Abstract: A method of and apparatus for making and dispensing carbonated water with a double diaphragm continuous delivery pneumatic liquid pump has a water pressure regulator on a water inlet line to the pump, a water fill line to a carbonator, a propellent exhaust line from the pump to the carbonator, a carbon dioxide line to the carbonator, and a gas pressure regulator for controlling the storage pressure in the carbonator and the exhaust back pressure in the pump propellent outlet, the exhaust back pressure is kept higher than the water pressure at the pump preventing diaphragm inversion; the method has the steps of dropping water pressure into the pump to below carbonation pressure, and maintaining the carbonation pressure on the pump diaphragm preventing inversion.

Abstract: A retainer for holding an electrical box in a wall is made of a single contiguous piece of almost dead soft thin sheet metal, the retainer has a folded over and flattened and work hardened nose, a two layer leading protusion, a divergent barb, an elongate shank, and a multiple purpose outward flange having a round heel and a grasping catch for receiving an insertion tool. A method of installing and retaining an electrical box has the steps of inserting the protrusion and barb, grasping the retainer and pulling it taunt, and driving an outer end into the electrical box. A method of making the retainer has the steps of shearing a rectangular piece of soft metal, forming a barb, folding over a first end and the barb, and forming a catch for an insertion tool on a second end.

Abstract: A cold beverage dispensing apparatus is powerable by compressed gas and has a thermally insulated cabinet having a cooling chamber containing a source of compressed gas and a water reservoir and a normally non-pressurized syrup pump fluidly connectible to a non-pressurized syrup tank in the chamber, a dispensing nozzle and a manual actuator are on the outside of the cabinet, a pneumatic power valve is operable to connect the gas source to the pump and expel syrup to the nozzle, a pneumatic water valve servo is connected to all of the power valves and the opening of any power valve will effect operation of the servo and opening of the water valve, the pump is inside of the syrup tank and used propellant gas is vented inside the cabinet, a gas bottle and the syrup tanks are racked on the inside of a cabinet door and the power valves are pneumatically connected in series between the gas source and the water reservoir.

Abstract: A manicure file has a generally rectilinear shape and is made of sheet stock and has a holding section sized to be graspable between a thumb and finger, a first flange is formed up, a second flange is formed down, there is abrading medium on the flanges, and the file presents many different angles and configurations of abrading surface and is particularly well suited for preventing ingrown nails and nail damage. An alternative file is normally flat and has a flexural line extending across the file, the file will fold under pressure to present the abrading surfaces. A method of making these files has the steps of forming the flanges off of the holding sections, and constructing abrading medium on the flanges.

Abstract: An ice cube and cold beverage dispenser has a cabinet with a single inside bin chamber for ice cubes. A cold plate beverage chiller is located in the bottom of the chamber. A ice cube agitator and outlet is spaced above the cold plate. A false bottom is located under the agitator and outlet with the false bottom being spaced above the cold plate and having cube ports for passing cubes downward upon the plate and for precluding dispensing of cubes dropped on the plate, with front and rear walls and the agitator and the cold plate and the false bottom all being canted forward. The agitator is of lesser diameter than the width of the cube bin and is located on one side of the bin and a feeder driven by the agitator in an opposite direction of rotation feeds ice cubes upwards and towards the center.

Abstract: A personal warmer has a container with an imperforate top, a perforate seat on the top, a hot air diffuser on the seat, a heater support in the container, a movable hot air exhaust pipe for directing a convective flow of warm air into a persons clothing, and a swivel base enabling the container and seat and exhaust to co-rotatably turn and remain with the person. A method of warming a person has the steps of lighting a burner, sustaining the burning in a container, heating a seat, and directing hot air from inside of the warmer into a persons clothing, and raising and lowering the warm air exhaust structure between usage and storage positions.

Abstract: Dispenser apparatus for particulate ice and/or ice cooled beverage has an ice bin with upright walls about a substantially vertical axis, a bottom canted rearwardly, a transverse ice discharge chute coplanar with the bin bottom and having a width continually divergent from the bin, a metallic ice dispensing chute point is secured in a resin bin wall on a downstream side of a dispensing rotor sweep and a self-closing dispensing door on an outlet of the chute has a barrier and a limit stop for placing the barrier in the path of ice being dispensed when the door is fully opened, an elongate drainage slot for melt water is in the bin bottom and extends radially outward from an axis of dispensing rotor rotation, a drain port extends from within the drain slot and is at a level below a level of the chute outlet, an ice dispensing rotor is within the bin and is revolvable about an axis canted rearwardly from the axis of the bin; the rotor has a hub, a ring, a plurality of paddlewheels mounted to the ring, entry mean

Abstract: A double track deep fat food fryer has a cooking vat, a central divider wall dividing the vat into a pair of side-by-side elongate cooking tracks, a dispenser above an upstream end of the vat for dispensing discrete pieces of food product to be fryed, a paddlewheel for propelling fat along the lengths of both cooking tracks, a flipper in each cooking track to flip the food pieces as they travel through the track, a remover to remove the food pieces from a downstream end of the tracks, a movable diverter barrier on an upstream end of the divider wall which diverts food pieces alternately between the cooking tracks, and an actuation linkage underneath the cooking tracks that connects the barrier, flipper and remover together and to a common motor.

Abstract: A multiple flavor post-mix beverage dispensing apparatus with a dispensing head having a nozzle, a normally closed water valve, a first normally closed primary syrup valve, a water line, and a primary syrup line, has a second normally closed primary syrup valve in a primary syrup line in series with the first valve, an alternative syrup line having a normally closed alternative syrup valve, a primary actuator switch for concurrently opening the water valve and both primary syrup valves while the alternative syrup valve is closed or dispensing only a primary beverage, and a second actuator switch for concurrently opening the water valve and alternate syrup valve while the second primary syrup valve remains closed for dispensing only an alternative beverage; an alternative construction has the same beverage componentry with a single actuator switch and a multiple pole double throw switch for selecting actuation circuitry for the primary beverage or the alternative beverage, an indicator light indicates which be

Abstract: A beverage cooler has a cold plate and a plastic ice cube bin secured to the cold plate by an adaptor which is permanently adjoined to plastic walls of the hopper. The adaptor has a tongue, a plate arm which fits into a rabbet on the cold plate, a foam flange which extends out into foam insulation and a plate flange fastened to the cold plate; the plastic hopper walls have a foot molded into the plate flange and rivets molded into the tongue. A method of manufacturing the plastic ice bin has the plastic walls being molded onto the adaptor, preferably by rotomolding using polyethylene as the material. A beverage cooler construction has a rotomolded exterior shell fastened to the plastic ice hopper by a spacer and top molding and has insulated beverage outlet lines which exit the shell through an offset under the molding rim.

Abstract: A float device, which is specifically useful as a fishing bobber, has a buoyant body, an elongate C-shaped guide sleeve inside of the body with an upper end and a bottom end extending outward beyond the body, and C-shaped key inside of the sleeve. A handle on one end of the key is provided for turning the key with respect to the sleeve, and the key has a rigid outer diameter frictionally fitted inside of a relatively elastic inner diameter of the sleeve.

Abstract: Apparatus for transporting and displaying goods has a frame having a base, a pair of opposed side frames, a shelf support post in each frame, and a vertical row of keyholes in each post for pivotal support of a plurality of shelves; the shelf for the apparatus has a center section for supporting a tray, a front barrier for retaining a tray on the shelf, a pair of opposed transverse arms and a key on an outer end of each arm, and a rotator lever on a back of the shelf; a tilt column is connectible to the shelf levers and as the tilt column goes up and down, the shelves pivot from a horizontal transport position to a tilted or inclined display position and back to the horizontal position.

Abstract: A pegbar display device for presenting packages such as cold cut or cheese packages for retailing has an improved peg support bar and an improved peg; the bar is a rectangular tube having a greater height than depth, the bar front member has a keyhole that is taller than it is wide and with a flat bottom, the bar back member has a corresponding backbore which is directly behind and slightly below the keyhole; the peg has a front body, a toe on the back of the body, a horizontal indexing flat on the bottom of the peg, and lateral abutments between the toe and the index flat; the peg is turned ninety degrees to go into the bar; when in the bar the peg is then turned back ninety degrees and the index flat rests upon the keyhole flat bottom and the abutments engage the inside of the tubular bar to retain the peg in the bar, the peg bar is of lesser weight and very strong, and does not droop when loaded.

Abstract: A pegbar display device for presenting packages such as cold cut or cheese packages, or automotive parts, for retailing has a peg support bar and a merchandise peg; the bar is a rectangular tube having a keyhole that is taller than it is wide and with a flat bottom, the bar back member has a corresponding backbore which is directly behind and slightly below the keyhole; the peg has a front body, a toe on the back of the body, a horizontal indexing flat on the bottom of the peg, and lateral abutments between the toe and the index flat; the peg is turned ninety degrees to go into the bar; when in the bar the peg is then turned back ninety degrees and the index flat rests upon the keyhole flat bottom and the abutments engage the inside of the tubular bar to retain the peg in the bar.

Abstract: A multiple mode deep fat food frying machine has a deep fat cooker, a hopper with structure for dropping food into the deep fat, and a multiple mode control for the food dropping structure; the control has a rotary cam with inner apertures and an outer periphery with a detent having a root at a greater radius than the aperature, a first photo-optical sensor picks up the apertures and a second photo optical sensor picks up the detent, a selector sends the signals from only one or the other sensor to the food dropping structure, the cam is mounted on a drive for a device to remove food from the fat. A method of controlling a fat fryer has the steps of rotating a cam, optically sensing the apertures, optically sensing the detent, and direction one of the sensing to control food drop; this apparatus and method are paticularily suited for a hot and greasy environment.

Abstract: A spring tooth harrow for land treatment has an improved spring tooth and an improved tooth attachment clip; the tooth has a tine, a helical coil spring, and a mounting lug having an inboard leg, a semi-circular medial leg and a straight outboard leg, the legs are co-planar and have a divergent angle between them; the clip is L-shaped and has a first leg with a rear shoulder and a fastener aperture and a second leg with a taper divergent towards the first leg; the clip second leg goes in between the lug inboard and outboard ends and biases the tooth into proper position, the second leg also absorbs a significant part of the lateral loads upon the tooth, and applies these loads directly to a structure of the harrow.

Abstract: A self-cleaning renewable fluid filter that flushes a permanent filter media while the used oil is pumped out by the engine oil pump through a drain in the housing. The fluid filter has an inlet and a drain, a center core with an outlet, a drain valve normally closing the drain, a permanent fluid filter media inbetween the inlet and outlet, a plug for closing the outlet, an actuator for opening the drain valve and an improved bypass valve which bypasses fluid and enables reversal of fluid flow through the filter media during draining for flushing the media. The preferred drain valve actuator is an electric solenoid coil inside of the filter and the improved bypass valve is an annular valve around the center core and inside of a cylinder formed in an inlet end cap of the filter media.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing station has a chassis mounted on a panel of a dispensing machine, a dispensing head on the chassis, dispensing actuators mounted on the panel, selector buttons mounted to the panel and pivotally suspended on a horizontal axis hinge with there being one button for each actuator, a bracket on the chassis which has a ledge for restraining the buttons and a flange for flow controls and a clamp for beverage lines, and a cover removably mounted to the chassis; the cover is removable for access to the flow controls and the bracket is forwardly deflectable for releasing the buttons and enabling removal of valve elements from the preferred actuator which is a pneumatic valve.

Abstract: A display rack has a pair of opposed end sides, a plurality of spaced apart transverse shelves that are tilted forward in between the sides and a planar back panel attached to the sides; the rack is intended for the upright display and selling of large bottles of soft drinks and the rack features a novel construction wherein the structure is made of smaller parts enabling a kit for the rack to be easily shipped and packaged, and the rack features novel high end graphics; each end side has an upper and lower segment that are each shorter than a shelf, each end has a billboard that is in two sections and each section is shorter than a shelf, and the back panel is divided into segments with each segment being of no greater width than the depth of a shelf.