Abstract: A self-powered device for cutting foliage that includes a backpack portion, a foliage cutting portion, and a coupling portion. The backpack portion includes a frame, a gas engine, and a flexible shaft. The coupling portion includes a power portion and a tool portion. The power portion includes a collar that is crimped on the sheathing of the flexible shaft of the backpack portion and a stop that extends fixedly and axially from the collar of the power portion. The tool portion includes a collar that is crimped on the casing of the flexible drive shaft of the foliage cutting portion with the end thereof having a blind bore extending axially therethrough which fixedly receives the end of the flexible shaft of the backpack portion. The collar of the tool portion has an inner periphery that fixedly receives the stop of the power portion.

Abstract: A rotating display that includes a fixed frame, a rotating frame that is rotatably mounted to the fixed frame, and apparatus that rotatably moves the rotating frame relative to the fixed frame. The apparatus includes a pool that contains water, eight movable arms that receive associated ends of associated fixed arms and move radially along the associated fixed arms, four joining bars that fixedly join and extend radially along aligned associated pairs of moveable arms, eight weights that are affixed on associated ends of associated joining bars, eight air pumps that have housings that are fixedly attached to associated bars and contain bellows, eight tubes that extend from inner terminal ends radially outwardly from the housings of associated air pumps to outer terminal ends, with the inner terminal ends thereof being in fluid communication with the bellows of the associated air pumps, and eight balls that are in fluid communication with the outer terminal ends of associated tubes.

Abstract: A portable system for removing oil from an oil containing device. The system includes a pump, fluid conduit apparatus, and power conduit apparatus. The pump pumps the oil out of the oil containing device. The fluid conduit apparatus is in fluid communication with the pump and with the oil containing device. The power conduit apparatus is in electrical communication with the pump. The pump is in fluid communication with a receptacle for the oil, with circumferential threads around the pump threadably engaging a pre-existing threaded hole in the lid of the receptacle. The pump further has a lower vent hole in fluid communication with the receptacle and an upper vent hole in fluid communication with the lower vent hole and the ambient, which allows the pump to be self-venting. The fluid conduit apparatus comprises a tube that is in fluid communication with the pump and interfacing apparatus disposed on the tube and in fluid communication with the oil in the oil containing device.

Abstract: A portable vacuum cleaner for attaching to a can of compressed gas having an output for creating a suction. The cleaner includes a body, a nozzle attached to one end of the body, and a receptacle attached to the other end of the body. The body includes a cap for attaching to the can of compressed gas, and which has a throughbore. The body further includes an external tube that has an intermediate portion, a forward portion, and a rear portion. The receptacle includes a tube and an air permeable bag. The body further includes an internal tube, a valve, and a trigger, which when pressed, opens the valve which allows compressed gas in the can of compressed gas to exit through its output and flow through the internal tube into the rear portion of the external tube and thereby create a suction in the external tube which causes dirt to be drawn through the nozzle, through the external tube, through the tube of the receptacle, and be captured in the air permeable bag.

Abstract: A device for reminding a driver of a vehicle of the expiration date of the associated inspection sticker. The device includes a housing, a microprocessor, a LCD, a calendar chip for generating a date, a clock chip for generating a time, an alarm chip the provides a visible alarm and an audible alarm, a select button that selects either the clock chip, the calendar chip, or the alarm chip, and a value button that sets either the clock chip, the calendar chip, or the alarm chip that was selected by the select button. The device further includes a piece of two-sided tape that is attached to the rear wall of the housing and attaches the housing to the windshield of the vehicle, behind the inspection sticker. The audible and visible alarms have duty cycles with frequencies and durations that are selected by a menu brought up on the LCD display by the select button and set by the value button. The duty cycles are intermittent as opposed to constant for preventing drain on the battery.

Abstract: A robotic leg for traversing a path similar to that of a human leg during walking on a floor. The leg includes a housing, a wheel, a rail, a slide shaft, a follower, and a leg. The leg takes a step by rotating a shaft, causing the wheel to rotate, causing the slide shaft to pivotally move with the wheel, causing the slide shaft to slide down the follower, causing a plurality of outer roller bearings and an inner roller bearing to roll along a convex periphery of the rail, causing the follower to move along the convex periphery, causing a hip end of the leg to pivot forwardly about an inner roller pin, and causing an uppermost pair of flat rods of the leg to pivot forwardly about their midpoints.

Abstract: A device for attracting attention having an opened position and a closed position, and includes a pole and a flag extending from the pole. The pole has an extended position for holding in a hand and a retracted position for storage. The pole includes a plurality of tubular telescoping portions, a top cap that threadably engages the top of an upper portion of the plurality of tubular telescoping portions and which allows for selective closing of the upper portion when the pole is used to store valuables therein, and a bottom cap that threadably engages the bottom of a lower portion of the plurality of tubular telescoping portions and which allows for selective closing of the lower portion when the pole is used to store valuables therein. A substrate of the flag is elongated, and originates at the upper portion of the plurality of tubular telescoping portions and terminates in a pair of converging edges that join at a free convex tip.

Abstract: A pair of gloves for replaceably attaching to a garment. The pair of gloves include a first glove for covering one hand of a user, a second glove for covering the other hand of the user, and accessories disposed on at least one of the first glove and the second glove. The first glove includes a strip of hook portion of hook and loop fasteners which selectively mates with either a strip of mating loop portions of the hook and loop fasteners positioned on the garment or directly with the garment itself when it is of a loop type material, and a strip of loop portions of hook and loop fasteners. The second glove includes a strip of hook portions of hook and loop fasteners which selectively mates with either the strip of loop portions of hook and loop fasteners of the first glove, another strip a mating loop portions of the hook and loop fasteners for positioning on the garment, or directly with the garment itself when it is of a loop type material.

Abstract: An engine for powering by water that includes a stator, a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator, and a plurality of blades movably mounted in the rotor. The stator has a throughchamber. The rotor is rotatably mounted in the throughchamber. By virtue of a throughbore in a top plate of the stator being offset from its longitudinal axis, a throughbore in a bottom plate of the stator being offset from its longitudinal axis, and a throughbore in the rotor being along its longitudinal axis, the rotor is offset in the throughchamber and has only one tangential point contacting a circular periphery of throughchamber at any one time as it rotates in the stator. The rotor rotates clockwise in the stator, by steam applying a greater force on a blade of a pair of blades of three blades that define a communicating power chamber that protrudes further than another blade of the pair of blades, by virtue of the fact that it presents a greater surface area exposed to the steam.

Abstract: A self-retracting cart for use in the cargo bay of a sport utility vehicle. When a pair of front wheels are caused to roll on and into the cargo bay by the self-retracting cart for use in the cargo bay of a sport utility vehicle being pushed therein, a push plate is caused to press against the rear edge of the cargo bay and traverse rearwardly causing a pair of arms to traverse rearwardly and cause a pair of spreader brackets to fold which causes a pair of front struts to pivot upwardly against a bottom wall of the basket and retract a pair of intermediate wheels against the pair of side walls of the basket and out of the way and thereby retracting the front wheel assembly.

Abstract: A device for attaching to a sliding door of a pair of sliding doors and for allowing opening of the sliding door by use of a foot. The device includes a first portion, a second portion, and attaching apparatus. The first portion is attached to the interior surface of the bottom of the sliding door and is engaged by the foot when opening the sliding door. The second portion is attached to the exterior surface of the bottom of the sliding door and is engaged by the foot when opening the sliding door. The attaching apparatus attaches the first portion and the second portion to the sliding door.

Abstract: An improved junction box for perpendicularly conducting stiff electrical cable and of a type having an elongated housing with an open top, a base, a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls extending upwardly from the base of the elongated housing, a cover replaceably closing the open top of the elongated housings by at least one first screw, a first gasket weather sealing the cover to the elongated housing, a first stub conduit extending axially outwardly from one end wall of and communicating with the elongated housing, and a second stub conduit depending from and communicating with the base of the elongated housing adjacent the other end wall of the housing and perpendicular to the first stub conduit.

Abstract: A modularly stackable centrally ventilated bird house that includes a main portion, a ventilation system, and a base. The main portion includes a lowermost floor, corner posts, lower peripheral perches, a pair of lower internal perches, an uppermost floor, upper peripheral perches, a pair of upper internal perches, and a ceiling. The ventilation system includes a stub venting-tube that together with a throughbore in the lower floor allow the modularly stackable centrally ventilated bird houses to be stacked, four lower compartments, four lower dowels, four upper compartments, four upper dowels, and a vent cap. The main portion further includes a pitched roof that is selectively disposed on the ceiling and which has a pair of gable ends that have vent throughbores therethrough. When the pitched roof is utilized, the vent cap is removed and air exiting the stub venting-tube exits through the vent throughbores in the pair of gable ends of the pitched roof and out into the ambient.

Abstract: A blind alignment sillcock with non-vibrating loose wall mounting. The sillcock includes a spout and water regulating handle assembly, a tube portion, and a wall mounting portion. The tube portion has a threaded portion with a keyway slot therein that extends at a position in line with a valve stem of the spout and water regulating handle assembly, and which provides a reference for assuring that the valve stem is properly facing up when the blind alignment sillcock with non-vibrating loose wall mounting is being fastened blindly from behind the wall. The wall mounting a portion includes a nut plate that has a nut that threadably receives the tube portion. The leading face of the nut plate has teeth for engaging the interior side of the wall. The nut has a plurality of keyway slots that extend radially outwardly, with each keyway slot being alignable with the keyway slot in the threaded portion of the tube portion.

Abstract: Light emitting artwork that includes a printed circuit board, at least one least one LED disposed on the printed circuit board, a surface material disposed on the printed circuit board and having an image thereon that together with the at least one LED produce customized light emitting artwork, and a backboard displaced from the printed circuit board. The at least one LED is at least one tri-color LED connected in parallel with each other and with a programmable logic control circuit and with a DC power source having a polarity, with a current limiting resister connected in series with each of the at least one tri-color LED.

Abstract: A free standing cordless gun for dispensing liquid glue that includes a housing that is pistol-shaped and dispensing apparatus that is contained in the housing for dispensing the liquid glue.

Abstract: A refillable dispenser for replacing a standard roll of toilet tissue on a standard pre-existing roll-type toilet-tissue holder with a roll or selectively dispensable pre-moistened wipes replaceably contained therein so as to allow the roll of selectively dispensable pre-moistened wipes to be readily available in virtually any bathroom and ensure its reliable and regular use instead of the standard roll of toilet tissue. The dispenser includes a hollow housing for containing the roll of selectively dispensable pre-moistened wipes, and a core that passes freely through the core of the roll of selectively dispensable pre-moistened wipes for rotative motion therebetween and for non-rotatively receiving the spindle of the standard pre-existing roll-type toilet-tissue holder. The core is hollow and extends axially, concentrically, and completely through, the housing.

Abstract: A combination display device and storage rack component that is made of a transparent plastic so as to allow complete visibility of a CD jewel box housed therein and is either hung on a vertical wall or rested inclined on a horizontal surface. The component includes a base, a pair of side walls, a hanging apparatus, a resting apparatus, and a stacking and interlocking apparatus. The pair of side walls extend upwardly from the base. The hanging apparatus is for hanging the combination display device and storage rack component on the vertical wall. The resting apparatus is for supporting the combination display device and storage rack component inclined on the horizontal surface. The stacking and interlocking apparatus is for stacking and interlocking a plurality of the combination display device and storage rack components in a staggered arrangement.

Abstract: An error proof measuring tape rule for eliminating snagging on a work piece. The rule includes a tape rule, a hook affixed to the tape rule, and a one-piece spoon affixed to the tape rule. The upper surface of the body portion of the one-piece spoon is positioned on the lower surface of the free end of the tape rule, with the three throughbores in the body portion of the one-piece spoon aligned with three forwardmost throughbores of the four throughbores in the free end of the tape rule, and with the tail portion of the one-piece spoon extending upwardly through a rearmost throughbore of the four throughbores in the free end of the tape rule and rearwardly along the upper surface of the free end of the tape rule.

Abstract: A tow bar for towing a trailing bicycle by a leading bicycle. The tow bar includes a leading portion for extending rearwardly from the leading bicycle, a trailing portion for extending forwardly from the trailing bicycle, and first apparatus for connecting the leading portion to the trailing portion. The leading portion includes a U-shaped bar for straddling the rear wheel of the leading bicycle and has a pair of free ends for replaceably attaching to the rear fork of the leading bicycle and second apparatus for replaceably attaching the leading portion to the rear fork of the leading bicycle. The trailing portion includes a U-shaped bar for straddling the front wheel of the trailing bicycle and has a pair of free ends for replaceably attaching to the front fork of the trailing bicycle and third apparatus for replaceably attaching the trailing portion to the front fork of the trailing bicycle.