Abstract: Apparatus and method for repair of deteriorated eaveposts on houses having eaveposts. The apparatus consists of an elongated, tubular body with an end cap and a mounting flange. The apparatus slips over the deteriorated eavepost and attaches to the house with conventional fasteners. The body and end cap of the apparatus are textured to resemble the texture of an intact wooden eavepost and the mounting flange is textured to resemble the texture of the exterior wall of the house.

Abstract: This invention discloses a fishing pole holder apparatus including a rod stake member, a slide hammer member and a fishing pole support bracket. The stake member is provided with an impact end member and an attachment portion for pivotally mounting the fishing pole support bracket. The impacting slide hammer is mechanically attached to the stake member and is used for imparting a force to the stake member. The fishing pole support bracket is attachable to the stake member for holding a fishing pole in a casted position and includes a bent rod piece integrally shaped having a pivotal attachment, a first pole support integral to the pivotal attachment and a second pole support integral to said first pole support. The first and second pole supports cradle the reel end of a fishing pole while the attachment portion provides horizontal angle flexibility for holding the pole.

Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly having a first main printed circuit board and a connector connecting to the main board. A subsidiary board connects to the connector. The main board has a plurality of socket holes and the connector has a corresponding plurality of pins. The invention overcomes the problem of the prior art assembly, which requires a different main board to accommodate each type of connector having a different pin spacing. The main board of the invention has a combination group of four rows of holes, including a first row of holes and a third row of holes having a same first lengthwise spacing which receive the pins of one type of connector and including a second row of holes and a fourth row of holes having a same second lengthwise spacing which receive the pins of another type of connector. The first row of holes respectively having a first set of outer conductors. The first row of holes also respectively have a first set of inner conductors.

Abstract: A pressure-compensating, self-flushing, preset flow valve utilizing an emitter for maintaining a continuous microscopic flow of water at a specified continuous rate. The valve includes a housing adapted with an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber and a preset emitter device encapsulated between the inlet and outlet chamber having selectively unplugged outlet ports each capable of delivering a preset microscopic volume of water into the outlet chamber for collective distribution to a moisture maintenance system. The valve housing is adapted with inlet and outlet ports for connecting to a water source and a moisture maintenance system, respectively. In an alternative embodiment the housing may be modified to provide multiple stages of the encapsulated preset emitter device such that each stage is preset for a flow rate for selectively utilization according to seasonal needs.

Abstract: This invention discloses a heating and cooling system for buildings, such as poultry buildings, that provides clean, filtered gas fuel, efficiently burns gas fuel by providing adjustable airflow profile plates that blocks cold air from reaching the inside of the building and creates an air mixture control for the burning flame on the burner, that provides rain gutter means that prevent rain moisture from being drawn into the air stream of the unit and that has an actuating means coupled to the pilot light that assure safe operation by shutting off the gas fuel valves in the event of loss of flame in the pilot.

Abstract: This invention discloses a wave action electricity generation system that includes a floating platform that supports the system components on the surface of a body of water, an anchor means for controlling movement of the platform to a desired water surface area of the body of water, a kinetic energy converter that converts wave motion energy into mechanical energy and an electricity generator that converts the mechanical power transfer strokes into electrical energy. The kinetic energy converter includes a cylinder containing a fluid, such as a lubricant, in opposed cylinder chamber portions, a first heavily weighted piston that is slidably and freely disposed within the body of the cylinder. The heavily weighted piston is slidably responsive to the wave motion energy of the body of water and is used to compress the fluid to produce respective compression power strokes in each of the cylinder chamber portions.

Abstract: A magnetic medium for magnetic embossment comprises a main magnetic layer and a high permeability magnetic-metal layer, a nonmagnetic white metal layer and a coloring layer laminated on the main magnetic layer.A magnetic card comprises a card substrate which is nonmagnetic, and a magnetic medium for magnetic embossment disposed on at least a part of the card substrate, which magnetic medium comprises a main magnetic layer and a high permeability magnetic-metal layer, a nonmagnetic white metal layer and a coloring layer laminated on the main magnetic layer.

Abstract: A flexible mold and method of forming a base defining either a full base or quadrant base of a dental model is provided with a perimeter member for defining the side walls of the base and a shelf extending inwardly from the rear side wall for delineating a slot at the rear of the base, which slot is usable for adhering an arm of an articulator. The configuration of the slot and/or the rear side wall of the base is striated for better adherence with the attached articulator.

Abstract: An underwater viewing platform is described which has a stern mounted electric drive motor whose direction and speed may by varied by forward mounted controls located adjacent the prone-lying operator's hands near a large forward mounted viewing window. A shade cowl arches up over the viewing window and has a U-shaped stern-facing, padded opening for receiving the operator's head. With the operator's head in place, the large viewing window is substantially shaded from overhead sunlight and has a large viewing angle and field of view. The window has a lens for providing the desired degree of magnification or demagnification. Bottom illumination is provided by an underwater light for night time use. Navigation and battery status and drain instruments are conveniently mounted within or on the shade cowl. Various design features reduce operator fatigue and extend useful range and endurance. End useful range and endurance.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus and method for spraying the hands of a person is provided. The apparatus includes a housing having a plurality of walls forming a chamber for the hands and having an opening for inserting the hands into the chamber. The apparatus has an L-shaped actuating member having a pivot supported by a wall. The L-shaped member has a horizontal leg supported by the pivot, a disc portion disposed in the chamber for contact by the hands, and has a vertical leg with a tip bearing portion disposed outside the housing. The apparatus also has a resilient cantilever beam having a first portion with a cavity which receives a cap portion of an aerosol container, and having a second portion which is fixedly connected to a wall of the housing. The resilient cantilever beam has a passageway from the cavity to an orifice inside the chamber for spraying a substance. from the container, while containing the disc portion in the chamber.

Abstract: A trampoline-like aerobic exerciser apparatus and method is disclosed. The exerciser apparatus is designed having a raised, substantially circular base portion adapted for using a sturdy resilient fabric material as the exercise mat portion. The base portion is sized for individual, in-place exercising and is further adapted with a vertically adjustable, railed handle member means attached to said base member means for balancing during exercising by a user. The exercise mat portion is mounted and forcedly retained onto the base portion using a pressurized tube and rim arrangement.

Abstract: A disposable cooler pad apparatus and method for use in evaporative cooler units requiring yearly maintenance to maintain maximum cooling performance. The apparatus consists of an integrally molded frame assembly having a least one STYROFOAM panel having a plurality of angled louvers and a wood fiber, or the like, evaporative cooler pad lining positioned adjacent each other and between outer and inner frame members. The molded evaporative cooler pad apparatus is designed to be a replacement assembly for the cooler pad assemblies factory provided on evaporative cooler units. The low cost nature of the design and manufacture of the integrally molded cooler pad apparatus renders the entire apparatus disposable at time of maintenance.

Abstract: A collapsibe tent for mounting on the roof of an automotive vehicle or other surface includes a two-piece foldable platform, a collapsible frame, and a tent cover which is drawn into a tubular form resembling the top of a Conestoga wagon when the platform is unfolded and the frame erected. The frame includes a front support arch and a rear support arch, each of which is pivotable from a horizontal position parallel to the platform to a vertical position perpendicular to the platform. When the arches are in the vertical position, each leg of the arch is automatically and releasably locked into place by means of a compression spring which is carried on the mounting pin which connects that leg to the platform and which biasingly urges the leg into a notch in the sidewall of the platform when the leg is in a vertical position.

Abstract: A wheelchair X-ray radiograph apparatus and method is disclosed for taking a radiograph of a patient in a wheelchair from almost every medically required position. This apparatus includes a modified wheelchair with detachable armrests and backrests, and a radiograph accessory consisting of a radiograph film cassette holder and an opposed brace member attachable to the modified wheelchair utilizing the same mounting used by the detachable armrests and backrests. The apparatus allows the taking of anterior-posterior, posterior-anterior, right and left lateral and skull and cervical spine radiographs of a wheelchair confined patient or trauma patient.

Abstract: A rope grip apparatus for use in the field of tying down cargo in delivery trucks, construction, tying down aircraft, mountain climbing, farming, ranching, boating or other similar uses where rope is used and is typically tied in knots to secure articles while in transit, use, or storage. The rope grip apparatus includes a rope-receiving member having a hingeably secured and latchable rope-gripping member. The functional elements of the rope grip apparatus include a springed latch, and a plurality of ratcheted, grooved pulley rollers. In using the apparatus, a rope is threaded between the grooved pulley rollers located within the rope-receiving member and the rope-gripping member and unidirectionally clamped therebetween by latching the apparatus.

Abstract: An elongated, substantially V-shaped roof panel and a roof panel interlocking method using the V-shaped roof panel, having the inclined sides of the V-shaped roof panel provided with elongated stair-stepping reinforcement ribs for purposes of producing a more rigid and stronger roof panel. At the terminating ends of each of the inclined sides there is provided a complementary mechanical lock design that produces a roof panel lock when a first terminating end member, of a plurality of identical roof panels, is mated with an adjoining second terminating end member of a plurality of identical roof panels. Each terminating end mechanical lock design is comprised of various bends in material, shaped such that when adjoining ends of a plurality of identical roof panels are interlocked, the various bends of each lock design are in a closely coupled relationship.