Abstract: The lunge whip for training horses is light in weight, balanced and long. It includes a main body having a number of telescoping tapering hollow tubular sections movable between a collapsed storage position and an extended operative position. The front section or sections are flexible and resilient to aid the whipping action of the whip. A long cord lash of synthetic braided non-tangling fiber such as polyester or polyamide fiber is attached by a swivel to the front end of the main body and bears a popper cord at its front end. The popper cord is preferably of sisal twine and has a front end bearing a popper tassel for audibly signaling a horse during training. The whip main body bears a pair of spaced hooks for use as cord lash winders when the whip is collapsed. The cord lash may be connected to a loop in a wire wrapped around the front end of the main body and covered with a heat shrunk sleeve.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the detachable gun trigger safety device includes a threaded bolt assembly having a longitudinally extending threaded shank and a curved bolt head adapted to receive a portion of the rear housing of a gun trigger guard. The device also includes a mating lock nut threadably received on that shaft and having a front surface adapted to bear against the rear of a gun trigger. The front surface of the nut includes a groove adapted to receive the rearwardmost curved surface of the trigger. The device is designed to span the space between a gun trigger and the rear portion of that gun's trigger guard and wedge the trigger forward to prevent its rearward movement and firing of the gun. The lock nut may include a number of spaced protrusions in its front surface to help resist turning of the nut when tight against the trigger. The nut may be knurled to facilitate turning on the shaft and the shaft may have one or more cotter pins holes transversely therethrough.

Abstract: A primary electrochemical cell having an oxidizable active anode material, a cathode current collector, and an electrolytic solution comprising a liquid cathode material and an electrolyte solute dissolved therein. The solute consists of the reaction product of a Lewis acid, a first Lewis base, and a second Lewis base. In a specific embodiment the anode material is lithium, the liquid cathode material is thionyl chloride, the Lewis acid is aluminum chloride, the first Lewis base is lithium iodide, and the second Lewis base is lithium chloride.

Abstract: The plug is disposable around a fiber optic cable in an innerduct to form the present assembly. The plug releasably seals the cable and innerduct against ingress of mud, dirt, water, grit and other foreign substances. The plug includes upper and lower rigid compression plates positioned, respectively, immediately above and below a flexible, resilient tubular gasket having an upper circular flange. The lower compression plate has two or more spaced vertical curved arms disposed in a circle around a central vertical cable-receiving passageway and extending up from the plate through slots in the gasket and upper compression plate. The arms are threaded externally and hae an internally threaded collar screwed down thereover. The collar, upper plate and flange seat over theopen end of an innerduct bearing the cable. the lower compression plate and gasket (except for the flange) are in the innerduct. The gasket, upper and lower compression plates and collar have aligned cable-receiving vertical passageways.

Abstract: The archery bow arrow rest may include an elongated mounting block, the front portion of which is adapted to be connected to the sidewall of an archery bow with the remainder of the block extending rearwardly to a point behind the bow window. A transverse bar may be rotatingly connected to the block behind the window and bears a pair of resilient, upwardly and forwardly extending arrow-supporting blades. The second blade is weaker, longer and wider than the first and is mounted immediately below the first blade, extends forwardly thereof and rises thereabove. The front end of the second blade bent is up and is forked or notched with a pair of spaced diverging or parallel lines adapted to bracket an arrow shaft without gripping it so as to prevent arrow roll-off from the rest. The first blade's front end is also forked or notched to hold the underside of the arrow shaft.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the detachable gun trigger safety device includes a threaded bolt assembly having a longitudinally extending threaded shank and a curved bolt head adapted to receive a portion of the rear housing of a gun trigger guard. The device also includes a mating lock nut threadably received on that shaft and having a front surface adapted to bear against the rear of a gun trigger. The front surface of the nut includes a groove adapted to receive the rearwardmost curved surface of the trigger. The device is designed to span the space between a gun trigger and the rear portion of that gun's trigger guard and wedge the trigger forward to prevent its rearward movement and firing of the gun. The lock nut may include a number of spaced protrusions in its front surface to help resist turning of the nut when tight against the trigger. The nut may be knurled to facilitate turning on the shaft and the shaft may have one or more cotter pins holes transversely therethrough.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell of the liquid cathode type has an anode made of non-solution alloy of lithium and a companion metal of manganese, silicon, molybdenum, or tungsten.

Abstract: The instrument includes first and second parallel bars interconnected by a post perpendicular thereto. The first bar is adapted to be placed against the underside of a horse's hoof while the second bar is placed against the rear of the first joint of the foot adjacent the hoof. In this position the second bar is about perpendicular to the post. The second bar bears a heel brace in the form of a flat plate which projects rearwardly therefrom at an angle of about 27.degree. to the perpendicular line from the second bar. A screw and fitting releasably connect the first bar to the post and the second bar is hinged to one end of the post for rotation therearound while maintaining its parallel position with the first bar. The heel brace bears against the intersection of the hoof and first joint at the rear thereof when the instrument is in place, and cooperates with the second bar in preventing slippage of the instrument during measuring of the hoof. The first bar is set at a tilted angle of about 60.degree.

Abstract: An improved method of beading deformable electrodes is provided which method comprises forming a plurality of spaced depressions, preferably simultaneously, as through the use of a novel beading tool, in at least one surface of a deformable electrode and then adhesively binding nonconductive beads in said depressions so as to collectively form a nonconductive separator on said surface. The method is applicable for use with metallic electrodes such as sintered silver or nickel or cadmium plaque electrodes, the surfaces of which are not subject to easy plastic flow at relatively low pressure, in contrast to silver chloride plates. Preferably the depressions are hemispherical and the beads are spherical so that a substantial portion of each bead extends outwardly from the beaded electrode surface. The dimpling can be carried out effectively through the use of an improved novel tool which comprises a flat plate having a plurality of spaced apertures extending from the top to the bottom thereof at about a 90.

Abstract: The assembly is adapted for use with a preferably semi-automatic gun. It includes a mounting block which is adapted to releasably clamp over the lower rung of a trigger guard bar and which bears a trigger-actuating component rotatably secured thereto. That component includes a supplemental trigger depending below the block and a number of spaced trigger-actuating fingers in the form of spokes or notches disposed in an arc on a plate bearing the supplemental trigger. A spring is trained around a stud on the block and has its opposite ends intercepting the fingers and the trigger of the gun to which the block is mounted. The spring acts as a trigger trip lever. Thus, the fingers during their rotation sequentially strike the spring which is rotatably secured to the block, the spring thereupon sequentially striking the gun trigger to effect the firing. The assembly is simple, durable and efficient.

Abstract: A primary electrochemical cell having an oxidizable active anode material, a cathode current collector, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution consists essentially of liquid cathode material, an electrolyte solute for imparting conductivity, and molecular iodine for catalyzing the electroreduction of the liquid cathode material. In a specific embodiment the anode material is lithium, the liquid cathode material is thionyl chloride, and the electrolyte solute is lithium tetrachloroaluminate.

Abstract: A primary electrochemical cell having an oxidizable active anode material, a cathode current collector, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution consists essentially of liquid cathode material, an electrolyte solute for imparting conductivity, and iodine monochloride for catalyzing the electroreduction of the liquid cathode material. In specific embodiments the anode material was lithium, the liquid cathode material was thionyl chloride or sulfuryl chloride and the electrolyte solute was lithium tetrachloroaluminate.

Abstract: The archery bow arrow rest and side pressure plate assembly includes an arrow rest formed of an elongated mounting block, a rear transverse cross bar adjustably connected thereto and a forwardly and upwardly extending resilient flexible arrow support connected to the free end of the crossbar. The side pressure plate sub-assembly includes a cross shaft adjustably threaded transversely through the block in front of the crossbar and bearing on its free end a flexible, resilient bent pressure plate having a pair of sloped surfaces joined at a laterally extending point and contactable with the side of an arrow shaft. The pressure plate may be V- or U-shaped and backed by a tensioning plate. It may be received in a close fitting slot in the free end of the cross shaft so that it will not inadvertantly pivot. The arrow support may also be backed by a tensioning plate. The pressure plate may include a long arm so that it extends well forward or rearward of the cross shaft for improved arrow clearance.

Abstract: The archery bow assembly includes an archery bow having a riser with arrow window, arrow rest and handle, a pair of limbs and a bowstring. The assembly also includes a novel arrow holder which prevents an arrow from inadvertently rolling off the rest but which automatically releases the arrow as the arrow is drawn during shooting of the bow. The holder includes a flexible resilient elongated line of rubber or the like having a high frictional resistance with the surface of the arrow, connectors at one or both opposite ends of the line, an anchor bolt or the like anchoring one end of the line through its connector to the riser, preferably at the rear end thereof, and a smooth surfaced slide pin or the like interconnected to and projecting rearwardly from the riser and slideably receiving the connector at the opposite end of the line, after the line is passed over the arrow when the latter is on the rest. Preferably, the pin is carried by a crossbar.

Abstract: The safety plug device is adapted to releasably plug the fluid fuel line of an internal combustion engine. The device has an external multiple stepped cylindrical configuration and/or central cavity with a like configuration so that it can be used effectively with various diameters of fuel lines and can either be inserted in the central opening of the fuel line or can be disposed over the fuel line, to prevent loss of fuel after the fuel line is removed from, for example, a carburator. The device is preferably of resilient elastomeric material resistant to deterioration by fuel and can include metal inserts, or be all metal, ceramic, etc. Thus, danger of fire from spilled fuel such as gasoline, kerosene, oil and the like can be readily avoided by the use of the plug device. Moreover, because the plug device physically reinforces the fuel line, clamping of the fuel line at the plug device does not damage the fuel line, in contrast to conventional clamping which breaks down the fuel line.

Abstract: The compound archery bow assembly includes an inner cam-type compound bow having an elongated riser with handle and arrow window, a pair of flexible limbs with a pair of wheels rotatably secured to the limb tips. A box-shaped bracket is secured to the riser below the handle and extends rearwardly thereof, with a vertical bowstring behind the bracket, a rotatable cam mechanism including a pair of cam lobes secured to each other, rotatably secured in the bracket, wheel cables trained around the wheels and secured to opposite ends of the bowstring, and cam cables extending between the cam lobes and limb tips. The assembly also includes an improved drawcheck with a clicker component releasably secured to either the bracket or cam mechanism, and an activator component secured to the other one of the bracket and cam mechanism.

Abstract: The connector device comprises a male plug of stainless steel or the like having a housing containing a number of spaced passageways within which wire-bearing electrical conduits are hermetically secured. The device also includes a female receptacle of stainless steel or the like having an annular rim defining a central space within which the front end of the male plug is hermetically sealed. The female receptacle has a central passageway within which a multi-wire electrical conduit is hermetically secured. A dielectric wire spreader of polytetrafluoroethylene or the like is disposed in the central space with a frusto-conical front thereof abutting a dielectric spacer positioned against the conduit sealed in the female receptacle central passageway and with the rear end thereof abutting the front of the male plug. Passageways in the spacer and male plug rear end conduct conduit wires to the spreader where they are disposed in parallel surface grooves and interconnected.

Abstract: The archery arrow rest device includes an arrow launcher in the form of an upwardly and forwardly extending blade having a forked upper end for contacting the underside of an arrow shaft, flanked by a pair of flexible, resilient, bendable, upwardly and forwardly extending wire arms for gripping the opposite sides of the arrow shaft. Those arms are connected to the launcher or to a transverse support arm, as is the launcher. The launcher may be pivotally connected to such transverse arm, and biased to a position perpendicular to the transverse arm by springs connected to it or to the arrow-gripping arms so as to eliminate the need for a plunger. The transverse arm is laterally adjustably received in a block securable to the side of an archery bow riser to adjustably support the launcher at a desired location in the bow window. The launcher may be of resiliently depressible material and/or may be rotatable into a depressed position but spring biased to the upright position along with the transverse arm.

Abstract: The gun is semi-automatic and preferably is an M-16/AR-15. It includes a firing trigger, frame and trigger guard, as well as a multiple firing gun trigger extension assembly. The assembly includes an elongated trigger guard bar incorporated into the trigger guard below the gun trigger, and a trigger-actuating component rotatably secured to the guard bar and including a supplemental trigger below the guard bar and a number of spaced trigger-actuating fingers disposed in an arc above the supplemental trigger. The fingers during their rotation can contact the gun trigger directly to affect sequential firing of the gun or can sequentially strike an interposed trip lever which is rotatably secured to the guard bar, the trip lever thereupon sequentially striking the gun trigger to effect the firing. Suitable springs and the like can return the trip lever and other parts to the resting position. A second supplemental trigger can be connected above the fingers to effect a second series of sequential firing.

Abstract: The compound archery bow includes a central riser section with handle and bow window on one side and first and second limbs connected to opposite ends of the riser. The limbs bear eccentric levers, such as wheels eccentrically mounted on transverse axles. A telescoping arm is secured to the riser and extends rearwardly thereof, bearing a rotatable wheel on the outside thereof and adjacent its rear end. A bowstring is disposed longitudinally between the limbs behind the riser. A first cable is connected at one end to the bowstring and at the other end to the first limb axle. It is locked intermediate its ends to a first circular groove in the arm wheel and is secured to the lever in the first limb. A second cable is similarly connected at one end thereof to the opposite end of the bowstring and at the other end thereof to the second limb axle. It is locked intermediate its ends to a second circular groove in the arm wheel and is secured to the lever in the second limb.