Abstract: A design for a motor, alternator, generator, or the like wherein the stator element that provides the magnetic field passing through the rotor completely encircles the rotor above and below its longitudinal axis. This stator element may be a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. This stator design can be combined with a conventional stator element that also provides a magnetic field. In such case, at least one of the magnetic field producing elements of the stator is a permanent magnet.

Abstract: In a mixing valve assembly a rotatable control valve is provided for mixing in a desired ratio the fluid from two separate sources such as hot and cold water inlets. The valve porting is arranged such that full water pressure will be maintained as a result of at least one control outlet being substantially fully open at all times. A separately actuated volume control valve is included in the assembly. A visual indicator provides a scale indicative of selected water mix ratio.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a symbolic plurality of parallel racing lanes and racing horse-drawn sulkies, which sulkies have respective electric motor-driven wheels by drive shafts thereof having electrical commutators mounted operatively thereon furnishing commutator intermittent direct current to pivot swinging legs' electromagetic induction coils and responsive material on the legs responsive movably to induction in the coils when activated to thereby by intermittent activation cause the legs to swing to and fro as if running, respective sulkies being driven at chance intervals of time periods and at chance rates of speeds by a speed regulator mechanism which includes in series on a cyclically rotating disk a plurality of alternate electrical contact strips in electrical parallel for consecutive contact with all power leads to the motors of the sulkies but at different starting-points on the disk for different sulkies at any particular non-specific time of beginning the race of sulkies, an