Abstract: The bracket 6 of the rod holder 2 is constructed of substantially resiliently flexible material and has four slots 24, 26, 28 and 30 in the rim 18 thereof, which depend to points 37 substantially contiguous to the base plate 4, so that the bracket is divided into pairs of relatively resiliently displaceable body portions 38, 40, 42, 44, and 46. The walls 36 of the body portions have successive pairs of part annular collar sections 34 therein, which define successively smaller clamping rings 48, with nips 50 therebetween, as the slots depend toward the plate 4. As a result, when a rod 96 is impaled in the V-shaped kerf of a slot, it can seek that ring 48 which will grip it against dislodgement, when the caduceus-like clamps 32 at the walls of the body portions, relax about the rod.

Abstract: The mold is equipped with a casting ring 6 which is formed by clamping together four generally rectilinear wall segments 8 that are, first, arranged like the sides of a picture frame about the rabbet 52 of a rectangular case 10, and then abutted together, sash-like, at their mitered ends 80, to form a ring, the casting surface 9 of which will produce the rectangular cross-sectional outline common to sheet ingot or the like, when molten metal is fed through the ring. The clamping action is produced by a set of screws 94 at the corners 10' of the case, and after the ring 6 is clamped about a pair of spaced, axially opposing lips 54 and 60 on the case and an annular plate 14 thereabove, the plate 14 is clamped to the top of the case, to secure the ring in place and seal the axial ends of the ring against fluid flow thereacross.

Abstract: In addition to a top opening, the container has at least one pair of apertures in a side wall thereof, through one of which a divider panel is removably inserted to form a false bottom for the relatively top portion of the container. The other aperture serves as an entry port for loading one type of refuse in the relatively bottom portion of the container. The top portion is loaded with a second type, meanwhile, through the top opening; and when the container is to be emptied, the integrity of each type is preserved by unloading the top portion first and then removing the panel to expose the bottom portion of the container to the top opening.

Abstract: A planing type self-righting boat having rigid pontoons forming its perimeter structure independent of interior inflation and which, during the vessel's normal operation, protect conventional or modified interior inflatable pontoons which elements together are used in whole or in part as essential mechanical components in the automatic self-righting of the vessel upon capsizing. The self-righting of the vessel after capsizing is effected by the creation of a negative buoyancy and subsequent sinking of that portion of the vessel whereby this submerging action combined with the weight and configuration of the vessel cause it to rotate underwater to a position beyond perpendicular to its capsized position while the vessel is supported by the buoyancy retained in the remainder of its pontoon structure.

Abstract: The fastener is located in the loop of strap material which encircles the animal's poll, and includes a pair of relatively reciprocable male/female fastener elements which are operable to close and open the loop when they engage and disengage with and from one another. In the engaged condition thereof, the fastener elements are interlocked against reciprocation by a latch which is manually releaseable; and each time the latch is released, there is a cam action generated by resiliency in the latch which has the effect of not only driving the fastener elements apart, but also ejecting or jettisoning one from the other into the open, ambient atmosphere about the animal.

Abstract: To achieve a flywheel effect and lower the power necessary to drive it, a float pump is modified and put to use in such a way that one-half of the stroke of the pump is powered by the negative or positive buoyancy of the system of reciprocating components through which the pump is operated. As a result, the pump can be powered by even human leg power, such as by driving it through a pair of cranks pedalled in the manner of a bicycle. A reciprocable drive mechanism for the pump is also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: The gravity flow of a liquid in an open pipe is metered during open channel flow, during surcharged flow, and during the transition between the two. A tubular venturi metering device is employed, and when during open channel flow, the liquid depth rises in the section of the pipe upstream from the device, the throat of the device fills with liquid substantially simultaneously with the upstream section of the pipe, so that during the transition, the device continues to provide a flow determination.

Abstract: The carrier has a foot which is suspended from the wheeled carriage of the same and lowered into engagement with a supporting surface therebelow. The foot and carriage are adapted to rotate in relation to one another, moreover, so that when the foot is so engaged, the carriage can be rotated about the foot on the wheels of the carriage. In this way, the carriage can be used as a rotary dispensing reel for the cable, as well as a mobile carrier for it.

Abstract: The message holder comprises an envelope-like case which is preferably in the form of an elongated, open-faced sheath having a slot at one end thereof through which a plate-like message carrier can be bayoneted into the pocket of the sheath. A releasable detainer such as a tab on the one end portion of the sheath, operate to retain the carrier in the pocket while a message on the same is displayed through the opening in the face of the sheath. Meanwhile, a plurality of adhesive pads on the backside of the sheath enable it to be secured to a surface of a vehicle, to serve as a holder for bumper sticker-type messages.

Abstract: The hanger is generally Z-shaped and has a pointed tip on one end section and a hook on the other. The one end section is bayonetted into the ceiling until the middle section abuts the ceiling, substantially on a parallel thereto. Then, an article is suspended from the hook, with the effect that the moment generated by the article binds or jams the one end section of the hanger in the hole occupied by it, thus preventing the hanger from disengaging from the ceiling.

Abstract: Using a differential transmission, a single stage, high speed turbo-charger-type compressor is driven by a variable speed electric motor at 30,000 revolutions per minute or greater to deliver compressed air to the engine, and the speed of the motor is controlled so as to vary the speed of the compressor within this range, commensurate with the speed of the engine.

Abstract: Close control of the direct cooling rate is achieved by bubbling a substantially insoluble gas into the curtain-forming coolant as it is about to discharge onto the emerging ingot. The resulting bubble-entrained curtain of coolant experiences an increased velocity, and the increase is not accompanied by a reduction in the thermal conductivity of the coolant. Instead, the bubble-entrained coolant appears to have a scrubbing effect on the metal, which breaks up any film and reduces the tendency for film boiling to occur at the surface of the metal, thus allowing the process to operate at the more desirable level of nucleate boiling, if desired. This in turn makes it possible to regulate the cooling rate by selective use of the bubbling effect, including turning the effect on and off to allow film boiling to occur when desired, such as in the butt forming stage of the casting operation.

Abstract: The gaff has a pistol grip handle with finger indentations therein, and an enlarged butt and head, enabling the user to maintain his arm in line with the shank of the gaff and thus experience less fatigue while having a better grip on the gaff and better control of it in landing the fish.

Abstract: The device takes the form of a strong-back which is attachable to a garbage can, generally vertically thereof, and has top and bottom handles for hoisting the can to the dumping position used by garbage truck drivers. The strong-back also has ground wheels so that the can can be converted to a hand truck. One of the handles is rotatable and positioned between the ground wheels so as to perform as a more stable intermediate wheel for going up and down stairs and the like.

Abstract: In the stove, pluralities of elongated logs are stacked on top of one another, substantially on parallels to a generally horizontal axis, to form a pair of sloping, single-log-wide, axially extending stacks of the same which are spaced apart but converge in the bottom of a sump at points above a slot in the vertical plane of the axis. Air is admitted to the sump through the slot, and a pair of spaced abutments is disposed upright in the plane of the axis at the sump, to engage between the opposing faces of the bottommost logs in the stacks and form an air flow channel therebetween above the slot. Moreover, a chamber is formed above the channel to confine the flames and the flow of combustion products from the channel to the space between the stacks of logs. The chamber in turn discharges the combustion products to a low pressure zone where they escape to atmosphere or the like.

Abstract: One end opening of an open ended mold cavity has a diameter smaller than the peripheral wall of the cavity and a molten metal mass is introduced to the cavity by continuously filling the one end opening with the mass so that the molten metal splays about the inner peripheral edge of the opening to assume a cross-section between the ends of the cavity having a divergent/convergent outline, the intermediate continuum of which between the planes of maximum divergence and minimum convergence thereof, has a peripheral outline corresponding generally to the outline of the cavity at the peripheral wall thereof. A graphite or graphite-like ring is circumposed about the axis of the cavity in the peripheral wall thereof to form a solid but fluid permeable wall section that is disposed to define the peripheral outline of the intermediate continuum of the metallic mass.

Abstract: One or more top-opening mold cavity defining members are supported in the chamber of a coolant box adapted for the flow of liquid coolant therethrough about the members. Each member is supported in a telescoping assembly in which the top opening of the member is co-axial with an opening in the top of the chamber to enable molten metal to be introduced to the cavity of the member through the respective top openings of the chamber and the member. Moreover, each member has a greater outer peripheral diameter transverse the axis than the top opening of the chamber, and is engaged with the top of the chamber about the opening thereof in a first horizontal plane of the box. The member is also engaged with the defining surfaces of the chamber in a second horizontal plane of the box spaced below the aforesaid first horizontal plane of the box by a vertical gap.

Abstract: The apparatus not only enables the monitoring person to monitor the whereabouts of the monitored person, pet or article, but also to locate the latter if he, she or it becomes separated from the monitoring person. It also enables the monitoring person to interrupt an abductor, to draw attention to him, to frighten or confuse him, and hopefully, to cause him to release the monitored person, pet or article.

Abstract: A contact lens is trapped on an axis of revolution while one side of it and then the other is rotated against the opposing surface of a mating scrubber element normally treated with cleaning solution.

Abstract: The pump has a diaphragm and backing member which extend opposite one another and have strips of resiliently yieldable pairs of fingers operatively co-extensively disposed thereopposite to cause the diaphragm and backing member to define an elongated fluid flow path having an inlet and an outlet spaced apart from one another lengthwise the line of flow. The pump has rollers which are movable lengthwise along the line of flow in engagement with the diaphragm. The diaphragm and backing member are operatively interconnected with one another so that when a roller undergoes movement toward the outlet from the inlet, it displaces each longitudinally successive portion of the diaphragm in the direction opposed to the bias of a pair of fingers operatively disposed thereopposite, independently of the remaining pairs of fingers in the space between the inlet and the outlet, to progressively constrict the cross-section of the path and drive the fluid along the path.