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Marvin Glass & Associates

Eugene H. Smith and Associates

John M Balogh

Rouben T Terzian

Eugene H Smith

Thomas K Balogh

Pearl Balogh

A vertically disposed wheel chock for tandem wheels which engages the opposed tread surfaces of the tandem wheels. The wheel chock includes a pair of members which can be moved toward and away from each other and each member being wedge-shaped and including side plates with inclined edges for engagement with the opposed curved tread surface of pneumatic tires on the tandem wheels. The members are securely engaged with the tire tread surfaces above and below the rotational axes of the wheels to prevent the tandem wheels from rolling in relation to a support surface.

Vertically disposed wheel chock for tandem wheels

An illuminated flying disk includes a plurality of light emitters mounted in a flying disk toy as well as a control circuit mounted in a centrally disposed circuit housing on the underside of the disk. A cap for the control circuit housing is rotatable to provide a simple yet rugged switch for selectively supplying power to the light emitters.

Illuminated flying disk

A mailing card is formed of a single sheet of card stock in which a perforated delineation extends entirely across the sheet of card stock to define first and second portions thereof and to facilitate complete separation of those portions from each other. An opening with at least one transparent window tinted in a first color is defined in the first portion of the card stock. Matter is printed on the second portion of the card stock in both the color of the window and in at least one other contrasting color. The first and second portions of the card stock are separated from each other. The printed matter on the second portion is then viewed through the window in the first portion which masks the matter printed in the same color as the window. Hidden messages can thereby be decoded in this manner. Also, a pair of transparent anaglyphic windows can be provided on the first portion of the card stock to view a picture printed anaglyphically on the second portion of the card stock when the first and second portions are completely separated from each other.

Special effect postcard with integral viewer

A method and anamorphic viewing lens is disclosed for producing a wide angle television or other CRT screen display, which display is expanded along the horizontal axis to allow increased visual information content or to change the aspect ratio for television viewing of wide screen motion pictures. The method includes the step of producing a width-compressed record of a field of visual features, displaying the width-compressed video record on a television or other CRT screen, which display is viewed through a single axis anamorphic viewing lens according to the invention to produce a width-expanded image of the television screen displayed record. The width-compressed video record is produced in several ways including filming a scene through an anamorphic lens system; recording the scene through a second reverse geometric version of the anamorphic lens according to the present invention; or by electronic processing of the video signal data. Alternatively, the anamorphic record may be projected through a single axis anamorphic lens for direct viewing of a width-expanded image. The single axis anamorphic lens comprises an eschelon lens formed by a sheet of optically transparent material having a series of parallel, vertical sawtooth grooves formed into one face, which increase nonlinearly in angularity from the center of the lens to the outer lateral edges.

Method and lens for producing a wide angle image

A toy figure with a head having a substantially rigid outer surface of a first appearance is covered by a relatively flexible outer mask having a second appearance which is self-supporting in normal atmospheric pressure. The mask is secured in substantially airtight relationship covering, but spaced from, the outer surface of the head. Reduction of the pressure in the space between the outer surface of the head and the mask by a pump collapses the mask and conforms its appearance to the first appearance of the outer surface of the underlying head. Both the interior of the mask and the outer surface of the head are provided with approximately the same surface area. Upper and lower portions of the torso of the figure are slidingly separable to operate a piston pump to reduce the pressure in the space between the head and the mask.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

John M Balogh