Abstract: A belt buckle includes a buckle base having a plurality of raised portions at a base panel thereof for engagement with the bottom wall of the belt, a clamping plate pivotally connected to the buckle base and having a series of teeth for engagement with the top wall of the belt, a frame member pivotally connected to the buckle base, and a prong member pivotally coupled to the frame member.

Abstract: A belt buckle includes a buckle base having a plurality of raised portions at a base panel thereof for engagement with the bottom wall of the belt, a clamping plate pivotally connected to the buckle base and having a series of teeth for engagement with the top wall of the belt, a frame member pivotally connected to the buckle base, and a prong member pivotally coupled to the frame member.

Abstract: An umpire chest protector for use in a baseball game is disclosed to include a body member, a sternum plate, first left and right side plates, second left and right side plates, two shoulder plates, a shoulder strap assembly and a rear padding system. The rear padding system has an air channel defined therein, saving material, reducing the weight and enhancing wearing comfort. The left and right paddings, upper padding, outer left padding and outer right padding of the rear padding system are detachable, easy on and off and washable, material-saving and capable of dispersing impact force. The sternum plate is attached to one side of each of the shoulder plates and affixed thereto with rivets, and side flaps and bottom flaps of the sternum plate are respectively affixed to the upper portions and lower portions of the first left and right side plates with rivets, providing warp around feel and making the protector still and strong.

Abstract: A chest protector formed of a base, upper and lower shoulder straps, a neck pad, neck cushions, shoulder cushions, chest cushions, upper and lower abdomen cushions, lateral cushions, bottom cushions and breathing cloths. Each upper abdomen cushion is formed of an inner low bounce foam, an outer low bounce foam and an intermediate hard plastic board sandwiched in between the inner low bounce foam and outer low bounce foam. Each lower abdomen cushion is formed of an inner low bounce foam and an outer low bounce foam. The inner low bounce foam of each abdomen cushion is shorter and relatively softer than the associating outer low bounce form so that a buffer space is defined between the outer low bounce foam of each abdomen cushion and the base below the associating inner low bounce foam and the outer low bounce foams of the abdomen cushions are respectively held in a sloping status after stitching of the breathing cloths to the base.

Abstract: A safety baseball base includes a base with a bottom recess and a bottom stem in the bottom recess, an anchor embedded in the ground in a baseball field, a positioning member inserted into the anchor, a flexible mounting plate affixed to the positioning member and having recessed holes on the top side, and a flexible coupling member fitted into the bottom recess around the bottom stem and affixed to the base and having a plurality of bottom locating blocks respectively engaged into the recessed holes of the flexible mounting plate to secure the base to the flexible mounting plate for allowing disconnection of the base from the flexible mounting plate upon an impact to avoid injuries when a player is sliding into the base.

Abstract: A training aid for use with an elongated sporting implement for hitting training is disclosed to include three vane devices injection-molded from plastics each vane device having a flat vane body and smoothly arched top and bottom locating plates disposed near top and bottom ends of the inner vertical side of the flat vane body for enabling the vane devices to be adjustably connected to one another around the sporting implement through a plug joint, and two fastening belts inserted through insertion slots in the flat vane body of each vane device and fastened up to affix the vane devices to the sporting implement. Top and bottom stop devices are attached when the training aid is used with a golf club.

Abstract: A pair of briefs in which a front outer panel has a seam smoothly curved and vertically extended between a top and a bottom at a middle section and a convex portion formed at a middle area of the seam; a front inner panel has a first seam smoothly curved and vertically extending downwardly from a middle of a top, a second seam smoothly curved and vertically extending upwardly from a middle of a bottom in line with the first seam, and a convex portion formed at a center between the first seam and the second seam corresponding to the convex portion of the front outer panel for accommodating the user's external genial organs comfortably.

Abstract: A catcher's leg guard includes an ankle pad, a shin pad, a knee pad, a thigh pad, a plurality of connecting belts connected between the knee pad and the thigh pad, a plurality of adjustment straps respectively stitched to the shin pad, the knee pad, and the thigh pad, and a plurality of breathing gauze cloth linings respectively covered on the ankle pad, the shin pad, the knee pad and the thigh pad at an inner side for direct contact with the user's skin, air vents extended through the ankle pad, the shin pad, the knee pad and the thigh pad in air-communication with open spaces in the breathing gauze cloth linings, and an inner knee pad detachably adjustably fastened to the knee pad with hook and loop materials, the ankle pad, the shin pad, the knee pad and the breathing gauze cloth linings being respectively coated with a micro-organism resisting and mildew-retarding treatment agent.

Abstract: A folding collapsible bottle basket is constructed to include a rectangular open top frame, the top frame having two parallel stretchers, the stretchers each having an insertion hole on the middle, a bottom frame, the bottom frame having a frame body and two sliding tracks spaced below the frame body, two side frames inserted through the gap between the frame body and sliding tracks of the bottom frame and pivoted to the top frame and moved along the sliding tracks between the operative position and the non-operative position, stop means provided at the sliding tracks and adapted for holding the side frames in the operative position, and a handle pivoted to the top frame, the handle having two straight end rod portions inserted through the insertion holes of the stretchers and respectively pivoted to two opposite short sides of the top frame and a -shaped middle handgrip portion connected between the straight end rod portions.

Abstract: This innovative “soft shell protective head gear fabrication” is characterized in hot-compression forming of shock-absorption inertia foam rubber, foam rubber and hard plastic platelet, which are then cut and sewn to complete a soft shell protective headgear with an appearance of hawksbill turtle shell but without a hard casing.

Abstract: A folding collapsible container basket is constructed to include a rectangular top open frame, a plurality of U-shaped bottom wire rods pivotally connected between two long sides of the top open frame and arranged in parallel, a bottom rack coupled to the U-shaped bottom wire rods, and a handle detachably coupled to the bottom rack. The U-shaped bottom wire rods are turned upwards and closely attached with the bottom rack to the top open frame after disconnection of the handle from the rack, keeping the folding collapsible container basket in a collapsed, flat condition.

Abstract: A baseball chest protector comprises a pad body, a strap assembly, a neck-protecting cushion, a plurality of shock-absorbent pad blocks and a plurality of air vents, in which the pad blocks provide on the chest portion of the pad body are formed with inclined planes in such a shape that the thickness of the upper portion of each pad block is greater than that of the lower portion while the pad blocks provide on the stomach portion of the pad body are formed with curved surfaces; the neck-protecting cushion is a piece of curved plate body which flares out upwardly from the bottom and forms an inverted cone-shaped space. Further, the above-mentioned shock-absorbent pad blocks on the chest portion are formed as a laminate structure of materials with different characteristics.

Abstract: A limb protective pad fabrication method, which includes the steps of (a) bonding a fabric front panel, a foamed lining panel and a fabric back panel to form a blank pad, (b) cutting the blank pad into a shaped pad subject to a predetermined shaped, (c) injection-molding a shield on the front panel of the shaped pad from a plastic material having a melting point at least 30.degree. C. below the melting point of the material for the front panel of the shaped pad, and (d) edging the border area of the shaped pad by stitches, enabling binding straps to be fastened to the shaped pad when stitching.

Abstract: A protective briefcase for a notebook computer is provided comprising a briefcase body consisting of five side panels and a cover, said briefcase body and cover being able to be engaged to or separated from each other by using a zipper, characterized in that the five side panels of said briefcase body and said cover are comprised of an outer fabric layer, an inner fabric layer, and a laminated reinforcing layer between said outer and inner fabric layers, wherein said laminated reinforcing layer is comprised of in sequence from outside to inside a hard shock-absorbing outer layer, a flexible thin plate, and a soft shock-absorbing inner layer such that a sandwich structure is formed in order to abut against the surfaces of said notebook computer contained in said protective briefcase.