clip, attached to the float body, under which preselected turns of the line may be secured, serves the dual purpose of preventing excessive line from unwrapping and providing distance indications to the diver. In one embodiment of the invention, wherein the float body is hollow, access to the float body interior is...

A float tube and a separate power unit floater combination wherein the power unit floater includes a toroidal shaped float tube and a power unit shaped to fit in a central cavity of the float tube. The power unit further includes a battery and electric motor for turning the propeller. A switchbox, used to control both the speed and direction of the propeller is placed forward on the fisherman's float tube at a location convenient for the fisherman to manipulate. The power unit being attached to ...

A waterproof vinyl body bag or sleeve open to the air at both ends which is inserted inside a main vinyl waterbed having two apertures, of the same dimensions as the open ends of the body bag, on its top surface. The bag or sleeve is sealed at the edges of both open ends permanently to the top surface of the waterbed at the edges of its two apertures, thus creating a suspended free floating sleeve inside a waterbed, into which a person can climb and lie prone while remaining dry, surrounded by t...

A space game floater apparatus is disclosed, which can be utilized by any person for obtaining simulation experiment similar to space floating or enjoying various space games without need of any preliminary training. A dome-like floating space shell defines an inner artificial floating space, in which is sealed air supplied as pressurized gas under 2 to 3 atm. from a gas pressure control unit. A floater provided in the artificial floating space has a buoyancy vessel part and a support part in wh...

This float comprises a fuselage (6) analogous to classic floats, but which here is topped by a leg (7) such that the fuselage (6) is completely submerged. This arrangement, combined with others that are secondary, makes it possible to reduce the vertical oscillations of the float produced by the sea swell while still ensuring good directional stability and satisfactory stability relative to other disturbances. Thus, a structure (1) suspended from the float (5) and which is part of a line (2, 3) ...

An electronic video gaming machine is programmed to play a multi-hand video poker game which initially displays to the player a five-by-five matrix of twenty-five cards. This five-by-five matrix generates twelve five card hands--the five horizontal rows, the five vertical columns and the two diagonals. The player makes a wager of fifty credits which makes the player eligible for all twelve hands, with five credits applied to each hand, in effect given the player two free hands at five credits ea...

An image projection device includes a Fresnel lens positioned in an optical path of an illuminated image in such a way that light from the image passes twice through the Fresnel lens, once in each direction. The first optical element may be a planar mirror arranged to reflect light transmitted by said Fresnel lens in the first direction back through said Fresnel lens in the second direction. In addition, a second optical element may be provided for changing a path of light exiting said Fresnel l...

Apparatus and method for purging floaters in top inlet baghouse construction wherein the upper plenum of a baghouse compartment and the clean exhaust gases duct are operably connected with a purge duct, a controllable purge damper inserted therein. At termination of the usual cleaning operation, clean exhaust gases are introduced into the top plenum by opening of the controllable purge damper to purge floaters from the upper plenum and down through the bag filters and out the bottom plenum to th...

A fishing floater is controllably slidable along a fishing line to automatically assure that a fishing hook connected adjacent an end of the line will be located close to the bottom of the water when fishing, regardless of whether the depth of the water is known. The floater includes a guide or frame member with a pair of spaced guides and an eccentrically weighted, buoyant hub which is rotatably connected to the guide member between the spaced guides. The fishing line extends through one of the...