Abstract: An open-ended container is carried on the end of a handle; and that connection is by a bail-wire, of a general U-shape, whose ends are rotatably mounted on the container side walls, the bail-wire's central or bight portion of the bail being rotatably connected to the handle by a pivotal connection which is also slidable. These features and their details provide that an easy swinging effort by the dog's owner will cause the container to swing to a reception condition in which the handle's scooper member is on the far side of the feces, and the container is in a position with its open end facing the feces. Then, by a pull upwardly on the handle, the feces is pushed toward and into the container; and then, merely by the owner's continuousness of the upward pull of the handle, the container swings to its carrying or at-rest condition, with its open end up, and with the feces safely carried in the bottom of the container.

Abstract: A snack tray providing easy one-hand carry by the provision of a special thumb-hole, by which the outer end of the user's thumb provides a support-stability of a fulcrum located generally centrally not only of the upward forces from the user's fingers and thumb-base but also generally centrally of the tray. Other features include a central indention for providing an automatic forcing of the user to place his thumb's outer end in a location so as to not slip into a portion of the snack items being carried, and also achieve its central fulcrum effect; and the forward and rearward walls of the thumb hole are slanted, providing a comfortable and guiding surface for the user's insertion of his thumb's outer end portion. Other special provisions add to the advantages.

Abstract: A dog boot having as particular portions a foot, ankle and calf, the calf and ankle being large enough to accommodate the dog's paw passing through. The front of the boot calf has a vertical opening, and there is provided a vertical panel, free at the top, providing a tongue for covering the vertical opening in both an open or relatively closed condition, for insertion and removal of the dog's leg from the boot. A horizontal belt is fastenable at optionally chosen vertical places along the back of the boot; and a vertical strap affixed to the boot along the rear portion of the calf provides both a carrying strap and a cover to guard against snags of the hook-like Velcro area which provides the holder body for the horizontal belt. Other features add to the boot's advantages.

Abstract: An extremely safe skin-pricker device in the form of an open-ended tubular shell which carries an open-coil actuator spring which when released by a latchable trigger pushes an actuator shaft to move and cause the pricker needle to travel not only to an intermediate position of relieved stress but also to travel the short distance for the pricking procedure, but then, by the spring's over-travel movement permitted by its open-coil nature, the spring pulls on the shaft to withdraw the needle safely inwardly of a cover-cap which during the pricking is retained on the open end of the shell.

Abstract: A signal-emitting golf ball, having a chamber formed into its outer surface as a manufacturing step after the ball has been formed into its generally spherical shape.The chamber is of a form providing a reception chamber for the signal-emitting means being placed inwardly of the ball's outer surface at a manufacturing stage in which the signal-emitting means are not subject to ball-shaping or prior manufacturing steps.A novel signal-emitting device, shock-activated in nature, is provided to be silent through the practice swinging, but automatically emits a sound upon the ball being struck, and it keeps sounding until the player finds it and wishes it silent for the next shot, although preferably the sound is dim enough and steady enough so as to not be a bother.

Abstract: A guide facilitating the guiding of wire or cable into or out of conduit already attached to the structure being provided with a conduit installation.The guide device, adjustable in several respects, avoids the damage to wire installation as the wire is forced to sharply bend at the location of the wire-guiding procedure such as the junction of a box wall and the end of the attached conduit, and avoids the damage to the wire or cable as it is forced past the sharp edge of the conduit or edges of a connector body which attaches the conduit to an electric junction box.

Abstract: Panel members for plugging the ventilation ports of animal-carrying vehicles. Locking tabs on the panel-periphery are sufficiently resiliently flexible as to be easily pushed across the edge of the truck's ventilation port, making installation easy for winterizing the truck by covering the truck's wall ports; and the resilient flexibility of the tabs permits an easy summerizing of the truck by being easily knocked out to re-open the wall ports. The resilient flexibility of the tabs permits repetitive use.

Abstract: A vehicle wheel rim device of a type in which a first wheel rim carries a first tire casing, and having a second tire casing inwardly of the first tire casing, characterized by the provision of a second rim inwardly of the first rim, the generally circular edge-portions of the second rim being supported by the generally cylindrical body portion of the first rim, and are spaced from the adjacent circular edge-portion of the first rim, and providing that the circular edge-portions of the second rim provide support for the bead-portions of the second tire casing in a manner in which the second tire casing bead portions are substantially spaced, respectively from the beam portions of the first tire casing, thus protecting the inward tire casing from the erratic flopping of the outer tire if it becomes disabled.

Abstract: Torque-transmitting accommodation of substantial non-alignment of rotational shaft mechanism, particularly for interconnecting a boat motor's output means (generally vertical) and the boat's submerged propeller shaft (generally horizontal). The accommodation of non-aligned portions of the transmission is provided a flexible drive shaft member, particularly here a tightly-coiled multi-layered cable, insheathed in curved tubing and the cable's flexibility provides capability of rotation in spite of a substantial bend in the transmission of the rotational power.

Abstract: A lipstick applicator composed of a sheet of paper having a rounded lower edge, an upper edge to be grasped and pair of side edges extending between the upper and lower edges and wherein a lower zone of the sheet on the opposite main faces is coated with lipstick to be removed by grasping the card between the lips of a user and pulling outwardly, wherein the applicator preferably includes an envelope sized to receive the applicator card and protectively jacket the same until ready for use.

Abstract: A flow selector device whose fluid flow is regulated by the rotational setting of a rotor body in a housing; and although the metering passageways have outlets spaced from the axis of the rotor and its manipulating shank, other passageways are provided in the housing, which channel the fluid then to an outlet in and concentric with the rotor and its flow-rate adjustment shank. One of those other passageways is an annular groove formed into the rotor's manipulating shank, leading to a radial passageway in the shank, thus carrying fluid to the shank outlet channel regardless of the rotational setting of the rotor. Another of those other passageways is in the housing; and its provision is facilitated by forming it to open onto an outer face-portion of the housing, then sealing the outer portion of the passageways by a ball member forced into the outer end of the passageway. The rotor is held axially of the rotor by a snap ring, and by a nylon ring between the snap ring and the housing.

Abstract: An airfoil having a device for changing the spacing between the airfoil's surface panels, thus to change the aerodynamic property of the airfoil. Considering the airfoil as in the case of the airfoil being a part of an airplane wing, the airfoil carries a flap panel along the wing's front edge, the flap panel being movably interconnected to the airfoil's lower panel, and is slidable along the airfoil's upper panel as the panel-spacing is changed, providing an effectively air-sealed relationship of the panels; and that controlled adjustability is provided by a control shaft which, by gearing of both upper panel's movable support means and of the flap panel support means, thus achieving their co-ordinated movement to change the airfoil shape.

Abstract: Cannula apparatus for respiration therapy, having a pair of body members, each having a pair of cannulae for providing a cannula nipple outlet for each of a person's nostrils, the two body members respectively delivering gas to each of the person's nostrils, and monitoring the respiration of each of the person's nostrils. One of the body members is carried inwardly of the other, its cannulae also carried inwardly of those of the other, achieving the patient comfort of only feeling a single cannula in each nostril, yet the gas and monitoring lumens and their outlets are separate for good operativity of respiration and breathing-monitoring. Interchangeability of the body members and their respective tubing is providing by operative equality of areas of the cylindrical and annular passages.

Abstract: A body member provides a mounting panel for attachment pieces which provide an identification tag for respective ones of a plurality of service tubes or lines, and which, instead of merely identifying the tube by attaching to it, provide the double function of holding the tube to the mounting panel and identifying the tube; and the plurality of separate identification attachments, in the kit with the mounting panel, provide that the array of tubes are not only respectively identified but are easily mounted in an orderly arrangement on the mounting panel. Velcro (hook and loop type fastener material) material preferably is used on both the attachment pieces and the other surface of the panel member; and adhesive material is preferably used for the rear of the panel member, providing easy but removable attachment to any associated support.