Abstract: A spinner toy includes a large circular device upon which there are a plurality of five smaller ciruclar devices, each carrying a plastic sleeve on its outer periphery. When the smaller ciruclar devices are spun by hand and the larger circular device is rotated, these smaller circular devices will spin for a long period of time and will travel upward on the large circular device, while at the same time spinning and fluttering rapidly. The device provides amusement and entertainment to the user.

Abstract: An illumination mechanism for moving toys provides projection of an image to projection faces of an outer shell by using a transparent frame and light source located within the shell. An elevating frame supports a projection device for projecting additional images to surfaces external to the toy.

Abstract: An amusement device comprising two supporting columns with a carrier arm mounted on each column by means of a horizontal rotation shaft so as to be drivable for rotation thereon. The two carrier arms are rotatable in substantially parallel planes, each carrier arm extending on either side of the associated rotation shaft, with a counterweight mounted on the one end and a three-dimensional rotation joint mounted on the other end for attachment to one end of the gondola. The arrangement is such that the gondola is carried on each end by a separate carrier arm. The device is characterized by a joint mounted in at least one of the two carrier arms in such a manner that the gondola-carrying arm portion swivels about a shaft perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft.

Abstract: A modular casket includes a body receiving compartment defined by at least one modular base section having a rectangular base panel and a pair of rectangular side panels integrally hingedly connected to the base panel along longitudinal marginal edges, and a pair of modular end pieces each of which includes a bottom wall and an upstanding end wall. The base panel, side panels and modular end pieces have mutually cooperable connecting flanges formed thereon which are adapted for selective interconnection to establish a body receiving compartment having an upper peripheral edge on which a modular cover lid may be mounted in sealed relation. The various modular components are made of a lightweight, high strength double-wall plastic construction and facilitate shipment and storage in compact kit form for assembly at the point of use without special tools.

Abstract: A greenhouse structure for growing plants using nutrient feed solution. The structure comprises a plurality of elongated greenhouse production areas. Each area has a shell and a base enclosing a predetermined space within which plants are grown. The areas radially extend outwardly from a central supply area in which nutrient feed solution is supplied to the production areas is kept. The base of each of the production areas are sloped upwardly in the direction away from the central supply area so that excess nutrient feed solution passing to the production areas will return by gravity flow to the central supply area. The structure further provides pump and conduit means to supply nutrient feed solution from the central supply area to the production areas. The conduit means are sloped to return by gravity flow excess nutrient from the production areas to the central supply area.

Abstract: A mobile ballast cleaning apparatus comprises a first and a second work vehicle. A track lifting device and a vertically adjustable ballast excavating and conveying chain are mounted on the first work vehicle, and a ballast screening installation for separating waste from cleaned ballast and a waste conveyor means for removing the waste are mounted on the second work vehicle.

Abstract: A playset which includes a swimming pool, sandbox, four seats, ladder, chinup bar and a slide. The four seats, which are easily removed from the sandbox, may be used as toys for the sandbox or swimming pool. When the ladder and the chinup bar are attached to the sandbox, they may be used to climb on. The ladder is also used to support the slide. When the swimming pool is not used for water play, it can be turned upside down and placed on top of the ladder and chinup bar. This would provide shade over the sandbox. When storage or protection of sand is needed, the ladder, chinup bar, seats, and slide can be placed inside of the sandbox and the swimming pool can be used as a cover.

Abstract: A child's play set including a playhouse type structure attached to a swing set is provided with a lift system including a four sided horizontal frame sized to match the foot print of the playhouse where the playhouse has no floor allowing the size of the play structure to be increased to suit larger children with porch structures resting on frame extensions to abut and hold the base of the playhouse between them on the lift structure with frame structures to raise the swing support members to match a height suitable for the larger children.

Abstract: A molded plastic swing seat has a pair of fully encapsulated thin flexible steel straps. To maintain the straps from warping or buckling under the forces exerted by inflow into the shallow mold of plastic material under high pressure, the straps are retained flat in a plane by the tips of closely spaced pairs of pins. Molding pressure forces a film of plastic material in the clearance beneath each tip, leaving the straps protected against corrosion. Since the embedded straps spread the force applied by ejection pins, the molded part may be ejected from the mold without waiting for it to harden, thus increasing production capacity.

Abstract: A strong, flexible, waterproof, odorproof pouch for transporting dead human bodies comprising an outer envelope that encases and is sealed at the outer edges to a transparent inner liner within which is placed the body or bodies to be moved. The outer envelope has a primary panel and the inner liner has a complementing secondary panel for gaining access to the interior of the inner liner to place or examine the remains therein. The primary panel is sealable using a heavy duty, zipper-type, slide fastener, to handle the weight and stresses of movement and the secondary panel is sealable against the odors and fluids of decomposition using a rib-and-groove, zip-lock type fastener. The outer envelope is supported and carried by two or more lengthwise straps and two or more widthwise straps attached to the underside of the outer envelope, which straps have extensions looped at their ends to form handholds.

Abstract: A shaker assembly for use on chain conveyors on harvesters is bolted to the side frame of the conveyors. The shaker assembly includes two spaced roller assemblies which carry rods of the chain conveyor. The distance between the roller assemblies may be varied such that the degree of shaking imparted to the rods as they pass over the shaker assembly may be adjusted.

Abstract: This viewing pouch is a box made of flexible material having a part of the top panel of flexible transparent material and is suitable for containing a body from pickup at hospital, through funeral service and viewing and on to crematory for cremation. While the unit is of flexible material and may be folded into a compact bundle when empty and later conforms to the dead body in bag-like fashion, elongated elements are adapted to be inserted in loops of fabric on the top panel to stiffen and support the top panel of the pouch to give it a dressy and formal appearance when it is installed in a casket during viewing. The pouch is particularly suited to contain the body of a person dead from a communicable disease, because from hospital through viewing to crematory, the body need not be removed from the pouch. This avoids risks of communicating the disease to others.

Abstract: A splint device for the spinal immobilization of a patient. The splint includes a central support portion and two pairs of laterally extending flexible wings adapted to extend, respectively, about the head and about the body of a patient and the central support portion is formed integrally with the wings from a synthetic plastics material and is concave on one side. The concavity includes a plurality of stiffening ribs adapted to render the central support portion substantially inflexible. The central support portion may be formed in two parts joined together by a lockable hinge such that the angle of inclination of a head part of the splint to the body part thereof may be selectively adjusted between 0.degree. and 30.degree..

Abstract: An inflatable toy construction that allows an inflated yet flat or non-bulbous center section of a toy to be flanked by inflated, bulbous parts. The center section is formed by an I-beam construction that is modified to allow free flow of air between the flat center section and the bulbous parts of the toy which flank the center section. The modification includes baffle walls that do not extend across the entire center section so that air can move from a center section compartment defined by a pair of baffle walls to other compartments defined by other baffle walls that also do not extend completely across the center section. The modification further includes a substantially imperforate wall that surrounds and defines the center section, which wall is provided with a pair of apertures to provide fluid communication between the interior space of the center section and the spaces defined by the bulbous portions of the toy.

Abstract: There is provided a new and useful aeration assembly for a nutrient feed solution for a nutrient film propagation system for plants comprising a short tubular member having a pair of circular holes extending radially through the wall of the member: and a pair of feeder tubes extending through the openings and positioned to discharge solution generally along the inside wall of the member and respectively in opposite directions.

Abstract: There is illustrated a combination amusement ride and game including a rotating carousel for carrying a plurality of players. Adjacent to the carousel is a ramp having a tee at its lower end and a target at its elevated end. Balls are introduced to the tee in synchrony with the approach of each player toward the ramp. Each player is provided with a mallet for striking the teed ball to direct the ball up the ramp toward the target. Scoring apparatus synchronized with the carousel are provided for crediting each score to the proper player.

Abstract: A dirt deflector overtravel mechanism for a digging boom assembly which permits raising and lowering of the dirt deflector when the deflector is impacted by a rock or the like. The dirt deflector is pivotally attached at one end to a frame. A deflector link is pivotally attached at one end to the boom frame and its opposite end supports the dirt deflector. The opposite end of the deflector link is also pivotally attached to an overtravel link which, in turn, is pivotally attached to the deflector such that it remains in close proximity to the deflector under normal conditions. When a large rock or the like is thrown against the dirt deflector by the digging chain, the deflector link and overtravel link move from a scissors-like position to a colinear position which permits the dirt deflector to be displaced thereby preventing breakage or damage to the deflector. After the impact and displacement of the dirt deflector, the deflector will automatically fall back into place under its own weight.

Abstract: A child's playseat used for partial submersion in a bathtub or pool is provided with a mechanism for squirting water as the seat is rocked back and forth. The playseat itself consists of a seat portion which slides back and forth over a fixed base, with a bellows lodged between them for expansion and contraction as the seat slides. Preferred embodiments include an upright post with handlebars, the post pivotally mounted to the playseat to cause the seat to slide when the handlebars are pushed and pulled. Water ejected upon contraction of the bellows passes up through a tube which emerges from the post.

Abstract: Wave surfing simulation apparatus is disclosed comprising an elongated water slide adapted to rest on a supporting surface. The slide includes a plurality of water jet openings along the length thereof for spraying water on the upper surface of the slide and wetting the same when the slide is coupled to a source of fluid. A plurality of inflatable air chambers are associated with the slide at spaced locations along the slide and transverse thereto. These chambers give an undulating effect to the upper wetted surface of the slide. A belly board is provided adapted to slide or glide over the wetted undulated upper surface of the slide when the user lies on top of the board along the longitudinal length thereof from one end to the other. In this manner, a surfing effect is created by the gliding or sliding of the board over the wetted undulated surface.

Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide a method and controller for performing a copy-back command. In one embodiment, a controller receives the data and error correction code associated with a copy-back operation from at least one flash memory device. The controller determines if the error correction code indicates there is an error in the data. If the error correction code does not indicate there is an error in the data, the controller sends a destination address and copy-back program command received from a host to the at least one flash memory device. If the error correction code indicates there is an error in the data, the controller corrects the data and sends the destination address, the corrected data, and a program command to the at least one flash memory device. Additional embodiments relate to modifying data during the copy-back operation.