Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for moving a toilet seat between a lowered position adjacent a toilet bowl and a raised, tilted position above the toilet bowl to assist a physically disabled person between an upright position and a seating position for using a toilet. The apparatus includes a toilet seat having a passageway therethrough, a support structure positioned about a base portion of a toilet bowl, a linkage mechanism attached to the support structure for raising the toilet seat directly above the toilet bowl and for tilting the toilet seat such that the rear portion of the toilet seat assumes a vertically higher position than a front portion of the toilet seat, and a power mechanism for urging the toilet seat between the lowered position and the raised, tilted position.

Abstract: A foldable combination head-and-neck rest and tray having a pair of opposed cardboard headrests detachably formed on a foundation. Each headrest may be folded to create a pair of spaced-apart triangular-shaped cup-holding regions on opposite sides of a base portion. The base portions and cup holding regions of the pair of opposed headrest define a storage area on the foundation. The headrests may be detached and folded to form a pair of head rests, which may be positioned behind a user's neck with the triangular shaped cup-holding regions serving as supports on opposite sides of the user's head.

Abstract: A tool with socket means for connecting the tool to an ordinary ratchet wrench or the like. The tool includes an offset head portion having socket means, the head portion located in the rearward end for attaching the tool to a ratchet wrench or the like. The forward body portion can be a wedge-shaped, two-prong fork means that is used for spreading, prying, pulling and lifting or it can be an elongated telescoping rollerhead that is used to straighten a piece of metal or essentially any other forward body portion. The offset head portion with socket means not only allows attachment to any ordinary ratchet wrench or the like but it also allows the operator to use the tool when attached to the rachet in extremely confining places whereas a tool not disclosed by the invention could not effectively work.

Abstract: A carpenter's toe-nail backup clamp for use in positioning a first board, such as a 2.times.4 wall stud, to a second board, such as a 2.times.4 plate, to facilitate attaching the first board to the second board with nails, the backup clamp having a base member to rest on the second board, an end plate affixed to one end of the base member for extending along one edge of the second board, a cam member secured to the base member at the other end thereof about an axis that is parallel to the end plate, the cam member providing variable spacing from the end plate according to the rotational position of the cam member, and a handle extending from the cam member by which the cam member can be rotated to clamp the second board between the cam member and the backup plate, the base member thereby providing a backup for a first board so that the first board may be toe-nailed to the second board.