Abstract: The invention comprises a switching mechanism for a micro wave signal dish receiver apparatus. The mechanism has means for switching a wave guide of a 12 GHZ frequency signal into and out of concentric alignment with the center of a 4 GHZ wave guide of the apparatus. The 12 GHZ wave guide when switched out of alignment is retracted so as not to interfere with the 4 GHZ wave guide while the 4 GHZ wave guide is made operative to receive a signal of that frequency. The mechanism can project the 12 GHZ guide into the center of the 4 GHZ wave guide to receive a signal of a 12 GHZ frequency at the same focal point substantially as the focal point of the 4 GHZ, without the 4 GHZ wave guide interfering with the 12 GHZ wave guide operation.

Abstract: The invention comprises a trapping apparatus having a pair of jaws pivotally connected together at their ends. The apparatus has a strap mounted to the trap and has a magnet mounted to the strap. The magnet magnetically engages a metal culvert intermediate its height of the culvert with the magnet being sufficient to magnetically support the magnet, strap, and trap to the culvert intermediate the height of the culvert. The culvert is of a type installation wherein there is a waterway therethrough with the surface of the water in the culvert just below the magnetically secured location of the trap whereby animals will swim through the waterway in the culvert near the surface of the water therein and are likely to engage and trigger the trap and be trapped by the trap.

Abstract: The invention comprises an animal identification tag. The tag is a plastic sheet preformed into a sspiral shape to form several overlapping spiral layers from one end to the other. The sheet is formed of resilient material whereby the outer spiral layer may be separated from the next adjacent layer along its outer edge so that a cow's tail of conventional size may be slipped between laterally of the length of the tail and the tag may be rotated to slide the tail between the spiral layers until the tail is located inside the innermost spiral layer. The tag has a preformed spiral shape wherein the innermost spiral layer has a diameter when unstraightened that is slightly smaller than the outside diameter of a small cow's tail so that the tag will compress back, after straightening, toward its smaller diameter and thereby snuggly engage the tail of cows of varying sizes to retain the tag on the tail. The tag has indicia along its outermost spiral layer to identify the cow.

Abstract: The invention comprises an electric bug killing apparatus for attachment to an outdoor lamp having a globe surrounding an illuminating element and having a fixture with projecting portions. The apparatus when attached to the lamp converts the lamp to an electric bug killing device, with the lamp acting to attract the bugs to the apparatus. The apparatus has an inner and outer screen spaced from one another in insulated relation. The inner screen has mounting means for mounting the screens to the exterior of the globe that surrounds the illuminating element. Clamping means are mounted to one of the screens along opposite edges. The clamps are attached to the projecting portions of the fixture when the screens are mounted to the globe for fixing the apparatus to the lamp.

Abstract: The invention comprises a hydraulic press for attachment to one of a plurality of shanks of an earth working implement. The press has a lateral base with a pair of spaced notches which form channels for the shank to be positioned in when the press is attached to the shank. A hydraulic cylinder has one end pivotally mounted to the frame of the press and its other end hydraulically actuates a piston which upon actuation telescopes the piston toward the shank intermediately between the spaced notches to engage the shank between the spaced notches, with the notches restraining outer portions of the shank against movement with the piston as it moves, while the piston moves against the intermediate portion and moves the intermediate portion thereby bending the shank.

Abstract: The invention comprises an apparatus for digging obstructions out of the ground. The apparatus has a first frame adapted to be attached to the framework of a three point hitch connection on a tractor. The hitch connection has hydraulic means to raise and lower the hitch whereby the hitch will raise and lower the first frame. The apparatus has a second frame pivotally mounted to the first frame with digging members fixed on the second frame. The apparatus has hydraulic means for pivoting said second frame on its pivotal mounting to an angle whereby the first frame may be lowered and the digging members may be engaged into the ground at an angle to penetrate beneath an obstruction and may be pivoted upward to lift the obstruction out of the ground, a hook is pivotally mounted on said second frame to pivot down over said rock digging members to secure a rock on said members.

Abstract: The platform support invention comprises a device for attachment to a liquid dispenser of the pump type for dispensing fluid from its spout while upright. The platform support invention has a platform which is mounted to one side of the dispenser and extends about the dispenser and has securing means to secure the platform to the dispenser in fixed relation. The platform is directly beneath the spout and spaced above the bottom of the dispenser, and whereby when a receptacle is placed on the platform it will be beneath the spout and spaced above the bottom of the dispenser so as to conveniently receive fluid pumped from the spout of the dispenser without the operator having to physically hold the receptacle in that position.

Abstract: The invention comprises an air deflection apparatus for a truck of the cab-over engine type of construction having a dual pair of flanges adapted to be mounted to the front face of the truck with the flanges at an acute projecting angle on each side of the radiator on the front face of the truck so that the flanges provide a tapered surface on the front face to deflect air off at an angle to the side of the truck. The tapered surfaces provide less resistance to the flow of air against and past the truck during forward movement of the truck than there would be with the conventional front face of such a truck which is perpendicular to the air flow and this thereby increases the efficiency and mileage of the truck by the reduced power required because of there being less air resistance to the truck movement.

Abstract: The invention comprises a log wall enclosure having a plurality of walls with each wall comprising a plurality of logs in rows one above the other to form the wall with the logs stacked laterally of the length of the wall. Concrete masonry material is placed between the logs. The walls extend toward one another to form a corner and an L-shaped plate extends along the outer surfaces of the walls where the walls connect to form the corner. The L-shaped plate supports the corner and has strips extending from the plate into the walls to fix the plate to the walls.

Abstract: The invention comprises an apparatus for treatment of seeds with liquid insecticide-fungicide and other materials. The apparatus has an opening at its upper end formed by a wall for receiving seeds for treatment with the liquid. A cone is mounted beneath the opening to deflect and spread the seed outward evenly about the cone as they travel down the outer surfaces of the cone. Adjustable plates are mounted in the opening to vary the size for matching the incoming flow to direct the seeds onto the center of the cone, the wall has circumferential overflow openings spaced above the lower edge of the wall. A lever is provided to raise and lower the cone with respect to the wall whereby the movement of the cone upward moves the cone sufficiently close to the wall so as to slow the amount of seeds traveling off the cone to allow the seeds to build up and constantly fill the annular space formed between the cone and wall with a constant overflow through the overflow openings.

Abstract: The invention comprises a hunting stand having a platform, four legs supporting said platform in spaced relation off the ground, one of said legs having rungs to act as a ladder for climbing onto the platform, a circular flexible wall mounted about the outer edge of said platform and adapted to be raised from a position near the level of the platform to a height above the platform, means for supporting said wall in its raised position, a seat on said platform for a hunter to sit on while hunting, said flexible wall when in a raised position acting to conceal the hunter while hunting.

Abstract: A grain spreader having a plurality of channels pivotally mounted at their upper ends to said cone. The spreader has adjustment means to simultaneously pivot said channels inwardly about their pivotal mounting to a size where they may be received through a center opening. The device also has means to mount said device in said bin. The adjustment means can then be operated to pivot said channels outwardly to place the outer ends of the channels near the outer edge of the bin. The center cone deflects some grain emptied onto the cone onto the channels where it will be carried by the channels to the outer edge of the bin to deposit grain near the outer edge of the bin.

Abstract: A shooting table device having a table portion for supporting a firearm and seat portion for supporting the operator while firing the firearm with the firearm resting on the table portion. The table has a pair of front legs to support the front of the table. The seat portion has a pair of horizontal extending support members extending from the seat, and which are pivotably mounted to the front legs of the table to pivotably support the seat portion of the front of the table. The horizontally extending support members are telescoping to adjust the seat toward or away from the table. The seat portion has a pair of legs mounted to the seat portion of the rear of the table to support the rear end of the seat separate from the table. The table also has a support leg at its rearward end to support the rearward end of the table.

Abstract: The invention comprises a truck box cover device. The device has a rod with a rectangular tarp attached to the rod at its one end and attached to the edge of a truck box at its other end. The tarp is rolled onto the rod toward the edge of the truck box where the outer end of the tarp is attached to uncover the open top of a truck box, and is unrolled in the opposite direction to cover the truck box. A pair of ropes are attached to the outer ends of the rod at one end of the ropes. The outer ends of the ropes are attached to springs and the springs are attached to the sides of the truck box. As the tarp is unrolled the ropes are wound onto the rod. The springs act to place tension on the rope and clearly place tension on the rods and thereby urge the tarp in a straight line toward an unrolled position and thereby act to keep the tarp straight.

Abstract: The invention comprises a pumping device for pumping water from the bottom of a lake or reservoir. The device has a raft with pipe means pivotably mounted to the raft. A rotatable shaft is mounted to the raft having a propellor at its lower end located in the upper end of the pipe means with wind driven means to rotate the shaft. The pipe means is pivotable to either a vertical or horizontal position and has means to lock the pipe means in a vertical position whereby the pipe means may be retained in a horizontal position when positioning the raft in a lake or reservoir whereupon the pipe means may be pivoted to a vertical position.

Abstract: This invention comprises a leverage attachment for a power drill having a grip. The leverage attachment has a bracket for mounting to the housing of the power drill. A lever arm is pivotally mounted at one end to the bracket. The lever arm has an eyelet adjustment to the pivotal mounting of the arm. A link chain is mounted at one end to the eyelet of the device and is adapted to extend around the material to be drilled.

Abstract: A bandage roll dispenser comprising a front and rear housing adapted to be slidably fitted together. The front half has a horizontal channel and a front half of a spool housing. The front half of the spool housing has slots therein. A rod of bandage has a center roll therein. The center rod is adapted to be mounted in the slots of the front half of the spool housing with the roll of bandage mounted therein. The horizontal channel is adapted to receive the outer end of the roll of bandage. The rear half of the spool has a plate adapted to be slid over the end of the gauze and over the horizontal channel. The rear half of the spool housing also has a rear half a spool housing adapted to abutt the front half of spool housing.

Abstract: A portable frame adapted to be mounted on a beach adjacent a lake. The portable frame has a reversible motor and a pair of drive wheels driven by the motor. A rake is provided with an elongated handle. The drive wheels of the frame are adapted to engage the handle of the rake to move the rake backward and forward powered by the motor. The rake has teeth which fold inward when the rake is moved forward into the lake along the lake floor powered by the motor and the teeth will remain upright when the rake is powered back out of the lake, so that the teeth will engage the weeds and will take or pull the weeds out of the bottom of the lake as the rake is powered back out of the lake.

Abstract: The invention comprises a device for towing and transporting a roll of hay, said device having a pair of arms with points at their rearward outer ends for engagement into a roll of hay. The pair of arms are pivotably connected at their forward ends. A lever means is provided having means at its forward end for attachment to a power drive vehicle. The lever means acts upon being moved forward to lever the rearward outer ends of the device toward one another, whereby, with the device attached to the vehicle and a roll of hay attached to the device, the forward movement of the vehicle moves the device forward and also moves the lever forward to tighten the hold of the device to the roll of hay to assure the device tows the roll of hay forward.

Abstract: The invention comprises a control apparatus for controlling the speed of the drive of a front end loader. The apparatus has a pair of hydrostatic motors for powering the input gear of the transfer case wherein the output gear of the transfer case drives the front and rear wheels of the loader. A control cylinder actuates a control mechanism to vary the speed of the two motors in sequence. A pair of foot pedals are provided to gradually actuate the pump to the two motors in opposite directions. The two foot pedals also actuate the control cylinder to actuate the two motors. Each foot pedal is depressable and during its initial depression action actuates the pump gradually in one direction or the other, and upon completion of the pump acceleration and any additional depression action actuates the control cylinder to actuate the two motors in sequence.