Abstract: A golf accessory holder device designed to be held in a golf bag clip frictionally engaged to the top of the golf bag and frequently inserted and removed from said clip during the golfer's round of golf, and to prevent damage to or soiling of the pocket or the pocket entry area which frequently occurs when a golfer keeps such accessories in his pocket; said device having smooth top and bottom surfaces and having the capability of firmly holding one or two tees, a ball marker, a ball mark repair tool, and a towel, one end of said device being constructed of plastic and having a slot therein between the top and bottom surfaces of the holder device so as to define a deflectable tab particularly adapted for firmly gripping the towel by tension, but also adapted that the towel can be easily released from the device and also easily re-inserted into same. One embodiment includes a unique combination of the golf accessory holder device with the ball mark repair tool.

Abstract: A device which facilitates the efficient and quick installation of pull handles on cabinet doors or drawers, said device comprising two main elements, a base piece and an insert piece, both of which are fabricated from clear transparent plastic, said base piece being about 9 inches long and about 1½ to about 1¾ inch wide with a rectangular longitudinally extending opening about 8 inches long and about ½ inch wide in its center, said base piece also having an alignment edge at one of its ends and at right angle to the rest of said base piece, said edge being about 2 inches wide and about ¾ inch high, said rectangular opening in said base piece being calibrated inch wise and with about ¼ inch interval marks, and said insert piece having means on its bottom surface for snapping into tight connection in the longitudinally extending central opening of said base piece, either lengthwise in said opening or transverse-wise in said opening, and said insert piece having about fifteen,

Abstract: A concrete form puller assembly comprising an elongated bar about 20 to 36 inches long, preferably about 27 inches long, said bar having substantially horizontal lengths at each of its ends and an angular mid-portion sloping about thirty degrees from horizontal between each of its ends, and a base assembly supporting the bar at its lower end, said base assembly comprising a base plate and two parallel side panels with a space in between for supporting and holding the lower end of the bar, said side panels having diametrically opposite holes therein near the tops of same, and a bolt inserted through the side panels and through a hole in the lower end of the bar for holding the bar in a fixed position between the side panels of said base assembly.

Abstract: A golf accessory holder device designed to be held in a compartment of a belt clip and frequently inserted and removed therefrom during the golfer's round of golf, and to prevent damage to or soiling of the pocket or the pocket entry area which frequently occurs when a golfer keeps such accessories in his pocket; said device having smooth top and bottom surfaces and having the capability of firmly holding one or two tees, a ball marker, a green ball mark repair tool, and a towel, one end of said device being so constructed as to be particularly adapted for firmly gripping the towel, but also adapted that the towel can be easily released from the device and also easily re-inserted into same. One embodiment includes a unique combination of the device with the ball mark repair tool. Another embodiment includes a unique combination of the device with the belt clip.

Abstract: A fish tackle box that utilizes maximum efficiency of space wherein said tackle is stored in clear plastic bags that are hung with hooks on storage rods; wherein the storage rods are moveable and are inserted into a moveable supporting arm and wherein the storage rods slide into and out of a track. The tackle box preferably has six storage rods, three each in supporting arms located on the right and left side of the tackle box. The tackle box also possesses cargo space below the tackle that is being suspended in the plastic bags that are hung with hooks on the storage rod, said cargo space being capable of storing additional tackle, tools, and larger items including reels, flashlights, and thermos bottles. The storage rods have round spools thereon mounted on pivoting metal brackets which enable the rods to be rotated for the spools to be inserted into the overhead tracks. The tackle box preferred dimensions are height about 14½ inches, depth about 10¾ inches, and width about 22 inches.

Abstract: A two part locking system for a push-broom preferably for use in the trucking industry, the first part A being mounting bracket with means for being fixedly attached to a desired site; such as on the rear panel of the cab, generally along the driver's side thereof, or to the tractor trailer in any suitable and accessible location thereon; and the second part B being a coupling piece that is attached to the push-broom at its wooden surface base containing the bristles and also to the handle of the broom, extending longitudinally up the broom handle from the broom base.

Abstract: An improved connection of a toilet bowl to the floor over which the bowl is located utilizing the combination of an externally threaded toilet bolt with a head and a hollow shaft down its axis, a screw of longer length than the toilet bowl and positioned down the axial hollow shaft of the toilet bowl, and a flange positioned between the toilet bowl and the floor, said flange having an opening therein capable of receiving the head of the toilet bolt. The hollow shaft down the axis of the toilet bolt may be cylindrical or polygonal in shape. The method of making the improved connection is also described.

Abstract: A hockey practice apparatus comprises a thin mat member having a length and a width each substantially greater than its thickness, a generally centrally disposed longitudinal axis extending along its length, and including a bottom stratum presenting a slippage precluding bottom surface and a top stratum adjoined to the bottom stratum and presenting a low friction substantially planar top surface for receiving a hockey puck in free sliding relation thereon.

Abstract: A system is presented that creates vision-based, three-dimensional control of a multiple-degree-of-freedom dexterous robot, without special calibration of the vision system, the robot, or any of the constituent parts of the system, and that allows high-level human supervision or direction of the robot. The human operator uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to point and click on an image of the surface of the object with which the robot is to interact. Directed at this surface is the stationary selection camera, which provides the image for the GUI, and at least one other camera. A laser pointer is panned and tilted so as to create, in each participating camera space, targets associated with surface junctures that the user has selected in the selection camera. Camera-space manipulation is used to control the internal degrees of freedom of the robot such that selected points on the robot end member move relative to selected surface points in a way that is consistent with the desired robot operation.

Abstract: A support arm device is taught for the loading and unloading of equipment on and off a truck bed. The support arm functions like a lever and has wheels at one end and connectors at the other end for coupling to the equipment or to a carrier for the equipment. The support arm is easily mechanically adjustable from vertical to horizontal and vice versa. The wheel end of the support arm is lifted onto a truck tailgate, thus creating a desired axis of balance for the equipment to be loaded. A person acting alone and manually loading the equipment onto the truck bed then only has to apply a less vigorous and less awkward lifting force to the opposite end of the equipment to successfully load it into or onto the truck bed. The invention includes combinations of the support arm with a carrier used with the support arm and also a combination with a support member situated vertically atop the rear end of the carrier.

Abstract: The combination of two aquarium fish tanks bridged by a plastic bridge tube is disclosed. The bridge tube is shaped to accommodate the insertion of the ends of said bridge tubes in each of the fish tanks. A pump and filter are connected to a narrow diameter tube to force water and air in one of the tanks to flow to the other tank and then back to the first tank through the plastic bridge tube to equalize the water level in both fish tanks, and to enhance the flow of fish through the plastic bridge tube. The combination of tanks may have two plastic brackets supporting the bridge tube. One of each of the brackets is coupled to the top of each fish tank. The plastic brackets are shaped with a vertical planar surface and horizontal planar surface, each surface having a substantially semi-circular cut out in the planar surface of substantially the same diameter as the diameter of the fish tank bridge tube to provide stable support of the bridge tube both above and within the aquarium fish tanks being bridged.

Abstract: A bracing system for in-ground steel and vinyl swimming pools that allows the pool to be constructed very quickly and without the use of concrete either on the braces or around the bottom perimeter of the pool is described. The bracing system works by properly using the resistance of undisturbed earth around the perimeter of the pool (after excavating for the pool) and the weight and correct placement of the back-fill material reintroduced around the pool. Each earth brace system is comprised of a number of structural components in contact with peripheral wall panels of the pool. These include a horizontal lower structural member, an upper structural member, a diagonal brace member and a vertical support member. The horizontal and upper structural members each possess load bearing pad assemblies at their ends away from the wall panels to contact undisturbed earth surrounding the pool (after excavation).

Abstract: Sheet steel pan forms bent or rollformed to specific "universal" profiles allow the manufacture of concrete tread filled steel stairs or precast concrete stairs. The profiles adjust against each other under the specific angle of 26.565 and thereby, used in series, create stairways of various rise and run relations, maintaing the same profile at all times, satisfying requirements of all building codes and follow the measure of the human step on an incline.These "universal" profiles are designed to standardize stair construction, save labor and material and produce stairs more economically than conventional methods employed in today's construction industry.

Abstract: The chair has a support structure with a wide stable base. The chair has a single inverted U-shaped tubular metal main frame. Near the top and inside of the frame is connected a tubular metal back leg unit set of two legs to swing out away from the inverted U-shaped frame. The support structure is also characterized by possessing:a. A pair of horizontal metal cross-bars affixed within the tubular metal main frame, one near the top and the other near the bottom; andb. A pair of metal tubes attached to and between the cross-bars and situated substantially in the same plane as the main frame.

Abstract: Pieces of coke of high density and strength are made continuously from fine particles of bituminous or subbituminous or lignite coals or of mixtures thereof. The particles are generally oxygenated, mixed with water, compressed to squeeze out some of the water to obtain single bodies which are heat processed lying on a traveling grate on which they undergo drying, pyrolyzing, carbonizing and cooling.Modifications include mixing in with the coal material(s) listed above, coke fines or char or anthracite coal; or limestone; or carbon-reducible oxides such as oxidic ores of Fe, Mn, Cr and quartzite in recited important proportions. Such formed coke bodies are useable in a submerged arc furnace or in a blast furnace or in an open hearth to produce desired intermediate or end metallic products. The pieces of coke with incorporated fine limestone burn without developing SO.sub.2.

Abstract: Composite pieces of high density and strength are made continuously from mixtures of fine particles of bituminous or subbituminous or lignite coals and particles of carbon reducible oxides. The particles are mixed with water, compressed to squeeze out some of the water to obtain single bodies which are heat processed lying on a traveling grate on which the composites undergo drying, pyrolyzing, carbonizing and cooling.A modification includes mixing in with the coal material(s) listed above, coke fines or char or anthracite coal. The carbon reducible oxides utilized are such as the oxidic ores of Fe, Mn, Cr and quartzite in recited important proportions that make the formed composite bodies usable in a submerged arc furnace or in a low shaft blast furnace or in an open hearth to produce desired intermediate or end metallic products such as ferromanganese, Fe-Cr base metal for stainless steel, iron, ferro-alloys or silicon.

Abstract: The fireplace tending tool is of tubular construction with a hand grip and actuating lever, both of which can be squeezed together with one hand. The actuating lever is connected by means of a solid rod inside the tube to a moveable jaw construction which jaw is of curved design. The moveable jaw is made from flat bar steel and possesses a single tooth at its outer end. This moveable jaw opposes two similar shaped fixed jaws or tines constructed of round steel with a curved design similar to the curve of the moveable jaw. These two fixed jaws and the moveable jaw are fabricated of welded steel and fixed about the center line of the tube at the tube's end opposite from the end of the tube where the hand grip and actuating lever are located. The overall design the device provides for 180 degree movement of same in the placing of logs and in operating the device. Due to its lightweight design and streamlined contour, maximum leverage and control is attained during operation.

Abstract: A urine collection device to assist in the maintenance and monitoring of the health of pets through urine analysis is taught consisting primarily of a large rectangular collection tray with a hole in its center and grooves sloping to the hole; a round sample collection cup which is placed under the hole in the collection tray; and a liquid tight lid for the cup. These three items are coordinated to be utilized in connection with a cat waste elimination system having a substantially rectangular top tray compartment and a substantially rectangular bottom tray assembly.