The amusement device of the present invention comprises a body member formed from a sphere and having six planar surfaces formed on its outer surface. Each of the planar surface is formed at the bottom of a pie-plate shaped indentation in the body member, the indentation having an annular rim around the outer margin thereof, the rim comprising a substantially flat surface. Each of the planar surfaces has raised indicia formed thereon, the raised indicia having a height which is below the annular...

In an apertured vacuum belt document handling system for transporting documents to the exposure station of a copier the vacuum apertures are limited to discrete minor areas spaced circumferentially along the belt between unapertured areas, each vacuum apertured area being smaller than the smallest document to be transported. A document is registered in a loading station against the belt completely overlying one vacuum apertured area and advanced on the belt without slippage from the loading stat...

An apertured plating mask having a polyurethane layer thereon to enhance the sealing thereof to a metal has been provided. The plating mask has a substantially smooth layer for contact with a metal as well as a polyurethane covering of the inner perimeter of the apertures of the plating mask whereby definition of selected areas for plating is enhanced. The apertured plating mask is fabricated by a unique molding process wherein a fabricated mask blank is positioned in a mold member, polyurethane...

An energy distribution system comprising elongated support members housing power and communication lines and being arranged end to end on a floor along the primary walls of an enclosed area such as a room in an office building. Each support member includes an upright wall member to which a pair of vertically-spaced upper and lower support portions are mounted in a cantilevered arrangement to extend horizontally in one direction from the upright wall member. The support portions define a pair of ...

An embossing roll for producing visual pattern effects on plastic sheet material is formed with a composite coating of synthetic plastic in which the surface layer has areas of greater resilience than other areas and has a multiplicity of closely spaced embossing formations thereon. The surface layer is of non-uniform depth to produce variations in depth of the resilient outer layer and thereby variations in rigidity about the surface of the embossing roll. As a result, distortion in the spacing...

A device for reserving individual parking areas includes a U-shaped rigid element having parallel legs which are substantially shorter than the intermediate leg which is loosely inserted in at least two clamps which constitute 90.degree. turning zones in a single direction for the U-shaped element. The clamps form an integral part of a platform or plate through which the assembly is mounted onto the floor at the entrance to an individual parking area. The plate has a perforated lug insertable in...

Apparatus for analyzing an image member such as a photographic film bearing an image to be printed and providing information as to the image area. The information may be utilized in determining initial ink key settings for a printing cylinder on which the image is to be printed. The image member is positioned on a support surface and a scanner assembly including a light source and light sensors scans the surface. Light transmission readings are taken from calibration film strips on the support s...

A very maneuverable soil compacting roller for use in a confined area comprises a frame, a compacting drum freely rotatable about a horizontal axis near one end of the frame, and a pair of coaxial wheels near the other end of the frame, for propulsion and steering. The wheels are maintained in coaxial spaced apart relation by axle means with which they are drivingly connected, and the axle means is confined to rotation relative to an axle housing between the wheels. A drive motor is secured to t...

A process for flame scarfing places of errors or surface defects on a work piece such as ingots, slabs or the like, by means of at least one flame-scarfing torch is characterized by raising and/or accelerating the flame-scarfing torch from its flame-scarfing position prior to the end of the place of error without changing the other flame scarfing parameters.

A vapor deposited aluminum metallizing film is transformed into a transparent insulating oxide at selective locations at which a film of bismuth or sodium is vapor deposited either beforehand on the substrate or afterward on the aluminum. The oxide forms at only the selected locations to the full depth of the layer and has insulating qualities of interest for electrical components. The use of a pigmented substrate which will show through the transparent oxide areas is useful for providing visibl...