Abstract: A strap or cloth web personal carrier for a bat, ball and mitts, The carrier includes a collapsible pocket made from a plurality of cloth webs or straps, or a shallow net or solid nylon bag to receive a ball and the barrel end of a bat. The collapsible pocket has a cloth web or strap around the top to reinforce the pocket. The reinforcing strap may be elastic, or may include overlapping Velcro fasteners for tightening around the bat being carried. An elongated strap or cloth web is secured to, and extends out from, the collapsible pocket, and includes a sliding loop at its outer end which is looped around the bat near the top of the bat handle to define a sling. The combination is conveniently carried over the user's shoulder like a rifle sling, with the bat extending across the wearer's back to define part of the carrier. Additional small loops are provided on the strap for carrying mitts or other accessories.

Abstract: A folding system for large, agricultural implements which includes special stops, push-off arms, and support stands to avoid putting excessive strain on the hydraulic system or the implement. Special floating links are also provided on each wing section of the agricultural implement which cooperate with the push-off arms and the support stands to limit the strain placed on the folding system. In addition, the floating links allow the unfolded wings of the implement to have much more flexibility over irregular terrain.

Abstract: A flange alignment tool for facilitating connection of large diameter, flanged pipe sections. The tool is inserted in the corresponding bolt openings of the adjacent flanges and expanded to cause the bolt openings to come into precise alignment all around the abutting flanges to be joined together. The tool comprises a plurality of internally tapered partial sleeve sections, each having a constant external diameter. The sleeve sections are resiliently biased against a pair of tapered expanding mandrels which are threadably received on a long, central bolt member which is turned to cause the mandrels to move together, expanding the alignment tool in the bolt openings. After the permanent fastening bolts are secured in the aligned bolt openings, the tool is contracted and removed from the bolt openings, and a permanent fastening bolt replaces it.

Abstract: A relinable swing which is suspended from cables or chains, or similar flexible rope or linked bars. The swing suspenion connects on both sides of the seat portion, and a sliding connection to the back. The sliding connection means are a pair of Z-bar shaped brackets which are fastened to the back of the swing seat at the sides. When both sides of the suspension is in the upper position on the respective Z-bar brackets, the swing seat is in the reclining position. When they are in the lower position, which is closer to the back of the seat, the swing is in the upright position.

Abstract: An improved camshaft bushing puller comprising a split collar comprising two hemi-annular sections which can be flexibly compressed to a smaller diameter for insertion into a camshaft bushing. The outer ends of each hemi-annular section have integral outer peripheral lips adapted to engage the outer end of the bushing. Complementary threaded grooves receive the end of a conventional pulling handle which urges the bushing puller into uniform solid contact with the camshaft bushing for effective uniform pulling action.

Abstract: A hydraulically operated load handling vehicle for open-top railway cars having four, three-way adjustable outriggers, each having a pair of wheel-like pads which ride along the sidewall tops of open-top railway cars. The corresponding wheel-like pads on the vehicle can be raised and lowered separately from the other corresponding pair so as to move across the space between adjacent railway cars in a string by a bridging action. The vehicle is provided with at least one crane, and preferably two cranes to load and unload the railway cars on which it is supported.

Abstract: An apparatus for in-line, high-speed stacking of paper signatures which includes two or more horizontally disposed batch forks having integral, pivoting fingers which project upstream towards an incoming flow of shingles being continuously conveyed from a sheeter. The batch forks are supported on a paper batching carriage, and can be raised and lowered from a pivot point, and retracted to transfer a partial stack of shingles to intermediate interrupt forks or to main pile forks for transfer to a conveyor. These additional paper handling forks cooperate with the batch forks and integral, pivoting fingers to continuously stack the shingled sheets in quantities determined by a counting and control system. The pivoting fingers depress the incoming signatures to separate them into stacks without slowing flow from a present rate of about 1200-1300 f.p.m. and higher.

Abstract: A retractable diving board which is mounted on the underside of a platform or deck, preferably in the front of a pontoon boat, so it may also serve as a gangplank. The under-deck mounting of the retractable diving board leaves the deck surface uncluttered and available for other uses, and is also safer for passengers. The retracted diving board can be locked for added safety when the pontoon boat is unattended.

Abstract: An improved, completely portable, self-contained hydraulically actuated clamp/wrench, which includes integral pump means in the handle. The clamp/wrench may be held and operated with one hand which makes it especially useful in cramped locations where it is difficult to reach both hands to open or close a manually adjustable wrench. The clamp/wrench includes a stationary jaw and a complementary, hydraulically movable jaw which firmly clamps a workpiece to permit application of maximum torque to free up frozen parts.

Abstract: A two part, ornamental pocket knife having the appearance of a rifle bullet when sheathed. The shell portion of the bullet serves both as a sheath and a handle for the knife blade, which is rigidly anchored in the inner end of the bullet tip.

Abstract: A positioning system for accurately setting anchor bolts in concrete construction work. The anchor bolt is assembled in a formwork template with a threaded flange on the inner side of the template and a closed end sleeve having a flange covering the projecting outer, threaded end of the anchor bolt to firmly position the anchor bolt perpendicular to the concrete surface during pouring and setting of the concrete.

Abstract: An adjustment means for a cultivator disc which provides lateral, vertical and angular adjustment means. A plurality of discs are mounted in parallel on a gang frame, and may be individually adjusted in the field to exact, predetermined positions established by a positive positioning means, and then firmly held in place by a clamping means. In the presently preferred embodiment, the individual support shafts of each cultivator disc are supported by the angle adjustment brackets, which are supported by the lateral adjustment brackets, which are slidably supported in predetermined fixed positions in lateral housings attached to the main towing bar of the cultivator assembly.

Abstract: An emergency traction device for vehicles which comprises a particulate traction material, such as sand, held together by a suitable binder material, such as sodium silicate, to provide an easily handled and stored article. The article may take the form of a flat, sheetlike, rectangular block, and may have gridlike, briquet sections therein, which can be broken off in one or more sections from the main block for use in lesser quantities. In another embodiment, the article may comprise a discrete briquet. To provide traction for a vehicle stuck on ice or snow, the flat, rectangular block, or the briquet sections, or the discrete briquets are placed in contact with the slipping drive wheel of a stuck vehicle in line with the desired direction of travel. Rotation of the drive wheel tire in contact with the traction device causes the traction device to be ground into traction-producing materials which spread under the drive wheel to improve traction.