Abstract: Improvements in storage dispensers for metallic objects having magnetic properties; a storage dispenser for paper clips and the like made up of a hollow vertical hopper with a downwardly slanted floor and an opening on one side, there being magnetic retainer means on an extension of the inclined floor; honeycomb or cellular structures for storing and dispensing metallic objects having magnetic properties; inclined floor storage and dispensing constructions with magnetic retainer means; devices receiving, storing and readily making available for dispensing therefrom of metallic objects with magnetic properties; games utilizing one or more cubicles, cells or openings having inclined floors therein with magnetic retainer means adapted to receive, retain and sometimes reject metallic objects with magnetic properties.

Abstract: Protective devices for the legs and feet of furniture and equipment items; removable, resilient, protective enclosure constructions for the lower, supporting legs of furniture and equipment, for use particularly in house areas that are well traveled at night; surrounding and encircling sleeves of protective but loose and resilient materials to guard certain furniture and equipment feet, legs and supports from foot and toe impacts incident upon walking through darkened house areas; devices which operate to protect people's feet and toes from striking furniture and bed supports and the like and, simultaneously, protect the said feet and supports from impact; snap-on and removable guards for machinery and apparatus support legs in work or industrial areas, as well as homes, which protect both people's feet and the device's legs.

Abstract: Improvements in heat exchanging of distillation steps in sulfuric acid alkylation processes; removing water from the vaporous overhead fraction of a sulfuric acid alkylation process distillation step or deisobutanizer to enable mixing thereof with the vaporous hydrocarbon effluent from the reaction zone which contains sulfur dioxide vapors sulfur trioxide and H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 mist, thus permitting mixing of the vaporous fraction and effluent for compression before use as a compressed heat exchanging medium in the alkylation process; sulfuric acid alkylation with deisobutanizer tower overhead effluent acid wash.

Abstract: An improved drafting device for use in association with drafting templates and forms, both the internal and external shapes, configurations and designs thereof; a circular disc having a rim adapted to underlie the internal or external edge of a template, an optional central underside base to minimize pencil and ink interference from movement of the base, openings or slots to permit pencil, pen or blade insertion through the disc so as to mark or cut spaced sets of lines or cuts in the work sheet under the template, an upper central wall on the disc to ride against the template form and an optional outboard flange on the central wall to override and engage the template top face to control disc undersurface contact with the work; improved devices for drawing concentric lines with respect to template inner and outer forms, including both large and small templates.

Abstract: A tray adapted to slide on to and grip the arm of a stadium or theater seat; trays wich will receive and hold containers of comestibles which are removably applicable to stadium or theater seat arms.

Abstract: An arm and hand brace for persons afflicted with the neuro-muscular tremors of cerebral palsy; a bracing device framing the shoulders, upper arm, forearm and hand which, in application, damps and controls involuntary neuro-muscular spasms and permits the performance of controlled, willed actions of these members by cerebral palsy victims; an articulated frame comprised of a support, a train of linked arms, a sleeve clasping the hand, wrist and forearm, a series of double and single element joints and a piston-piston rod extension-retraction system, all for establishing and maintaining control of gross and fine arm and hand movements in the cerebral palsy patient.

Abstract: Improvements in alkylation effluent flash vaporization systems used in processes of alkylating isoparaffinic hydrocarbons with olefinic hydrocarbons in the presence of acid catalyst and an excess of isoparaffinic hydrocarbons; improvements in heat sources used in such alkylation effluent flash vaporization systems, specifically utilizing hot and compressed isoparaffinic hydrocarbon vapors generally available in such systems from such sources as fractionation (deisobutanizer) overhead or vapor flashing processes utilized in cooling the reaction step or both; improvements in alkylation effluent flash vaporization systems which reduce the load on the conventional step of retrieving excess isoparaffinic hydrocarbons from the alkylation reaction effluent for recycle to the reaction step.

Abstract: A spare tire carrier for pick-up trucks; pivotable bracket and frame means fixed within a truck body or over a truck bed removably mounting a spare tire and carrying the tire either (alternatively) within the bed or outside the bed.

Abstract: Improvements in sucker rods for oil wells and couplings therefor; light weight and electrically insulating sucker rods and couplings; fiberglass windings, resin impregnated, for sucker rods and sucker rod couplings; strand-cable type sucker rods with compression sheath windings thereon of resin impregnated fiberglass.

Abstract: Improvements in processes for stripping solvent from dewaxed oils and deoiled waxes; the use of an inert gas (such as nitrogen) as a stripping agent for removing solvent from dewaxed oils, deoiled waxes and slack waxes resultant from solvent dewaxing processes.

Abstract: Improvements in roof ventilators; improvements in gable type roofing ventilators of the type typically having a vertical stack or chimney with a screening canopy thereover; provision of a dead air space at the top of a stack or chimney underneath and within an overlying hoodlike canopy; provision of a reversing flow channel by association of two hoodlike canopies with a stack, one of the canopies also providing an air capture space or trap at the top of the stack.

Abstract: Improvements in truck bed flooring for both open and enclosed bed trucks; self draining flooring constructions which drain by geometrical configuration of the flooring, not by openings in or associated with the flooring; centrally sloped flooring constructions overlaid by mesh superflooring; corrugated flooring constructions with the corrugation valleys sloped front to rear.

Abstract: Improvements in large bale handlers and loaders which are tractor mounted and include (1) a frame pivotably mounted on a tractor; (2) lifting device operative to elevate the frame in pivotable movement around its connection to the tractor and also lower it; and (3) a grasping element operative to open and close to seize and release the bale.

Abstract: Improvements in venting manhole covers for liquid containing vessels, tanks, containers and particularly mobile truck tanks for transporting volatile liquids; improved primary venting means enabling vessel closures to vent under internal pressures; improved spring loaded pressure relief means for tank closures.

Abstract: Improvements in devices for measuring, laying out and ruling keyline boards for printed materials; a device for pre-ruling artists' and printing boards including a baseboard adapted to receive a keyline board thereon having precisely positioned location pins surrounding the work area and a slotted ruler for use with the baseboard, such producing page size and crop mark lines, bleeds, automatic register mark rules and all horizontal and vertical ruling required for 11 by 17 inch, 81/2 by 11 inch and 51/2 by 81/2 inch formats.

Abstract: An arm and hand brace for persons afflicted with the neuro-muscular tremors of cerebral palsy; a bracing device framing the shoulders, upper arm, forearm and hand which, in application, damps and controls involuntary neuro-muscular spasms and permits the performance of controlled, willed actions of these members by cerebral palsy victims; an articulated frame comprised of a support, a train of linked arms, a sleeve clasping the hand, wrist and forearm and a series of double and single element joints for establishing and maintaining control of gross and fine arm and hand movements in the cerebral palsy patient.

Abstract: Improvements in devices for reclining the incumbent human body in an inclined, head-downward position; improvements in foot-ankle suspension systems for use in such body reclining and inclining devices; improvements in hand operated mechanisms permitting the user of the device to control the rate and degree of recline in such devices; locking means for releaseably securing the device in horizontal and fully inclined positions.

Abstract: A casket lifting, supporting and transporting device operable by a single man; a wheeled frame having frame sections with lifting assemblies moveable under the ends of a casket mounted on a casket pedestal; elevating, supporting and lowering mechanisms operable by the single individual associated with the frame sections for receiving the casket thereon, elevating it, supporting it, storing it (if desired) and lowering it onto another support after transport to another location.

Abstract: Improved brake actuators of the type having both service chamber and spring emergency-parking chambers utilizing piston in each said chamber (no diaphragms); improved double piston brake actuator wherein the service chamber is inboard of the spring emergency chamber; improved double piston brake actuator having an inboard spring emergency-parking and an outboard service chamber.

Abstract: A new ventilator for spaces under slanted roofs or attics such as gable, hip and shed roof types; a ventilator using an elongate duct typically positioned between adjacent rafters under a roof, the duct inlet spaced downwardly somewhat from the ridge, the duct outlet discharging through an opening in the roof surface spaced further down from the ridge; the duct outlet configured to drain water from itself and the duct as well as protectable from winds, snow, hail, birds and the like. A like new ventilator useable under the roof panels of tanks and grain bins irrespective of the presence of rafters thereunder.