Abstract: The new dispensing roll of deadfold stickers comprises a length of flexible carrier tape having a low adhesion surface and a multiplicity of flexible deadfold stickers releasably adhered to the low adhesion surface for easy removal therefrom. Each deadfold sticker comprises a laminate of pliable layers and at least two deadfold wires in spaced parallel alignment embedded in the laminate in a direction transverse to the length of the carrier tape. The carrier tape with releasably adhered deadfold stickers is wound upon itself in the dispensing roll. The dispensing roll is used in automatic machinery to form mouth-foldable deadfold reclosable bags; and the preferred reclosures are those having three creases of fold line formed by two folding steps.

Abstract: The pet luggage has an elongated main compartment with outside pockets at the ends of the main compartment, thereby making the luggage extremely long as compared to its width but more comfortably carried than shorter luggage of comparable volume. One outside pocket is for a leash, and the other is for fecal clean-up equipment. The main compartment is protectively closed by three separate fastening systems, two of which are zippers for lowering a front panel of the main compartment and on of which is Velcro-type for holding the top panel in covering position over the main compartment. Unfastening any one of the three separate fastening systems gives access to the main compartment. The top and bottom panels are stiffened to relatively reduce their pliability as compared to other panels. Padding of panels is employed to enhance comfort as the luggage bumps against a person carrying it. Within the main compartment are such items as a towel holder, pockets for grooming items, and a medicine container.

Abstract: The new dispensing roll of deadfold stickers comprises a length of flexible carrier tape having a low adhesion surface and a multiplicity of flexible deadfold stickers releasably adhered to the low adhesion surface for easy removal therefrom. Each deadfold sticker comprises a laminate of pliable layers and at least two deadfold wires in spaced parallel alignment embedded in the laminate in a direction transverse to the length of the carrier tape. The carrier tape with releasably adhered deadfold stickers is wound upon itself in the dispensing roll. The dispensing roll is used in automatic machinery to form mouth-foldable deadfold reclosable bags; and the preferred reclosures are those having three creases of fold line formed by two folding steps.

Abstract: The deadfold reclosure sticker for hand pressure application to a bag has a flexible backing liner with a low adhesion surface. On the liner is a flexible deadfold reclosure sticker having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer forming a base surface releasably adhered to the low adhesion surface of the liner. The sticker comprises a laminate of pliable layers and at least two deadfold wires having a thickness at least twice as great as the laminate. The wires are in spaced parallel alignment and are embedded along their length in the laminate with the ends of said wires exposed to view. The flexible backing liner has a structural feature for easy removal of it for hand application of it onto a flexible bag to form a deadfold reclosable bag easily reclosed by simple folding steps.

Abstract: This self-propelled articulation-steered tractor has a positive adjustment system for controlling the orientation (both elevation and lateral tilt) of a transverse implement mounted on either the front or rear assembly of the tractor, and a reactive adjustment system for allowing terrain-responsive orientation of the axle of the other assembly (front or rear) not carrying the transverse implement. The positive adjustment system is operator controlled. The reactive system may comprise a mounting of the axle for the non-implement-carrying assembly so it freely pivots with respect to the frame of that assembly. An articulation joint transverse swivel pivot system is provided for lateral tilt movement between the front and rear assemblies of the articulation-steered tractor.

Abstract: The stabilizing belt comprises a pliable belt band, means for securing the band about the waist of the forward person of a tandem pair, and at least two discrete hand grip assemblies for the rearward person of the tandem pair. Each of the hand grip assemblies is adjustable to different locations along the belt band and yet is securely held at a selected location along the belt band when the belt band is secured in taut condition about the waist of the forward person. An anchor member is the base structure of each hand grip assembly. It is mounted on the belt band for adjustability along the belt band. A loop of material is then carried by the anchor member and has a portion in spaced relationship from the belt band for hand gripping by the rearward person.

Abstract: This shear mixer for polymeric material has two mateable bodies that, when pressed in mating condition together, form a reverse flow path for the movement of the material being mixed. The mixer has two mixing gaps, each defined by a primary wall surface on one body and an opposing wall surface on the other. Contractive movement of the two bodies together effectively causes the linear length of each mixing gap to increase and also causes one wall of each mixing gap to move in a direction opposite to the flow of material through the mixing gap. The mixing method involves not only increasing the length of a mixing gap as material is pushed through it for mixing, but also causing flow of material through one mixing gap to be in a direction opposite but parallel to the flow of material through the other mixing gap.

Abstract: The straddle apparatus for loading and unloading gondola and similar-type railcars is mobile for movement into a position straddling a railcar on railroad tracks. It has a platform supported by leg members adjustable to vary the elevation of the platform above the railcar. A boom mount structure is fixed to the front portion of the platform. Stabilizing assemblies are also mounted at the front edge of the platform for swinging downwardly to abut upper surface lateral edges of the railcar with an operator-selected degree of pressure to reduce lateral wobble movement and longitudinal roll movement of the railcar during loading and unloading operations. The stabilizing assemblies also give additional support to the boom assembly during the material handling operations of loading and unloading.

Abstract: The polar-lighted recreational ball is substantially symmetrical about an axis of the ball body and hasa opposing polar regions at opposite ends of the axis. Axially recessed lighting assemblies at each polar region project light outwardly from the ball through a light passage at the polar regions. An annular cushion collar surrounds each polar light passage to cushion axial impacts on the ball. A skewing member causes the lighting assemblies to skew laterally from the axis upon compression impact approximately along the direction of the axis. The skewing member and the lighting assemblies are located in a channel running through the ball at the axis; and the ball is ideally of a substantially ellipsoidal football shape.

Abstract: The new low voltage itch reducer is characterized by having a treatment head comprising a body of electrically insulating material having a substantially flat face surface. A pattern of spaced electrode tips project outwardly from the face surface. The pattern includes electrode tips of opposite polarity in sufficiently spaced relationship so that discharge of electrical current through the air between tips of opposite polarity does not occur under the low voltage employed. The electrode tips at the edges of the pattern define the perimeter of it. The pattern has no face dimension greater than about 20 millimeters. The outward projection of the electrode tips is substantially equal for all tips of the pattern. Pressing the treatment head against a person's skin over an itching insect bits effectively permits the flat surface of the body of the head to contact the skin of the individual with the electrodes pressing into the skin, without penetrating the skin, over the insect bite.

Abstract: A golf glove for the hand of the user placed highest on the club comprising backside panels inlcuding a grip indicator panel area defined as the area covering the backside of the user's little and ring fingers down to the tip and also covering the portion of the backside of the body of the user's hand between the outside edge of the hand opposite the thumb and a line substantially parallel to outside edge intersecting the juncture between the ring and middle fingers. The indicator panel area is visually distinct from the remaining areas of the glove, so as to give the user an indication of the orientation of the grip on the club by the visibility of any portion of the indicator panel area as the user addresses a golf ball in preparation to strike it.

Abstract: A portable writing board mountable for use on a steering wheel of a vehicle and also entirely stable for writing use when rested upon any flat surface. The board has a platform member which has substantially parallel side edges, a lower edge, and a curved upper edge approximating the curvature of the outer diameter of a vehicle steering wheel. A retaining collar depends from the curved upper edge and is unified thereto. The retaining collar consists essentially of a depending skirt portion and a flange-like portion directed radially inwardly from the skirt portion to thereby form a recess capable of accommodating the rim of a vehicle steering wheel. The most depending portions of the retaining collar form a bottom surface which extends continuously along the entire curvature of the retaining collar, and lies in an imaginary plane intersecting the platform at an axis line perpendicular to the side edges of the platform and located at the lowermost bottom edge of the platform.

Abstract: A strike plate for an entry door structure. The strike plate consists of a unitary metal member having a face portion which merges into a curved lip portion which merges into a lateral flange oriented perpendicularly to the face portion. The face portion has an upper and lower edge defining the vertical dimension thereof and a recess for receiving an outwardly-biased latch member of a door, and has mounting holes for screw members to fix the face portion on the face surface of a jamb of a frame for an entry door structure. The lateral flange has upper and lower edges defining the vertical dimension thereof. The vertical dimension of the flange is greater than the vertical dimension of the face portion. The lateral flange has mounting holes extending therethrough exclusively at locations more spaced apart vertically than the mounting holes through the face portion.

Abstract: The wall-mountable disposable-funnel dispenser has a funnel feeder member and a cover member which frictionally fit together to provide a convenient, compact storage container for paper funnels. The funnel feeder member and cover member are constructed of shape-retaining molded plastic. The structure includes a wall-mounting bracket, knob-like projections on the inner rim of the cover member for accomplishing a friction fit to the feeder member, an arrangement of ribs on the interior of the funnel feeder member to facilitate easy movement of the funnels to the bottom end of the dispenser, and ribs at the lower end of the feeder member to temporarily hold the lowermost removable funnel of a nested stack of the same. The dispenser is easily mounted on a wall near working areas for convenient access to disposable funnels which can be individually withdrawn from the bottom of the dispenser.

Abstract: The vacuum column system distills liquid under partial vacuum conditions. The system rigorously splashes and boils liquid in a boiler chamber so as to form vapor and a rising mist from the splashing liquid. The vapor and mist rise in a circularly converging path through a mist collector. The heavier mist strikes the surfaces of the mist collector and deposits on those surfaces, thereby separating itself from the vapor. The vapor is then drawn to a condensor chamber where droplets of treated liquid are sprayed through it and fall into a shallow pool of treated liquid. The droplets seed condensation of the vapor directly onto the droplets. Also, the droplets assist in encapsulating bubbles of vapor in the pool as the droplets fall into the pool. The bubbles are then entrained with other treated liquid of the pool as the treated liquid is drawn from the pool down an entrainment conduit.

Abstract: A visual display device illuminated by flexible and shock absorbing edge-lighting means is provided. The device includes a transparent panel of light piping material and a light-scattering design integrated with the panel. The transparent panel has a light-receiving edge along the perimeter thereof. A flexible plastic-exterior light string comprises lighting elements housed in a light refracting conduit. The light string is nudged and pressed against the light-receiving edge of the transparent panel to deform the refracting conduit of the light string to the contour of the edge.

Abstract: The invention comprises a removeable and adjustable rack for mounting on a fixed garment hook inside the body compartment of a motor vehicle to increase garment hanging capacity. It includes a base plate which has an opening for hanging on a fixed garment hook and has opposing lateral side edges. The base plate has wing plates pivotably connected to the opposing lateral side edges. The wing plates can be pivotably adjusted to abut against the inside surface of the body compartment to stabilize the mounting of the base plate on the fixed garment hook. A hanger arm projects from the base plate to support plural garment hangers.

Abstract: A boom H for a vehicle A which carries a working implement K to enable operations to be carried out such as excavation or loading, comprises first (11) and second (10) parts, the first part (11) carrying the working implement (K) and the second part (14) being mounted on a body (B) of the vehicle, the first and second parts being connected together for relative pivotal movement about a generally horizontal axis (A 1), a fluid operated actuating means (18) acting between the first (11) and second (10) boom parts to effect relative pivotal movement at least in one sense of rotation, characterized in that the fluid operated actuating means (18) comprises two relatively movable members (20,23) which operate in tension, one member (20) being pivotally secured to one of the boom parts (14) and the other member (23) being connected via a flexible linkage (24) to the other boom part (11) to enable the two boom parts to be relatively pivoted to include a smaller angle between them than would be possible with a rigid l

Abstract: This invention provides a compact storage container formed of a base member and a slidably removable cover. The base member is subdivided into a relatively larger first part and a smaller second part which is further subdivided for particular feminine supplies. The largest part or compartment may optionally be subdivided by means of a movable divider panel. The base member has lateral flanges which project outwardly from its opposing side walls at the uppermost edge thereof. The flanges provide slideways for the slidably removable cover.