Abstract: There is provided a new and useful portable hair washing apparatus. The apparatus comprises, in combination, a basin defined by a front wall, opposite facing side walls, a rear wall and a floor. The basin has neck support means and head support means, as well as drainage openings. There is also provided a flexible drainage hose releasably connectable to the drainage openings and a receptacle for receiving waste water and other debris from the hose. There is further provided cover means releasably securable to the basin and, when in position secured thereto, the cover means and basin constitute a carrying case.

Abstract: A player interactive live action football game which may be played for example on a television screen. A player interactive live action football game is provided which comprises a random access storage and retrieval device and a plurality of individual, pre-recorded action football plays illustrating interaction of players of opposite teams. This information is stored in random access storage and retrieval device and accessible according to type of play. The invention further comprises a microprocessor and microprocessor control device electronically associated with the random access storage and retrieval device. The microprocessor is programmed to enable one or more users to select in sequence, through the control device, different football plays according to play type. A display device is electronically associated with the microprocessor to enable the selected plays to be viewed by the users.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a checker board game which introduces an element of chance whereby at predetermined times during play of the game, playing pieces on predetermined playing spaces must be removed.

Abstract: A shipping brace for cardboard containers for long stemmed flowers, the brace comprising a bar of length sufficient to extend transversely from side to side within the container to rest on and secure in position the stems of such flowers. The bar is provided with tabs or the like at its ends, the tabs to pierce the container sides and being bendable to hold the brace in position in the container.

Abstract: A handle for a drawer or the like comprising an elongated body with a slot in its front to removably receive a colored decorator strip, the slot extending over most of the length of the body. A curved surface is provided behind the front to permit gripping the handle by one's fingers.

Abstract: An exercising and training apparatus particularly for use for training for alpine skiing. The apparatus comprises a frame having a platform pivotably secured to the frame for movement from side-to-side through a convex arcuate path to provide lateral motion for the user's feet and an accentuated degree of forced vertical motion. At the same time the platform tilts to the outside as it moves through its arcuate path. The platform is associated with spring biasing means to increase the resistance against sideways movement of the platform increasingly with sideways movement. The apparatus according to the present invention closely duplicates the motion and rhythm required in alpine skiing and thus improves skiing techniques as it strengthens the user's leg muscles.

Abstract: Apparatus for testing strength of door frames, consisting of a sturdy set of relatively movable pressure plates made of a heavy gauge sheet metal, designed for easy insertion into the usual space between the door and frame jamb at a position directly above the area of the latch bolt, and an interconnecting drive mechanism to apply a balanced force between the door and the frame on the inside only. Energy to drive the mechanism is supplied by the operator, using an ordinary drive socket and torque wrench with a modified scale that provides a direct indication of the force generated at the pressure plates. Frame spreading is also read on another scale and indicates an inverse measure frame strength. Rotary motion from the wrench is converted to linear motion of the plates by means of a lever assembly which also multiplies the driving force to the high level required. This door frame tester provides the user with an accurate high strength means for non-destuctive testing of new and older door frames.

Abstract: A special type of tank that can be built into or placed in the cargo space of a ship to contain ballast water or another liquid without cross-contamination with the cargo residues, i.e. allowing for the carriage of segregated ballast in the cargo space. Allowance is also made for double-bottom space in the ship's loaded condition. A large part of the top, or lid, of the special tank is movable in a vertical direction from the highest part of the tank to the lowest part of the tank and special machinery and safety devices are fitted to expedite this movement. A rubber or flexible fabric sheet, which is watertight, connects the moveable and stationary part of the tank top and divides the tank into an upper and a lower section between which there is no communication. The flexible sheet is designed to take the internal contours of the inner tank when the cargo is loaded.

Abstract: An improved means for grounding the electrical service in a building or for grounding motors and the like consisting of an electrical ground fixture comprising a metal pipe section and a securing means for a ground wire integrally associated with the metal pipe section. The securing means comprises a metal casing adapted to receive the ground wire, the casing being integrally connected with and positioned exteriorly on the pipe section. A clamp, operatively associated with the casing and movable with respect thereto is adapted to secure the ground wire in the casing. When the ground wire is secured, a ground path is provided between the wire and the casing and metal pipe section. The pipe section is incorporated into an appropriate part of the water system of the building. Difficulties of installation, corrosion problems and crimping of the pipe occurring with previously used screw-secured plate members fitted about a pipe are avoided according to the present invention.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds of the general formula ##STR1## and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, lower alkoxy having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and hydroxy lower alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and if R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 is other than hydrogen, the other substituent is hydrogen; and R.sub.3 is a member selected from the group consisting of pyridyl, phenyl, lower alkyl substituted pyridyl, lower alkoxy substituted pyridyl, lower alkyl substituted phenyl and lower alkoxy substituted phenyl, the lower alkyl and alkoxy substituents having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms. These compounds exhibit an analgesic, hyperglycemic or anti-inflammatory activity.

Abstract: An attachment for one side of an asphalt paving machine to permit laying of a gutter adjacent to and integral with a roadway surface at the same time as the roadway surface is being paved. The device comprises an extension plate to be vertically oriented in alignment with the screed of the asphalt paving machine and means associated with the extension plate to secure it in this position. The extension plate has a rearwardly curved, L-shaped base extending from side to side along the bottom of the plate for smoothing the asphalt. An end gate is provided at the outer end of the attachment to control the spread of asphalt to the required width. The attachment is intended to be bolted to an automatic screed extension or to the side of the screed of the asphalt paving machine, to replace the screed end gate.

Abstract: An electronic digital display device for identifying musical notes comprising a series of manually operable on-off key selector switches, a series of manually operable on-off note selector switches, note indicator means visually associated with the note and key selector switches and an appropriate circuit network. One key selector switch is associated with each desired key and each of the selector switches is exclusively and not simultaneously operable in the "on" position. One note selector switch is associated with each desired note and each of the note selector switches is simultaneously operable with one or more of the other selector switches when in the "on" position. The circuit network has a first portion comprising a plurality of circuit branches, one branch associated with each key selector switch. Each of the circuit branches extends to each of the note selector switches and is exclusively actuated by its associated key selector switch.

Abstract: An economical, lightweight, easily assembled and disassembled dock assembly.

Abstract: A small lightweight electronic device to indicate the note of a keyboard instrument represented by any musical interval in any key. The device has a series of on-off switches representing each of the desired musical keys and a series of switches representing the individual values of musical intervals over a desired range, preferably two octaves. The necessary circuitry is provided between these switches and a keyboard display such that any particular note represented by a musical interval of selected value in a selected key is indicated on the keyboard display. Students and teachers of music for keyboard instruments can, using this device, visualize the location of notes or chords in any key and transpositions of notes or chords from one key to another.

Abstract: Apparatus for baiting fishing hooks attached at spaced intervals by snoods to a long line comprising guide means for receiving the lines, snoods and eyes of the hooks to channel them longitudinally and unobstructedly through said apparatus and restrict them against lateral displacement out of the guide means. Orienting and tensioning means, laterally offset from the guide means, momentarily engage each hook to progressively rotatably orient it while increasing the tension on the hook and its associated snood. As the hook then leaves the orienting and tensioning means, it flips into a baiting chamber to securely impale bait supplied thereto. The baited hook leaves the apparatus together with the snood and main line, thus reducing the chance of loss of bait by a whiplash action, in which the hook and snood have to be separated from the main line before passing through the baiter.