Abstract: An apparatus for shaking a work object, the apparatus having an arm adapted to be mounted on a vehicle for earth traversing movement in a predetermined direction of travel substantially parallel and in spaced relation to a work zone; a pair of jaws mounted on the arm and movable relative to each other between opened positions in which the jaws are separated from each other and spaced from the zone and closed positions in which the jaws are disposed in juxtaposition relative to each other and extended into the zone; a suspension system supporting the arm while permitting the arm to shift laterally and about its longitudinal axis when the jaws are moved into the closed positions in grasping relation to a work object; and a sealing assembly engagable with the work object above the jaws operable to maintain a seal therewith while accommodating movement of the work object during shaking.

Abstract: A device for cleaning a hose coupling having external screw threads and an adjacent concentric, axially disposed face, the device having an externally graspable tubular element provided toward one end with internal, interrupted screw threads mating with the screw threads of the coupling and having an extension mounted on the tubular element for rotation relative to such element about the axis of its screw threads, the extension having a graspable portion projecting from the other end of the tubular element and a portion extended within the tubular element from such end and bearing a diametrically extended edge disposed for cleaning the face of the coupling when the tubular element has been screwed onto the coupling to clean the coupling screw threads with the interrupted screw threads.

Abstract: A device for use in making doughnuts or the like having a partition of inverted frusto-conical form provided with a central opening; an inner tubular ring extended downwardly from the partition in circumscribing relation to the opening; an outer tubular ring extending downwardly from the partition in circumscribing relation to the inner ring; a container for dough mounted upwardly on the partition; and a valve head fitted to the opening selectively for opening and closing the opening to deposit dough from the container for cutting by the rings into a doughnut and a plug centrally of the doughnut, the configuration of the respective lower sides of the partition and of the head facilitating release of the doughnut and the plug from the rings.

Abstract: An appliance for a book or the like having an outer panel with portions for securing the outer panel on the book, and a member mounted on the outer panel movable to and from a position within the book for marking a selected portion of the book.

Abstract: A pneumatic cleaning system for particulate bulk material such as raisins, seeds, nuts, and the like, the system having a reciprocating screen onto which the material is delivered in a layer for travel across the screen; a top hood and a bottom hood mounted in substantially air-tight relation on the screen; an air cleaner; a blower having an intake and an exhaust, and conduits connecting the exhaust, the bottom hood, the intake, and the cleaner in closed circuit, series relation to pass air upwardly through the layer at the screen.

Abstract: An assembly for installing chains or the like on dual wheels having corresponding outer peripheral surfaces and facing sidewalls, the assembly having a plate dimensioned for engagement with the outer peripheral surfaces of the dual wheels; a capturing member having at least one dimension greater than the distance between the sidewalls; an arm interconnecting the plate and the capturing member to mount the assembly on the wheels for rotation therewith with the plate in engagement with the outer peripheral surfaces of the wheels and the capturing member captured between the sidewalls; and pins mounted on the plate for releasably supporting chains in depending relation aligned with the wheels for installation thereon by rotation of the wheels.

Abstract: The invention is embodied in a high-speed case-erecting machine characterized by a bottom-feed hopper, a pneumatic picker and a pair of live transfer rollers for transferring from the hopper flattened, knocked-down cases to be received at a case-squaring station equipped with vertically separable pneumatic cups for squaring the cases, a chain-driven, reciprocating conveyor of adjustable modular construction for transferring squared cases through a series of flap-manipulating stations at which the flaps located at one end of each case are closed and sealed, thus to provide a series of erected cases.

Abstract: A method for orienting well casing and other tubular work objects of differing transverse dimension relative to each other including the steps of positioning the work objects telescopically relative to each other in such a manner that when the work object of larger transverse dimension is disposed in a substantially vertical attitude, the work object of smaller transverse dimension is pendantly supported gravitationally substantially to self center along a common axis with the work object of larger transverse dimension; disposing the work object of larger transverse dimension in a substantially vertical attitude; and mounting the work objects in fixed relation relative to each other.

Abstract: A sprinkler having a body with a fluid receiving portion, having a cutting edge deployed to cut out a portion of a conduit during installation thereon to receive the fluid receiving portion, and an opposite fluid discharging portion; an arm mounted on the fluid discharging portion of the body; and a splash plate removably mounted on the arm in spaced relation to and in alignment with the fluid discharging portion for deflecting a fluid stream impinging thereupon from the fluid discharging portion into a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: An improved boat anchor assembly including an anchor shank having a pair of penetrating flukes pivotally connected thereto and supported for angular displacement about an axis normally related to the longitudinal axis of the shank, motion limiting stops mounted on the shank for arresting pivotal motion of the flukes relative to the shank, said shank being provided with a pivotal coupling interposed between the ends thereof and a shear pin for imparting stability to the shank and adapted to give way under angularly applied loads of predetermined magnitudes whereby the shank is permitted to "break" for facilitating recovery of the anchor, and releasable coupling means including a single non-load bearing pin for releasably locking said flukes and said shanks into an integral configuration whereby the anchor readily may be disassembled for compact storage.

Abstract: A cleansing device for use in a substantially erect attitude, the device having a housing with a grasping portion and a cleansing portion and a passage extending through the housing interconnecting the grasping and cleansing portions; a conduit mounted on the grasping portion of the housing having a distal end portion adapted to be connected to a source of liquid for transfer of liquid from the source through the conduit and into the passage of the housing; and a liquid absorbent element affixed on the cleansing portion of the housing in communication with the passage and facing in an upward direction when the housing is held in a substantially erect attitude with the cleansing portion higher than the grasping portion.

Abstract: A pollinating machine for use with plants growing in a row and having blossoms pollinated by compressing transversely of the row, the machine being mounted for movement along the row and having a pair of axially upright, cylindrical rollers spaced transversely of the row and provided individually with peripheral layers of resiliently yielding material, a pair of paddle wheels spaced transversely of the row ahead of the rollers, and mechanism rotationally driving the rollers and the wheels so that, as the machine moves along the row, the wheels gather the plants centrally of the row for compressing between the rollers.

Abstract: A method and casing for a well in which the casing has a conduit formed by a substantially tubular wall defining an interior and an exterior for the conduit and having an opening extending through the wall to establish a path for fluid movement into the interior of the conduit, and a housing mounted on the exterior of the conduit having a chamber in communication with the opening of the conduit and the housing having an opening therein to establish a path for fluid movement into the chamber of the housing.

Abstract: A plum tree substantially identical to the Santa Rosa Plum Tree (unpatented), which it most nearly resembles, and which bears reddish-purple skinned, light yellow-fleshed, cling stone fruit, but distinguished by bearing fruit which ripens from two to three weeks earlier than the fruit of the Santa Rosa Plum Tree.

Abstract: A peach tree, denominated "Ryans Sun," producing freestone fruit having a dark red color with bright yellow flesh of very firm and crisp character and a skin which is tenacious to the flesh ripening in the last week of August.

Abstract: A peach tree, denominated "July Sun", of very vigorous growth producing very large freestone fruit having a bright red to a bright yellow coloration ripening after the July Lady Peach Tree about the twentieth of July.

Abstract: A peach tree, denominated "August Sun", producing freestone fruit having a dark red color with bright yellow, very crisp flesh and skin tenacious to the flesh ripening August 18, to August 24.