Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved device designed to be mountable on a building for supporting a ladder and protecting the building from damage due to the ladder. The improved device includes a plurality of leg means, attachment means, and crosspiece means that are mountable to a building and act to support a ladder, prevent lateral movement thereof, and protect the building or portions thereof such as gutters or roofs, from damage due to the ladder.

Abstract: A golf ball position marker (10) is detachably connected to a golf club including a resilient hand grip (20) containing an opening (25) located in a convex end surface (23) thereof. The opening (25) is adapted to stretch when an enlarged protruberance (19) at the end of the stem (17) passes therethrough. The marker (10) includes a head (11) having a convex upper surface and a concave undersurface. The convex end surface (23) of the grip (20) is complementary to the marker's concave undersurface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novelty golf club including a body made to resemble a golf club having a head, a shaft and a grip. In reality, the head is hollow and contains a sound producing device powered by batteries contained beneath the handle grip through wires contained within the shaft. An end cap is removably placeable over a battery chamber opening at the upper end of the handle grip. The sound producing device may be activated by a switch conveniently located on the golf head and may contain a miniature record disc having recorded therein such sounds as laughter, barking dogs, fire engine sounds, crying baby sounds, coughing, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic skylight actuator designed to be incorporated into a skylight of the type which may be actuated to open and closed positions through the use of an electrical actuator such as a rotary motor. The inventive actuator includes two sensors, one for sensing rain outside the building where the skylight is installed and the other for measuring the room temperature within the room in the building having the skylight therein. When the temperature sensor senses that the temperature within the room is above a predetermined level the actuator is operative to cause the skylight to be opened, whereas when the room temperature drops below a perdetermined level, the skylight is closed. When the rain gauge senses that it is raining outside, the actuator is triggered to cause the skylight to be closed. Whenever the rain gauge senses the existence of rain, acutation by temperature sensing is disabled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved musical cube. The cube includes circuitry mounted within its cubical housing with the circuitry including three two-axis switches with each such switch having a central open position and two positions, one to either side of the central position, each side position of which closes a particular unique sub-circuit. The three switches are mounted in the housing in mutually perpendicular relation and the switches combine to control the operation of six sub-circuits. In the operation of the improved musical cube, a read-only memory and synthesizer device are incorporated into a circuit with the read-only memory being pre-programmed with a distinct musical sequence for each of the six sub-circuits.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved wheeled storage and display cart disclosed herein in three embodiments. In a first embodiment, the device includes a wheeled cart having two storage compartments separated by a divider and a suggestion box extending from one side to the other of the device. Mounted above the suggestion box are card holders, a pen holder and a frame designed to support a poster. A second embodiment is only about two thirds the width of the first embodiment and only has one storage compartment and one suggestion box therein. A third embodiment includes an open storage compartment on its lower portion designed to receive large items such as stacked carry baskets and also includes a separate insert which may selectively be inserted in the storage compartment to elevate the floor of the storage compartment.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved restraining device which restrains a prisoner in a seated position with the hands and arms clamped in a position restraining the prisoner. The device may include back and head support structure as well as a seating area and a pair of pedestals each of which is designed to restrain one of the arms. Mechanically or electromagnetically activated clamps are associated with the pedestals and are provided to releasably clamp the wrists and hands of the prisoner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved door holder which includes an elastic ring which is slipped over the door knob, a flexible belt which is mounted to an adjacent wall structure and a device in the likeness of an animal or creature which interacts with the belt and elastic ring to hold the door in an open position. The device may include a plurality of appendages, some of which may interact with the elastic ring while the belt is strapped about the body of the device so that the device holds the door ajar.