Abstract: A food breading assembly which includes a grid member sandwiched between an upper bin for holding food items to be breaded and a lower bin for holding breading material such as flour, bread crumbs, and the like. The upper and lower bins have aligned handles projecting from each side which the user can grasp with his hands to hold the upper and lower bins together and the grid sandwiched tightly between. The user can then shake the assembly causing the breading material to be propelled upwardly through the apertures of the grid to bread the food items in the upper bin. When completed, the upper bin is lifted off the grid with the breaded food on the grid. The grid has a pair of handles the user then grasps to lift the grid and breaded food thereon away from the lower bin, carry over to a cooking receptacle and drop the breaded food items therein without the user having to touch the food with his hands.

Abstract: A self positioning lamp fixture comprises an elongated stand having a lamp component on its upper end and a self-righting or self-positioning structure at its lower end. The self-righting or self-positioning structure comprises a hemi-spherical bottom wall with a rounded outer surface for contact with the horizontal surface on which the lamp fixture is placed, and a volume of weighted material or ballast uniformly dispersed in the hemi-spherical cavity bounded by the hemi-spherical bottom wall below the horizontal equatorial plane through the upper edge of the hemi-spherical bottom wall, such ballast having sufficient weight relative to the weight of the rest of the lamp fixture which is above to lower the center of gravity below the horizontal equatorial plane.

Abstract: A medicine cabinet and jewelry box combination comprising a plurality of separate compartments in a single wall hung cabinet, each in side by side relationship, each having its own door pivotally mounted on a vertically extending hinge pin or pins to open and close in a horizontally extending arcuate path, at least one of the plurality of compartments, constructed to store jewelry items on hooks, on pivotally mounted rods, on shelves and in drawers and at least one of the compartments constructed to store medicinal items, the compartments to store medicinal items being constructed to prevent vapors, caustic substances, toxic substances and odors from reaching the jewelry items stored in the jewelry compartments both when the door to the jewelry compartments is open as well as when closed.

Abstract: A concrete form support assembly for the form structure needed to pour concrete for bridge floors and the like. Such form structures include a plywood flooring supported at a desired uniform depth relative to the plane of the upper surface of the bridge beams, depending on the thickness of the concrete called for by the specifications. The plywood flooring is supported by ledgers which extend laterally between the bridge beams and stringers on the top thereof which extend longitudinally and parallel with the bridge beams. The ledgers are supported by vertical bolts hanging from hanger bars on each side of each bridge beam, with support plates at the lower end of the vertical bolts to support opposite ends of the ledgers, and threaded nuts below the support plates to adjust the plates and ledgers thereon up and down. After the plywood flooring has been put in place, workmen cannot thereafter reach the adjusting nuts from above to make final depth adjustments of the flooring.

Abstract: A remote control camera apparatus comprising a video camera or motion picture camera mounted on a tripod, and the camera having a first servo motor to rotate the camera throughout a 360 degree horizontal arc, and a second servo motor to pivot the camera throughout a 180 degree vertical arc. Each servo motor is controlled by an electrical circuit having a receiver to receive radio frequency signals transmitted by a remote control transmitter with said radio frequency signals including an operating control signal to signal each of the servo motors when to start, when to stop, and in what direction to rotate. A laser transmitter, capable of being turned on and off by the remote transmitter, is mounted on or adjacent to the camera to direct a visible laser beam parallel to and slightly above the axis of the camera lens so that the visible laser beam hits slightly above and in line with the center of the area the camera lens is focused on.

Abstract: An air volume booster for sprayers which have a turbine, which when connected to a compressed air source, provide a high volume, low pressure output to a spray gun connected to the sprayer. The booster comprises a supercharger having a shallow cylindrical chamber mounted to the sprayer below the turbine chamber at the intake side thereof, and two inlet ports, one of which is connected to a compressor which provides a source of pressurized air, the other opening to the ambient air. The first inlet port has a venturi incorporated therein and connected to the pressurized air source, which increases the volume of air fed into the supercharger chamber and in turn into the turbine through its intake side for delivery of a substantially increased volume of air at low pressure from the output side of the turbine directed to the spray gun connected thereto.

Abstract: A keeper for coiled items such as electrical cord, garden hose or the like, having a first smaller loop to receive a single strand to secure the keeper thereto and a second larger loop to extend around all of the coiled strands to keep them together when the electrical cord, garden hose or the like is rolled up into a coil. The keeper comprises a single flexible strap having cooperative loops and hooks on opposite sides throughout to form the second larger loop and a slot near one end to receive the opposite end through to form the first smaller loop.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a basketball rim to a glass basketball backboard to prevent a basketball rim from being torn from and thereby shattering the backboard. A small portion of a glass backboard normally supporting a basketball rim, is removed and replaced with a rim mounting plate. The rim mounting plate is joined between two horizontal support tubes that connect to a support frame that attaches to the perimeter of the glass backboard. A support bracket assembly is connected to both the rim mounting plate and the glass backboard to secure the assembled rim and backboard to a support pole.

Abstract: A hinge bar connector assembly to connect spaced apart and separate ramps to a flat bed trailer of the type commonly known as a "hot shot" trailer of a semi-truck and trailer combination. Such trailers have spaced apart sockets or receiving channels around the peripheral edges of the trailer, including along both sides as well as along the front edge and the rear edge. The connector assembly in accordance with this invention has a first connecting member with two spaced apart legs to seat in a pair of adjacent receiving channels or sockets which support a pair of laterally spaced apart hinges and a removable hinge rod on which one end of a ramp having a connectable hinge member is pivotally connected. It also has a second identical connecting member seated in a pair of adjacent receiving channels or sockets which are spaced apart from the first connecting member to which a second ramp having a connectable hinge member is pivotally connected.

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 ball valve for further cooking in water at a temperature of about 90 degrees Celsius for a duration of about twenty seconds.

Abstract: A welding system and apparatus comprising an elongated carbon rod about three inches in diameter and a foot or more in length laid on top of a damaged or cracked cast iron workpiece to be welded. The elongated carbon rod is spaced apart from the workpiece about two inches by insulating bricks, one end of the carbon rod having a plurality of insulated electrical conductor connected thereto, the other ends of the conductors being connected to five welding machines with each machine producing about 600 amps thereby providing approximately 3000 amps to the elongated carbon rod. A cast iron welding rod one inch or greater in diameter is placed against the carbon rod, with the tip of the welding rod placed above the crack or void in the workpiece to be welded. The cast iron welding rod serves as an electrode to create an arc between it and the workpiece at the crack or void to melt cast iron from the rod to fill and close the crack or void in the workpiece.

Abstract: A bench mounted puller support to hold and adjust a puller that is utilized to straighten bent auto bodies that are supported and held on an adjustable bench with said support mounted thereto. The bench mounted puller support is comprised of two longitudinal bars with each bar having receiving members on the inner side to receive and connect to the side of the bench, and inserting members on the outer side to insert and connect to a flange assembly that is secured to a tubular support member that supports the puller. The flange assembly has multiple apertures around the perimeter to allow the tubular support member to rotate 360 degrees around the end attached to the flange assembly. The tubular support member has multiple apertures spaced apart longitudinally to allow the puller to adjust to any desired position along the entire length of the tubular support member.

Abstract: A golf trainer to assist and train a golfer to putt properly, to hit straight drives and to "work" the ball by hitting a draw or hook when desired and a fade or slice when that is desired. The trainer includes a pair of spaced apart telescoping legs which border a guide path, slidably connected at their rearward ends and not connected at their forward ends to provide an opening for the guide path in the direction the ball is to be putted or driven. The telescoping legs may be lengthened and shortened to vary the length of the guide path, and slidably moved closer together and farther apart to vary the width of the guide path so as to correspond with the width of the head of whatever club is to be used with minimum clearance on either side.

Abstract: A machine to fast cook an individual serving of pasta and similar foods in the short time span of a minute or less, comprises a single cooking chamber in which to complete both of a two phase cooking cycle. The first phase exposes the pasta in the cooking chamber to very high temperature water, 300 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, under very high pressure, sufficiently high to substantially prevent vaporization thereof, for a period of about thirty seconds. Such pressurized high temperature water is provided by a boiler connected by a conduit to the cooking chamber, and after the first phase of the cooking cycle it is discharged from the cooking chamber into an expansion tank. The second phase of the cooking cycle exposes the pasta in the cooking chamber to hot water below the boiling point but at a cooking temperature of about 190 degrees Fahrenheit for about twenty seconds.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a pressurized fire hose with water flowing therethrough comprising an enclosure having a cavity therein, a centered aperture therethrough isolated from the cavity by a cylindrical wall extending from the front wall to the rear wall of the enclosure, two slots extending from the aperture to receive corresponding finger projections of a hose coupling and a depressured fire hose connected thereto to pass through the enclosure, the coupling then being rotated ninety degrees to maintain the position of the coupling and fire hose assembly, and an aperture through the front wall of the enclosure to allow a ballast material to be inserted in the cavity thereby providing weight to the enclosure to keep the fire hose stationary.

Abstract: A brake bleeder check valve comprising an elongated bleeder valve body to seat in the bleeder valve recess of a wheel brake housing of a hydraulic brake system for vehicles, to seal the bleeder valve recess closed until the bleeder valve body is loosened for the purpose of bleeding air from the hydraulic lines. An inlet aperture is sealed off from hydraulic fluid in the brake system when the valve body is tightened and fully seated in a bleeder valve recess. A hemi-spherical check valve seat is provided between first and, second passageways of the valve, and a ball check valve is positioned in the larger diameter first passageway together with a coiled compression spring to normally bias the ball check valve to the check valve closed position.

Abstract: A pair of male shorts, particularly for small boys, having a protective cup supporter or pocket sewn in the undergarment itself. The shorts are the type which have three triangular spaced apart apertures which surround three different parts of the wearer's body and grip such parts of the body tightly enough for the three to enhance the ability of the undergarment to stay in place when the weight of a protective athletic cup is added to the undergarment. The three apertures of the undergarment are the elastic waistband and two elastic leg openings which grip the waist and both legs. A triangular pocket is sewn on the inside front of the pair of shorts, open along its upper edge to receive a conventional protective cup which is usually held in place by an athletic supporter or jock strap. Snaps or other fasteners are provided to close the pocket when the protective cup has been placed therein.

Abstract: An auto body repair gauge assembly comprises a frame or jig having a pair of spaced apart longitudinal bars supporting two or more lateral bars slidably mounted thereon for placing over the engine compartment of a motor vehicle whose body has been bent or otherwise damaged. Marking rods are slidably mounted on the lateral bars for positioning at the points indicating where a damaged part of the vehicle body should be adjusted to be back in its original correct position. The longitudinal and lateral bars have measurement indications marked on at least one side so the workmen can tell where to slide the marking rods. One lateral bar farthest to the rear is the reference bar and has its center lined up with the true longitudinal center line of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for building a brick wall having tensile strength comprising brick with two spaced apart recesses opening to the top and the bottom surfaces of each brick with one recess centered in the left half of each brick and the other centered in the right half of each brick. The bricks in the row above are offset from the bricks in the row below so the recesses in the left of the brick of the row above, line up with the recesses in the right half of the brick of the row below. The pattern continues with each succeeding row so the finished wall has rows of staggered bricks, with recesses lining up from the top of the wall to the bottom. Coupling fasteners are inserted in the recesses of each brick as each row of bricks is laid, and spacers are placed between each row of bricks to hold the brick apart for filling the spaces in with mortar after the entire wall has been assembled.