The mobile has twelve elongated members positioned with respect to one another to create the appearance of a hexahedron. At each of the eight corners is a flexible joint means joining three rods together and permitting the rods to pivot relative to one another (but maintaining their attachment) so that exterior forces such as air currents or mechanical thrusts cause the mobile to move in an undulating fashion and thereby create changing hexahedron shapes or patterns. The mobile is suspended from...

A mobile suspendable from a fixed support, comprises a planar image support member suspended on a flexible line so as to undergo random motion in the presence of air currents. An image carried by said support member, which creates a visual effect that directs the eye of a viewer to a remote point spaced from the support member and having a fixed spatial relationship to it. A three-dimensional object, such as a miniature basketball, is mounted on a stiff wire attached to the support member such t...

A flexible arcuate rod is rotatably supported by a pair of elastic clips. Each clip slidably engages a crib wall or a crib headboard. One or more annular members are slidably mounted on the rod. Each annular member is provided with a tab from which a figure such as a paper or plastic cut-out or a painted decoration can depend. A pair of tubes is slidably mounted on the rod to prevent displacement of the annular members over predetermined portions of the rod.

A mobile container, particularly for the storing of tools and workpieces, preferably in automobile repair shops, having a container bottom part which is provided with wheels and on which at least two guide columns are arranged for the mounting of a cover plate which can be secured in its uppermost position by a locking device and which is connected by flexible pull elements, preferably chains or ropes, with at least one tray arranged in such a manner that the latter is lifted off from the bottom...

A mobile navigator comprises a distance detector for generating a running distance signal, an azimuth detector for generating a progression azimuth detecting signal, a CRT display for indicating the current position of an automotive vehicle, a microcomputer for calculating the current position of the vehicle from the distance detecting signal and the progression azimuth detecting signal and supplying the current position signal to the display, and a memory in which is stored a plurality of map d...

A unique block construction for forming toy blocks which can be either interconnected to form a train, or stacked on top of each other. A block according to the invention includes a coupling which has a retracted position in which it forms part of the basic block contour when the block is to be stacked, and which can be manipulated into a protracted position for coupling the block to another block to form a train.

A portable coating apparatus is described for use with a paper converting machine such as a corrugated paperboard double-backer. Rotational power to drive gravure, transfer and smoothing rolls is extracted from the converting machine supply web by an S-wrap through the loaded nip between a pair of drive rolls. A low-powered auxiliary drive motor is automatically engaged to keep the gravure and transfer rolls conditioned with coating during brief intervals of web feed cessation. The entire unit i...

The present invention relates to a mobile substation comprising a chassis on which substation equipment are carried, king pins which are respectively fixed at both end parts of the chassis, a tractor which includes a coupler adapted to detachably couple to either of the king pins and which supports one of the end parts of the chassis, a bogie truck which includes a coupler adapted to detachably couple to the other king pin and which supports the other end part of the chassis, and supporting legs...

A nursery mobile having soft, laminated characters. The mobile characters have two soft outer plies of, preferably, a synthetic felt, an inner ply of a non-woven batting which has been treated with a thermoplastic resinous binder to render it heat sealable, and are heat sealed about the periphery. The mobile characters are made by assembling sheets of the plies, heat sealing with a dielectric die, and cutting the mobile character from the sheet-sized assembly.

A mixer comprising a substantially trough shaped bin said bin being substantially rectangular when viewed in plan, the lower portion of each of the side walls of said bin slope inwardly to form a central longitudinal channel at the bottom of said bin, a 1st pair of horizontally mounted longitudinal augers situated in said trough and rotatably driven so as to feed from the front to the rear of the bin and also cause the feed to be fed upwardly and away from the centre of said trough, a 2nd pair o...