Abstract: An apparatus for assisting a small or infirmed animal in ascending an elevated area having a substantially flat housing, and a platform having a generally flat surface, whereby the platform is mounted to slide in and out of the housing, so that when the platform is withdrawn from the housing, the platform provides a step for assisting an animal in reaching the elevated area.

Abstract: A fishing lure organizer that includes two panels pivotally connected by a living hinge. Each of the panels includes a planar base and a number of compartments that define a corrugated outer surface. The corrugated surfaces matingly engage when the panels are moved to a closed position. Fishing lures can be separately stored in each of the compartments out of contact with other lures stored in the organizer. The base and compartments of each panel are formed of transparent material so that each of the lures can be readily identified. When the panels are moved to the open position, the desired lure can be easily removed for use.

Abstract: A method of breaking up a structure for the recovery of steel as scrap. The structure has steel plates forming a compartment secured to framing in the compartment. The method includes at least partially filling the compartment with a substantially incompressible substance and placing explosive in the substance in the compartment. The explosive is sufficient and adapted on detonation thereof to pressurize the compartment to the extent of causing separation of the plates from the framing. The method further includes detonating the explosive.

Abstract: A game and fish cleaning enclosure for enabling anglers to clean their fish indoors without causing a mess. The game and fish cleaning enclosure includes a board member having a top and side ends; and also includes support members being removably connected to said board member; and further includes a canopy member being removably supported upon the support members.

Abstract: A pesticide delivery system includes a service box and a plurality of tubular delivery and dispensing lines for carrying a pesticide from the service box to locations in a building structure and dispensing the pesticide in those locations to control and exterminate pests. The service box includes a plate with holes through which elastic end portions of the tubular delivery and dispensing lines pass. Each of the holes has a conical frustum shaped portion and an annular edge portion that has the smallest diameter of the hole and is less in diameter than an outside diameter, in an unstressed or unstretched state, of the elastic end portion of the tubular delivery and dispensing line passing through the hole whereby the annular edge portion of the hole grips and locks the tubular delivery and dispensing line in place.

Abstract: A pet carrier for attaching to the front of a bicycle comprises a housing having a substantially flat bottom, a side wall enclosure and an open top, and a support structure for supporting the housing and connecting the housing to a bicycle. The support structure has two hooks attached to a rear portion of the structure. The hooks are spaced so that each hook is placeable over one handlebar of a bicycle to support the pet carrier on the front of the bicycle. To further balance the pet carrier, there is a strut attached to a bottom portion of the support structure for resting on a head tube of the bicycle.

Abstract: An animated duck decoy having a mechanism employing a driver gear having gear teeth disposed on half its periphery, the other half being without teeth, which engages a driven gear mounted on the same axle with a grooved wheel to wind and unwind a cord attached to an anchor in order to produce repetitive movement of the decoy. The animated duck decoy may be disposed to simulate a diving duck by attaching the cord to an anchor which can be placed on the bottom of a body of water. The animated duck decoy also may be disposed to simulate one duck chasing another duck by tethering it to a tree and attaching the cord to a conventional duck decoy which is tethered to a second tree by an elastic cord.

Abstract: A bore sighting apparatus is designed to releasably fit into the muzzle of the barrel of a firearm for use in bore sighting of the firearm. The bore sighter includes a housing for a collimated light source, such as a laser, with an aperture for projecting the collimated light from a first end. The second end of the housing is coupled to a down-tapered, conical section which terminates in its tip at an elongated cylindrical extension for insertion into the barrel of a firearm. The elongated extension has an external diameter which is less than the smallest caliber of firearm with which the device is to be used. An O-ring on the extension is designed to frictionally center the extension within the barrel. The device is inserted until interference with the down-tapered portion and the muzzle of the firearm occurs to center the device. Rare earth magnets are included in the down-tapered portion for holding the bore sighter firmly in the muzzle of the firearm while the bore sighting operation is effected.

Abstract: A fish egg-laying tank comprises a housing secured to a fish tank including a recess in the bottom having a plurality of openings on the top, an egg-laying container supported on the housing including an inverted cone-shaped member and a hole at the small end, an air chamber in the rear of housing in communication with the container, and a filter tank fitted in the recess. Water in the housing is flowed when air is pumped thereinto such that the solved feces of fishes are flowed onto the filter tank through the inverted cone-shaped member, the hole and the top openings of the recess and the eggs of fishes are dropped onto the bottom of the housing other than the filter tank through the inverted cone-shaped member and the hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved trigger return spring system via an interchangeable, replacement gun trigger return system mechanism for use in firearms, particularly a Beretta® Model 92/96 series firearm and similar firearms. The interchangeable, replacement gun trigger return system comprises a trigger return pin having a first end and a second end, a trigger return cam having a first cavity adapted to receive a trigger bar and a second cavity adapted to receive the second end of the return pin, and a spring. The invention includes methods of replacing the existing, factory installed spring, as well as using the present invention in originally manufactured firearms.