Abstract: A caddy for supporting a plurality of reels or spools includes a rod movably mounted to a frame. The rod is normally used in a first position for allowing reels mounted thereon to be freely rotatable when wire is dispensed from the reels. Rotation of the frame 90 degrees causes the rod to move to a second position whereby the reels are supported by a member of the frame to allow the rod to be withdrawn laterally without disturbing the reels. An empty reel can be replaced, the rod reinserted and the frame rotated 90 degrees to its original position for dispensing of reel wire by a user. End members of the frame have upstanding ribs on the top and channels on the bottom to provide for vertical stacking of the caddy. Integral handles of the frame allow for carrying of the caddy.

Abstract: A helicopter having two engines driving a single rotating drive shaft on which are mounted two spaced counter-rotating coaxial rotors at the same speed and having a tail boom free of a tail rotor and supporting two horizontally spaced pairs of air foils for controlling the direction of yaw in flight.

Abstract: Machine for picking up limb and trunk portions of trees and other types of vegetation and transporting the portions through narrow passageways like a chain link gate. This machine is especially useful in populated areas for collecting branches and tree trunks from pruning or removal operations and moving them from closely spaced backyards or houses, walks and narrow gates to a truck at the curb of a street without damage to the lawns or walks.

Abstract: A clothes hanger includes a spring-loaded movable capture bar that holds clothes placed between it and a hanger bar. The capture bar is movably mounted between the hanger bar and an upper support bar to which is connected a hook for hanging the hanger of a rod or other device. The capture bar and hanger bar have cooperating curved surfaces or they may have planar surfaces one of which is covered by felt. A finger pull flange or finger hole is mounted to the top of the capture bar for one-handed upward movement of the capture bar by a user.

Abstract: A vehicle storage carriage includes a pair of upper and lower rails connected via side-mounted cross members for stability and four vertical posts, two in front, two in rear, that can be rigidly bolted to the floor of a standard cargo container. A pair of ramps with recessed wheel channels adapted to carry the rear tires of a stowed vehicle are mounted horizontally front and rear between a pair of the vertical posts. The front and rear of the ramps can be adjusted by selectively raising and lowering the cross members. The rear of the ramps are pivotably mounted to the rear cross member. Chock assemblies that are rigidly mountable to the container floor include slideably movable chocks that are movable forwardly or rearwardly and also movable sideways to accommodate different size vehicles. A pivotable strap securing plate is pivotably mounted to the container floor for use with vehicle tie-down straps for each of the stowed vehicles. Several carriages may be employed with a given standard cargo container.

Abstract: A dental appliance includes a circular ring member and two laterally extending rigid arm members which have bite pads on the ends thereof. The circular ring member includes an opening therethrough sized to slidably mount a saliva ejector. The arm members and the ring member are dimensioned to minimize the obstruction of the field of view of the mouth of a dental professional.

Abstract: An apparatus for singeing the udder hair of dairy animals, the apparatus comprising a tank of liquid propane gas, a long pipe with an alignment of spaced holes to emit the gas to burn in the shape of a long thin vertical sheet flame, flexible hose connecting the tank exit to the burner pipe, and suitable controls such as a metering orifice, a gas pressure regulator, and an on-off valve. This apparatus may be combined into a convenient movable kit in which all of the above equipment is in a small compact wheeled container having a guiding handle and also preferably including an insulated fire retardant mitten and a spark generator for igniting the gas exiting the holes in the pipe.

Abstract: A super-conducting magnet includes a vessel (8) defining a separation zone through which material to be separated passes. The magnet includes a super-conducting coil (4) located in the vessel and surrounding the separation zone for providing a magnetic field therein. A tube (6) holds the coil and liquid helium to provide a liquid helium reservoir around the coil. At least one radiation shield (12) is positioned between the tube and the vessel. The magnet is a closed system with no helium circulation from the reservoir to outside the vessel and back and the tube is sized to provide a reservoir of sufficient capacity for operation without helium addition for a number of months, preferably a year. A helium reliquifier (46) is positioned in the neck assembly (16), and a non-return valve (49) is located on the neck assembly for release of helium gas from the reservoir.

Abstract: A golf practice tee device which includes a central rigid tubular body, a lower rigid spike portion, and a lengthwise adjustable upper flexible tubular golf ball support, and a detachably connected rod to install and remove the tee device from the ground. A brake is provided to restrict free movement between the body and the support and a stop may be included to restrict dissassociation therebetween. A simplified tee device has the support threaded onto the rod for vertical height adjustment.

Abstract: A system for carrying containers suspended from a track member which may be attached to a body encircling belt or attached to clothing which includes a pair of protruding tracks substantially parallel and from which the containers for holding articles are suspended by clips on the containers which are positionable lengthwise on the tracks and may slide thereon and enter and exit the track at tapered ends of the tracks and is particularly useful for police and military personnel in carrying weapons, ammunition and the like holstered articles.

Abstract: A closure assembly for attachment to a vessel having an opening ring of a vessel and a closing cover cooperating with the ring and including a large diameter base end attached to the vessel and a small diameter ring end to receive a removable cover thereover. The cover end includes a plurality of spaced inwardly protruding locking lugs having a lower surface slightly inclined and the cover includes a perimeter ring flange, having a first downwardly depending skirt spaced closely adjacent and inwardly from the ring locking lugs and a second downwardly depending skirt spaced outwardly therefrom. The first skirt has outwardly protruding locking lugs spaced downwardly from the ring flange and having a slightly inclined upper surface to wedgingly mate with respective lower surfaces of the ring locking lugs. The cover has an interior surface between the first and second skirts and a D-ring seal located between the flanges on the interior surface for contacting and being compressed by the small diameter ring end.

Abstract: The process which adds to the prior art steps of scraping, screening, and sanding the floor and applying a coat of a water-base sealer; the improvement steps of hand rubbing with fine sandpaper to remove all high spots and raised grain; subjecting the floor to the action of a rotating buffing pad having a diametric strip of sandpaper adhered thereto, followed by buffing with a rotating buffer pad unmodified with a strip of sandpaper; removing all dust by vacuuming and wiping with an aqueous dampened cloth; applying a coat of water-base finish; and repeating the above improvement steps with increasing fine sandpaper at least twice more to produce the final finished wood floor.

Abstract: Light filler material consists of a bonded, woven or knitted, short- or long-fibered material web into which thermoplastic hollow microglobes are embedded. This voluminized fiber web is compressed by means of a sewing or stitch-bonding process with the aid of pre-tensioned sewing threads. In the process, the hollow spaces between the voluminized microglobes are reduced in an exactly calculable form by the adjustable thread tension.