Abstract: A mitten is provided with pouches for receiving packages of heat transfer material. The packages of heat transfer material are inserted into the pouches and the mitten is placed in a microwave to heat the material or in a freezer to cool the material. After sufficient heating or cooling, the mitten may be removed and placed on the user's hand to provide hours of warmth or cold. The mitten may be provided with velcro.TM.-type fasteners so as to secure the mitten around the arm of the user.

Abstract: A convertible towing device for use with a towing vehicle equipped with a trailer connector and a trailer having a tongue with a conventional trailer hitch includes a base section connectable to the trailer and a pivot section pivotable on the base section between a rearward position toward the trailer and a forward position toward the towing vehicle and connectable to the towing vehicle in the forward position. The pivot section is adjustably positionable in pre-selected forward positions and is provided with a connector plate having a king pin for connection to a fifth wheel type connector on the towing vehicle.

Abstract: A ball pitching device includes a pivotable pitching arm spring biased in a ball pitching direction by a spring and pivoted in a direction opposite the ball pitching direction by a rotating member engaging a cam surface of the pitching arm. The pitching arm is pivoted to a ball engaging position, and a ball to be pitched is delivered from a ball chamber for engagement by the pitching arm. After the ball is delivered for engagement by the pitching arm, the rotating member disengages the pitching arm cam surface allowing the spring to return the pitching arm toward the stop position engaging and propelling the ball in the ball pitching direction.

Abstract: A bracket for use in a cabinet or similar furniture article with a false drawer front opening and with a drawer guide has a base attachable to a false drawer front and an engaging member upstanding from the base with a locking projection lockable in the false drawer front opening of the cabinet or furniture article and a support element upstanding from the base provided with at least one support post engageable by a tongue portion of the drawer guide.

Abstract: A golf putter includes a putter head having an elongated body with a striking side and a back side, a heel portion and a toe portion, and a substantially planar putting face for striking a golf ball, and the putter head is provided with an internally threaded opening proximate the heel portion. A fixed shaft and a removable shaft of substantially equal lengths extend substantially parallel to each other from positions on the putter head near the heel portion. Each shaft has a gripping section adapted to be gripped by one of the golfer's hands to move the golf putter. The fixed shaft is affixed to the putter head, and the removable shaft includes a threaded section removably engageable in the putter head internally threaded opening.

Abstract: A snap-in mounting bracket for use in a desk or cabinet and with a drawer guide having a tongue portion includes a base carrying a pair of opposing retaining flanges resiliently connected to the base and configured to cooperatively receive a drawer guide tongue portion in snap-in engagement allowing lateral adjustment of the drawer guide with respect to the desk or cabinet. At least one support wall and preferably a pair of opposing support walls rigidly connected to the bracket base cooperatively support the engaged drawer guide tongue portion. One of the support walls may be provided with a notch for engaging the drawer guide to prevent lateral movement of the drawer guide. The bracket is supported on the desk or cabinet by fasteners such as fastening screws received through openings formed in the base and into the desk or cabinet.

Abstract: A panel adjustment component for adjusting the incline a front panel of a drawer with railings and a front panel makes use of an angle member having a horizontal leg fastenable in a hollow railing of the drawer and a vertical leg to which the front panel is connected by a threaded bolt. An incline adjustment of the front panel is achieved by a threaded nut engaging the threaded bolt and disposed rotatable in an opening formed in the vertical leg.

Abstract: A hinge cup with releasable fastener for use with a cabinet component having a bore hole includes an assembly component anchorable in the cabinet component bore hole. The assembly component is provided with a receptacle, and a cup casing is receivable in the assembly component receptacle in a press fit relationship and is fastenable to the assembly component.

Abstract: A wide angle hinge includes an assembly casing fastenable on a cabinet carcass and having front and back slots which engage corresponding front and back pins connected to a hinge arm, so that the hinge arm is slidable and rotatable relative to the assembly casing. The hinge arm is also connected by an articulation arm to a hinge cup fastenable in a door. A pull mechanism is fastened on one end in the assembly casing and on the other end in the hinge cup, and a deflection roller disposed in the assembly casing and the articulation arm cooperatively guide and continuously hold the pull mechanism under tension.

Abstract: A drawer includes side walls formed as integrated concealed slides which are detachably fastenable to a drawer bottom. The lower edge of each integrated concealed slide respectively forms an upwardly open groove, in which a vertical downward projecting exposed shank of the drawer bottom engages. In order to fasten the integrated concealed slide to the drawer bottom, the vertical side wall of each integrated concealed slide is provided with a bendable joining clip, which engages through a corresponding opening in the vertical shank of the drawer bottom and engages against the underside of the drawer bottom.

Abstract: A drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article includes a guide rail having a rotatable guide rail roller, which guide rail is mountable to the furniture article in a generally horizontally disposed position, and a pull-out rail for carrying the moveable structure, which pull-out rail has a pull-out rail upper ledge in rolling contact with the guide rail roller enabling forward and rearward horizontal movement of the pull-out rail and carried structure, and the pull-out rail is provided with a pull-out rail retaining member engaging the guide rail roller in a rearward position of the pull-out rail resisting forward movement of the pull-out rail.

Abstract: A backpack frame convertible to a mattress supporting cot with a tent supporting structure includes first and second generally U-shaped tubular frame sections hinged to each other and foldable between a compact position defining a backpack frame configuration and an extended position defining a normally substantially horizontally disposed cot configuration having opposing hollow side members. Each hollow side member has an open end, and the respective open ends are positioned diagonally opposite each other. When disposed in a cot configuration, the cot is supported by a plurality of support members mounted on each side member. A tent support assembly is storable in each hollow side member and extendible from the respective side member open ends to define an obliquely disposed strut and substantially horizontally disposed ridge member superposing the cot. The ridge members are releasably connectible to each other at one end and pivoted at the other end to the respective struts.

Abstract: A partition wall component for connecting a drawer partition wall to a drawer side wall is fastened to the hollow front face of the partition wall and is detachable from the partition wall. The partition wall component is resiliently fastened to the side wall at a depression formed in the side wall and is fastened to the partition wall by one or more springs firmly engaged against the inner profile of the partition wall.

Abstract: A hinge for mounting a door on a frame includes a hinge arm receiver and a hinge arm connected at one end to the hinge arm receiver and having at its other end a hinge plate with a depending ledge having a terminus portion which is engageable in a pre-mounting position on a door or frame.

Abstract: A cabinet/furniture hinge with a snap-on device for quick assembly includes a hinge cup and a hinge arm, a cover clamp with an adjusting plate, and a fastening plate clamped on the base plate. Retainer surfaces formed on the front area of the fastening plate are releaseably engageable with corresponding surfaces of the base plate, and a resilient spring-biased tilted chute with a grip nose is located on a rear area of the fastening plate. For easy operation of the tilted chute, the grip nose of the tilted chute engages under a projection of the base plate and defines a space between the grip nose and a bottom edge of side projections formed on the base plate. In order to fix the fastening plate on the base plate, the fastening plate is provided with a centering socket which is closely fittingly engageable in a notch of the base plate.