Abstract: A noise - making fishing lure having an elongate body with openings provided therethrough for the flow of water and chambers provided in the body for containing air and weight elements.

Abstract: Improvements in multiple vessel container assemblies made up of one vessel removably mountable and secureable on top of another vessel, with the bottom end of the upper vessel and the top end of the lower vessel interconnectable with one another; multiple vessel container assemblies adapted to carry liquids, which vessels optionally may be insulated from one another or to heat exchange one another; multiple vessel container assemblies of versatile use and carrying capacity with respect to ice and liquids for drinking purposes, each vessel separately chargeable with and able to dispense either or both of ice and liquids.

Abstract: Improved devices for making electrical terminal and wire-to-wire connections; in terminal type connections, improved devices for physically and electrically joining one or more electricity-conducting wires to novel terminal constructions; in wire-to-wire connections, novel improved devices for electrically and physically connecting together two or more electricity-conducting wires; wire receiving sleeve members adapted to cooperate with novel electrical terminals or other, like sleeve members and a terminal interconnection therebetween, for purposes of new advantageous physical and electrical connections of wires or wires and terminal members; means for removably locking together the connected parts of such electrical terminal and wire to wire connections.

Abstract: Improvements in baseball batting cages directed to providing a limited area, fully enclosed and fully automatic baseball batting cage utilizing a conventional baseball pitching machine; improvements in the floor configuration of a limited area baseball batting cage operative to gravity return all pitched balls, whether struck by the batter or not, to a ball pickup zone; an improved baseball pickup and return device cooperating with said floor construction making possible the automatic operation of the batting cage; improvements in the positioning and mounting of a pitching machine in a baseball batting cage which facilitates the batting cage being both minimum in area and fully automatic.

Abstract: Improvements in road-protecting devices for tracked vehicles which are removably secureable to individual elements of the tracks; heavy-duty road-protecting devices removably secureable to individual elements of endless tracks which permit the vehicle to be actually worked under heavy load without losing the removably secured road-protecting devices; Improved tensioning and connecting elements for such road-protecting devices, which, in the portions thereof vulnerable to heavy load or impacts, are largely or entirely located out of the load thrust lines of use, whereby the said devices may be formed or composed entirely of resilient, deformable rubber or plastic without requiring therewith base or cover plates or bolts or ties associated therewith; nonextensible elements of rigid or non-rigid character adapted to be received fully within the bodies of resilient road-protective devices which are inside of or incorporated within the load thrust lines of use, yet which are of such character as not to be vulnerab

Abstract: Improvements in heavy duty hydraulic jacks; heavy duty hydraulic jack sleeves which are provided with a plurality of engagement positions for the hydraulic piston rod operative to permit a greater extension of the load carrying sleeve with respect to the base of the jack than the throw of the hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: Improved methods of extracting heat from hot exhaust gases from a heat source adjacent elements of a forced air circulating heating system and apparatus therefor; improvements in methods of completely extracting heat from the combustion gases of a hot air furnace within the furnace plenum and apparatus therefor.

Abstract: Improvements in road-protecting devices for tracked vehicles removably securable to the individual elements of the tracks; road protecting devices having resilient tensioning devices associated therewith operable to strongly retain such on the tracks even when the track elements are aggregate loaded; improved tensioning and connecting means for road protecting devices which are largely located out of the load thrust lines of use whereby the devices may be entirely of resilient deformable rubber without basing or cover plates or bolts or ties associated therewith; high capacity tension devices of resilient character received within the bodies of resilient protective devices at least in part with track connecting means located out of the thrust line; improved track engaging means (connecting devices) which retain engagement on individual track elements despite temporary relief of tension thereon due to turning of the tracked vehicle.

Abstract: Improvements in three-piece concrete pipe molds and means and devices for handling and transporting such molds both when filled and empty; improvements in mold handling apparatus, or devices attachable both to the lift mechanism of a vehicle and a three-piece pipe mold and useable for such purposes; a versatile adaptor which will handle and transport, in its various configurations, concrete pipe molds of the most varied sizes and configurations when mounted on the lift mechanism of a vehicle.

Abstract: Improvements in the concentration of solutions in processes involving heating the solution to be concentrated; processes of solution concentrating where the solution to be concentrated is heated prior to concentration by either direct or indirect heat exchange, including particular concentrating processes where the heating means and media include: (1) high pressure steam; (2) low-pressure steam and (3) submerged combustion; Improved methods of vapor-liquid phase separation in solution concentrating processes with the vapor phase utilized as supplemental heating medium to the solution to be concentrated; incorporation of a counterflow gas-liquid contact stage (cooling tower) as one phase in processes of concentrating heated solutions.

Abstract: Improvements in air pollution control and polluted gas effluent treatment, both processes and apparatus; Processes and devices for sequentially several times drawing a polluted gas stream against a liquid surface under a barrier approaching the liquid surface, while adding ambient air to the stream between impacts; Processes and devices for humidifying a polluted gas stream by first drawing the stream in impact against a liquid body surface, thereafter nucleating the humidified gas stream by adding ambient air thereto, and finally again drawing the now nucleated gas stream into impact against a liquid body surface to remove the polluting particulates therefrom; Single vessel and multiple vessel multi-stage processes of treating polluted gas streams by drawing same into first impacting humidification, thereafter ambient air addition-nucleation followed by further draw-through impaction.

Abstract: Improved means for and methods of removably fastening door frames into door openings where the door opening is defined by masonry construction, concrete columns and the like (not wood).

Abstract: Improvements in ventilated toilets; means of and methods for exhausting fouled air from the interior zone of a toilet bowl in an enclosed bathroom zone and further removing said exhausted air from the latter; means for disinfecting and deodorizing the air drawn from the said toilet and bathroom as well as the ventilated portions of the toilet fixtures.

Abstract: Transport, service and pick-up devices for use primarily in food, snack and beverage service in aircraft cabins; apparatus for loading, transporting, serving and picking-up of trays and containers used in serving meals, beverages and snacks to seated passengers in aircraft; a collapsible, storeable, transport service device suspended from an overhead monorail which, moving along the monorail, typically first receives a multiplicity of trays or objects from a storage and dispersal point in an aircraft cabin, then transports them to the passenger seating area, there permits distribution of the trays or objects to the passengers and, finally, thereafter, facilitates mass pick-up of the trays or objects from the passengers for transport back to the storage and dispersal point in the aircraft; a device of the character described which removably receives within itself loaded containers of trays for dispensing and pick-up of the trays from the containers.

Abstract: An improved board game based upon American football; an improved board display and elements therefor including a scaled football field representation, score markers, down and quarter markers, ball position markers, and, as well, a reversible, invertible, largely transparent slide indicator actively cooperating with the field representation, which represents, successively, play moving from each end of the field and additionally serves as a strategy selector for both defense and offense; an array of probability (chance) dial selectors so presented and structured as to permit in depth representation and operation of all the features and facets of play of football on both defense and offense; a teaching device employing the subject board game and its apparatus elements.

Abstract: Improvements in the concentration of solutions in processes involving heating the solution to be concentrated; Processes of solution concentrating where the solution to be concentrated is heated prior to concentration by either direct or indirect heat exchange, including particular concentrating processes where the heating means and media include: (1) high pressure steam; (2) low-pressure steam and (3) submerged combustion; Improved methods of producing and utilizing vapor-liquid phase separation(s) in solution concentrating processes with the vapor phase(s) utilized as a supplemental heating medium applied to the solution to be concentrated; Incorporation of a plurality of counterflow gas-liquid contact stages (cooling towers) as two phases in processes of concentrating heated solution; Utilization in coordination of a plurality of cooling towers and at least one water heater in processes of concentrating heated solutions.

Abstract: In a wood golf club wherein the club head is connected to the shaft by a generally L-shaped connecting member. The connecting member has (a) one leg received within and internally connected in the lower half of the club head and in general parallelism with the striking face and (b) the other leg has lower and upper portions wherein the lower portion extends upwardly from the one leg at substantially a right angle in a forward and upward direction and the upper portion is of an obtuse, angular configuration and connected to the lower extremity of the golf shaft and is so configured that the longitudinal axis of the shaft and upper portion extends downwardly, passing behind the striking face but positioned closer thereto than the longitudinal axis of the one leg.

Abstract: A coupling assembly to connect and seal the joint between the ends of axially aligned pipe sections of differing outer diameters; A gasket for sealing against and around the juxtaposed ends of axially aligned pipe sections of differing outer diameters; Coupling housing segments adapted to contain such a gasket radially and axially while engaging with the ends thereof grooves in the outer surfaces of the pipe section ends being coupled and connected.

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: Improvements in processes of alkylating isoparaffinic hydrocarbons with olefinic hydrocarbons in the presence of sulfuric acid catalyst utilizing effluent refrigeration of the alkylation reaction step; recovering hydrocarbons from spent acid removed from such alkylation systems and returning same to the system joining the heat exchanged hydrocarbon phase from the acid settler in the suction trap; using depropanizer bottoms to heat the spent acid to drive off hydrocarbons therefrom before passing same to the flash drum.