A children's activity book is disclosed comprising illustrated pages having openings thereon for the placement of edible candy. When the page is turned the edible candy passes through the opening and is deposited onto and completes an illustration on a subsequent page. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, edible candy is placed into a portal at one position of an illustrated page and passed through a passageway before exiting from an outlet at a second position of the illustrat...

A data transfer apparatus is capable of DMA-transferring the transferable data sequentially generated by a processor. In the data transfer apparatus is provided a counter or an address latch for storing data corresponding to the upper limit (or lower limit) of the address of the transferable data. The content of this counter or latch and the content of the DMA address counter are sequentially compared and transferred, and when these values finally become equal to each other and there is no longe...

A baseball bat which includes one or more colored bands with transferrable colored pigments in or adjacent to the hitting zone to assist a batter in determining where a ball is hit on the hitting zone of the bat. The colored bands on the bat have a color pigment that will mark the ball when hit. The marked ball will provide an indication of where the bat impacted the ball. This information can be used to better train the players in hitting the balls.

A composite material and method for forming graphics such as letters or numbers that are pressure transferable to a substrate. The composite material includes an accepting tape including a layer of latent adhesive material on a receiving web, and a friable slightly adhesive layer lightly adhered to a donor web. When the layers are pressed together and the composite material is selectively heated in graphic patterns, corresponding portions of the adhesive material and friable layer adhere togethe...

A process for the preparation of a thermal transferable twinkling pattern is disclosed. The resulting colorful twinkling pattern preformed on a substrate may be transferred on any material to be decorated by simply applying heat and pressure, and a vivid twinkling colorful decorative effect will be achieved by incident light.

A specifically sized transferable indicia sheet has reference marks, which are also transferable guide marks, underlaid on a substantially transparent carrier sheet and arranged in a plurality of horizontal rows. Such guide marks are transferable to a correspondingly sized receiving surface by aligning left, right and top edges of the carrier sheet with corresponding edges of the receiving surface and rubbing the exposed surface of the carrier sheet over the guide marks. The area of the carrier ...

A release film for label stock and the like having: (a) a cavitated layer of a thermoplastic polymer matrix material within which is located a strata of voids, positioned at least substantially within at least a substantial number of each of the voids is at least one spherical void-initiating solid particle which is phase-distinct and incompatible with the matrix material, the void space occupied by the particle being substantially less than the volume of the void, with one generally cross-secti...

A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon at least one dye layer area comprising an image dye in a binder and another area comprising a transferable protection layer, the transferable protection layer area being approximately equal in size to the dye layer area, wherein the transferable protection layer comprises a binder and a UV-absorber comprising an oxide of antimony.

A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon at least one dye layer area comprising an image dye in a binder and another area comprising a transferable protection layer, the transferable protection layer area being approximately equal in size to the dye layer area, wherein the transferable protection layer contains inorganic particles, a polymeric binder and unexpanded synthetic thermoplastic polymeric microspheres, the microspheres having a particle size in t...

A dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon at least one dye layer area comprising an image dye in a binder and another area comprising a transferable protection layer, the transferable protection layer area being approximately equal in size to the dye layer area, wherein the transferable protection layer contains inorganic particles, a polymeric binder and unexpanded synthetic thermoplastic polymeric microspheres, the microspheres having a particle size in t...