Abstract: A round bale cutter has an open bale loading side and a cut hay exhaust side with a bale receiving area on a floor in between. The cutter includes a housing with a gap on the hay exhaust side extending the length of the machine just above the floor and a hay reprocessing chamber attached to housing and extending outward and downward from the gap. A rotary cutter drum equipped with knives about its periphery is supported on a drive shaft which extends from end to end of the housing, with the cutter drum being positioned in the gap in contact with a hay bale in the bale receiving area. The hay bale is initially cut by the drum, propelling cut hay strands into the hay reprocessing chamber where they circulate long enough to hit the rotary drum knives again. The twice cut strands, which are small enough to be used in feed mixing operations, are then expelled through an exhaust side opening in the hay reprocessing chamber.
Abstract: The invention concerns a device and method for applying temporary tattoos. The device is a pocket enclosing a dye. The outer layers of the pocket are impermeable to the dye. The pocket has a removable bottom layer. When the bottom layer is removed, the now exposed inner layer of the pocket, which has dye-permeable and dye-impermeable portions, is adhered to an appropriate location of a user's skin. The user's skin is then exposed to the dye and a tattoo will form in a pattern corresponding to portions of the inner layer (or layers) permeable to the dye. Using the method, a user may cut out and remove a pattern from a dye-impermeable layer of material. The layer is adhered to an appropriate location of a user's skin. The user applies the dye over the layer. The user then securely adheres a dye-impermeable backing layer to the layer of material, thereby preventing leakage of the dye between the layer of material and the backing layer.
Abstract: A turf toe brace includes a flexible boot adapted for snugly anchoring the brace to a foot of a user, an elongate generally non stretchable strap releasably joinable in a multiplicity of configurations to the boot by a fastening mechanism and a toe loop. The toe loop is joined to the strap opposite the boot. In use the strap passes under the foot and is connected to at least one side of the boot in such a manner as to pull downwardly on the great toe and help prevent hyper-extension of the great toe, especially during work or athletic events.
Abstract: An envelope having a false bottom is constructed of a front panel, a rear panel and a pair of side panels adhered to the rear panels. Adhesive strips are utilized to adhere each of the side panels to the front panel at a location spaced from the bottom of the front panel. The adhesive strips form shoulders between the front and side panels that limit the interior depth of the envelope so as to create a false bottom therein.
Abstract: A laser range finder includes a circular in-sight field of view which incorporates within it a magnified "TV view" of the target area with the TV view roughly approximating the rectangular shape of a standard television picture. Also within the circular field, over and under the TV view, are a target quality indicator, a range distance display, and other indicators. Within the TV view is a targeting reticle which indicates roughly the footprint of ranging laser pulses such that a target can be selected. The target quality indicator is a bar graph which displays the number of identifiable received reflected laser pulses from a series of such pulses emitted by the range finder. By aiming the range finder at various targets via the footprint reticle, repeatedly firing the range finder and monitoring the target quality graph for each firing, a user can move the range finder to find a surface proximate the target with a reflective quality sufficient to yield an accurate target range reading.
Abstract: A combine lateral tilt assembly which attaches a crop harvesting header to a combine includes a stationary extension of a combine feeder housing with a pair of rollers positioned on an upper surface thereof. A movable member is removably attachable to a header and includes a pair of roller tracks positioned to receive respective ones of the rollers on the stationary extension such that the movable member is substantially supported by the rollers. The movable member is mounted to tilt while riding on the rollers about an axis which is formed by a pivot pin positioned in a bottom portion of both the movable member and the stationary extension. A single hydraulic piston and cylinder unit connects between the movable member and the stationary extension to thereby selectively tilt the movable member, and the attached header, laterally relative to the combine.
Abstract: A flashing identification light adaptor system includes a flashing light adaptor with an adaptor housing which is intended to replace the end cap of a conventional flashlight and includes a colored lens removably attached to the adaptor housing in a covering relationship with a light source, which may be a flasher circuit and lamp connected to an independent switch. The flashing light adaptor can include a housing with a dedicated switch, a strobe light and a flasher circuit housed therein and a battery cell holding sleeve such that a battery cell or cells within the sleeve are used to selectively power the flashing light and/or the conventional flashlight bulb.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 1997
Date of Patent:
June 8, 1999
Assignee:
TBI Concepts, L.L.C.
Inventors:
Phillip K. Guthrie, Charles A. Stundzia
Abstract: The doll has the peculiarity that the movement towards the right or towards the left of one of its arms carries with it the same movement of the head and also of the eyes. Likewise, the movement upwards or downwards of the arm carries with it the movement upwards and downwards of the head. Both movements can be made in combination, whereby any object (dummy, feeding bottle or similar) held in the hand of the driven arm, is carried towards the upper-front part, in such a way that if it is a feeding bottle this one is applied to the mouth of the doll and a miction of the doll is produced. Such movements are achieved as a consequence that the driven arm and the head are assembled on the body of the doll, through both ball joints, through a series of levers, axles and forks as so as to allow of transmission of the movements of a main lever associated to the ball joint of the arm, up to the ball joint itself of the head. FIG. 1.
Abstract: Grain or legume material is precooked by a low moisture process and preconditioned by hydrating to a total moisture content of from about 10% to about 40% by weight, passed through a cooking extruder and, during such passage, hydrated to a total moisture content of from about 10% to about 40% by weight, extruded and dried. The products of the invention are crisp curls, puffs and chips. The extruded cooked material may also be ground and agglomerated to prepare powders which will not cake or lump.
Abstract: A split flywheel and crank pin apparatus having a pair of flywheels held in a preselected spaced relationship to rotate about a common axis by a pin spaced from the axis. The pin has a central section and opposed ends. Each end has an undulating surface with a continuously varying radius for a circumferential path along the surface and a constant radius along a path on the surface parallel to a main axis of the pin. The pin ends are snugly received in bores in respective flywheels that have internal surfaces that mirror the pin end surfaces. The pin ends are separated from the pin central section by shoulders that abut facing surfaces of the flywheels. The pin is held in each flywheel by a nut. The pin includes lubricating passageways for lubricating a journal surface of the pin central section.