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Innoland, Inc.

Research & Development of North Carolina

R&d of North Carolina Inc.

Charles F Foley

Harry P Metheney

Bradley J Tucker

Delbert L Lathim

Julie G Wagner

Ting Liu

Lewis J Halberstadt

An inexpensive, multi-purpose, durable garment in the nature of a child's vest for general wear which easily accepts the shoulder strap of a vehicle seat belt system regardless of the child's seated position in the vehicle, is light in weight, easy to put on and take off, comfortable to wear, encourages the habit of seat belt use and is appealing and attractive to children.

Child's vest

Heptane has been found to be an effective and efficient solvent for pressure sensitive adhesives, and to be useful with an applicator for removing stickers, labels, tags, decals, etc. from substrates of paper, plastic, tile, leather, etc. applicator is used with a container holding a supply of solvent, preferably but not necessarily heptane, integrated with a spatulate-like tool extending from the applicator and beneath and beyond an opening in the container for receiving solvent from the container and applying the solvent to adhesive beneath a sticker to neutralize the adhesive preparatory to the tool being moved beneath the loosened sticker to remove it from the substrate.

Method and apparatus for removing labels

A basketball hoop structure includes a small scale basketball hoop member securable to a door or other structure by a bracket. The bracket is of a generally U-shape for selective alternative receipt of a horizontal and vertical edge of the door. Additionally, the bracket includes an arrangement for mounting the small scale basketball hoop member in either a selected horizontal or vertical orientation relative thereto both when the bracket is mounted on a horizontal door edge and when the bracket is mounted on a vertical door edge.

Selectively mountable basketball hoop structure

A 'safety' game dart for use with a dart board having plural projecting dart-receiving fingers, includes an elongate dart body with plural guide wings at one end and a blunt non-metal tip at the opposite end. The tip is formed of an elastomer, e.g. rubber, to be compressibly resilient for compression fitting into a mounting recess in the dart body and to compress upon impact to minimize possible injury or damage to persons or objects accidentally struck by the dart. Each wing includes a laterally projecting planar main guide portion coplanar with the elongate extent of the dart body and an angularly oriented planar tail portion transverse with respect to the dart body, to induce rotation of the dart during flight.

Game dart

A ball-like article includes a flexible outer skin of a size and shape adapted to be readily grasped within the palm of one hand. The skin has a plush outer surface and defines an interior approximately fifty percent (50%) of which is occupied by a quantity of plastic pellets or other granular material to be movable in a generally fluidic fashion within the interior. The article has a characteristic kneadable quality adapted for therapeutic manual manipulation, light manual tossing and catching, and other non-impactive recreational activities.

Ball-like article

A blow gun and projectile combination for use in connection with targets which provide safety, enjoyment, and fun without being hazardous. The blow guns are accurate with the projectiles used, and the projectiles are extremely lightweight and do not have sufficient mass to cause injury if fired so that they strike a person. In addition, the blow gun includes mouthpiece indentations. These indentations cooperate with a disc located on the forward end of each projectile to prevent the projectiles from being inhaled through the mouthpiece by a user of the blow gun.

Blow gun with mouthpiece indentations and projectile therefor prevented

A fish tank construction which is made with interior partitions through which fish can swim and which has 'rooms' simulated as those normally inhabited by human beings as backdrops to provide a form of simulated house. The construction includes a fish cross-over whereby fish can swim in a 'skyway' arrangement between adjacent tanks.

Fish tank construction

A game apparatus for playing matching games involving colored pegs wherein two players, one on each of the sides of the apparatus will select four pegs of color and place them in a particular sequence unknown to his opponent. A game board provided has apertures for receiving pegs in horizontal rows so that each player can mark on the game board the peg color and sequence arrangement he guesses to be the arrangement selected by his opponent. The game board then is rotated 180.degree. and each player checks his opponent's lineup of pegs and indicates on the board with additional marking pegs whether the opponent matched the player's colors and/or mated the position of the player's pegs. The board is then rotated 180.degree. again and each player again attempts to deduce or guess the opponent's colors and mate the order of colors on a different line of apertures. Play continues until one player matches both the colors and the order of colors of his opponent.

Growing community of inventors

Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Charles F Foley