Abstract: A curbing module having interconnected sections as provided by body members interconnectable to provide a row of sections of curbing. The body members are preferably cast, and have embedded within each body member a generally U-shaped retainer member extending longitudinally and outwardly of each of the body members. Each end of the retainer member of one body member co-operates with a recess of the adjacent body member, providing, also with an associated stake-pin, the functions of both hold-down and alignment, providing and assuring a continuously attractive straightness and orderliness of the curbing as composed by a plurality of such sections.

Abstract: A barrier shield device, foldable and easily portable, for outdoor use in providing wind-protection or other shielding effects, particularly for use on a sandy beach. A plurality of panels are hinged for a composite shield-effect when folded outwardly for use; and a plurality of spikes, which are supportingly connected to the panels, are movable between an upper position for ease of transport and a lower position in which they are pushed into the ground to hold the panel assembly stable.

Abstract: A filter device, usable as a self-contained or freestanding unit or in association with an associated air treatment installation such as a furnace or air conditioner.A preferred embodiment has a housing in which is supported a parallel-arranged plurality of filter bags folded over to achieve high filter area in comparison to the size of the housing; and ductwork leads the incoming air to the filter bags, which are formed of HEPA paper for screening out even extremely small particles.The housing is hermetically sealed; and there is provided a blower for drawing in air, and causing it to pass through the filter bag system and into the interior of the housing, and then out the housing outlet for entrance to the associated air treatment installation.

Abstract: A container device by which a patron of a hotel or motel can leave articles such as shoes outwardly of the patron's room door for pick up and servicing by an attendant, but with the assuredness that the articles are locked for withdrawal only by an attendant who has lock-operation ability. No such ability is required of the patron, who achieves the locked condition of a container by the embrace of the patron's door by an abutment carried by a retainer connected to the container; and it is provided that the room door, in closed condition, itself is used both to block the container's access opening as well as to provide an abutment co-operating with the abutment to block movement of the device away from the door. The abutment is made movable, providing if desired another setting in which a full release of the container is achieved by pulling the abutment and its retainer outwardly of the door.

Abstract: A socket wrench device, having a shank, a plurality of socket pieces to give optionality of size, a retainer component adjacent the outer end of the shank, and with an abutment adjacent the inner end of the shank, the arrangement providing the feature that all the socket pieces which are inwardly of the outermost socket piece transmit the axial force from the abutment and sustain the reaction force form the work object, thus assuring that socket pieces unused for applying the torque work-effort to the work object must be kept on the shank for ready availability for the next use of the device, and permitting the outer retainer component to be conveniently weak for easy loading of sockets onto the shank since it need only be strong enough to retain sockets against falling off the end of the shank. Different size socket at each end of each socket provide maximum size-differences for optionality of use.

Abstract: A photo-mount device formed to present a charactery of a school bus, with cut-outs in the outer panel through which may be viewed photographs of a child taken sequentially through the years.

Abstract: A safety device from a scaffold latch, providing a movable abutment arm which is supported to have two positions, a first position providing a blocking abutment which blocks latch-releasing withdrawal movement of the latch pin, and a second position in which it permits such latch-release movement of the latch pin, the abutment arm being co-operative with the release lever of the latch assembly to cause its movement to its second position automatically as the latch release lever is being actuated; and a spring automatically holds the safety's abutment arm in its first (pin-blocking) position unless the pin-release lever is being actuated.

Abstract: A metering-type dispenser device, of integrated nature having its own liquid reservoir, particularly for the metered dispensing of liquid reagents in a chemical assay, in which there is an independence of the liquid reservoir from any pressure such as used in activating the pumping stroking of the pumping head member of the device.

Abstract: A table-top golf game provides a game board, clubs, and balls, yielding a three-dimensional nature of play simulating that of conventional golf. The board has multi-textured surfaces as playing holes for golf, which include simulated greens, fairways, rough, water hazards and sand traps, and a plurality of tee areas located at varying distances from the greens in order to provide a variety of par three, four and five holes. The clubs have faces of varying angles to achieve shots of varying distances and heights; and, with the exception of the putter, the clubs are spring actuated and may be manipulated to cause various types of shots and trajectories of the game ball. The putter is manually actuated to provide maximum feel to the putting stroke. The ultra light balls have a density of only about 1.3 to 1.

Abstract: A roller device for a ladder-top, which provides roller-facilitated ease in moving the ladder-top along a wall to change the ladder's inclination.The roller device is characterized by its support factors which provide great ease of its attachment to existing ladders, by using the top rung or step of the ladder as one of the supports; and, providing particular advantage for extension ladders, the overall length of the roller device is limited to provide that when used on the inner section of an extension ladder, the roller device will freely pass by the extension-limiting stop-lug of the outer section, thus permitting full removal of the inner ladder-section from the outer ladder-section in spite of the purposely-blocking presence of that stop-lug, without removal or any change of the roller device.

Abstract: A connector means which provides a fluid-tight seal, but with relative rotation of a pair of body members of a hydraulic line or device. Cylindrical extensions on both the body members, which interfit in assembly, have circumferential grooves facing one another and receive ball bearing members in the circumferential chamber provided by the grooves; and the arrangement is such that the bearing members act to block axial withdrawal of the body members from a tight sealing engagement with an O-ring which assures fluid-tightness of the joint even though the body members are relatively rotatable.

Abstract: A control means and process for a recirculating hot water system having a hot water supply pipe and a hot water return pipe connected in a loop between a hot water outlet of a hot water tank and a return inlet to that tank, and having an electrically controlled recirculating pump in the loop, for keeping sufficient circulation in the loop as to assure substantially instant dispensing of water of a desirably high temperature. The control governs the operability of the recirculating pump, causing it to operate for a pre-established time period as determined by the amount of time required to bring the supply pipe portion of the recirculation loop up to desired maximum operating temperature.

Abstract: Deflector means for a generally circular cutter blade such as for the cutting of weeds, brush, or the like, which is mounted upon an associated power tool and power-driven thereby for rapidly revolving rotational movement, and having peripherally-spaced cutter teeth. The deflector means are provided rearwardly of the cutter edge of each tooth, and extend outwardly therealong as far as the most outermost portion of the cutter teeth, and extend rearwardly with respect to the cutter edge a significant distance sufficient that upon an engagement of a rigid object by the revolving cutter blade, the rigid object will be relatively deflected outwardly by the deflector means, and thus preventing engagement of the cutter tooth and the rigid object which would nick or otherwise damage the cutter tooth and/or its cutter edge, or which would cause other harm or accident.

Abstract: For a rotary lawn mower, a cutter means provides an attachment or original equipment, providing novel means of carry of flexible strips which provide cutter elements, the strips being easily mounted in the cutter body, and the mounting of the cutter body onto the mower's drive shaft providing an automatic means of holding the filaments strips to the cutter body.

Abstract: A flow selector device whose fluid flow is regulated by the rotational setting of a rotor body in a housing; and a split retainer form of an abutment, releasably held between opposed abutments of the rotor body and the housing body, serves to restrain the rotor body against movement axially of the housing as otherwise would be urged by the axial force result of the actuation of a spring pressed rotor-indexing detent feature and of a sealing feature, both of which are carried by the housing and have an effect of pushing the rotor body axially of the housing due to their compressive nature.

Abstract: A simple and economical tire repair tool, providing an open-ended support tube which carries in the free end a plug member axially of the tube for sealing the hole. The plug member is provided on its forward end with a hard-material pointed member for penetration of the casing, and that pointed member has an abutment against which the free end of the support tube presses during use, forcing the pointed end and a plug body connected thereto to penetrate the tire casing, without need of enlarging the hole, and with the tube holding the casing walls away from the plug body. Interengaging lugs of the tube and the pointed end member provide for twisting the pointed member to facilitate passage of the pointed member into the casing, but permit simple axial retraction of the tube to draw it out of the casing, yet the resilience of the casing in the hole region causes the casing walls to firmly embrace the plug member, sealing the hole.

Abstract: A fish lure providing changeable effects of coloration even during use, by an extendible sock-like colored body interiorly of the lure which gives a variation in the lure's coloration-effect depending on its condition as relatively collapsed or relatively extended condition. An actuator or other devices, automatic upon pulling the line through the water, cause the change from collapsed to extended position, against the bias of other structure opposing the extension, thus giving a variation in the nature of color-change dependent upon how the user pulls the lure through the water. A piston associated with the colored body moves in correspondency to it, forcing water outwardly of the lure, giving further water-disturbing and lure-jiggling effects; and other embodiments provide color-change by fluid in the lure having a color-change responsiveness to changes in temperature and/or pressure.

Abstract: An enclosure cabinet which provides covered storage for a lawn mower or the like even with the handle remaining assembled onto the mobile unit, but not nearly as large as would be needed by a unitary shape large enough to accommodate the handle without disassembly. The walls also carry a removable hose basket, with easy means of mounting and dismounting, including a latch-like device for maintaining the mounted condition of the hose basket.