Abstract: A mattress spring clip to secure the wire of a border wire assembly to coils of adjacent coil springs in an innerspring assembly for a mattress, wherein the clip comprises a unitary length of spring bias material, such as metal having a relatively broad width, and curved to form a pair of reverse loops, each having entrances which are narrower than their respective loop pockets whereby the entrances have to spread apart for the wire of a border wire assembly to pass into one of the loop pockets and for the coil of an adjacent coil spring to pass into the other loop pocket. The entrances then snap back to their original spring biased positions to hold the wire and coil in their respective pockets.

Abstract: A modular innerspring and box spring assembly which can be put together by the end use customer from innerspring and box spring modules. An innerspring module consists of a plurality of coil springs joined together by helical wire fasteners in a generally rectangular configuration having dimensions which when assembled with other like modules in side-by-side and end-to-end relationship make up a completed modular innerspring assembly of the size and shape needed to make a twin, twin extra long, full, full extra long, queen and king size mattress. A top boundary wire assembly extends around the top peripheral edge of the completed modular innerspring assembly and a bottom boundary wire assembly extends around the bottom peripheral edge, in each case secured to adjacent coil springs by a double hook clip.

Abstract: A trainer for hitting a baseball comprises a cylindrical pole extending upwardly from a base member placed in front of home plate and toward the half opposite from where the batter using the trainer stands so the upright cylindrical pole is substantially in line with the outside edge of home plate, a lower strike zone indicating shaft extends laterally from the pole at the level of the lower edge of the strike zone upper strike zone indicating shaft extends laterally from the pole at the level of the upper edge of the strike zone, and a ball positioning shaft with a ball tee at one end and a simulated baseball at its opposite end extends laterally from the pole at any selected level between the upper and lower strike zone indicating shafts.

Abstract: A mattress clip to secure the fabric flange of a mattress cover to adjacent springs of the innerspring assembly, such clip having a hook end, a short lateral leg extending therefrom to an integrally formed single loop having a narrow but resiliently expandable entrance to receive and hold the ring of an adjacent coil spring therein, a longitudinal leg extending therefrom to an integrally formed double loop, a return longitudinal leg extending therefrom to terminate in a sharply pointed end adjacent the hook for reception therein after the return longitudinal leg with the sharply pointed end has been passed through the fabric flange of the mattress cover.

Abstract: A terminal box comprising a block of non-conductive material such as polystyrene or other comparable material having a first bus bar embedded therein with terminal connections to connect the live or hot wire of a first circuit leading to an electrical source, of a second circuit leading to a first load, and of a third or more circuits leading to a second or more load, a second bus bar embedded therein with terminal connections to connect the neutral wire of the first circuit leading to the electrical source, of the second circuit leading to the first load, and of the third or more circuits leading to a second or more load, and a third bus bar embedded therein with terminal connections to connect the ground wire of the first, second, third or more circuits.

Abstract: A power drive unit for hand tools such as hand operated screwdrivers with a handle at one end, comprising a relatively large diameter cylindrical drive shaft having an annular chuck assembly secured at one end provides a relatively large diameter passageway therethrough. It is located on the upper wall of a casing having an electric motor and a battery therein, or a cord for connection to an external power source. A ring gear around the cylindrical drive shaft is rotated by a gear assembly powered by the electric motor to rotate the cylindrical drive shaft and chuck together with whatever tool is received therein. The location of the cylindrical drive shaft and annular chuck assembly provides a clear and unobstructed pathway both forwardly and rearwardly of the passageway therethrough. A hand operated screwdriver, for example has its working end inserted through the rearward facing end of the cylindrical passageway and out through the forward facing end to a desired working position.

Abstract: A window crank assembly for casement windows comprising a metal window crank having wing type hand grasp members extending laterally in both opposite directions from a central hub and a plurality of insert members, which are preferably metal but may also be plastic, receivable in the cavity of the hub, each of the insert members having an insert cavity of a different cross-sectional dimension and internal configuration to match the different cross-sectional dimension and external configuration of the different crankshafts of casement window operators made by the various casement window manufacturers. A set screw extends through aligned apertures of both the window crank hub and one of the inserts when received therein to bear against a portion of the casement window crankshaft received in the insert cavity which is inwardly thereof from an enlarged outwardly projecting spline portion of the crankshaft.

Abstract: A self-positioning light fixture with a stabilizing base comprises a self-righting member in the shape of a spherical segment and a separate lamp supporting member with connecting means to join the two together and to separate each from the other. When separated, a filling neck or spout on the top wall of the self-righting member is exposed through which fluid ballast material such as sand may be poured into the cavity of the self-righting member. The filling neck has external threads to engage the internal threads of a recess opening to the bottom wall of the lamp supporting member when received therein to thereby couple the two members together. Additional fastening screws are provided to more securely connect the self-righting member to the lamp supporting member. A shock absorbing mechanism is provided comprising mounting springs to secure the lamp bulb socket member to the lamp supporting member and thereby protect it from shocks transmitted to the lamp fixture.

Abstract: A pick for a guitar or other string instrument comprises a planar tear shaped pick body of relatively rigid thermoplastic or other similar material having a tapered string contact end and an opposite rounded finger grasp end. The finger grasp end has diagonally extending raised ledges or walls projecting outwardly from each oppositely facing surface of the pick body at acute angles to the longitudinal axis of the pick body at the finger grasp end, such ledges or walls having diagonally extending outer edges, and raised surfaces extending laterally from the respective outer edges of the outwardly projecting ledges or walls to terminate at the respective nearest side edges of the pick body, the raised surfaces lying in planes which are spaced apart outwardly from the respective primary and oppositely facing planar surfaces of the pick body.

Abstract: A high rise recycling system for a multi-story building comprises a vertical chute extending from the bottom to top floor, discharge openings on each floor, a rotatable chute at the lower end to discharge garbage into a compactor and to discharge recyclable glass, paper, aluminum and plastic into a selective discharge assembly which selectively discharges each of the separate items into respective containers for such separate items. A control circuit having control switches on each floor controls operation of the selective discharge assembly. A power circuit drives a conveyor belt which carries the recyclable items through the selective discharge assembly to their respective discharge outlets for deposit into their respective containers.

Abstract: A padlock protector to protect a padlock with its shackle through the staple of a hasp, comprising a three dimensional housing to receive the padlock therein, a closure member having an imperforate and integrally joined sealing structure around its periphery to prevent moisture from entering the housing from around the peripheral edge when the closure member is in its closed position, apertures to receive either a vertically or horizontally extending staple of a hasp or other lockable loop member through a wall of either the closure member or the housing to enter the cavity of the housing for the shackle of the padlock to lock, such staple receiving apertures having closure flaps, such closure flaps being integrally joined to the wall through which such apertures extend by an integral flexible hinge along a portion of the peripheral edge of such closure flaps and by an integral break-away web of thin cross-section along the remaining portion of such peripheral edge of the closure flaps.

Abstract: A quick release restraint device for such uses as restraining prisoners being transported in police vehicles, which includes a mechanism to quickly release the restraint device in the event it is necessary to rapidly move the restrained prisoner out of the vehicle in the case of an accident or other emergency wherein his life or safety may be endangered. The restraint comprises a strap member having a buckle at one end to secure to the handcuffs of the prisoner, and a releasable loop at the other end to secure to an anchoring member of some kind permanently affixed to the vehicle. The releasable loop is doubled back, with the doubled back portion received and held in an elongated sleeve which surrounds a portion of the strap. The releasable loop is held in place as long as the doubled back portion is within the elongated sleeve, but it may be rapidly undone to release the prisoner by pulling the doubled back portion out of the sleeve by a hand grasp member which projects outwardly of the sleeve.

Abstract: A scroll saw having a blinder to shield the rapid up and down movement of the saw blade and outer end of the saw blade arm from the view of the operator, comprising a shield member supported at a spaced apart distance in front of the saw blade arm having a vertical dimension large enough to span the vertical movement of the saw blade arm and block the view of such movement from the operator in front thereof. The shield member is supported in such position by a support arm held by a bracket secured to the vertical shaft which connects the hold down shoe to the elongated stationary arm of the scroll saw.

Abstract: A machine to fast cook individual servings of pasta and pasta for use in such machine together in combination, comprises a pressurized boiler to heat water to a temperature of about 155 degrees Celsius under pressure of about 7 atmospheres or about 105 psi, a cooking chamber to receive an individual serving of pasta for cooking and to thereafter receive the heated and pressurized water from the boiler to cook the pasta for about thirty seconds, an expansion chamber for vaporization of the heated water when discharged from the cooking chamber, a discharge assembly to discharge the individual serving of pasta when cooked, and pasta for use in such machine which comprises cylindrical tubular lengths of pasta, whose primary ingredients are finely ground wheat and water, which have a small diameter bore extending longitudinally through the center of each length of pasta.

Abstract: An automatic spray gun for use in an automatic spray system which is a modular unit, wherein each working component is a separate module that can be removed from and re-assembled on the spray gun body itself for cleaning, repair and replacement without disturbing the setting of the gun body in the automatic spray set-up, such as distance from the work pieces to be sprayed, angle and the like. The needle valve which stops and starts the flow of liquid to be atomized and sprayed is operated by an air pressure piston and cylinder component which is a separate module and designed in a way whereby the pressurized air which powers and initiates operation of the piston and cylinder module can also be utilized to start and stop the flow of a separate source of pressurized air to atomize the liquid as it flows from the nozzle orifice and to delay the stop of atomizing air until after flow of pressurized air to hold the needle valve in its open position has been stopped.

Abstract: A doorway bar support and operating unit combination in accordance with the present invention includes a two part cross bar assembly connected by a threaded shaft for spreading the bar assembly outwardly for frictional bearing engagement of pressure plate members on each outer end against the spaced apart upright members of a door frame. The pressure plate members include a receiving channel to receive therein the upright abutment strip along each upright member of the door frame against which the door abuts when swung to its closed position. Thus, the pressure plate members have a broad enough bearing surface to bear against the upright members of the door frame on both sides of the abutment strip, and to bear against the outer surface as well as side wall surfaces of the abutment strip itself which are snugly received in the receiving channel of each of the pressure plate members.

Abstract: A machine to fast cook individual servings of spaghetti and the like, particularly spaghetti which has a microscopic bore through the center of each strand, comprises a pressurized boiler to heat water to a temperature of about 155 degrees Celsius under pressure of about 7 atmospheres or about 105 psi, a first cooking chamber to receive an individual serving of spaghetti for cooking and to thereafter receive the heated and pressurized water from the boiler to cook the spaghetti for about thirty seconds, a second cooking chamber to which the partially cooked spaghetti is then transferred through a conduit whose passage is controlled by a food transfer valve for further cooking in water at a temperature of about 90 degrees Celsius for a duration of about twenty seconds.

Abstract: An air supply and control assembly for use with a spray gun comprises an assembly to couple a first source of pressurized air which controls the needle valve of a spray gun to a pilot valve connected to a second source of pressurized air to control delivery thereof to the spray gun atomizing component. The assembly includes a manifold connected by one port to the first source of air, by a second port to components operating the needle valve, and by a third port to a coupling passageway connected to the pilot valve.