Abstract: A wheel-supported shag rug brushing and raking device, which when moved over a shag rug fluffs the long strands of the nap thereof, and concurrently retrieves magnetically attractable objects such as hairpins, bobby pins, and the like. The device is relatively light in weight inasmuch as all or a substantial portion of the components thereof may be injection molded from a suitable polymerized resin. When not in use, the device may be disposed in a position to occupy a minimum of space.

Abstract: A universally attachable tray assembly adapted to be secured to table edges of various configurations including on the surface thereof a set of instructions regarding a particular card game, chip recesses for storing betting chips and a drink recess. The underside of the tray is provided with an orthogonal mounting surface arranged as a rectangular strip extending transversely across the tray bottom, the rectangular strip including a plurality of vertical slots formed therein for receiving securing fixtures. The vertical slots are separated by a dimension equal to the dimension separating a plurality of screw holes and slots formed in the surfaces of an angulated mounting bracket which may thus be secured in any angular arrangement to adapt to the edge configuration of the table.

Abstract: A power operated device for lifting first and second rolls of liner from the floor to elevated positions, and so rotatably supporting the rolls that they may be sequentially unwound and fed to a corregated paperboard making machine. As the liner of one of the rolls is being fed to the machine, the device may be pivoted to a position where a depleted roll may be removed therefrom and a new roll of liner mounted on the device. The device is also adapted to rotatably support two or more split rolls of liner to permit the liner to be concurrently fed to the corregated paperboard making machine.

Abstract: A portable support assembly adapted for use with tubular or barrel keys includes a coded adjustable mount for maintaining the key in a predetermined code location. The mount is secured to one face of a cutter support and includes an eccentric cutter opening through which a support assembly is extended for cutter grooves of selected heights around the periphery of the key. In order to control the depth of cut of each groove the support assembly is provided with a threaded end stop bearing index marks which according to the rotation thereof controls the depth of extension of the cutter through this port.

Abstract: A bicycle that is powered by a hydraulic motor operatively associated with the rear wheel of the vehicle, with the actuation being by fluid under pressure delivered to the motor by a first rotary pump actuated by the feet of the rider, and a second pump that is energized by reciprocal up and down movement of the handle bars of the vehicle. The first and second pumps may be operated either independently or jointly. The bicycle includes a reservoir for hydraulic fluid and an accumulator for hydraulic fluid that is maintained in a pressurized condition therein. A manually operated, multiposition valve mounted on the vehicle permits the rider to control the flow of the hydraulic fluid. When the valve is in a first position and either the first or second pump actuated, hydraulic fluid is drawn from the reservoir, discharged through the motor to rotate the rear wheel of the vehicle, and the fluid thereafter discharged back to the reservoir.

Abstract: A collapsible stool structure adapted for use in fishing and other outdoor activities comprises a support shaft which is received in a base plate on assembly. Disposed on the other end of the support shaft and pivotally attached thereto is a seat structure including two angle members radially extending from the pivot to engage one end of a triangle member which, by way of the bell crank bracket pivotally engages the support shaft. The two angle members furthermore attach to a tackle box or similar equipment storage device and by virtue of their attachment to the seat and the tackle box provide a separating gap equal to both the triangulating member and the base shaft. In this manner the seat structure may be pivoted into a position where the angle members are disposed on either side of the support shaft or may be rotated from that position to engage a transverse pin in corresponding detents formed in the underside thereof.

Abstract: A hand held electrically driven cutter assembly for removing casts from the body of a patient includes a vertically articulatable bottom plate insertable between the cast and the body surface which on the interior of the cutter assembly forms a switch in series with a trigger switch connected to the main power. Two circular cutters, inclined relative each other, are disposed above and ahead of the bottom plate to open up a kerf therefor. The power to the cutters is transmitted through a pulley and gear combination to be driven by an electric motor. It is this electric motor that is series connected to the bottom plate switch and power will be applied to the cutters only upon upward urging of the cutter assembly.

Abstract: Sludges in the form of aqueous suspensions of organic and inorganic materials that range in viscosity from thick viscous pastes to flowable liquids are produced in the operation of numerous industries and also as waste by municipalities. The apparatus and method of using the same that are the subject of the present invention are directed to transforming the sludge to solids both in sumps in which they may be situated as well as apart from such sumps or storage areas or from continuous sources. The apparatus of the present invention as aqueous sludge is sequentially removed from a sump, storage area, or from continuous sources mixes calcium oxide therewith at a predetermined rate within a confined space. The predetermined rate is such that the exothermic reaction between the calcium oxide and water in the sludge raises the temperature of the sludge-calcium oxide mixture to the extent that substantial steam is produced.

Abstract: A base-supported rotatable frame assembly that defines four upwardly and inwardly extending side frames. A pressurized fluid-actuated mechanism intermittently rotates the frame assembly through first, second, third and fourth stations. Stringers are removably placed in fixed positions on a side frame when it is at the first station, and deck boards are placed in abutting contact with the stringers when the stringer-supporting side frame is at the second station. The deck boards and stringers are nailed together at the third station to provide a single face pallet, which pallet is removed when the supporting side frame moves to the fourth station. A second of the inventions may be used to transform the single face pallet to a double face pallet if desired.

Abstract: A golf club and golf accessory carrier defined by first and second longitudinally corrugated elongate panels that are bonded back to back. The first and second panels when so bonded provide a number of elongate spaced cavities that removably support the shaft of the golf club, and the bonded panels also cooperating to provide a confined space in which golf balls may be stored, elongate spaces that removably engage the shanks of a number of tees, and a flat support on which a score pad is removably mounted. A pair of legs is pivotally supported on the carrier, with the legs in a first position extending longitudinally thereto, and the legs in a second position extending downwardly and outwardly at an angle from the carrier, to support the carrier in an elevated position when an end portion of the carrier rests on the ground. The bonded panels also cooperate to provide a handle for carrying the carrier, which carrier is particularly adapted for use on par-three golf courses.

Abstract: A bird frightener that may be removably disposed adjacent a tree or bush that bears fruit or berries that are attractive to birds as food. The bird frightener includes a pole that supports a prime mover on the upper end thereof, which prime mover rotates a number of spaced outwardly extending arms above the upper portion of the tree or bush. Each arm has at least one streamer thereon that waves as the arm rotates. Cam means operatively associated with the invention causes the arm to move upwardly and downwardly in what appears to an observer to be an erratic motion as the arms rotate. The upward and downward movement of the arms as they rotate, coupled with the waving streamers, is effective in frightening birds away from a tree or bush that has the invention mounted adjacent thereto, and as a result the fruit or berries on the tree or bush are not eaten by birds.

Abstract: Apparatus for securing the latch bolt of a conventional door lock against unauthorized withdrawal including a pin assembly provided with a handle, wherein the pin assembly can be alternately stored in a retainer plate or secured thereby in a locked position. More specifically the retainer plate includes an opening conformed to receive the pin of the pin assembly, said opening being aligned with a bore extending through the door into the latch bolt. Adjacent the opening there is provided in the retainer plate a storage hoop which is conformed to function both to store the pin assembly and to secure the handle when inserted.

Abstract: A pair of stilts in which each stilt includes a horizontally positionable elongate handle that has first and second ends from which first and second elongate members extend downwardly and upwardly. Each first elongate member terminates on the lower end in a projecting step that has a centered third member projecting downwardly therefrom. A pair of stilts of the above structure permits a user to elect either of two positions to be supported in an elevation thereon, the second members in a first position being disposed rearwardly of his shoulders, and the second members in a second position being situtated forwardly of his shoulders. The handles are of sufficient length as to so off set the first members and steps relative to the second members that a user occupies an upright position on the pair of stilts irrespective of whether the stilts are in the first or second position. The pair of stilts have bottom recessed resilient pads mounted on the lower ends thereof to minimize slippage.

Abstract: A portable, light weight device that includes an electrical conducting grid or screen that may be grasped by a thumb and fore finger and deformed to partially or wholly encircle a spark plug wire and terminal associated therewith. The electrical conducting screen or grid has a pliable electrical conductor connected thereto, which conductor on the free end is provided with a clip to removably secure the clip to a ground portion of a vehicle. When the screen or grid is in engagement with a spark plug wire and terminal, the high tension wire may be removed from a spark plug by a bare hand of a user of the invention without receiving an electric shock.

Abstract: A golf club that may be either a wood, iron or putter that has a number of spaced grooves formed in the head thereof that are substantially normal to the ball striking surface of the head. The grooves, when the club is swung, serve as passages or ducts through which air flows to impart improved flight stability to the head. The grooves on the bottom or sole of the club head, not only serve the above function, but minimize the surface of the head that may contact the ground surface just prior to the striking surface of the head impacting a golf ball. Due to this lessened sole surface, the frictional drag between it and the ground surface is lessened, and kinetic energy in the head that would otherwise be dissipated by frictional drag with the ground surface is transferred to the golf ball to increase the distance the latter is driven.

Abstract: A left truck engageable carriage that removably supports a number of stocks of cylindrical drums in side by side abutting contact to provide a unitized assembly that may be transported as such on a flat bed truck or flat car. The carriage is particularly adapted for use with empty drums and minimizes the individual handling of the latter as they are returned by users to a facility for cleaning and refurbishing, as well as minimizing handling when the cleaned drums are forwarded to a user for filling with a desired liquid product.

Abstract: A mobile drum filling assembly that may be drawn along side a railroad tank car or other liquid containing tank to draw liquid therefrom, and sequentially fill a number of drums with predetermined weights of the liquid. The assembly is preferably of such design that two drums may be filled and weighed concurrently, with the weighed drums thereafter moving by gravity on conveyors to a platform where they are sequentially removed preferably by lift truck to an adjacent holding area, into adjacent warehouse facilities, or onto a truck bed or other vehicle for transportation to a desired destination. Fumes that may arise during the filling operation are together with air drawn upwardly by vacuum means to a wash tower, with the fumes being removed before the air with which they were mixed, is discharged to the ambient atmosphere. The liquid may be withdrawn from the tank car either by gravity flow, an electrically driven pump, or by pressurizing the interior of the tank car with air.

Abstract: A semi-positive displacement pump of modular structure that includes a center plate, a pump defining housing removably secured to a first side thereof, a gear containing housing removably affixed to a second side, first and second impellers disposed in spaced relationship in the pump cavity between a fluid inlet and fluid outlet defined therein. The pump may be selectively driven either manually or by power means. The bottom of the pump chamber and the surface of the center plate most adjacent the pump chamber have first and second sets of aligned pressure relief cavities formed therein. The first and second impellers include first and second cylindrical hubs of substantial diameter that have their ends closely disposed to transverse center portions of the bottom of the pump chamber and center plate defined between the first and second pressure relief cavities formed therein.

Abstract: An energy saving garbage disposal unit that is disposed under a tank and connected to the drain thereof in a conventional manner. Actuation of the unit is provided by pressurized water from a domestic source thereof. Pressurized water entering the unit serves a twofold purpose; first, driving a turbine to actuate a garbage masticating assembly, and second, after discharge from the turbine the water mixing with masticated garbage and serving to flush the latter down a waste line that extends from the unit. The unit masticates garbage to particles of a predetermined size prior to discharging the particles to the waste line, with the possibility of the waste line becomming clogged or stopped up by garbage particles of substantial size being reduced to a minimum.