Abstract: The invention comprises a restratining tie down apparatus for tieing down a movable abject, such as an aircraft, in a straight line connection between the stationary object and the aircraft. The restraining tie down apparatus has a storage compartment or container which is adapted to be fixed upright in the ground with with an opening at the top which is flush with the top surface of the ground. A tie down device is removably mounted within the container. The tie down device has a frame with a pair of side panels and a spool is rotatably mounted between the side panels. An elongated flexible belt is wound on the spool with its inner end attached to the spool and its outer end having a hook attached thereto. A second hook is attached to the frame of the tie down device. A spring is mounted to the frame with one end attached to the frame and its other end attached to the spool to urge the spool to rotate on the frame in a direction to wind the belt onto the spool.

Abstract: The invention comprises a device for attracting and collecting flying insects. The device has an elongated clear plastic sleeve with a plurality of spaced passageways into the sleeve circumferentially around the sleeve to allow flying insects to travel therethrough into the interior of the sleeve. A fluorescent light is mounted centrally within the sleeve which can be illuminated to attract the flying insects toward the sleeve with the passageways in the sleeve allowing them to enter into the sleeve. A cone is mounted at the bottom of the sleeve having an enlarged upper end and a reduced lower end with downward converging tapered sides.

Abstract: The invention comprises a mobile trailer having a frame with a set of wheels on the frame for hauling the trailer and a pair of storage bins on the frame in side by side spaced relation with one bin adapted to a receive peat with a mixing blade to mix the peat and the other bin adapted to receive sand. The bins have openings along their bottoms and connecting openings along their vertical front walls with vertically adjustable plates to vary the sizes of the vertical openings. Horizontal conveyors are mounted beneath the bottom openings to the bins. Collecting and mixing blades are in the front of the trailer and a rotating spreader mounted to the rear upper portion of the trailer. An inclined conveyor is mounted with its lower end beneath the mixing blade and its upper end above the spreader.

Abstract: The invention comprises a rake apparatus having a handle with three rake heads. The first rake head is fixed to one end of the handle. The second rake head is pivotally mounted to the first rake head, and the third rake head is pivotally mounted to the second rake head. The rake heads each have elongated rake tines mounted to the heads at one of the ends of the tines with the tines bent laterally at their other ends, and with the rake heads mounted one in front of the other. Spring means are provided between the first and second rake heads and the second and third rake heads to urge the second and third rake heads into parallel relation to the first rake head.

Abstract: The invention comprises a sliding cue holder device having an upright post with a half circular cylindrical drum member fixed to the bottom of the post so that the cylindrical drum provides a rounded bottom surface for engaging the playing surface of a pool table, a horizontal sleeve is fixed across the upper portion of the post with slots in the sleeve extending from the forward end of the sleeve rearwardly and with tapered inner surfaces in the portions of the sleeve between the slots with the tapered inner surfaces tapering in a converging manner forwardly toward one another, whereby a pool cue having tapered forwardly converging outer surfaces may be inserted into sleeve to engage against the sleeve portions between the slots, with the sleeve portions between said slots being resiliently connected together at their rearward ends to resiliently engage against the tapered sides of the pool cue to fix the pool cue frictionally in the holder device, whereby the cue slider and pool cue may be slid in unison to

Abstract: The invention comprises a locking plate device for attachment to opposite sides of a electrical breaker switch to prevent accidental movement of the breaker switch from an "Off" to an "On" position. The plate device has a U shaped metal plate with parallel flanges extending from its apex and with the parallel flanges adapted to be placed on opposite sides of the breaker switch and on top of the breaker switch housing. A threaded rod extends through the flanges with a lock nut threaded onto one end and the nut engaged against the outside of one flange, and with an enlarged head on the threaded rod engaging the outside of the other flanges whereby rotation of the screw in one direction will draw the lock nut and one flange toward the other flange to adjust the flanges toward the sides of switches with smaller widths. The plate has a lever arm pivotally mounted on the threaded rod.

Abstract: An electric heating attachment for electrically heating the exterior portion of a sewer vent of a building to keep the vent from clogging from snow and/or ice and frost that may accumulate on the building roof. The attachment has an elongated rod insertable into the vent a with an electric heating tape extending along the length thereof. Laterally extending arms on an upper portion of the rod engage the top edge of the vent to limit the extent of the insertion of the rod into the vent. The section of the rod extending above the lateral arms terminates in a hoop portion having a portion of the heating tape extending therealong to heat the area immediately above the sewer vent to keep this area open to the atmosphere by melting the snow and/or ice above the vent.

Abstract: The invention comprises a bean cleaning apparatus comprising a plurality of pairs of elongated inclined rotating parallel rods. One of the rods in each pair has a spiral groove along its length and the other rod has a smooth cylindrical outer surface. The rods in each pair are mounted to a frame with a space between the rods in each pair narrower than a small bean and with the one rod in its rotation spiralling doward so as to auger the beans downward along the rods. The rods in their rotation in each pair rotating toward one another to move the beans toward the rods and with the engagement of the rods with the beans acting as a abresion to the outer surface of the beans to clean the beans of foreign matter as it moves along with the space allowing small particles of foreign matter to pass between the rods.

Abstract: The invention comprises a bridge or support for supporting a cue stick on a pool table while striking a cue ball with the cue. The bridge has a rectangular plate with cue supporting notches in each of the four sides of the plate. The plate is held upright by hand on one of the four sides while the operator with his other hand moves the cue stick in the notch on the top side of the plate to strike the cue ball for playing pool. The plate has a gripping surface along a majority of the length of two of the four sides of the plate for gripping the plate with one hand, while sliding the cue in the notch of one of the sides with the other hand. A chalk support opening is provided in the plate for supporting a cube of cue chalk therein.

Abstract: The invention comprises a rear view mirror having a surrounding frame with a sleeve mounted vertically along one vertical edge of the frame. The sleeve has a slot and a screw is mounted within the sleeve with a pair of spiral grooves of opposite pitch connected together at their upper and lower edges to form an oscillating path. A ring is slidably mounted on the screw with a pin on the ring engaging the screw in one of the grooves. A motor drives the screw to cause the ring to oscillate vertically in the sleeve and a wiper has an arm connected to the ring through the slot in the sleeve, so that the oscillation of the ring on the screw causes the wiper to oscillate upward and downward on the mirror to wipe the mirror to remove rainfall.

Abstract: The invention comprises a cutting attachment for a trencher wherein the trencher has a pivotally mounted trencher arm with a drive sprocket gear for driving an endless chain and with a socket mounting at the outer end of the arm for mounting an outer sprocket for connecting a endless chain between the sprockets to drive the outer sprocket. The cutting attachment comprises a yoke having three legs with a shaft rotatably mounted between two of the legs and a outer sprocket fixed thereon and therebetween. A cutting blade is fixed to said shaft to be rotated with said shaft. A housing is provided to enclose a portion of the blade and is fixed to the yoke. The third leg of the yoke is mounted in the socket of the trencher arm whereby the trencher may power the drive sprocket to thereby rotate the outer sprocket through the endless chain and the outer sprocket may rotate the cutting blade, so that the arm may be pivoted down to lower the cutting blade to cut objects near the ground in a downward path.

Abstract: The invention comprises a boat tarp cover for covering the forward portion of the boat. The boat tarp has a pair of side portions connected together at their upper edges for engaging about the nose of the forward end of the boat. The one side portion of the tarp has elastic strips mounted at their one ends to the lower edge portions of the one side portion with adhesive mounted at their other ends. Similar adhesive members are mounted to the other side portion at its lower edge whereby the elastic strips may be drawn around the forward keel portion of the boat and the velcro of the elastic strips attached to the velcro of the other side portion to attach the lower forward portions of the side portions of the tarp together about the keel of the boat.

Abstract: The invention comprises an adjustable scraper device for scraping the disc blades of a grain drill. The device has a fixed mounting on the mounting for supporting the disc blades and a slidable mounting slidable along the fixed mounting to a selected adjusted position relative to the disc blade support mounting and the disc blades. Scrapers are mounted to the slidable mounting between the disc blades to be slid with the slidable mounting toward the center axis of the disc blades so that as the disc blade outer circumferential edge wears down, the scrapers, which act to scrape the disc blades, may be adjusted toward the center axis of the disc blades to keep the entire scraping portion of the scrapers within the confines of the outer circumferential edge of the disc blades, so that the scraping portion of the scraper will not wear on the outer edge of the disc blades and cause damage to the scraping portion of the scraper.

Abstract: The invention comprises a trunk for pickup trucks having a base with surrounding side walls and a horizontally slidable panel across the top of the box. The trunk is mounted on a pickup truck in the back behind the cab between the rear side panels of the truck. The trunk has guideway members along its front and rear side walls. The cover panel has cooperating guide members along its front and rear edge to enable the cover to slide off and on the trunk from either side of the box and truck. The guideway members are mounted in close proximity above the top edge of the rear side walls of the truck whereby the cover panel may slide over the side panels of the truck when opening and closing the trunk. The cover has an elongated handle bar along its front edge with downward projecting lug means at each end and for locking the cover closed over the box.

Abstract: The invention comprises a signalling device for reminding a person to follow certain eating habits. The device acts to sound an alarm at certain timed intervals in conjunction with the placement of a utensil upon the device to indicate to the person when he is eating too fast or without suitable interruption. The device has a photo cell at a convenient location on top of the device to receive the utensil so that the utensil will block out the light and cause the photo cell to react, in turn causing the circuitry of the device to react. If the operator removes the utensil from the photo cell for each bite and replaces it at that location, the device acts to regulate the amount of time the operator has the utensil away from the photocell presumably to take a bite and regulate the amount of time the utensil must be left on the photo cell between each bite.

Abstract: The invention comprises an adjustable support for support elongated miniature objects such as the fuselage or wing of an airplane or hull of a boat laterally of its length. The supports have their one ends attached to a horizontal surface, with the support each having a post fixed to their other end and a movable support having a post to be movable on the adjustable support to a position adjacent the lateral side of the miniature object opposite the fixed post to support the lateral sides of the object. A flexible string may be extended beneath the object and connected to the posts to support the bottom of the object in continuous close proximity.

Abstract: The invention comprises a scrubbing pail device having a pail with a fresh water reservoir detachably mounted to the pail. The reservoir has a recess for receiving a mop, with a rotatable receptacle therein to open and close valve means between the receptacle and the reservoir to allow fresh water from the reservoir to flow onto the mop for cleaning the mop with fresh water from time to time. The receptacle is also rotatable to open and close drain openings between the receptacle and the pail to allow the water in the receptacle to drain into the pail.

Abstract: The invention comprises a grain cleaning apparatus having a frame with a plurality of augers mounted beside one another in parallel relation. Screens surround the augers except at the ends of the augers to allow grain to enter and leave at the ends of the augers. A boxlike frame encloses the rearward ends of the augers with an open top to allow grain to be cleaned to be dumped into the open rear ends of the augers. A motor is provided with drive member to rotate the augers simultaneously whereby the augers will auger the grain from the box along the augers within the screens to the forward end of the frame, a chute is provided at the forward end for the grain to leave the frame after traveling along the augers. The mesh of the screens is smaller than the grain so as to retain the grain within the screens as it travels along. The mesh allows foreign particles and chaff smaller than the size of the openings to pass through the openings and drop downward from the screens.

Abstract: The invention comprises a grain sampling device installed in a grain bin. The apparatus has a plurality of sleeves in concentric relation, with the upper ends of the sleeves adjacent the upper central portion of the bin so as to be beneath and close to the top of the grain pile when the grain pile substantially fills the grain bin. The sleeves extend downward from the top central portion at an angle and project out the wall of the bin near the bottom of the bin.