Abstract: A utility knife comprising a bar having a forward end, a rearward end, an upper side, and a lower side; a blade having a cutting edge; screw clamps for removably mounting the blade upon the forward end of the bar; a pull handle extending upwardly and forwardly from the rearward end of the bar; a cutting edge guard pivotally mounted upon the bar; and a blade shroud fixedly mounted upon the bar.

Abstract: A cargo tie down assembly attachment method for straightening and reinforcing a pickup truck bed wall having a bowed cornice, the apparatus including of a “U” beam having a bed wall drawing flange, the bed wall drawing flange having upper and lower ends, a rear flange having upper and lower ends, a web spanning between the upper ends of the bed wall drawing flange and the rear flange, and having a plurality of screw receiving apertures extending through the web; and including left and right pivotally mounted “D” rings mounted upon the rear flange by left and right ring mount plates; the straightening and reinforcing method including steps of providing such apparatus, placing the apparatus over the cornice, drilling screw receiving apertures into the cornice, inserting screws through the screw receiving apertures, and turning the screws in a left to right or right to left succession, drawing the apparatus downward over the cornice, and causing the bed wall drawing flange to straighten t

Abstract: An apparatus and method for standing a first crutch and a second crutch, each crutch having a front and a rear bow, each bow having an upper end and a lower end, each crutch having an arm piece spanning between the upper ends of its front and rear bows, and each crutch having a foot piece spanning between the lower ends of its front and rear bows, the apparatus and method comprising elements and steps of providing a “U” bracket, the “U” having a front arm and a rear arm, said arms defining a crutch foot receiving space; mounting the “U” bracket between the front and rear bows of the first crutch so that the front and rear arms of the “U” bracket extend upwardly; extending the foot piece and lower bow ends of the second crutch into the crutch foot receiving space of the “U” bracket; and placing the arm piece of the second crutch and the foot piece of the first crutch upon a ground surface, allowing the first crutch and second crutch to stand, supporti

Abstract: A measuring and scribing device having a “clam shell” housing, having a forward end, a rearward end, an upper end, and having a lower end. Within the housing is mounted a spirally wound alternately forwardly extendable and rearwardly retractable measuring tape. Along the rear wall of the housing is mounted an alternately downwardly extendable and upwardly retractable surface scribing implement. The surface scribing implement is upwardly spring biased to a safe position within the housing. An operative mechanical linkage between a hook end of the measuring tape and a latch for holding the scribing implement in an extended position, allows release of the latch upon retraction of the tape, automatically retracting the surface scribing implement upon retraction of the tape.

Abstract: A bag support assembly (1) consisting of an upper frame (2); first and second legs (10) and (16), hinge sleeves (6) and (8) respectively interconnecting the upper frame (2) and the first and second legs (10) and (16) so that such legs may pivotally move between first and second positions, such legs folding beneath the upper frame (2) while in their first positions, such legs extending downwardly from the upper frame (2) while in their second positions; first and second leg extensions (18) and (22); and slip joints (26) alternately attaching in a first configuration or a second configuration the first and second leg extensions (18) and (22) to the first and second legs (10) and (16), the first and second leg extensions (18) and (22) spanning between and extending downwardly from the first and second legs (10) and (16) while attached in the first configuration, forming a rigid bag support frame, the first and second leg extensions (18) and (22) respectively extending downwardly from the first and second legs (1

Abstract: An assembly and method of joining a pipe with a catch basin, the catch basin having an apertured side wall, the assembly and method including providing an elastomeric ring having an annular hollow expansion space, a foam injection port, a flow checking inflation valve for resesting fluid back flow within the foam injection port, and having a slide stop extending outwardly from the elastomeric ring; inserting the elastomeric ring into the catch basin's aperture; inserting an end of the pipe through the elastomeric ring; and injecting a closed cell resilient foam through the fluid injection port for expansion within the expansion space, the expansion driving the ring's annular inner and outer surfaces inwardly and outwardly, forming a seal spanning between the pipe and the catch basin.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet fanner consisting of an elongated horseshoe magnet or bar magnet having an upper end and a lower end, the poles of such elongated magnet extending from the upper end to the lower end; a support frame having an interior space and having a sheet contact side; an axle and axle bearing assembly interlinking the elongated magnet and the support frame so that the elongated magnet may pivotally move between a first position “on” and a second “off” position within the interior space, the elongated magnet directing a magnetic field through the sheet contact side of the housing while the elongated magnet is in its first “on” position, the elongated magnet directing the magnetic field away from the sheet contact side upon pivotal motion to its second “off” position; and a pneumatic actuator adapted for selectively pivoting the elongated magnet between its first and second positions.

Abstract: An implement for trimming grass and weeds, and for blowing clippings and debris. The implement consists of a rotatable housing having an outer wall; at least two fan blades, each of the fan blades having an inner end and a outer end; and at least two slide channels interconnecting each of the fan blades with the rotatable housing. The slide channels allow the outer ends of the fan blades to alternately extend from the outer wall of the rotatable housing to a fully extended position, and retract toward said outer wall to a fully retracted position. A weed trimming line is fixedly attached to and extends outwardly from the rotatable housing for performing weed trimming as a function in addition to debris blowing.

Abstract: An assembly for purifying water includes a high intensity ultraviolet light or corona discharge ozone generator 4 and output line 15 for introducing ozone into a tube 20 carrying water to be treated. Downstream of the ozone injection point 22 is an ozone contact time segment 24 that terminates at an input port of a bubble separator column 26. The column includes a water level hysteresis inducing means that is adapted to cause water within the column to continuously alternately fill and purge between an upper and a lower water level in order to enhance ozone concentration. The hysteresis inducing means may include a water level sensitive electrically actuated valve 38.

Abstract: A clothing assembly consisting of trousers, the trousers having a waist, the waist having a waistband, the waistband having a right side, a left side, a front side, and a back side; a plurality of upper belt loops, each belt loop among said plurality being fixedly attached to the waistband; a plurality of lower belt loops, each belt loop among said plurality being fixedly attached to the waistband; and a flexible belt positioned to form a figure eight, the figure eight comprising an upper loop, a lower loop, and a crossover, the upper loop of the figure eight extending through the upper belt loops, the lower loop of the figure eight extending through the lower belt loops, the crossover overlying the right side of the waistband.

Abstract: An automobile stabilizing assembly consisting of a hydraulic fluid filled right cylinder, the interior space of the right cylinder having first, second, and third walls, such walls dividing the right cylinder into first and second chambers, the first and second walls having a piston shaft apertures therethrough, the right cylinder having first and second hydraulic fluid exchange ports extending into its first chamber; a right piston assembly having first and second pistons slidably mounted within the chambers of the right cylinder, and a right piston shaft extending through the piston shaft apertures, the right piston shaft interconnecting the first and second pistons, the second piston having motion damping apertures extending therethrough, the first piston being positioned for sliding motion between the first and second hydraulic fluid exchange ports; a left cylinder similarly configured with the right cylinder; a left piston assembly within the left cylinder, the left piston assembly being similarly config

Abstract: A golf swing training apparatus consisting of a base; a club guide ring; left, right, and rear hinge shafts; left, right, and rear hinge sleeves, the left, right, and rear hinge shafts extending through the left, right, and rear hinge sleeves so that the left and right ends of the left, right, and rear hinge shafts extend leftwardly and rightwardly from the left and right ends of the left, right, and rear hinge sleeves. Each of the left and right ends of the left, right, and rear hinge shafts are attached to the base or making up a part of the base. Left, right, and rear slip joints are provided for attaching the club guide ring to the left, right, and rear hinge sleeves. The rear slip joint consists of an alternately extendable and retractable shaft for, upon alternate extension and retraction, alternately pivoting and counter-pivoting the club guide ring about the left and right hinge shafts.

Abstract: An assembly for storing and handling of glass panes consisting a glass rack support frame adapted for attachment to an above floor or ground level surface, such frame defining a rearwardly opening glass rack receiving space; a glass rack; wheels and roller tracks rollably mounting the glass rack upon the glass rack support frame, and allowing alternate forward and rearward motion of the glass rack into and out of the glass rack receiving space; a roll stop having a rack engagement surface and a cart engagement surface; and a hinge for movably mounting the roll stop upon the glass rack support frame, the hinge interconnecting the roll stop and glass rack support frame for motion between first and second positions, the rack engaging surface of the roll stop facing forwardly while the roll stop occupies its first position, the roll stop moving away from the first position toward the second position upon application of pressure to its cart engaging surface.

Abstract: A rotatable implement depth control apparatus consisting of a mounting plate having an upper end, a lower end, a forward face, a rearward face, a right side, a left side, and a lateral axis extending from the right side to the left side, the mounting plate being rotatable about the lateral axis; a rollable trolley, the rollable trolley having a forward end, a rearward end, a right side, and a left side; a rotatable implement carrying frame having a forward end, a rearward end, a right side, and a left side, the forward end of the rotatable implement carrying frame being pivotally attached to the rollable trolley; a rotatable implement having a right side, a left side, and having an axis of rotation extending from the right side to the left side, the rotatable implement being rotatably mounted within the rotatable implement carrying frame; and, a plurality of arms for transferring rotational motion of the mounting plate about the lateral axis to pivotal motion of the frame about the pivotal attachment to the r

Abstract: A deluge fire sprinkler system for suppressing fires occurring in an air environment, the air having an atmospheric pressure, the deluge fire sprinkler system including a network of water pipes having an interior volume, a water input port opening the interior space, and a plurality of water outlet ports further opening the interior space, the network of water pipes having an internal fluid at a pressure reduced below that of the outside atmosphere; a plurality of blow off caps for resisting aspiration of air into the water outlet ports and for permitting emission of water flowing under pressure from the water outlet ports, the blow off caps covering the water outlet ports, the blow off caps being adapted to permit air to aspirate into the interior space of the water pipe network upon exposure of such network to heat; a valve actuatable by a pressure rise, such valve operatively connected to the water input port; a pump for lowering the internal fluid pressure of the network of water pipes below that of the a

Abstract: A vibrating mechanism comprising a housing having a lower end and having an interior space; an imbalanced wheel having a right side, a left side, an axis of rotation, and a plane of rotation situated between the left and right sides, the plane of rotation extending perpendicularly outward from the axis of rotation; a drive axle rotatably mounting and positioning the imbalanced wheel within the interior space of the housing so that the plane of rotation extends through the lower end of the housing; and an apertured base plate capable of alternately fixedly attaching the lower end of the housing to and removing the lower end of the housing from an earth compacting machine, the apertured base plate being fixedly attached to the lower end of the housing.

Abstract: A container for fishing lures, the fishing lures having pointed fishhooks, the container consisting of a styrofoam fishhook point receiving block having an axis of rotation; a cylinder having an outer surface, an interior space, a wall, the wall having a fishing lure insertion and retrieval aperture therethrough, and a pair of ends; a pair of end covering plates fixedly attached to the cylinder, the end covering plates covering the ends of the cylinder; a drive axle rotatably mounting the styrofoam fishhook point receiving block within the interior space of the cylinder, the drive axle positioning such block therein so that its axis of rotation extends through the pair of end covering plates; a slide plate; and a pair of slide channels fixedly attached to the cylinder, the slide channels slidably mounting the slide plate upon the cylinder so that the slide plate may alternately slidably move between a first position wherein the slide plate covers the fishing lure insertion and retrieval aperture, and a second

Abstract: A portable athletic field water fountain consisting of a base frame having a plurality of inwardly facing walls; a floor fixedly attached to and positioned upon the base frame so that the upper surface of the floor spans between the inwardly facing walls of the base frame, and so that such inwardly facing walls extend upwardly from the upper surface of the floor, the floor and the inwardly facing walls of the base frame forming a water collection basin; a pallet positioned within the water collection basin, the pallet being adapted for supporting an athlete standing thereon and elevating the athlete above water within the water collection basin; wheels extending downwardly from the lower surface of the base frame; a tube having a plurality of water emission apertures; and a tube support frame, positioning the tube over the basin so that water emitted from the tube falls into the water collection basin.

Abstract: A repair method for repairing a floor, the floor consisting of a cover stratum and a base stratum, the cover stratum having an upper surface and a lower surface, the base stratum having an upper surface, the lower surface of the cover stratum being fixedly attached to the upper surface of the base stratum, the cover stratum having a damaged area, the damaged area consisting of an aperture having an upper and a lower end, the aperture extending from the upper surface of the cover stratum to the lower surface of the cover stratum, the repair method comprising the steps of painting a section of the upper surface of the base stratum, the section painted spanning across the lower end of the aperture; pouring filler into the aperture; and, pouring adhesive into the filler.

Abstract: A vehicle armor anchoring assembly for a vehicle having a body frame, and having a passenger compartment, the passenger compartment having a plurality of roof supporting columns, each roof supporting column having an inwardly facing surface and an interior channel, the vehicle armor anchoring assembly including a plurality of interior trim panels, each interior trim panel being fitted for covering the inwardly facing surface of one of the roof supporting columns of the passenger compartment of the vehicle, each interior trim panel having an outer surface and an inner surface, each interior trim panel consisting of a bullet resistant material; and a plurality of cables interconnecting each interior trim panel to the column to which it is fitted, the cables being capable of holding the interior trim panels in place while bullets fired from firearms impinge upon their outer surfaces.