Abstract: An improved rotary-action directional flow control valve for hydraulic hydraulic motors and the like. The valve provides pressure-compensating constant flow in one or both directions. The valve has a main spool rotatable within a valve body to plural positions to determine flow direction, and one or more inner spools or the like in cavities within the main spool to provide the pressure-compensating. A plurality of spool voids and orifices form, with the valve body, flow channels between ports in the valve body.

Abstract: A drain-cleaning implement having a plastic shell of two subshells snapped together using male and female mating means along abutting edges and having a snake coiled within the shell and exerting outward mating force on it. The male means are on projections extending from inwardly-projecting sidewall portions formed at intervals around the inside surface of one subshell, and such inside surface has substantially edge-free transitions between the inwardly-projecting portions and positions therebetween to strengthen the shell with maximum mating force from the snake. Preferred embodiments have corner-free mating means. A stop ledge facilitates proper mounting of a rotatable handle.