Abstract: An device for use down-hole in an oil well for inducing heavy crude oil to flow into the inlet of a centrifugal pump by creating a positive pressure on the bottom inlet of the pump. The device inserts into the down-hole equipment string between the gas separator and the centrifugal pump. The device consists of an auger that attaches to and rotates with the shaft of an electric down-hole motor and a housing that surrounds the auger. The housing connects to the gas separator at the bottom end of the device and connects to the centrifugal pump at a top end of the device. The auger has tight clearance with the housing to enable the rotating auger to force the fluid upward within the housing as the auger rotates. The vanes of the auger are arranged so that the fluid is pushed with increasing pressure as it moves upward through the device to the centrifugal pump.

Abstract: A locking device for releasable securing a compact disc to a disc seat provided in a compact disc case. The device has a flat base, a raised circular shoulder located on the base, and a raised button located on the top of the circular shoulder. The device inserts between the bottom of the case and the disc seat so that the base rests against the bottom of the case, the circular shoulder of the device removable inserts into the middle of the central retaining ring, and the button extends upward through the center opening of the central retaining ring. Although a compact disc can be inserted onto the disc seat without the user manually depressing the button, a compact disc can only be removed for the retaining disk seat by first depressing the button.

Abstract: A nail 10 for securing vinyl siding 26 to wall sheathing 28 by inserting a pointed end 20 of the nail 10 through a center of a nail slot 30 provided in an edge of the siding 26. A frusto-conical tapered formed bushing 12 proved on a shaft 14 of the nail 10 adjacent to and spaced apart from a head 16 of the nail 10 so that the nail slot 30 of the siding 26 can be popped into the space between the head 10 and the bushing 12 before the nail 10 is driven fully into a wall sheath 28. A smaller flat face 18 of the bushing 12 facing a pointed end 20 of the shaft 14 and a larger flat face 22 facing the head 16. The larger flat face 22 of the tapered formed bushing 12 being either parallel with or at an acute angle to a lower surface 24 of the head 16.

Abstract: A board that removably secures by its ends to opposite sidewalls of a vehicle so that a top side of the board faces upward when the board is secured in the vehicle. Tracks that have spaced apart parallel lips may be secured to the sidewalls of the vehicle to removably receive the ends of the board for those vehicles that do not have grooves in their sidewalls for receiving the ends. Upwardly extending projections are provided on the top side of the board for securing handles of grocery bags to the board. Openings are provided in the board below the top side. An upright member is provided between and serves to separate adjacent openings so that securing means, such as ropes, can be inserted through the openings and fastened to the upright members in order to secure items to the board.An alternate embodiment of the board is provided with one end that moves longitudinally in order to shorten or lengthen the board.

Abstract: A new type of non-tensioned shaker filter for a shaker machine. The shaker filter is comprised of layers of wire cloth that are bonded together without a rigid backing and are corrugated. Left and right side edges are provided on the left and right sides of the filter, respectively, in order to protect the user from injury from sharp edges and to seal the filter to ledge provided on a non-tensioned means for securing the filter to the shaker. Front and back edges of the filter are provided with front and back lips respectively on a bottom side of the filter in order to protect the user from injury from sharp edges and to seal the filter to the non-tensioned means for securing the filter to the shaker.

Abstract: The present invention is a process of extracting canna plant leaves and the resulting two medicinal chemical compositions thus produced by the process. The process produces a first chemical composition consisting of a water-and-oil extract of dried canna plant leaves and a second chemical composition consisting of the extracted residue from this extraction process. The extract and the extracted residue may be taken orally by a patient, and the extract may also be applied topically. The process consists of extracting dried and pulverized canna plant leaves with a water-and-oil mixture by simmering the leaves in the mixture for about a day. The extract is decanted, filtered and ready for use. The remaining residue is dried, further ground, and encapsulated in gelatin capsules for ease in oral administration.

Abstract: A device for smashing empty aluminum cans that provides for holding the cans horizontally on the ground while an automobile runs over the cans in order to smash the cans into a flattened configuration for recycling. The device is comprised of a long, narrow backing and a flexible member that is secured to a top surface of the backing. The flexible member is formed into a series of parallel curved flaps for removably holding the cans across the width of the backing and in the path of travel of the automobile. The flexible flaps are resilient and they return to their original configuration after the automobile has run over the device, allowing the smashed cans to be removed from the device and the device to be reused.

Abstract: A bed rail mount for securing a cylindrical bed rail to stake holes on a bed of a pickup truck. The bed rail mount has a protruding snout that inserts into one end of a bed rail. The bed rail mount secures to the stake hole by way of a movable locking bracket that engages one side of the stake hole and a rearwardly sloped tongue provided on the bed rail mount that engages an opposite side of the stake hole. The locking bracket is engaged by a screw after the screw extends through a horizontal opening in the hollow body of the bed rail mount. Tightening the screw moves the locking bracket away from the tongue. The locking bracket is provided on two opposite sides with horizontally extending lips which lock under the stake holes of various types of pickups to secure the bed rail mount thereto.

Abstract: A charmarker for creating complex grid pattern of mark, such as a diamond-shaped gird pattern, on foods as the foods pass under the charmarker on a conveyer. The charmarker contains a rotating shaft on which heated char marking rings rotatably hang. Each of the rings is provided with parallel, spaced apart cross marking members located at the periphery of the ring. The shaft is provided with ridges and valleys that engage, in a gear fashion, teeth and grooves provided on an interior opening surface of each ring in order to keep the rings in synchronized rotation as they pass over the food. Synchronized rotation of the rings keeps the cross marking members on the rings aligned so that the desired grid pattern of mark appears on the food.

Abstract: A sliding weight rack for removably holding free weights provided on a weight lifting bench. The rack is movable, via linear bearings, horizontally relative to the weight lifting bench so that a weight lifter can pull the rack and the weights above the weight lifter's chest. The gas strut provided on the rack will automatically retract the rack to its original rearward position once the weights have been removed from the rack. In its rearward position, the rack is out of the way of the weight lifter but is still easily accessible when the weight lifter is ready to replace the weights onto the rack.

Abstract: An electrical outlet provided with a face for removably receiving electrical plugs such that the face is capable of swiveling left and right in response to a tug thereon by an attached electrical plug. The outlet is provided with a swivel portion capable of swiveling relative to an electrical box which secures the outlet to a building wall and relative to a faceplate which attaches to the electrical box. The face for removably receiving electrical plugs is located on a front side of the swivel portion and is accessibly via a central opening in the faceplate. A rear side of the swivel portion provides a flexible electrical connection to an electrical house wire in order to supply power to the outlet.

Abstract: A portable bar capable of having its customer counter either slid backward and the overhanging portion pivoted downward or, alternately, completely removed from a base cabinet in order to allow the portable bar to reduce in width in order to allow it to be rolled through a standard size door frame. The base of the portable bar has a lighted work surface, top opening ice storage bin, and a slanted tower for dispensing cold beer or other beverages on tap. The base of the portable bar also has concealed storage for a CO.sub.2 gas bottle, one or more kegs of beer or other beverages, a weight measuring system for indicating the amount of beer or other beverages remaining within each keg, electrical and water supply connections, a refrigeration unit and a liquid waste storage system.

Abstract: A tool comprising a bar with a pair of teeth proved at one end of the bar and a handle portion attached at the other end of the bar approximately perpendicular to the bar. The teeth are spaced apart from each other in order to allow an end of a t-post clip to removably insert therebetween. The teeth are approximately parallel with the handle and extend outward from the bar in a direction opposite the direction that the handle extends from the bar. The tool is used to twist the ends of t-post clips in order to secure the clips to fence wire in order to secure the fence wire to the t-posts, or alternately, to remove the clips therefrom.

Abstract: A bed rail mount consisting of a curved tube. The tube is provided with a female end for receiving one end of a cylindrical bed rail and provided with an opposite end that secures to a mounting plate. The mounting plate has gouged openings and ears which allow the mounting plate to be welded to an inside wall of the tube by welding the ears to the inside wall through the gouged openings. A flange nut is secured on a top side of the mounting plate so that it surrounds a central opening provided in the mounting plate. One end of a bolt extends through the central opening and engages the flange nut while an opposite end extends through a center opening in a wear plate, through a hole drilled in the vehicle, through a washer and engages a nut that secures the mount to the vehicle. An upwardly extending perimeter lip provided on the wear plate conceals the mounting plate.

Abstract: A truck step securable to a vehicle via a mounting bracket an having a step arm capable of swiveling between a "storage" position underneath the vehicle and an "in use" position where the step arm extends outward from under the vehicle. A distal end of the step arm is provided with a step plate where a user's foot may be placed when stepping into the vehicle, and a proximal end of the step arm is provided with a lower swivel plate which swivels relative to an upper swivel plate provided on the mounting bracket. The lower and upper swivel plates have mating valleys and ridges to lock the step in one of several positions.

Abstract: A process for treating animal waste consisting of diluting the waste with water, irradiating the waste with UV radiation to break DNA coding in microorganisms present within the waste and to form ozone which oxidizes the waste, polymerizing the solids in the waste, and separating the polymerized solids from the remaining liquid portion of the waste.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the time and number of times each cow in a herd is mounted for purposes of determining the most successful time to artificially inseminate cows. The system employs a single hand held receiving unit for remotely communicating with multiple individual recording units secured to the backs of the cattle. The receiving unit can remotely and selectively reset counters contained within the recording units and can remotely and selectively poll the recording units to obtain data on mounting activity for each cow. The data can be viewed on a display provided on the receiving unit or can be downloaded to a computer via a computer port provided on the receiving unit. The recording unit employs a unique switch for sensing mounting activity.

Abstract: A cargo carrier having a torque bar assembly that attaches to a female trailer hitch adapter provided on a rear end of a vehicle. The cargo carrier is provided with a platform that attaches on one of its ends to one end of the torque bar assembly by means of a unique double slanted axis. The other end of the platform releasably latches to an opposite end of the torque bar assembly. The double slanted axis causes a rear end of the platform to be elevated above horizontal when the platform is unloaded and latched to the torque bar assembly and causes the platform to swing slightly uphill when it is unloaded and unlatched on one end from the torque bar assembly and is swung away from the vehicle by means of a speed controlling safety device provided attached to the platform and to the torque bar assembly. An alternate embodiment cargo carrier is electrically operated and provides for reversibly lowering one end of the platform to the ground for loading a wheelchair thereon.