Abstract: A valve unit adapted to be attached to a faucet and to divert water from the faucet through a water purification system and to a drinking fountain formed as part of the valve unit.

Abstract: A device for winding and storage of ropes, cables, wires, etc., comprises a substantially elongate body portion having a pair of horn-like members extending from opposite ends thereof. The horn-like members are adapted to have a rope or the like coiled therearound, with at least one of the horn-like members being made so that it can be readily turned toward the other horn-like member, whereby the coil of rope or the like is readily disengaged and removed from the device.

Abstract: A stuffed doll having a substantially rigid head and upper torso portion, legs hingedly connected at the lower end of the upper torso portion, lower finger receiving pockets at the rear of the legs and a common pouch extending across the open upper ends of the lower finger receiving pockets to form an upper finger receiving opening at the rear of the upper torso of the doll. Arms or other upper limb members are hingedly connected to the upper torso portion and with a leg, to move with the leg.

Abstract: A teeth exerciser adapted to be inserted in the mouth so that biting or chopping thereon will exercise the teeth. The teeth exerciser has a generally U-shaped configuration and is formed from a yieldable resilient material such that the bite surface or portion of the device will provide a generally uniform reaction pressure on all teeth being exercised. Upstanding positioning flanges extend from portions of the inner and outer edges of the bite surface.

Abstract: A durable, long lasting liquid level controller utilizing an encapsulated, low current, solid state circuit, projecting metal probes arranged to minimize erroneous readings due to liquid adhering to the probes and a wave discriminating means as part of the encapsulated solid state circuitry, said wave discriminating means serving to eliminate false signals resulting from splash or wave action.

Abstract: A utility winch that will allow wire, rope, or cable to be stretched. The winch includes a yoke frame with two holes to receive an internally driven, journalled drum to which the rope, cable, or wire is wound. A locking device fixes the drum with respect to the frame.

Abstract: Apparatus for expanding the beads on tubeless tires, including a stand into which such a tire is to be rolled, a flexible draw strap adapted to peripherally surround the tire or to cooperate with an arcuate central frame in surrounding the tire, cinching apparatus for substantially uniformly tightening the draw strap around the tire, and valving structure through which compressed air may be supplied to tire inflation apparatus.

Abstract: A drive means for a sampler such as is used to collect ore, slurries or other material discharged from a conveyor or other material transport device. The sampler includes a frame on which a support carriage having a cutter to sample the material as the cutter moves back and forth across the end of the conveyor is mounted. The drive means for moving the sampler carriage includes two closely, spaced, parallel rollers journaled for rotation in the cutter and arranged to move with respect to the frame. A belt attached to one end of the frame passes a first roller, around the outside of a more distant second roller, then back between the rollers, around the first roller and past the second roller to be secured to the frame.The belt preferably is connected to the frame by a belt adjustment mechanism. Reversible power means are arranged to drive one roller and to thereby reciprocally move the support carriage with respect to the belt and frame.

Abstract: An easily mounted, efficient de-icing unit for stock watering tanks and the like. A heating unit is suspended exteriorly of a tank and acts on a constantly replenished, required volume of wafter from the tank to heat it and to build up a steam and hot water pressure that is discharged through orifices in a float supported tube that extends around the periphery of the tank.

Abstract: A rotary machine usable as a pump, compressor, turbine or motor, for example. Rotating piston cylinders have radially movable pistons therein and the cylinders are mounted within a control ring and a housing. The control ring is tangentially pivoted within the housing to vary the volume flow through the machine and the torque application transmitted by a shaft, as well as the direction of flow through the machine. Pressure fluid operated balancing pistons are used to counter the axial thrust placed on the rotor by liquids applied to the rotor, regardless of the direction of flow through the machine.

Abstract: A low cost dispenser that will accommodate cereal packages and the like, to allow the packages to be repeatedly sealed so as to prevent spillage and to retain the freshness of the contents, even after the packages have been opened to permit discharge of the contents.

Abstract: A press for forming and shaping foodstuffs. The press has an extrusion die containing a plurality of open ended elongated passages and a V-shaped common inlet. Attachments to the press provide a convenient and easy method of further processing rough sized extruded foodstuffs.

Abstract: A portable hand held and manually operated label printer and a method of its use in transferring information from a master plate onto a pressure sensitive label. The printer consists of a magazine section wherein a continuous roll of serially linked pressure sensitive labels are installed with the roll end thereof threaded through an appropriate passage into a manually operated label receiving and printing group. A printing roller arranged on a spring biased slide within the label receiving and printing group, is manually displaced to travel over one of the pressure sensitive labels, sandwiching it against a master plate, transferring raised characters formed on the master plate into the label.

Abstract: A game board having a grid thereon; numbers representing possible totals of a pair of dice sequentially designating grid spaces around the outer edges of the board; designated doubles grid spaces adjacent to the outer spaces containing numbers that can be obtained by doubling another number; and a series of central grid spaces that are arranged to be intercepts of other rows of spaces.

Abstract: A safety device for rifles that will hold the breechblock thereof in a locked, open position, after firing, for so long as the firing pressure on the trigger is maintained. The safety device also utilizes the rifle safety actuator to hold the breechblock in its locked open position when the actuator is in its "safe" position or to release the breechblock after the rifle safety actuator has been placed in its "fire" position and the trigger pressure has been released. Normal operation of the rifle safety actuator is not affected.