Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire and rim whereto the tire is fitted as a wheel assembly that will display ride characteristics that are similar to those of a conventional pneumatic tire. The non-pneumatic tire is preferably formed from a urethane foam in a spin casting process with the formed tire having a dense thread, with a less dense internal mid-section and is least dense at a lower area proximate to the tire inner circumference.

Abstract: A bicycle rim constructed from a fiber reinforcement impregnated with a resinous material to provide stiffness, strength, is light in weight and presents minimal aerodynamic drag. The rim is constructed from two semi-circular rim sections that are each formed from glass, carbon, or boron fibers that are applied at distinctive crossing angles as layers or “plys”, receive an epoxy thermoset resin or a nylon thermoplastic resin, and are cured in a mold cavity. A pair of rim half sections are matched and are coupled together at their ends into a circle by telescoping aligned ends of each of the rim half sections over inner inserts that an epoxy structural adhesive has been applied to, and the joined rim section ends receive a gusset fitted and bonded along the rim half section end junctions, and with the finished rim drilled appropriately. to receive and mount spoke ends.

Abstract: A shopping cart detection apparatus and reward dispensing mechanism for inclusion therewith for providing a patron reward in the form of a ticket, coupon, or the like, to a patron for their returning a shopping cart to a cart collection area. The shopping cart detection apparatus includes a control interface connected electrically to at least one sensor that senses proper cart passage through the apparatus into a cart collection area. With that passage to generate a radio frequency interrogation of a chip maintained in a card that is attached to the cart, and with that cart data transmitted to a control interface that directs dispensing of a ticket as a patron reward for their cart return. Additionally, the control interface also passes cart data as it receives to a communications interface that, in turn, passes that information to a computer, micro processor, or the like, for tabulating and maintaining information concerning cart usage.

Abstract: A sliding doors lock hinge for maintaining a pair of sliding doors together at their overlapping ends that includes first and second door end mounts that are hinge connected and formed to fit over the opposing door ends and the second door end mount includes a hinged hasp strap that has a slot therein to pass over a tab that is secured to an outer face of a forward door frame end. The tab can be fix or is pivot mounted to the frame face and includes a hole therethrough for receiving an end of a padlock shackle fitted therethrough and locked in the padlock body.

Abstract: A water structure formed from a pair of flexible tubes or sleeves that each receive a volume of water and are maintained within a containment sleeve, and including a vertical tube fitted through the containing sleeve to pass between and is separated from the water filled flexible tubes or sleeves.

Abstract: A composite bicycle tire rim constructed from layers or plys of a fiber reinforcement, preferably fiber glass, to provide a rim that has a weight that is comparable to an aluminum rim and as is strong as a steel rim. The composite rim is continuous, is formed as a hooked bead type rim to have inwardly pointing side wall hook ends that are for fitting into grooves formed in a tire side walls, mounting the tire thereto. The rim is formed on a circular mandrel by laying up groups of plys thereon, with four (4) plys of fiber glass laid up for each group. In which laying up, a first ply of the four plys is fitted onto the mandrel to where its fiber angle is parallel to the mold mandrel circumference, with a following ply laid thereon at a selected positive angle to a vertical axis, and a next ply is laid thereon at a negative angle to the vertical axis, and with a final ply of each group laid thereon to have its fibers perpendicular to a tangent to the mold circumference.

Abstract: A low profile vacuum driven sander as is appropriate for drywall sanding, with a vacuum flow pulled therethrough to drive a turbine whose turning through an eccentric provides an oscillating movement to a sanding pad that releasably mounts a section of sanding material thereto, and with that vacuum air flow also removing sanded particles and dust off from the sanded surface and transports it through the sander and a connected pipe or hose into a catchment container.

Abstract: A ligament mounting and method for its use for endosteally mounting an end of a ligament graft in a prepared bone tunnel section in a surgical procedure to replace a patient's ligament. The ligament mounting includes a strap and footing combination that are suitable for human implanting and may be formed from a material that is absorbed by the patient's body during the healing process. The strap is formed as a section of flexible material, includes a proximal end for passage through a footing that is for arrangement across a cortex end of the ligament tunnel section, and with the strap distal end arranged to connect to a ligament graft end. The strap and footing are formed to allow for passage of the strap in one direction and to bind when the footing is compressed to crimp onto said strap, prohibiting it from being pulled back through the footing when a pulling force is applied, maintaining a ligament graft under tension in the tunnel section endosteum.

Abstract: An apparatus and system for its use for a continuous production on an alkali metal, preferably sodium metal, by a reduction of the metal hydroxide with methane or natural gas as a reductant.

Abstract: A reactor system that includes a reactor nozzle for use with a reactor vessel and process for its use for producing sodium metal, by a reaction of an alkali hydroxide, preferably sodium hydroxide, as a reactant, with methane gas as a reductant, at high heat.

Abstract: A portable inflatable floatation device for use as a backpack frame to maintain a standard backpack thereto for hiking, with the back pack frame being convertible into floatation device seat, foot rest, and outrigger pontoon mounting. Inflatable pontoons that are to be carried on or in the backpack and are inflated into long cylindrical pontoons at a water site, whereat, with the back pack frame converted to the water craft seat, the seat is attached to span across the pair of parallel inflated pontoons and the outrigger portions of which seat are positioned to rest on and are strapped onto tops of the inflated pontoons, with top and bottom sections of the frame, respectively, pivoted to form and seat back and to a planar attitude with a seat bottom as a foot rest, and straight narrow spacers are secured, as with straps, to the forward and rear pontoon ends completing the floatation device.

Abstract: A method of manufacture for producing a molded article from a polyurethane material, utilizing a spin casting apparatus, preferably a non-pneumatic tire, where a mold that is formed in sections or halves and has an inner cavity formed to have the shape of the article to be manufactured and is separable to release that article after manufacture. The mold is secured to a support plate of the apparatus that is journaled to turn axially imparting a centrifugal force into the mold. The support plate is connected to or is arranged to be connected to a motor assembly for turning, and includes a clamping arrangement for maintaining the mold halves together on the support plate. An annular trough is formed in the mold immediately adjacent to a mold interior cavity inner circumference to receive a polyurethane material liquid passed thereto, and to, in turn, pass that liquid through a trough annular opening or ports into the mold cavity.

Abstract: A collapsible child's table that include components preferably formed from a plastic material utilizing molding methods to include a flat table top having integral first hinge sections that are spaced apart and extend downwardly from the table top undersurface and are adjacent to the table top corners that are to receive and interdigitate with second hinge sections that are formed as ends of individual legs of two pairs or legs, with said interdigitated hinge sections to receive pins fitted therethrough as pivot couplings of the pairs of legs to the table top. Further, each of the legs of the pairs of legs, include a bent top end and the pairs of legs each include a cross brace formed thereacross, having straight ends extending outwardly from the opposite leg sides.

Abstract: The invention in a shoe insert to be fitted into and maintained in a conventional walking or running shoe to provide support and cushioning to the foot of such shoe wearer. The shoe insert is to fit into a shoe to grip to the shoe insole and is manufactured from a vio-elastic polyperic material having a recovery or compression set less than two (2) percent providing a rapid rate of force dissipation to a shoe wearer that is equal to their rate of gait, with further cushioning provided by a selection and formation of cavities in the insert surface that is in engagement with a shoe insole.

Abstract: A medical patient gown formed from a single section of a soft fabric material that is suitable for patient wear in a doctor's office or hospital to cover over a patient's body and is selected to have a pleasing pattern and/or print to be aesthetically pleasing to the patient wearing the garment. The gown can be worn forward or backward, includes wide sleeves, is of a size to be wrapped around the patient's body and closed, and includes easily and conveniently releasable fasteners to secure the wrap around the patient's body that are easily opened to allow access by medical personnel performing a procedure on a section of the patient's body.

Abstract: A door track and roller system for a mounting a sliding door in a frame that includes, as a lower track for mounting along a lower surface of a sliding door frame, at least one section of a straight channel that has top edges of parallel side walls that are inturned at right angles to form aligned flat flanges that are open therebetween to accommodate a carriage of the sliding door traveling therebetween, and which flanges include at least one transverse slot formed therein of a length to pass a roller and axle of a carriage of a roller assembly of the sliding door therethrough. Each roller assembly carriage to preferably include a roller journaled onto an axle fitted through the carriage, with a lower edge or side of a section of the glass, or the like, maintained between upper sides of the carriage as a casing.