Abstract: A mechanism to interfit between the bucket of a front end loader and its support and tilting arms allows the bucket be tilted in a laterally extending vertical plane. The mechanism provides a rear plate, having rearwardly extending fastening structure to pivotally interconnect to the support and tilting arms, pivotally carrying a front plate having forwardly extending fastening structure to immovably interconnect the bucket. The pivotal interconnection of the front plate with the rear plate is accomplished by a medial journaling pin, journaling channels at each lateral end of the rear plate that carry the lateral portions of the front plate and a medial nut and bolt combination extending therebetween to allow limited pivotal motion. A first species of mounting mechanism powers the tilting motion of the bucket by an asymmetrically positioned, horizontally extending hydraulic cylinder, and a second species powers the tilting motion by an asymmetrically positioned, vertically extending hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: A releasable fastening structure for quick assemblage and disassemblage of golf clubs and shafts for trial purposes provides club heads with hosels carrying diametrically extending fastening pins to interconnect with cooperating shafts defining fastenably interconnecting channels. The head end portion of cooperating shafts define "U" shaped channels to receive the fastening pin in releasable interconnection upon axial and rotary motion in the hosel channel. A spring in the hosel channel inwardly of the fastening pin biases a shaft therein outwardly to maintain fastenable interconnection after establishment, but allows manually generated, axially inward motion for quick assembly and disassembly.

Abstract: A sticker placing mechanism for use with known lumber stackers and perpendicularly associated sticker distribution mechanism provides sticker pans carried by arms of a lumber stacking fork to move downwardly to pick up plural spaced stickers from the sticker conveyor and move the stickers upwardly beneath an accumulated layer of lumber. The layer of lumber and perpendicularly orientated stickers is moved upwardly and forwardly by the stacking fork onto an adjacent stacked lumber package. The stacking fork and associated sticker pans then retract into the stacker while stripping mechanism prevents rearward motion of the stickers and lumber layer to leave the stickers and lumber layer as the top course of the stacked lumber package. In a first species, the sticker pans are immovably carried by the stacking fork arms and moved downwardly by those arms. In a second species, the sticker pans are pivotally mounted on the stacking fork arms and mechanically pivoted for sticker pick up.

Abstract: A packaging and cooling system for one or more semi-conductor devices provides a casement defining a die chamber carrying a peripherally positioned power board with pre-attached multi-functional power pins communicating to medially positioned dies. The power pins provide not only improved power supply but also provide heat transfer from and mechanical support for the die. The die with an attached power supply plane and heat spreader is flip mounted on the power pins. The casement defines channels for coolant between the power board and dies and outwardly of the heat spreader. A closed cooling system provides a fluidic coolant to an input plenum from which it is sprayed into the die chamber channels for evaporative cooling therein on both sides of contained dies and about the power pins with subsequent recovery and recycling. The asymmetrical architecture within the die chamber allows less restricted thermal expansion of the various components than would result from common symmetrical architecture.

Abstract: A liquid fuel injection device for internal combustion engines provides an elongate peripheral injector housing defining a cylindrical medial chamber with a fluid plenum having a fluid inlet at a first end and plural fluid exit ports at a second end that is carried within a combustion chamber of an engine cylinder. The plural exit ports are spacedly arrayed in both circumferential and axial directions and may be angularly oriented in the injector housing. The medial chamber of the injector housing rotatably carries an atomizer casement defining an internal chamber with plural circumferentially spaced inlet orifices at a first end which communicates with the fluid plenum of the first end of the injector housing and plural spray orifices at the second end.

Abstract: Similar paired exercise hand weights provide one hand weight of the pair with a self-defense spray dispensing container carried therein. Each hand weight provides an elongate tubular body having enlarged end portions and defining an internal channel to optionally contain a self-defense spray container and weights. Annular bands encircling the upper and lower portions of the cylindrical body fasten the end portions of an elastic fastening band that stretches over the body for positioning over the back of a user's hand to aid positional maintenance of the weight on the hand. A resilient covering about the cylindrical body provides an improved gripping surface and greater comfort for gripping. Each hand weight has at least one removable end cap for access to the body channel and the hand weight that embodies a self-defense spray container has a removable end cap that defines a passageway for the operative mechanism of a defense spray container and an orifice for exit of self-defense spray.

Abstract: A holder is disclosed for use in pairs to releasably fasten an elongate body of an auto antitheft device to a supporting automotive surface for storage during periods of non-use. The holder provides a rigid elongate base defining plural spaced holes to receive screw fasteners to attach the base to an interior surface of an automobile body. The base carries one element of a fabric hook and loop type fastener on its outer surface. An elongate flexible fastening band is fastened to one end of the base to extend over the outer surface of the base. The fastening band carries on its inner surface a second mating fabric hook and loop type fastener element to releasably engage the first element carried on the base. The fastening band defines an outwardly extending portion adjacent the end fastened to the body to receive and positionally maintain a portion of the body of an auto antitheft device between the fastening band and body and defines a tab extending beyond the body at its unfastened end to aid manipulation.

Abstract: A bunk bed structure having a vertically movable upper bunk provides a main frame having two spaced corner posts at each end interconnected by end cross pieces in their upper extensions, with a side support interconnecting the upper portions of each end post on one side of the main frame. A lower bunk frame having a depending medial portion to support a bed board and bedding is carried by four tubular corner collars on the lower portions of each of the corner posts. A similar upper bunk frame is slidably carried by four tubular corner collars on the corner posts for vertical motion above the lower bunk frame. Each upper bunk corner collar has associated fastening pins that releasably fasten and positionally maintain the collar on its associated corner post.

Abstract: An elongate fastener that may not be removed without destruction is provided for insertion in adjacent cooperating holes defined in box structures and their closure elements to maintain closure. The fastener defines a head, larger than the hole to carry the fastener, that structurally carries a peripherally extending tab to aid manual manipulation. The head structurally connects an elongate perpendicularly extending body that fits in the cooperating holes and is formed by spaced peripheral webs that carry barb-like fasteners in their end portions distal from the head that allow insertion of the body through a hole by deformation, but thereafter expand responsive to retentent memory to prevent removal. The interconnection of the body and head is weaker in tensile strength than the material on either side of the interconnection so that the head may be removed from the body by manual manipulation of the peripheral tab, without the use of tools, to allow opening of the box structure.

Abstract: A skimmer cover for a secondary dispersement system orifice in a storm water catch basin prevents inflow of floatable materials, and especially hydrocarbons from motor vehicles, from entering the orifice. The orifice is defined in a neck extending spacedly above the bottom of the catch basin surface to carry the skimmer cover. The skimmer cover provides a top with a peripheral skirt diametrically larger than the neck and supported on the neck to depend therebelow to a point spacedly above the catch basin bottom surrounding the neck. An internal cylinder depends from the cover top within the skimmer cover skirt and defines plural spaced orifices to allow fluid passage therethrough and into the orifice defined by the neck. A depending fastening structure having opposed pivotal lever arms moved by a medial screw therebetween is carried by the skimmer cover top to allow releasable fastening of the skimmer cover within the neck orifice for positional establishment and maintenance of the skimmer cover thereon.

Abstract: A portable disassemblable blind for water fowl hunting provides a peripherally defined side frame and a slidably openable top, both supporting peripheral covering. One or more head holes are defined in the inner end of the top to allow one or more hunters to project their heads therethrough for observation. The frame optionally may support one or more seats for support of hunters beneath the head holes. A transverse support maintains guns in a forwardly and upwardly angulated orientation for safety. The openable top is supported by rollers that guide the opening and closing motion of the top on the side frame to insure reliable operability. The first species of blind may be formed without seats and with a low profile for positioning over a pit defined in the earth to provide a concealing cover for hunters therein. A second species of blind provides a semi-rigid plastic covering that is integrally formed with the supporting frame elements to allow manufacture by molding.

Abstract: Migrating anadromous fish, and particularly salmonoid smolts, are guided in or by elongate faster moving channels defined in a body of slower moving water. Ring-like support frames are supported by floats and anchors in a water body at spaced distances along a faster moving channel to be defined. Each support frame carries one or more nozzles that receive pressurized water from a water supply system and disperse that water toward the next spacedly adjacent downstream support frame to define the faster moving channels without use of physical peripheral boundary members. The water supply system may be associated with individual support frames or with a plurality of support frames to receive water from the body in which the faster moving channel is defined and pressurize that water for dispersement. Fish are introduced into the upstream portion of the faster moving channel and instinctively tend to remain within the channel so long as the faster water motion exists therein.

Abstract: A semi-rigid, elastically resilient clip is releasably fastenable to the side of a handgun to provide support for the handgun upon a user's clothing or on a mounting bracket on a support structure. The clip may be attached by bolting to a handgun or, in the case of automatic weapons having a barrel slide movable relative to a gun body, it may be attached by engagement of a clip bracket between the gun body and barrel slide portions.

Abstract: A snowboarding boot having a flexible upper portion has one or more somewhat vertical elongate pockets on the surface of the upper portion to receive therein elongate, semi-rigid stiffening stays. Each pocket is formed of flexible material to define a medial channel having an open top and cross-sectional area similar to that of the stiffening stay to be carried therein to allow variable vertical positioning and positional maintenance of the stiffening stays by reason of frictional engagement with the pocket. Stiffening stays are formed of elongate strips of semi-rigid material, normally having some resiliency but being more rigid than the flexible upper portion of a boot, and the stiffening stays optionally carry a loop of flexible material in their upper end portions to aid insertion and removal and releasable fasteners for positional maintenance within a carrying pocket. The pockets extend downwardly from the top of a boot or to the ankle area in vertical or angulated orientation.

Abstract: An elongate fixture fastenable in pairs on the top and bottom edges of a door allows spaced vertical stacking of a plurality of horizontally orientated doors similarly equipped. The fixture provides an elongate generally rectangular body with two spaced handles on its outer face and four spaced door contacting feet on its inner face to contact a door fastened thereto by screws extending through the fixture and into the door. A first longer horizontally orientated side edge carries two spaced outwardly extending tenons and the opposed second longer side edge defines two similar cooperating mortises to receive the tenons of an adjacent fixture. The end portion of the fixture are wider between the longer side edges than the width of a serviced door, and no portion of the fixture extends over any door surface, except the top or bottom edges, to allow stacking of doors during surface finishing operations.

Abstract: A tool, for placement of predetermined amounts of granular fertilizer into the soil in a consolidated mass, provides an elongate body with a handle structure in its upper portion and a tubular fertilizer reservoir in its lower portion. The fertilizer reservoir defines an open upper portion for filling and slidably carries an associated tube for adjustment of the volume of a fertilizer charge. An angulated bottom portion of the reservoir allows insertion into the earth and carries a pivotally articulated cover to allow opening of the bottom portion of the reservoir for dispersement of a fertilizer charge. The lower medial portion of the tool body provides a pivotally mounted foot support to aid insertion of the fertilizer reservoir into the earth. Dispersement structure communicates from the pivotally articulated reservoir cover to the handle structure for opening of the cover from the handle area for dispersement of fertilizer.

Abstract: An insect swatter to allow swatting of insects without extrusion of the contents of the body casement. The swatter provides an elongate, resiliently rigid handle having at one end a yoke that carries overfolded layers of a fabric swatting member. The handle is attached to the yoke by a mortise and tenon-type joint. The swatting member is formed by two layers of felted entangled fiber material that defines on its outer insect impacting surfaces a plurality of spaced protruding nubbins. The outer end portion of the swatting member is formed by fingers, with a finger of one layer overlapping a slit between fingers of the adjacent layer.

Abstract: An electrically powered eraser accepts an elongate circularly cylindrical erasing element between three driving rollers symmetrically arrayed about the erasing element with axes angulated to the axes of the other driving cylinders and to the axis of the erasing element so that the driving cylinders contact the erasing element near its exit end. The three driving cylinders are positionally maintained in a housing extending thereabout and are interconnected for similar rotary motion by driving bands, gears or the erasing element itself. At least one of the driving cylinders is powered to rotate all cylinders in the same direction to cause the erasing element to rotate and move axially from the exit end of the rollers by reason of roller rotation.