Abstract: The present invention contemplates electronic ammunition for simulating live ammunition detonation when utilized with an ammunition firing device having a mechanism for firing ammunition when triggered wherein an electronic sound assembly is disposed within a component space within a shell and the shell is loaded within the ammunition firing device. The electronic sound assembly has recorded therein the sound of the detonation of live ammunition and is adapted for providing the live ammunition sound in an audibly perceivable form in a play mode in response to receiving a triggered signal.

Abstract: An improved rotating head having an inner barrel disposed within and rotatingly supported on an outer barrel wherein an elastomeric member is connected to the inner barrel via bolts and a kelly is extendable through the inner barrel and through the elastomeric member, the elastomeric member sealingly engaging the kelly, and wherein a lid is connected to the elastomeric member encompassing the bolts connecting the elastomeric member to the inner barrel for retaining said bolts in the event any of said bolts become inadvertently unthreaded.

Abstract: Subterranean paths of water flow are impeded or changed by the facilitation of microbial growth therein. Either indigenous bacterial growth may be stimulated with nutrients or the formation may be first seeded with bacteria or their spores which inhibit fluid flow after proliferation. These methods and bacteria are usable to alter the flow of water in a waterflooded oil formation and to impede the outflow of contaminated water.

Abstract: A tool for aligning pipes to be secured in an end-to-end relationship which includes a strap to be secured around the end of one pipe and a lever engaging the strap, the lever having a foot to engage and deform a portion of the other pipe.

Abstract: A battery box hold-down comprising three metal strips. One metal strip is attached by one end to a base and has a slip-joint hinge component at the second end. Another metal strip is attached by one end to a base and has a hasp component at the second end. The top metal strip, shaped to fit over the top of the battery box, has a slip-joint hinge component at one end and a hasp component at another end. When the top metal strip engages over the battery box, the attached metal strips by slip-joint and hasp and a lock is fixed through the hasp, the battery box is fixed in a secure position.The battery may be serviced by unlocking the lock and disengaging and removing the top metal strip and the battery box top.

Abstract: A filtration module formed from a first flexible sheet having a first edge section, an opposed second edge section and an interior section, comprising engaging each portion of the first and second edge sections respectively to uncorrugated first upper and lower terminal elements. Corrugations are formed in the first upper and lower terminal elements of the first flexible sheet-terminal elements assembly, and slits are cut in the interior section of the first flexible sheet-terminal elements assembly, with the slits extending transversely to the edge sections. Each adjacent pair of slits in the interior section defines a ribbon element. One or more filtration modules may be assembled to form a filter by stacking the elements or by winding the filtration module or modules around a central core. The stacked or wound filtration modules are supported within a housing so that each ribbon element is disposed in a fully extended, fexible state.

Abstract: A sorting gate assembly adapted for use in cooperation with a holding pen including a sorting gate and a gate support assembly. The sorting gate is movably connected to the gate support assembly for movement in a first direction generally toward the gate support assembly and for movement in a second direction generally away from the gate support assembly. The gate support assembly also movably supports the sorting gate for movement of the sorting gate in a first direction generally away from the exit of the holding pen and for movement in a second direction generally toward the exit of the holding pen. The sorting gate is movably supported on the gate support assembly for movement within the holding pen to sort a selected animal and to move the sorted animal into an exit area portion of the holding pen for exiting the animal through the exit of the holding frame.

Abstract: A fishing tool comprising a body member having an offset entrance port into a cylindrical cavity that contains a slide member having a trough-shaped lower portion positionable adjacent the entrance port in either of two diametrically opposed angular positions to alternatively capture or release an enlargement on a rod inserted into the body member cavity via the entrance port. Grooves are cut into the slide member and a pin is mounted on the body member to rotate the slide member one half turn when the slide member is reciprocated in the cavity. The rod can be a portion of a collet in a barrel attached to the body member, the bore of the barrel and the collet having mating frustoconical surfaces for collapsing the collet fingers about a uniform diameter rod when the rod portion of the collet is released from the body member and slide member.

Abstract: Pulses produced by a pulse generator coupled to the output shaft of an electric motor that reciprocates a polish rod of a well pumping system are counted by a computer to locate the polish rod at a series of positions during each reciprocation of the polish rod and the dynamic load on the polish rod at each of these positions is determined by the computer from the time difference between pulses. The pulse count and dynamic loads are simultaneously displayed on a two-dimensional array of light emitting diodes under the control of the computer to visually present the dynamic pumping characteristics of the system. The operation of the system following pump off or breakage of a sucker rod is interrupted by controlling the operation of the motor via the computer, the computer switching off the motor following the occurrence of a preselected set of dynamic loads for a preselected set of pulses.

Abstract: The present invention contemplates a system for utilizing existing motors with output shafts for drivingly rotating such as motors comprising a portion of a lawn mower, for example. The system includes a connector having one portion which is removably connectable to the output shaft of the motor and a power unit adapted for delivering power, such as electrical power, compressed air, or pressurized hydraulic fluid, for example, the connector being connectable to the power unit and the motor providing power input to the power unit through the connector for driving the power unit.

Abstract: A filter apparatus including a plurality of demountable filter cartridges which each include a replacement filter element. The cartridges are mounted in the upper portion of a bi-level partition that extends across a tank having an inlet below the partition and an outlet above the lower portion of the partition at a height to be bisected by the upper surface of the upper portion of the partition. A plurality of filter apertures through the partition each receive a cartridge and each cartridge is held in place via studs that screw into the partition and received in channels formed in a header portion of the cartridge so that the cartridge can be inserted into an aperture and turned to engage the shanks of the studs with the channels in the cartridge header.

Abstract: A composition and method of using thereof for enhancing the tactile characteristics of leather covered handles. The composition comprises an antiperspirant, a nonionic polymeric ethoxylate surfactant and solvent, and is applied to the leather which is subsequently dried with a cloth. The composition may also be applied to the hands of one about to use the handles, and the solvent permitted to evaporate therefrom.

Abstract: A pump jack having a walking beam oscillated in a vertical arc by a hydraulic actuating cylinder that receives pressurized hydraulic fluid from a variable displacement pump. The hydraulic actuating cylinder is controlled by a hydraulic valve having an operating member mechanically shifted by a second hydraulic actuating cylinder near the end points of the pivotation arc of the walking beam to reverse the direction of movement of the walking beam during the shifting of the operating member of the hydraulic valve. The second hydraulic actuating cylinder is controlled by a second hydraulic valve that transmits pressure to the second hydraulic actuating cylinder from the variable displacement pump and reverses the flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid to the ports of the second hydraulic actuating cylinder near the end points of the pivotation arc of the walking beam.

Abstract: A voltage regulator system for receiving relatively high frequency electrical energy from a source and providing a regulated relatively low frequency electrical energy output wherein a passive device sensing means comprising only electrically passive elements senses the output voltage of the outputted relatively low frequency electrical energy and provides at least one output control signal proportional to the sensed output voltage, and at least one magnetic controller for receiving the control signal provided by the passive device sensing means and controllingly varying the relatively high frequency electrical energy in response to the received control signal to controllingly vary the voltage of the outputted relatively low frequency electrical energy to maintain the outputted relatively low frequency energy voltage at substantially a predetermined value.

Abstract: An animal holding chute with a retaining frame retainingly surrounding an animal holding space having an entrance formed through a portion thereof, the entrance being sized and position for permitting an animal to pass therethrough and into the animal holding space. An entrance gate is positioned in the entrance and the entrance gate is movable to an opened position for permitting access to the animal holding space through the entrance and to a closed position for preventing an animal to pass from the animal holding space through the entrance. The entrance gate also is movable in the closed position from a start position to an animal holding position, the entrance gate engaging the rear end portion of the animal and moving the animal into the animal holding space as the entrance gate is moved from the start position to the animal holding position.

Abstract: A drilling bit comprising a drill body formed from a base portion and a crown portion having a plurality of cutting elements; the base and crown portions are interengaged by a connection portion. An external opening in the crown portion communicates with a core-receiving section in the connecting portion. A core milling assembly, comprising a pair of rotatable, frustum-shaped rotary members, is supported in the connecting section. Each rotary member carries a plurality of cutting elements. During drilling, a core is received in the core-receiving section, where it is milled by the rotation of the rotary members.