Abstract: A fishing lure light for use with fishing lines and a separate lure or bait. The light is comprised of a housing adapted to be tied to a fish line next to a fish lure. The housing is constructed of plastic and is water tight. It houses a battery and light bulb which is switched on and off by pressing a plastic cover against the housing or pulling it away to make and break switch contacts.

Abstract: A trim indicator for outboard motors or the like for determining the tilt or angularity of the propeller with respect to a parallel position to the water level. The indicator is attached to the motor to align a vertical sensing member perpendicular to the axis of the propeller. When the motor is tilted, e.g. as the boat comes up to planing speed the sensing member indicates the angular degree of tilt by means of an electrical circuit to a signal receiver suitably located in the operating control panel in order that appropriate trimming measures may be taken. The indicator may be attached to the motor shroud or cover in the form of a signal sending housing. The sensing member may be in the form of an electrically conductive ball which seeks by gravity the lowest point on an arcuate track having a series of spaced electrical contacts.

Abstract: A simply erected marquee for vending stands which in a collapsed position presents a streamlined appearance to lessen wind resistance in transport. The marquee when erected has upwardly and outwardly extending walls to present an overhang appearance. When collapsed the side and end walls slope outwardly and downwardly to present a streamlined appearance. The marquee is hingedly connected to an upstanding lower marquee support set inwardly of the edges of the roof of the vending stand such that when the marquee is collapsed the marquee rests on the edge of the roof to define a protective space between it and the marquee support.

Abstract: A collapsible stock loading chute for vehicles. The chute is particularly designed for floor supported stock racks for pick-up trucks and is adapted to be slid underneath a false bed supported by a frame which receives a ramp of the chute. When withdrawn from underneath the false bed the chute ramp may be pivoted to the frame at a forward end and supported on the ground and connected to chute walls hooked to the rack to load stock. The ramp may be employed without the walls for loading haltered animals or for loading equipment or other paraphernalia. The rear wall of the stock rack is provided with a vertically slidably gate frame having a pair of hinged gate members in order that the gate may be raised to open the gate or alternatively to swing inwardly or outwardly the hinged gate members for different loading conditions.

Abstract: A handcart for banquet tables and the like. The handcart has a main support shaft supported on wheels with a handle portion at one end and a transverse cradle like member at the opposite end engageable with a cross leg brace of the table. The handcart may be operated to lift one end of the table with the handcart cradle and then support the table by a collapsible rigid table brace supported by the shaft between the handle portion and the handcart wheels. The table completely supported and balanced upon the handcart may then be moved with all legs off the ground by grasping the end of the table near the handle portion and moving it like a wheelbarrow.

Abstract: A pill dispenser having a rotatable cap with special opening means for dispensing a pill at the proper time for medication. The dispenser comprises a housing having openings corresponding to each time for medication in a repetitive cycle such as in a day or week. A rotatable indicator cap or lid has means cooperating with the housing to provide by a detent means stagewise movement and in a modification ratchet means for one way rotation. An opening in the cap is provided for view of indicia means on the top of the housing with a selected time for taking indicia. When the time for taking the pill arrives the cap is rotated to present a dispensing opening in registry with one of the housing openings for dispensing a pill. The indicator cap and a bottom fill cap may be press fitted on the bottle housing for simple fabrication and refilling the contents.

Abstract: A fishing lure having a light therein which may be switched off by tension on the line when the lure is snagged. The lure is constructed of a hollow plastic body comprising a head section slidably interfitted with a tail section. A light bulb in the end of the tail section is energized by a battery and switch means which is interrupted to break the circuit when a fish hook on the tail section is snagged. Tension on the fish line connected to the head section moves the two sections apart to break the circuit. A stop limits the relative movement between the body sections.

Abstract: A solar heating collector is employed in the form of a plenum constituted of the greenhouse translucent roof and a roof floor of black plastic sheeting. Hot air from the plenum is distributed by air directing means to a heat storage chamber in a charge cycle or directly to the greenhouse in a direct heat cycle. In a discharge cycle air from the greenhouse is directed through the heat storage chamber to be heated and discharged into the greenhouse. Specially designed collapsible tubes are employed in the system for distribution of exhaust air and distribution of heated air from a manifold. The heat storage chamber employs cylindrical containers of a phase change material to store solar energy and serves to support the air directing means and the aforementioned collapsible tubes to provide a central unit for providing and monitoring solar heat distribution.

Abstract: A connector sleeve for polyolefin pipe ends for connecting butted pipe ends by a coupling. The connector sleeve is metallic and has a pair of internal circumferential ribs mated in external grooves of the pipe end which is press-fitted within the sleeve in sealing relation. The connector sleeve has a pair of external grooves registering with the ribs formed by a pressing or rolling operation. Butted pipe ends with their fitted connector sleeves are connected by a coupling engaging the connector sleeves. The connector sleeve and pipe end have registering bevelled ends and in the fitting operation the sleeve and pipe end are axially aligned and forcefully engaged whereby the bevelled end of the connector sleeve causes the pipe end to be internally deflected and compressed in mating engagement with said connector sleeve.

Abstract: A drain cove for draining moisture from basement walls along a channel or gutter at the floor junction. The drain cove is comprised of a base member sealed to the floor and extending along the wall and a cove member extending upwardly from the base and having a downwardly directed portion bearing loosely against the wall to form a gutter which permits water collected therein to drain between the cove member and the wall to a chanel-like drain means between the base member and the wall a sump drain to a central floor sump may be connected to the drain cove to drain the collected water from the drain means to the sump. The sump has a low profile and is comprised of horizontally disposed channels to provide a load bearing structure for personnel stepping thereon or to support the conventional basement furniture, appliances or the like.

Abstract: A dual purpose bird feeder for use mounted upon a post with a squirrel baffle preventing climbing upon the feeder or for use in a free hanging relation where it is supported on a chain. The bird feeder is comprised of a frusto-conical hollow feeder housing with a tray at the bottom and flat shallow roof at the top. In the freely supported relation the feeder tray has a radius not exceeding about 55% of the radius of the roof and the outer periphery is positioned underneath the upper portion of the housing. The depth of the tray beneath the roof also does not exceed about one-half of the radius of the roof. This relationship prevents or discourages squirrels or large undesirable birds from using the feeder tray. In the post supported version the squirrel barrier baffle is of the same frusto-conical construction as the feeder housing for ease in manufacture and is positioned underneath the tray. A cylindrical baffle may depend from the tray to which the frusto-conical baffle may be removably attached.

Abstract: A thermal energy storage device and method for making the same. The thermal energy storage device is in the form of a sealed tube-like container such as a tube-like cylinder or other geometrical configuration partially filled with a phase change material such as calcium chloride hexahydrate. The cylinder is made of tubular high density polyethylene and more particularly an ultra high molecular weight high density polyethylene having a molecular weight of about 500,000 to 700,000 which is tough, chemically resistant, withstands low and high temperatures, acts as a moisture vapor barrier and can be fused and sealed. The calcium hexahydrate is filled in an open top cylinder, closed at the bottom by dissolving two parts of calcium chloride dihydrate with one part of water to provide calcium chloride hexahydrate in liquid form. The cylinder is filled to about 90% by volume and a cap of the same material is then preheated to about fusion temperature.

Abstract: An educational device for recording children's achievements in performing tasks or the like. The device is comprised of a housing having a plurality of horizontal rows of sight openings. Underlying marking strips present in the first opening in each row a pictorial or word designation of the task or achievement while the following openings present a blank markable portion of the strips registered with a series of openings representing different time periods, such as days of the week, and end openings provide a summation portion of the strip. The housing has slots receiving the marking strip registrable with the rows of openings in the housing. The strip is viewed through the housing openings. Additional marking strips are carried in storage slots behind the slideout marking strip.

Abstract: A chimney fire prevention device and tar trap. The device is seated on the top of a chimney or stove pipe and is comprised of a perforate support for a plastic sheet seal supporting a fire quenching material such as baking soda with sand as a weight agent. The plastic sheet withstands the temperature of normal flue gases but should a chimney fire develop the increased temperature melts the plastic seal and releases the fire quenching material to extinguish the fire. The tar trap is comprised of an open top sleeve on the interior of the device to collect condensed tars to trap the liquid tars or resins from wood fires and can be emptied periodically.

Abstract: A portable orthopedic bed which is formed as a super structure for conventional existing beds and may be switched from one such bed to another. The portable orthopedic bed is comprised of a flat semi-rigid planar base which supports an adjustable frame which may be raised and lowered in the fashion of an adjustable hospital bed. The frame is provided with wheeled supports for adjusting the tilt or inclination of a back rest portion and a leg portion by means of separate motors and worm gears. Appropriate controls are provided to activate the motors for raising and lowering the back and leg portions of the frame. The portable orthopedic bed through its rigid planar support may be lifted and placed upon a box spring or other frame of a conventional bed with the mattress being removed. After the portable bed frame is placed on the conventional bed the mattress may be placed over the orthopedic bed frame.

Abstract: A marking machine for marking metal nameplates, tags or the like. The marking machine employs a work table supported on a carriage which is moveable into contact with a marking wheel to perform a printing operation. Improved advancing means are provided for the work table utilizing a feed pawl link having a pair of pivot points. One pivot point is connected to a feed link while the second pivot point is connected to a drag link moveable between upper and lower stops in a carriage casting. A bottom pivot point of the drag link is provided with a friction clutch on a pivot connected otherwise to a stationery portion of the machine. An improved feed rack is further provided which is polygonal in cross-section and may have different spaced teeth on each side for selective spacing. Half-spacing adjustment means are provided whereby the feed rack may be moved axially a half-space to change the spacing on the work table.

Abstract: A litter free beverage can lid or top having an inseparable opening tab. The tab has an arcuate shape to provide a cut edge underlying the can top in order that the tab can be pressed downwardly only. A sealant on the bottom of the can top provides a seal until the tab is opened by pressing downwardly. Hinging of the tab extends between the ends of an arcuate cut edge and scoring on the bottom of the lid may be used to facilitate hinging and minimize tearing. A slight inward tapering of the ends of the arcuate cut edge toward the hinge line may also be employed to minimize tearing and facilitate hinging. An enlarged boss on the top of the lid closely surrounds the tab and serves as a protective barrier against accidental contact of the tab by foreign objects such as other cans or the like to avoid accidental contact against the tab and premature opening.

Abstract: A hanging tool tray for supporting tools, parts and the like. The hanging tool tray is comprised of a flat tray-like base having shallow sides and is of generally rectangular configuration. Supporting cables are connected to the four corners and extend above the tray to provide a loop which is hooked in an eye of an elongated hook having an open C-shaped hook at the top. The top hooked end can be hooked over a part of an automobile when the workman is working upon it to provide easy access to the supported tray positioned adjacent the workman. The sides of the tray have horizontally extending flanges or ledges with holes provided for reception for screw drivers, pliers and other tools.

Abstract: A connector sleeve for polyolefin pipe ends for connecting butted pipe ends by a coupling. The connector sleeve is metallic and has a pair of internal circumferential ribs mated in external grooves of the pipe end which is press-fitted within the sleeve in sealing relation. The connector sleeve has a pair of external grooves registering with the ribs formed by a pressing or rolling operation. Butted pipe ends with their fitted connector sleeves are connected by a coupling engaging the connector sleeves. The connector sleeve and pipe end have registering bevelled ends and in the fitting operation the sleeve and pipe end are axially aligned and forcefully engaged whereby the bevelled end of the connector sleeve causes the pipe end to be internally deflected and compressed in mating engagement with said connector sleeve.

Abstract: A hip supported backpack having use for quick disconnection of the backpack to leave the user free thereof. The backpack is supported by a wide hip belt having two sockets at the rear which receive off-set short support shafts connected to the backpack frame. The load bearing portion of the backpack frame is borne in the sockets and the backpack is stabilized to prevent the pack from falling backwards by means of a breast strap fitting around the breast of the user. The backpack is dislodged by disconnecting the breast strap and then quickly moving the hip upwardly in a rolling action to propel the backpack upwardly out of the sockets to leave the user free of the backpack in an emergency situation or the like.