Abstract: This eyeglass side shield with a snap-in locking member is generally intended for use with eyeglass temples having expanded padding or inserts around and extending forwardly from its ear hook. The side shield is provided with retention ridges abutting a trough formed in the material of the side shield. This trough has a generally “C” shaped cross-section and can be slid onto an eyeglass temple from the front rather than the rear. After placement in position, the snap-in locking member provides an obstruction that prevents the eyeglass shield from being slid forward past the hinge casing for the eyeglass temple. It also serves to further block movement of the eyeglass shield backward past the expanded padding or inserts.

Abstract: A bag is modified to include an air input port that allows inflation of an interply region of the bag. As the interply region inflates, an inner ply rises and becomes an advancing wall, raising the bulk material level in the bag and inclining the bottom of the bag, while pulling excess material away from a drain region of the bag. In another embodiment, the bag is made with half the initial number of layers folded in half to create the upper and lower plies and the non-fold edges are bonded. Where corner drain ports are used, the bag can be arranged so that an interlayer bond parallel to the fold is parallel to a diagonal of a tote in which the bag sits and so that the interlayer bond is opposite the drain port to enhance bag evacuation. An additional optional feature of the invention is the inclusion of an integral filling conduit or snout on the top of the bag, a mouth of which acts as a fill port to ease filling of the bag. Junctures can be created in the interply region to guide its inflation.

Abstract: A mounting rail for siding and ceiling members featuring a locking member to maintain siding and ceiling members on the mounting rail. The mounting rail has (i) a siding support member having a horizontal leg extending forwardly with a vertical leg extending downwardly from its front edge as is typical in the art, (ii) a web member extending upwardly from the back edge of said horizontal leg, and (iii) a siding maintenance member extending forwardly and downwardly from the upper edge of the web member.

Abstract: An improved auger combustor for the incineration of refuse featuring, in its preferred embodiment, a granular substrate formed as a fluidized bed by underfire air and composed of particulate material with pollution abatement properties, an auger with expandable flights, a post combustor treatment zone comprised of particulate material with pollution abatement properties suspended in the gas stream exiting the auger combustor chamber; and in alternate embodiments, also including the ability to insert combustible fuel gases from the bottom of the combustor chamber, particularly at the input end of the combustor chamber, and/or the volumetric expansion of the combustor chamber from the input to the output end as a means of increasing retention time for gases released by the burning of refuse in the combustor chamber.

Abstract: A removable cover for towing balls featuring, in its preferred embodiments: (a) a towing ball hitch cover; (b) locking apparatus for maintaining said towing ball hitch cover engaged on said towing ball and/or for preventing its unauthorized removal and theft; and (c) electrically operative apparatus capable of being plugged into a trailer plug connector and responsive to electrical current received therefrom.

Abstract: A fluid handling device capable of being used for numerous purposes, including use as an internal combustion engine or as a fluid pump, compressor, or expander, which fluid handling device is characterized in its preferred embodiments by: (a) a body with a spherical plenum; (b) a spherical member (which is located within said plenum); (c) two vane members lying in the same plane on opposing sides of said sphere exterior to said spherical plenum (which vane members have side edges that are perpendicular to the surface of said sphere); and (d) two cavities shaped like equilateral triangles with outwardly arcing walls on opposing sides of said sphere (the apex of one such triangle being positioned opposite the base of the other).

Abstract: An Electrical Connection Apparatus for automotive batteries having, in its preferred embodiments a multi-purpose screw threaded bolt with an enlarged head which can be inserted into the side terminal aperture of a battery to form a terminal post for connection of standard top post cable connector, may be provided with perforations allowing it to be tightened/loosened by any linear object, may be utilized as a tightening bolt for a C clamp type cable connector, and may be utilized in conjunction with branching cables for simultaneous connection to the top and side terminals of dual terminal automotive type batteries.

Abstract: Chest exercise apparatus in the form of a bench press bar which allows additional stretching of the chest muscles via the provision of an elevated chest section such that the hands of the user can be brought below the chest when doing bench presses and which, in its preferred embodiments, also includes (i) a mechanism for adjusting the height of said chest section and (ii) spotter handles.

Abstract: A tree limb removing apparatus and method featuring a tree delimbing device having a horizontal member with a plurality of vertical members perpendicular thereto and depending therefrom, which vertical members are preferably discs which are rotatable about said horizontal member, and the method of using such a delimbing apparatus to remove limbs from felled timber by orienting said horizontal member so that it is perpendicular to a felled tree to be delimbed and propelling said tree delimber along and over the length of said felled tree.

Abstract: An apparatus for connection to a rod and reel, comprised, in its preferred embodiment, of (1) an emergency flotation bladder, (2) a compact container in which said bladder is stowed, (3) connection means for connection of said container to the rod portion of a rod and reel, (4) monofilament line severing means for severing the line of the rod and reel to which the container is connected, and (5) means for automatically triggering monofilament line severing means and inflating said bladder when the article with attached container falls into water by some mishap or is otherwise immersed therein.

Abstract: A multipurpose archery bow grip assembly characterized by a bow grip mounted on the bow handle by at least two connecting members, which connecting members have a linear portion that may be nonpermanently affixed at a plurality of depths transversely within the bow handle so as to allow the distance of the top and bottom of the bow grip from the bow handle to differ, and which connecting members terminate in ball portions which pivotally mount in sockets provided in the bow grip, one of such sockets being elongated so as to allow the depth at which the connecting members are affixed within the bow handle to be different.

Abstract: A multiexercise weight lifting machine which features in its most basic embodiments a gearbox capable of converting the torque input through a first axle from a source of resistance (such as a weight stack) into a greater torque output at a second axle to which is connected a user interface (such as a handle); which gearbox is slidably mounted on a linear member such that the gearbox can be moved to different positions along the length of the linear member to allow different types of exercises. In its preferred embodiments it also features means for reversing the torque output at the second axle and user interface. Its numerous functions and benefits may also be supplemented by addition of a weight bench, provision of means for changing the gear ratio of the gearbox, and other features.

Abstract: An angle indicator for connection to a pipe bender having an elongated handle or the like, which is generally characterized by the presence of: (a) a pivoting linear member having a spirit level thereon/therein for determining when it is horizontal; (b) which pivoting linear member is pivotally attached to another linear member which includes means by which it may be attached to the handle of the pipe bender being used in such manner that it is horizontal when the pipe bender is initially affixed to a pipe to be bent; and (c) means by which the relation between the two linear members may be nonpermanently set at a preselected angle.

Abstract: A golf swing timing trainer formed, in its preferred embodiments, from (a) a forearm brace that serves as a base for the other operative elements of the device; (b) a generally linear member, which member is pivotally connected to the forearm brace at one of its ends and has a vee shaped notch at its other end which fits against the shaft of a golf club held by the user when said club is cocked in the proper plane for a golf stroke; (c) an adjustable biasing means disposed between said forearm brace and said generally linear member, which biasing means generates an adjustable force proportionate to the angle between the forearm brace and the generally linear member/shaft such that the greatest force is experienced by the user when the shaft is cocked and the least is experienced by the user when it is fully extended; and (d) an audible signal generator that indicates when the shaft is not fully cocked.