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Thomas Armstrong

Gordon F Bremer

Kurt E Holmquist

Richard K Smith

Brad Tucker

A fishing lure for securing live bait includes a flexible main body and a stretchable collar. The flexible main body is configured to have a fishing hook inserted therethrough. The stretchable collar is connected to the flexible main body. The stretchable collar has a hole configured to stretch when pulled to allow a live bait to be inserted into the hole and constrict when released to secure the live bait in the hole. Whereby, when the flexible main body is positioned on the fishing hook and the live bait is inserted into the hole of the stretchable collar, the stretchable collar positions the live bait adjacent the fishing hook for fishing.

Fishing lure for securing live bait

A firearm safety device (10) is provided for securing the hammer of a firearm against movement to prevent unauthorized or accidental discharge of the firearm. A rigid base member (25) is fitted about the hammer, and a cable (41), attached to one side edge of the base member (25), is extended about the butt of the firearm. A connector (47) is engaged by a locking means (61) to thus attach the distal end (46) of the cable (41) to the base member (25) and thereby secure the base member (25) about the hammer of the firearm.

Firearm safety device

A system for use on communications channels such as telephone lines, makes use of a Token Throwing Multiplexer (TTM) whereby a plurality of multipoint networks each having a master or local station and one or more remote stations and each having a station located at a common site can function as substantially independent networks while using common modems and telephone lines. The TTM uses conventional time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques in the outbound direction. Contention for the inbound line is resolved by a token throwing technique, the current inbound user being the location and channel in possession of the outstanding token.

Multiple virtual multipoint modem using TDM/token throwing technique

In a system in which data between a master and remote location is encrypted by using the DES algorithm, the status of security devices at the remote location is monitored from a centralized security station. A message indicative of the status of the security devices is used to generate an initializing vector (IV). This IV is then used to encrypt the data from the remote to the master.

Non-interfering in-band protocol-independent diagnostic scanning in a

A method of adding a secondary channel to a QAM signal mapped in the complex plane is provided. A pair of positions in the mapped complex plane is determined such that one-half the sum of the square of the distances to such positions from the origin is no greater than the square of the distance from the origin to the position of the furthest mapped data point. For secondary channel communication, a data point is shifted from a normal position to one or the other of the new positions with one of said positions assuming a binary '1' for the secondary channel and the other of said positions assuming a binary '0'.

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