Abstract: A concrete forms wall spacer is provided in the configuration of a truss having top and bottom horizontal frame members interconnected by angularly extending reinforcing struts. The top frame member is configured to rest upon the upper edges of a pair of spaced concrete form walls, and end portions of the top frame member are extended downward for abutment by the outer sides of the spaced concrete form walls, to define the desired spacing between the walls. Supported by the bottom frame member are a pair of spaced clip members each configured to removably support a pair of lengths of rebar which extend horizontally in opposite directions to other longitudinally spaced form wall spacers. A pair of vertically spaced rebar supports are mounted on the top and bottom frame members for frictionally securing a vertically extending length of rebar for forming a structural tie between a concrete footing and a vertically extending concrete wall.

Abstract: A cervical collar is formed by folding a blank of resilient foamed elastomer or synthetic resin along a longitudinal centerline and enclosing the folded blank in a stretch fabric cover. The rounded, folded edge contributes increased deflection resistance through the vertical dimension of the folded blank and is configured for placement against the jaw areas of a wearer. Openings in the blank allow installation of plugs or air bladders to adjust the vertical dimension and deflection resistance of the collar to accommodate application to necks of various heights and strengths.

Abstract: A dust collector includes a hollow housing having a bottom solids outlet, a top clean air outlet and an intermediate dust laden air inlet. A plurality of vertically elongated filter assemblies are mounted in spaced relation within the housing. Each filter assembly includes an open framework covered by a sheet of filter material in the form of a glove that converges downwardly from the open upper end to a closed end engaged by a tensioning nose bar which serves to stretch the glove over the framework. Dust laden air enters the inlet, passes downward to the bottom ends of the filter assemblies, thence upward to the filter assemblies where the dust and other particulates are collected on the outer side of the filter sheets and the air passes through the filter sheet and upward into the top clean air outlet. The particulates collected on the filter sheet periodically are released therefrom and gravitate downward into the bottom solids outlet for removal.

Abstract: A shoe having an upper, an outsole, a midsole, and an insole. An insulating sock-type liner is fitted within the shoe, having a suspended connection to an upper portion of the shoe and a cemented connection to each of the midsole and insole. The insulating liner is capable of combination with a sock-type waterproofing liner that fits within the insulating liner. The insulating liner has a bottom extension relative to the waterproofing liner for securement to the midsole under the insole. Also, the insulating layer has a front cut-out portion that allows flexing of the shoe as well as a person's foot.

Abstract: Wood wafers are produced by feeding logs to a rotary cutter head drum with the longitudinal axis of the logs disposed substantially parallel to the rotational axis of the drum. The drum mounts a plurality of wafer cutting head units arranged in a V-shaped pattern with the apex of the V trailing the base thereof and with the cutting blades defining the ends of the base positioned at the opposite ends of the operative length of the drum. Each wafer cutting blade having a cutting edge disposed substantially parallel to the axis of the drum and offset circumferentially and axially from an adjacent cutting blade so that the cut produced by a cutting blade overlaps the cut produced by the next adjacent preceding cutting blade.

Abstract: An automatic sewer line trap priming assembly including a gap type, anti-siphoning conduit component. A shielded and directed jet at timed intervals directs priming water increments into a receiving funnel which communicates with the trap.

Abstract: An improved pick holder for releasable attachment to guitars and other stringed instruments is formed as a longitudinally elongated, single-piece body member, preferably molded of vinyl plastic, having a longitudinally extending pick-holding slot formed in its top and a pair of opposite downwardly-extending mounting legs arranged for releasable attachment by adhesive pads to the soundboard of a stringed instrument. The mounting surface area of the legs is reduced and the body member is supported above and out of contact with the instrument with an open, air space provided therebetween to restrict any damping of the normal soundboard vibration and to limit vibrational interaction between the pick holder and the instrument.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting actual road surface temperature and other conditions from mobile units traveling about roadways and the like throughout a given area and transmitting that detected information, tagged to accurate, corresponding longitude and latitude positional information identifying the location of the detected information and transmitting the resulting information to a base station where the temperature and other information is accurately plotted on a computer-generated map, whereby viewing personnel may determine the effective and efficient dispatching of ice-related material application equipment and personnel.

Abstract: A crab pot provided with a plurality of entrance tunnels each having a rectangular opening frame, utilizes the top rod of the opening frame to pivotally support a plurality of wire trigger fingers which extend vertically downward for abutment against the bottom rod of the opening frame. Pairs of such trigger fingers are formed of a single length of wire coiled intermediate its ends about the top rod of the opening frame to form a pair of pivots for the fingers, the intermediate length of wire between the coils forming legs extending downward from the coils and joined together by a span of the wire. The trigger fingers are urged gravitationally toward the position closing the rectangular tunnel opening. A limit rod projects from the top rod of the opening frame to intercept the span of wire and limit opening movement of the trigger fingers to less than 180.degree..

Abstract: Exercising the wrist and hand of an individual is achieved solely by the individual by anchoring the hand to a fixed support with the palm facing upward and the thumb and fingers free to move. The individual then grasps the thumb of the secured hand by the other hand and pushes the thumb laterally outward and toward the fixed support, thereby stretching the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the hand. Anchoring the hand to a fixed support is achieved by use of a C-shaped clamp, with one open end engaging the underside of the fixed support and the other open end engaging the palm side of the hand in the area between the carpal wrist bones.

Abstract: A foot lever actuator for the pull cord recoil starter of a gasoline or diesel engine includes an elongated foot lever attached pivotally at one end to the framework supporting the engine and fitted at the opposite end with a foot pedal for pivoting the lever. An intermediate portion of the pull cord of the recoil starter is received over a bight pulley which is movable with the foot lever. In one embodiment, the bight pulley is connected directly to the foot lever at adjustable positions along the length of the foot lever. In another embodiment, the bight pulley is connected to a second pull cord received over a second bight pulley connected to the foot lever.

Abstract: Control of temperature of the shelves in a freeze dryer compartment is achieved by circulating a cooled heat transfer fluid from a heat exchanger through a vacuum condenser independently of circulating the cooled heat transfer fluid either directly through the passageway chambers in the freeze dryer shelves, for cooling the shelves, or through a heater for heating the shelves. These circulations are effected by the selective control of electrically operated valves in fluid conduits automatically by a programmed computer.

Abstract: A full color hologram is made by exposing a holographic emulsion to the 514 nm and 458 nm lines of an argon laser and the 413 nm line of a krypton laser. The hologram can be returned to its original thickness and used as a master with the same three wavelengths, or it can be swelled to longer wavelengths to reconstruct with red, green and blue light. The source of the red, green and blue information may be acquired by an electronic video signal displayed on an electronic image modulator.

Abstract: A hand tool for quickly and effortlessly removing common forms of tablets and capsules individually from blister card and strip packaging is provided in a simplified form generally similar in overall appearance to a pliers-type hand tool. After positioning a desired pill-containing pocket of a blister package on the specially-configured lower jaw of the tool, the handles are squeezed together, pivoting the opposing jaw member downward against the top of the pill pocket and forcing the pill contained therein to move downwardly through an opening in the lower jaw, tearing the foil cover sheet of the package, whereupon the tablet will fall freely into a tablet-catching bucket member disposed beneath the lower jaw where the pill is maintained safely against inadvertent dropping or misplacing.

Abstract: A veneer lathe is provided with back-up rolls modified to include serrating knives to effect cutting a log longitudinally at predetermined circumferentially spaced apart intervals to define the width of wood strands, and also to include scribing cutters to effect cutting a log circumferentially at longitudinally spaced apart intervals to define the length of wood strands, whereby when the log is rotated past the peeler knife of the lathe, the thickness of wood peeled from the log breaks apart into a multiplicity of vertical grain strands of predetermined length, width and thickness.

Abstract: A new and distinctive variety of apple Malus domestica, tree named Excel, a sport mutation of the apple variety Jonagold, uniquely characterized from its parent variety by its much better color intensity over 50% or more of the surface of the fruit with a solid bright red colored blush with scarcely visible very fine red stripes in it and a smoother texture of the skin surface. Also the ground color of its fruit keeps longer green. The fruit has a higher acidity and a longer and thinner brown/red stalk, and has earlier ripening and picking dates. The tree is also characterized by distinctly dormant fruit buds on tips which have a conical shape and by its dark brown-red wood with clearly more pubescence and fewer but bigger lenticels than its parent variety.

Abstract: A new and distinctive variety of apple Malus domestica, tree named Jonagored Supra, a sport mutation of the apple variety Jonagored, uniquely characterized from its parent variety by the rounder form of its fruit; its slightly softer red-colored, approximately 90% solid blush having scarcely visible, very fine red stripes in it and approximately 10% of its surface is striped; by the earlier ripening and picking dates of its fruit; by the tree's distinctly weaker growth habit, the very dark brown to greyed-purple color of its wood; more pubescence and a lower amont of lenticels; and by the irregular margin of its leaves which is generally serrate but some are also biserrate and serrate-biserrate. Extended observation has further indicated that the Jonagored Supra is virus free, and is an improvement on the Jonagored variety with respect to its growth habit, color and productivity.

Abstract: A new and distinctive variety of apple tree named Bel-El, a sport mutation of the apple variety Elstar, uniquely characterized from its parent variety by the tree's distinctly-colored branches and the distinctly-colored petioles and nerves in its leaves, and by its less dense, bushy foliage than its parent variety, its fruit further characterizing the new variety from its parent by its solid red color, its longer, thinner brown/red stalk, and by its earlier ripening and picking dates.