Rand Mcnally & Company

D-m-s Holdings, Inc.

Alan Yefsky

Tara Marie Arnold

Martin Rathgeber

James Blaine Wolford

Alexander Nathan Garfield

Saad Chaudry

Olivier Franck Currat

Lloyd Wendland

Brian Blankstein

Ashton Lamont

Leo Chan

Kristin Ludwig

John McAvoy

Andrea Ellen Fraga

Brian Nguyen

Joel Gray

Polly Greathouse

Sean Breyer

Barbara Benstead

A reaching apparatus is provided for allowing a user to utilize gross motor skills to actuate the reaching apparatus. The reaching apparatus includes a fixed and a sliding handle on a shaft. An internal pulley system is connected between the first and second handles such that sliding of the second handle activates the pulley system to move the claw of the reaching apparatus between an open and closed configuration. The claw may be locked in an open and/or closed configuration by rotation of the handle on the shaft. The pulley system can be set to specific resistance to activate the claw upon different gross motor levels.

Sliding handle reacher

An electronic wall map design and printing system enables a user to select or specify the size, coverage area and detail level of a wall map and to customize the wall map based on the user's needs via a fully automated electronic interface. For ease of viewing during the creation of the wall map, the design and printing system displays the wall map being designed on the electronic user interface at a first detail level or resolution that is less than the level of detail or resolution used to print the wall map. However, the user may use the electronic interface to view portions of the wall map on the user interface at the same level of detail to be actually printed on the wall map to thereby enable the user to assure that the level of detail to be printed on the wall map is adequate for the user's purposes without making the wall map, as printed, hard to read. Once the user has designed the wall map by selecting the size, coverage area, and other customizable features such as titles, specialized icons, etc., the user may have the wall map printed at a printing facility owned by the map provider or may have the wall map sent to and printed by a third party printer such as a copying service located near the user.

Customized wall map printing system

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Hawthorn Woods, IL, United States of America

Alan Yefsky