Pemco-kalamazoo, Inc.

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Standex International Corporation

John W Black

Richard D Shupe

Earl Simon

John K Domen

Rebecca L Dockery

Ralph E Slager

The present invention relates to a system and method for coordinating a competitive sporting event. The present invention comprises receiving information from multiple users regarding the user's willingness to consider participation in a potential competitive sporting event. The present invention organizes the received information from the multiple users into an electronically searchable format. The invention also provides access to the organized information to the multiple users and, optionally, third parties.

System and method for automated coordination and communication of sporting event information via the world wide web

The present invention features various systems and methods for assessing, measuring, quantifying, and/or relaying athlete performance information, and particularly performance information relating to fighters or boxers. More particularly, the present invention relates to utilizing such technology as modified ergometer based technology, optical sensor and motion analysis technology, accelerometers, and hydraulic meters for the measuring and/or improvement of the performance of fighters, for the facilitating of recruiting efforts, and/or for the enhancement of boxing matches.

Methods and systems for providing quantitative assessment and relaying of fighter performance

A vibrating baby blanket is disclosed, comprising a traditional baby blanket. Located inside of the blanket is a vibrating mechanism, the approximate size of an adult's outstretched hand, which produces vibrations to simulate the patting of a parent on a child's back. The vibrating mechanism is adjustable in frequency and intensity. The blanket is decoratively adorned, and plays music via an electronic music box, located inside of a control unit. The control unit and vibrating mechanism are located inside of a pocket on the blanket, thus permitting them to be removed when the blanket needs washing. Power is supplied by a detachable power cord and direct current power supply, as well as a rechargeable batteries. A portable pad is also disclosed.

Vibrating baby blanket

A decelerator device for stopping a high energy projectile, including an elongated tube of a predetermined length and having an inlet and a terminal end to define an axial path for the projectile. The device includes a piston for moving on the axial path and having a cone shaped leading edge. Further included is a fluid container for filling the tube with a fluid to be displaced by movement of the piston through the tube and for collecting the displaced fluid as it is displaced. Also included in the tube are a plurality of port like slots for displacing fluid from the tube radially as the projectile enters the tube. The ports located proximate the inlet portion of the tube are of larger area, and become progressively smaller toward the terminal end. At some distance from the terminal end the tube is sealed along the remaining portion of the axial path so that the fluid will be displaced annularly past the piston in the opposite direction of piston travel to further cause the piston to decelerate to a stop within the length of the axial path.

Fluid decelerator for high energy projectiles

A video camera recording device having a gunstock and a support structure for which includes a mounting platform adapted to receive thereon a hand held video camera recorder haing a lense structure defining a line of sight, a recording medium for recording video information, and a viewfinder and mounting structure for mounting the viewfinder onto the gunstock. Structure is provided for effecting a sequential activating and deactivating of the video camera recording device for the purpose of starting a recording of video information onto the recording medium and stopping the recording, respectively. A gun sight is located in the line of sight so as to be visible through the viewfinder when the video camera recorder is recording video information on the recording medium. A trigger is provided on the gunstock and is adapted to be manually activated by a finger of a user's hand. A signal generator is provided which generates a signal visible through the viewfinder in response to the user activating the trigger. The signal is also simultaneously recorded on the recording medium.

Gun mounted video camera

A wheel bracket mounting structure which includes an elongated and flexible bracket member having an axle mounting section and a stem mounting section at generally opposite ends thereof. The axle mounting section includes a generally flat, platelike portion. The stem mounting section includes an elongate, generally arcuate stem adapted to be directly attached to a support member on a wheeled vehicle. An intermediate section is provided between the axle mounting section and the stem mounting section. A segment is provided at the juncture between the intermediate section and the flat, platelike portion to provide a region remote from the arcuate stem about which the platelike portion can elastically flex relative to the arcuate stem.

Wheel bracket mounting structure

A wheel bracket assembly includes two separate, platelike bracket parts which each have a noncircular opening therein and are disposed on opposite sides of a wheel in angular alignment. The ends of the axle for the wheel extend through the noncircular openings and the bracket parts are fixed against axial and rotational movement with respect to the axle. A method of making the wheel bracket assembly includes the steps of stamping out from at least one metal plate the two bracket parts which are substantially mirror images of each other and have the noncircular opening therethrough, placing the bracket parts in angular alignment on opposite sides of the wheel so that the ends of the axle extend through the noncircular openings, and upsetting each end of the axle to retain the bracket parts in place and so that the material of the axle flows to fill the noncircular openings in the bracket parts and thereby prevent relative rotation of the bracket parts.

Wheel bracket assembly having two part wheel bracket and a method of

A mold housing support apparatus for supporting a mold housing having a mold cavity therein. A pair of laterally spaced elongate support members are secured at one end to a base structure which in the illustrated embodiment is a sector to a table. Each support member is cantilevered horizontally outwardly from the base structure and has an upwardly facing support surface coplanar with the other. An upstanding guide wall is also provided on each of the support members and is oriented so that the support surfaces are oriented therebetween and the guide walls diverge in a direction away from the base structure. A mold housing is mounted on a mold housing support plate with lateral edges that extend parallel to the guide walls on each of the support members. A toggle lever structure is provided for fixedly securing the mold housing support plate and, thence the mold housing to the base structure.

Mold mounting and releasable clamp therefor

Caster frame

A mold structure having at least first, second and third mold parts stacked one on top of the other, each having structure thereon defining at least one part of a mold cavity. The second part is oriented between the first and third parts and has mold cavities on both sides thereof. A support structure is provided for supporting the first mold part for movement toward and away from the third mold part. Structure is included within the mold structure to limit the spacing between the first and second mold parts to a prescribed spacing so that as the first mold part is moved away from the third mold part, the second mold part will be spaced a prescribed distance away from both the first and third mold parts. The invention also includes a mold opening structure which is coaxially aligned with the elongate tie rod extending between the mold parts. This structure further effects a safe and positive opening of the mold structure.

Mold opening device

A caster with a braking apparatus includes a bracket and a wheel rotatably supported on the bracket, the wheel having a radially inwardly facing annular braking surface thereon between its axle and tread. A braking member has a braking surface thereon adjacent the braking surface on the wheel, and is supported for radial movement between braking and retracted positions in which the braking surface thereon is engaging and free of engagement with the braking surface on the wheel. Radial movement of the braking member is effected by a manually actuable lever. In a preferred embodiment, the bracket is pivotally supported on a bracket support and a further braking surface is provided on the bracket support. A braking element has a braking surface facing the braking surface on the bracket support and is moved by manual actuation of the lever between actuated and deactuated positions in which the braking surface thereon is respectively engaging and free of engagement with the braking surface on the bracket support.

Wheel braking mechanism for a wheel bracket assembly

An apparatus for lifting a mold top upwardly away from a mold bottom includes a support for the mold bottom, a drive for moving the support horizontally, a frame, and a drive for moving the frame vertically. The frame has two gripping arrangements, movement of the support when the frame is in a lowered position causing the mold top to move to a position between the gripping arrangements, the gripping arrangements engaging vertical side surfaces on the mold top. Subsequent upward movement of the frame lifts the mold top due to engagement of the gripping arrangements with lips provided above the side surfaces. The gripping arrangements each include a roller support member pivotally supported on the frame and two rollers supported on each roller support member for rotation about vertical axes, the rollers rolling on the mold top side surfaces.

Lifting apparatus for an injection mold

A wheel bracket assembly includes an upper bracket having two spaced downwardly extending side flanges and a wheel carrying bracket pivotally supported between the upper bracket side flanges for pivotal movement about an axis. The second bracket has a generally horizontal top plate with a transverse, upwardly facing, concave groove and has side flanges which extend downwardly from opposite sides of the top plate and are adapted to pivotally support a wheel therebetween. Pivotal movement of the wheel carrying bracket in one direction is resisted by a resilient element which has one end engaging the top plate at a location within the groove, which extends away from such location approximately along the path of movement of the location about the pivot axis, which tapers in thickness toward such end, which has a semicylindrical head at the opposite end, and which has a transverse groove on each side thereof adjacent the head. An omega-shaped clip securely grips around the head with its legs disposed in the transverse grooves, and has its ends securely supported on respective side flanges of the upper bracket. Progressive pivotal movement of the wheel carrying bracket is countered by progressively increasing resistance from the resilient element.

Wheel bracket assembly having a resilient element with progressively

A method and apparatus for injection molding articles from a thermoplastic or similar material. A plurality of molds are mounted on a turntable and are indexed to selected positions as the turntable rotates about its axis of rotation. Radial slots divide the turntable into sectors, each having a mold thereon. A clamping mechanism is provided which successively deflects each sector slightly from the plane of the turntable in order to precisely align the mold thereon with an injection nozzle and then securely clamps the halves of the mold together while the injection nozzle injects moldable material into the cavity in the mold. Interchangeable cavities with different size and shape characteristics are provided in the injection molds and associated with each mold is a resettable indicator designating the particular type of cavity presently installed in that mold. A sensor unit responsive to the indicators provides a control unit with an indication of the characteristics of the cavity in each mold when it is aligned with the injection nozzle and the control unit adjusts the parameters of the injection operation to correspond to those characteristics. In one embodiment, two injection nozzles are provided and an annulus is inserted into each mold cavity to separate the cavity into two portions, each of the nozzles injecting moldable material into a respective one of the cavity portions.

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Hickory Corners, MI, United States of America

John W Black