Abstract: Shallow angle furrows between crop beds are reshaped and cleaned in one pass using a tractor-towed implement having angularly even-spaced cutter blades mounted in tiers on drums for rotation about generally vertical axes, perpendicular to the furrow walls on opposing, angularly adjustable decks. The blades of the lower tier are angled to cut into the wall material laterally, parallel to the wall slope, without destroying the root structure of protective sod covering. The cut material is lifted up to the upper tier blades which are offset and lagged so as to eject the cut material up and beyond the furrow wall edges following cutting, in one continuous operation. Plates and pivotal deflectors mounted at the edges of the decks, direct the discharge of cut material. A bell crank and pivotal linkage provides for hydraulically assisted raising and lowering of the apparatus from and into ground contact.

Abstract: In a system for commercial cultivation of plants and flowers, an open tray with recesses for readily inserting and removing flower pots having growing plants therein and using a so-called "ooze" tube (U.S. Pat. No. 3,613,309) disposed centrally between adjacent rows of said flower pots which waters the plants at approximately the rate of plant absorption of the supplied liquid, so that any water-borne disease spreading among the plants is minimized because of little or no overflow of supplied water from one flower pot to another.

Abstract: An improved accurate lightweight manual tool to cut suburban lawn and garden weeds efficiently and with little time and effort expended. It is like a miniature hoe half a man's height in length with a very thin very narrow blade, in length four to five times its width (FIG. 5). The chipper's light weight is achieved with a very lightweight conduit handle of any section joined at right angles by a secret joint to a backing plate for the blade and weighted with billet to increase and change the power for weight. A thin shock absorber is bolted between plate and blade by.The secret joint uses a steel billet driven through the metal plate into the conduit handle thereby expanding the handle against the metal collar and plate which has a self-centering protrusion fitting into a recess in the collar. The permanent right angle secret locking joint uses totally prefinished components.

Abstract: A soil coring device with a core ejector mechanism that has a cylindrical cutting tube with two (2) 180 degree opposed tee slots that serve as a guide for an ejection plate, affixed to a cylindrical cutting tube is a tube with a vertically oriented slot attached perpendicularly thereto is a handle to which is affixed a bubble level. Located on the tube is a threaded locking knob that extends through the slot and communicates with a short presetting locking cylinder. Also located on the tube is a threaded locking hand knob that extends through the slot and communicates with a cylindrical rod to which a tamping plate is permenently attached. In operation, the soil coring device handle is rotated causing the cylindrical cutting tube to enter the soil to the predetermined depth, that has been preset by tightening the threaded locking knob into the short presetting locking cylinder, until ejection plate makes contact with the surface.

Abstract: The top link of a three-point link assembly on a tractor is connected to the two lower links thereof by a connecting assembly at the link ends toward a working implement. The connecting assembly has upper and lower connectors separably engageable with corresponding upper and lower connectable portions of the implement. An extendable transmission shaft having a pair of joints at its respective ends is interposed between the PTO shaft of the tractor and an input shaft of the implement. The connecting assembly has a clutch for operatively connecting an internally splined portion of the implement-side joint to an externally splined portion of the input shaft. The clutch has guides fixed to the connecting assembly and extending longitudinally of the tractor, a tubular case supported by slide members on the guides and movable axially thereof and an operating assembly for the case. The case has the implement-side joint inserted therein.

Abstract: A soil cultivating implement comprising a row of power-drivable, soil working members supported by a hollow frame extending substantially horizontally perpendicular to the implement's intended direct of operative travel to provide selectively upwardly or downwardly directed forces upon that row via the hollow frame. A supporting ground roller is connected behind the row, its rotary axis being contained in an imaginary vertical plane. A mobile implement provides mass to exert a downward force on the cultivating implement at a coupling point which, in turn, is translated into an upward force on the frame's forward aspect by way of arms and strong pivots, such arms being turnable about the ground roller's rotary axis. The upwardly directed force assists soil-working members automatically to elevate as needed for riding over rocks or other buried obstacles without significant damage.

Abstract: A disposable appliance for inhibiting the intake of food is disclosed. The appliance comprises first and second spaced pressure sensitive adhesive pads applied to the cheeks of a user at the corners of the user's mouth, the ends of one or more bands being connected to the pads. The bands are arcuate, so that they arch over the junction of the lips of the user. The appliance permits normal breathing and speech, while at the same time inhibiting the intake of food through the lips.

Abstract: A field marker for attachment to a sprayer boom has an outer square tube clamped to the end of the spray boom. An inner square tube slides in the outer tube and is connected to it by a pair of coil springs that bias the inner tube downwardly. An hydraulic cylinder joins the inner and outer tubes as well and, when actuated, raises the inner tube against the biasing force of the springs. A marking disk is mounted on the bottom end of the inner tube, preferably with an adjustable mounting to accommodate booms of different heights.

Abstract: This invention relates to a planter guide attachment designed to hold and align conventional corn, soybean planters, or other units on the upper area of a ridge of soil formed by previous cultivation-ridging processes as known in Ridge-Till farming. The unit provides a mounting shaft having a pair of coned blades mounted thereon to allow the tapered faces of the disc blades to hug the sides of the ridges for proper planter alignment. The shaft blade construction is hingedly attached to a mounting bar which is vertically adjustably attached to a tool bar extending transversely of the rear of a towing vehicle for mounting a plurality of guide units thereon. A knee spring-action mechanism is provided to load the shaft, disc structure to maintain the same in ground contacting position, and allow the same to override obstacles that may be in the ridge, and thereafter return the same into ground-contacting position along the sides of the ridge.

Abstract: A therapeutic wrist support is provided allowing a person with carpal tunnel syndrome to manipulate the wrist without further aggravating this ailment. The device employs a flexible substrate which includes integral splint elements physically positioned to allow limited wrist movement in both vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the longitudinal axis of the wearer's forearm. Positioning of the splint elements is also made dependent upon whether the left or right wrist of the wearer is involved.

Abstract: A guidance system for a tractor drawn farm implement for providing an indication to the operator of the tractor as to variance of the implement from a desired course includes a pair of horizontally extending feeler rods supported by a shaft and having free ends extending in a parallel spaced relation to sense the crop and rotate the shaft if the implement veers off course. A light sensitive photopotentiometer coupled to the shaft has its output voltage varied as a function of the angular position of the shaft. A signal processing circuit responds to variation in the voltage of the light sensitive photopotentiometer to drive the needle of an analog meter to indicate the direction and amount of deviation of the implement from the desired course, the meter being mounted on the tractor and within the line of sight of the operator.

Abstract: Ground engaging bits used in abrasive road grading applications utilizing carbide inserts brazed to the leading face of the steel tip are beneficial on motor grader blades. Commercial road grading bit assemblies used consistent thickness, rectangular carbide inserts brazed to the leading edge of the steel tip. Due to wear and high residual stresses imparted upon the insert from the brazing operation, premature cracking and breaking of the carbide inserts occur. The subject bit arrangement utilizes a carbide insert with a flat rectangular cutting face of non-constant thickness brazed to a leading edge of a steel body. The carbide insert has a thickness that increases from the top of the carbide insert and reaches a maximum at the bottom of the steel body, where bit wear is the greatest. The increasing thickness of the carbide tip extends bit life over the current rectangular design and allows for a more efficient and economical use of the carbide.

Abstract: A shanked solid tooth for an excavator bucket. The shank in use fits into an adapter in the form of a tooth socket which is secured to a bucket. The shank has a transverse passage therethrough which is adapted to entirely receive a fastener therein. The fastener has a pair of pivoted fastening members biased apart by a resilient block which lock the tooth when it is forced into the adapter.

Abstract: A coring tine for use in a turf aerator and the like has an elongated generally tubular body having a core discharge end and a turf penetrating end. The turf penetrating end has a core gripping configuration which, in various embodiments, may take the form of an obround, longitudinal flutes, a generally frusto-conical wall having radially inwardly formed core retaining fingers, or a narrowed neck adapted to improve frictional engagement with a turf core and retain the core within the tine during retraction from a turf surface.

Abstract: An improved condom having an elastic mesh as an integral part of the walls of the condom. The elastic mesh reinforces the latex walls of the condom making the condom less susceptible to breakage without loss of sensitivity.

Abstract: A surgical instrument having a cutting end which includes a pair of grooves to provide a structure having a pair of opposed flanges. The back of the surgical instrument has a back channel. A pair of cutting edges are provided on the surgical instrument. The cutting edges are generally offset and parallel with respect to each other. A method for forming a channel in a femoral condyle of a knee joint of a person, and a method for reconstructing an anterior cruciate ligament of a knee joint of a person. The methods comprise using the surgical instrument in an inside-out fashion, as opposed to an outside-in fashion, in order to cut a trough into a femoral condyle.

Abstract: A compaction roller machinery assembly (10) suspended from the rear of a bulldozer (12) for compacting surfaces such as sand. The assembly (10) includes a vehicle (12) having a power plant for driving the assembly, a vibratory compaction roller (18) extending in a cantilevered fashion from a pivot axis on the vehicle for compacting a surface and a roller lift assembly (20) mounted to the vehicle (12) and interconnecting the vibratory compaction roller (18) and the vehicle (12) raising and lowering the vibratory compaction roller (18) about the pivot axis between a raised position and a surface engaged position. The vibratory compaction roller (18) includes a roller (22) for rolling and compacting surfaces and a vibration producing mechanism for vibrating the roller to facilitate the compaction of the surfaces.

Abstract: A sod laying machine having front and rear sections articulated together. A boom on the front section has arms extending forwardly, with gripper arms extending downwardly from the boom to grip a roll of sod. A control roller connected to the boom arms drives the sod roll to control its speed of unwinding. The sod roll has its grass side facing outwardly and its top unwinds rearwardly so an operator in a seat at the front of the machine, between the boom arms, has an unobstructed view of the critical area of sod extending in the air from the roll to the ground, to reduce the likelihood of buckles and tears therein. The machine passes over the sod after it is laid, to roll the sod.

Abstract: A double face jewelry setting includes a base formed by a first base section and a second base section in parallel, spaced relation to said first base section, each base section including a plurality of through bores for holding a plurality of gemstones on first and second sides of the base, such that the bores of the first base section are in alignment with the bores of the second base section; and a plurality of posts extending along the inner and outer edges of the first and second base sections for securing a plurality of first gemstones on the first base section in at least a substantially abutting relation and for securing a plurality of second gemstones on the second base section in at least a substantially abutting relation, the posts being bendable to retain the gemstones thereon; and each pair of adjacent gemstones on each base section are retained on the base section by a common one of the posts; such that different gemstones can be retained and displayed on the first and second opposite sides of t

Abstract: An animated toy which consist of a fixed supporting structure and a figure which moves relative to the fixed structure. The fixed structure includes an inclined ramp which has a downwardly extending zig-zag slot. The figure includes a body, a pair of spaced legs which are attached to the body, a tail which is fixed to the body and which extends downwardly and rearwardly from the body into the zig-zag slot, an appendage which is fixed to the body and which extends down to the zig-zag slot, and elongated connector which extends through the slot, and a counterweight which is attached to the lower end of the connector. When the counterweight and the connectors swing from side to side, the firgure also swings from side to side in a direction which is opposite to that of the counterweight. As the figure moves from side to side, the tail moves along the zig-zag slot. This causes the body to turn slightly about a vertical axis as it rocks from side to side and enables the body to advance progressively down the ramp.