Abstract: An equipment carrier assembly for mounting to a snowplow mounting bracket includes at least one and preferably a pair of carrier stands each including a lower platform for supporting equipment thereon and an upright mast mounted to and extending upwardly from the lower platform for attaching equipment thereto, a lower shaft latching mechanism attached on and extending between the lower platforms of the carrier stands for mounting the carrier stand to the snowplow mounting bracket, and upper slide locking mechanisms on the upright masts of the carrier stands for securing the carrier stands to the snowplow mounting bracket. The carrier stands of the assembly may be intercoupled to one another by components attached to and extending respectively between the lower platforms and upper masts of the carrier stands.

Abstract: A self-supporting thermally-protective plant enclosure includes a plurality of elongated hollow closure bodies each having a pair of outer and inner transparent walls. Each outer and inner wall are peripherally interconnected by a base, a top and a pair of opposite sides extending upwardly from the base to the top. Each closure body is closed along the opposite sides and base and is open at least through a portion of the top, defining an internal cavity in the closure body capable of receiving and holding a quantity of fluid therein. The closure bodies are positioned in side-by-side relation and are coupled one closure body to the next along the opposite sides thereof so as to form the plant enclosure with an open top and bottom and an annular configuration surrounding a protective plant growth chamber.

Abstract: An electronic librarian and filing system includes an article storage unit, article locator mechanism, article retrieval mechanism, and electronic control unit. The article storage unit has a receptacle storing articles, such as individual CD's on edge, in successive side-by-side locations. The article locator mechanism disposed in the receptacle is movable relative to the successive locations to identify the location of each of the articles stored therein. The article retrieval mechanism carried with the article locator mechanism is operable to partially remove a selected one of the CD's from its location so that it can subsequently be fully removed from the receptacle by a user.

Abstract: An aircraft wing protective cover system which is secured on an aircraft wing to cover and protect the wing from snow and ice build-up during winter weather includes a cover sheet configured to overlie the upper surface of an aircraft wing and to extend around and under the forward edge of the wing. The system also includes a pocket formed at an outer end of the cover sheet which encloses a tip of the wing, and perimeter strips attached to and extending along the perimeter of the cover sheet and cross strips attached to the cover sheet and extending between the perimeter strips to reinforce the cover sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to strings for stringed musical instruments, fishing equipment, and sports racquets which are exposed to a suitable solvent or suitable elasticizer compatible with the materials contained in the fibers, bonding resins, or coating resins in the strings, such that partial dissolution of the material in the suitable solvent occurs or absorption of the suitable elasticizer occurs so as to increase the elasticity, increase the flexibility, increase the ductility, or increase the resiliency of the strings.

Abstract: A hairpiece includes a rear base portion and a front base portion for attaching multiple strands of hair thereto and separate complementary fastening segments for detachably connecting the front base portion to the rear base portion. The rear base portion has a pair of opposite sides and a front end extending therebetween. The front base portion has a pair of opposite sides and a rear end extending therebetween and coextensive with the front end of the rear base portion. The complementary fastening segments are connecting bands respectively attached to the rear end of the front base portion and the front end of the rear base portion. The connecting bands have fastening elements thereon attachable to and detachable from one another to connect the front base portion to the rear base portion for use on the wearer's head and to disconnect and remove the front base portion from the rear base portion without the necessity for removal of the rear base portion from the wearer's head.

Abstract: An electronic librarian and filing system includes an article storage unit, article locator mechanism, article retrieval mechanism, and electronic control unit. The article storage unit has a receptacle storing articles, such as individual CD's on edge, in successive side-by-side compartments. The article locator mechanism disposed in the receptacle is movable relative to the successive compartments to identify the location of each of the successive compartments and thus of the articles stored therein. The article retrieval mechanism carried with the article locator mechanism is operable to partially remove a selected one of the CD's from its compartment so that it can subsequently be fully removed from the receptacle by a user. The electronic control unit is coupled to the article locator mechanism.

Abstract: An above production disposal tool for use in a production well having a lower production formation and an upper disposal formation includes an outer tube body, upper and lower annular seals, an upper tube member, an upper collar having a plurality of outlet port holes, a lower tube member, a lower collar having a plurality of inlet port holes, an upper inner by-pass tube, a lower inner by-pass tube, a middle collar disposed between upper and lower tube portions of the outer tube body and having a plurality of axial passageways and a plurality of transverse ports, and a tubing pump having an intake port located below the production formation. The outer tube body, upper and lower tube members and tubing pump are incorporated in a tubing string disposed in the production well with the outer tube body extending along the disposal formation which is sealed above and below by the annular seals.

Abstract: A golf cart sun shade and inclement weather protection device includes a support frame adapted for attachment to a golf cart and being convertible between a retracted position and an extended position and an elongated shade adapted for attachment to the support frame and being convertible between a collapsed condition and a deployed condition. The shade in the collapsed condition is unattached and removed from the support frame and in the deployed condition is releasably attachable to and overlying the support frame with the support frame in the extended position. The support frame is secured to the golf cart and the golf club bag is placed within the support frame. The shade is attached to the support frame while the support frame is moved from the retracted position to the extended position. A securing arrangement secures the support frame in the extended position.

Abstract: A battery operated portable human body heater. The portable heater uses conventional 12 volt batteries to power a portable hot box which provides blowing air with three temperature settings. The portable heater is compact and can be conveniently transported in a carry bag such as a back pack. The heater can be attached to a blanket, a jacket or pants to warm he human body. The heater can be set at high temperature, low temperature or air only. At the high temperature setting continuous 130.degree. F. heat is provided for over an hour. At the low temperature setting continuous 87-100.degree. F. heat is provided for over two hours. Blowing air without heat is provided for over 30 hours. The portable heater can also be powered or its batteries recharged by a typical wall socket or cigarette lighter in a car or boat.

Abstract: A belt grinding machine for forming cutting edges of complex geometry on surgical instruments includes a fixture for holding an instrument with a site thereon in a position for grinding a surface at the site on the instrument, a grinding assembly having a grinding belt with a planar span for grinding the surface at the site on the instrument, an oscillation producing mechanism for oscillating the instrument relative to the grinding belt so as to reciprocally translate the site on the instrument parallel and relative to the planar span of the grinding belt concurrently with grinding the surface at the site on the instrument, a translation producing mechanism for selectively translating the grinding assembly and thus the planar span of the grinding belt toward and away from the site on the instrument to permit receiving and setting up of the instrument in the instrument holding fixture and to place the instrument in a position for the planar span of the grinding belt to grind the surface at the site on the inst

Abstract: A shoelace securing method includes, initially, threading the free end portions of a pair of shoelaces, emanating from a tightly laced region on the shoe, upwardly through a main passageway formed in a securing device by passing the free end portions into an open bottom end and out of an open top end of the passageway of the securing device, next, routing the free end portions of the pair of shoelaces from the open top end of the passageway of the securing device forwardly to and downwardly through an auxiliary passageway formed in a forward edge portion of the securing device, and, finally, tightly wrapping the free end portions of the pair of shoelaces around the shoelaces adjacent to the open bottom end of the main passageway of the securing device between a bottom side of the securing device and the tightly laced region of the shoe.

Abstract: A crop straw flow disruption device for installation on a cylindrical grain separation grate of a crop harvesting machine includes a top member adapted for installation on an interior side of the grate, a bottom member adapted for installation on an exterior side of the grate, and a fastener for releasably clamping the top member and bottom member respectively against the interior and exterior sides of the grate and adjacent to one another through an opening in the grate. The top member includes an upright crop engaging portion extending upwardly and outwardly from the interior side of the grate so as to project across and interrupt the path of flow of crop straw about the interior side of the grate to disrupt the occurrence of intertwining of crop straw and thereby the formation and discharge of an elongated rope of crop straw on a harvested field.

Abstract: A lock device for use with a coaxial cable connection includes an annular inner member and a annular outer sleeve. The inner member has an end portion with threads for engaging the inner member on a male coaxial cable connector part extending from a television or other device. The outer sleeve is inserted over and slid back along a coaxial cable terminating in a female coaxial cable connector part allowing the cable to be connected to the television or other device by the installer's fingers or standard tools such as pliers. The sleeve then is slid forward along the coaxial cable and over the inner member until the outer sleeve covers the inner member and the coaxial cable connection and one of a series of notches on the inside of the sleeve engages a flange on the outside of the inner member.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve assembly includes a valve body having an interior outer central passageway and an interior inner central cavity larger in diameter than the outer central passageway, a valve stem disposed within the outer central passageway and extending into the inner central cavity, a retainer member which supports the valve stem, and a flexible bendable annular seal flange attached about the valve stem held against an interior annular seal surface formed within the valve body between the central passageway and central cavity due to the support of the valve stem by the retainer member. Upon inflation, inward flow of pressurized air through an annular channel between the valve body and valve stem impinges on the annular seal flange, causing it to flex away from the annular seal surface and to permit inward flow of pressurized air.

Abstract: A cargo loading and unloading system for use with a utility vehicle having a bed includes a movable sled for retaining cargo items, a platform mountable to the bed of the utility vehicle for receiving thereon the sled, a ramp for receiving thereover the sled and for facilitating the moving the sled up onto and down from the platform, and a flexible mechanism interconnecting the platform and the sled for controlling the movement of the sled between the ground and the bed of the utility vehicle. The sled has a base, wheels for moving the sled on a support surface and a pair of spaced apart inner longitudinal members which are disposed between the opposite sides of the base. The platform includes a base and a pair of guide rollers disposed above and mounted to the end of the base at the rear end of the utility vehicle bed. The guide rollers mesh with the inner longitudinal members of the sled for the purpose of guiding the sled between the ramp and the platform.

Abstract: A remote alert system includes an electrical signal transmitting unit located at a first location and a receiving unit located at a second location remote from the first location. The signal transmitting unit includes an electrical circuit either disposed in a module which fits between a light socket and a light bulb of a security light unit or integrated directly in the circuitry of the security light unit. The electrical circuit electrically interconnects the light socket with the light bulb so as to cause illumination of the light bulb in response to activation of the security light unit from an "off" to "on" condition. The electrical circuit also produces and broadcasts an electrical signal in response to such activation of the security light unit. The signal receiving unit includes a housing mountable at the second location and an electrical circuit disposed in the housing.

Abstract: A method of retrofitting an underground water drainage sump system to below a floor slab for protecting the floor slab includes the steps of forming a sump hole below a floor slab of a building, drilling into and removing soil from below the floor slab so as to form a plurality of lateral passageways extending from a central location relative to an outer perimeter of the floor slab, extending the lateral passageways outwardly at two different levels and lengths and alternating therebetween to and beyond a footer at the outer perimeter of the floor slab, inserting a plurality of perforated collection pipes into the lateral passageways, placing a perforated drum into the sump hole such that inner ends of the perforated collection pipes are adjacent to the perforated drum, filling the sump hole around at least the lower portion of the perforated drum with drainage stones, placing a sump pump into the perforated drum, connecting the sump pump to a discharge pipe for transporting the drainage water from the perfor