Abstract: The performance characteristics of a vee type planing hull are significantly increased by a combination of features for reducing drag and increasing attitude control.Exemplary of the former are a concave running pad to which air is inducted to reduce hull drag and an angled transom terminating at a transverse hull "step" which permits the outboard propulsion unit to be carried higher reducing unit drag. The presence of longitudinal "wedges" increase hull lift as planing speed is approached allowing the hull to plane at a lower speed.Transverse wedge elements positioned outboard of the concave running pad maintain a stern lifting torque for controlling bow up angle.

Abstract: A multi-tiered feed device for animals including generally vertically spaced first and second feed stations. Each of the feed stations includes a pan and a top enclosure secured to the pan. A first feed conduit supplied with animal feed is provided and extends into the first feed station and is positioned over and above an aperture in the bottom of the pan. A second feed conduit is also provided which is positioned beneath the aperture and extends into the second feed station above the bottom of the pan and is connected to the first feed station. The feed stations are each mounted on their respective feed conduits. A multi-tiered cage completely surrounding the first and second feed stations is also provided which is divided into an upper and lower tier.

Abstract: A high speed open fishing boat construction has a hull portion, a top liner portion joined to said hull portion, and a fish live well assembly formed integral with the top liner portion and positioned so that its center of gravity is located on the longitudinal centerline of the top liner portion. The improvement comprises a common water inlet-outlet located in the rear of the hull portion, an aerator connected in the live well assembly for spraying water therein, a pipeline system connecting the inlet-outlet port with the aerator, and a remotely controlled cut-off control valve connected in the pipeline system for opening and closing water flow through the inlet-outlet port.

Abstract: A combination auger system having a coreless, flexible, elevating conveyor joined at the outlet thereof to a core-type distributing conveyor by a coupling assembly providing a transition for material flowing from the coreless conveyor to the core-type conveyor. The coupling assembly includes a core-to-coreless connector having a connecting shaft connected to an end of the core-type auger, and a stub shaft joined with the connecting shaft and approximately two flights of the coreless conveyor. The core-to-coreless connector is arranged in a housing having a section thereof transverse to the path formed by the conveyors, which section is larger than the corresponding sections of the conveyors themselves for permitting the material being conveyed to boil and take a position outside a core of the core-type auger. This is desirable since the space of the core of the core-type auger is unavailable to the material.