Abstract: The invention is a prefabricated housing addition that can be used either as a room addition or to enclose a porch or patio. A number of specially designed joints are used to facilitate the assembly of the addition. These joints are adapted to be easily made by machine and to provide the structure with great strength and rigidity.

Abstract: An adjustable weight position harness system having a backpack like harness and a rigid frame with a slidable weight support which is movable up and down the frame a distance of at least 8 inches and may be secured at any point between its upper and lower positions without removing the harness. A freestanding harness rack having adjustable support rods which extend outwardly and slightly upwardly and correspond to eyelets in the harness so that the user may walk the harness onto the support rack for easy and safe engagement or disengagement of the harness and alteration of the weights and weight positoning.

Abstract: A safety throttle is provided for a hand held pneumatic tool in which a pivotable intermediate member must be manually moved, by a prior secondary movement, into a slotted throttle lever before the later primary movement of the throttle lever will allow the intermediate member to activate a throttle valve to actuate the pneumatic tool.

Abstract: A container for packaging vials containing diagnostic specimens, or the like, which are to be mailed or transported. The container includes an open-topped plastic cylinder with an integral bottom wall having an upper section of the sidewall which is of a reduced diameter and includes opposed outwardly projecting lugs for engaging complementary slots in a cylindrical cap for the container. The upper section of the sidewall further includes a radial groove which accommodates an elastic O-ring for providing a leak proof seal for the container. The cap slides over the upper section of the sidewall and sealingly engages the O-ring to provide a leak-proof seal. The container is further provided with an open celled plastic foam insert which die-cut to accommodate up to three vials.

Abstract: An improved process for creating clear ice products and ice products with patterns. Purified water placed in a container having an inlet is deoxygenated by at least 20% by the use of a vacuum through the inlet. The container is then either sealed to prevent the reintroduction of the oxygen into the water or the water is frozen in a ice cube tray on a plate evaporator between -20.degree. and 30.degree. F. The variations in the water temperature at the time the vacuum is applied and when the water is placed in the freezer effect the patterns obtained in the ice products.

Abstract: A secure control system for delivery, dispensing and inventory of several liquid fluids (products). A stocked liquid delivery vehicle 100 provides coordinated and measured filling of liquids through a site dispensing subsystem 200 to site storage containers 302. The liquids from the storage containers are subsequently delivered under inventory control, and in measured amounts, back through the fill lines to the dispenser. The dispenser CPU records the amounts of each liquid dispensed to each user through various spouts 224. Users are identified by a code number entered into the dispenser unit via a keyboard 208 or card reader. The dispenser CPU 202 contains program information to identity authorized users of the system. The system respnds to user solicitation of liquids by verifying the user's identity, querying as to which liquid is desired, the amount desired (if variable) and enables a control switch/indicator 232 to indicate the dispensing port 224 and readiness.

Abstract: The invention is a flexible weather-shield that can be attached to any hat having a forward visor and a rear size adjustment system. The shield includes an elastic band that can be placed atop the hat's visor. The rear of the shield includes a fastening system that releasably attaches the shield to the hat's size adjustment apparatus. The shield further includes its own size adjustment apparatus that adapts the shield to the dimensions of the hat or the wearer. Fasteners are located along portions of the front edges of the shield to enable the shield to be closed over a forward portion of a wearer's neck.

Abstract: The invention is a barbell-type exercise device in which the grips are freely movable on the bar of the device. Each grip includes a number of bearings that allow the grip to slide along the bar without resistance. The grips and bar include complementary anti-rotation apparatus that prevents the grips from rotating about the longitudinal axis of the bar. A number of adjustable stop members may also be placed on the bar to limit the axial travel of the grips.

Abstract: A golf bag comprising a pair of legs each and a U-shaped actuating member adapted to move the legs between their extended position and their retracted position according to the movement of a bag body between its tilted position and its upright position. The golf bag also comprises a driving member pivotally connected to both of the lower end of the U-shaped actuating member and the lower portion of the bag body and adapted to drive the actuating member in response to the movement of the bag body to its tilted position so that the actuating member moves the legs to their extended position. A resilient rubber band is provided for always urging the legs toward their retracted position. The actuating member may be installed in the interior of golf bag, there is no possibility that it is damaged by stones or branches of a tree.

Abstract: In a temporary safety light replacement system a self contained individual safety light which is adapted to be secured as a replacement in close proximity to a broken safety light. The light has a self contained power supply and a recess switch which is not visually discernable and is protected from the elements when the safety light is secured to the vehicle. A special receptacle serves as a reflector when the receptacle is in its closed position and when moved to an open position secures two sides of the safety light to accomplish a strong positive attachment.

Abstract: A high turndown mass flow control system for the regulation of gas flow to a variable pressure system such as a gas turbine engine. The herein described system controls the flow of gas into a load system where the gas delivery pressure at the load varies directly as a function of the mass flow. The system employs flow control and mass flow measurement subsystems, controlling the mass flow to maintain a mass reference value called for by an outside master control. Flow control apparatus includes a throttling control valve while the flow measurement subsystem includes a flow restriction element, .delta.P, pressure and temperature transducers while using a flow calculation algorithm to calculate the actual gas mass flow passing through the system. The high turndown mass flow control characteristic of the invention acquired by an unique placement and usage of the gas restriction element allows the reading of .delta.P parameters with conventional instrumentation.

Abstract: An improved dilator/introducer used to facilitate the placement of a catheter within an internal area of a body. The introducer portion of the device has a tapered and bevelled forward end. The dilator portion of the device has a longitudinally extending slot located proximate its rearward end to provide a side exit point for a "J"-wire. Optionally, a plug also having a slot can be received within the rearward end of the dilator to provide an enlarged, smooth surface area that can receive pressure from the palm area of the inserter's hand.

Abstract: An insulated glove that has an increased area heat pocket and reduced length long finger portions. Each long finger portion is adapted to loosely fit each finger and thereby allow heated air to flow from the heat pocket outwardly to the fingertips. In the preferred embodiment, an oversized outer glove shell is used to enable the loose fit of the long finger portions.

Abstract: Method and composition for retarding bloom development thereby extending shelf life of fresh cut flowers (16) by "blanketing" and "feeding" techniques. Fresh cut flowers, typified by roses are refrigerated and provided a blanketing confinement within a close environment of an essence of aromatic flower (such as lavender or rose) by the presence of essential flower oils or real aromatic flowers. The essence is, effectively, a vapor blanket. Cut stemmed (10) flowers are initially transported, stored or displayed in a container (18') of fresh water (19), in which a light or expanded magnesium carbonate sediment layer (21) provides cut flower end (14') envelopment for bacterial filtration, oxygen buffering and sufficient water-borne nutritional intake with or without the adjunct blanketing. Additionally, freshness is made determinable by a simple testing process which will anticipate the value of applying or reapplying the carbonate treatment technique.

Abstract: A guitar or other similar musical string instrument having a fret-bearing fingerboard of conventional size and shape in which are placed oblique, almost parallel, arcuate frets. Frets are arranged on the fingerboard of this invention in an oblique-to-the-string relationship, appearing almost parallel and slightly arced so as to maintain a correspondence between the fret-string intersections of the invention and the fret-string intersections of the similar conventional instrument. Arcing the frets, and departing from precise parallelism, assures maintenance of the diatonic scale and the corresponding fret-string intersection relationship between the invention and a similar, but conventional, instrument. Such a familiarity and correspondence allows seasoned musicians to convert over to the invention instrument(s) with little or no difficulty.

Abstract: In a double needle the blood withdrawal system the front needle for accomplishing the vena puncture is between 23 gauge and 29 gauge while the rear needle which resides in the syringe barrel and is used to puncture the stopper is similar to those standardly used between 12 and 16 gauge. The smaller gauge front needle acts as a flow restricter to prevent the initial blood sample drawn into the vacuum tube from impacting on the bottom wall of the tube thereby creating hemolysis of some of the red cells. The length of the front needle is between 0.5 and 1.5 inches.

Abstract: A concrete footing/foundation retainment co-features integral (unitary) drainage means. Two preferred embodiments present, first, a rigid, environmentally nondegradable and free-standable footing/foundation concrete retainment form similar to an ordinary plank but featuring a hollow core which communicates through a multiplicity of foramens (holes) with only one face of the plank, the other being smooth and generally unrelieved in character. The second preferred embodiment presents a similar plank bearing a colinear, foraminous conduit adjacent one margin of the plank and permanently joined with the plank member. Thus, in the second embodiment, only one face is essentially smooth and unrelieved, while the other, in cross-section, appears bulbous. The bulbous feature may take on any conceivable geometric definition ranging from a semi-tubular to a rectangular conduit shape.

Abstract: The invention is a U-shaped lighting device that is adapted to be mounted about a home thermostat. The device includes a hood that surrounds a portions of the bulb for the purpose of directing the light toward the thermostat and away from the user's eyes. The bulb and hood can be moved from one side of the device to the other side of the device so that light can be shined on any portion of the thermostat. The light is battery powered and a push-button type switch is used to initiate lighting of the bulb.