European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 26, 1978 Nicholas Piazza Hopes to Cash in big on world s first automated Tarot game. Do mtg by Kay Bartlett associated press a. Landes Marchbanks is driving his Cadillac in from Ferndale Mich. You la recognize  s the one with the screened windows. Vincent Siano and his Cousin Nicholas Piazza brought the world s first automated Tarot game. And Arthur Udov from suburban Westchester county brought bicycle with smokeless wheels. None has shouted  but All Are inventors " who geared up for the recent International inventors p &po"7" in new York City. Pic la hoped to get Rich Quick. Few  that elusive brass ring is out there the better Mou was that a big company will buy up and sell to millions. Listen to them talk did you read the Story in popular science about the 5 a who invented the space saving table he got $65,000 � front from the manufacturer and stands to make an r200,000 in  ,. That from Charles e. Barbarow a 31-year-old real Ute Salesman from Totowa. . He s also an inventor w this year he showed a Lawn Golf series five outdoor aies in one. It in t his first invention. That was a mus Styler Boyish looking Barbarow gives an embarrassed s he talks about it. I was try a e Tak t it. " was trying to grow a very to Mustache and could t design it. Fol solution draw the Mustache you want on a be of plastic clip the plastic to your face and wave around it. He spent $2.000 getting the Styler patented. Then he wrote to 500 companies but none bit. Barbarow has t Given up. There were a few sly cars in his Booth along with his Lawn Golf series. What have i got to lose i la give it one More shot. I come from a lower Middle income family and this possibility is out there. It s just too great to look away  fair at new York s Sutler Hilton hotel was sponsored by technology expositions limited Tela com Pany that rents selected inventors the space invites big business to View what s new and allows inventor and business to wheel and Deal. All inventions must be patented or have a Patent Pend ing a Legal Man Euver that freezes it for one year. Tel collects no fees on sales just Booth rental of $250 to $650. Last year five inventions of some 200 were bought at Eido although Tel president Harold Kleiman says More May have be a bought later that he does t know about. Who Are these inventors Thev come from All walks of life says Kleiman they Are All sincere. They All Wear their hearts on their sleeve and anyone who laughs at an invention is fired from this  last can be a tall order. Would you believe an asparagus Peeler to take the knobs off fresh asparagus neither would Kleinan. He sects inventions he considers too far off the Wall even sufi a Bank president in Geneva came up with this one. Then there was the woman who thought she could pre vent Bank  she invented a canopy to hang i the stars and stripes modern livid Page 19 restly above the customer at the Teller s window. When the would be robber says stick pm up the canopy drops and captures him. But she overlooked the possibility that the gunman might shoot the Teller while he s entrapped in the canopy so Kleiman rejected it. Some items that made it to this year s fair were a Billy stick that makes a screeching sound to scare off would be muggers invented by a new yorker a corrective Mirror that can be adjusted to duplicate your eyeglass lenses so you can put on makeup without glasses sketches of a homemade air plane that can land at so Mph a key Chain with a revolving Roll of paper and a Pencil for Quick notes and from Belgium a Zou meter that when pointed at a Wall will give a readout in Millie ters of the distance from one Wall to another. They came from As far away As Taiwan Japan South Africa Europe As Well As the United states. Some ideas from last year included a Snow above geared at a 45-degree Angle a flush toilet for Peu smell proof bait and hair clips guaranteed to keep a Toupee secure. Siano and Piazza have High Hopes for their Tarot tells machine an invention that so excites Vinnie the spokesman that he likes to take off his jacket and stand As he describes it. Siano an artist at Grumman aircraft and a textbook Illustrator rises to lyrical Heights demonstrating his machine this is the first time in the history of the world the first Tarot machine. Automation has come to  the machine with cursor and Compass has a custom carrying Case. The game is made of Black plastic and Bright Orange Tarot cards and measures some 27 inches Square. You get the cards message by pressing a lever to Cut the cards three times to the left mandatory procedure in Tarot. Then they spin around until another lever activates a Silver Pointer that singles out the card. We have also incorporated astrology to get the Best possible Reading says Siano whipping out a tray of beautifully drawn figures of the Zodiac. And we have also adopted esp into this machine. You la get a better answer from this than any ouija Board. What we need is a dynamic corporation that haste guts to turn this thing  Siano says a big toy manufacturer had the machine in its vaults for six weeks but the Man who thought it a Good idea was fired and the machine was returned. Inventors generally face problems in going directly to manufacturers. Says one executive of a Large company who prefers to remain Anonymous the head of research and development of a major company with a Large budget and 85  working under him does t like to admit that somebody from the outside came up with a Good idea. What would that do to their budget these inventors would be better off dealing with the sales  Patent attorney fees present another obstacle. Irwin Prager a 36-year-old carpet and linoleum installer in Brooklyn showed his water safety lifesaving capsule at the expo this year. He spent $6,000 in Patent fees. His invention is patented in the United states great Britain and Canada and has patents pending in Japan francs and Italy. But. He says i won t go through a Patent attorney again. This Patent attorney was a very fast  his capsule can be pinned to a Belt or swimsuit. When you pull a pin a Ball inflates and pops to the surface pro Viding enough buoyancy to keep an adult s head and part of the Chest out of the water. Prager got the idea while playing with a punch Ball on a Beach. It s got mobility and won t hinder a swimmer water skier or Boater he says. The capsule is his first Pat enable invention but he s working on others an automobile engine that runs on equal parts of water and gasoline a safety match Book a device to safeguard windows from Rock throwing vandals primarily in construction projects. If i keep going one of them will hit  says Yager summing up the inventor s Creed