Abstract: A metal fence post with a quick connection used for securing a portion of the fence wire next to the fence post. The metal fence post with a quick fence wire connection is designed to eliminate the use of a separate tying wire and twisting of the tying wire on the fence post using a pair of pliers. The metal fence post includes a plurality of equally spaced oblique studs disposed along the length of one side of the post. An equally spaced wire gap is provided between each of studs. The wire gap is dimensioned for receiving a portion of fence wire therein. Each of the oblique studs has a side profile of a trapezoidal geometric shape with a vertical base integrally attached to the side of the post and a parallel vertical top. An upper side and a lower side of the trapezoidal oblique stud is angled upwardly and inwardly from the base toward the top. In each of the studs is a vertical locking pinhole with an upper opening in the upper side and a lower opening in the lower side.

Abstract: A protective stake cover for covering the top of a metal stake. The stake cover is designed to prevent injury should someone fall and accidentally hit the top of the cover when working or playing near the stake. The stake cover includes an elongated split housing having a first housing half releasably attached to a second housing half. The split housing is adapted for receipt around an upper portion of a metal stake having a “T” shaped cross section. The split housing, when the first and second half are joined together, includes an exterior with a rounded top portion, a center portion and a lower portion. The lower portion has a groove therearound for receiving one end of a rope used in holding a tree, bush, plant or other item in an upright position. The inside of the first and second housing halves include an elongated channel with an “L” shaped cross section contoured for receiving one half of the upper portion of the metal stake.

Abstract: A turbine based engine that includes a mixture chamber, a combustion chamber, a stationary flow control barrier, and a turbine. The stationary flow control barrier is located between the combustion chamber and the turbine. The arrangement allows the system to provide precisely measured and mixed fuel and oxidant mixtures to the mixture chamber where it is burned to produce the expandable gas product that will be expanded through the turbine to turn the turbine and produce shaft output power. A preferred embodiment of the engine includes a pair of turbines mounted symmetrically about an expeller along a single shaft.

Abstract: A receiver assembly for retaining a stanchion between a pair of looped supports. The receiver includes a support frame and a receiver support, the receiver support, the receiver support being adapted for engaging and retaining the stanchion. The receiver assembly also includes a locking bar that extendins from the support frame. The locking bar is adapted for engaging the pair of looped supports while extending between the pair of looped supports, so that the stanchion is retained in a generally upright position by the cooperation of the base and the locking bar with the looped supports.

Abstract: A restraint system for use on a vehicle's seat to better restrain by providing belts and belt guiding components to restrain a person in the event of an accident. The system uses a flexible, generally rectangular sheet having an upper surface, a lower surface, the rectangular sheet further having an upper edge, a lower edge and a mid-section between the upper edge and the lower edge, the lower edge of the rectangular sheet being adapted for attachment to the upper edge of the rectangular sheet. A set of shoulder-belts extending from the rectangular sheet at a location between the mid-section of the rectangular sheet and the upper edge of the rectangular sheet, the shoulder-belts are adapted for attaching to the lap-belt, so that they will extend from the rectangular sheet to the lap-belt, and so that the person is held against the rectangular sheet by the shoulder-belts and the lap-belt.

Abstract: A simulated bird hunting dog-training device used for teaching a dog to run and retrieve. The dog-training device includes a soft, flexible, lightweight, plastic foam cylindrical body. The cylindrical body is dimensioned in length and diameter to be similar in size to the body of a bird being hunted. The body includes a bore therethrough for receiving weighted material therein. Using the weighted material, the weight of the device can be easily adjusted to be similar in weight to a game bird to be hunted. One end of the cylindrical body is attached to a female tube connector. The female tube connecter is used for receiving potting material, such as heated glue, formed into a cylindrical shape. The potting material is used to hold together quill ends of a plurality of bird feathers, which extend outwardly therefrom. The bird feathers add realizium and bird scent to the training device, when teaching the dog. The training device also includes a removable cover, which is received over the cylindrical body.

Abstract: A disposable needle stick prevention aid used to protect a health care provider during capping of needles and during disposal of needles. The prevention aid includes a protective shield with a center hole therein for receiving a needle cap in a press fit. The protective shield is a medical grade, sterilizable paperboard or plastic puncture resistant barrier. On a front face of the shield is a multi-colored target disposed around the center hole. The target provides focal point for capping a used needle. The protective shield includes angular sides disposed around its periphery to prevent the shield and attached needle cap from rolling freely on a flat surface. This feature facilitates a “scoop” recapping technique and minimizes cross-contamination by a used needle. The needle stick prevention aid also provides needle stick protection to dental sterilization workers when removing a used dental needle from a metal reusable dental syringe and the other end of the used needle is exposed.

Abstract: A pair of eyeglass temple holders attached to opposite sides of a hat, a baseball cap and other types of headwear. The temple holders are releasably attached to ends of a pair of temples attached to a pair of eyeglasses, which eliminate the need of placing the ends of the temples on top of a wearer's ears. Each of the pair of eyeglass temple holders includes an elastic strap with a rear end of the strap attached to a rear of one side of the headwear. A front end of the elastic strap is attached to a temple fastener. The temple fastener is used for releasably engaging an end of a temple, which is part of a pair of eyeglasses. The temple fastener, in one embodiment, can be hollow plastic tube with one end inserted in a press fit into the end of the temple. The temple end fastener, in additional embodiments, can be hook and loop fasteners or a metal snap with a post received in a hole in the end of the temple.

Abstract: A smoker oven that includes a housing having an internal cavity having a top portion, a mid-portion, and a lower portion. The internal cavity houses a support frame that has at least one generally horizontal support surface for supporting a jerky rack, the support frame being suspended from the top portion of the housing. A heater and a smoke source, positioned immediately over the heater are located in the lower portion of the internal cavity, so that an amount of smoke released in the lower portion is allowed to rise to the support frame to expose the support surface of the support frame to the amount of smoke as a filter is used to remove the smoke form the top portion.

Abstract: A book-marking device for marking a page location in a book. The device includes a pocket having a first end, a second end, and a mid-section, the pocket being of a pocket length between the first end and the second end the pocket length being adapted to extend approximately the cover length, and an elastic strap, the elastic strap extending from the first end and terminating in a strap end, and being of a relaxed length that is approximately as long as the pocket length. The elastic strap is adapted for extending around the cover to the second end of the pocket, retaining the pocket against the cover.

Abstract: A modified shopping cart for holding large, long and bulky items, such as building materials and the like, that will not fit inside the open top basket of a standard shopping cart or rest on top of the cart. The modified shopping cart includes a cart frame having a top, opposite sides and a bottom. On the bottom of the cart frame are mounted on a plurality of caster wheels. The cart frame also includes a frame platform for resting small items thereon. The shopping cart also includes an open top basket disposed above the frame platform. The basket is made of heavy gauge wire. The open top basket includes a first side, a second side, a front, a rear with handle and a bottom. The bottom of the basket is mounted on the top of the cart frame. In one embodiment of the invention, a large item carrier attached to the front of open top basket. The large item carrier includes a mounting plate with a pair of spaced apart horizontal carrier arms with openings therein.

Abstract: A helice pier coupling system used for used for soil stabilization, supporting building structures and similar applications. The coupling system provides a way of adding one or more pier shaft extensions to a helice pier shaft of a helice pier for extending the length of the pier. The pier shafts may have lengths of 5 feet or greater. The coupling system includes a first helice pier. The first helice pier having diagonal cuts at a lower first end and an upper second end of a pier shaft. The lower first end of the pier shaft can be used as a lead point when the pier shaft is driven into the soil surface. The upper second end of the pier shaft can be used with a shaft coupling for engaging a lower first end, having a mating diagonal cut, of a pier shaft of a second helice pier or the pier shaft extension. The first helice pier includes one or more helice plates.

Abstract: A system for supporting and carrying bicycles. The system cooperating with the interior surfaces of the seat post engagement tube and includes an adjustable post having a first end and a second end, the first end having an attachment mechanism adapted for connecting the post to a support surface. The second end having at least two generally parallel surface areas at an adjustable distance from one another, so that the distance between the generally parallel areas can be enlarged or reduced in a generally radial manner to create or maintain line contact with the interior surface of the seat post engagement tube.

Abstract: A water treatment tank for treating waste water using an electrochemical treatment process. The electrochemical process removes both suspended and dissolved solids in the water and allows the treated water to be removed from the tank for reuse or discharge. The tank includes a tank housing with first and second waste water receiving compartments. The two compartments are identical and are used alternately when treating the waste water. A waste water inlet line is attached to the top of the first compartment for filling the compartment with waste water. A side of the first compartment includes an annular opening for receiving an electrode assembly with a plurality of electrodes extending inside the compartment for treating the waste water electrochemically. The electrodes are attached to the power supply via electrode cables with the polarity of a current cycle reversed periodically depending on the types of water contaminates being treated.

Abstract: A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth. The time keeping device includes a translucent external globe indicia for indicating time and an internal globe rotatably mounted within the external globe, and a support mechanimsm adapted for rotating the internal globe about a pair of axis, so that the time at a particular point on the internal globe can be read by a user by peering through the external globe to see the location of the indicia as projected on the internal globe.

Abstract: A carabiner having a gate with a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a cylindrical locking element that must be rotated in order to release the gate, a guide pin that extends from the gate, and a guide that cooperates with the guide pin. The guide includes a jogged portion that prevents free rotation of the cylindrical locking element.

Abstract: A method for creating a horizontal lifeline between a pair of end anchorages. The method includes providing a section of line having a modulus of elasticity, providing an energy absorbing shock absorber having a deployment load, connecting the section of line and the shock absorber to one another, between the end anchorages, and tuning the section of line by tensioning the section of line to a load that is approximately equal to the deployment load.

Abstract: Thin metal anchoring plates provide mechanical bonding between flooring materials such as concrete and plywood. Teeth punched from the metal plates and bent at right angles on the topside form anchorage for the concrete slab and metal screws anchor the metal plate to the plywood subfloor. The metal anchoring plates allow a thin layer of concrete to form a composite section with residential floor construction and to stay in compression—a state in which cracking cannot occur in concrete. Thus, two inherent problems associated with concrete—it's heavy weight and propensity for cracking are solved and thus, allow it now to be used for residential seamless flooring that can be colored, stamped, and textured, for years of low maintenance fire resistant use.