Abstract: A device for separating the yolk and albumen of eggs, after removal from the shell, includes a cup-shaped member in an upper portion of a unitary housing for receiving an egg, retaining the yolk and allowing the albumen to overflow the cup-shaped member through surrounding slots into a first chamber in the housing, a lever being operable thereafter to break the yolk and form an opening in the cup-shaped member for allowing the yoke to flow through a tube extending downwardly through the first chamber into a second chamber. The chambers each have inclined floors and chutes for allowing their respective contents to flow into separate containers. A funnel is preferably mounted above the cup-shaped member together with an anvil so that the shell of the egg can be broken on the anvil and the combined yolk and albumen directed into the cup-shaped member by the funnel.

Abstract: A detachable golf scorecard holder comprising a scorecard holder (10), and a bag clip (5). A fastening system utilizing hook (8) and loop (4) material for removing and replacing the scorecard (10) from the bag clip (5) and golf bag (1). In addition, accessories including: a pencil (12), a tee (15), and a ball marker (18). Accessories also utilize said hook and loop material as a fastening system.

Abstract: A system including a telescopic switch and method of operation is disclosed for intermittently illuminating a roadside sign in response to a vehicle passing along a selected portion of the road, the system including a lighting element for illuminating the sign and a telescopic switch including a circuit for transmitting the control signal to the lighting element, a photocell for initiating the control signal and a telescopic lens for focusing the photocell on the selected road portion whereby the photocell is capable of sensing lights on a vehicle passing along the selected road portion in order to initiate the control signal and cause the lighting element to illuminate the sign.

Abstract: A nearly all-plastic food cover is described. It includes a pair of upright side panels resting upon a substantially horizontal base such a table or the like, and a pair of mirror image front and back L-shaped panels.The side panels each has a pair of oppositely canted, stops molded in its side wall. Each stop is equi-spaced about a working plane normal to both side panels and the horizontal base.Each L-shaped panel includes an upright, wall segment that rests upon the horizontal base in the closed position of the food cover, and a roof segment that is canted in mirror image fashion about a plastic spider hinge coincident with the working plane. The canted roof segments are designed to be supported upon the canted stops of the side panels in both the full closed and half-open positions of the food cover.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, conventional cable operated, pull up braking systems can be combined with a pair of bi-directional, rotatable grip subassemblies to provide braking action without change in the rider's grip. Each subassembly of the invention includes a cord attached to a hand grip that includes a longitudinal bore that is slidable about but rotatable with respect to the handle bar. In one embodiment, each hand grip includes a cylinder having an enlarged head, a central segment and a longitudinal bore slightly greater in diameter than the handle bar. At the exterior of the central segment is an exterior cylindrical cover preferably of compressible rubber. The outer diameter of the compressible cover is larger than that of the enlarged head of the support cylinder, and is of sufficient length to comfortably accommodate the grip of the rider.

Abstract: A swim fin includes harness for attachment to a wearer's foot, the harness including an adjustable strap secured to the fin on opposite sides of a forward portion of the wearer's foot, the adjustable strap forming an X configuration passing over the wearer's instep and around the wearer's heel. Liner straps are arranged between forward portions of the adjustable strap and the wearer's foot while lateral straps are anchored to rearward portions of the fine and secured to opposite side portions of the adjustable strap. The fin has a generally flat configuration with one or more flanges extended beneath the wearer's foot and along forward portions of the fin for controlling the amount of bending or flexing experienced by the fin.

Abstract: The combination of a body surfboard (10) and a pair of floats (20) and (21) attached together by fasteners (30), (31) and (32) passing through holes (35), (42) and (44) in the float members and similar holes in the board. A reinforcing web (50) bonded to the outer surface of a portion of each float and a reinforcing rod (52) inserted into a hole drilled from the end of each float serve to reinforce each float against breakage while allowing limited bending of the rear extension (27).

Abstract: Multiple embodiments of a device suitable for arrangement in a circuit for protection of components in the circuit are disclosed, the device of each embodiment including a temperature responsive electrical regulating component including a conductive polymer or ceramic material having an electrical regulating capability dependent on temperature and at least one series connected switch including trip means also responsive to temperature for opening and closing the circuit in a reliable manner, the device being adapted for connection in the circuit to be protected. The various embodiments include different arrangements of the temperature responsive electrical regulating component and the switch. Certain of the embodiments include a second series connected switch of similar construction. The conductive polymer or ceramic material can be of a variety of types for performing different electrical regulating functions within the circuit.

Abstract: In a produce peeler a plurality of rolls (14) are mounted in a "U" configuration around an auger (26) and are individually rotated by hydraulic drive motors (16) to peel produce passing through. The rolls are positioned in a hyperbolic configuration to enhance the produce tumbling and thereby improve the peeling action. The rolls are also interchangeable with separate speed controls for each.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for producing microwave radiation wherein a generally stable, high-beta, relativistic electron plasma is formed and magnetically confined in a magnetic mirror region of a suitable enclosure, a convectively unstable wave then being created in the confined plasma for producing a pulse of relatively intense microwave radiation at a frequency near a local electron gyrofrequency of the plasma, the plasma preferably being formed by simultaneous multiple-frequency electron cyclotron heating and upper off-resonant heating using microwave power at frequencies above the electron gyrofrequency of the plasma.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a visual bite indication comprise a weighted mass having an opening through which a fishing line is loosely threaded so that the weighted mass is suspended upon the line and causes the line to sag when the line is extended for fishing so that tension produced in the line by a bite causes the weighted mass to move as a visual bite indicator. The weighted mass is adapted for being secured to an adjacent eyelet during casting to prevent the weighted mass from interfering with forward passage of the line from the reel. Preferably, the weighted mass and one eyelet are magnetically attractive to each other, the one eyelet either being a fixed portion or adapted for attachment to a pre-existing rod. Multiple embodiments of the adjacent eyelet are disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of use thereof is disclosed for ridding areas of bats. The apparatus comprises an exit passageway that permits bats to move out of the area and down through an exit passageway. The passageway prevents return entrance to the area because of the passageway size construction. The size of the internal surface, the flexibility of a portion thereof and the material of its construction prevents the bat reentry.

Abstract: An immobilizing arm support is disclosed for locating a patient's arm to facilitate angulated radiographic imaging, the arm support including a flexible sheet adapted for being wrapped about the patient 3 s upper and lower arm and held in place by straps, an immobilizing strap being attached to the sheet for engagement with a table supporting the patient, an extension of the sheet being wrapped about the patient's wrist or hand for supporting and preventing rotation of the lower arm. The arm support is substantially radioluscent and preferably is formed with a pocket in the sheet for receiving a rigidifying panel to minimize flexure of the patient's arm. The immobilizing strap is preferably formed as a separate element for selective attachment and detachment with the sheet.

Abstract: A clip is disclosed of a type for securing workpieces to a bar forming part of a framework for suspending the workpieces in a bath suitable for anodizing or other electrolytic treatment of the workpieces. The clip has an elongated body with tapered engagement teeth at both ends thereof for arrangement adjacent the bath bar. A central portion of the clip body is adapted for engagement with a flexible band which is wrapped around the bar for resiliently urging the clip against the bar. In use, either end of the clip may be moved away from the bar, preferably by using a tool fitting into slots on the clip body for positioning a workpiece between either end of the clip and the bar. The clip is of a uniform cross-sectional configuration adapted for extrusion whereby a plurality of the clips may be formed by transversely cutting an extruded member conforming with the cross-section of the clip.

Abstract: A replaceable vise jaw insert assembly is disclosed for mounting on either the fixed or movable vise jaw of a mill vise or the like. The vise jaw insert assembly includes a clamping member adapted for attachment to one of the vise jaws of the mill vise, preferably by two threaded members. Facing surfaces of the clamping member and vise jaw are spaced apart and inclined relatively toward each other. An insert member having a wedge-shaped portion configured for generally mating engagement with the facing surfaces of the clamping member and vise jaw causes the wedge-shaped portion of the insert member to be captured therebetween. The insert member is also formed with a gripping surface for securing a workpiece on the mill vise. The insert member is preferably an extruded member, the gripping surface and wedge-shaped portion of the insert body being extrusion formed.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an imprintable tape and a preferred method for forming and imprinting the tape are disclosed. Generally, the tape includes an opaque film portion formed from polytetrafluoroethylene and a layer of material of contrasting color laminated to the opaque film so that upon application of compressive force to a selected surface portion of the film, unique characteristics of the polytetrafluoroethylene in the opaque film cause it to become transparent within the selected surface portion and thereby form a contrasting indicia or design by the resulting exposure of the underlying tape or surface. Another embodiment of the tape employs an underlying surface to which the tape is applied for forming the contrasting indicia or design exposed by compressing part of the tape. Various embodiments are disclosed for forming a contrasting colored surface beneath the opaque film.