Abstract: A wheel mounting tool for mounting a wheel having a plurality of mounting holes to a hub having a plurality of corresponding externally threaded mounting studs. The tool includes a socket portion with an internal thread for engaging a threaded stud of the hub, and an offset elongated handle portion pivotally attached to the socket portion. In use the tool can be threaded to a mounting stud of the hub, placed through a mounting hole of the wheel, and pivoted about the stud to lift and force the wheel onto the hub with all of the mounting holes of the wheel in alignment with all of the mounting studs of the hub.

Abstract: A plastic open-ended generally U-shaped holder (25) has three sides (31, 33 and 35) of suitable area for advertising. The free ends of the legs of the U are bent together and flared out to form a slot (37). This can be parted with the fingers so as to fit over the top edge of a waste basket (38), the handles (40) of plastic grocery bags (26) can be anchored within the attachment in order to suspend said bags in open and upright position for receiving waste for disposal. Holder (25) can also be used when inverted to receive and embrace handles (40) of one or more plastic bags (26) so as to provide a handpiece (25) for comfortable carrying of bags (26) to and from a vehicle. In the vehicle, or elsewhere, the holder holds said handles clustered together so as the prevent rolling and spilling of the contents of said bags during travel. At a destination, the said bags can then be collectively removed and carried to the kitchen with speed and ease.

Abstract: An ammonium or alkali metal zinc tartrate used in oral compositions such as mouthwashes, gingival and subgingival irrigating solutions, dentifrices, and the like as well as in other preparations for treating oral lesions.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for pivoting a screed assembly during screeding of placed and/or poured, uncured concrete or like loose, spreadable materials to maintain proper screeding contact by the screeding assembly with the concrete or like material by counteracting the force of concrete or other like material acting against the screed assembly as it is moved along the concrete. The apparatus includes a support, preferably of the self-propelled type, a boom and boom mount, and a pivot between the boom and the screed assembly. The axis of the pivot extends generally perpendicularly to the screeding direction in which the screed sassmblyis moved. A power source, such as a pair of fluid cylinders, rotates the screed about the pivot axis, preferably in response to an electro-hydraulic leveling sensor mounted on the screed. The lateral incline of the screed perpendicular to the screeding direction may be controlled about additional pivot axes orthogonal to the first.

Abstract: A wrench of either a socket or closed-end type is disclosed as including a closed wrench opening (30, 30a, 30', 130, 130a, 130', 230, 230') having curved engagement surfaces that connect associated pairs of flat surfaces. The curved engagement surfaces engage a conventionally toleranced hexagonal fastener without any engagement thereof by the flat surfaces. In one embodiment, the wrench opening (30, 30a, 30', 230) has a "six-point" construction including six circumferentially extending flat surfaces and six pairs of angularly oriented flat surfaces. In another "twelve-point" embodiment, the wrench opening (130, 130a, 130', 230) has twelve pairs of angularly oriented flat surfaces connected by the curved engagement surfaces. Connecting surfaces of the wrench opening connect the flat surfaces in both the "six-point" and "twelve-point" versions.

Abstract: A data communications system for a computer for transferring data between the memory of the computer and one or more peripheral devices without requiring an interrupt context switch. The data communications system includes a number of specialized registers in the central processing unit of a computer, a computer memory, a data storage location associated with one or more peripheral devices, and a bus connecting the data storage location to the memory. The specialized registers in the central processing unit are dedicated exclusively to processing data transfers between the memory and the data storage location associated with the peripheral devices. Data transfers between the computer memory and the data storage location associated with the peripheral devices are made under the control of the central processing unit with the use of the special registers without the execution of an interrupt context switch.

Abstract: A valving mechanism for a balloon inflator is presented. The valving mechanism is attached to an inflator comprising a fan driven by a through-flow motor. A piston, received within a cylinder, has two bores passing therethrough, the first bore communicating with atmosphere, and the second bore communicating with a nozzle adapted for receipt of a balloon neck. When the balloon is placed on the nozzle and the piston is urged against a spring, an airstream passes through the second bore to inflate the balloon. When the balloon is removed, a spring urges the piston to a position in which the airstream passes through the first bore to atmosphere reducing the load on the motor and allowing the motor to run cooler.

Abstract: A vessel containing a refrigerated liquid is provided with a plurality of support platforms which can be elevated and depressed for immersing items to be chilled and then raising them for use. The support platforms may be the upper ends of pressurized fluid-operated vertically extensible and retractable bellows. The operating fluid for the bellows may be the refrigerated liquid in the vessel. The vessel may include an apertured plate through which the items are lowered and raised, with the apertures being perimetrically provided with wipers for wiping liquid from the sides of the items as the items are raised on the platforms after being chilled by immersion in the refrigerated liquid.

Abstract: A rotary cam member (24) has a peripheral surface disposed about an axis. The peripheral surface includes first, second, and third portions that are, respectively, first, second, and third radial distances (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3) from the axis. R.sub.1 is greater than R.sub.2 and less than R.sub.3. The third portion is positioned circumferentially between the first and second portions. Cam member (24) has an open position in which the second portion contacts the clamp (2, 4) with which lever (22) is being used and a closed position in which the first portion contacts clamp (2, 4). A handle (26) projects from cam member (24) for pivoting cam member (24) back and forth between its open and closed positions. A barrel nut (28) is received in a cylindrical axial hole in cam member (24) and engages pull member (8, 10) that closes clamp (2, 4).

Abstract: A watertight manhole insert which is characterized by a dish-shaped seal or stopper designed to prevent rainwater from entering a sanitary sewer system through a manhole closed by a manhole cover. The manhole insert is located beneath the manhole cover and serves to plug the manhole and prevent flooding of the underlying sewer system. The manhole insert is characterized by a dish-shaped bowl having a pressure-relief valve, an optional vacuum relief valve and left strap and a substantially perpendicular, upward-standing side wall fitted with an outwardly-extending top rim for engaging a shoulder shaped in a manhole to support the manhole insert. Multiple, upward-standing bottom ribs radiate from the side wall inwardly in the curved bowl bottom toward the pressure relief valve, which is normally located in the center of the manhole insert, in order to stiffen the bowl-shaped bottom. Optional side ribs may also be provided in the vertical side wall for stiffening purposes.

Abstract: A control system for a drying system of the type including a drying bin. Discharge particulate material moisture sensing means including a sensor assembly positioned in a discharge auger for sensing the moisture content of the particulate material. Control means is connected to the discharge particulate moisture sensing means and the discharge auger for controlling operation of the discharge auger.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing football. The football game is played on a computer system and is based upon actual football performances by a database of football players. The computer football game is played by a league of individuals, each of whom can individually, or in groups, own a franchise. Franchises select their players from an initial draft. The starting players are then selected by individual franchise owners. Wins and losses for the computer football games occur by calculating a total of each individual player's points who make up a team. The calculation of points is done automatically either manually or using actual weekly performance by individual NFL players as the basis for determining points.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically and dynamically providing wiring connections at a central location coupled via ordinary phone lines to a plurality of work stations including a master work station. A central hub couples to a plurality of two wire telephone lines, each of which is coupled to an individual work station. The hub includes circuitry for monitoring transmissions to determine which of the work stations is the master. A receiver coupled to the master work station is coupled to transmitters to each of the other work stations. Receivers coupled to the remaining work stations are in turn coupled to a transmitter to the master work station.

Abstract: A snowboard toy is disclosed having an improved safety release foot harness. The toy has a semi-rigid ski platform having an upturned front end and a main body portion extending rearwardly from the front end. A number of strap retainers are located on the main body portion with one strap retainer located towards the rear of the main body portion and one located towards the front. The strap is secured at one end and has a free end passing through the strap retainers. The strap forms foot retaining loops and when the snowboard toy is in use the strap is pulled on the free end to create tension to secure a person's feet to the snowboard toy beneath the strap. Upon release of the tension in the strap the feet are also released.

Abstract: A square blocked anode with first and second opposite flat faces and rectangular sidewalls joining the flat faces has a diagonal hole formed between one sidewall and a second face of the anode. Insulation is stripped from a distal end of a multiple strand insulated wire lead and the stripped end is inserted through the sidewall into the diagonal opening. Wire strands which emerge from the opening in the second surface of the anode are spread around the opening and solder may be applied to the spread strands. The square anode is fitted within a capsule having a square body with inner walls similar to the anode and slightly larger than corresponding surfaces of the anode. The insulated wire lead which emerges from the diagonal opening in a sidewall engages an inner surface of the capsule and an opposite sidewall of the anode engages an opposite inner surface of the capsule in friction fit, holding the anode in the capsule after the anode with the emerging wire lead are pressed in the capsule.

Abstract: A glove donning and removing machine includes a pair of glove donning cylinders in which a negative pressure is created to inflate gloves mounted to the rims of the cylinders. This enables a person to insert his/her hands simultaneously in both gloves. The glove donning cylinders are selectively pivotable toward and away from the user and are also rotatable, allowing for fully adjustable orienting of the cylinders and of the gloves mounted to the cylinders. Actuating switches for controlling inflating and deflating of the gloves are located within the cylinders for allowing manipulation of the switches from within the glove inflating cylinders. Separately of the glove donning cylinders, a pair of glove removing cylinders are provided for removing a pair of gloves from a person's hands. According to one embodiment, trapezoid shaped resiliently mounted segments, disposed at the opening into the glove removing cylinders, serve to snag the cuff portion of a glove and to thus pull the gloves off a person's hands.

Abstract: A new variety of rose plant of the shrub class distinctive in its character by its fully double, dark crimson flowers with abundant, continual blooming and the unusual blend of coloring and shaping of the flower.

Abstract: A new variety of rose plant of the shrub class distinctive in its character by its fully double, soft apricot yellow flowers with abundant, continual blooming and the unusual blend of coloring and shaping of the flower.

Abstract: A new variety of rose plant of the shrub class distinctive in its character by its fully double, apricot yellow flowers, with abundant, continual blooming and the unusual blend of coloring and shaping of the flower.