Abstract: A strap and carry system for cradling and transporting flat and generally rectangular objects such as a body board. The system comprises three flexible loose straps secured to each other forming an adjustable flexible cradle which can be folded for storage and held open with one hand so that an object such as a body board can be inserted and secured for carrying.

Abstract: A mounting rack for rifles which is substantially rectangular and is mounted across the vehicle, which is adjustable in length as well as height to fit substantially any vehicle. The two upright sides of the rectangle, slide on the two long cross members for further adjustment and the gun cradles have multiple positions. The invention further discloses a dog guard which may be affixed to the back of the gun rack.

Abstract: An actuator plate type electrical switch employs an actuating mechanism which includes an overcentering cam, sleeve, actuator plate, plunger, and biasing spring. The cam is rotatable between first and second overcentered positions and has an actuating lobe aligned with a contact assembly causing the assembly to assume respective contact and non-contact positions upon rotation of the cam to corresponding first and second overcentered positions. The sleeve has a central passage and a transverse slot communicating with the passage. The cam is received through the transverse slot. The sleeve also mounts the actuator plate outwardly from the cam. The sleeve and actuator plate are pivotal together about an axis which extends parallel to the cam rotational axis. The plunger, biased by the spring toward and into continuous engagement with the center of the cam, is slidably mounted in the sleeve passage for reciprocal movement toward and away from the cam.

Abstract: A cargo rack mountable on the roof of a car or the bed of a pickup truck. The rack has a frame that includes a support base for carrying cargo between a pair of spaced apart upstanding members. A restraining strap on the frame extends between the upstanding members. Elastic cords extending from the upstanding members suspend the strap over the support base to provide clearance for the cargo. A ratchet mechanism urges the strap toward the cargo to hold it on the support base.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for killing noxious small organisms trapped in a dust chamber of the cleaner body by circulating heated exhaust of an electric air blower through the dust chamber, the cleaner having a temperature sensing element for sensing a temperature in the dust chamber, a timer for timing a specified interval from a point of time when the electric air blower is started to kill the noxious small organisms with heat, and a microcomputer for stopping the supply of electric power to the electric air blower when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensing element reaches a temperature fatal to the noxious small organisms or when the timer has timed the specified interval with the sensed temperature being lower than the predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A manually actuatable electric pushbutton switch that automatically returns to the starting position after actuation, especially such a switch for the keyboard of an electronic device, for example a typewriter, is provided. The switch has a plastic housing in which is disposed a plate spring that is in engagement with an actuating button. The plate spring has a region that during shifting of the actuating button and flexing of the plate spring abruptly jumps to a different position when the electrical contact position is achieved, so that the triggering function is indicated both physically as well as audibly to the user. The region of the plate spring that abruptly reverses is preferably formed by slots, between which the abruptly reversing plate spring strip is defined.

Abstract: A golf cart score board and handlebar angular position adjusting structure, comprising a screw rod fastened with a lock nut to secure a handlebar and a score board to a connecting rod which is fixedly fastened in a golf cart's main frame. The handlebar and the score board have each a toothed portion engaged with the toothed portion at either side of the connecting rod with a helical spring each set therebetween. Therefore, the handlebar and the score board can be adjusted to a desired angle relative to the connecting rod and the golf cart's main frame by loosening the lock nut from the screw rod and then fastening it tight.

Abstract: A jack with switch comprises a body that has a plug insertion hole and a switch chamber which is adjacent to the plug insertion hole. The plug insertion hole and the switch chamber communicate with one another. The switch chamber contains a separator partly projecting into the plug insertion hole, a movable contactor piece, and a stationary contactor piece. When a plug is inserted into the plug insertion hole, the separator is transversely displaced to space the movable contactor piece apart from the stationary contactor piece. When the separator is displaced or moved by a predetermined extent, the separator hits a projected wall portion formed in the switch chamber in order to restrict further displacement of the separator. Even if the plug is wrenched in the jack, the movable contactor piece is prevented from excessive displacement.

Abstract: A bar providing a switching member is pivotally connected to a terminal supported within an insulating housing. In normal operating position the knife switch is closed to two switch contacts which allow connection of power from one of the contacts to two types of circuits, such as propulsion and the auxiliary circuits of a railway car. The insulating housing may be provided with a cover which is closed when the switch is in normal closed circuit operating position. To change the position of the switch, the cover must be opened. The bar may be pivoted somewhat less than 180.degree. to engage a single contact which connects the power to one of the circuits, but not the other, for example, only to the auxiliary circuit of a railway car. The knife switch is prevented from moving 180.degree. by an end wall of the housing. But in that position it closes to one contact so that it may be viewed as being closed to power the auxiliary circuit.

Abstract: A switch device includes a housing including an upper member and a lower member, an actuator reversibly supported on actuator support portions in the upper member, a switch disposed in the housing, a translator disposed below the actuator and reversibly supported on translator support portions in said upper member for turning the switch on and off by the reversing action of the translator, and an interlocking mechanism for reversing said translator in the same direction as that of the reversing action of the actuator, the interlocking mechanism including pressing portions provided on said actuator and bearing portions provided on said translator with the surface of said bearing portions being formed into a given curved surface, and the pressing portions being provided with a V-shaped groove which contacts with said curved surface.

Abstract: A shower cabinet including a shower base, a peripheral frame positioned along at least two contiguous sides of the shower base, and panels defining lateral walls and an access door; at least one water sprinkler connected to cold and hot water pipes through a mixing valve, the sprinkler and mixing valve being provided on an upright column housing the hot and cold water pipes, and a window on said column to operate the mixing valve, from the inside and from the outside of the cabinet.

Abstract: An adjustable mounting for an article restraining cross bar of an automobile luggage rack is provided to interconnect the cross bar to a pair of stanchion members mounted for longitudinal movement along a pair of parallel side rails so that one stanchion may be longitudinally adjusted relative to the other stanchion. A pivot plug is provided which is secured to each end of the cross bar and includes an extending tongue portion having a slot therein. The stanchions each contain a socket adapted to receive the tongue portion of the pivot plug and a fastening screw extends through the socket and tongue slot to secure the plug within the socket while permitting limited inward and outward movement of the tongue within the socket and limited pivotal movement of the plug around the fastening screw disposed in the slot.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing a rolled pool cover along the exterior sidewall of the pool. The apparatus includes a plurality of perimetrically spaced apart, upwardly opening hooks which are cantileverly supported on the pool sidewall. The hooks are expansible and contractible to allow the hooks to "open" and "close" for receiving and dispensing the pool cover.

Abstract: A push switch includes an electrically insulating cylindrical base defining an interior space in which an actuator is movably disposed. Fixed contacts are associated with the base, while an inverted V-shaped contact is carried by the actuator so as to be capable of coming into contact with the fixed contacts and thereby making and breaking an associated electrical circuit. The base includes stepped detents which coact with terminal engagement ends associated with elastically deformable engagement legs of the actuator so as to limit the actuator's extent of movement. A resilient protective cap collectively covers an upper region of the insulating base and the actuator and is coupled to the base by a pin formed on the base being engaged within a recess formed in the cap.

Abstract: An infant care bag for storing bottles, diapers, Wet Wipes, and other infant care supplies comprises a primary bag section and a removable auxiliary bag section is disclosed. The primary bag section can be worn as a backpack with or without the removable auxiliary bag section. The primary bag section stores a variety of infant care supplies and perishable food items and can be used as a booster chair for dining. The removable auxiliary section provides additional storage space and has a compartment for storing a changing pad. The infant care bag is constructed of a fabric coated extruded plastic framework. A second embodiment disclosed in the infant care bag is fabricated from vacuum formed plastic. The infant care bag is therefore lightweight and easy to clean.

Abstract: A sitting type water closet, comprising a toilet bowl, a warm air path for conveying the warm air to a front portion of the bowl, and warm air outlet disposed in a front portion of the bowl. Further, a water closet unit capable of attaching the same to a toilet room and blowing warm air out, comprising: an adapter having a means for fixing the adapter to the toilet room, and a warm air generator; and a sitting type water closet having a warm air duct for conveying warm air from the generator to a space in front of the water closet; the water closet being attached at the rear portion thereof to the adapter, and furthermore, a prefabricated toilet room unit including the above water closet unit are also disclosed.

Abstract: A vehicular ladder rack comprising a stationary mounting frame including a pair of transverse frame members affixed to the roof of a vehicle, a positioning assembly including a pair of positioning members affixed to opposite end portions of an elongated longitudinal positioning element rotatable between a first and second position coupled to the pair of transverse frame member and a ladder support frame including a pair of ladder support members movable between a first and second position to support a ladder thereon operatively coupled between the pair of transverse frame member and the corresponding positioning member such that a ladder is supported over the roof of the vehicle for storage and transportation when the elongated longitudinal positioning element and ladder support frame are in the first position and the ladder support frame is moved from the first to second position when the elongated longitudinal positioning element is rotated from the first to second position to move the ladder support frame

Abstract: A switch structure suitable for a compact switch device is disclosed. The switch structure is formed of a push button, a switch body switched in correspondence with a pressing operation of the push body and a switch base or a switch holder holding these elements unitary, and a spring member which is elastically deformed in correspondance with the pressing operation of the push button is provided between the push button and the switch body. The switch holder has a fixing member detachably engaged with the switch body for fixing the switch body. The spring member provided between the push button and the switch body makes the pressing stroke longer by the amount of elastic deformation of the spring member. A fixing member provided in the holder fixes surely and easily the switch body in the holder.

Abstract: A relatively simple carrier for an electrical extension cord and a license plate includes a rectangular casing with an open front end, a spool slidably mounted in the open front end of the casing for movement between a closed position in which the spool is located in and closes the casing, and an open position in which the spool is accessible outside of the casing, permitting the winding of the extension cord onto the spool. Spring and cam devices positively bias has the spool to the closed or open position when the spool is moved to such position.

Abstract: In a snap locking mechanism for rotary switches an operating shaft (4) operable by a switch handle can be rotated against the force of an energy-storage mechanism and each lock-in position is occupied with at least partial release of the energy-storage mechanism. The energy-storage mechanism is formed by axially acting compression springs (8) and acts on a driver ring (6) exhibiting slopes in the peripheral direction which interacts with another driver ring (13), couplable with the operating shaft, exhibiting a corresponding counterprofile with slopes. A coupling for dragged slaving (28, 29) is provided between the two driver rings (6, 13). Handle-side driver ring (6) carries stops (11) on its front facing away from these slopes, which interact with counterstops (12), integral with the housing, when they reach the snap position of the locking mechanism.