Abstract: This is a combination accelerator and brake control mechanism wherein there is a single pedal serving both as the gas control and the brake control. The single pedal is pivoted on a pivot fixed in a base, the pedal extending through the vehicle floor board. Pressing with the foot on the superior or upper part of the single pedal controls the gas to the vehicle motor, pressing with the foot on the lower or inferior part of the pedal controls the brakes of the vehicle. A see-saw rod contacts directly or indirectly with the ends of both the vehicle gas control rod or the brake control rod, and the motion of the pedal pressed down on its top end acting through the see-saw rod moves the gas control rod from neutral position to gas control position, and pressing the lower end of the pedal actuates the brake control rod.

Abstract: The soccer training apparatus consists of a rebounding wall which is about four by eight feet. The wall in turn is yieldably mounted on a rectangular support frame, which frame may be mounted on a usual field sled or any suitable base. Two support rollers are mounted below the wall to track along the support sled, or shelf, if preferred. Tension control of the rebounding surface is accomplished by six control bolts which are ball and socket mounted on the reverse or back side of the rebounding wall and pass through enlarged apertures in the support frame. Suitable compressible springs are mounted about the control bolts and positioned between the rebounding wall and the support frame. The final control of the rebounding surface is accomplished by manually adjustable nuts threaded on the protruding ends of the control bolts.

Abstract: This device is an atmospheric water collector and collects water from the atmosphere by providing a portable cabinet in which the entire apparatus is located, needing only a source of electricity.A dehumidifier is located in an upper compartment separated by a horizontal partition from a lower compartment. In the upper compartment, two opposite walls are perforated to provide access of new moisture carrying air to circulate about the dehumidifier, and a water discharge spout is also located above the horizontal partition, but is outside the dehumidifier compartment. A water feed conduit from the dehumidifier leads to a water collecting tank in the lower compartment, passing through a water filter on its way. An ultra-violet light bulb sterilizes the water in the tank. A water level control in the collecting tank controls the operation of the dehumidifier. A water pump controlled by a combination water discharge spout and pump switch pumps the water to the spout, up through a check valve and another filter.

Abstract: A handle brace for use with a push broom having a broom handle and a broom block with a bore portion to receive the broom handle which comprises an adjustable clamping portion surrounding the handle. The handle brace further includes a pair of brace rods connected to the clamping portion and the broom block for supporting the broom handle.

Abstract: This device is a tree ornament which is magnetically attachable to an artificial tree. Artificial trees usually have branch twigs either permanently attached, or attachable, by inserting the end of each through spaced apertues through the branches.This device makes it very easy to attach or detach any ornament to the tree, by using a magnetizable or magnetic element either or both on the ornament or on the tree branch or tree branch twig. Many artificial tree branches are built about an axial ferrous core and, in such case, the ornament has a permanent magnet built into or on the ornament, and the ornament thus readily attaches to and detaches from the branch. The magnetic flux of the ornament magnet is selected to be strong enough to attach to the axial core of the branch.Alternatively, the axial core may be made with spaced loops thereon extending to or through the branch surface.

Abstract: This is a hemostatic clip for clasping the flaps of a wound together and holding them together to prevent bleeding and to promote healing until the wound is healed and in closed position, whereupon it is released. It is made in a generally tubular body form with a longitudinal slit having cooperating teeth on the slit edges. It is made of a suitable resilient metal or plastic material. Opposite the elongate slit, the tubular body is provided with an inwardly extending longitudinal U-shape depression which, when pressure is applied to the sides of the U, will cause the slit and teeth to separate, whereby it can be applied to the wound flaps. When the pressure is released, the teeth will grasp and hold the wound flaps in contact. When the wound has healed sufficiently, the pressure is again applied to release the teeth from engagement with the flaps. Ridges, eyelets or apertures are provided in the tubular body to cooperate with a pair of plyers for applying suitable pressure.

Abstract: An indoor antenna of small dimensions provided by an inductance coil encompassing a non-magnetic metal cylinder and having a sheet of non-magnetic metal foil wrapped thereabout. The antenna is housed in a small container, the largest dimension of which may be less than six inches.

Abstract: This device is for use in practice for offensive football players to learn to avoid being tackled by the defensive football players. It consists of a pair of soft spaced apart dummies, simulating the defensive players, the dummies each being suspended by a spring from opposite ends of a bar which in turn is supported on a rotatable shaft at one end of a rod slidably and rotatably supported through a horizontal tube fixed on the top of a supporting stantion, preferably supported in turn on a conventional football training sled. Another rotatable shaft depends from the opposite end of the slidable, rotatable rod. A pulley is secured to each shaft, and a handle is secured to the bottom of the pulley at this opposite end, a cable passing about both pulleys, so that rotation of the pulley with the handle, which is manually controlled by the trainer, correspondingly rotates the other pulley and thus rotates the player simulating dummies.

Abstract: This device is an improved wheelie skateboard having a substantially flat horizontal portion and an integrally connected inclined rear kicktail portion. The front end of the horizontal portion has a pair of conventional skateboard wheels on a truck having a pivot bolt connected to the axle at the rear of the axle, and capable of swivelling in a conventional manner. The inclined kicktail portion has a pair of conventional skateboard wheels having a pivot bolt forward of the axle and, likewise, capable of swivelling in a normal manner. The central pair of wheels is so mounted as to be incapable of swivelling, either because of the nut on the pivot bolt (of a conventional truck), which is to the rear of the axle, is so tightened, or because a horizontal arm portion on a non-conventional truck extends from the truck rearwardly of the axle to forwardly thereof, so that such pair of wheels may tilt but may not swivel.

Abstract: This is a catalytic heater which is so inexpensive that it may be used as a disposable heater. It has a lower container section or fuel cartridge and wick for the fuel and any other liquid that may be present for dispensing. It is used together with an upper chimney container section. Alternately, only the fuel cartridge may be disposed of, and a new fuel cartridge may be mated with the previously used upper chimney section. A catalytic impregnated stainless steel member is reuseable along with a snuffer to be secured to the upper chimney section. The catalytic impregnated member is stainless steel, of approximately 0.0037 gauge, and may be either a foraminated plate or a wire mesh screen woven approximately 80 strands to the inch. A filter made of activated charcoal or any other comparable filtering material may also be provided over the fuel supply.

Abstract: This is a compatible angled gear system wherein the shafts of the pair of meshing gears are at an angle to each other, ranging between a maximum angle of ninety degrees to a minimum angle of forty-five degrees, and wherein the limits of the angles of the gear teeth range correspondingly between forty-five degrees to a minimum of twenty-two and one-half degrees, the angle of the shafts to each other always being just twice the angle of the meshing gear teeth. The gear teeth of the meshing gears are always in a straight line at their point of contact. There is always an odd number of gear teeth in such gears, and the minimum number of teeth for each gear is always five; rights fit rights and lefts fit lefts, with the shafts at an angle to each other.

Abstract: This device is a container for dispensing new industrial razor blades and for receiving used razor blades for later disposal. It consists principally of a vertical blade compartment. A large stack of new blades may be inserted therein, which has a floating divider for the new blades, used blades being inserted through a slot adjacent the top and adding their weight to the floating divider, thus insuring that the bottom new blade of the stack will be in alignment with a blade dispensing slot in a side wall. A blade ejector is located in a lower sub-compartment and has a blade ejecting finger extending up through a slot in the bottom of the blade compartment in a position to be manually operated against the bottom new blade to eject it. At the top, there is a removable roof super compartment having a slit in its top for inserting the corner of a dulled used blade, so it can be manually broken off to provide a new sharp cutting edge.

Abstract: This is a compatible gear system and consists of providing an odd number of teeth on each gear, a minimum of five or more. The size and shape of the gear and its teeth are determined by laying out a regular polygon having an odd number of sides, corresponding to the number of desired gear teeth with the distance from the center of the regular polygon equal to the pitch radius of the desired gear. Then a circle is drawn about each polygon corner with a radius equal to one-fourth of the side of the polygon, this series of circles determining the shape and size of the gear teeth. Next, an intermediate series of circles is provided with their centers at the midpoint of the polygon sides and, of necessity, the intermediate circles are tangent to the teeth determining circles. Lines drawn through the points of tangency between each intermediate circle and the adjacent corner circles are necessarily parallel.

Abstract: This is a washboard device intended for permanent attachment to an inner wall of a washbowl or washbasin for use in washing personal and small articles of clothing. It includes a sheet of semi-rigid material having a peelable protected adhesive back coating and a front washboard surface. The washboard surface may be corrugated with alternate rounded ridges and intervening furrows in the preferred form. Alternately, it may include any type surface having a plurality of hills and valleys, in any regular or irregular pattern or spaced dots of material on a flat surface, etc. It is made of a suitable semi-rigid material in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and can be made to conform to any size or shape basin wall, the material being a suitable plastic such as polyurethane, polyvinyl, semi-hard rubber. The edge of the sheet is preferably feathered and may be readily installed in operative position by the average person.

Abstract: This is a compatible sprocket and chain system wherein each sprocket has a minimum of five teeth, and the chain has a minimum of nine links and rollers. In this system, the number of sprocket teeth and the number of links and rollers is always an odd number, and a table is set forth in the specification disclosing the number of sprocket teeth in each sprocket that are compatible with each other sprocket and the number of chain links, and how many sprocket teeth may be used in each of the pair of sprockets when one sprocket is of a different size than the other.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine by mixing with other fluids in an enclosed mixing chamber by cyclonic action while subjecting the mixture to a rotating interrupted high voltage direct current electrical field which sweeps through the mixture.

Abstract: This device is a wheelie skateboard and consists of a more or less conventional skateboard to which is added a rearward upwardly inclined kicktail. Conventional skateboard wheels are mounted on the bottom of the conventional skateboard section. In this device, a third pair of wheels are mounted on the bottom of the inclined kicktail section.

Abstract: This is a catalytic warmer or heater which may be made in different sizes and shapes. A chimney section top has an opening through which a heatable material container is insertable, and which rests on an X-frame supported on punched-in tongues providing draft apertures for the chimney, while a lower spaced series of punched-in tongues rest on a catalyst containing cage which, in turn, rests on a flange of fuel cartridge section below having a wick extending up from the cartridge to be lighted temporarily to initiate the catalytic combustion process. The supporting X-frame has a depending cylinder providing a snuffer to snuff out the wick and permit the catalytic combustion to continue. The catalytic combustion is stopped when desired by merely turning the entire heater or warmer upside down and then removing the fuel cartridge containing section, now on top, from the chimney section, now on bottom, the catalyst cage remaining with the chimney section and thus separated from the cartridge fuel section.

Abstract: This is a blown circuit indicator for a conventional circuit breaker of either bimetallic overload responsive type. It consists of a circuit parallel with the load circuit and which is completed by the overload responsive member when in overload responsive position. This parallel circuit includes a resistor and a light emitting diode positioned remotely from the overload responsive member in a normally visible edge of the casing of the circuit breaker.

Abstract: This is a shopping reminder particularly useful as a grocery shopping or reminder list for use in the home for conveniently listing grocery articles as they become exhausted, and in the grocery store for indicating the items to be purchased. It consists of two book cover members having somewhat rigid raised boundary portions and integrally connected by a flexible portion so that the cover members may be folded over each other. Secured in the raised boundary portions and through raised ribs parallel thereto are rods on which elongated parallelpiped indicator slides having grocery items individually listed thereon. Slides ae slidable to either of two positions, one to indicate the item is needed, the other to indicate that it is not needed. A hump at the mid-point of the rod yieldably permits the slide to be slid thereover.