Abstract: A detachable conveyor bucket apparatus attached to an endless conveyor belt. The apparatus used with a plurality of buckets to quickly detach and mount the buckets on the conveyor belt used in transferring grain in a grain elevator.

Abstract: An improved light weight speed reducer box for driving an oil pump jack and reducing the speed from a drive motor or the like to the pump jack. The speed reducer box includes reversible chain driven sprockets mounted on an input shaft, idle shaft, and output shaft. By mounting the shafts between a separate upper and lower housing, maintenance can be quickly performed on the speed reducer box.

Abstract: A fireplace damper release mechanism for mounting in a fireplace adjacent a fire. The mechanism coacts with a fireplace damper connecting rod to automatically close the fireplace damper when the fire has gone out thereby avoiding the loss of heat from the room through the fireplace chimney.

Abstract: An improved chaff collector for towing behind a farm vehicle and receiving chaff therefrom. A conveyor is mounted on the collector and feeds chaff into a rotatably mounted drum. The drum is positioned at the rear of the collector and above the ground surface. When the drum is filled it automatically lowers and rotates on the ground surface unloading the chaff thereon. When the drum has unloaded the chaff it automatically returns to its original unloaded position on the collector.

Abstract: A waterwheel assembly has entry and outlet flow directing channel portions and a flow directing member below the waterwheel. The waterwheel has a plurality of radially disposed paddles mounted on a rotatable shaft and arranged with spaces between the paddles in open fluid communication in the center portion of the waterwheel. The upper portion of the waterwheel is enclosed in a pressurized air cavity so water is kept in the lower portion of the waterwheel. A method of controlling the water flow in a watershed includes directing water flow through small channels which connect with larger channels with flow controlling waterwheels in the channels at selected location so that releasing water through the waterwheels controls water flow and thus regulates runoff in the watershed area.

Abstract: A fold-away hook platform used as a scaffold for mounting to a structure such as the side of a railroad car. The platform having a pair of scaffold arms with upper end portions having hook portions extending therefrom for quickly mounting to a door, gate, or wooden cribbing. The lower end portion of the scaffold arms adapted for receiving the ends of a board for standing on while working on the platform. The platform is held rigidly in place by scaffold bracing pivotally attached to each scaffold arm.

Abstract: A method and a processor having infrared sensed chemical replenishing system for processing photosensitive material. The processor includes a replenishing circuitry having a power supply; a pulsed infrared sensor electrically connected to the power supply for measuring the width of photosensitive materials; a pulse generator circuit for generating a pulse width and repetition rate to the infrared sensor means; and a summing circuit for producing a summation of all latched input elements transmitted from the sensor. The replenishing circuit also includes a replenishment calibration timing circuit for producing a replenishment command signal following a successive time interval equal to the time required for the processor drive to turn one revolution, and a control circuitry for controlling the chemical flow of the replenishment system.

Abstract: A tripod shaped vehicle bumper jack for raising and lowering a vehicle. The jack legs are foldable for ease of storage. Attached to the end of each leg is a rotatable base plate so that the jack is self-leveling when it becomes necessary to lift a vehicle when the ground surface is at an angle to the horizontal. The vehicle is raised and lowered using a bumper hook attached to a cable driven by a worm gear driven windlass.

Abstract: A water-powered, self-cleaning rotary strainer for use in drawing water from a running stream. A perforated drum is rotatably mounted on a frame. Drum rotation is done by using moving water. A float is mounted on the frame to support the drum in a partially submerged condition. Water is withdrawn from the interior of the drum through a conduit as the drum rotates and debris is passed around the drum.

Abstract: An ear mold injection dispenser for dispensing impression material into an ear canal and a cavity of the ear. The dispenser includes a tubular body having a valve. The impression material is mixed inside the tubular body. A plunger is inserted into the tubular body and the valve is open. The plunger pushes the material through the valve into a funnel which is inserted into the ear. The funnel is detachable from the tubular body so that the correct size of funnel can be selected for inserting inside the ear canal.

Abstract: A cattle oiler for the treating of livestock. The oiler having an angular rubbing tube and a vertical rubbing tube communicably connected to an oil reservoir. The rubbing tubes are positioned on angular and vertical supports wherein an animal can rub against both the vertical rubbing tube and angular rubbing tube, thereby treating both its sides and back with oil. The rubbing tubes are tiltably mounted on their supports. When the tubes are tilted a valve inside each tube is opened and oil from the oil reservoir is supplied to the surface of the rubbing tube.

Abstract: A wheel mounted grain drier for towing behind a farm vehicle or the like. The grain drier having a pair of horizontally mounted augers with perforated hollow auger shafts. In the drier the grain is conveyed along the length of cylindrical chambers by the augers as a gas fired blower vents hot air along the length of the hollow auger shafts and out the perforations thereby drying the grain as it is conveyed.

Abstract: A railroad teeter switch game having parallel channels interconnected in a game board. The channels representing a railroad main track and railroad return tracks. Roller balls are used to represent a railroad engine, a railroad caboose, and other railroad cars and are rolled back and forth in the tracks by tilting the board. By skillfully opening and closing switches at the end of the main track and using the return tracks, the players of the game can reverse the order of the roller balls in the main track, thereby achieving the object of the game.

Abstract: A vibration dampener for an engine with cooling fins on its cylinders is an integrally formed resilient material member with a first portion having lug portions mountable on opposite sides of cooling fins and between adjacent cooling fins. The lug portions in their outer end portions are of reduced size relative their inner portions, and are wider in their inner end portions than the distance between the fins. Connected ends of the first portion traverse ends of the cooling fins. The vibration dampener is constructed and adapted to be mounted and held in place on an engine solely by friction with the lug-like portions compressed between cooling fins. It reduces the vibrating frequency to which the cooling fins on the cylinders can be forced by normal operation of the engine to prevent the engine from reaching a resonant frequency.

Abstract: An aircraft turn coordinator used in an aircraft to sense both yaw and roll rate along the longitudinal flight axis. The coordinator includes a gimbaled rate gyroscope which is connected to a turn indicator arm by a gear train. The rapid rotation or lashing of the gimbaled gyroscope due to air turbulence is reduced by dampening the movement of the gimbal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for developing both black and white and color photographic film using a spirally wound tube. Each convolution of the tube is adapted to contain a selected film treating fluid agent.The film to be photographically processed is attached to a carrier having a magnetic element mounted thereon. The carrier with the trailing film is inserted into the spirally wound tube. A conveyor belt having magnets attached thereto is disposed adjacent the inner circumference of the outer surface of the convolutions of the tube. The film is processed by the carrier being magnetically guided by the magnet on the conveyor belt through the sequence of the different film treating fluid agents in the convolutions of the tube.

Abstract: A machine for forming the head end portion of a locator pin has a base rigidly mountable. A housing is transversely movably mounted on the base. A pin mounting is on the housing. The machine in use rotates the pin mount simultaneously with moving the housing transversely on the base, so the head end portion of the pin can be ground to have a cylindrical form oblong in cross section with the ends of the cross section being arcuate.

Abstract: A cooker receives material from an auger and cooks same by circulating the material preferably while stirring same in a cavity or zone having heated air passed and recirculated through the cooking zone and the material. It has an inner perforated vessel surrounded by a second perforated vessel spaced from an outer imperforate vessel. An auger moves the material in a vertical fashion through the inner vessel and disperses and circulates same through the cooking zone between the inner vessel and the second vessel and is used to remove grain from the cooker. Heat is supplied to fresh air and preferably recirculating air from between the second vessel and the outer vessel, and the resulting heated air is forced into the inner vessel. It then passes outwardly through the inner perforate vessel and heats and cooks the material in the cooking zone, and then passes out through the second perforated vessel.