Abstract: Protective eyewear has a lens frame containing one or more lenses and temple arms or straps for attaching the eyewear to the head of a wearer. The protective eyewear also includes a brow guard. The brow guard attaches to the lens frame. The brow guard is configured to extend in one direction substantially between the temple arms (or straps) and, in a transverse direction, between spaced edges, one of which edges is disposed adjacent the lens frame, the other of which edges is extended toward the brow of the wearer. The brow guard incorporates a magnetic material for attracting and catching magnetically attractable particles such that the magnetic material assists eliminating the drift of such particles down in the gap between the lens frame and the wearer's brow. Magnetic side shields can be added to the protective eyewear or substituted in place of the magnetic brow guard.

Abstract: A School bus alert system has a school bus outfitted with message emitter. The school bus alert system also includes a set of roadway signs having alarm units directly or indirectly responsive to the messages emitted by the school bus emitter. The roadway signs are provided along the roadway approaches to a given bus stop. Upon activation by the messages from the school bus, the alarm units go active and give off an obvious sensible warning that is reasonably interpretable by motorists or drivers that (i) they--the motorists or drivers--are approaching the given bus stop and (ii) there concurrently is a school bus stopped or servicing passengers at the bus stop.

Abstract: A converter allows a user to convert a conventional car jack from a non-specialized, general service variety into a specialty transmission jack. The car jack has a low, wheeled frame; a handle; a boom extending between a base end pivoted to the frame near the handle and an opposite end formed with a seat portion; and a hydraulic cylinder stretching between the frame and the boom which is actuated by pumping the jack handle to raise the boom. The seat portion of the boom is formed with a socket. The car jack conventionally is provided with a conventional cup having a stem which allows removable seating in the socket of the jack's boom. The converter head has a base plate defining a plane; a stem beneath the base plate for removable seating in the socket of the jack's boom; four or so arms extending between a butt end and a tip end; and cap screws threaded through the tip end of each arm. The cap screws allow adjustment in length and provide upper contact ends for propping a vehicle transmission thereon.

Abstract: A boat has a main hull and a pair of outriggers which extend to distal, capsizing-resistance formations. The capsizing-resistance formations are shaped and arranged such that in contact with the water under forward velocity it provides a generally upward capsizing-resistance force through a given center of action, which force is transmitted by the outrigger to the main hull as an applied capsizing-resistance moment. Given the foregoing, the outriggers position of the capsizing-resistance formations generally outboard and rearward such that said centers of the upward capsizing-resistance force lie spaced substantially outboard or behind a plane containing the stern of the main hull in order to stabilize the fore-to-aft pitching as well as side-to-side rolling of the main boat hull in accordance with boat speed and wave conditions.

Abstract: An abrading machine has an indexing tool carrier for indexing a plurality of tools such as abrading belts, through plural stations including a single power station and other, unpowered idle stations. Hence the abrading machine provides the user with the option of sharpening a workpiece such as a wood chisel, knife or gouge and the like, on any of the given belts according to the user's selection. The abrading machine provides the economy of a single motor to power any of the given belts which at the time are indexed in the power station position. The other belts which are not indexed in the power station position sit idle. However, these other belts remain available for indexing into the power station position whenever the user wishes to work the workpiece on those belts.

Abstract: A check-operated dispenser machine of hot snack stuffs includes a globe which in use contains a snack stuff such as for sake of an example, peanuts or other comparable nut or seed meats. The globe rests on a stand. The stand is modified from what is conventional in prior art gumball banks or other prior art check-operated dispensing machines of candies or novelties in that, such a prior art machine is modified to include a heat source. Most simply the heat source is configured as a low-wattage incandescent lamp bulb. The lamp warms the snack stuff contents in the globe. The dispensing machine has a conventional check- (eg., coin-) operated dispensing mechanism which allows a patron to serve him or herself and get a measured amount, such as about a hand-full, of such a snack stuff as say hot peanuts.

Abstract: A boat has a main hull and a pair of outriggers which extend to distal, capsizing-resistance formations. The capsizing-resistance formation are relatively diminutive:--they displace a substantially small fractional amount of water relative to what the main hull displaces. Also, the capsizing-resistance formations are shaped and arranged such that in contact with the water under forward velocity it provides a generally upward capsizing-resistance force through a given center of action, which force is transmitted by the outrigger to the main hull as an applied capsizing-resistance moment. Given the foregoing, the outriggers position of the capsizing-resistance formations generally outboard and rearward such that said centers of the upward capsizing-resistance force lie spaced substantially outboard or behind a plane containing the stern of the main hull in order to stabilize the fore-to-aft pitching as well as side-to-side rolling of the main boat hull in accordance with boat speed and wave conditions.

Abstract: Long-shafted golf clubs are disclosed to give flight to or loft a ball toward a target along a target line. A method of use includes the following aspects. A club is selected which when stood upright has a shaft that reaches about the chest of the player who will use it. The player addresses the ball by a stance that faces the target line from one side, and is generally upright with knees and waist substantially straight except that the head is down as needed to see the ball. The player holds the shaft at an upper-grip location with an upper hand by an underhand grip, having thumb up, and at about chest height. The player holds the shaft at a lower-grip portion with the other or lower hand by an underhand grip, having the thumb down, and at about hip height.

Abstract: A fishing rod has a lighted rod tip. The rod tip is produced from a clear or translucent plastic and has a hole in it in which an LED is potted. The conductors to the LED extend all the way through the hollow shaft to batteries in the handle and a switch beyond the handle in a sub-base assembly thereto. The sub-base assembly screws on and off the handle as needed for changing the batteries. The sub-base assembly also forms a compartment for housing the switch. The switch is operated by pushing hard on a thick resilient butt cap, which covers the very butt end of the rod. Hence the switch is well protected against inadvertent operation, shocks, and weather and water. The electrical system as a whole is housed within interior spaces inside the rod, safely protected from water even if the rod were dropped in water.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented process for evaluating the financial consequences of converting a standard format IRA to a new Roth form IRA. The process includes computing and disclosing the substantial federal income tax consequences involved in converting the standard form IRA to the Roth form. It further includes multiple options that how a given IRA holder can cope with the substantial tax consequences, including without limitation how he or she will fare if he or she obtains term insurance on the federal tax liability of early withdrawal by reason of premature death, or if he or she deducts the federal taxes and insurance premium from the rollover amount, or in the alternative how he or she will fare by financing the federal tax consequences and insurance premium in order to preserve intact the entire IRA amount for rollover.

Abstract: A passive absorptive device covered with a layer of DNAPL-philic hydrophobic material, is disposed within a groundwater remediation well to soak up DNAPL (ie., dense non-aqueous phase liquid) seepage at the wall of the groundwater remediation well so that, after retrieval of the passive absorptive device from the well, the DNAPL soaked in the DNAPL-philic hydrophobic layer can be safely disposed of.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process of converting asphalt composition roofing shingles into dimensional construction products. Asphalt composition roofing shingles are de-consolidated, such as by grinding, into a crumble. The asphalt shingle crumble is processed in a manner to increase the fusibility activity of the asphalt without decomposing a substantial fractional amount of the asphalt to an ash-like brittleness. The foregoing can be achieved by heat exchange using infrared heaters as the heat source. One disclosed example trial of the process warmed the crumble to a bulk temperature of between about 130.degree. F. and 150.degree. F. Following that, the asphalt shingle crumble is compacted into the shape of a given dimensional construction product such as blocks, curbs, tiles, beams, posts, and so on. The best quality products are achieved by a two-step compaction process in which there occurs a certain time elapse between the two compaction steps.

Abstract: A communication path integrity supervision system is provided in a network system that allows communication of automatic alarm data. This involves a network, needless to say, in which a plurality of automatic alarm data transmitters are linked by diverse paths with at at least one central receiver on the network for receiving the automatic alarm data. In this integrity supervision system, the responsibility for carrying out the integrity supervision functions have been largely shifted onto the remote transmitters--each responsible for its own path or paths--and shifted away from the central receiver to the extent required by the prior art "receiver-polling" protocol. That is, each transmitter includes circuits for generating and sending to the central receiver a succession of "next promised check-in" messages, to be on schedule as promised.

Abstract: A re-usable frame support rack is provided for supporting and retaining an outstretched, replaceable pleated-media filter core. The pleated-media filter core is of a type that has fold lines extending in a transverse direction and that stretches-out/collapses in the longitudinal direction. The support rack has a frame formed of spaced longitudinal rails extending between spaced transverse rails. The frame carries a pressure-differential support system that provides support, in instances when a pressure differential exists across the frame, to the filter core on a low pressure side thereof. The transverse rails preferably include fingers or like gripping formations for releasably gripping the longitudinal margins of the installed filter core. The longitudinal rails include gates or flaps which have closed and open positions for allowing retention and unobstructed removal in the closed and open positions, respectively, of the longitudinal margins of the installed filter core.

Abstract: A portable instrument combines an electronic distance or range finder with an electronic difference finder for vertical (i.e., elevational) angle mensuration in order to at least to determine or compute, from a remote distance away, a vertical clearance between a bridge overpass and an under-passing highway. The instrument is at least sighted manually on one of a bridge overpass or the under-passing highway, but instantaneously gives computed values once activated.

Abstract: A door machine is provided for the production of a raised-panel door product of the type having a central panel framed in a sash of left and right stiles and upper and lower rails. In this type of raised panel door, the stiles and rails are joined by four butt joints to form the sash which features four inner edges that join the four edges of the central panel in edge joints. Preferably, the rails extend between and space apart the stiles and as such, these rails have opposite "butt" edges. The door machine includes a stand and a table on the stand formed with openings. The table and stand support a power and drive assembly which includes at least driven three spindles. Each spindle has a head for mounting a knife, and this head protrudes through an opening in the table as slightly above a plane of the table.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus to make appropriately shaped masonry or foam building blocks for arranging and setting in courses or layers--masonry style--to build a blockwork domed structure therefrom, as well as, a method of making or cutting an individual block from a bar or billet of masonry or foam raw stock material (e.g., foam such as polystyrene and the like), and also, the resultant domed structure.

Abstract: A convertible drum-type coating apparatus for applying breading material to food products includes an in-line breader section, a rotary drum section, and an outflow section. The rotary drum is mounted on an elevator for lowering and lifting between a low use position and a high non-use position. The low use position is involved with tumbling the breading material and food product together to enhance the coating by the breading material, and in a sense the tumbling gives the appearance of dusting off excess breading material. The coating apparatus is convertible in that the rotary drum can be lifted out of the way to the high non-use position to allow substitution in favor of a bypass conveyor. Bypass of the drum is desired when running "formed" food products and the like, such as patties (eg., beef) or cakes (eg., fish), which are ordinarily too delicate to tumble in the drum.