Abstract: The watercraft ramp comprises a frame and a plurality of hull-support assemblies mounted thereon. The frame has a pair of elongated channel rails held in laterally spaced condition. Each rail has a longitudinally aligned internal recess and a longitudinally aligned elongated slot for access into the internal recess. The slot is narrower than the transverse width of the recess. Each hull-support assembly has a mounting bracket, a fastener for fixing the bracket on a rail, and at least one hull roller. The fastener has a locking part that extends through the rail slot into the internal rail recess for locking engagement to the rail at any desired location. A stabilizer part on the bracket cooperatives with the slot to maintain alignment of the bracket on the rail.

Abstract: The pressure hitch is operable from the cab of a towing vehicle. The towing vehicle is equipped with a basic ball hitch and a vertically orientable hydraulically operated ram having a rubber pressure stub at its lowermost end in an orientation above the basic ball hitch. The towed vehicle has an inverted cup-shaped socket for coupling (without need for grip tightening) on the basic ball hitch. The ram's rubber pressure stub is vertically movable for pressing against the upper outer surface of the socket and is the sole structure for holding the socket and basic ball hitch together during towing operations. The ideal towing vehicle is a front end loader.

Abstract: The new skis for converting a wheeled push vehicle into a slidable push vehicle have a front anchor on their upper surfaces at a location proximate to the toe end and a rear anchor on their upper surfaces at a location proximate to the heel end. A flexible front harness assembly is attached to the front anchor, and a flexible rear harness assembly is attached to the rear anchor. The distance between the front anchor and the rear anchor is such that any aligned fore and aft wheel assemblies of a wheeled push vehicle to which the ski is capable of being attached can be positioned on the upper surface of the ski between the front and rear anchors to permit the front and rear harness assemblies to draw the fore and aft wheel assemblies away from each other and in a downward direction on the ski. A simple strap can serve as a harness assembly.

Abstract: The watercraft ramp has a watercraft-supporting assembly with a water end and a shore end. It is formed of a laterally spaced pair of U-shaped rails equipped with hull-supporting roller wheels mounted in the U-shape. A transverse footprint brace is mounted under the rails at the water end and a transverse footprint stabilizer bar is mounted under the rails at the shore end. A winch support beam is mounted to the stabilizer bar so as to upward cantilever out beyond the shore end of the rails in an angular relationship closer to parallel than perpendicular to the rails. The components in unassembled condition can be shipped and then assembled by a customer-user.

Abstract: The hitch attachment has a base plate with a toe-heel receiver for the attachment carrier of a front end loader on one face side and a hydraulically operable hitch on the other face side. The hydraulically operable hitch has a draw bar extending out from the base plate with a hitching opening at its outer end. A boom mounted to the upper edge of the base plate projects angularly upward to an elevated location above the hitch opening of the draw bar, and a hydraulic ram assembly equipped with a hitching pin is removably suspended from the outer end of the boom. A mid-level assembly has a circumscribing bracing structure that holds the hydraulic ram assembly in stable condition for the entry of the hitching pin into the hitching opening of the draw bar. A removable link in the circumscribing bracing structure facilitates easy removal of the hydraulic ram assembly for replacement.

Abstract: The new boat ramp has a ladder-style frame having C-shaped elongated lateral side rails held in spaced apart parallel condition by C-shaped cross support beams. One end of the frame is a water end and the other end is a shore end. At least six hull roller assemblies are mounted on the side rails in laterally paired relationship across from each other and in longitudinally spaced relationship. One lateral pair is at the water end. Each assembly has a roller axle carrying a hull roller at each end. The assemblies are mounted so that their axles are in pivotable elevated transverse orientation above the side rails so as to provide hull conforming support for a boat. A keel assembly having a central keel roller of significant axial length in at the water end.

Abstract: The composite battery-integrated tattooing machine totally avoids a clip cord and the drag associated with it. The new machine comprises a base frame for removably holding a needle bar housing assembly, a tattoo needle assembly removably mounted to reciprocate within the needle bar housing, a reciprocating motion generator having at least one electromagnet and a make and break mechanism for effecting reciprocating motion of the tattoo needle assembly, a battery, a rheostat, and a switch for actuation of the reciprocating motion of the tattoo needle assembly. An important switch arrangement is radio operated; other switches are hand operated. Special subassemblies are provided for conversion of known professional tattooing machines into the new type having battery power integrated with the tattooing machine. Experts can now tattoo without the annoying drag of a clip cord.

Abstract: The snell holder has a foundation structure on which a snell-receiving body is mounted. The foundation structure has a support shaft and an anchor solely at one end for mounting it to another object. The snell-receiving body is elongated and compressible and puncturable and at least modestly resilient. It has a central axis about which it is rotatable. The support shaft projects into one end of the snell-receiving body at the axis of the body. The opposite end of the body has an eccentric handle. Spaced catches on the body allow attachment of the non-hook end of a snell to the body so that, upon rotation of the body by the eccentric handle, the snell can be wound around the body and the hook then pressed into the body.

Abstract: A dock support bracket has a central clamp of general C shape having an internal channel and opposing first and second side arms. The bracket has a clamping screw and a first beam mounting base on the first side arm and has an abutment and a second beam mounting base on the second side arm. The second beam mounting base is angular to the second side arm and to the first beam mounting base. Dock section beams can be mounted on the respective mounting bases of the bracket to form a dock. A dock support post can be received within the channel of the clamp, and pressed by the clamping screw of the first side arm against slippage on the post. Docks formed using the bracket have minimal or no side projecting hardware.

Abstract: The golf putting practice device has a foundation frame, including a cantilevered support bracket. It has upper and lower optical position lines carried on transparent portions of plate members that are mounted on the cantilevered support bracket so that the plate members are parallel to each other and the optical position lines extend in the direction of a proper putting stroke. A ball-centering sight as well as a head mirror are also mounted on the support bracket. An angled mirror is also provided. A golfer using the device can observe problems with head movement during a putting stroke, as well as the exact posture of the ball, the putter head, and putter head movement during a putting stroke. The correct putting stroke is absolutely perfectly along the optical position lines.

Abstract: The method of simultaneously banding and tagging merchandise involves forming a plurality of stretchable merchandise marking articles, each being formed to have an endless stretchable elastomeric band and a non-elastomeric flexible water-resistant plastic sheet material combined in a manner such that the sheet material encircles the band and presents an outwardly extending tag having an optically scannable code. The encircling of the sheet material about the band forms a channel within which the band is lodged but freely stretchable. A plurality of such marking articles are placed in condition for ready access for banding and tagging merchandise and an individual marking article of the plurality is removed by gripping the non-elastomeric tag of it.

Abstract: The chair for handicapped individuals has an undercarriage with a descending and ascending track system, and a tiltable assembly equipped with track followers for riding the descending and ascending track system of the undercarriage. A brake shiftable between a locked condition for holding the tiltable assembly against movement on the track system and an unlocked condition for allowing movement of it on the track system is provided. The tiltable assembly includes a seat assembly and an adjustable hip-limiting assembly at each lateral side of the seat assembly, plus a back assembly pivotally mounted to the seat assembly and an adjustable leg assembly mounted at each lateral side of the seat assembly. No power assistance is required to accomplish tilting of the tiltable assembly or any adjustment of any feature of the chair. The variety of chairs incorporating features of the invention include shower and commode chairs.

Abstract: The friction-mountable plastic hanger has an extrusion profile that defines a stiff depending hook for hanging an object and a cantilevered mounting structure extending from the hook. The cantilevered structure may consist of a single mounting arm with resiliently deformable transversely extending fins angularly projecting from the opposite faces of the arm in a direction backward toward the hook, or a stiff U-shaped mounting structure having a pair of parallel cantilevered mounting arms with interior facing surfaces equipped with resiliently deformable transversely extending fins that angularly project from the interior surfaces of the arms in a direction backward toward the hook. All parts of both have a uniform width dimension that extends perpendicular to the extrusion profile. The fins on the mounting arms are resiliently deformed by bending into a frictionally engaging relationship against structural surfaces when the hangers are frictionally mounted.

Abstract: The structure of a T-shirt is modified without removal of any of the fabric of the T-shirt. Fabric of the T-shirt neck opening at a portion adjacent a first shoulder portion of the T-shirt is pulled into a V-shape with the apex of the V-shape pointed toward said first shoulder of the T-shirt. Fabric of the sleeve opening for said first shoulder is pulled upward toward said first shoulder so as to cause the sleeve opening to form a V-shape with the apex of the V-shape pointed toward the V-shape of the neck opening. The fabric between the V-shape of the neck opening and the V-shape of the sleeve opening is secured in a gathered condition along a line on the shoulder of the T-shirt. The line of gathered T-shirt fabric between the V-shaped neck and sleeve openings is between approximately 1 and 4 inches in length.

Abstract: The pliable, readily flattenable loop binder for retaining loose-leaf sheets has a mounting strip with an elongated spine, an adhesive on the back of the spine, and a removable liner over the adhesive. Paired transversely aligned loop-forming elements project outward from opposing longitudinal edges of the spine. Off one edge are pliable and readily bendable straps. Off the other edge are strap receivers. The strap of a pair is threaded through a punched hole of punched paper and drawn over the spine and then threaded through its receiver so that the back surface of the strap faces the back surface of the receiver. Each loop formed by a pair of loop-forming elements is teardrop in contour and is flattenable toward the front surface of the spine with a single folded bend in said strap. Locking structures on straps engage the receivers to resist shifting of straps in their receivers.

Abstract: The apparatus for intermittently presenting tags for attachment to merchandise has a pay-out tape of tags severable by lines of weakness, drive rollers for intermittently advancing tape from the pay-out roll, breaking rollers that rotate at a greater speed than said drive rollers so as to sever a single tag from the tape at a line of weakness, and holding guide members on opposing sides of a severed single tag for presenting a portion of the tag for attachment to merchandise by a twist tie while temporarily holding the remaining portion between the opposing guide members. A key step of the method is that of presenting a portion of a marking tag in a projecting relationship from the exit of an opposing pair of holding guide members while maintaining the bulk of the marking tag within the opposing holding guide members in a manner permitting easy withdrawal of it, and attaching the projecting portion to the neck of a bag by a twist tie.

Abstract: The marking tag for banded merchandise has a resilient flat sheet with printed matter on at least one surface and an outer perimeter defining the outer limits of the body. Entirely within the outer perimeter is a pair of openings in spaced relationship and a slit connecting the pair of openings and forming a resilient bluntly pointed tongue in the body. The tongue has opposing straight side portions in an angular relationship greater than 40 degrees and less than 80 degrees and the opposing sides converge toward each other and are conjoined at the bluntly pointed tip. The bluntly pointed tongue is easily temporarily deflected from the plane of the body by finger pressure to readily insert the tip underneath a band about banded merchandise and slide the tongue fully under the band to seat the band in the pair of openings. The tag is thus placed in a substantially flush condition against the banded merchandise.

Abstract: A trash compacting apparatus having a flexible, collapsible containment bag formed of substantially non-stretchable wall material, and a flexible, collapsible, expandable bladder having substantially impermeable walls. The bladder is arranged relative to the containment bag for expansion therein in a manner such that the expansive force of the bladder during expansion is confined within the containment bag. The bladder functions to compress any flexible bag of trash housed with the bladder in the containment bag.

Abstract: The marking tag for quick and easy slidable fastening on a stalk of merchandise consists essentially of a flat sheet of highly flexible and easily crushed and distorted plastic material having a thickness between 7 and 14 mils and having an information portion for printed matter and a stalk-receiving portion for affixation to a stalk of merchandise. The stalk-receiving portion has a single circular hole between 5 and 10 mm in diameter and surrounded by at least 10 radial slits equidistantly spaced about the hole and having a radial length about equal to the diameter of the hole. The long and narrow and blunt radial fingers so formed are so highly flexible as to readily curve out of the flat plane of the sheet material as the hole is slid onto merchandise, and all edges of the marking tag are incapable of causing a paper cut to a person affixing it and incapable of causing cutting or gouging action to the merchandise, regardless of how the marking tag is slid or rotated on or off the stalk.