Abstract: A piston type nutcracker with two movable jaws. A connecting rod which is threaded and atached to piston jaw and is adjustable to adapt to different size nuts. The two movable jaws move in a horizontal position until the jaws and nut enter the chamber, thereby enclosing the nut so there is no scattered shell or shell dust when nut is cracked. The solenoid is to be connected to a source of electric power and may be energized by a switch. A nut support member has a through opening which is between the jaw members in their spaced position to crack a nut and for movement to discharge a nut into a container disposed below the jaw members after the shell cracking is completed.

Abstract: Ovenable board comprising a paperboard or the like, base material having a coating of polyvinyl alcohol and a silicone. The ovenable board is especially adapted for use in packaging pre-prepared food products such as pizza and bakery goods.

Abstract: Compositions and sheet materials for inhibiting the corrosion of metals, particularly aluminum and ferrous metals, and alloys thereof. The compositions comprise as their essential active ingredient an alkali metal salt of an unsaturated organic acid, especially a potassium salt of an acrylic acid such as sorbic acid. The compositions, when embodied in, or carried on, various sheet materials, provide protection for metal surfaces both in direct contact with the sheet materials as well as for those areas of the metal surfaces not in direct contact with the sheet materials.

Abstract: A live minnow bait kit for making accessible a submerged minnow and facilitating its attachment to a fishhook includes a bucket having an internally tapered wall of heat insulating material. The enclosed space within the bucket is divided into upper and lower compartments by means of a horizontally disposed flange projecting radially inward from the internally tapered wall at an elevation between the top and bottom of the bucket. The flange trebly functions as (a) a floor surface of the upper compartment upon which a minnow-handling tongs of the kit may be rested for ready availability; (b) an upper limit stop in the path of a perforated false bottom moving vertically upward through the lower compartment coincident with a swingable opening of a lid hingedly connected to the bucket; and (c) as an upper support for a central guide post upon which the false bottom is slidably mounted.