Abstract: A wall or ceiling mountable bracket, used in pairs, for storing and displaying board-based recreational equipment includes a generally U-shaped body having structurally-reinforced elongated front and rear portions and a spacer portion extending between and rigidly interconnecting them so as to hold them in a spaced apart relationship which forms an elongated channel between them being open at one end and along opposite sides and closed at an opposite end for receiving board-based recreational equipment in the channel. The bracket also includes structures providing access through the body to facilitate fastening the body with its rear portion located against a support structure. The access providing structures define at least two bores, one through the rear portion and the other through the spacer portion and through segments of the front and rear portions aligned with and connected to the spacer portion.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush includes a handle, a brush head defining a brushing plane, and a guide arrangement supported by the handle and, in turn, supporting the brush head to undergo movement along an endless path of revolution having an axis extending substantially parallel to the brushing plane such that the brushing plane is maintained in the same orientation relative to a surface of a set of teeth throughout movement of the brush head along the endless path of revolution.

Abstract: A novelty article includes a base member, an elongated member mounted thereto and made of resiliently flexible material tending to assume an unrolled extended condition when unrestrained by an outside force and being manually rollable upon itself so as to bring opposite portions into contact with one another as the elongated member is rolled upon itself to a rolled-up compact condition, and elements on the elongated member for detachably attaching together the opposite portions thereof when brought into contact with one another such that upon release of the elongated member from the rolled-up compact condition these elements will detach from one another and concurrently generate a drag effect on the detaching of the opposite portions of the elongated member which limits the elongated member to undergoing a controlled progressive unrolling action from the rolled-up compact condition to the unrolled extended condition.

Abstract: A retrieving device includes a support bracket and an expandable ball holder member which has a pair of arms with outer end portions capable of being flexed away from one another and having oppositely curved configurations, and an intermediate structure rigidly interconnecting inner end portions of the arms and pivotally connected to the lower end of the support bracket such that the expandable member is pivotally movable between a first position in which it extends alongside the support bracket and a second position in which it extends outwardly from the lower end of the support bracket such that when the retrieving device is used to retrieve a golf ball with the expandable member in the second position the outer end portions of the arms thereof are forced against the golf ball causing their outward flexing from one another to fit around and support the golf ball for lifting it.

Abstract: A load hauling trailer assembly adapted for on and off road use includes a towable mobile chassis, a storage container body mounted on the mobile chassis and having an open top, a top cover having an outer side and being mountable on the storage container body and movable between opened and closed positions relative to the open top of the storage container body, and a carrier rack mounted on the outer side of the top cover and adapted to carry gear thereon when the top cover is mounted on the storage container body and moved to the closed position. The mobile chassis includes a frame structure, a pair of wheel subassemblies, and suspension and frame structure height adjustment subassemblies mounted to and extending transversely of the frame structure and mounting the wheel subassemblies to the frame structure.

Abstract: A multi-functional golf accessory includes an elongated shaft, a handle attached to an upper end portion of the shaft, a ball teeing mechanism mounted to a lower end portion of the shaft, a trigger mounted to the handle, a motion transmitting rod extending through the shaft and coupling the handle with a pair of pivotal arms of the ball teeing mechanism for operating the arms for placing and releasing a ball and tee in a teed position on the ground, a tee height setting device and a ball retrieving device mounted on opposite sides of a housing of the ball teeing mechanism, a lying tee retrieving device and a standing tee retrieving device mounted to the ball retrieving device, and a quiver element removably storing a ball marking element mounted to the shaft.

Abstract: A pad plunger assembly includes a central mandrel having externally-threaded opposite ends, collars defined about the mandrel inwardly adjacent to the opposite ends and having circumferentially spaced recesses formed in the collars, end members having inner ends with internally-threaded bores threadably removably attached to the externally-threaded opposite ends of the mandrel, and inner annular flanges attached to and extending axially from the inner ends of the end members and adapted to receive the collars such that, for locking the end members onto the mandrel, the end members are threadably screwed onto the opposite ends of the mandrel and then the flanges are crimped so as to force circumferentially displaced portions thereof into the collar recesses thereby locking the end members.

Abstract: A machine for vending products include a housing, an magazine indexing drive mechanism in the housing and drivingly coupled to a product storage and dispensing magazine at spaced apart lower and upper portions of the magazine, a plurality of ball bearings rotatably supporting the magazine on a product separation fixture in the housing, a resiliently yieldable mechanism supported on the separation fixture and having a spring-biased pivotally-movable flap operable to impart a positive downwardly-directed force on the lowermost product that will push it downward toward an opening in the housing, and portions of the housing and the separation fixture defining a path for passage of products to the opening which is located outwardly of and bypasses the drive mechanism.

Abstract: A multi-functional hand tool assembly includes a handle with tool attachments. The handle has opposite ends with opposite holes extending therethrough. The tool attachments are removably, interchangeably and reversibly insertable into the handle ends and each has a middle section and end tool sections connected to and extending in opposite directions from opposite ends of the middle section. Each middle section is identical to one another and has a continuous exterior surface which matches a continuous interior end surface defining each hole in a handle end such that the middle sections can snugly fit through the hole in either handle end so as to mount the tool attachments in non-rotatable relationships with the handle ends such that the tool attachments will turn with turning of the handle.

Abstract: A converter for a device for supplying ammonia (NH3) into the exhaust gas flow of a combustion engine comprising a pressure-tight reaction vessel 2 for generating NH3 by heating a substance thermolytically separating NH3 under the effect of heat, and a heating unit 10 for heating the reaction vessel 2 to the operating temperature for generating the NH3, is defined thereby that the reaction vessel 2 usefully comprises in the region of its bottom an outlet 4 provided with connection means and an inlet 3, spaced apart from the outlet 4, also provided with connection means, with which connection means the interior of the reaction vessel 2 is connectable to a filling and withdrawal unit 13 for drawing off a carrier medium disposed in the reaction vessel 2, and for filling the reaction vessel 2 with new substance thermolytically separating NH3 transported by the carrier medium.

Abstract: Food packaging for packaging a food item in separate layers. The package includes a retaining member with openings to receive separating sheets between layers of food Separating sheets are removed while retaining layers of the food item from moving, just prior to consumption. The food is retained in layers in a box like enclosure integrally including the container.

Abstract: A chiropractic percussor apparatus includes a main housing adapted to be held by a user, an electric motor mounted in the main housing and having a rotary output shaft extending therefrom, an extension housing attached to an end of the main housing and extending outwardly therefrom and having an outer end defining an opening, an elongated push rod eccentrically mounted at an inner end on the rotary output shaft of the electric motor and extending through the extension housing to an outer end of the push rod having a central hole, a flexible coupler assembly supported by the outer end of the extension housing and coupled to the outer end of the push rod so as to permit the outer end of the push rod to undergo reciprocal lengthwise movement and wobbling side-to-side movement relative to the outer end of the extension housing, and a percussion-applying head assembly only centrally attached to the outer end of the push rod at the central hole therein.

Abstract: A miniature flashlight device includes a housing having a cavity, a pair of magnets mounted to the housing, and a light generating assembly disposed in the cavity of the housing. The light generating assembly includes a lamp, at least one battery and a spring-loaded switch connected in an electrical circuit with the lamp and battery and activatable to electrically connect and disconnect the battery with the lamp. The magnets are arranged such that when the housing is placed on a ferromagnetic surface the magnets attract the surface with sufficient force to activate the spring-loaded switch and open the circuit, turning the device off. When the magnets are disengaged from the surface, the spring brings the switch into the closed circuit position.

Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly for a golf club carrying bag includes a plurality of dividers. Some of the dividers extend in intersecting transverse relationships with other of the dividers so as to form a plurality of compartments therebetween for receiving shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. Also, some dividers are of colors different from and contrasting with colors of other dividers so as to provide contrasting colors about the compartments which improve visibility of compartments to a golfer over a case where all of the dividers are of the same color.

Abstract: A pad plunger assembly includes an elongated mandrel having a pair of opposite ends, at least one pad subassembly disposed about the mandrel and extending between the opposite ends thereof, a plurality of annular key ways and annular keys respectively defined on the mandrel and the pad subassembly, the key ways and keys interfitting with one another so as to impede the ability of a fluid to flow along the mandrel beneath the pad subassembly and adjacent to the mandrel and from one to the other of the opposite ends of the mandrel, and elements for securing the pad subassembly on and around the mandrel.

Abstract: A flap disc consists of a backing plate to whose peripheral zone laminae overlapping like a fan or roof tiles are attached. In order to improve the abrasive effect of such a flap disc using less material and simpler production, the lamellae 10 consist of first lamellae 12, comprising a backing 14, a base bonding coat 15 applied to the backing, a layer of abrasive grain 16 deposited over the base bonding coat 15, and a size coat 18 over the layer of deposited abrasive grain 16, and second lamellae 20, consisting of a backing 22 and a layer 24 with grinding active fillers applied to the backing.

Abstract: A surgical instrument holder for use in surgery having a holder body (10) able to hold one of a plurality of surgical instruments used together in surgery, such as a diathermy pencil and a separate suction means or two laproscopic instruments or the like, but allow easy removal of the surgical instruments. A holder attachment means (41) supports the holder body (10) and connects adjacent elongated cylinders (11, 13) at or near respective circumferential points on the elongated cylinders (11, 13) along an intersecting line between respective axes of the adjacent elongated cylinders (11, 13). A connection part (48) associated with the holder attachment means (41) enables the surgical instrument holder (10) to be removably mounted on or near a patient so that the surgical instrument holder (10) provides simultaneous access to each of the adjacent elongated cylinders (11, 13) allowing easy removal of the surgical instruments.

Abstract: An automatic empty container return machine includes a detection unit operable for identifying whether or not an empty container is of a predetermined category, an input unit located upstream of the detection unit for receiving empty containers to supply the empty containers to the detection unit, an output unit located downstream of the detection unit for receiving empty containers that have been identified by the detection unit as being of the predetermined category, a transport stage having a conveyor for transporting empty containers from the input unit through the detection unit to the output unit, and a self-cleaning arrangement having components integrated with at least one of the input unit, detection unit, output unit and transport stage and being operable at selected times to clean surfaces thereof that are preselected to be cleaned.

Abstract: A multiple gang junction box assembly includes a main box and wire clamping devices.disposed in an interior chamber of and attached to the main box. Each wire clamping device includes a clamp housing structure attached to the main box so as to define a passage therethrough into its interior chamber and a clamp member disposed in the housing structure across the passage and flexably bendable at an upper end attached to the main box so as to enable the clamp member to undergo pivotal movement from a closed position toward an open position relative to the passage such that a lower end of the clamp member and a plurality of barbs on the housing structure can assume a locking condition relative to a wire pushed into the main box through passage that prevents the wire from being pulled back through the passage and from the main box.

Abstract: A vacuum attachment mountable on a forward end of a hair grooming clipper includes a conduit body enclosing an internal air flow passage between inlet and outlet ends thereof such that flow of hair cuttings entrained in air can be drawn from front cutting blades of a cutting head mechanism of the clipper via the inlet end through the passage to an external hose coupled to the outlet end, and mounting wings integrally and externally formed on the conduit body and extending from opposite sides thereof such that the conduit body and mounting wings define a replacement cover that can substitute for and replace the original equipment cover removed from the forward end of the casing of the clipper in order to enclose the opening in the forward end of the casing of the clipper.