Abstract: A further modification of the invention of U.S. Ser. No. 06/649,522 below discloses a closed multi purpose product container suitable for heavy duty transportation of commodity products by railroad flat cars, freight ships and land motor truck powered trailers. The modification of a full top opening has two intersecting hinged flat rigid top lids and can have side flaps extending the container length. Each one-half flat hinged lid can open and hinge from one of the opposed two long flat rigid side walls. A pair of an opposed front end wall and a hinged rear end wall door can have end wall load reinforcement designed to prevent the container end walls from bowing and deforming in shape during the acceleration and deceleration of the loaded cargo container, during the starting and stopping of a loaded train having the product containers disposed on the flat cars of the train.

Abstract: A cord clamp provides a device for securing shoe laces, belts and tie cords with advertising possibilities. The cord clamp has a thin uniform thickness wall elastomeric hemisphere of a plastic composition, with a centrally disposed post radially projecting integrally inwardly. A central first aperture pierces the post, the first aperture being disposed in and through the post parallel to the hemisphere diameter, the post having a length disposed just short of the sphere radius length. The hemisphere wall has an interiorly disposed recessed groove therein, adjacent and around the hemisphere edge. A rigid, thin circular plate has a second central aperture disposed there through which allows the encompassing hemisphere to be inwardly flexed and the short post to move through the second aperture positioned in the circular plate.

Abstract: A top flexible rectangular shaped sheet shelter for motorcycle, moped, bicycle or the like narrow profile vehicle can quickly be erected to protect such a narrow profile vehicle from the weather elements. The protective rectangular shaped sheet has an opposed pair of sheet lengths and an opposed pair of sheet sides. A first linear rod wall mount, equivalent to the length of a parked motorcycle, moped, bicycle or the like profile vehicle is secured on the exterior wall of a house, recreational vehicle (RV), a standard motor vehicle garage, fence or the like. The detachable wall mount can have a simple sheet element which can be a film cover of plastic sheet, or an alternatively spring loaded roller shade sheet, disposed on a tubelike container. The sheet shelter element can be a foldable plastic film sheet or a waterproof woven fabric tarpaulin cover sheet, forming a tent-type protective structure against the climatic elements of rain, snow and hail.

Abstract: A closed multi-purpose product container suitable for heavy duty transportation of commodity products by railroad flat cars, freight ships and land motor truck power trailer has a full top opening hinged flat rigid lid, as well as the conventional opening rear flat rigid door. The closed hinged flat rigid lid transportation container (CLC) has structural welded seams securing the two long flat rigid side walls, a flat rigid bottom wall, and a front flat rigid end wall, so as to safely carry high density lump loads such as lump coal, powdered and granular chemicals, grains and other solid loads, with secure transportation and freedom from external and internal contamination, when the flat rigid rear door is closed and sealed. Welded triangular strength reinforcement trusses, multiple V-shaped strength stiffening pleats and half round truss means may be equivalently, typically formed in and on the side walls, top lid, rear door and bottom wall of the CLC. Typically, a CLC can have 20 to 40 ft.

Abstract: A coaxial centrifugal separator device has a linear pipe fixed diameter exterior, with a coaxial pipe entrance with multiple internal helical spiraling vanes disposed and secured to the interior wall of the pipe length, the interior helical spiraling vanes providing a centrifugal motion to the fluid multi-phase input flow into the centrifugal device. The centrifugal motion imparted to the multi-phase input fluid finally separates the total input fluid into flowing concentric streams in the device, the fluid stream having the lowest density being centered along the centrifugal device pipe centerline. The highest density particulates stream is disposed along the interior wall of the centrifugal device in a generally laminar flow.

Abstract: A cargo container wall and top lid washing machine has multiple rotating cylindrical sweeper brushes which are hydraulically rotated by detergent-water solution pumped throughout one or more water turbines, powered by electric motors, and water pumps. The multiple rotating sweeper brushes are planarly do-disposed and secured in a planar frame means, providing simultaneous scrubbing of the inside and outside walls of the multiple container lids and the inside and outside walls of the cargp container. The multiple rotating sweeper brushes can be simultaneously lowered around the set of open lids and into and outside of the cargo container walls. Multiple throttle valves control the flow rate of detergent cleaning solution to each cylindrical brush, the brushes being rotated by centrifugal rotating water turbine motors, whose hollow central shafts are extended to bearing journals disposed in paired, opposed, pivoted long, hollow tubular support mounts.

Abstract: A foldable, inexpensive, easily assembled recreation chair-pad combination can be folded into a compact manually carried luggage piece. Basically, an exterior, double folded cover is separately formed into three closed compartments and a cover extension. Each compartment is formed and separately secured by the three doubled cloth hinges, which are secured by securing means such as multiple grommets disposed and secured along the three hinge lines. A foam pad two inches thick by about 15.times.15 inch square is disposed and secured in one first end compartment. Similarly, a 1/4 inch thick plywood backing sheet, and a 2 inch thick foam pad of equal area to the above are disposed in the two adjacent compartments. Velcro matching fastener strips are adaptively sized, placed and secured on the opposed sides of the cover, positioned to cohere to each other on folding the chair-pad into a multiple folded piece of luggage, folded at the three hinge lines.

Abstract: A coffee serving contains a composition of a combination of a preselected amount of a coffee bean selection in flaked or ground coffee particle size and a preselected amount of a fruit acid-sodium bi-carbonate foamer composition, intimately mixed together in a water porous film serving unit bag. The ground coffee composition is disposed and secured in a serving unit bag, and is brewed in a preselected volume of boiling water for a preselected time period. When the unit bag of coffee combination is initially disposed in the boiling water, the unit bag floats, due to the carbon dioxide gas formed and evolving in the wetted bag, the gas agitating the grounds. As the carbon dioxide gas finally disperses through the porous film wet bag, the bag sinks to the bottom of the container of hot coffee solution. The slightly acidified or neutral pH brewed coffee solution is now ready to drink.

Abstract: A veterinary medical leg splint suitable for cat and dog restraint prevents an animal from flexing its elbow joint and effectively shutting off the flow of intravenous fluids. After placing an intravenous catheter in place in an animal foreleg in a cephalic vein, the cat and dog intravenous restraint splint is applied typically to the foreleg of the animal. The basic restraint is a washable, reusable, gas sterilizable longitudinal plastic restraint that can have two Velcro straps for attachment to a leg. The splint device has a one piece rigid strip having a longitudinal slit aperture adjacent the first splint terminus. The first of the two leg restraint straps is adjustably slidable in the longitudinal slit aperture, secured normal in the aperture by a restraint pin.The second splint terminus has an adjacent paddle shaped terminal piece secured normal to the rigid strip. The second of the leg straps is secured normal to the splint adjacent to the paddle.

Abstract: To form a U-channel storage system, a pair of U-shaped metal channels are disposed and secured a selected parallel distance apart, having paired equal lengths. The paired channels secured with their channel bases turned outwardly opposed, are secured to a flat wall surface, a conventional hand operated upright dolly, a tradesman's utility truck, or the like support means. Multiple open slots are formed in the opposed juxtal channel leg positions in the channel bases, spaced a selected distance apart. Multiple paired supporting stops are secured inside and across the U-shaped channels another selected uniform distance below each slot, providing a paired holding and supporting stop for a rod member of the required length inserted in each juxtal opposed pair of slots. Reels of wire, rolls of electrical conduit, tool boxes, wire caddies having suitable selected length of caddy feet, and other tool and instrumentation devices can be arranged on and held by rod members on the pair of securing U-channels.

Abstract: A separator for multiple phase fluids has a unitary fluid separator box formed as a single metal plenary chamber, and alternatively as a simple fluid distribution box of a single plastic form. Each of the single plenum chamber branching channel box has a top fluid constricting support plate and a bottom support plate, with an inlet fluid channel which branches to a first pair of channels having each channel cross section equal to the single inlet channel, the first pair of channels each branching to a second pair of channels, also each having the inlet channel cross section, the second pair of channels can also each have a third pair of channels of outlet channel cross section, and so on. The inlet channel turbulent fluid flow is transformed by multiple dual channel splitting and flow into a substantially laminar fluid flow, allowing phase separations.

Abstract: A conventional tooth brush is combined with a tongue cleaner as a single instrument, adapted to provide cooperative improved personal user hygiene. A tooth brush has a handle integrally extending coextensively from the conventional tooth brush bristle segment, the opposed handle terminating in an integral arcuate tongue scraper member, centrally secured on the arcuate structure curve at the opposed handle terminus. The arcuate scraper member can also be formed to be removable from the tooth brush handle. The terminal arcuate scraper structure is provided to the tooth brush user to scrape the user's top tongue surface, removing food particles and the like which can decay and provide offensive odors and tooth decay agents. The tooth brush user can wash the user's teeth with conventional tooth cleaner material in the conventional manner, then reverse the tooth brush in their hand and scrape the top surface of the user's tongue, further removing food particles and the like.

Abstract: The regulated permeability of a thermoplastic membrane is modified by subjecting the thin membrane sheeting to warm to hot water, increasing the absorption of water in the membrane. The membrane is then rapidly heated with microwave radiation energy, typically at the 2450 MHz frequency absorbed by water, or heated in hot air. The water molecules absorbed in the membrane are explosively boiled out of the membrane, increasing the porosity of the membrane to water and also to other small molecules dissolved in water. The permeability of the plastic membrane is controlled by varying the concentration of water molecules initially absorbed in the hot membrane. Several types of plastic membrane having a relatively higher water absorption can be treated. The thin plastic membrane can be manufactured by extruding a small diameter, thick wall plastic tubing into hot water, and expanding the tubing with a hot water stream pumped into the inside of the tubing.

Abstract: An electrical limit switch valve, having an essentially rigid plastic structural composition, is adapted to conductively secure a fluid flow pipe. A covering flexible elastic membrane diaphragm separates a valve base and piped fluid from a spring loaded ON-OFF electrical switch. The push button detent of the ON-OFF switch is operated normal to the valve bore axis. A valve plug slidably moves on the valve bore axis, the plug bonded at the first valve plug face to the second face of the flexible diaphragm, and the valve plug stem operates the push button detent of the ON-OFF switch. An adjustable actuating first pressurizing spring, coaxially disposed in the valve top housing along the valve bore axis regulates the fluid pressure at which the ON-OFF switch is actuated. An adjustable second pressurizing spring positioned normal to the valve bore axis is adapted to operate on a second spindle controlling the valve plug movement at fluid pressures below atmosphere pressure, in the fluid flow pipe.

Abstract: A hemodialysis unit has an integral partition disposed across the length and width of the interior of the dialysate chamber separating the dialysate chamber into two subchambers. The first of the two dialysate subchambers has a blood perfusion unit floor and the second dialysate subchamber has a blood perfusion unit ceiling respectively, both subchambers having the opposed exterior length and width margins of the blood perfusion unit sealed to the opposed bonding edges of the dialysate chamber. The cross sectional areas of the two dialysate subchambers so formed are adaptively sized to provide a high velocity flow of dialysate solution over the length of the two subchambers, providing a more rapid sweep of the diffusional boundary layer from the exterior of the two opposed faces of the blood perfusion unit, providing a high rate of removal of waste excreta products from a patient's blood.

Abstract: A fluid pressure regulator valve has a rigid plastic composition valve housing having a coaxial aligned opposed inlet port and outlet port, and a hollow cylindrical interior having four stepped successively larger selected bore diameters on serially proceeding from the bottom deep base bore to the top screw cap retainer bore. A cylindrical sealing solid piston has a first flat piston crown end face and an opposed second flat piston end face, the second end face having a larger diameter than the crown face, and has one diametrically concentric fluid transfer channel disposed in and circumferentially around the piston cylindrical axis adjacent to the first piston face. A cylindrical screw cap has a shaped hollow dome and screw threads secured in the hollow cylindrical valve housing interior. An interior fluid distribution annular washer is secured in an annular washer recess disposed in the interior face of the screw cap.

Abstract: Fluid transfer valves having a first and a second actuating means are functionally assembled from a common valve housing having coaxial aligned opposed inlet and outlet ports and a hollow cylindrical interior having four stepped bores, concentrically aligned on a housing cylindrical symmetry axis. A cylindrical sealing solid piston is disposed in the cylindrical deep bore of the housing. A concentric bore in the screw cap secures and provides a close linear alignment path for the sealing solid piston. The cap has multiple concentric radial apertures disposed in an interior integral cap collar, providing a flow path for fluid transfer. A concentric piston channel uniformly disposed in and around the axis of symmetry of the piston provides fluid transfer through the valve on controlled positioning of the piston. A first aperture connects the inlet port to the annular bore surrounding the piston, and a second aperture can connect the outlet port to the piston channel.

Abstract: A two piece decorative cake container is adapted in dimensions to completely cover a cake, and the cake container is appropriately decorated to provide the decorations suitable for a specific celebration. The invention can include suitable removable decorations, such as names, dates and the like on the cake container.