Abstract: A tow sled designed for use with a self powered snowmobile. A draw bar and hitch devices are provided to join the sled to the snowmobile. The tow sled has two lower and spaced outside runners that extend along its length with each runner having a lower ground engaging surface and an upright surface oriented at approximately ninety degrees. Mounted to outside of the outside runners near the rear end of the sled are two side hard metal plates. Each of the plates have a lower ground engaging surface that extends below the ground engaging surface of the outside runner on which it is mounted. The lower plate surfaces are used to engage hard ice with the outside runners contacting the ice to provide for steady and straight tracking of the sled. To secure cargo with cross sled tie down cords like bungee cords or the like, fourteen tie down members made with brackets and a joining rope are spaced along the length of the sled and are mounted to the sled.

Abstract: A dish ware holding or anchoring device that interconnects the existing support structure for dish ware in a dishwasher to individual dish ware pieces to prevent their movement. The holding device has an alligator style anchor clip at one end connected by a-flexible connector to a prong receiving opposite anchor end. Typically, the existing dish ware support structure used in a dishwasher has an opened end prong over which a hole in the prong receiving anchor end may snugly sidle and fit over. The opposite end alligator style anchor clip end is attached to the to be retained piece of dish ware, like a cup bowl, measuring cup, etc. which piece has been inverted when placed on the support structure to prevent the accumulation of liquids. By so anchoring the dish ware to be cleaned with the existing structure of the dish ware support, the individual pieces are retained in position and no liquids are retained by them.

Abstract: A removable computer mouse and pad support platform attachable to either one of a chair's armrests. The platform has a main support portion for the mouse/pad and an extension arm extending therefrom parallel to the armrests. To attached the platform to one of the armrests, the platform extension arm is oriented parallel to the chair's armrest and one wide strap or two spaced straps are used to encircle and fix it around the armrest. The strap or straps may have hook and loop (VELCRO™) ends or the like which acts as end fasteners. When not made as in the preferred unitary structure embodiment, the two piece main support platform and its lower extension arm may be attached together with screws, bonding material or other fasteners.

Abstract: An unmanned visual monitoring system used outdoors to patrol large expanses of space such as along highways, fences, railroad lines, rivers, borders, beaches, etc. Guidance and support for the unmanned surveillance camera carriage vehicle, as well as the electrical power for its operation, are provided to the carriage and camera by conductive track cables. Spaced superstructures having upright poles and a cantilever extension placed along the track system length act to vertically support the system above the ground. At a remote control center location from the carriage, an operator can control the movement of the vehicle and the operation of the video camera. Operational electrical power for moving the carriage and controlling the camera's movement are supplied via power lines connected at different polarities to the track cables of the track system.

Abstract: A cruise control alert system that both visually alerts drivers in other vehicles that a cruise control is operating and the specific speed the cruise control is set. A voice chip within the vehicle informs the driver to set the cruise control at a given preset speed to prevent speeding. The display may be operator controlled or may be tied in to the cruise control to automatically display the notice the cruise control is operating and the speed at which set.

Abstract: A fuel additive delivery system used with the fuel system of an engine. When fuel is added to a holding tank fluid pressure is reduced at a Venturi guide. The Venturi guide is connected to an additive delivery system. When the static fluid pressure in the Venturi guide falls below a level a sucking action is initiated. This action opens a normally closed valve in a meter system connected to an additive tank. When the valve opens additive flows from the additive tank into and past the Venturi guide into a fuel holding tank for the engine.

Abstract: A liquid carrying container having a first outer semicircular concave wall and a second inner concave wall facing in the same direction. Both walls are joined together at matting side edges. The outer semicircular wall is considerably longer in length than the length of the inner second wall. The overall length of the upper rim of the first wall is approximately fifty percent greater is length than the length of the upper rim of the second wall. A recess in the inner wall forms a hand hold portion. Below this hand hold portion is a handle pivotally mounted to to the inner wall. The lower handle is formed by a U-shaped rod with two end pivot joints and a center covering cylindrical portion having a rod receiving hole along its length. This bucket construction provides a recess in the bucket's inner wall that allows a user's leg to be inserted to prevent contact with bucket's wall and lessen the possibility that is liquid contents may be tipped over.

Abstract: A pole assembly that has an inner pole fitted within an outer pole. The outer pole has a larger cross section dimension that the inner pole with a space between the two poles. Sets of two lateral supporting members extend from and joined to inner pole to the outer pole. Each set of lateral supports has two cross members both of which engage the inner pole and the outer pole. The space between the poles can be filled with a deposited fill material, like water or sand, that is impact absorbing to reduce injury and damage to a driver, a colliding vehicle and the post assembly. Each of the sets of lateral supporting members has two cross members that are perpendicular to each other and joined to each of the poles. Depending on the particular use for the pole, like a utility pole, wires or cables may extend up the height of the poles in the space between them by entering through holes in the lateral supports.

Abstract: A premixing fuel-air chamber for use with the manifold of a combustion chamber of an engine. The chamber has a hollow interior housing that has an air intake inlet on one side and a fuel-air outlet on the opposite side of the housing. Within the confines of the housing is a laminar air flow wing fixed to the housing and used to divide the interior of the housing into two air passageways. Operatively associated with the air flow wing are two movable side mounted air throttle valves, also fixed to the interior of the housing. These valves move in unison to open or block the two air passageways formed by the laminar air flow wing. Nearer the fuel-air outlet of the housing, below the wing, are two pressurized side fuel injectors mounted to inject a spray of fuel within the interior of the housing adjacent the fuel-air outlet. The actual mixing of the injected fuel and intake air is done prior to the combustion chamber, which chamber may be part of an existing engine.

Abstract: A combined clip retaining bracket and bag retaining clip. Several channels are formed in the bracket each having a lower opened slot extending the length of the bracket. A clip with two legs pivotally connected together at one of their ends is inserted pivot end first into each of the channels. Along the two facing side surfaces of the clip are a sealing strip and a mating groove used to seal the opened top edge of any bag inserted between them. Any food products, like potato chips, whose bags need resealing may be hung from the clips retained by the bracket's channels. To insure the clips are pressed together properly, the width of the channel is just slightly greater than the total width of the inserted clip. The two legs of the clips are substantially the same length and the channel may have a closed and opened front end.

Abstract: A fishing rod holder mountable to a fishing vessel. The holder is supported above the vessel's deck by a conventional adjustable ball joint mount. The holder has a hollow interior cavity with an opening extending along one side and to a communicating front end opening in the holder. Oppositely directed concave surfaces in the front end opening and in an internal movable cradle act to lock an inserted fishing rod in place within the holder as tension is applied to a taut fishing line. The cradle may be positioned and fixed in a depressed or elevated position within the holder. Two side push buttons are used to operate locking mechanisms employed to lock the movable cradle in position. A external side lever fixed to an internal rod is used to move an attached cradle support rod in a pivotal motion. Additional features include a non skid surface around the fishing rod holder surface forming the front end opening to insure the inserted fishing rod will not move when its line is tensioned by a caught fish.

Abstract: A brassiere having a breast supporting portion with a moisture managing shield. The moisture managing shield faces towards the skin of a wearer is attached to one side surface on the lower portion of the brassiere by a first adhesive layer. A depending lower portion of the shield is attached to the second or outside surface of the lower portion of the brassiere by a second adhesive layer by folding the shield along a lower edge. Each of the adhesive layers are initially covered by peel off strips until it is desired to expose their adhesive backings for mounting to the brassiere. Normally, the lower inside portion of the brassiere below the breast retaining cups is completely covered by the shield. The in-place shield may be removed from the brassiere by pulling on the shield allowing for its disposal and replacement by another shield when needed.

Abstract: A small portable apparatus to dispense various sized stored articles, such as tampons, from a container. The container's hollow interior mounts a rotatable flexible deformable roller which can both obstruct the movement of the contained articles against the force of gravity and, when rotated, permit their dispensing when engaged by the roller. Larger diameter articles cause more deformation of the roller's surface when compressed between the roller and the container's near adjacent side walls. Two external control knobs mounted on the same central shaft with the roller are used to manually rotate the roller into engagement with the articles.

Abstract: A multi-purpose thumb or finger mounted cot having a stamp pad with postal related indicia. Two embodiments of the cot are disclosed one of which is closed on its upper end while the other cot is opened on both ends. The postal related indicia on the self-inking stamp pad may consist of a carrier routing number and a plurality of parallel bar lines. This indicia is raised from a base pad surface with the bar lines used to endorse mail by postal carriers, to cancel stamps and wrong bar codes, wrong zip codes, and to cancel bar codes that have mistakenly not been canceled in the mailing process. The carrier routing number specifically identifies a postal carrier and can inform one of the route assigned to that carrier. By making the mating surfaces of the stamp pad (back) and cot (front) hook and loop or VELCRO fastener elements, the stamp pad can be removed and replaced with another stamp pad or have its ink supply refilled when needed. This replaced stamp pad may be that of any carrier with different indicia.

Abstract: A visual brake wear indicator gauge for a vehicle's disc brake system. A mounting bracket is fixed to the existing brake's caliper with a hollow housing extending from the bracket. The visual gauge has an indicator bar with straight length and a right angled indicator foot on one end that contacts an inside disc pad. This indicator bar extends through and within the gauge housing and is normally biased by a housing spring to contact the brake's disc pad. Two different adjacent visual color coded segments on the bar indicate the contacted disc pad are properly operating, when both are color segments are displayed to one side of the housing, or that the system needs repair if only one color coded segment is so displayed. The gauge bar indicates wear to either the vehicle's disc pads or the associated rotor of the vehicle's braking system.

Abstract: An air flow testing device for use with a clothes dryer to indicate an obstruction in the exhaust system. Three potential states of exhausted air are monitored by the testing device when the dryer's lint screen is removed from its opening. In the first state, when the exhaust system is unobstructed, an impeller of the device freely turns within a casing held against the lint screen opening as the dryer is operating. In the second state, when the exhaust system is blocked, the same impeller remains static and does not rotate. In the third state when the exhaust system is partially blocked, the impeller moves and may stop. If either a fully or partially blocked state is detected, a user can simply clear the system including the tubing and flapper to resolve this common dryer problem without calling in a repair person.

Abstract: A prefabricated load-bearing header. An outer frame in the form a rectangle has four 2 by 4 boards joined together at their meetings ends at 45 degree angles. Within the inner perimeter of the outer frame are two sets of grooves extending lengthwise of each frame member. Two webbing supports extends across the opened formed inner perimeter of the frame and are joined to the inner interior of the frame near its mid point at one end and the corners at the other ends. These webbing supports provide increased strength to the frame structure. Covering the webbing supports are two sheets of chip board material cut to fit within the two sets of formed framing member grooves along the edges of the sheets. The grooves have a width approximately the same as the thickness of the sheets of chip boards which fit into them. The length of the framing members can be made to any desired length.

Abstract: A tracking system capable of alerting emergency personnel to the location of a vehicle using the earth circling satellite system referred to as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Using this system an identification code is assigned to a vehicle to be tracked and this information is stored in a central Reporting Center or data station along with a continuous update of the GPS location time and specific identification for that vehicle. An emergency reporting system (VERS) having a vehicle emergency tracker (VET) is employed in each vehicle. Using the VET and the GPS it is possible to pinpoint the location of a specific vehicle that has previously been assigned a specific coded identification.

Abstract: A waste organizing cabinet for recyclable materials. The upper working surface of the cabinet can be used to cut or otherwise treat food products. Below this upper surface is a first holding frame for a pull-out sliding drawer that rests on cabinet rails. Side meshed baskets placed within the holding frame form a series of separated compartments of the frame and placeable within each of the drawers. Each basket is used for separately receiving either: non recyclable waste food products, plastic materials, tin, glass, or paper products. Several different arrangements of the baskets within the drawer may be used to differently arrange the baskets within the framework of the drawer. As the frame and baskets are pulled out, spaced rails have stops to engage fixed frame rails to prevent further movement. Below this first drawer is a second slidable pull out drawer that may have several different holding frames compartments for the individual baskets.

Abstract: A method for determining Doppler shifts and reflectivity data based on wavelet based sodars. Initially, a high powered sodar pulse of sound is transmitted from an antenna into the atmosphere. This pulse of sound consists of a string of concatenated wavelets. The reflected portion of this transmitted pulse is received, amplified and digitized as a string of samples of time correspond to the range of transmission. After sampling for a short time interval to cover the maximum range of sound, the sampled time series is divided into range gates. For Doppler shifts the power spectrum of the sampled time series is calculated and a peak surrounding the frequency of the transmitted sound is observed. From this peak the direction and velocity of the atmosphere at a given attitude is derived. To accurately arrive at a better velocity resolution, replication is used with wavelet coefficients and an inverse wavelet transform.