Abstract: A sow feeding enclosure consisting of a structure providing a plurality of side-by-side stalls each accommodating one sow, and each having a rear door providing ingress for the sow, and a front door providing egress for the sow, a feed bunker being attached to the front door to be swung out of the way when the front door is opened. Both the front and rear doors may be manually unlocked and opened, or closed and locked, by an operator positioned in front of the stalls.

Abstract: This invention is an improved insect-proof animal feeder of the type which combines the food dish with the water dish, the food dish being supported on a pillar(s) which rises out of the water in the water dish. This improved feeder uses rectangular dishes with the food dish offset from center so that the support pillar may be shortened considerably still leaving room for the animal to drink from the lower water dish.

Abstract: A triangular aquarium comprising a three-sided vertical body and a base connected thereto to form a container. The height of the body is several times the width of its widest side. The body is formed from a single sheet of transparent material which has a substantially uniform thickness. The sheet of material is positioned on a heating form and two bandlike areas extending the length of the sheet are heated until the material is malleable. The sheet is folded along each of the heated bands to form a three-sided body, with two of the included angles being less than 90.degree. and having a radius of curvature substantially greater than the thickness of the sheet material. The two lengthwise edges of the folded sheet material abut to form the third angle and are bonded together to complete the body. The base is secured at one end of the body to form a container.

Abstract: The portable animal sprayer disclosed herein is a completely self-contained portable animal sprayer. The weight of the animal entering the sprayer pressurizes the system that provides the spray and therefore no external energy source is used. A limiting means insures prudent application of spray liquid and an interlock system provides an ordered application of insecticide by allowing only one animal at a time to pass through the unit. Due to the portability of the animal sprayer, it can be towed to any location on the farm or elsewhere and be used to spray medications or dye markings on the animals.

Abstract: A dip net assembly for catching fish and the like embodying a loop-like member carried by a handle. The open end of a net member is secured to the loop-like member with the other end of the net member being closed. A U-shaped member extends laterally from the loop-like member and is detachably connected thereto at the free ends of the legs of the U-shaped member with the base of the U-shaped member engaging the closed end of the net member.

Abstract: A flasher of the type of an elongated, double-bent plate-like member is produced from two generally identical transparent plastic plates having reinforcements at their edges and interlocking each other to enhance dimensional stability of bends at the front and rear ends. Sandwiched between the plates is a light reflexive sheet which is fully protected from water when the flasher is completed.

Abstract: The tip-up has pivotally carried arms or limbs which telescope from a maximum, operative length to a stored, minimum length, to render the assembly a small, compact unit. Additionally, a reel is rotatably carried by the tip-up body, for pay-out and retrieval of line, and has a resilient element urged thereagainst which, cooperative with a reel locking cap, causes the locking cap to release the reel for free rotation in response to rotation of the reel in a line pay-out direction, the locking cap being provisioned for selectively restraining the reel against rotation.

Abstract: A pound or set net has a plurality of trap pockets for entrapping a school of fish, each pocket formed by a ceiling webbing of net, a bottom webbing and a peripheral webbing. A sliding fastener is provided on the ceiling webbing in particular, whereby the pocket may be quickly opened to remove driftwood or other floating foreign materials entrapped therein. There is also provided a fish outlet at the after end of the peripheral webbing which is normally closed by a slide fastener.

Abstract: An improved sanitary facility for pets is provided for the collecting, removing and disposing of small animal excrement without the attendant mess and odor heretofore experienced. A rotatable chamber which contains pet litter, sand or other suitable material, has a first closeable opening for animal ingress and egress, and a second opening for expulsion of separated waste. Filter means, disposed circumferentially within the chamber, selectively separate solid excrement and agglomerated matter from unsoiled litter as the chamber is rotated. The separated waste is continuously urged, by the combined action of gravity and the incline of the filter means, toward a second sealable opening in the chamber. The separated matter is expelled from the chamber through the second opening and deposited in an appropriate receptacle. Means are provided to prevent rotation of the chamber during use by the animal. Means are also provided for automatically sealing the second opening to prevent odor from escaping the chamber.

Abstract: A device for killing insects comprises an elongated handle and a plurality of elongated flexible strands or filaments having one end secured to one end of the handle.

Abstract: A tapered tubular casing of sheet metal has an open upper end and a closed bottom end. Sheet metal connectors having upwardly and downwardly directed tangs are spot welded to diametrically opposite portions of the casing adjacent the upper end thereof. The upper ends of two flexible chains are attached to holes in the lower tangs. One chain is somewhat shorter than the other, the shorter chain having an open hook attached to its free end and the longer chain having a snap hook attached to its free end. When the device is in use to keep an ice fishing hole from refreezing, the open hook is releasably fastened to an eye screw anchored in the floor of a fish house and the snap hook is similarly releasably fastened to a second eye screw.

Abstract: A fishing rod holder and signaling apparatus having a generally vertically disposed support member to which a counterbalanced semi-tubular rod holder is pivotally affixed. The support member may be adjustably connected to an outdoor chair or may be inserted into the ground. The rod holder is counterbalanced by a biasing means which acts between a rearwardly extending actuating lever affixed to the rod holder and the support member. A visual-audio signaling device is mounted on the support member directly above the rod holder and is actuated by upward pivotal movement of the actuating lever. An adjustment mechanism is disposed between the biasing means and the support member to permit precise, continuous regulation of the amount of pull on the fish line necessary to actuate the signaling device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improvement in a reciprocating mower of the type wherein pivotal reciprocation of the cutting blades is produced by impact blows received from a rotary impactor. In accordance with this invention, two actuating levers are employed to transmit impact forces from a rotary impactor to the movable blades of the mower; one such lever moves the blades in one direction and the other lever effects the return movement of the movable blades. The rotary impactor successively contacts the two levers so that the resulting movements of the cutting blade is a movement in one direction followed by a dwell period, then a movement in the opposite direction followed by a dwell period. A fan, driven by the same prime mover as utilized to drive the rotary impactor, generates air currents which pick up and straighten the grass or other vegetation to be cut by the reciprocating blades and directs the cut vegetation through the plenum chamber of the fan and outwardly through a discharge chute.

Abstract: A vessel is provided with a power driven wheel or gurdy for hauling in long lines having gangions and hooks at spaced intervals. The line and gangions are guided into a rotary coiler which deposits successive loops of the line on a moving conveyor belt, thus displacing each successive loop from the previous loop to facilitate manual selection and baiting the hooks without undue tangling of the line and gangions. The conveyor belt then deposits the coiled line in a suitable receiver with the coils more or less concentrically superimposed. The conveyor is also laterally oscillated when the belt is stopped to minimize snarling of lines when coiled in a single stack. Selectively operable manual controls are used to regulate the speed of the conveyor belt and the oscillation thereof.

Abstract: An elongated slatted box having oppositely disposed ends, one of which is open and the other closed. A pair of internal frames, one mounted in said open end and the other spaced longitudinally therefrom, both the frames having flexible splines fastened thereto to converge inwardly to define concentric, spaced apart and progressively constricted passageways into respectively contiguous compartments of the slatted box. The size of the interior opening of the first and outer constricted passageway limits the size of all the fish entering the trap as to largeness, and the size and spacing of the interior opening of the second and inner constricted passageway relative to the first constriced constricted passageway restricts the fish entering therethrough to catfish only and of a desired size only.

Abstract: A baler for making large sized rectangular bales of agricultural crops, has a bale chamber the size and shape of the bales to be formed. At one end of the chamber the crop is introduced into the chamber by feed means which compresses the crop. A restraining member in the bale chamber is movable from adjacent the inlet towards a position in which the chamber is full so as to define an increasing volume of the chamber accessible to the crop and enable bales of variable, relatively high density to be formed.The restraining member is moved intermittently by the pressure of the crop in the chamber and after completion of each bale is returned to its initial position. Each bale is bound together when completed and a packing plate is optionally provided to assist in forming the bales.

Abstract: A bird cage of triangular configuration for positioning in the corner of a room or the like constructed of spaced, parallel, inclined wires extending between an imperforate bottom and an imperforate top with a removable central partition or floor being disposed intermediate the top and bottom to enable the cage to be converted from a two compartment cage to a single compartment cage. A transparent, plastic shield is provided on the front of the cage covering at least the upper compartment thereof to protect the bird from cold air and to protect the bird from germs such as may be discharged by humans in adjacent relation to the cage. The front of the cage is of arcuate configuration with a gate being provided to enable ingress and egress of the bird and one side wall of the cage is openable to facilitate cleaning of the cage and also facilitate access to the interior thereof.

Abstract: A box-shaped device for trapping flies including a bottom opening below which a fly food tray is positioned. Means are provided to periodically agitate the food tray so as to cause flies alighting thereon to enter into the fly trap through the bottom entry thereof.

Abstract: A fishing rod holder for a fishing tackle box comprising a base which is attached to a side of a fishing tackle box and an elongated tubular member which is hingedly attached to the base at one end and extends from the base. The middle portion of the elongated tubular member bends back upon the base and forms a yoke. The remaining end of the elongated tubular member is detachably attached to the base. When not in use the detachable end of the elongated tubular member is attached to the base and the elongated tubular member is positioned adjacent a side of the tackle box. When in use the detachable end of the elongated tubular member is detached from the base, the elongated tubular member is rotated away from the base to the surface which supports the tackle box, and the yoke is placed in a vertical position to support a fishing rod.

Abstract: Tractor mountable apparatus for collecting and destroying insects from multiple rows of plants, such as cotton, as the tractor passes along the rows is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a supporting frame including longitudinal support members mountable upon the front end of a tractor to project forward rather than rearwardly thereof, and transverse support members carried by the longitudinal support members. A plurality of insect destroying open topped metal pans are suspended from the transverse support members and are spaced to pass between rows of plants as the apparatus moves through a field. Each of the pans has an elongated perforated gas fired burner for heating the pan and for completely incinerating insects falling into the pans and laterally extending resilient agitator means or flexible aprons mounted thereon for knocking insects from the side branches of the plants.