Abstract: The present invention relates to a retractable electrical receptacle assembly which is installed into a standard electrical box and is substantially flush to a mounting surface into which the electrical box is mounted. The invention may be mounted into a wall, floor, countertop or work surface. The invention can be installed as part of new electrical service or can replace an existing outlet by wiring into an existing electrical box. The invention includes at least one operative socket in the closed position and at least one additional operative socket in the open position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a retractable electrical receptacle assembly which is installed into a standard electrical box and is substantially flush to a mounting surface into which the electrical box is mounted. The invention may be mounted into a wall, floor, countertop or work surface. The invention can be installed as part of new electrical service or can replace an existing outlet by wiring into an existing electrical box. The invention includes at least one operative socket in the closed position and at least one additional operative socket in the open position.

Abstract: A food preservation container and related method of use is provided. The food preservation container includes a body including at least one sidewall and having an interior volume. There is a lid for removably attaching to the body for sealing the food preservation container in an air and liquid tight manner. An expandable medium is attached to the lid, the expandable medium includes a plurality of gussets normally in a compacted configuration against the lid. A port is formed in the at least one sidewall configured to connect to a source of suction. The suction is for evacuating the container and causing the expandable medium to expand away from the lid and into the interior volume. The expandable medium may be viewed through the sidewall of the body or from the exterior of the lid to provide a visual indication of whether the food preservation container is evacuated.

Abstract: A beverage maker is provided comprising a housing, a brew head disposed in the housing, a beverage vessel configured to be removably inserted into a recess in the housing and having an interior volume where beverage brewed by the brew head is directed, a removable lid that fits into an opening of the beverage vessel leading to the interior volume, and indicia in the cover configured to display a level of beverage inside the interior volume of the beverage vessel. A hole is provided in the lid where beverage brewed by the brew head flows through before the beverage is directed to the interior volume of the beverage vessel. The indicia includes a plurality of adjacently staggered light tubes of varying length extending downwardly from the lid into the interior volume of the beverage vessel and configured to sense and graphically display the level of be erase within the interior volume.

Abstract: A folding tool onto which one places a fortune cookie crepe and a fortune ticket, while the crepe is still soft and pliable, which one then bends at hinges of the tool in a specific sequence, to cause the folding of the crepe around the fortune ticket and into a traditional fortune cookie shape before the crepe begins to permanently harden into its thus-formed shape.

Abstract: A folding tool onto which one places a fortune cookie crepe and a fortune ticket, while the crepe is still soft and pliable, which one then bends at hinges of the tool in a specific sequence, to cause the folding of the crepe around the fortune ticket and into a traditional fortune cookie shape before the crepe begins to permanently harden into its thus-formed shape.