Abstract: A device attachable to at least one of the co-acting jaws of a steel jawed trap for capturing an animal. The device has at least one cushion assembly that includes an elongated carrier frame attachable to at least one jaw of the trap, and spaced apart cushion members secured to the carrier frame. The cushion members project outwardly from the carrier frame and are in a parallel alignment to one another to engage a limb of the animal and cushion and distribute the force of the jaws of the trap to reduce animal injuries.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a battery of a vehicle. A mounting frame is attached to a vertical surface of the vehicle and supports a detachable box in which the battery is retained. A pair of slide members on the mounting frame are slidably receivable within a corresponding pair of guide members on the box so as to permit vertical slidable adjustment of the box relative to the mounting frame. The box may be held in either a transport or an access position by a latching mechanism consisting of a pair of hooks attached to the box and a pair of channels on the mounting frame. A pair of perforations in the channels receive the hooks and define the transport and access positions of the box.

Abstract: An animal pelt stretching and drying device that is adjustable for use with differently sized animal pelts includes a pair of spaced apart elongated side members and an inverted "V"-shaped top member that is adjustably attached to the side members to vary the distance the top member extends above the side members. Also, at least one cross arm member is associated with the side members for controlling the spacing therebetween and can also be adjusted to vary the position of the cross arm member with respect to the upper portions of the side members.

Abstract: An improved rodent control device for generating a pulsating and interrupted magnetic field offensive to rodents in buildings includes a housing, an electrical circuit for generating the pulsating magnetic field and an electrical supply member for electrically connecting the electrical circuit with an AC power source. The electrical circuit includes a low voltage circuit for generating a pulsed and interrupted frequency gating signal, a signal amplifying device, and a high voltage circuit that produces a pulsed and interrupted high voltage output signal in response to the gating signal of the low voltage circuit and includes a magnetic field generator for receiving the output signal from the high voltage circuit and generating a pulsating and interrupted magnetic field in response to the output signal.

Abstract: An improved rotary cultivator includes a prime mover, a gear box and rotary driven tines. An engine mount casing is located between the prime mover and the gear box and is employed in securing such components together in an operative unitary fashion.

Abstract: A hitch lock for disabling hitching couplers of trailer vehicles. A reversible keeper member includes a base portion and an extended portion projected forwardly from the base portion at an obtuse angle. The base portion includes an aperture through which is inserted an ear that is mounted on a tongue of the trailer vehicle near the hitching apparatus. A substantially U-shaped lock guard, including an ear-receiving aperture in the web portion thereof, is inserted over the ear adjacent the base portion. A shackle of a padlock is inserted into a throughbore aperture of the ear between the leg portions of the lock guard. The extended portion of the keeper member obstructs the hitching coupler such that a trailer vehicle attached to a tractor vehicle cannot be disattached and, when reversed, an unattached trailer vehicle cannot be attached to a trailer vehicle. The hitch lock works effectively with both ball and socket couplers and with pintle ring couplers.

Abstract: An intralumenal graft for the repair of damaged or weakened sections of the vascular system. The graft consists of a semi-rigid, resilient tube made of a material suitable for long-term residence inside a vessel. The tube has a relaxed, smaller diameter and is expandable to a larger diameter which is maintained by a retaining ledge or teeth on the inside of the graft. Repair of a vessel is attained by insertion of the graft in its relaxed condition into the vessel at a site which may be remote from the damaged section. The graft is positioned and expanded to its larger diameter by a balloon catheter. Once expanded, the graft is retained in position by friction with the inner wall of the vessel.

Abstract: A control assembly associated with a walk-behind mower having a handle bar that is attached to a rear portion of the mower body and is formed with opposite side portions and a rear cross portion extending between the side portions. Forming the control assembly, are two curved bale members juxtaposed in a side-to-side relationship with one another and pivotally connected between the side portions of the mower handle bar. A first control cable connects one of the pivotable bale members with an operator zone engine kill/restart assembly and a second control cable connects the other bale member with the wheel clutch so that these assemblies can be independently actuated by consecutive movement of the bale members to actuating positions.

Abstract: A dry pellet dispensing device for installation on a well to chemically treat water drawn from the well. The device includes a pellet reservoir having two reversely inclined floor portions which direct the pellets toward a metering drum. The metering drum is mounted for rotation at an outlet end of the lower of the two floor portions. A plurality of pellet receiving indentations are spaced along the periphery of the metering drum. A drive motor rotates the drum which acts to capture a pellet in each of its pellet receiving indentations. Captured pellets are carried out of the pellet reservoir by the drum and released into a dispensing tube which directs them into the well. The drive motor is controlled by an adjustable interval timer that is responsive to the flow of water from the well.

Abstract: A scheduled fluid control valve which performs a pre-established sequence of flow rates and timing schedules in response to pressure pulses in the controlled fluid. The valve consists of a generally cylindrical housing connected to a source of pressurized fluid and containing circular plates or cylindrical control surfaces coupled to actuating means responsive to the presence of pressurized fluid. The actuating means includes an actuator plate or cylinder, a biasing spring, and a longitudinal shaft or cylinder upon which is incised at least one generally helical groove within which track one or more follower pins. Pressurized fluid causes the actuator plate or cylinder to rotate, following the path defined by the helical groove, resulting in relative movement of the control surfaces whereby the schedule embodied in the relative size and placement of fluid ports through the control surfaces is performed.

Abstract: A self-leveling boom assembly adapted for mounting on one end of a vehicle. The assembly includes a boom support that is adapted for attachment to the rear of the vehicle and has at least two spaced apart horizontally aligned attachment members, an elongated boom with a center section formed of a frame including vertically spaced apart upper and lower horizontally extended beam members connected together by at least two brace members, and two oppositely inclined support arms for pivotally connecting the lower beam member of the center boom section to the boom support.

Abstract: A removable grass catcher for a rotary lawn mower that includes a relatively rigid housing for the collection of grass clippings. The housing includes a top wall with at least one downwardly extending flange, at least a part of which top wall is spaced apart from the upper edges of at least one of the rear and side walls of the housing to provide air gaps therebetween that serve as air vents for the housing during the accumulation of grass clippings therein.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for pressuring a hard frozen comestible, similar to hardened ice cream, while simultaneously subjecting it to mechanical action to reduce the crystal and cell structure of the material to transform it into a soft, smooth and creamy texture only slightly less cold than its starting temperature. The apparatus includes a hopper for receiving the hard frozen comestible to be treated, an auger positioned above the hopper and automatically actuated by movement of the hopper toward the auger to produce conditioning of the comestible by the auger as the hopper and auger move toward one another into an adjacent relationship. The auger is powered by a drive assembly that includes an electrically driven motor and a fluid drive unit to provide a constant drive force on the auger without undue stress on the drive motor.

Abstract: .[.This invention relates to electric warming of towels, with.]. .Iadd.An electric warmer of towels has .Iaddend.a vertical member providing support to a series of spaced parallel horizontal members which receive, store and warm the towels. The heating element, being a line type heater, is enclosed within the vertical support member and is connected to any appropriate standard A.C. power source.