Abstract: Methods for vertically restraining palletized cargo within an aircraft that quickly restrains and unrestrains vertical movement of transportation pallets of uneven shapes within a transportation bay employs a plurality of cams having upwardly oriented circular geared portion and downwardly oriented extended portion mounted onto the sides of the bay. Once a pallet is inserted into the bay with the outboard edges under cams urging the downwardly oriented extended portions to turn to accommodate distortions of the outboard edges, rotating the cams. Once the pallet is fully inserted into the bay, the methods employ locking levers with linear gears along the bottom mesh with the circular gears on portions of the cams preventing the cams from rotation. The extended portions of the cams with shock absorbing bumpers lie on the upper surface of the pallet restraining the vertical movement of the pallets. Alarm means to detect the status of the locking levers are also provided for.

Abstract: A water craft propulsion tool providing a means to propel a water craft through its floating medium, uses an extended member with a handle on one end and a water grasper, that is a device having high resistance to fluid flow on the other end. By pulling the grasper through the floating medium, a drag force is applied to move the craft in the direction of the pull. The tool is also used in combination with a docking pole having a handle, an extended member and a hook-bumper at the other end.

Abstract: A hand-held, gourd based percussion instrument, has a modified guiro gourd with two maraca gourds extended outwardly therefrom. A hollow, elongate guiro gourd is modified by having its ends removed and replaced with light-bulb shaped maracas with the spherical portions extending outwardly, the maracas attached by means of an extended member within the cylindrical center of the guiro. With sounding furrows on the outer surface of the cylindrical center and sounding pebbles within, the furrows are stroked with a rasper and the instrument is shaken to produce rhythmic sounds.

Abstract: A cargo hold down system to quickly restrain and unrestraint vertical movement of transportation pallets of uneven shapes within a transportation bay employs a plurality of cams having upwardly oriented circular geared portion and downwardly oriented extended portion mounted onto the sides of the bay. A pallet is inserted into the bay with the outboard edges under the cams urging the downwardly oriented extended portions to turn to accommodate distortions of the outboard edges, rotating the cams. Once the pallet is fully inserted into the bay, locking levers with linear gears along the bottom mesh with the circular gears on portions of the cams preventing the cams from rotation. The extended portions of the cams with shock absorbing bumpers lie on the upper surface of the pallet restraining the vertical movement of the pallets. An alarm to detect the status of the locking levers is also provided for.

Abstract: A kite that is self-erecting to a flying configuration having a forward opening with control line attached to a spool, a rearward opening with kite fabric stretched to form a surface between the openings, the forward opening urged from the rearward opening by flexible member support spars, the spars sized longer than the distance between the openings and aligned under tension between the openings to the extent permitted by the stretched fabric. The kite is collapsed into a generally flat storage configuration, by rotating one opening with respect to the other opening past a point of no return, the flexible member tension spars configuring themselves to a more relaxed, unaligned orientation. The two openings may be thus placed together into a storage configuration without disassembly and conveniently confined within side walls of the line spool, where one of the walls may be approximately the size of an opening to protect the kite.

Abstract: The present invention provides for controlling the temperature of a seat used in conjunction with inboard or outboard motor boats and craft. The invention extracts hot water from the circulating water pump of a motor boat engine and cool water from the high pressure side of the motor boat's intake water pump obtained from the floating medium, provides for controlling the mixture of hot and cool water and circulates the mixture through plastic water pads, returning the used water to the low pressure side of the motor boat's intake water pump. In such an arrangement, the temperature of the mixed water supplied to the water pads can be adjusted from the operating temperature of the motor boat engine to the temperature of floating medium.