Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Special occasion ornament – Collapsible
Patent
1983-09-06
1985-03-05
Epstein, Henry F.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Special occasion ornament
Collapsible
401241, 273348, 428 12, 4285422, 446148, A47G 3308, G09F 1900
Patent
active
045031010
ABSTRACT:
A novel foldable and essentially self-opening, light weight, multi-panel ice which preferably is primarily useful as a collapsible, expendable or retrievable and reusable reflector type military decoy target, capable of reflecting microwaves, millimeter waves and light waves. Its ability to be folded relatively flat minimizes storage space requirements, thus allowing for many more units to be carried by troops in the field. With a spring-loaded "pop-open" character and capability of being constructed in several different forms or shapes, it has a unique essentially self-opening, self-orienting ability which facilitates a quick, easy and nearly automatic deployment. Functioning as a corner type reflector decoy, it reflects much more of the source-generated energy waves back to the source than would a normal size non-reflective article, irrespective of its deployed orientation relative to the source thereby deceiving the enemy into thinking that there is a large object such as a tank in that area. Certain variations can individually provide respectively for desired complete area coverages, while a relatively few of still other variations can achieve the same desired full area coverage responsive to a random dispersal thereof.
Additional contemplated uses hereof include various navigational aides, and alternatively for unrelated aesthetic decorations, and multi-faced advertising and recreational/toy devices. With various overall envelope configurations of substantially cubical, spherical and various polyhedron shapes, these articles are potentially conducive to playful toy use as by tossing, throwing and/or kicking thereof in ball-like form.
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Becker John E.
Epstein Henry F.
Gibson Robert P.
Taucher Peter A.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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