Abstract: A turkey caller for reproducing the sound of a hen turkey, the caller includes a body device and striker member. The body device has a dish-shaped base member with a cover member biased thereto forming a sound chamber. A striker plate is fixed to the cover member to vibrate it with a long, one-piece wood striker. A wedge member can be placed between the base member and cover member to alter the sound reproduced. The striker has a pen-like holding section, an enlarged node and a cylindrical extending section for providing a balanced placement and sizing for achieving a desired turkey sound.

Abstract: A grader has a grader blade which can be pressed against the ground or lifted off it by means of piston-cylinder drives. To be able to vary the downard pressure of the grader blade in its float position, either the piston chamber or the piston ring chamber of each drive can be charged with a working fluid under pressure when the grader blade is in the float position, so that the corresponding drive exerts a force on the grader blade which increases or decreases the downward pressure of the grader blade on the ground. While still allowing the grader blue to follow the contour of the ground.

Abstract: A circular edging disk is mounted on the axle assembly of a lawn mower for adjustment between a raised, stowed position and a deployed turf edging position. Adjustment of the mower with respect to the mower wheels does not affect the disposition of the edging disk relative to the turf.

Abstract: Tilling apparatus, particularly for deep ripping of the soil, adapted to be towed by a tractor having teeth for penetrating the ground, each tooth being hollow, having an unbalanced rotor housed therein adjacent its lower end, a motor mounted on the side of the tooth adjacent its upper end, and drive means housed in the tooth driven by the motor and operable to drive the rotor for causing vibration of the lower end portion of the tooth.

Abstract: An attachment for a tractor generally consisting of a main support frame mountable on a tractor, a tool support member mounted on the main support frame for pivotal movement about a first axis, a tool mounted on the tool support member for pivotal movement about a second axis, means operatively interconnecting the main support frame and the tool support member for angularly displacing the tool support member relative to the main support frame about the first axis, and means operatively interconnecting the tool support member and the tool for angularly displacing the tool relative to the tool support member about the second axis.

Abstract: A toy for the bathtub and having a somewhat conical chamber in which a quantity of suds and bubbles may be confined. The chamber merges upwardly with a restricted passageway which in turn terminates upwardly in a nozzle. Displacement downwardly of the toy in the water causes forceful ejection of the suds and bubbles from the nozzle.

Abstract: A leveling linkage is provided on a planter unit of a planter implement. Each planter unit includes a leveling spring for supporting a back end of the plant unit in its raised, transport position. The leveling linkage is connected to a mounting bracket and a draft frame of the planter unit, which move relative to each other when the implement is raised and lowered. The leveling linkage extends the leveling spring when the implement is in its transport position and retracts the leveling spring when the implement is in its work position.

Abstract: An improved bean cutting knife is described which includes a replaceable cutting blade. The knife support includes a recessed area along its working edge. The cutting blade fits into the recessed area and is detachably secured with threaded fasteners, for example. When the cutting blade becomes worn it can be removed and then replaced with a new cutting blade.

Abstract: A simplified method of assembling a disk from the ground up by first assembling disk gangs and then connecting the disk gangs together to provide a self-standing front and rear main disk gang pairs. The main frame is assembled over main disk gang pairs after which wheel modules are attached. Disks of different sizes are assembled, utilizing generally identical main frame beams with the same connecting locations, by decreasing the distance between the forward and rear gang pairs and moving the main frame beams outwardly as the desired width of the disk increases.

Abstract: Medical and surgical procedure packs for carrying out the surgical removal of bone and connective tissue and packaging means for storing and transporting said bone and connective tissue.

Abstract: A disk bearing standard which may be utilized with support tubes of different cross sections by simply changing a low cost U-bolt which clamps the standard to the tube. The standard includes front and lower locating surfaces formed at an angle of ninety degrees with respect to each other. A bolt-receiving member angles upwardly from the forward surface at an angle of about forty-five degrees and receives an angled leg of the U-bolt. The rear leg of the U-bolt extends downwardly through an elongated slot at the aft end of the lower locating surface. The size of the U-bolt is selected according to the size of the mounting tube, and the U-bolt clamps the standard in two planes perpendicular to each other to prevent misalignment of the standard when loads are applied. A rearwardly extending appendage provides a scraper tube mounting which is fixed with respect to the center line of the disk blades regardless of the selected size of the mounting tube.

Abstract: An eye device for a doll or the like which comes to the eye-closed state by placing the doll in a lying posture and then comes to the eye-open state by placing the doll in a standing or sitting posture. This device is firmly held onto the doll face to such a degree that even if the eye member is strongly pressed from the front side, there is no apprehension of the eye member detaching from its holding position on the doll face. To this end the eye device includes at least one circular engaging step portion on the periphery of an eyeball-mounting body and, optionally, at least one circular engaging groove and/or steps on an inner periphery of a mounting member whereby material of the doll face, sandwiched between the eyeball-mounting body and the mounting member, is engaged by the circular engaging step portion on the eyeball-mounting body and, optionally, also by the circular engaging groove and/or steps on the mounting member, thereby preventing detaching of the eye device.

Abstract: An earring device including two interlockable, elongated portions. When worn by the wearer, the device gives the appearance of a tapered structure spiked through the wearer's earlobe.

Abstract: A hand-held tool for making grafting-flap cuts in the bark of a tree limb includes an elongated tubular body having an open end for accommodating coaxial insertion of the limb. The end of the body adjacent the open end has a plurality of elongated slots longitudinally disposed in the tubular body. A plug within the tubular body limits the insertion depth of the limb to a preselected distance. A plurality of elongated knife members are provided. The longitudinal axis of each of the knife members registers with the longitudinal axis of one of the circumferentially spaced slots in said tubular body. The knife members are supported by a support ring radially projecting above the outer surface of the tubular body and are disposed in a corresponding plurality of radially projecting circumferentially equally-spaced slots in the support ring.

Abstract: Soil aerating equipment has a frame moveable in an intended direction of travel, and at least a pair of shafts freely rotatably mounted on the frame for rotation about the shaft longitudinal axes. The shafts extending in rearwardly inclined opposite directions on opposite sides of a centre line of the frame extending in the direction of travel. The rearward inclination of the shafts is adjustable to desired angles in the range of from about 90.degree. to about 120.degree. to the direction of travel. Each shaft carries a series of soil-engaging substantially planar tines extending therefrom in vertical planes and positioned to sequentially engage and penetrate the soil with consequent rotation of the shafts when the frame is moved in the direction of travel. Each tine has a central longitudinal axis which extends behind the shaft rotational axis at a distance therefrom in the range from about 0.25 to about 1.

Abstract: An improved jewelry mounting construction for use in adapting pierced-ear earrings into earrings capable of being clamped on to unpierced ears. The improved construction comprises a clamping mechanism for securing a medium between opposed surfaces, one of those opposed surfaces being a receptacle for an earring post, with the receptacle having a means for securing the earring post of a pierced-ear earring therein. Also disclosed is a construction for using pierced-ear earring as lapel pins, having a post receptacle affixed to an apparel pin, with a means for securing an earring post in the receptacle.

Abstract: A height adjusting mechanism for a framework that supports a multiplicity of ground working tools of an agricultural implement operating at variable depths of ground penetration is disclosed. The variability is acheived by rotation of framework supporting rock shafts pivoting around pivot points on wheel supported wheel frames, which in turn support the rock shafts; rotation causes the lateral spacing of the wheels to vary also. Additionally, flexibility of the framework optionally is provided by having certain fastenings and pivotal attachments between framework members in the form of resilient connections. The novel flexible framework is not critical to operation of the height adjusting mechanism, the latter being operable also with rigid framework.

Abstract: A hand and digit exerciser comprising a block of resilient material having a cross-section incorporating a flat base, a convex rounded leading edge extending upwardly and forwardly from said base merging into an upper surface. The exerciser is placed on a flat surface with the forearm of the user extending along that surface. The palm of the hand is placed over the rounded leading edge with the fingers extending along the upper surface.

Abstract: The farm machine includes a frame 9, a hitching structure 4, a rotor 16 supported by the frame 9, and spades 21 mounted on the rotor 16. The active parts of the spades 21 are curved. The curvature of all of the spades 21 is directed in the same direction and toward the forward end of the rotor 16, considering the work direction 3.

Abstract: A coupling device for connecting a wheeled agricultural implement having driven working members to a tractor includes a towing connection and a hydraulic motive power transfer with a hydraulic pump. The hydraulic pump is connected to the power take-off of the tractor and to a hose connection connected at its other end with a hydraulic motor on the implement. For pivotal coupling of a drawbar connected with the implement, the towing connection includes a towing device permanently connected with the drawbar adapted to be rigidly, but releasably connected with the ordinary towing means of the tractor, e.g. the lowermost lift arms. To improve its maneuvering ability, the towing device is provided with a linkage positioned behind the rearmost point of the tractor and pivotally connected with the drawbar.