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 multi-media storage drawer assembly that may be mounted in an entertainment cabinet, a combination coffee table and cabinet, a combination end table and cabinet, etc. The drawer has a plurality of multi-media storage cells and each storage cell can removably receive either a CD, an audio cassette, or a VHS cassette. The storage cells extend from the front wall of the drawer to its rear wall in a column formation. The drawer may have multiple side by side columns of multi-media storage cells. The drawer is integrally formed from plastic material and it has horizontal rails extending from the outer surfaces of its left and right side walls. A roller wheel is mounted adjacent the rear end of the respective side walls. Plastic molded tracks are mounted inside the cabinets and they have roller wheels that functionally engage the bottom surface of the rails extending from the opposite lateral sides of the drawer.

Abstract: A hammer having a handle connected to the bottom end of the hammer head assembly. The hammer head assembly has a claw portion, a central portion, a head portion and a relieved connecting portion between the head portion and the central portion. The head portion has a flat top wall surface. The front surface of the head portion has a plurality of recesses formed therein with no protrusions extending outwardly from the front surface. The recesses cover at least 30 percent of the surface. The recesses may be aligned in rows and columns and they provide a better gripping surface when they strike the head of a nail.

Abstract: A carpet strip cutter assembly having an elongated base plate, a vertically oriented elongated left side wall connected to the base plate, and an elongated cantilevered support arm perpendicularly oriented to the left side wall. The cantilevered support arm is reciprocally mounted in the left side wall. A blade mounting assembly is secured to the front end of the cantilevered support arm and it has a blade extending downwardly therefrom. The blade is oriented above a line of grooves in the top surface of the base plate and removably received in one of the grooves. There is structure for vertically adjusting the height of the cantilevered support arm so that various heights of carpet can be cut into strips of carpet having predetermined widths.

Abstract: A pair of sunglasses having an elongated sunglasses frame that is entirely formed from a single sheet of flat aluminum or titanium stock that is bent into a predetermined shape. Left and right hinge mounting portions are formed adjacent the respective edges of the sunglasses frame. A left lens aperture is formed in the sunglasses frame between the left hinge mounting portion and the bridge portion. A right lens aperture is formed in the sunglasses frame between the right hinge mounting portion and the bridge portion. The dimensions of the respective apertures have a greater height and a greater width on the front surface of the sunglasses frame so that lenses pressed into the respective apertures through their front surface edge won't pass out its rear surface edge. A groove is formed in the periphery of each of the apertures and they mate with a ridge formed on the periphery of the respective left and right sunglasses lenses.

Abstract: A microscopy system designed to achieve upwards of 12,000.times. magnification with simultaneous high resolution of better than 0.3 microns and over 30 microns depth-of-field. The microscopy system utilizes a conventional research microscope having a plurality of objective magnification lenses that produce the initial magnification with acceptable limits of high resolution and depth-of-field. A projection housing is combined with the research microscope in a unique manner where it receives the initial magnification and greatly increases that magnification while still maintaining the high resolution and depth-of-field obtained during the initial magnification. A light source used to illuminate the specimen platform from its underside is located remotely therefrom and connected by a fiber optic cable to a condensing lens positioned beneath the specimen platform. This allows for high intensity lighting of the specimen while keeping it away form the detrimental heat of the source of high intensity light.

Abstract: A magazine filled with ammunition that can be quickly and easily attached to and detached from a firearm. It has a housing with a chimney section that has an outlet port at its top end for feeding the ammunition into the firearm. 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. The shell retainer unit is deactivated by a depressor member that moves downwardly when the magazine is attached to the firearm. A feed lip assembly is pivotally mounted adjacent the top end of the chimney section.

Abstract: A cutting tool having a pair of cooperating elongated members each having a handle portion and a head portion. The top surface of one of the head portions has a countersunk recess in its bore having a height H1. A brass ring having a thickness T1 is received in the recess. A bolt passes through aligned apertures in the respective head portions and has a nut threaded on its end. Part of the shank of the bolt has a circular cross section and the remainder of the shank has two opposed convex sides and two opposed flat sides and the respective portions of the bolt mate with similarly configured bore holes in the respective head portions.

Abstract: A system for remotely controlling the un-reeling and take-up of a hose on a reel that is primarily designed to be used in combination with a crane truck upon which the reel would be mounted. A turntable platform that is rotatable about a vertical axis is supported on a base secured to the bed of the truck. A telescoping boom assembly has its bottom end pivotally secured to support structure on the turntable platform. A hydraulic lift cylinder assembly is mounted on the turntable platform and its top end is secured to the telescoping boom assembly for raising and lowering it. The novel reel is mounted on the turntable platform and it has a hose having its bottom end coiled thereon. The hose has a high pressure pneumatic line running through its interior and this is surrounded by a plurality of medium delivery lines. A pair of fiber optic lines are also inside the hose and their bottom ends are connected to a base modem and their top ends are connected to a satellite modem.

Abstract: A draft beer tower cooling system having an adapter collar that is removably attached to the top end of a draft beer tower. The adapter collar has a centrally located bore hole that extends from its top surface to its bottom surface and a thermoelectric cooler module is mounted therein. The bottom surface of the thermoelectric cooler module is in contact with a cold plate having a plurality of metal cables dangling from its bottom surface. A heat sink is positioned in contact with the top surface of the thermoelectric cooler module and an exhaust fan unit is mounted to the top of the heat sink. The thermoelectric cooler module functions to transfer heat from the interior of the draft beer tower to the heat sink where the exhaust fan unit dissipates the heat into the surrounding atmosphere.

Abstract: A self leveling laser plumb assembly having a battery powered laser unit, a laser unit mounting support, and at least three support legs secured to the bottom of a gimbal ring assembly. The top end of the laser unit mounting support removably receives the laser beam unit. The laser unit mounting support vertically aligns itself by gravity. This allows a beam of light from the laser unit to be directed upwardly to a surface where a predetermined spot can be marked.

Abstract: A fluidized bed biological filter system for fish tanks having a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and surrounding side walls that form a water filtering chamber. An inner tubular member extends upwardly from the bottom wall a predetermined height and it has an inlet port in its bottom end that is connected to a pump. An outer tubular member has a closed top wall and also a diameter that is greater than that of the inner tubular member. The outer tubular member is telescopically mounted on the inner tubular member so that both of their bottom ends are surrounded by filtering particulate in the bottom of said housing. The top end of the outer tubular member has a weight chamber into which various amounts of weights may be added depending on the power of the pump and the type of filtering particulate material used.

Abstract: A L.E.D. light assembly having a refractive lens having a front surface and a rear surface. A plurality of horizontal rows of pillow lens modules are formed on the rear surface of the refractive lens. The respective edges of the pillow lens modules coincide with adjacent pillow block lens modules to form both vertical and horizontal intersection lines. A plurality of vertically oriented convex or concave flute strips are formed on the front surface of the refractive lens in the front surface of these respective vertical intersection lines. A plurality of L.E.D.'s are mounted on a printed circuit board spaced a predetermined distance behind the rear surface of the refractive lens. There is one L.E.D. for every pillow lens module. Vertical oriented planar strips are formed on the front surface of the refractive lens intermediate each of the vertically oriented convex or concave flute strips.

Abstract: A stencil for cutting sandpaper and it is formed from a sheet of plastic transparent plastic material having four corner lips extending down from the corners of the sheet. These corner lips have inner edges that define a rectangular recess for receiving a stack of standard sized sheets of sandpaper. Linear slots and arcuate slots in the stencil allow the sandpaper to be cut into two equal parts, three equal parts, four equal parts or circular disks having 6, 7, and 8 inch diameters.