Abstract: A padlock protector for use with a padlock in securing both a dead bolt door lock and a hasp and staple latch comprising a thin-walled steel container sized to receive and contain a padlock including a first slot in a side wall of the container sized to receive the staple of a conventional hasp, surrounding the slot is a spacer bracket on the inside of the container for limiting the staple opening depth which receives the padlock shackle and a second slot located at a radius corner of two side walls, sized to receive a dead bolt lock with a lateral shackle engaging hole therein which is engageable by the padlock shackle from within the container.

Abstract: The invention is a flag protection device mounted on the upstream edge of the flag which extends laterally outward from the plane of the flag a distance of one-twelfth the flag's width so as to deflect a portion of the airstreams outwardly into the free stream air so as to cause a degree of disturbance and thereby minimize the snapping effect along the flag's downstream edge.

Abstract: A 4-wheel mobile vehicle including provision for controlling the steering position of each of the four (4) wheels so that every wheel's rolling axis will intersect at a common central point around which the vehicle will turn. The control is provided by a pair of cables which can interconnect each of the pair of wheels on each side of the vehicle to turn through similar turns in the opposite direction, and wherein the linear position of the cables are provided by a pair of specially cut cams which are positioned by the steering column. Each pair of wheels is further characterized by a support system which provides for vertical deviation of the front and back wheels without substantially causing the vehicle carriage itself to be vertically deviated by a substantial amount.

Abstract: A calendar for orienting selected sheets upon the happening of an event of program, is made from three portions: (a) a lower portion which contains a plurality of sheets where each sheet represents a selected period of time such as a mouth (b) an upper portion which contains a plurality of sheets containing printed and/or pictured information on both sides of the sheet and (c) a center portion which interconnects the upper portion and the lower portion using a ring or spiral binding system. Upon the happening of a selected event, such as conception, the particular mouth when conception occurs can be selected and the preceding sheets can be folded against the center portion, then the particular upper sheet containing the information relating to conception can be selected and along with the following remaining sheets of the upper section can be folded against the preselected unneeded sheets from the lower portion of the calendar.

Abstract: A rigid reusable handle for lifting, carrying and pouring soft plastic soft drink bottles having an annular neck flange comprising a hand-gripping portion and an engaging portion, the engaging portion including two adjacent bores which substantially correspond with the bottle flange diameter, the two bores being offset from each other so that rotation of the handle about the bottle causes the bottle flange to move laterally from the first bore to the second bore whereby rotating movement of the handle is resisted by the free end of the handle deflecting the side wall of the bottle to retain the handle in its engaging position.

Abstract: A ducted fan including a funnel-shaped duct positioned upstream of the impeller and connected to a base, an outer cowling concentrically positioned downstream and attached to said duct through a series of ribs, an inner cowling positioned inside the outer cowling and surrounding the impeller and a circular grill attached to the discharge end of the inner cowling. The grill including a center hub and a series of arcuate-shaped ribs extending outwardly from the hub and having a constant curvature of less diameter than the outside radius of the grill whereby the maximum lateral spacing between the ribs is at a radius inboard from the outside radius of the grill.

Abstract: A hydraulic radial piston power transmitting assembly including a hoursing and a back plate with a fixed pintle attached to the back plate which rotatably supports a cylinder block with radially spaced bores and pistons therearound, a drive shaft which drives the cylinder block through a coupling means, a cam ring surrounding the cylinder block which is pivotally connected to the housing allowing limited movement of the ring to vary the piston stroke in the cylinder block and cam ring positioning means including a rotating control arm mounted in the housing, swivel means attached to the cam ring with a spherical surface thereon and a sleeve means slidably received on the control arm means including a lateral bore for sliding receipt of the spherical surface of the swivel means to accommodate the locus of points which define the cam ring's various displacement positions.

Abstract: A rotary type lawn mower and mulcher for mounting a tractor characterized by an open-bottom housing with a discharge opening having two or more cutting blades rotatably journaled in the housing and moving in a common cutting plane, a plurality of high speed mulching blades mounted on a single spindle at various heights positioned in the downstream paths of the cutting blades, the individual cutting blades having a longitudinal cutting edge therealong with lateral corrugations throughout the cutting length thereby increasing the cutting plane depth of each blade whereby the vertical height within the housing above the cutting blades is substantially filled with the cutting planes of the mulching blades whereby the grass clippings from the cutting blades are finely cut and discharged at increased velocities through a discharge opening and a deflection chute positioned downstream thereof with a variable height dam extending into the discharge path of the mulching blades whereby the finely-cut clippings are defle

Abstract: A deep water rescue platform incorporating a support frame with a pair of hanger arms for engagement with the side of a pool which are telescopingly adjustable with the frame, a pair of wheels attached to the bottom of the support frame for transportation and stabilizing engagement with the wall of the pool, and a platform hingedly attached to the lower end of the frame which folds into the plane of the frame during storage and a locking means for retaining the platform in its extended position.

Abstract: In a soft-serve ice cream dispensing machine of the gravity feed type containing an overrun control device for controlling the amount of air ingested into the liquid mix while retaining the entrapped in a standby condition, the device including a tubular member with a longitudinal air passageway positioned with its lower end communicating between the mixing chamber and reservoir, its upper end extending above the fluid level in the reservoir, a mixing chamber within the device concentrically positioned in the air passageway with a plurality of lateral openings in the device extending into the mixing chamber allowing liquid mix to enter the mixing chamber and a venturi means in the air passageway downstream of the mixing chamber having a throat section and an air induction tube intersecting the throat section and extending above the level of the reservoir to permit additional air to be drawn into the air passageway due to the increased velocity in the throat area.

Abstract: The invention is an eye bolt structure and method of forming including bending a straight rod to include a straight shank portion, a loop portion and a straight rod end portion, the rod end portion lying adjacent the shank portion; then placing at least one chain link around the shank and rod end portions and welding a portion of the outermost chain link to the rod end portion to maintain the loop.

Abstract: A rotary vane pump having a metallic rotor, rotatably positioned within an ellipsoidal cavity, a pair of stationary wear plates on the sides of the cavity, the rotor having a plurality of radial slots each of which contain a carbon composite vane riding against the ellipsoidal cavity in reciprocal motion to define variable volume pumping chambers and a pair of carbon composite rotor side plates each being positioned between one side of the rotor and the stationary wear plates, each of the rotor side plates having a similar pattern of congruent radial slots to that of the rotor, the vanes having sufficient width to extend into the slots of both side plates to drive the side plates with the rotor during operating.

Abstract: A simplified valve spool detent device including a sleeve attached to the valve body surrounding an extending portion of the valve spool, the sleeve including a plurality of radially spaced holes therein in a common plane with a plurality of balls positioned in the holes, a c-shaped spring positioned outside the sleeve in spring contact with the sleeve, the extending portion of the spool including a cylindrical surface passing through the plane of the balls including a circumferential lug means in the form of a hardened wire ring seated in a circumferential groove in said cylindrical surface.

Abstract: A tube cutting apparatus for orbital shearing of tube stock in uniform lengths including a stationary die surrounding the tube stock placed adjacent an orbiting die of similar aperture, the orbiting die being rotatably mounted within an eccentric die holder which in turn is rotatably mounted on an axis offset from the stationary die with drive means for turning the die holder and causing the orbiting die to move in an orbiting path, and a two-section mandrel carried on an extendable ram which is removably insertable within the tube stock being cut, the first section being coaxially fixed to the ram while the second section has limited movement laterally relative to the first section, the second section having an inside diameter portion greater than the outside diameter of the ram and a elastic ring positioned between the second section and the ram to maintain the two sections in concentric alignment in the absence of outside forces.

Abstract: A low compression reciprocating internal combustion piston engine with a prechamber in the head connected to a main combustion chamber in the piston, the prechamber having an igniter, a pilot fuel injector and connecting lineal passage; the main chamber including a fuel injector for mixing the prechamber gases with the gases being compressed in the cylinder. The engine is a hybrid having transitional combustion modes from spark-ignited stratified charge mode at low power, to a spark-assisted compression ignition at higher power loads, and a strictly compression ignition mode at maximum power loads.