Abstract: The machine allows the placing of small troughs in trenches, made up by a loading platform (1) with a rotating conveyor (4) or sliding (7) for the small troughs (CA) to a feeding train (2) directing them towards an aligning box (3). The feeding train has folding sections (21), (22) and (23), being the central section (22) the one that has the coupling and linking means (24) to the tractor (T) and also where the loading platform (1) is journalled, the first section (21) is the one receiving the small troughs from the rotating conveyor (4), the second section (22) receives them from the sliding conveyor (7) and the third section (23) deposits the small troughs (CA) in the aligning box (2), which aligns the small troughs (CA) on which the corresponding covers (P) are overlapped by a device based on a framework (8) and an inclined platform (9).

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is direct-propulsion equipment with an internal combustion engine for a boat, in which the engine and the propeller constitute a unit assembly capable of pivoting vertically and horizontally. It consists of a cradle (3) supporting the engine (2), that can pivot near the transom (16) of the boat (1) about a horizontal pivot axis (A2), the engine being coupled to a drive shaft (4) bearing the propeller (5) at its end, this entity being rendered non-deformable by virtue of two semi-circular lateral arms (6) centered on the pivot axis (A2) and each connected by a rear arm (7) to a chair (8) supporting the drive shaft and by a lateral arm (9) to the cradle (3) in order to cross-brace the assembly which is connected to an inverted bracket (15) attached to the inside of the transom (16) and allowing said assembly to rotate about a substantially vertical axis (A1). The invention relates to the industrial and commercial field of boat propulsion unit manufacture and distribution.

Abstract: A method of making decorative glass objects of any of a wide variety of appearances, structures and functions teaches that recycled glass bottles may be cut into disks, rings and other shapes using a diamond dust blade on a bandsaw, then firing the glass objects in a glass kiln to the point of slumping but not to melting, and finally by grinding the objects with a diamond head glass grinder. Glass objects made by the method of the invention betray their recycled origins with an eye-pleasing organic quality to finish and shape.