Abstract: A body warming bladder of pliable, waterproof material has a central portion and at least two separate limbs. The bladder has an opening for filling it with heated liquid, and a releasable end cap for normally sealing the opening. In one version of the invention the bladder is shaped to correspond substantially to the shape of a child's plush toy and is mounted inside the body of the toy with a portion of the bladder extending up to a suitable access opening in the body which registers with the bladder opening to allow the bladder to be filled with warm water. In another version the bladder is of generally V- or boomerang like shape with the access opening at the center of the V-shape, and can be fitted inside a slipper to warm the wearer's feet or used to warm other body parts.

Abstract: A beverage container holder for supporting a drinking container on a wide variety of surfaces and for keeping the beverage hot or cold, as desired, comprising a container holder, a liquid-impervious bladder secured around and beneath it and containing a small amount of cellulose fibers and a bacteriostat that swell in the presence of water to fill the bladder and be amenable to heating in a microwave oven or freezing to adjust the temperature of the swollen material.

Abstract: A shoe butler, for putting on and taking off one's shoes, having an elongated shaft with an upper handle and a lower shoe horn, a rubber chock held apart from behind the shoe horn by a spring attached to the shaft and band means, operable through a finger-actuable trigger adjacent the handle, to draw the chock in an upwardly arcuate path into sliding contact with the rear of the shoe horn to clasp the rear wall of the shoe therebetween. A tongue extends from a lower end of the shaft to engage the band means as the chock is drawn into contact with the shoe horn to lock the chock tightly against the shoe.

Abstract: A handable clamp such as a vice grip, carrying a pair of interlocking arcuate-faced extension jaws, one of which is laterally projecting on both sides of clamp jaws and formed with parallel-sided tongues and guide slots spaced apart by aliquot distances, whereby selection of a pair of such walls as guides for saw blade will enable severance of chosen arc-length of clamped ring. The thus-matching butt-ends of the ring can then be secured together to form a ring of smaller size. The projecting jaw tongue and slot pattern is reproduced with indicia on associated reference surface, such as a decal, to indicate position of particular pairs of cuts corresponding to chosen arc length.