Abstract: A food and drink cooler is provided for automobiles having a "ski hole" in a partition between the trunk and the passenger compartment. The cooler is mounted in the vehicle trunk and has a top closure lid and closeable portal in an upstanding wall. The portal includes a hub extending from the wall and positionable through the "ski hole" so that a passenger in the vehicle may have access to the interior of the cooler. A closure member closes the portal when not in use. The cooler includes a false floor which has drain holes for permitting melted ice to drain down onto the base of the cooler, and the water so melted may flow through a drain plug at the bottom of the cooler to tubing connecting the plug to the exterior of the vehicle. The cooler also includes a water and ice dam which precludes water and ice from flowing out through the portal when the closure member is removed and the vehicle is in motion.

Abstract: Two golf practicing aids are disclosed, one for preventing the improper shift of a golfer's rear leg and the other for preventing the improper swaying of the golfer's hips. One of the aids includes a frame having a horizontal base, a pair of spaced apart standards at one end of the base, and an elongated arm extending from a central portion of the base and intermediate the standards. The arm is pivotably mounted on the base and may be adjustably attached to the standards at selected vertical locations. The free end of the arm has a yoke member against which the golfer may place his or her rear leg, and the base has gripping members for securely attaching to the ground. The other aid includes a belt having a U-shaped strip member projecting from the side thereof facing the forward direction in which the golfer is to hit the golf ball, the strip acting as a slideway along which a clip may slide.

Abstract: A carrier vehicle for transporting disabled cars has a support platform including a support deck between a pair of side boards, the deck being formed from a number of extruded aluminum panels and the side boards each being an aluminum extrusion. The panels are interconnected together by integral locking connectors at corresponding ends and have feet at the end of downwardly depending legs which are supported at the lateral sides by lips on the side boards which together with an upper lip forms a recess for receiving the sides of the deck panels. The construction interconnects the panels together and with the side boards to limit or preclude relative vertical movement thereby providing a strong load bearing structure and minimizing the number of welds required.

Abstract: A carrier vehicle for carrying at least one car or the like on a platform slidable and tiltable relative to a fixed bed includes hold-down devices for locking the platform against tilting when the platform is in a rest position in the forward end of the bed. Hydraulic cylinders selectively slide the platform and tilt the platform by separate control rods which are manually actuated. The vehicle includes a safety device for preventing tilting of the platform when the platform is locked by the hold-down devices so as not to break the hold-down devices and for preventing the platform from tilting downwardly onto the hold-down devices when the platform has been slid forwardly but not tilted completely for locking by the hold-down devices. The safety device includes a cam plate fixed to the control rod which effects tilting and a stop plate fastened to a rail forming a portion of the platform.

Abstract: A centering gauge tool for determining if an axial bore is disposed concentrically relative to a desired center. The tool preferably has four sensing fingers equally spaced about a conical core, the finger being resiliently biased away from the surface of the core and depressible against the resilient urging into engagement with an electrical contact member connected in a circuit with lights and a source of electrical energy. When the tool is inserted within the bore of a workpiece and the bore is concentric about the axis of the workpiece relative to axes the tool, all of the indicator fingers will be depressed substantially simultaneously to light all the indicators. If the bore is eccentric, when the tool is inserted within the bore less than all the fingers will engage the wall of the bore and effect a lighting of less than all the indicators.

Abstract: A patient support sling for use with lifting apparatus for transferring a patient between supine and sitting positions has an elongated central seat panel attached at its ends to respective transversely extending thigh and back support panels, and a security panel fastened at the joint between the seat panel and the thigh support panel. The security panel is adapted to be received between the legs of the patient and to engage the patient's chest. Strap members are connected to the rear of the back support panel and are adapted to be looped over the shoulders of the patient and secured to buckle members attached to the security panel so as to draw the security panel against the chest of the patient. The sling provides security to the patient against falling as he or she is being transferred by the lifting apparatus. Additional strap members are disclosed for providing additional security in retaining the patient in the sling.

Abstract: A building drain gutter has a flexible liner disposed in the trough of the gutter and connected in sealed relationship with upper edges of the gutter, the liner being loosely disposed within the trough and conforming to its configuration between the edges. A conduit is connected into the trough and communicates with an air compressor which when activated forces the liner to balloon upwardly out of the trough to remove debris which has accumulated thereon. The liner is a relatively thin plastic film such as vinyl. A downspout connected into the gutter communicates through a hole in the liner which is sealed with the trough about the hole. The liner acts to channel water to the downspout, yet can be lifted by the compressed air when necessary.

Abstract: A spinner bait fishing lure has a hook carrying weighted body member to which the end of one leg of a substantially V-shaped rigid wire form and one end of a flexible cable are connected. The cable extends through an eyelet at the end of the second leg of the wire form and carries a spinner blade at the end remote from the body member. An additional spinner blade may be mounted intermediate the first spinner blade and the eyelet. A fishing line may be connected at the crotch between the first and second legs of the wire form. The second leg slides relatively to the flexible cable which bends when a tension is applied by the fishing line as the cable flexes.

Abstract: A hook module for use in a tufting machine has a molded body member including a plurality of tufting machine hooks cast therein in side-by-side relationship. The hooks have a bill at one end, a blade extending from the bill to a shank and a mounting portion of the shank extending remote from the bill. The mounting portions of the shanks extend to the rear surface of the body member so as to prevent divergence of the bills after the body member has been cast about the mounting portions and adjacent portions of the shanks. The hooks are constructed from tungsten carbide which precludes their bending to provide the requisite parallelism of the bills as is possible with bendable hooks in prior art modules not requiring the mounting portions to extend to the rear surface.

Abstract: A system for restraining the lower limbs of a prisoner being conveyed in a vehicle, such as a police car, to preclude injury to persons and to property by violent kicking action of the prisoner. The system utilizes a laminated strap having synthetic hook and loop fastening elements formed on one ply of the laminate and a reinforced vinyl backing formed on the other ply. One end of the strap is fastened to a grommet through which the other end of the strap may be drawn and folded over so that hook elements and loop elements may be engaged to adhere while the vinyl portion of the strap is tightly engaged about the lower limbs of the prisoner. A belt having a hook including a biased latch at one end of the belt is attached to the strap at the other end, and the hook can be secured to an anchor on the floor of the vehicle. The attachment of the belt to the strap may be either by a fixed securement or by an adjustable connection.

Abstract: A controlled needle tufting machine for overtufting a secondary yarn into a base material having primary yarn therein includes feed rollers and take-off rollers for feeding the base material. The feed rollers and the take-off rollers each include a picker roll which engages the back-stitch surface of the backing material, i.e., the surface opposite to that from which the pile fabric extends, and not the face or pile extending surface.

Abstract: A photographic device which has a film magazine which feeds photographic film over an aperture plate has apparatus for accurately registering the center of an image frame relative to the center of the transport perforations of the film. A relatively slow moving motor drives a film take-up reel to feed film over guide sprockets to move the film one frame into close proximity with the registration position. The motor is thereafter stopped and a platen having accurately disposed truncated pyramid shaped pins directed toward the film is forced toward the film with the pins entering perforations in the film and recesses in the aperture plate. The pins act to move the film minute amounts as required as they enter the perforations to correct the position of the film to precise registration. After the frame is exposed signals are supplied to remove the platen from the film engaging position and actuate the motor for the subsequent cycle.

Abstract: A carburetor for an internal combustion engine has a long multi-stage mixing path for the air and fuel to completely mix, the path being formed by three mixing chambers arranged vertically in tandem. Each chamber has a spirally extending pathway. The air and liquid fuel is sprayed into an outer portion of the top chamber and flows toward the central portion to enter the next adjacent chamber at the center, and continues to flow in the pathway in the second chamber spirally outwardly to enter the pathway in the third chamber at an outer portion from which it flows toward the center of the third chamber out the carburetor into the intake manifold of the engine. The first chamber has a cyclonic funnel in the central portion thereof so that the less volatile heavy unvaporized liquid fuel particles flowing in the first chamber are collected in a reservoir disposed at the bottom of the funnel.

Abstract: A corrugated panel in which at least the central corrugated sheet is formed from an elastically deformable material such as polyethylene synthetic plastic or spring steel is disposed and secured between a pair of cover sheets. The method of forming the panel includes stretching out a first of the cover sheets and thereafter attaching the ends of the sheet to be corrugated to the first sheet while maintaining the spacing between the remainder of the sheet. This forms a half sinusoidal shape from the sheet to be corrugated. A compressive force is thereafter applied to the sheet to be corrugated which forms it into a number of corrugations having ridges and furrows. The furrows are bonded to the base sheet and a third sheet is positioned on and bonded to the ridges of the corrugated sheet.

Abstract: A humidification system for a building utilizing a hot water heating tank within which is mounted a plenum chamber. Hot water from the tank is directed into the plenum chamber in controlled quantities and is agitated as controlled by a humidistat within the building to either vaporize the water within the plenum chamber or to force pressurized air through the plenum chamber to wet the air. The vaporized water or the wet air is directed from the plenum chamber into the air supply of the building. A water level control in the form of a float valve maintains the level of the water within the plenum chamber at a controlled level. The water may be vaporized by an electrical heater within the plenum chamber or the water may be aerated by air forced through the plenum chamber by a compressor, the humidistat activating the heater or the compressor.