Abstract: A method of securing a holster to the shoulder of a person wearing a neck encircling garment, such as a tie, by encircling the shoulder of the person with a loop and connecting this loop to the neck encircling garment. The loop can be connected to the neck encircling garment with a second smaller loop which engages around the neck encircling garment and which engages in slots formed in the first loop.

Abstract: An inverted press for producing multiple drawn metal containers combines in one press the functions of cupping and drawing presses. The press includes a blanking and cupping station and several drawing and redrawing stations, disposed one adjacent the other and rendered serially operative by a vertically reciprocable slide assembly. At each stage of operation the material, semifinished article or finished article is under complete control. A method for producing a drawn container by multiple forming and reforming of a drawn article, is also provided.

Abstract: Set out herein is a detachable motorcycle rack assembly which by way of an attachment fixture may be mounted on various motorcycles. The attachment fixture itself includes a strap or a bar provided with a mounting block which includes an offset tab having a longitudinal slot formed therein terminating in an enlarged opening. The rack, in turn, includes a lock having a rotatable insert of elongate section, the section being dimensioned to pass through the slot at one angular alignment thereof and to oppose withdrawal from a slot in a second angular alignment thereof. In this manner the rack may be mounted or demounted from the motorcycle by the simple turning of a key in a structure which is rugged and adapted for motorcycle use.

Abstract: A holster incorporating a spring locking member which engages a portion of a handgun to provide a physical restraint upon the holstering or drawing of the handgun to prevent inadvertent removal of the weapon or accidental loss of the handgun when the user is in strenuous movement. The spring locking member includes a leaf spring secured to the body of the holster at one end carrying at its other end a protruding head having tapered surfaces which will enter and obstruct a portion of the trigger guard region. The protruding head is not of sufficient size to contact the trigger when the handgun is fully home e.g. bottomed out in the holster. The spring member has sufficient resistance to deflection such that the weight of the handgun plus any acceleration due to strenuous activity of the user is insufficient to cause the weapon to be dislodged.

Abstract: A stringed instrument harness of flexible material having a fixed retaining member located near the fret handle and provided with four straps that criss-cross the musical instrument at the narrowest point of the instrument body. The straps cross the top and body of the instrument and are positioned on the sides with a semi-rigid crossover member through which the straps penetrate and are held in place. The straps terminate on the end opposite the retaining member with a rectangular connecting member containing adjustable fastening means to accept the straps. The harness is attached to an adjustable neck strap by means of hook type hardware located on each end to the fixed retainer and connecting member.In another embodiment the neck strap is attached on both ends to one of the crossover members in the middle of the instrument.

Abstract: The invention provides an easily transportable, general purpose box which may be carried about by hand and then anchored to rails and locked in place. Once the lid is locked on the box, no one without a key can move the box from the anchor rails. The invention is primarily intended as a portable trunk for mounting on a truck; however, it may be used anytime that a box is to be mounted on a chassis, such as a toolbox mounted on a wheeled dolly, a toolroom shelf, or the like, for example.

Abstract: A portable ski equipment carrier includes a ski holder section having a bottom and first and second vertical sides. A pair of skis are positioned edgewise on a rectangular foam pad attached to the bottom of the ski carrier section. A boot tree having a slotted upright column rigidly attached to a base has a pair of movable boot engaging elements and a pair of fixed boot engaging elements for engaging the respective heel and toe of a pair of ski boots. The rigid base of the boot tree is hingably attached to the first vertical side of the ski carrier section. The lower surface of the base of the boot tree and the upper surface of the bottom of the ski holder section have resilient layers attached thereto, which resilient layers press against the respective upper and lower edges of the skis. A locking device connects an unhinged edge of the base of the boot tree to the second vertical side of the ski carrier section.

Abstract: A beverage container carrier is formed with a sleeve-like casing and a flexible line formed in a loop. The extremities of the line are threaded through columns of apertures on either side of the casing. The extremities of the line will remain adjustably locked relative to the casing by the friction of the line through the apertures therein. A beverage container can be carried in the casing using the line as a handle or suspension loop.

Abstract: A suspension strap fastener for camera including a rear lid which is pivotally mounted on a camera body by means of a hinge comprising a core shank and a pair of hinge plates, is mounted on a portion of the shank which is not engaged by the hinge plates. The fastener is also formed with a connection with a suspension strap.

Abstract: A ski pole having a basket and grip configuration for use in carrying a pair of skis. The basket defines a first gripping surface for securing the basket to a pair of skis and a second gripping surface for securing the basket to the grip end of a second pole. The grip of each pole is provided with an adjustable rotatably mounted strap for use in holding the basket in gripping contact with the skis. So secured, the skis and two poles are held together to facilitate carrying thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile machine including a frame provided with a stabilizer comprising a connecting rod articulated on the frame, a shoe articulated on the connecting rod and a member for adjusting the position of the shoe with respect to the connecting rod and frame. The invention further includes two stops for limiting the rotation of the connecting rod with respect to the frame.

Abstract: A height-adjustable hoist having an upright post, a tip member extensible therefrom, and a sleeve swivelable about the axis of the post. A hoist arm is pivotally mounted at one of its ends on the sleeve for pivoting in a substantially upright plane between raised and lowered positions. A nonextensible chain extending from the other end of the hoist arm to the tip member is adjustably anchored to the tip member by a chain-engaging lock. To set the hoist arm at a desired raised position, the tip member is extended and the chain is selectively anchored to the tip member, with the chain stretched between the hoist arm and tip member.

Abstract: A key band including a flexible holder for retaining a key therein having a slot adjacent one end thereof by means of which a key may be placed into and withdrawn from the holder, and a wrist band to which the key holder is secured.

Abstract: The locking mechanism of the cradle is associated with a safety catch articulated on a fixed support and capable of pivoting automatically against a return element in retracting beneath the floor of the vehicle, by the raising of the cradle with the help of the locking mechanism.

Abstract: An elongated transport container for skis and the like is provided wherein upper and lower matched halves are pivotally connected to form a box-like enclosure. The lower half of the enclosure supports a pair of clamping bars at either end and a pair of skis may be placed on these bars in edge-to-edge relation. The upper half of the container has a pair of matching clamping bars secured at either end, and the clamping bars are positioned so that the closing of the container will clamp the pairs of bars together so as to frictionally lock the skis therebetween. The clamping bars also support mounting brackets for ski poles and the like.

Abstract: A concealment holster which fits an article such as a firearm to be carried in complete concealment. The holster is provided by an elongated pouch having a rounded bottom and an open top, so as to contain a handgun in butt-inverted position. The pouch is detachably connected to the shirttail of a wearer so that the pouch and its contents are hidden behind and/or beneath the wearer's trousers waistband.

Abstract: A ski rack for water skis is designed to releasably retain either one or two sets of water skis on the external surface of a boat, such as, the gunwale of an open boat or the top or side of a closed bow boat. A mounting frame has telescopically and rotatably adjustable leg supports extending in one direction for releasable attachment to the boat and one or more mounting posts extending in the opposite direction which cooperate with adjustable stops to releasably retain the skis in position on the mounting frame.

Abstract: In a manual ski carrier for carrying skis in parallel bottom-to-bottom faced relation, a pair of clamping blocks are carried from a main body member which is laterally directed of the skis. The clamping blocks are preferably spring biased apart such that the inside faces of the clamping blocks engage the opposite side marginal edges of the skis therebetween. A lever having a cam is pivotably affixed to the main body member such that pivoting of the lever causes the cam to engage one of the clamping blocks into clamping relation. The cam is arranged relative to the lever such that when the lever is pivoted away from the skis to a direction extending orthogonally to the skis, the skis may then be carried from the shoulder of the operator by placing the lever over the shoulder. A shoulder strap is preferably employed for connecting the outer end of the lever back to the ski binding, thereby forming a shoulder strap to facilitate carrying the skis.

Abstract: An adjustable carrier in which an elongated band is threaded to a belt-mounted support to provide an adjustable inner span which cooperates with the support to hold an article therebetween and in which the ends of the band are detachably coupled to permit adjustment of the intermediate span and to lock it in tightened condition.

Abstract: A fry basket for supporting food items, such as pies and fish filets, to be cooked in an immersed position in a cooking medium. The fry basket has a generally rigid frame presenting parallel, spaced-apart transverse support members. A unitary sheet of low heat capacity flexible material is supported from the transverse frame members to form a plurality of pouches. Each pouch has a pair of opposed sidewalls and a bottom portion with each of the sidewalls of each pouch hanging from a transverse frame member of define, together with the pouch bottom portion, a pouch having a generally U-shaped cross-sectional configuration.