Abstract: A device for correcting the gait of a bad gaited horse comprises soft flexible tubing with a strap routed therethrough. The tubing is placed in the armpits between the horse's body and the tops of the forelegs causing the horse to turn the knees of its forelegs slightly outwardly and thereby reduce a knock kneed or toes out condition. The strap has loops with buckles at the ends to adjustably connect with the shafts of a sulky. Shock cords provide tension between the loops and strap at the ends. Safety straps also connect the strap in the tubing with the loops and buckles at the ends. A chest strap with a buckle connects the strap and tubing across the chest of the horse. The device is placed around the neck of the horse and is buckled across the chest. The ends of the device are brought under the body between the front legs and snugged up by fastening the ends to the sulky shafts. With proper adjustment the tubing is positioned in the horse's armpits. The method of installing the device is also disclosed.

Abstract: At the top of a bottle the circumferential bead lying between the cap fastening means and the neck is enlarged in diameter to better meet the enlarged diameter of an oversize cap such as a two piece "child-resistant" cap. The undercut below the bead forming the neck is greatly exaggerated. The circumferential bead is located lower on the top to better fit the extended skirt length of the outer cap of the two piece "child-resistant" cap. A circumferential shoulder is added above the bead to substantially match the skirt length and diameter of a standard cap. Regardless of whether a "child-resistant" cap or a standard cap is used, the plastic shrink-fit band tightly fits about the cap and over and underneath the circumferential bead. The loosening of either "child resistant" or standard cap will force the splitting of the band because the shrinkage of the band below the circumferential bead is considerably greater than the innate circumferential elongation of the shrunk plastic band material.

Abstract: An inlet manifold active reed valve for an internal combustion spark ignition engine comprises a solenoid activated reed just upstream of the inlet poppet valve of a four stroke engine. For a two stroke engine the active reed valve is located at the entrance to the crankcase and activated by one or more miniature solenoids attached to the valve body. As an alternative, the new valve is a rotary disc valve reciprocated by an external solenoid or a rotary activator. The valve opens fully for full unrestricted flow (unthrottled) during a portion of the time the inlet valve or part is open (in terms of crankshaft angle). The portion of crankshaft angle the new valve is fully open is determined by the engine load. Under full load the new valve may be held constantly open to provide unrestricted flow to the engine inlet valve or crankcase. In the above embodiments an electronic control unit energizes the solenoid or activator in response to engine operating conditions and pollution control regulations.

Abstract: The invention comprises an injection tank for cleaning boilers and heat exchangers. The tank is pressurized by connection to a potable city water supply. The filling, pressurization and injection of cleaning of treatment materials are carefully controlled by the provision of control and check valves on the inlet and outlet of the tank. An interior perforated tank baffle assures that the treatment materials are fully cleared from the tank during injection and thoroughly mixed with pressurized incoming water. The tank is light and portable without requiring separate powered pressurization means.