Abstract: An ambidextrous, light weight, hand holster for repellent spray; the holster is made of a stretchable, elastic and porous fabric. The holster detachably retains and locates the repellent spray. Applicant's holster is disposed around the base of the fingers, from the first finger to the little finger, so as a user closes the hand, the thumb contacts the operating mechanism. The rotation of the users thumb, activates the operating mechanism, releasing the repellent spray. Finger encircling tubes, encircling the index and little finger towards the first knuckle, position the holster and prevent the rotation of the holster on the hand, as the spray is activated. The holster finger encircling tubes encircle the users index and little fingers; the two middle fingers are not simultaneously encircled by the tubes, allowing air to circulate within the holster.

Abstract: An improved ride-on, self propelled, pavement maintenance vehicle suitable for applying liquid sealing material, such as asphalt or coal tar emulsions and other pavement coatings, upon large, relatively flat, surfaces such as automobile parking lots, roadways, etc. is disclosed.

Abstract: An adjustable support stand is disclosed for permanently supporting a mobile home above the ground. The support stand includes means for leveling the structure during initial instillation and also after the mobile home has become established. Further, means is provided whereby the stand is mechanically secured to a supporting foundation and also to the structure of the modular home thereby protecting against tip-over in the event of high winds and/or earth vibrations.

Abstract: A cranberry separator, and method, to separate soft and undersize cranberries from hard, marketable cranberries. Mushy cranberries do not clog the separator.Pressure is repeatedly applied to each cranberry, to a pressure less than 0.50 psi, as cranberries are transported from a loading hopper, along a roller conveyor, to an outlet.The roller conveyor comprises an overhead soft roller, and a finned hard roller, mounted under the soft roller. Each cranberry passes between multiple pinch points, between the upper and lower rollers.Each cranberry is supported across two fins, at the pinch point. Soft cranberries are forced between the fins, and are stripped out from between the fins, by comb teeth, extending upwardly between the fins. After each pinch point, the cranberry is rotated randomly, to present a new surface to be tested.

Abstract: An assortment of clamps, for use by a child to clamp panels of scrap corrugated panel, to make free standing play structures. The clamps are extrusions of high density polysterene, incorporating flexible legs, that form a U-shaped panel receiving section. Each clamp has a panel insertion guide, an elastic deformation gripping section, and a crush deformation gripping section. The clamps are designed to be easy for a child to insert a corrugated panel.

Abstract: A method of making blocks of pasta filata cheese, by laminating ribbons of cheese to a desired thickness, and cutting the ribbons to length. A plastic ribbon of hot, pasta filata cheese is extruded onto a conveyor. While on the conveyor, the ribbon is chilled by either brine, cold water, or super chilled air. Heat is removed from the ribbon, only until the ribbon has set up, and is self supporting. The set up ribbon is stacked on other ribbon while the ribbon is being transported. The stacked ribbons laminate at the ribbon to ribbon contact surfaces. Lengths of the laminated ribbon are cut into blocks.

Abstract: A device for treating mausoleums against Phorid Fly infestation by discharging a cloud of dry powder insecticide into each sealed, mausoleum cell entombment, from outside the cell; the insecticide powder covers and adheres to all surfaces in the cell; the insecticide used is chosen from those insecticides relatively harmless to human beings, and that will continue to kill Phorid Flies for a period of time greater than the expected dehydration time of the contents of the sealed mausoleum cell, which dehydration time is from five to seven years.

Abstract: A device and method for treating mausoleums against Phorid Fly infestation by discharging a cloud of dry powder insecticide into each sealed, mausoleum cell entombment, from outside the cell; the insecticide powder covers and adheres to all surfaces in the cell; the insecticide used is chosen from those insecticides relatively harmless to human beings, and that will continue to kill Phorid Flies for a period of time greater than the expected dehydration time of the contents of the sealed mausoleum cell, which dehydration time is from five to seven years.

Abstract: A hydraulic device incorporating open conduit flow used to brine and chill a cheese block, while transporting the cheese block from point of molding to a processing station;A shallow tank is formed into an open conduit by parallel inner walls spaced far enough apart to allow passage of a cheese block; cold brine of a greater specific gravity than the cheese block is pumped into the tank and is directed through the open conduit in a circumscribed path to a brine outlet;A cheese block placed in the tank at the brine inlet is carried through the open conduit in the circumscribed path by hydraulic flow; along the conduit fresh chilled brine is inserted and the stage of the conduit is varied to increase brine velocity at points along the conduit.

Abstract: A device for extruding cheese pieces; warm plastic cheese is extruded into a bore; a piston seals one end of the bore and a cheese working plate seals the other end; a mold is positioned below the bore, the mold top in sliding engagement with the cheese working plate, the mold bottom in sliding engagement with a mold support plate; holes in the cheese working plate, in the mold and in the support plate, align with the bore; the piston is forced through the bore, forcing the cheese in the bore, at high pressure, through the holes in the working plate, filling the mold holes with cheese; when the mold holes have filled, continued pressure by the piston forces a small amount of cheese out of the mold holes into small weeper holes; the piston is withdrawn to the top of the bore and the bore refilled with cheese; the filled mold is reciprocated under an ejector which forces the formed pieces out of the mold, into moving brine; in the best method, two molds are reciprocated between two bores and a single centrally

Abstract: An oven that cooks foodstuffs containing water at temperatures up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit with longwave radiation generated by masking a cooking volume from radiant heating elements by blackened rigid inserts, which absorb shortwave and longwave radiation from the heating elements and uniformly reradiate the energy into the cooking volume as longwave radiation; non-condensing steam is injected into the oven until the vapor pressure of the water in the foodstuff attains a pressure at which water will migrate to the surface of the foodstuff to be evaporated; air is then passed through the oven to remove water from the foodstuff, while cooking with longwave radiation continues.

Abstract: A permanent wave roller comprising an elongated bendable center core, a plurality of discs axially mounted on such core, the discs being spaced apart from each other along the core; the external perimeter of the discs forms a support surface to support an open mesh affixed between the two end pieces; the bendable center core allows the roller to be bent to conform to the shape of a user's head, and the spaces between the discs allow permanent wave solution to pass through the roller, quickly wetting a curl formed with the roller while supporting the curl.

Abstract: A device and method for forming pieces of cheese weighing several ounces or less while retaining the skin normally formed on the cheese piece in the cooling process, and at the same time obtaining a desired internal structure. Warm plastic cheese is extruded into a first mold having a sliding low friction end cap, by means of a screw extruder, at 1000 pounds per square inch; the first mold is then positioned over a second mold having a plurality of forming chambers formed therethrough, the second mold is made of UHMW and the volume of the second mold is slightly less than the volume of the first mold. Pressure at 3000 pounds per square inch is applied to the mold end cap while the cheese in the first mold is still plastic, forcing the cheese into the forming chambers; the cheese pieces formed are retained in the forming chamber until a skin is formed and then they are ejected into a brining tank.

Abstract: Device and method for treating low back pain comprising three generally rigid chemically inert members, which apply a centrally directed force to the abdomen and to the gluteal muscles; the three members are connected across the front of the pelvis by flexible connectors positioned above and below the anterior superior iliac spines.

Abstract: A cheese cutter for reducing a block of cheese by cutting the block in three perpendicular directions, comprising a frame, a carriage mounted and moveable linearly within the frame, low adherence, chemically inert cheese support members mounted on such carriage, means for moving the carriage within the frame, a stationary cutter having a plurality of cutting wires mounted therein, such cutting wires extending across the area through which the carriage is moved; and a pivoting cutter having a plurality of cutting wires mounted therein, pivotal through the area of travel of the carriage, together with a quick replacement cutting wire mounting system and various safety devices.

Abstract: A coupler for a trailer reach ball, comprising a housing to be mounted on a vehicle, a pair of pivotally mounted coupling plates; mounted within the housing and extending out of the housing; the plates pivot within a limited arc on counter rotating axis; ball receiving cups are mounted on the coupling plates, spring biasing of the coupling plates holds the cups apart; the ball receiving cups have extending projections to engage a trailer reach; a deadbolt within the housing locks the coupler around the reach ball when the coupler is closed by the insertion of a trailer reach ball.

Abstract: Commercial baking oven with sliding doors; the doors are mounted closely parallel by cylindrical shoes of low friction material fitted to the door bottoms, the shoes slide in a plurality of equidistant bottom vee tracks, the upper part of the doors being located by guide shoes of a low friction material operating in an upper track; heat retaining lips mounted on door edges abut when the doors are closed; a heat retaining zee strip is mounted between the cylindrical shoes; the vee track is shorter than the fully closed measurement of the doors so debris is forced out of the vee track as doors are open and closed.