Abstract: A bathroom storage cabinet for electrically operated appliances such as hair dryers and hair curlers. Receptacles for the appliance cords are provided within the cabinet by a power bar, which is placed within an interior compartment utilized for neatly storing coils of electric cord excess length. A lower shelf and barrier wall retains the length of cord actually needed, so that a front door may be closed neatly flush with the cabinet, equipped with a magnetic latch arrangement. A lowermost compartment provides room for non-electrical brushes, combs and other bathroom paraphernalia and materials. The cabinet is adapted for installation embedded into a bathroom wall, or hanging from the face of the bathroom wall, or resting upon the bathroom counter.

Abstract: A rotating seal device for a rotary drum kiln. A rotating seal member is welded about the drum near each of its ends, each sealing against a rotationally stationary seal member joined with the associated kiln end hood through a flexible gas tight bellows. The stationary seal rides on a pair of rollers each bearing upon a track, preventing its rotation. The bellows accommodates longitudinal expansion and contraction of the drum. Hanging weights are used with pulley wheels and flexible cables to urge the non-rotating members against the rotating members with unvarying force.

Abstract: A generally spherical body having a cluster of facets produced by truncation of the sphere, used for agitating and stirring solid foodstuffs in powdered form with liquid foodstuffs within a container. The removal of material to create the facets unbalances the stirring object, so that it gyrates unpredictably to produce a high degree of mixing turbulence. The facets further collide and slide together to help grind agglomerated lumps of the solid material within the mix. The stirrers have no nooks and crannies for deposit of foodstuffs, and so are easily washed and cleaned for subsequent uses. In one version, the body is of dense homogeneous material such as steel. In another version, the body has a dense object such as of steel embedded within a hard durable plastic outer portion carrying the abovementioned facets.

Abstract: A bicycle wheel with composite fiber resin spoke and rim structures having opposing spokes radiating from a central hub, the spokes being filament wound continuously one to the other across the central hub. The configuration provides for lower resistance to lateral wind, and for light weight resulting from the use of composite structures with fibers substantially oriented to resist wheel loads.

Abstract: An endless belt design for endless track assemblies for use upon off-road vehicles, the belt assembly comprising an elastomeric belt reinforced by embedded fibers, a substantial portion of these fibers being embedded at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the belt especially in the area of the cleat mounting holes, so that the holes are restrained from elongation under shearing load from the mounting bolts by longitudinal components of tension in the biased or angled fabric strands.

Abstract: Devices for manually removing and disposing of blood sampling needles after use, with a minimum of manipulation and without manual contact with any contaminated part. The manual needle removal devices disclosed are incorporated into the lids of needle disposal containers. After insertion of the used needle assembly into the device, only rotary motion is needed to unscrew it to allow it to fall into the container, even if it is of standard construction having a hub with a large obstructing flange.

Abstract: A device for evaporatively cooling the passenger interior of a motor vehicle, utilizing the vehicle ventiliation ducting and blower. An electrical pump provides water from a vehicle-mounted reservoir to a spray nozzle mounted to discharge into ventilating air entering the outside air inlet of the ventilation ducting.

Abstract: An access and storage device for a retractable vacuum cleaning hose for use in buildings having a central vacuum generating system, said device being adapted for installation within a partition wall or the like of the structure, with access being provided to the hose so that it may be withdrawn either to its full length or to any needed length for cleaning use and subsequently automatically retracted back through the wall onto the hose storage reel.

Abstract: Method for harvesting of brine shrimp eggs (cysts) from bodies of salt water. A floating collection boat is used with a very long floating boom, which is first deployed across the paths of wind blown individual colonies. Numerous colonies are quickly intercepted, and enclosed by upwind circling of the boom. With subsequent constriction of the enclosure, the cysts are consentrated into a thick slurry at the collection boat.

Abstract: A cleat assembly for an endless track vehicle, wherein the grouser is retained upon the flexible belt by a clamping assembly which contacts the grouser in a single longitudinal line, substantially eliminating all bending forces in the cleat retaining bolts, so that stresses are maintained below the fatigue limits of the bolt material.

Abstract: A toolholder guide for punch blocks, turrets, and the like, including a toolholder bore machined to accept an internal sleeve of wear resistant metal sized for reciprocal motion of the toolholder. The sleeve is installed within the bore, and provides a close clearing radius with the body of the toolholder, so that the toolholder is accurately centered and guided. The inside of the sleeve is finally machined using a bore-simulating the holding mandrel. The finally machined sleeve is finally installed into the turret bore using an adhesive potting compound as a corrosion barrier between the sleeve and the punch block or turret. The sleeve is adapted for toolholders having bodies with protruding keys or for toolholders with longitudinal keyway slots.

Abstract: A light mount and associated control cable support devices, adapted for insertion into body gaps of a vehicle being towed. Soft pliable construction of insertion wedge portions assure no damage to the surface finish of the vehicle being towed. Control cable mounting wedges of the same material prevent chafing of the surface by the control cable. The signal light unit has a bulb cover allowing the light to be seen from top, bottom, both sides and front, so that the light may be mounted in any available body gap while remaining visible from the rear of the towed vehicle.

Abstract: A home water distillation device for converting tap water to distilled water largely free of dissolved minerals and gases. A tubular shaped boiler with an electrical heating unit provides steam to a condensation coil immersed in an open top reservoir into which tap water is admitted under the control of a standard metering valve. The unit utilizes condensation heat to drive off chlorine and the like into the atmosphere, so that the steam is free of dissolved gases and the distillate product is corresponding free and therefore of increased palatability.

Abstract: A tie for concrete wall form assemblies, adapted to secure individual wall forms together, and to secure horizontal reinforcing members against both horizontal and vertical displacement. Upwardly opening notches accept and position the reinforcing members. The notches are sized and shaped to permit inversion of alternate ties along the form structure, to restrain reinforcement movement downwardly, upwardly and laterally.

Abstract: A rotary fluid displacement device having no indexing gearing between the rotor and the crankshaft therefor. Housing and rotor shapes are determined by equations, so that the rotor is guided at three apexes by the housing contour so that no gearing is required. The devices may be employed in pairs to produce a constant rate of fluid displacement.

Abstract: An implement carrier and organizer is provided, including a hollow body with a top closure from which are suspended upwardly opening wells for storage of tools inverted with the handles downward within such wells. Both deeper wells for long handled tools, and more shallow welts for short handled tools, are provided. Casters are attached to the bottom of the carrier and organizer so that it may be easily trundled from one place to another, and rotated when in cramped storage space areas for easy access to particular tools.

Abstract: A speaker cable assembly having sets of conductors braided about an enlarged flexible core assembly. The enlarged core assembly allows distant spacing of the individual conductors to minimize electromagnetic field interactions to cause signal anomalies. The conductors are spirally wound about the flexible core and held in place by a potted layer of plastic. The core is preferably filled with lead shot to provide weight to insure stability during use and operation.

Abstract: A tracked vehicle (10) propelled by a pair of direct current electric motors (35) operating through a power train to a pair of endless tracks (11). Each power train operates a track drive sprocket (14) through a state of the art torque hub. Electric energy is applied to the motors from a battery pack (13) carried by the vehicle, acting in conjunction with a power control and distribution unit which directs the electrical energy from the batteries as needed. Braking of forward motion of the vehicle is accomplished in part by regenerative use of the motors, each as a generator feeding electricity back to the battery pack and consequently braking the vehicle's motion by the resistance of rotation of the armature rotor.

Abstract: A flexible belt assembly for the endless track of an off-road vehicle reinforced by longitudinal cables vulcanized within a rubberlike cover. A grouser clamping plate is similarly vulcanized into the cover, with laterally extending ends to which the grousers are bolted, so that no cleat mounting holes are required through the flexible belt itself, excluding all water and ice from the interior of the belt to increase its longevity. The belt construction is energy efficient in that it is of increased flexibility over previous fabric reinforced belt designs.