Abstract: A steam cooker includes a base platter adapted to hold food items to be cooked and to be fit onto a pot for boiling water to generate steam confined in the pot by a lid. A steam funnel has a plug portion received through a central hole in the base platter to enter the pot interior and holds a condensed water collection vessel disposed below the base platter. A central tubular portion of the collector vessel allows steam to pass up and through a passage in the steam funnel to a steam chamber defined in a head portion and is directed out radially through steam outlets towards food to be cooked on the base platter. Condensed steam drains through to holes near the center of the base platter and into the collection chamber.

Abstract: A powered toilet seat positioner in which a reversible electric motor drives a lift member pivoted to the toilet seat. In one embodiment, a double shafted electric motor drives a pair of curved lift arms each connected at on outer end to one side of the toilet seat. In another embodiment, a nut is connected to a lift rod, the nut driven up or down on a threaded shaft driven by the motor to raise and lower the toilet seat. In a third embodiment, an inner sleeve telescoped into an outer sleeve is driven up and down by the electric motor, the two sleeves pivotally supported on an upright stanchion resting alongside the toilet. The inner sleeve is pivotally connected at its top to the toilet seat to raise or lower the same.

Abstract: An automated glare screen device for automobiles includes a housing attachable above the windshield frame, with a tinted plastic glare screen panel power driveable is in and out of the housing to be selectively extended in front of the windshield. The drive includes a power screw shaft and a traveler sleeve drivingly connected to the glare screen panel so as to allow relative movement therebetween as the glare screen is driven. The housing is generally flat with a downwardly curved extension section engaging the glare screen panel as the glare screen panel is advanced out of the housing.

Abstract: A ventilator-glare screen unit adapted to be fit in an automotive window opening, having controllably opened vent hole groupings and an inner glare screen able to be moved from a raised to a lowered position. A wedge-shaped extension piece attached to a forward edge is fit to an angled front window glass edge. A slidable control panel allows different vent hole groupings to be opened or blocked. A hood minimizes entry of rain, etc. into the opened vent holes.

Abstract: A glare screen device for automobiles including a housing attachable above the windshield frame, with a tinted plastic glare screen panel power drivable is in and out of the housing to be selectively extended in front of the windshield. The drive includes sprocket mechanisms engaging sprocket openings along either side of the glare screen panel. The housing is either generally flat with downwardly curved end out of which the glare screen panel projects, or generally rounded having a downwardly curved projecting portion out of which the glare screen panel is extended. The sprocket mechanisms each include an endless belt having sprocket pins distributed along the outside, a reversible electric motor driving gearing to recirculate the endless belts.