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Gte Mobilnet Incorporated

Royal Business Machines, Inc.

Magnetec Corporation

William J Smith

Harmon R Miller

Hollie M Stanley, Jr

Charles Bickoff

Norman R Villeneuve

Jack M Smith

Michael A Lafroscia

Donald L Suprise

A method of playing a casino card game includes providing an automatic shuffling machine and a gaming table having a plurality of playing stations and a community card area. Each player antes. A hand of five cards is dealt to each player, and a plurality of community card pairs are distributed to the community area. Each player reviews the dealt hand to determine whether to fold or play, and all remaining players are required to wager a fixed amount. A community card pair is turned face up, and each player then determines whether to fold or play. Each player wagers based on the combination of the player's five-card hand and the turned community pair. The wagers are collected, and the steps of turning and wagering are repeated until all community card pairs are turned face up. The combined wagers are awarded to the player having the highest ranking hand.

Casino card-based game and method of play

A method of preparing for emergencies in a building setting such as a school and using the method to create to a comprehensive crisis resource kit including evacuation plan, contact numbers, master contingency plan, flashlight, cell phone and first aid kit for use in a variety of emergency situations.

Crisis response kit and method of emergency preparation

A tracking and monitoring system is disclosed herein having a stationary alert or alarm transmitter selectively and manually operated to generate an alert signal receivable by a remote monitoring receiver in a mobile vehicle. The monitoring receiver receives the alert signal and a track signal separately or simultaneously. The track signal is transmitted by a track transmitter hidden in property being stolen. Once alerted and on-track with the monitoring receiver, the mobile vehicle maintains vigil on the stolen property and closes range until apprehension can be safely arranged and performed.

Stolen property tracking system

A CMR (Cellular Mobile Radiotelephone) Cell Site includes a structurally compact and easily transportable foundation for a CMR equipment edifice. The foundation, together with the edifice, rests on a leveled surface. An antenna tower is mounted on the roof of the edifice and is secured by an antenna mounting brace embedded in the roof of the edifice. The antenna is guyed at three elevations along the antenna's height to three points on the foundation. The edifice encloses a 10-inch-square, steel support column, positioned within the edifice directly beneath the antenna mounting brace, for supporting the antenna tower. Four-inch-thick slabs of concrete are inserted between the floor of the edifice and the support column and between the support column and the roof so as to isolate the interior of the building from electrical disturbances such as lightening.

Foundation for a CMR cell site

CMR (Cellular Mobile Radiotelephone) equipment is disposed in a configuration that facilitates both transportation to a cell site and, at the site, rapid installation of the CMR equipment and accompanying antenna tower. The CMR equipment incorporates a foundation that includes (i) a rectangular center structure formed from a front horizontal section, a rear horizontal section, a left vertical section, and a right vertical section, and (ii) a nose structure attached to and extending vertically from the front horizontal section. A self-contained CMR equipment edifice, having four walls, a floor and a roof, is secured to the rectangular center structure of the foundation by a plurality of flanges positioned at predetermined locations on the edifice and affixed to both the foundation and walls of the edifice. Several antenna tower sections are attached to the edifice by a number of identical antenna mounting assemblies. Each of the antenna mounting assemblies comprises a bracket attached to a wall of the edifice and a pipe strap removably affixed to the bracket. Left and right crossmember sections are attached to walls of the edifice by the above-mentioned flanges. The left and right crossmember sections are, in turn, respectively secured to top plates of the left vertical and right vertical sections, thereby securing the edifice to the foundation. Left and right leg sections, pivotably attached to opposite ends of the rear horizontal section, are folded into proximity with, respectively, the left vertical section and the right vertical section. In a preferred embodiment, the rear horizontal section includes a left bracket plate pair, disposed at the left end of the rear horizontal section, for accommodating the pivotable attachment of the left leg section. A right bracket plate pair is similarly disposed at a right end for the right leg section.

Transportable CMR cell site

A CMR (Cellular Mobile Radiotelephone) Cell Site includes a foundation for a CMR equipment edifice. The foundation, together with the edifice, rests on a leveled surface. An antenna tower is mounted on the roof of the edifice and is secured by an antenna mounting brace embedded in the roof of the edifice. The antenna is guyed at three elevations along the antenna's height to three points on the foundation. The edifice encloses a 10-inch-square, steel support column, positioned within the edifice directly beneath the antenna mounting brace, for supporting the antenna tower. Four-inch-thick slabs of concrete are inserted between the floor of the edifice and the support column and between the support column and the roof so as to isolate the interior of the building from electrical disturbances such as lightening.

CMR cell site

A transmitting and receiving radio frequency antenna of arcuate shape, serving as a radio frequency radiator of wave lengths between about 2 meters to about 160 meters. A tuning and loading coil is connected to one end of said antenna for tuning and matching said arcuate radiator. A capacitance is connected at the other, coupling to ground. Advantage of vertical and horizontal polarization is obtained.

Mobile or ground mounted arcuate antenna

Apparatus for conveying a sheet of paper from a power feeder to an exit point including a frame for guiding the moving sheet along a preselected path and including a flexible member between the feeder and the exit point for normally guiding the sheet along the preselected path, the flexible member allowing the sheet to buckle in a direction normal to the plane of and away from the preselected path in response to an obstruction.

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A splash guard for a bathtub provided with a shower curtain includes a first extruded plastic channel strip, which is fastened to the adjacent bathroom wall on each side of the bathtub. A second channel strip is positioned on the top wall of the bathtub. First and second support rods are positioned in a respective one of the first and second channel strips. A third support rod is attached to a top end of the first support rod. A flexible panel of material is held by the first, second and third support rods. The flexible material is secured to the support rods so that the top and bottom as well as the sides of the splash guard are supported. The channel strip may also be used as a snap-in lock rod support for holding a tablecloth material on picnic tables or for some other equivalent use.

Splash guard for bathtub showers

Apparatus for sorting and counting coins includes at least one tray and a pair of associated scoops. The tray includes a plurality of troughs for receiving and storing stacked coins, consisting of one or more troughs for accommodating quarters or alternatively nickels, and one or more troughs for accommodating pennies or alternatively dimes. The troughs are deep enough to fully receive a stack of associated coins, and dimensioned slightly larger than the larger of the coins to enable use of a scoop to retrieve the coins from the troughs. Each trough has a base end wall, and two indicia lines, spaced from that end wall, to identify stacks of the two denominations of coins for which the trough is designed. The scoops are elongated cylindrical members including a cylindrical handle and a tubular sheath projecting from one end of the handle. The sheath is C-shaped in cross section defining a longitudinal slot from which the interior of the sheath may be viewed, with the slots diverging at the tip end of the sheath to form a scoop or shovel end. The scoops are dimensioned to accommodate two denominations of coins, and the scoops each have two indicia spaced relative to the base end of the sheath defined by the handle, to identify shorter stacks of coins. The sheath may identify a stack of fifty pennies, for example; and the scoop may then be used to transfer that stack directly to a tubular paper wrapper.

Coin sorting and counting apparatus

A tool for turning a screw, nut, bolt or other rotatable workpiece includes a bottom housing carrying a workpiece engageable part and, above the housing, a handle engageable by the hand of a user. The handle is axially and angularly shiftable relative to the housing and is angularly connectable to the housing through both a torque spring and through sets of angular stops on the housing and on the handle which stops are brought into and out of engagement with one another as the handle is shifted axially relative to the housing. The tool may be used as an ordinary screw driver or wrench whereby hand torque is transmitted directly from the handle to the housing, as a torque measuring tool whereby hand torque is transmitted from the handle to the housing through the torque spring, and as a preloaded tool whereby a given amount of torque is loaded into the tool prior to application to the workpiece and then, after application of the tool to the workpiece, is released and used to rotate the workpiece without the handle being rotated by the user.

Workpiece turning hand tool with torque control

A device for enabling a golfer to determine the proper length of putting stroke according to the distance between ball and hole and according to the lie of the ball. The device comprises a plurality of scales representing relationships between putting strokes and putt distances for various lies. According to visual estimates of the distance and lie of a ball, be it flat, uphill, downhill or sidehill, a golfer may read out from the scales the corresponding putt stroke and aim necessary to hole a putt of any distance and lie.

Putting stroke calculator

A non-homing positioning mechanism to effect type selective movements of a single element typehead by means of coordinate band systems wherein the coordinate band systems are cntrolled by a translator comprising a four armed cross-shaped member unidirectionally rotatable in 90.degree. steps. A set of radially spaced pins are arranged along opposing arms of the cross-shaped member, the sets being alternately selectively settable in response to successive character selections to cause selective band displacement incident to each 90.degree. rotation of said cross-member. One end of each band system is anchored and the other end is connected to position and hold the typehead to a selected character in accordance with the displacement thereof through selected pins on opposing arms of and incident to movement of the cross-shaped member.

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West Hartford, CT, United States of America

William J Smith