Abstract: A trailer unit arranged to be coupled to a vehicle including a frame supported on a single wheel with an enclosure on the frame having a floor provided with an opening in which is disposed a pan which may be vertically moved manually between an elevated travel position within the enclosure interior and a lower operative position exteriorly of the enclosure into supported engagement with the ground thereby providing headroom for an individual standing thereon within the enclosure interior together with seals on the frame which may be releasably urged into sealing engagement with the side walls of the pan and a passageway connected between the vehicle and the enclosure for passing therebetween by the individual.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sight with an optical sighting instrument which includes a lens device with a concave, semi-transparent mirror which is disposed to reflect the image of a light source into the field of view of an eye which is directed towards the concave side of the mirror and observes a target through the lens device.According to the invention, the lens device (1-3), in which the mirror (1) is included, is optically combined with a second lens device (4) which is movably disposed with respect thereto, both lens systems (1-3 and 4) together forming one optical system which is substantially zero-refractive, that is to say neither magnifying nor reducing, and the second lens device is adjustable in two directions which are substantially at right angles to each other and to the major axis (O-F) of the concave mirror surface.

Abstract: A radio transmitter is operatively arranged to develop and broadcast a coded signal which may be used to effect remote control functions, for example, to control door opening mechanism. The transmitter includes a radio frequency oscillator having a coil which constitutes the radiating element. The radio frequency oscillator is modulated by a first low frequency oscillator, which is frequency modulated by output from a second low frequency oscillator, both low frequency oscillators being controlled by a timer which turns the low frequency oscillators ON for about one second and holds them OFF for about thirty seconds. The low frequency oscillators and the timer are realized by a commercially available, integrated CMOS circuit.

Abstract: A braking system for automatically braking a towed vehicle coupled to a towing vehicle having an electrical brake control circuit and a vacuum line wherein the towed vehicle is provided with a normally closed solenoid valve for connecting both a vacuum reservoir in the towed vehicle and the vacuum line in the towing vehicle with a vacuum responsive bellows operatively connected to the brake pedal in the towed vehicle with the solenoid operated valve electrically connected through a normally open breakaway switch to the battery whereby the operation of the braking system on the towing vehicle is accompanied by an actuation of the solenoid operated valve and the application of a vacuum to the bellows for concomitant operation of the brake pedal on the towed vehicle and upon a decoupling of the towed and towing vehicles, a similar actuation of the solenoid operated valve when the breakaway switch closes to apply vacuum to the bellows for actuation of the brake pedal to brake the decoupled towed vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a universal pipe lathe for performing plural cutting operations on pipe and the like including a lathe structure having a clamp for affixing the pipe to the lathe, a drive motor supported on a stationary ring member, and a rotatable second ring driven by the motor upon which second ring is provided cutting tools of various configurations and oriented in specific fashions so as to provide a plurality of cutting combinations for the apparatus. Additionally, an indexing mechanism is provided for advancing the cutting tool and the clamping mechanism for retaining the lathe on the pipe can be adapted to engage the pipe internally or externally. The pipe lathe has two major sections which allow the lathe to be straddled over a pipe, and a suspension mechanism is provided so that the lathe can depend from a sling suspension, or alternatively be supported by an underlying support carriage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a steam engine suitably constructed to serve as a prime mover. The device includes a furnace in which a liquid can be heated so as to change its phase, the thus formed gas directed to an engine whereupon its expansion within piston/cylinder arrangements provides useful work. The exhausted steam, still endowed with extractable energy, is passed through various regenerative pump mechanisms and the like for very efficient utilization of much of the inherent energy.

Abstract: A combination utensil-lid together providing an integral spoon therewith which includes a lid having substantially planar top and bottom surfaces and a depending perimeter lip adapted to sealingly engage a container, a tab member formed to serve as an eating utensil foldably hinged on the bottom surface of the lid whereby the utensil is adapted to be folded from a stored position parallel to and underlying the bottom lid surface to a deployed position extending beyond the lip, and the lid and hinge formed from a resilient material having a memory whereby the lid and hinge can be respectively deformed and deployed to dispense material within the container with the utensil, and thereafter restored to an original condition for storage of a portion of the material in the container.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solar panel assembly and method for fabrication of same including cutting away a portion of the rafters and roof sheeting to provide an orifice of suitable dimension within which a solar panel frame is to be disposed, providing a step portion on an upper inner periphery thereof, disposing a frame lower portion upon the step, installing conduits extending through the solar panel frame at upper and lower portions thereof in a substantially horizontal direction, interconnecting these conduits with a tubed collector plate, providing an insulative layer underneath this tubed plate, placing a transparent panel on top of the frame lower portion, and overlying the panel with a frame upper portion which connects the solar panel frame and the frame lower portion by suitable fasteners.

Abstract: A drill guide for accurate placement of bolt holes on a mud sill or the like which includes a guide block having plural bores extending therethrough from a top face and through a bottom face thereof which are suitably dimensioned and adapted to receive a drill bit for accurate bore placement on a mud sill, in which the drill guide includes an upright which is orthogonal to the guide block which insures perpendicularity of the bores and a spring biased slide which travels in a trackway on the guide block so that the upright is yieldingly connected to the guide block to cause contraction thereof, the guide block having an end face remote from the upright with a semi cylindrical groove running vertically which abuts against an associated placement marker for accurate placement of the bores within the mud sill.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating electrostatic field by forming a high resistive anodic-oxidized film on an electrostatic electrode and applying thereto a high voltage direct current including high frequency component resonatable with inherent resistance and capacitance in the high resistive film.

Abstract: A method of driving a valve in an injector for an internal combustion engine which intermittently injects liquid fuel by the valve reciprocally moving by attraction force of a solenoid coil and repulsive force of a spring and an apparatus for carrying out the method. An armature secured to the valve to be attracted by the solenoid coil and/or an iron core of the solenoid coil is made of a permanent magnet. The pulse shape of an electric current to be applied to the solenoid coil is made in the form of a stepped wave in which the electric power in the initial stage of application is larger than that in the later stage. An inverse pulse for inversely exciting the solenoid coil is formed to give the permanent magnet of the armature repulsive force upon fall of the pulse wave of the electric current applied to the solenoid coil.

Abstract: A method of making an enamel bead and resulting bead which includes the provision of a short length of copper tubing forming a bead core member wherein the copper tubing is heated to a red hot state and rolled in copper enamel flux one or more times to coat the tubing following which the flux coated tubing is again heated to a red hot state and rolled in particulate enamel material to coat the tubing externally with enamel material, then heating the enamel material coating until it melts and is distributed throughout the tubing outer surface in the desired bead configuration and finally cooling the enamel coating to form a highly durable bead having a copper tubing core with an outer layer of enamel of a selected color.

Abstract: A trailer for hay bales which includes a wheeled body having a bottom provided with an opening beneath which an elongated platform is supported for vertical movement the forward end of the platform being adapted to successively pick up bales of hay from the ground and form a row of bales following which the platform is moved upwardly through the opening to deposit rows of bales in a stack successively within the body interior, each stack being moved transversely within the body interior by a slidably positioned side panel until the body interior is filled with stacks of bales in side-by-side abutting relationship following which all of the stacks are pushed out of the rear end of the body at a suitable location by a slidably disposed front panel on the body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement in a variable venturi carburetor for an internal combustion engine including a fuel discharging main nozzle arranged in a venturi portion and a suction piston arranged in an opposite side of the main nozzle for reciprocating in response to the variation of negative pressure of air induced to the engine generated at the venturi portion and varying an area of an induction passage of the venturi portion. The improvement includes that a fore-most end of the main nozzle is projected into the venturi portion and a fuel guide member is arranged at a lower portion of the projecting portion of the main nozzle. The fuel guide member serves to guide a flow of liquid fuel when the flow rate of air flowing through the venturi portion is low and the liquid fuel is discharged through the main nozzle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement in a variable venturi carburetor for an internal combustion engine which comprises a venturi portion, a float chamber, a main fuel passage communicating with the venturi portion and with the float chamber, a main fuel jet provided in the main fuel passage and a movable metering needle. A free end of the metering needle is adapted to control the size of the main fuel jet and the base portion of the metering needle is mounted to a suction piston adapted to transversely move with respect to the venturi portion in response to the condition of load on the internal combustion engine. The improvement includes provision of a bypass detouring upwardly from a portion of the main fuel passage upstream of the main fuel jet for discharging vapor of fuel, and the bypass communicates with a negative pressure passage which has an opening in the lower portion of the venturi portion and with an air passage which has an opening in the vicinity of an air horn inlet.

Abstract: A cylindrical chamber full of oil, without any valves or inlet/exit ports for this oil. A piston travels in said sealed cylindrical chamber with a rod on either side, assembled with sealing rings and provided with a series of peripheral axial holes all of the same diameter and equidistant from the piston axis. On the rod anchored to the ram slides a plunger disc supported directly under the piston assembly by two diametrically opposed threaded studs with large heads. Said studs are first threaded through the piston assembly and then screwed through the two holes found on the plunger disc. The upward travel of this disc which stops under and against the piston holes, is prevented each time the dual push-button control is operated since, when operating, these buttons, besides starting the movement of the ram, prevents the upward travel of the plunger disc simultaneously.