Abstract: A golf ball retriever device for allowing players to retrieve golf balls without having to stoop over. The device has a handle whose length varies by having telescoping sections. One end of the handle attaches to a cylindrical head section and the other end is for being gripped by the user. The axis of the handle is substantially parallel but slightly off-axis to the axis of the cylindrical head section. The cylindrical head section has a hollowed out interior with diameters greater than that of a traditional golf ball. The interior of the cylindrical head resembles the exterior of a bell wherein the inlet opening is funnel shaped and the rear interior has a lip formed from a concave rounded back edge and a through-hole in the backwall, the latter of which is smaller than the golf ball diameter. The interior of the cylindrical head adequately holds one, two, three or more golf balls stacked on one another. Another embodiment uses an elliptical head with similar attributes.
Abstract: A hydrogen and natural gas fuel mixture for internal combustion engines is provided for vehicle engines such as those used in standard production engines for automobiles, trains and lawn mowers. The gaseous fuel for operating a vehicle combustion engines includes approximately 21 to 50% Hydrogen and the rest natural gas constituents such as combinations of Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen, Ethane, Propane, Iso-Butane, N-Butane, Iso Pentane, N-Pentane, and Hexanes Plus. A fuel mixture of approximately 28 to 36 percent Hydrogen and a air fuel equivalence ratio of approximately 0.625 is an extreme lean burn condition that yields hydrocarbon emission levels of less than approximately 104 ppm(0.84 hm/hp hr.). Current internal combustion engines that are in mass production can take this alternative fuel without any substantial modifications to their systems. This alternative fuel is lean burning and emits emissions that are below current legal standards.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 1996
Date of Patent:
August 4, 1998
Assignee:
University of Central Florida
Inventors:
Robert Kirk Collier, Jr., Robert Louis Hoekstra, David Neal Mulligan, Douglas Edward Hahn