Abstract: The invention is a removable wheel cover for an in-line-type skate. The cover includes a front boot designed to inwardly receive the skate's front wheel. The cover also includes a rear boot designed to inwardly receive the skate's rear wheel. A pair of flexible, resilient straps connect together the two boots of the cover. When not in use, the cover can be folded into a small volume and easily stored within a user's pocket.

Abstract: The invention is a disposable wiper unit adapted for cleaning a dipstick. The unit includes an outer casing having foldable sides. Centrally located on the casing is an absorbent block of material. Extending through the center of the absorbent material is a slot that is sized to inwardly receive a portion of the dipstick. The user can fold the sides of the case to partially compress the absorbent material onto the dipstick to enable a positive wiping action as the dipstick is drawn through the absorbent material. When not in use, the sides of the case can be folded downwardly to reduce the device's profile and allow the device to be compressed between portions of the vehicle. In the preferred embodiment, the case is manufactured from a creased, planar sheet of cardboard.

Abstract: The invention is a yard waste removal vehicle capable of being used to collect various types of yard waste. The vehicle includes a box-like hopper that is adapted to receive materials from a conveyer system, vacuum system, a side access door and a towed chipper machine. The interior of the hopper includes a movable partition that enables a segregation of the hopper's contents with a concomitant ability to separately dump the contents of each portion of the divided hopper.

Abstract: The invention is an automatic breader/sifter unit used to facilitate the application of a breading material to a food product. The unit includes a rotatable, horizontally-oriented drum that has an octagonal shape. The sidewalls of the drum include a large number of apertures so that when breading material is within the drum, the material contacts the drum and is sifted as the drum rotates. The drum is motor driven and is partially surrounded by an exterior housing. The housing prevents the sifted breading material from escaping from the unit.

Abstract: A permanently-installed form-drain (10) including hollow, foraminous planks (12) and connectors (16,18) for joining two or more of the planks in a continuously arranged concrete barrier. The instant improvements include an adapter (20/21), which serves as a straight connector, grooved plank (19) with interlocking stake (13/14), integral connector-stake and adapter-stake device (16/14, 20/14) and a tri-functional, generally rigid bracket and bracket-stake (22 and 22/22x) element, used to space and restrain/constrain the planks and/or to hold (support) reinforcement bars.

Abstract: The invention is a bi-level exercise apparatus in which a user assumes a crawling position and then moves arm and leg receiving slides in a back and forth motion. The slides are attached to tracks that constrain the movement of the slides to a linear, horizontal path. The apparatus further includes a gear train assembly that provides resistance to the rearward movement of the slides but allows the slides to move in a forward direction substantially without resistance.

Abstract: An interactive board game featuring a topologically unique playing surface with separate actuation for board playing elements and a goalie position. Formed in the shape of a hockey rink, the board is topologically unique in that it is transversely bisected at its center and descends from the bisection toward the rink ends which contain collection/goal ports. Sporadically actuable striker units are used to impel an object of play over the board surface toward the goals. The object of play may be diverted by either of two diverter units positioned against the rink laterals and may be intercepted and further propelled into play by operation of the goalie which is separately actuable by a game operator or an associate/alternate game operator, the operator and associate located at each end of the board. A spring-biased spider connector arrangement is used to effect sporadic arcuate motion of the striker units by a game operator.

Abstract: A waste hot gas stream is cleaned by a method and an apparatus implementing the method by traveling the stream through a heat exchange station in indirect heat exchange contact with the heat exchange fluid, and traveling the cooled stream through a liquid spray, filtering the spray liquid and recirculating it, demisting the gas stream and traveling it through a gas stream cleaning station in contact with continuously flowing fresh water before discharging the clean gas stream to the atmosphere.

Abstract: Obtainment of specific asphalt paving densities during roadbed repair by preshaping hot mat top surfaces concurrent with or/and prior to compaction. Like a shaped munition, a preshaped top surface on recently laid hot asphalt mat transmits surface compacting forces in precalculated directions and carries therewith asphaltic materials so as to obtain desired finished paving densities. A conventional strike off bar is modified with base indentations which partially and wholly, according to desired specifications, grade or top dress hot asphaltic mat with desired, force-transmitting shaped planes. Adjunct apparatus is employed by way of translating and rotating plates to partially or wholly cover the indentations so as to effect various, but differing, desired shapes; such adjunct apparatus includes a unique, edge and rut compaction shoe.

Abstract: A unique measuring apparatus designed especially for measuring the interior diameter of cylinder bores. The apparatus includes a divider-like measuring tool that provides both a coarse measurement scale and a dial indicator to enable highly accurate measurements. The device is preferably used in combination with a slotted gauge block that is adapted to rest atop the cylinder bore. The legs of the device include perpendicularly extending support members that rest astride the slot when the device is positioned atop the gauge block. A number of different length removable leg tips are also provided to enable the measurement of cylinder diameters at different heights within the cylinder.

Abstract: A golf bag comprising a pair of support legs pivotally mounted at their upper ends to the bag, so as to pivot between extended and retracted positions thereof. A base plate is pivotally mounted to the bottom of the bag. The base plate has sufficient width and length to stably support the bag. The bag also includes a plurality of downwardly extending base members provided at the lower surface of bottom member, except for at least the front portion of said lower surface. Each of base members has a certain vertical length such that its bottom surface is flush with the lower surface of base plate and in contact with the ground when the bag body is maintained at its upright position. The stability of the bag is ensured at both inclined and upright positions, in that the base plate is always in contact with the ground.

Abstract: A sanding block having a central metallic core which is deformable yet shape retaining, the core being enclosed totally within an elastomeric covering which is non-abrasive.

Abstract: A method and product resulting from application of the method for making the images in nonreplicable documents. Documents that cannot be replicated by known copying machines or other replicating devices are produced according to the invention method, as well as alternative methods. All of the methods disclosed herein are instructive for making the images and art work on such documents by forming lines into various patterns in a manner imitative of intaglio or gravure printing. The pitch of the lineations is deliberately selected so as to vary minutely from the pitch of the scanning trace of various copying machines such as photocopiers, video opticons, and the like. The variation in pitch may be obtained by deliberately manufacturing the document with the desired pitch or, subsequent to the image placement therein, altering the dimensions or geometry of the document so as to effectively skew the pitch parameter.

Abstract: New cobalt-base wrought alloys containing 24-32% chromium, 14-22% nickel, 2-8% tantalum, 0.02-0.75% cerium and 0.03%-0.10% carbon have an unique combination of high temperature strength, hot corrosion resistance, oxidation-resistance and resistance to thermal fatigue cracking are useful in making weld repairs of cracked nozzles of gas turbine engines, as protective coatings for hot stage components of such engines and other similar purposes.

Abstract: The invention is a semi-resilient exercise grip that has a non-resilient particulate core surrounded by a resilient rubber covering. Within the core there is also a dry lubricant such as talc that allows the particles to move over each other without damage. The outer covering may consist of a single thick latex layer, a thin latex layer surrounded by a thick rubber layer or a number of thin latex layers. The semi-resiliency of the grip enables a user to deform the grip and thereby change its shape. The grip can be moved within the hand to allow the user to deform it repeatedly while changing the grip's shape each time.

Abstract: In a catheter connector assembly the catheter tube is secured within a resilient sleeve valve. The sleeve valve acts as the hub of the catheter connector for reception of male connector tube while simultaneously sealing the catheter tube against retrograde blood flow until the male connector is fully inserted.

Abstract: The invention is a glass pulverizer in which two rotatable chain-type flail assemblies are housed within two contiguous, internally joined drum-like housings. One housing has an inlet on one end and the other housing has an outlet located on an end furthest from the end adjacent the inlet. The housing having an outlet is longer than the other housing thereby allowing the pulverized glass to exit the device in a relatively low speed and controlled manner. A flail mounting method is also taught in which at least one chain flail assembly is comprised of a plurality of individual chains that are mounted to a connecting chain that is spirally wrapped about the assembly's central shaft and is designed to be easily removable from the shaft.

Abstract: A hard wear-resistant and corrosion- and oxidation-resistant stainless steel article is made by precision machining a work piece of approximately the size and shape of the desired article, then subjecting the resulting cold worked article to ion bombardment until the article is nitrided to a depth of about 0.002 inch, and finally subjecting the nitrided article to an atmosphere of argon and nitrogen and oxygen until the resulting ion bombardment has penetrated to a depth in the article surface of about 0.0001 inch.