Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for the delivery, holding, storage, and dispensing of coins, and the like, from coin-operated gaming machines, such as “slot” machines, or the like, into which coins are deposited and, when an award is indicated, coins are dispensed as part of, or all, of the award or prize, is disclosed. After depositing coins in the coin slot of the gaming machine, the coins are typically passed through a coin-counting and delivery mechanism then deposited into one or more coin hoppers located in the front or the rear, or the top or bottom, or to the left or right of the coin counting and moving mechanism in the slot machine.

Abstract: A disposable, thin-wall mixing bowl for dentists used for mixing batches of a combination of liquid and powdered materials used for taking dental impressions of the patient's teeth is described consisting of a bowl, a hollow base, a plurality of longitudinally-arranged, external ribs extending from the base up to just below the rim and a rim having a rounded and beveled portion thereabout.

Abstract: An oil drain funnel for removable attachment to the bottom of an engine oil pan for receiving oil draining therefrom having a magnetic retention device on the rim of the opening for receiving fluids thereinto, and a crossmember supported by the sidewall of the funnel and spanning the entrance to the opening of the outlet of the funnel to prevent the passage of the oil pan drain plug therethrough while allowing the flow of oil through the outlet.

Abstract: A remote control activated electric drip coffee maker including a plurality of integrated electric controllers for implementing a plurality of start control brewing times and for providing audible signals from the coffee maker and from the hand-held remote control to signal exactly when the coffee has been brewed and is ready to drink. An electrical circuit is provided at the drip coffee maker to generate an out-of-water signal for remotely notifying the user that the drip coffee maker is out-of-water is also provided.

Abstract: A guitar holster for cradling the body of a guitar, including a generally T-shaped, rearwardly-facing element substantially co-extensive with the back side of the guitar, a forwardly-facing element essentially extending from the bottom of the guitar body up to the guitar strings' anchoring points and peripherally-disposed about the portion of the body of the guitar disposed therebetween, the peripheral portion of the forwardly-facing element secured to the complementary peripheral portion of the rearwardly-facing element to form a pocket for cradling or holstering the guitar body therein, means for securing the neck of the guitar to the vertical portion of the T-shaped element, and means for securing the entire combination of elements to a support structure, such as the housing for a guitar amplifier, or a speaker enclosure, or a wall, or the like.

Abstract: An improved moated combination food and water animal feeding dish with nested offset triangular receptacles for improved resistance to tip over by maximizing the overall combined weight distribution characteristics of the food-water-dish combination which includes a pair of nested offset triangular receptacles, a floor, a first triangularly shaped dish secured to the floor, the first triangularly shaped dish having vertically arranged walls peripherally surrounding and disposed below the rim of a generally triangularly shaped second dish shaped similar to the first dish but substantially larger than the first dish and disposed so that it surrounds the first dish, whereby the apexes of the first dish are placed in close proximity to the mid-point between each of the pairs of apexes of the second dish.

Abstract: A caddy for needle punch needles, a needle threader and spools of threads including a base, a backwall secured to one end of the bases and rising upwardly therefrom, a plurality of receptacles in the backwall for receiving needle punch tools, such as needles and the like, a plurality of vertically arranged rods secured to the base for receiving spools of thread, and a needle threader receptacle secured to the backwall, said receptacle so formed that when the needle threader is inserted thereinto, the body of the needle threader is caused to bend slightly along its length to create a biasing force between the receptacle and the needle threader thereby preventing free relative movement between the needle threader and the receptacle.

Abstract: An integral composite structure having predetermined electrically conductive networks on a non-conductive planar or non-planar support structure produced by the combination of a slurry of electrically conductive materials having a fluid carrier which includes an evaporative fluid and an elastomeric substance in which particles of an electrically conductive material are contained, the fluid carrier being chemically reactive with the material forming the relatively non-conductive support structure to secure one to the other, and upon evaporation of the evaporative portion of the fluid carrier, the unevaporated portion of the slurry formed of the elastomeric substance and the electrically conductive particles form a solid which is both flexible and electrically conductive and a method for producing same, including the steps of introducing the slurry into a container, the container having at least a portion of the wall forming the container consisting of an elastomeric material having at least one normally closed

Abstract: A repeating rubber band pistol for shooting elastic band and the like, including a pistol frame with handle and a pair of support arms extending upwardly from the frame, the support arms having a pair of complementary holes therein, a hand crank with a rotary spindle thereon adapted to be mounted in the pair of support arms through the pair of holes therein and adapted to be freely movable therein, a cylindrical magazine with a plurality of radially-extending elongated arms disposed circumferentially about a centrally-arranged spindle member having a central aperture therein for mounting a plurality of stretched rubber bands thereon to hold in readiness for shooting said rubber bands, and a solid cylindrically shaped spindle mounted on the frame forwardly of the handle and the support arms and adapted to freely receive the apertured magazine thereon, whereby when a string is anchorably secured to the spindle of the hand crank and the string is secured mediately about the body of one of the stretched rubber ba

Abstract: A combination athletic brief and cup supporter specially formed and constructed of approximately 13 percent Spandex/Lycra and 87 percent Nylon stretch material, including a brief having a waist and two openings for the legs of the brief wearer, and a cup pocket formed in the front portion of the brief by a single piece of material sewn thereon along the sides and bottom thereof to the front and along the bottom thereof.The method of constructing said combination athletic brief and cup supporter is also disclosed.

Abstract: A neck exercising device including an upright frame means capable of surrounding the upright torso of a human being, including a pair of handle means for manually gripping the frame means, a plurality of weighted objects, a plurality of flexible ropes one end of each of the ropes being securable to one of the weighted objects, guide means secured to the frame means for guiding each of the plurality of ropes, means for securing the ropes to the weighted objects, and means for securing the unattached ends of the ropes to the head of the person using the neck exerciser.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved inherently effectively damped coiled spring construction including a first coiled spring having a pair of ends, and a second coiled spring having a pair of ends, the second coiled spring being in the form of at least one tubular spring, the body of which is disposed about the body of the first coiled spring in operable contact therewith to provide the desired friction therebetween and whose ends are not contiguous with the ends of the first coiled spring and are free of contact with the weight imposed on the first spring and the support of the first spring so that when the first spring is dynamically compressed or expanded, relative twisting movement of the springs is made possible immediately following yielding of static friction force along their contacts, whereby the second spring disengages from the further twisting movement of the temporarily deformed coils of the first spring, thereby creating an effective friction generating and energy dissipating device for

Abstract: An improved combination sports' helmet and interlocking cap is disclosed including a helmet having a crown portion and a pair of ear portions and including a dual pair of receptacles disposed therein, one pair of receptacles disposed on the crown thereof, and the other pair disposed in the ear portions thereof; a cap for the helmet adapted to mate over the exterior portion of the helmet in near conformity therewith, said cap having a dual pair of male interlocking portions therein, one of said pair of male interlocking portions being operably adapted to removably interlock with the pair of receptacles disposed on the crown of the helmet, and the other pair of said male interlocking portions being operably adapted to removably interlock with said pair of receptacles disposed in the ear portions of the helmet. The cap can be engaged with and disengaged from the helmet in a matter of seconds.

Abstract: A structural building module has first and second upright cast structural members. Each of the first and second structural upright members include a wall portion and a roof portion. These structural members are initially supported on erection pads such that the wall portions are upright and the roof portions project toward one another such that the roof portions can be joined together. After joining the roof portions a structural base is formed in situ by casting. The structural base is attached to the wall portions of the structural members by entraining into the structural base, attaching members projecting out of the wall portions near their bottom edge.

Abstract: The invention disclosed herein is concerned essentially with a carrier for a set of skis and poles wherein is provided a pair of first adjustable, flexible bands with an over-center latch and ski-holding bracket assembly containing a lever with an ice-pick or screwdriver head for binding the pair of skis together to form a unified, compact unit, a pair of second flexible bands for adjustably capturing the ski poles with interconnecting members for coupling the complementary pair of first and second bands together to form a carrier for the skis and ski poles whereby the entire combination is manually carried by mediately gripping the bound ski poles, and a snow and/or debris scraper formed as an integral part of the over-center latch and bracket assembly.

Abstract: A shock absorbing mechanism for wheels for absorbing horizontally-applied shock loads experienced by the wheel whereupon the axle and hub of the wheel are permitted to move rearwardly, or "slide", upon the application of a relatively substantial horizontal shock force. The spring rate, stiffness and travel are all adjustable. Means are provided for anchoring the stationary portion of the wheel braking mechanism to a stationary portion of the motorcycle and, should it be desired to do so, for bypassing the shock absorbing mechanism of the present invention to restore the axle and wheel combination to the former function non-shock absorbing relationship.

Abstract: A combination straw, lid and cup including a cup, a lid forming a cover for the cup hinged at one end thereof, means for retaining the lid in an open position and against the body of the cup, an externally-mounted straw one end of which is passed through the bottom of the cup into the interior thereof and the other end extending above the rim of the cup, and a housing for the straw.