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James Stanfield Company, Inc.

James S Stanfield

Paul W Trester

Dean D Alexander

Daniel E Rodriguez

A portable device that helps a person control food consumption by slowing the eating process to a pace that provides time for the human brain to signal (through hormones such as Sulfated Cholecystokinin) a &ldquo;sensation of fullness&rdquo; before overeating or &ldquo;binge eating&rdquo; can occur, to normalize mealtime social behavior by encouraging relaxation and conversation when eating with others, and to control medical conditions including Bulimia and Anorexia. The apparatus includes red and green lights ( ), a circuit ( ) that controls energization of the lights, and a pushbutton switch ( ) that operates a portion of a circuit. When the push button ( ) is depressed, the circuit energizes the red light ( ) for a predetermined wait period such as 20 seconds (which can be varied), to indicate that the person should not eat. Then, the circuit energizes the green light ( ), to indicate that the person can take one or two bites of food at his/her convenience. After taking one or two bites, the person depresses the push button to cause the red light to be energized. This cycle continues until the meal is over. A person can depress a button ( ) to place the device in a &ldquo;fast start&rdquo; adaptive mode, wherein the wait period when the red light is on, gradually increases from a short period such as 7 seconds to 20 seconds during a time such as three minutes, and then continues at 20 second periods for the rest of the meal.

Enhanced consumption controller

A portable device helps a person control food consumption to eat in a more relaxed manner so time is provided for the &ldquo;appestat&rdquo; in the human brain to signal the person that he/she is full before overeating, and to provide time for conversation when eating with others. The apparatus includes red and green lights ( ), a circuit ( ) that controls energization of the lights, and a pushbutton switch ( ) that operates a portion of a circuit. When the push button ( ) is depressed the circuit energizes the red light ( ) for a predetermined period such as 30 seconds (which can be varied), to indicate that the person should not eat while the red light is on. After the predetermined period, the circuit energizes the green light ( ), to indicate that the person can take one or two bites of food at his/her convenience. As soon as the person takes the one or two bites, the person depresses the push button to cause the red light to be energized for the predetermined period. This cycle continues until the meal is over. When starting the meal, the person turns on the circuit, causing a timer display ( ) to begin counting, in seconds and minutes, the time that the device was on. This encourages the person to delay taking bites of food, so the meal lasts at least 20 minutes, and reminds the user to wait until the 20 minute period is over before leaving the eating area or deciding whether to eat another serving.

Consumption controller

A combination of a shoe device ( , FIG. ) and shoelace ( ) for use by young children and the handicapped to learn to tie a shoelace bow, is of simple construction and provides simple guidance. The shoe device is in the form of a plate of cardboard or the like, with markings ( ) thereon that represent the front of a shoe. The plate has a pair of holes ( ) through which a shoelace can be threaded. A holdown ( ) spaced from the holes, can be used to hold down the looped end portion of a shoelace. The holdown can be formed by a cut in the plate which forms a tab with a free end. The plate has greater similarity to a shoe by forming the front portion of the plate with a perimeter ( ) that is cut out in the shape of the front half of a child's shoe, with a rounded front end ( ) and substantially parallel sides ( ), and with the plate being decorated, or marked, to represent the front of a shoe.

Shoe device for bow tying

A combination of a shoe device (12, FIG. 4) and shoelace (14) for use by young children and the handicapped to learn to tie a shoelace bow, is of simple construction and provides simple guidance. The shoe device is in the form of a plate of cardboard or the like, with markings thereon that represent the shape and position of a shoelace loop, so a child can bend an end of the shoelace to correspond to the markings. A holdown is provided along the marking to hold the looped shoelace in position. The holdown can be formed by a cut in the plate which forms a tab with a free end. The plate has greater similarity to a shoe by forming the front portion of the plate with a perimeter that is cut out in the shape of the front half of a child's shoe, with a rounded front end and substantially parallel sides, and with the plate being decorated, or marked, to represent the front of a shoe.

Shoelace tying helper

A combination shoelace and joining device is provided for use by young children or the handicapped, to aid in tying a bow in a shoelace that is mounted on a shoe. The joining device (16, FIG. 2 ) has a pair of permanently connected shoelace holding portions (40, 46), with a first portion (46) substantially permanently mounted on a shoelace part (32) and a second portion (40) which is child-mountable on a second shoelace part (34) to hold a shoelace end portion in a loop configuration which aids in tying a bow. Each shoelace holding portion forms a passage part (70, 72, FIG. 4 ) through which one of the shoelace parts extends. One joining device includes a pair of clamp parts (42, 44) that can be clamped around the second shoelace part, and that forms the second joining portion. The device includes a flexible strip (46) that holds the clamp parts together and that forms the first holding portion. A teaching kit (100, FIG. 6 ) includes a joining device (16 ) mounted on a short teaching shoelace (110) that is threaded on a shoe device (102) in the form of a cardboard plate representing a shoe.

Shoelace tying aid

A shoelace is described for use by young children or the handicapped, which facilitates tying of a bow by providing a moderately stiff end portion; the stiff end portion can retain a loop shape when a pair of spaced locations on the stiff end portion are temporarily fastened together as by a pair of Velcro retainers. The shoelace is formed of a flexible shoelace core with first and second opposite end portions, and with the first end portion penetrated by a solidified, originally-liquid stiffening material. The shoelace can be made only long enough to leave ends for bow tying, when it projects directly between the uppermost eyelets of a shoe, to train a child rather than to also lace his shoes. The length is small enough that the distance (B) between the middle of the shoelace and the closest Velcro retainer (26) is less than the distance (C) between two Velcro retainers. A short tube (60) is provided through which the shoelace projects, with knots tied at opposite ends of the tube and with the tube lying under the uppermost eyelets of a shoe, to assure that opposite ends of the shoelace are of equal length. The two shoelace locations can be held together by a hook device (86, FIG. 9 ).

Teaching shoelace

Apparatus is described for the detailed viewing of a strip of 35 mm slide film which is enclosed in a transparent jacket. The apparatus includes a projector with a film gate which is wide enough to pass the jacket, and which projects sufficient area to include the frame number which lies under each picture frame. The apparatus enables a person to view the details of a developed roll of slide film, in its jacket, and to select particular frames for making prints or mounted slides.

Viewing of developed roll of slide film

A shoelace is described for use by young children or the handicapped, which facilitates tying of a bow. The shoelace has opposite end portions which are just stiff enough to substantially retain the shape to which they are bent while permitting children to easily bend them during the tying of a bow. This enables a child or handicapped person to bend the end portion to the shape required for one step of tying, and to 'freeze' the shoelace in that position while he manipulates the other end portion or decides what is the next step to be done.

Training shoelace

Apparatus is described for use with a projector which can direct light substantially horizontally through a projection location and which can project the image of a slide thereat onto a screen, which enables the projection of the images of slides contained in a flexible storage sleeve of a type which is normally stored in a three-ring binder with the slides coplanar. A carrier has a pair of slightly spaced walls for receiving the storage sleeve between them, the walls having rows and columns of transparent regions corresponding to the location of the slides in the sleeve. A holder slidably supports the carrier so one of its slides lies at the projection location for projecting the image onto a screen. The holder allows the carrier to be slid horizontally to show any of the slides in a row of slides on the sleeve, and allows the carrier to be moved vertically to show the slides on another row of the sleeve.

Slide projection system for coplanar stored slides

Film repair apparatus

Apparatus for repairing sprocket holes on strip material, such as motion picture film, with pressure adhesive tape having holes, is provided with guide means for feeding material through a sprocket wheel at a repair station, and an improved means for pressure bonding repair tape on material at the sprocket wheel comprised of a sponge rubber pressure roller. Dual tracks and sprocket wheels are provided for use of the apparatus with material of different gauges.

Pressure roller for apparatus useful in repairing sprocket holes on

Disclosed is a new and improved apparatus for aligning and bonding a pre-perforated flexible repair tape to the side edge portion of an elongated strip, such as motion picture film, having damaged sprocket feed hole perforations located therealong. Film to be repaired is fed continuously from a supply reel to a repair station comprising a grooved pressure roller cooperating with a sprocket roller specifically designed to more precisely align the preformed feed holes of the tape with the damaged feed hole locations of the film, and to bond the tape and film together in the aligned condition, the laminated tape and film thereafter being directed over an exit ramp to a storage reel for collection.

Apparatus for repairing elongated flexible strips having damaged

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for automatically aligning and bonding a preperforated flexible repair tape to the side edge portion of an elongated strip, such as motion picture film, having damaged sprocket feed hole perforations located therealong. Film to be repaired is fed continuously from a supply reel through a pair of straightening and flattening rollers to a repair station comprising a pressure roller cooperating with a sprocket roller to automatically and precisely align the preformed feed holes of the tape with the damaged feed hole locations of the film and to bond the tape and film together in the aligned condition. From the repair station, the laminated tape and film pass through a pair of cooperating rollers to more firmly bond the tape and film preparatory to collection on a take-up reel.

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Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

James S Stanfield