Abstract: The invention relates to the process of forming a customized saddle tree mold to be used in turn as a model to make or select a saddle tree. The method or process involves the steps of warming a thermoplastic sheet to a pliable condition, applying the panel to the saddle area of a equine, while pliable, applying pressure against the outside of the panel to force the panel against the horse to change the shape of the panel to closely and accurately conform to the shape of the equine in the saddle area, allowing the panel to cool and harden in that shape so that it may be used in turn as a form or mold to shape or select a saddle tree for that equine, which saddle tree being shaped to the form will accurately and closely conform to the shape of that equine in the saddle area.

Abstract: The invention comprises a shampoo cape having a rear panel and a pair of front panels. Each panel have top edges with the top inner edges of the front panels connected to the top intermediate portions of the rear panel with space there between for a neck portion to the cape, the front top edges of each of the front panels are connected to the top edges of the rear panel along a direction extending laterally outward a distance and then extending laterally outward and downward with the lateral top outer edges of the front panels connected to the lateral top outer edges of the rear panel. The lateral outward and then lateral outward and then downward portions each form a cup like shape extending downward.

Abstract: The invention is a bulk handing apparatus attachable to the flat bed of a truck having a flat bed tiltable on the frame of the truck rearward at an angle. The apparatus has a rectangular elongated frame having side frame members spaced from one another to receive seed containers with projecting ledges the bottom of the containers. The side frame members have inward flanges for engagement over the projecting ledges of seed containers to lock the containers between the side frames and is adapted to receive a plurality of seed containers between the side frame members..

Abstract: The invention comprises a grader fender apparatus in a grader. The apparatus has front and rear fenders and front and rear support arms with the front support arms mounted to the leaning bar of the grader and the rear support arms mounted to the tandem frame of the grader. The front support arms extend upward from the lean bar to a location adjacent the top of the front wheels of the grader, with horizontal sockets extending outward toward the wheels mounted to the tops of the support arms. The fenders are each elongated and each have a fender rod mounted intermediate the length and extending horizontally inward and have substantially square inner ends adapted to be receive in the sockets of the support arms in non rotational manner for detachably mounting the fenders to the grader. The front fenders are mounted to the lean bar of the grader to tilt with the lean bar when the lean bar tilts the front wheels of the grader.

Abstract: The invention comprises a portable drywall roller device. The device has aframe with a horizontal plate and a horizontal groove across the plate for receiving the lower edge of the a drywall panel. The device has a pair of wheels with one wheel mounted on a rotatable caster mechanism on one side of the device and another wheel rotatably mounted on a horizontal axis extending across the device toward the caster wheel. A sleeve is fixed to the plate and extends upward therefrom. A rod is slidably mounted in the sleeve and has a pair of legs at its lower end which are adapted to engage the ground, one on each side of the horizontal axis extending across the device to provide a lateral ground support for the two wheels. The rod has a forward extending hook at its upper end for mounting over the top of the drywall panel when the bottom of the drywall panel is in the horizontal groove to lock the drywall panel to the device.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a mobile bin device having a mobile bin with a first conveyor extending along the bottom of the bin beneath a bin opening to convey material in the bin to one end of the bin. A second belt conveyor has one end pivotally mounted to the one end of the bin to pivot relative to the bin upward and downward and to one side or the other. The second conveyor is slidably mounted in its pivotal mounting to side longitudinally in the mounting to along the one end of the bin beneath the one end of the first conveyor to shorten or lengthen the distance from the outer end of the first conveyor to the outlet end of the second conveyor at the one end of the bin. Power devices are provided to power the upward and downward movement of the second conveyor and the longitudinal movement of the second conveyor.

Abstract: The invention comprises a collapsible panel carrying stick having a dual pair of elongated stick sections adapted to be extended into end to end relation with one another. The lowermost stick section has a projecting flange for insertion beneath a panel such as a dry wall panel. The uppermost stick section has a handle for carrying the stick with the panel thereon. The upper two stick sections are slidably retractable toward one another and the lower two sections are slidably retractable toward one another. The middle two stick sections are pivotally connected to one another to pivot toward one another with the sections retracted to collapse the stick sections into a smaller compact position for easier carrying.

Abstract: The invention comprises a mobile dethatching or ground cutting apparatus having a frame with front and rear wheels and a towing arm mounted to the frame for towing behind a tractor. A rotary drum is rotatably mounted to the frame and a hydraulic motor is mounted to the frame for powering the rotation of the drum. The front wheels are adjustable in height for adjusting the weight of the drum relative to the ground. The drum has a plurality of slots and peripheral rods are mounted about the circumference of the drum with the drum having plurality of slots at intervals about its circumference rod receiving.

Abstract: The invention is a mobile bin with two conveyors with each mounted on a main frame and with the main frame having wheels for rotatably supporting the vehicle along the ground. The bin has an opening along its bottom and the first belt conveyor is mounted beneath the opening in the bin and its remote ends extend to the opposite ends of the bin.

Abstract: The invention comprises trunk lock apparatus for locking a trunk having a rectangular bottom with upright front and rear and side panels, with a rectangular lid pivotally mounted at its rear edge to the top of the rear panel of the receptacle bottom of the trunk. The trunk lock apparatus has a horizontal latch panel pivotally mounted to the front panel of the receptacle near the top of the front panel which is pivotally mounted its top edge to pivot in an arc about its bottom edge forward toward the front panel and rearward away from the front panel with spring means urging the latch panel rearward. The lid has a downward projecting flange mounted to the underside of its forward edge and projecting downward therefrom with a forward projecting lip portion at the bottom of the flange.

Abstract: The invention is auger drive bearing mechanism having an upward auger device having a center shaft with an auger formed about and along the shaft and a sleeve surrounding the auger shaft and auger. A bearing housing is mounted at the lower end of the auger shaft and a housing shaft has its upper end connected to the auger shaft, while the housing shaft has it lower end adapted to be mounted to the power take off shaft of a tractor for powering the shaft and auger. A dual pair of tapered bearings are mounted in the housing on the housing shaft with one tapered bearing having rollers angled downward and outward to withstand the axial downward trust load of the auger and weight of grain and other particles when augered upward by the auger in the sleeve. An opposed tapered bearing at the lower end of the bearing housing acts to hold the housing mechanism together.

Abstract: Broadly speaking, the invention comprises harrow apparatus for dethatchers. The harrow apparatus each has a plurality of pairs of harrow teeth formed of single steel rod with the ends of the rod forming a pair of teeth and with a pair coiled portion between the teeth and a projecting portion projecting away from the coiled portion and teeth with the teeth acting to engage the ground for cutting into the ground. A dampening coil also formed of a single steel rod has a pair of hooked ends and a pair of coiled portions intermediate the hooked ends and with a projecting portion projecting away from the coiled portions and the pair of hooked ends. The invention also includes a power drum for supporting and power rotating the pairs of harrow teeth and coiled portions. The power drum has a center tube with a plurality of slots for receiving the projecting intermediate portions of the pair of teeth and of the dampening coil.

Abstract: The invention comprises a turntable device for an apparatus having a pair of vertically adjustable work platforms with crosswalk between the platforms at the tops of the platforms, with a turntable device for each end of the crosswalk. The turntable device has a rectangular base with clamps for detachably mounting the base to the top of the platform, and a U shaped bracket pivotally mounted about a vertical axis on the base.

Abstract: The invention comprises a chiropractic table having a main table with a pair of slots in the upper surface of the table and a chiropractic back engaging spinal treatment mechanism is mounted in one slot and a lower posterior engaging sacral iliac treatment mechanism is mounted in the other slot. The back spinal treatment mechanism comprises a pair of back engaging ridge members in the slot with the upper edges of the ridges projecting above the upper surface of the table for the back of a patient to rest upon on opposite sides of its spine.

Abstract: The invention comprises a candle device having a wax body having a center hole therethrough. A single elongated wick is formed into a loop with its intermediate portions with the loop surrounding the center hole while imbedded in the wax, and with the remote ends of the wick protruding through the top of the wax and adjacent one another so that both ends of the wick may be ignited at the same time and the candle thereby burning at both ends in accordance with an expression to that effect.

Abstract: A tool tray for detachably mounting to the top of a vehicle tire having a rectangular bottom panel with opposing lateral sides and opposing front and rear sides extending upward from the bottom panel. A pair of resilient straps are mounted to the tray and extend downward from the lateral opposing sides of the bottom panel and bowing outward for detachably engaging the lateral outward bowed sides of the tire tray in complementary relation. A pair of adjustable plates are mounted to the front and rear of the tray and are adjustable downward below the bottom panel for engagement with the longitudinal circumference tread of the tire to accommodate the longitudinal curvature of the tire to prevent the tray from tilting to the front or to the rear on the tire.

Abstract: The invention comprises a bulk drywall rolling support device. The device has a near horizontal frame with its forward end inclined upward in relation to its rearward end. The frame has a pair of beams on each side with a lateral bar fixed between the beams. A pair of upward extending sleeves are mounted on the outside of each beam. A pair of rods are adapted to be slidably inserted into the sleeves and extend upward and slightly rearward therefrom. The device has four wheels mounted at the comers of the device. Each rod has a handle near it's upper portion for grasping by an operator for rolling the support device about on its wheels. The device is adapted to receive drywall panels with the lower edge of the panels resting onto forward and upward inclined beams and the rear sides of the panels resting against the rods.

Abstract: The invention comprises a portable panel lifting and transporting device. The device has an elongated stick which is intended to be placed in an upright position. A channel member is mounted to the bottom of the stick and has a U shaped apex at its bottom and opposing inner and outer sides with the inner side formed in a triangular shape and fixed to the bottom of the stick and with the outside edge adapted to receive the bottom edge of a drywall panel whereby the bottom edge may rest in the apex bottom of the channel member. A pair of wheels in line with one another are mounted on the triangular side of the channel member for rotatably supporting the device and a handle is mounted to an upper portion of the stick for an operator to grasp and move the device along the ground on its rollers with a drywall panel resting in the channel member.

Abstract: The invention comprises a panel lift apparatus for detachably mounting to a conventional drywall lifter for raising a drywall panel, from immediately adjacent the ground, to the lifting arms of the lifter for transfer of the panel to the lifting arms of the lifter. The apparatus has a main frame for attachment to the main frame of the lifter, with a pivotally mounted channel member pivotally mounted for pivoting adjacent the lifter for storage, and pivoted to a spaced away position for operation. The channel member has a lifting plate for movement down along the channel to a position immediately adjacent the ground for receiving a drywall panel thereon. A cable is attached to the lifting plate at its one end and a drum at its other end and a wheel is mounted to the drum to rotate the drum to wind the cable onto the drum to raise the lifting plate in the channel to thereby raise the panel thereon to the lifting arms of the lifter.

Abstract: The invention comprises a scraper and drag attachment for a tractor. The attachment has a main frame with a hitch at it forward end for attachment to a tractor. A scraper is fixed to the main frame behind the hitch and a first pivotal frame is pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper. A pair of wheel frames each having a wheel rotatably mounted thereon are individually pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper and laterally adjacent one another.