Ronald A Bauer

US Patent:

44160755, Nov 22, 1983

Filed:

Oct 28, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/315959

Inventors:

Ronald E. Bauer - Overland MO

International Classification:

G09F 1900

US Classification:

40546

Abstract:

A self-containing accessory providing illuminated decoration of a cake or like, comprising, in certain preferred versions, an externally applied decorative cover of eye-defining light-transmissive portions and including a module, secured to the underside of said cover, to provide flashing illumination by means of an electric light source, battery, and interconnecting circuitry contained therein; the module being positioned such as to locate the electric light source beneath or within said light-transmissive portions so as to give the visual appearance of winking eyes; a recess being within the cake to receive the module. Another embodiment carries circuitry beneath the cake with illumination being provided atop a probe-like extension inserted upward from beneath said cake. Another embodiment achieves illuminiation by use of phosphorescent devices. Yet another embodiment achieves illumination by filtering light through various light-transmissive materials.

US Patent:

39887901, Nov 2, 1976

Filed:

Feb 12, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/551846

Inventors:

Milo F. Mracek - Creve Coeur MO
Ronald J. Bauer - Florissant MO

International Classification:

A61G 710

US Classification:

5 86

Abstract:

A normally-deflated, readily-flexible, inflatable pad which underlies a bed patient can be inflated to raise that bed patient and to gently but firmly hold that bed patient in raised position. When that inflatable pad is inflated, it defines a recess at the lower surface of the center thereof into which the supporting surface of a portable support can be moved; and that inflatable pad and that portable support can thereafter hold the bed patient at a desired level relative to the bed on which that inflatable bed normally rests. When the supporting surface of the portable support subsequently is removed from the recess at the lower surface of the center of the inflatable bed, that inflatable pad can be deflated to lower the bed patient. A pressure transducer, between the supporting surface and the carrier therefor, develops a signal while that supporting surface underlies and holds the inflatable pad and the bed patient; and a readout responds to that signal to indicate the weight of that bed patient.