Abstract: A method of drafting preferred stock and common stock shareholder rights plans that dilute the investment of an uninvited bidder for control of a company, that provides for issuance of rights to purchase equity securities at a discount price, void in the hands of the bidder, that issues new rights continuously once a previous right has become exercisable and increases the number of shares issuable on exercise as the bidder's percentage ownership increases. Additionally, a method of exercising preferred stock and common stock rights plans that provides for exercise of rights to purchase equity securities after a stock acquisition date on which a person becomes owner of a specified percentage of shares, at discounts from the current market value of the stock, wherein the rights continuously reload to holders of shares and unexercised previous rights once a new stock acquisition date occurs.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a structural oil pan for use with an internal combustion engine having a crankcase with short side walls of the type that generally do not extend below the center line of the crankcase. The oil pan has internal ribs which slidingly receive lower portions of the main bearing caps. The main bearing caps are fixed, relative to the oil pan with bolts passing through openings in the pan to threadingly engage corresponding openings in the bearing caps. Such an oil pan design allow the crankcase side walls, the crankshaft main bearing caps and the oil pan side walls to be structurally joined to resist vibration and noise generation. Weight savings are recognized by the oil pan of the present invention as the need for an engine block having extended side walls and increased weight is supplanted by a light weight, structurally rigid oil pan.