Abstract: A locating device for vehicles with a carrier to be mounted in the vehicle in which a gyro-sensor is located to detect the movement of moving components for the purpose of determining the location. As gyro-sensors must be oriented a certain way in order to fulfill their function, and as this orientation is not possible in all installation locations, the invention is the result of the task of specifying a gyro-sensor that can be used regardless of the corresponding mounting situation, where the corresponding sensor (gyro-sensor) can be oriented at the installation location and manufactured using automated manufacturing processes and where special securing devices are not required to secure the unit in the aligned position.

Abstract: An orientation measuring device with a plurality of precision tooled grooves, indentations or the like. Two precision tooled adaptor bodies, preferably of cylindrical shape, are removably mountable in the indentations, where appropriate, for a given measuring task. The adaptor bodies are held in place by, e.g., magnets. The device is capable of determining the spatial orientation of rolls, bars, hollow or solid cylinders, ranging from small to large diameters by appropriately selecting in which of the grooves or indentations the adaptor bodies are mounted.

Abstract: A multi-function, hand-held compass is made up of a base member having a compass vial at one end and a socket at the opposite end to releasably attach to a clip. A lateral depression is formed in the base member to facilitate gripping of the compass, and a dual-prism sighting system is disposed at the opposite end of the base member to that of the vial. Graduated markings for a protractor are formed in surrounding relation to the compass vial along with pie-shaped recesses and magnifying lenses in the base both to take azimuth readings and map readings.

Abstract: A ladder inclination indicator has a transparent thin-walled body shell defining a rearwardly open recess containing a pivot pin supporting a gravity actuated pointer. A keeper plate forms a partial closure for the recess and carries a label which cooperates with the pointer to indicate a position of ladder inclination. Layers of pressure sensitive adhesive adhered to mounting flanges on the body shell secure the device to the side rail of a ladder.

Abstract: A leveling device for assisting in properly orienting picture frames and other hanging articles on a vertical wall surface. Preferably, the device includes a planar body having a bubble level and a suction cup for temporarily affixing the device to a smooth surface of the frame, i.e. a glass pane. A foot surface and planar hooking structure provide alternative affixing structure such that the device can be used on a wide variety of frames and the like.

Abstract: A level indicator for a child seat equipped with a rotatable carrying handle rotatably attached thereto, and having a housing in a hub of said pivotal handle with a wall defining an interior region of said hub and an indicator member having an indicator surface. The indicator member is movably received in the interior region and the wall is formed to include a transparent window defined by an edge formed in the wall, the edge being arranged so that the indicator surface is visible through the window when the level indicator is level, with the indicator member moving entirely away from the window edge when the level indicator is not level so that the indicator surface is not visible through the window. The indicator member is disclosed as being a gravity ball that freely rotates in a curved track or a pendulum rotating in the handle.

Abstract: A holder for releasably engaging a level and pencil therein. The holder generally comprises a housing having first and second open ends configured to releasably fit about a carpenter's pencil. A window is centrally positioned in a wall of the housing and between two longitudinally spaced-apart walls positioned within the housing which form a chamber therebetween. A port in each wall allows for extension of a bubble level between the end walls through the chamber and adjacent the window.

Abstract: An electricians tool is disclosed which comprises a body which houses a sliding arm. This arm engages in an electrical outlet box cover to hold the tool under spring pressure in the said cover. A horizontally disposed spirit level and a vertically disposed spirit level are used to align the electrical outlet box cover so that it may be fastened level.

Abstract: A C-clamp with integral bubble levels comprising a C-clamp which has a horizontal portion with two generally parallel vertical portions extending perpendicularly from the ends of the horizontal portion. The first vertical portion is formed with a threaded circular aperture with the axis of which is parallel with the horizontal portion. The second of the vertical portions is provided with a planar surface perpendicular to the axis of the aperture. A rod with exterior threads extends through the aperture and is rotatably coupled thereto whereby rotation of the rod will effect its axial movement. The end of the rod between the vertical portions is provided with a planar surface parallel with the planar surface of the first vertical portion. A planar surface is formed on the horizontal portion on the side thereof remote from the vertical portions. A bubble level is removedly secured to the planar surface.

Abstract: A laser positioning device is provided in which a level is associated with a demountable mounting set-up and a plate member. The plate member projects laterally from the level and is scribed with a protractor. A pointer is pivotally associated with the apex of the protractor. A laser beam generator is associated with the pointer. Thus, a laser beam from this generator can be impinged against a remote target location that is in a predetermined orientation relative to the generator when the device is mounted by the mounting set-up.

Abstract: A combination of a compass and a connecting arrangement. The compass includes a compass housing having a base wall, a circular wall connected to and upstanding from the base wall and a transparent window connected to the circular wall to define a sealed chamber in which is located the compass works. The compass housing has a radially outwardly extending flange thereon which is greater in dimension than the outer diameter of the circular wall. The connecting arrangement includes a strap for securing the compass housing to an archer's bow. The strap includes an elongated, uniformly thin strip of material having oppositely facing surfaces. The strap has a centrally disposed, circular-shaped first hole therethrough, the diameter of the circular-shaped hole being less than the diameter of the aforesaid flange. The compass housing is received in the circular-shaped first hole, the flange abutting the second surface on the strap.

Abstract: A combination of a compass and a connective arrangement for facilitating connection of the compass to a firearm or other portable object. The connective arrangement includes a one or two part elongated and hollow sleeve having an interior opening therein opening outwardly at opposite first and second ends. A housing containing the compass works is received in the first end of the sleeve. The interior opening at the second end of the sleeve has an internal thread threadedly secured to an externally threaded screw to thereby facilitate the connection of the compass works containing housing to the firearm or other portable object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plumb-bob and magnet combination for attachment to a beam. The plumb-bob and magnet combination for attachment to a beam includes a magnet having a top flat surface that is connected to the base, the magnet having two opposing sides that contain recesses, a hollow casing for encompassing a string of the plumb-bob and having a top surface slidable along the magnet, the hollow casing including lips on the top surface for sliding engagement with the recesses on the sides of the magnet, a lock on one of the lips of the casing and being cam operated by a lever that moves in the direction of an arc on the top surface of the casing for locking and unlocking the casing to the magnet, and a cantilever extending from the casing and having a free end with an aex from which the string hangs with a weight at the free end, the string being wound in the casing.

Abstract: A liquid-type compass comprises a light-weight thin, flat disk of magnetic material so constructed that it is capable of floating on a liquid surface so as to be movable to orient itself in a North-South direction. A flat support provided for storing the disk when not in use is releasably secured to a support member. The support member is in the form of a small flat card containing survival instructions as well as instructions for use of the compass.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved leveling device for use with various tools or other objects during a construction or repair process. A bubble level is mounted along the straight edge of a semi-circular protractor. The protractor is movably connected to a base member and adapted to pivot thereon relative to a central axis extending through the base member. A detent mechanism is provided within the base member for maintaining the protractor at various angular settings. The base member is also adapted to rotate about the central axis and may be easily and quickly attached to or removed from the protractor bubble level as well as various types of work surfaces including wood and metal.

Abstract: A positioning device for a car seat indicates when the car seat has been properly positioned in an automobile or on a shopping cart. The positioning device includes a paper backing which is encapsulated in a plastic housing. The plastic housing includes a relief projection in the shape of an arc. A ball slides within the relief projection and against the paper backing. Printed information on the paper backing indicates when the seat is in the proper orientation according to the position of the ball.

Abstract: A lie indicator for a golf clubhead that has utility as a golf practice aid. The indicator includes a straight bubble tube mounted in slightly skewed relation to a base member so that the axis of the tube and the axis of the base member are skewed at about one degree with respect to one another. The base member includes a flush mounted magnet that releasably secures the indicator to the face of the clubhead. The base member is aligned with a score line on the face of the clubhead so that when the golfer centers the bubble in the tube, an apparent one degree over compensation is provided. However, the lie angle of the clubhead is correct at the moment of ball impact because the mass of the clubhead causes it to rotate during the swing by about one degree.

Abstract: A clinometer releasably securable to a golf club head to indicate its loft and to detect its lie. The clinometer has a sector shape and its circumferential extent is sixty degrees of arc. An arcuate bubble tube having accompanying indicia to indicate differing angular orientations of a club head face is secured to the arcuate top wall of the device and a straight bubble tube extends horizontally from a flat sector shaped wall to show the lie of the club head.

Abstract: A tool for abutment against an object to detect when the object is at a predetermined orientation is temporarily securable to the object in order to free both of the operator's hands for other activities. Plural spirit level vials, oriented to face in different directions, indicate when the tool is vertical, horizontal or inclined at one or more predetermined angles. In the preferred form, the tool body has a central handle region from which arms extend in opposite directions and a pair of members extend laterally from the end of each arm to define segments of a right angled slot into which the object is fitted. The tool preferably has three different types of fastener including retractable nail-like pins which may be penetrated into wood or the like, elastic cords which may be used to clasp the object and magnets which cause the tool to cling to steel posts, pipes or the like.

Abstract: Air-bubble level for portable tools which can be used and operated independently from any changes in position of the tool and which can be easily transferred between tools due to its articulated fastening device.

Abstract: An instrument used to level equipment, particularly useful with exercise equipment like a barbell. In preferred form, the instrument includes a tapered tube filled with a liquid and having a ball therein indicating level. The tube is supported and is magnetically coupled to a metal surface such as the barbell. The use of the leveling instrument with a barbell facilitates weight training in that the bar may be maintained level and the muscles on each side of the body developed equally.

Abstract: A viewing device to assist a golfer or the like in assessing transverse inclination of terrain along his sight line, including a base assembly adapted for attachment to a cap, hat or headpiece worn by the golfer or the like, a vertical plumb element pivoted to the base assembly about an axis parallel to the wearer's sight line of the terrain and a horizontal sighting element fixed perpendicularly along its length permitting the wearer to view seleccted terrain relative to the horizontal sighting element and rapidly assess its transverse inclination. With the base assembly secured to the bill of a cap or the like, a viewing frame surrounds the vertical plumb element and horizontal sighting element while including means for retaining both the viewing frame and vertical plumb element and horizontal sighting element out of the wearer's sight line when desired.

Abstract: A hand drill level is provided and consists of a mounting frame removably mountable to top surface of a shank portion of a hand drill and a vial that has a bubble chamber operably affixed within the mounting frame and parallel to a longitudinal axis of a drill bit to aid in drilling holes straight through a work piece.

Abstract: A fastening system in one embodiment comprising a support member and a plurality of leaves stacked together and affixed to the support member. At least a portion of one side of each leaf is covered with an adhesive material. A connecting member having a first free end has its second affixed to the support member. Means are also provided for affixing the first free end of the connecting member to an elongate member.Another embodiment of the present fastening system comprises a suction cup, a connecting member having a first free end and whose second end is affixed to the suction cup, and means for affixing the first free end of the connecting member to an elongate member.

Abstract: Angle measuring apparatus, particularly for measuring doctor blade angle, comprises an elongate support (1); a horizontal level detecting device (4) pivotally connected to an upper surface of the support (1); and means (5, 8) for determining the angle between the support (1) and the horizontal level detecting device (4). An under surface of the support (1) includes a pair of projecting feet (13, 14), the arrangement being such that when the apparatus is placed on a cylinder, the upper surface of the support (1) is substantially parallel with a chord of the cylinder.

Abstract: A level is disclosed having a body with two working surfaces. One of the working surfaces is formed on a magnetic rubber strip. The magnet has a longitudinal groove formed in the working surface which can receive a corner or a side of a pipe to be leveled or plumbed, thus preventing the level from moving laterally on the pipe, corner or projection.

Abstract: Apparatus for promoting straight golf ball flight paths by promoting in flight rotation of a golf ball along its horizontal axis by assuring horizontal alignment of parallel grooves of the face of a golf club as the club strikes a golf ball comprising a frame having an alignment ridge for insertion into one of said parallel grooves, means for securing level indication means to the frame in parallel alignment to the alignment ridge, level indication means, and means for temporarily attaching said frame to the face of a golf club in such a manner that said level indicator indicates the horizontal alignment of said parallel grooves.

Abstract: A spirit leveling attachment for a power tool which is universally adjustable relative to the tool so as to enable the tool to be located in anyone of a number of selected positions of angularity and maintained in such position by visual reference to the spirit level. A magnetized support member having a partly spherical recess is mounted on the tool. The spirit level is formed with a partly spherical body member which is accommodated in the recess of the magnetized support member, enabling the body member to be magnetically retained in the recess in selected positions of adjustment relative to the support member.

Abstract: A gravitational protractor and measuring tape for determining the distance between respective conduit ends residing at differential elevations.

Abstract: The invention is in the field of compass course following and comprises a means and method of mounting a compass directly on a map with a North-South reference line and following a course on the map directly once the compass needle is aligned with North. In all references to the direction "North" throughout this document magnetic North only shall apply.

Abstract: A leveling mechanism having bubble levels is removably attachable to a hand-held power drill. In one form, the leveling mechanism includes a drive shaft coupled between the drill and a chuck for rotation therewith. The drive shaft is rotatably mounted to a support, and the support is held stationary relative to the drill housing. The support may include first and second surfaces parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft for supporting first and second bubble levels. Alternatively, the support may include a support plate and a level plate hinged thereto for supporting one or more bubble levels; a grooved alignment plate engages the edges of the support plate and level plate for maintaining a predetermined angular relationship therebetween. In another form, the leveling mechanism is removably attached to the front face of the drill housing.

Abstract: A device for attaching a compass assembly to a vehicle body comprising a support rod provided with a ball member on its end, said rod being disposed vertically on the upper surface of the housing of said magnetic needle assembly.

Abstract: A level for use in taking level readings on vertical and horizontal surfaces. The level has a case within which an enclosure with some instrumentation is disposed in a vertical position for taking level readings on vertical or horizontal surfaces. The instrumentation has a gravity-responsive weight pendulum mounted on a knife-edge pivot supported on an edge contact with its pivot. The pendulum has an actuating pivot having two flat sides fixed at an upper end for engaging two knife-edge pivots on a pointer which is actuated laterally by the pendulum proportionately to the extent a surface being read is out of the vertical or horizontal. The pointer is likewise pivotally supported on an edge supported on a supporting knife-edge pivot.

Abstract: A mounting plate is attached to a picture frame and holds a removable liquid bubble level. The plate can be sheared by pushing the frame toward the wall. A card is provided for packaging several mounting plates with a single bubble level.

Abstract: A device providing a movable reference point for use in leveling objects such as house trailers and the like which extend over large areas. The device includes a reservoir which is carried on a stand that has a plurality of tubes extending out the bottom thereof. The tubes have magnets carried on the outer ends thereof for readily attaching to the object to be leveled. A screw jack is connected to the reservoir for raising and lowering the reservoir and the level of the liquid therein so as to set the liquid level in the tubes to a desired height. The tubes can be moved around the trailer without affecting the reference point.

Abstract: A four way corner level is provided with a first run, a second run extending perpendicular to the first run, and a third run terminating in a handle member extending from the external apex of the first and second runs. Vertical and horizontal level means are provided on the external sides of the first and second runs and magnetic attaching means may be provided on the internal sides of the first and second runs.

Abstract: In abstract a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a disposable spirit level adapted to be removably attached to a switch plate or receptacle cover whereby the same may be easily leveled and aligned during installation. The disposable level of the present invention incorporates a weak cement bond to removably secure the same to the switch plate or receptacle cover until such time as the switch plate or receptacle cover is installed and properly aligned.

Abstract: A small, pocket level that can be readily and easily attached to any portable power tool so that the tool is operated on an accurately horizontal and vertical axis; the level including a transparent glass containing a fluid and an air bubble space, the glass being of cross-shape, bowed slightly upwardly at its center so to obtain a level position along two directional axes at right angle to each other; the level being attachable to the tool by a permanent magnet base.

Abstract: An inexpensive spirit level having means for easy attachment to upper surface portions of picture frames or the like. The device comprises a transparent tape having blister-like cavities at regular intervals, a base tape affixed in face-to-face relation against one side of the transparent tape and having a pressure sensitive adhesive on the outside for attachment to a surface portion of a frame, and a liquid partially filling said cavities. Eash blister cavity has a bubble corresponding to the unfilled space which bubbles will move along the curvature of the blister, thereby indicating the relative position of the device with respect to a horizontal plane. Suitable markings on the transparent tape are provided to facilitate reading level position with respect to the horizontal plane.

Abstract: A level indicator which features a pendulum-style magnified dial and a versatile magnetic swing plate or base. The swing plate is pivotally and laterally moveable with respect to the main casing of the level indicator to provide a more stable and accurate adherence to the surface whose alignment is being checked. The magnetic surface of the swing plate cooperates with a coplanar magnetic face of a fixed-position heel plate to add further stability and accuracy. The level indicator features a hairline-bearing suspended mass in the form of a magnifying lens, the hairline being preferably scribed along its outer convex surface to eliminate parallax errors. The indicia-bearing dial plate may be edgewise illuminated by one or two light sources internally positioned and powered. Two substantially identical viewing faces are preferably provided to increase versatility.

Abstract: A compass, in particular one intended to be used for track finding on skis or in track finding races, which is affixed to the user's hand with a strap, and which compass is eminently convenient to use in said circumstances. The invention is particularly characterized in that the strap, one end of which has been affixed to the compass, passes slidably through an aperture in the base plate of the compass, forming an adjustable thumb loop, and that the part of the strap protruding from the aperture has a length enabling the strap to be wound around the wrist, and that the end portion of the strap can be secured in connection with compass or with the strap by buckle or equivalent so that the compass will be positioned upon the upper edge of the hand, adjacent to the thumb groin. The buckle or equivalent may be attached to the thumb loop.