Abstract: A cup holder with structure for counting the number of glasses of water drunk daily. It has a tubular body having an open top end for removably receiving a drinking cup. A C-shaped handle extends from the rear end of the tubular body. A counter assembly is mounted in the top end of the handle. The counter assembly has a disc and numbers from 0-10 are spaced around the perimeter of its front face. The disc has a shaft extending from its front and rear walls for allowing the disc to be rotated about a horizontal axis. The number displayed at a window recess would indicate the number of glasses of water drunk that day.

Abstract: A security cover plate assembly for a barrel hinge and the assembly has an inner cover plate and an outer cover plate. The inner cover plate has a flat wall portion and a curved wall portion. The outer cover plate has a flat wall portion and a curved wall portion and a top wall and a bottom wall extend from the respective top and bottom edges of its curved wall portion to cover its respective top and bottom ends. These top and bottom walls prevent access to the hinge pin of a conventional barrel hinge for a door, a window, a boat hatch, or any other installation when the security cover plate assembly plate has been installed in combination therewith. At least one pin extends transversely from the flat wall portion of one of the flat wall portions and the other of the flat wall portions has a pin receiving aperture. The transversely extending pins prevent removal of a door from its hinge assembly even if the hinge pin has been removed.

Abstract: A hammer having a plastic molded handle. The rear end of the handle has a longitudinally extending bore hole that is filled with a gelatinous material that dissipates shock vibrations. An end cap is secured to the rear end of the handle by sonic welding. The front end of the handle has both a vertical and a horizontal longitudinally extending slot and these slots intersect each other at a substantially 90 degree angle. A plastic wedge unit formed from intersecting wedge sections is driven into the slots in the top end of the handle to secure the hammer head and the wedge unit is sonic welded to the handle.

Abstract: A door stop assembly is adapted for introduction between the sliding door and the stationery door of a patio door assembly. The door stop assembly has a wedge block having an integrally formed wedge portion and block portion. A vertical shoulder abutment wall is formed on the block partition where it meets the rear end of the top surface of the wedge portion. A flat strip of spring steel is bent to form a top leg member and a bottom leg member that are oriented to each other at an acute angle and the bottom leg member is secured to the wedge block. The front section is positioned above the top surface of the wedge portion of the wedge block in a spaced relationship thereto. The middle section extends upwardly from the rear end of the front section and is spaced forwardly of the shoulder abutment wall. The rear section has a concave curvature along its longitudinal axis and it extends rearwardly from the top end of the middle section.

Abstract: A dispensing closure for fluid containers having an externally threaded neck. The dispensing closure has a tubular cap, a closure lid, and an elongated connecting strip between the tubular cap and the closure lid. A pair of finger gripping arms extend transversely from opposite sides of the tubular cap and each has a pair of radially spaced slots therein for detachably receiving the opposite ends of a carrying strap. An interior wall extends transversely within the bore hole of the tubular cap and it has an aperture that is aligned with and connected to the top end of a vent tube that extends a predetermined distance below the bottom edge of the tubular cap. The interior wall has a fluid passage aperture through which a person using the dispensing closure would drink. The closure lid is easily and quickly snapped on and off the top of the tubular cap. The tubular cap has internal threads adjacent its bottom end.

Abstract: A magazine filled with ammunition that can be quickly and easily attached to and detached from a firearm. It has a snail-shaped housing with a laterally offset chimney section that has an outlet port at its top end for feeding the ammunition into the firearm. The magazine is capable of being attached to the firearm at two 180 degree separated positions to accommodate a left or right handed person. There is an annular chamber in the housing of the magazine and it contains a spring-loaded drum. A pair of laterally spaced cog gears are mounted on the drum for capturing ammunition shells and transporting them along a circular axis until they reach the vertical linear axis of the chimney section. A follower assembly pushes the ammunition shells up through the chimney section. A shell retainer unit is mounted in the chimney section for preventing shells from exiting its outlet port when the magazine is detached from the firearm.

Abstract: A fluidized bed biological filter system for fish tanks having a primary container structure for receiving particulate material and a secondary container structure for receiving contaminated water from a fish tank. The front and rear walls of the primary container structure converge downwardly toward each other to form an acute angle. The rear wall of the primary container structure incorporates a manifold having an inlet port at its top end and an outlet port adjacent the bottom of the primary container structure. The outlet end of the manifold is linear in shape and extends between the laterally spaced side walls of the primary container structure. Particulate material having a specific gravity greater than water is placed in the bottom of the primary container structure. The contaminated water from a fish tank is first pumped into the secondary container structure and a pump therein pumps the contaminated water into the inlet port of the manifold.

Abstract: A pump action shotgun that has been modified to accept a shotgun shell magazine that can be quickly and easily attached or removed. A shotgun shell loading port is formed in the bottom surface of the existing magazine tube adjacent its rear end. A magazine adapter is aligned with the shotgun shell loading port and secured to the bottom surface of the magazine. The magazine adapter has front and rear latch mechanism for securing the shotgun shell magazine. The existing magazine spring is removed from the magazine tube and a compressible subgroup assembly is inserted in its place. A transversely extending screw secures the forearm of the shotgun to the front end of the subgroup assembly so that they reciprocate as a single unit. An elongated slot is cut in the top surface of the existing magazine tube and the aforementioned screw passes therethrough. The bottom surface of the forearm is relieved adjacent its rear end so that it can clear the magazine adapter structure.

Abstract: A foot actuated toilet seat lifting device having an adjustable width toilet seat attachment bracket, a telescoping lifting arm assembly, an actuator lever, a fluid pressure cylinder, and a base assembly. The rear end of the fluid pressure cylinder is pivotally secured to the base assembly and the front end of its piston rod is pivotally secured to the actuator lever intermediate its front and rear ends. The actuator lever is secured to a transversely extending axle mounted in the base assembly. A foot pedal assembly is mounted on the front end of the actuator level. When the foot pedal is depressed, the actuator level pivots around its axle and lifts the telescoping lifting arm assembly tube upwardly. This causes the toilet seat attachment bracket secured to its upper end to lift the toilet seat through a predetermined upward angle. The fluid pressure cylinder allows the toilet seat to be automatically slowly lowered to its horizontal position upon release of pressure on the foot pedal assembly.

Abstract: A method for forming aircraft nacelle mixers by rolling and welding a cylinder of metal to a predetermined diameter and then taper machining to an empirically determined thickness which allows it to be end sealed, longitudinally end loaded, and pressure formed to a preform die before final pressure forming to a finish die.

Abstract: A coupling member for quickly and easily attaching and detaching a firearm accessory to the front end of the gun barrel of a firearm. The front end of the coupling member has an internally threaded portion having a left hand thread. The rear end of the coupling member has a plurality of circumferentially spaced notches that form finger members between them. The finger members have radially inwardly extending lug members. The coupling member is slidably received on the front end of the gun barrel of a firearm and has at least three radially extending lug members and when rotated the respective lug members will engage each other. When a firearm accessory is threaded into the front end of the coupling member, it will form a secure, accurately aligned mechanical coupling which may be disassembled by reversing the process.

Abstract: A portable practicing putting device having a plurality of elongated panels that are connected together by hinges to form an elongated structure. A sheet of grass-like material is bonded to the top surface of the panels and it has a putting hole portion having a golf ball receptacle in it. An elongated strip portion extends to the front end of the elongated structure. A putting stroke zone is formed adjacent the front end of the elongated structure and it has a plurality of lines of golf tee apertures extending parallel to the putting stroke zone. The golf tees are placed into the particular lines of apertures that would have a spaced width apart closest to that of the diameter of the putter head. When not in use, the practice putting device can be folded up into a compact closed state.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing glued-down carpet and it has a frame having a pair of laterally spaced side walls connected together by a plurality of cross members. A motor that is connected to a gear box is mounted on one of the cross members. The frame is mounted on a pair of rear wheels. A pair of drive rollers, have their opposite ends journaled in said respective side walls. A pressure roller extends between the side walls and it is spaced a predetermined vertical distance below said drive rollers. The pressure roller is journaled between a pair of leverage arms that are pivotally mounted on said side walls. A handle is connected to the top end of said leverage arms. A tab portion of glued-down carpet to be removed is threaded over the pressure roller and under the drive rollers. A downward pressure on the handle causes the leverage arms to pivot the pressure roller upwardly toward the drive rollers.

Abstract: A method for augmenting an apparatus with pumps and a high pressure multiplier in such a manner that the apparatus can be altered to perform as a draw die press, hydroform press, tube bender, and as a hydraulic bulge form press by utilizing appropriate quick change platens.

Abstract: A gun lock assembly formed of two major components, an elongated rod member and a predetermined length of flexible cable whose opposite ends can be secured together with a lock. The elongated rod member has a shank portion having a predetermined length and a head portion formed on its front end. The shank portion has sufficient length to extend into the breech of a gun. The head portion has an aperture through which the cable is threaded. The cable is also threaded through a trigger guard and locked. The flexible cable has a predetermined length such that the rod member cannot be removed from the gun barrel without unlocking the lock.