The Singer Company

Louis Marx & Co., Inc.

Michael Marra

Artin G Vartoukian

Lawrence L Reiner

Douglas W Smith

Thomas J Pendleton

Michael E Laude

Michael F Hennig

Corbett W Stone

A fabric repairing tool is provided with a cutter which is operable in a one-shot shearing operation to remove a portion of fabric from a folded piece of material held in the tool with a foldable clamp, and is further provided with heating means which is energizable to a controlled temperature effective in a desirable period of time to bond a thermoplastic pad and patch to a damaged fabric.

Fabric shearing and heating tool

A damaged area of a fabric is repaired by removing the damaged area from the fabric while folded across the damaged site, and thereafter bonding a patch and underlying thermoplastic impregnated pad to each other and to the fabric with the application of heat.

Fabric repairing method

A simulated bowling game wherein a reflected image of fixed illuminated ten pin shaped lamps is provided. A plurality of fixed illuminated bowling pin lamps are disposed in a ten pin pattern and are each normally illuminated to produce an image representative of a bowling pin. A semi-reflective surface is positioned at an incline with respect to a bowling alley, and is further positioned in facing relationship with respect to the plurality of illuminated bowling pin lamps so that the semi-reflective surface produces an image of each of the illuminated bowling pin lamps at the other end of the bowling alley. A plurality of contacts are positioned in a predetermined pattern at a rear end of the bowling alley and are adapted to produce contact signals when contacted by the bowling ball. Control circuitry is coupled intermediate the respective contacts and each of the illuminated bowling pin lamps to receive each of the contact signals produced by the contacts when a ball is rolled toward the rear end of the alley and in response thereto is adapted to selectively deenergize certain of said illuminated bowling pins and thereby prevent same from producing a reflected illuminated image.

Simulated bowling game

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Huntington, CT, United States of America

Michael Marra