Abstract: A hand attachable drainage valve having diagonally opposite ears with inwardly curved finger grasping areas between the ears to permit user with either larger or small hands to find a gripping postion that is comfortable for the user's fingers to grasp and guide the drainage valve into threaded engagement with the irrigation pipe and rotatingly secure the drainage valve to an irrigation pipe through hand pressure.

Abstract: An end-cap lockingly securable to the end of the pipe at the same time a secondary action such as a branch line is formed to the main pipe line. The end cap housing has an integral branch forming member to allow a user to lock the end cap to the pipe by forming a branch line on the side of the pipe with the end cap housing sandwiching the end of a pipe between a pipe insert and a pipe receptor in the end cap housing. The pipe receptor includes an insert having a sealing surface, which when engaged to the interior surface of a pipe, forms a leak-proof relationship with the pipe.

Abstract: A plant attachment device and a method for killing obnoxious weeds that includes the step of cutting a stem of an obnoxious weed to leave a cut end extending from the ground to enable a container having an herbicide therein to be placed over the cut end of the stem and members thereon for supporting the herbicide carrier on the cut weed stem to hold the herbicide proximate the cut end to allows the herbicide sufficient time to penetrate into the tissue of the weed to cause the weed to die.

Abstract: Improved water treatment minerals and a canister with a divider platform for use in a dispersal valve to enable a fluid mixing stream to be bifurcated and simultaneously but separately treat the water flowing therethrough with water treatment compositions containing bacteria killing chemicals and bacteria killing minerals.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically assembling capped, sealant containing, twist-on wire connectors with the system interruptible if the components are not available for assembly, but allowing for the carrying of faultily assembled components through the assembly process without further assembly thereon, so that the improperly assembled components can be delivered to the proper recycling bin to assure that only the properly assembled capped, sealant containing, twist-on wire connectors are sent to packaging for shipment to a customer.

Abstract: A solderless twist on wire connector and a method of making a solderless twist on wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector by securing a prior art twist on wire connector in a shell to produce a wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector that can in one operation permit the user to twist the connector to simultaneously compress the junction ends of electrical wires into low resistance electrical contact while encapsulating the junction ends of the electrical wires in a solderless substance. The process includes the method making a twist on wire connector by encapsulating a prior art twist on wire connector in a shell to produce a wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector having a chamber for an encapsulating material. In one embodiment the twist on wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector includes a puncturable seal and in another embodiment a second compartment for holding a mixable encapsulating materials.

Abstract: A waterproof and fire retardant connector having a rotatable wire connector with an end cap attached thereto with the wire connector filled with a sealant to permit the user to simultaneously compress the junction ends of electrical wires into low resistance electrical contact while forming a waterproof covering and spark inhibiting compound surrounding the twisted junction end of the wires. The process includes inserting the junction ends of electrical leads into a wire connector, which is filled with a waterproof and fire retardant sealant, and then either crimping or rotating the wire connector to simultaneously form an electrical connection and waterproof and spark inhibiting seal around the twisted junction ends of the wires.

Abstract: A waterproof connector having a rotatably wire connector with a housing attached thereto with the wire connector and the housing filed with a sealant to permit the user to simultaneously compress the junctions ends of electrical wires into low resistance electrical contact while forming a waterproof covering surrounding the twisted junction end of the wires. The process includes inserting the junction ends of electrical leads into a rotatable wire connector connected to a sleeve, which is filled with a waterproof sealant, and then rotating the wire connector while preventing the sleeve and the electrical leads from rotating.

Abstract: A solderless twist on wire connector and a method of making a solderless twist on wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector by securing a prior art twist on wire connector in a shell to produce a wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector that can in one operation permit the user to twist the connector to simultaneously compress the junction ends of electrical wires into low resistance electrical contact while encapsulating the junction ends of the electrical wires in a solderless substance. The process includes the method making a twist on wire connector by encapsulating a prior art twist on wire connector in a shell to produce a wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector having a chamber for an encapsulating material. In one embodiment the twist on wire junction encapsulating twist on wire connector includes a puncturable seal and in another embodiment a second compartment for holding a mixable encapsulating materials.