Abstract: A portable ground engaging, draft and equalizer assembly and kit for loading and subsequent hauling of discrete items of large bulk such as mulch, leaves, and grass cuttings. The kit is characterized by a singletree draft bar to which a hauling harness is secured, the draft bar and harness bearing clevis clips for attachment to a flexible, reinforced tarpaulin. Grommets suitably anchored in the tarpaulin selvedge edges provide towable connection thereto. Specific reinforcement of the tarp ensures against tearing under excess load conditions and the tarp is thus provided with consistently spreadable characteristics. The coaction of tow bar, tarpaulin weights in the combination, enhance the continual spreading of the tarpaulin when it is loaded and being towed by hand or tractor. The assemblage provides a readily furled travel kit, the tow bar serving as a rigid core therefor.

Abstract: A device readily adaptable into existing laboratory oscilloscopes for causing the current date and time of day to be displayed on the screen thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the analog read out comprises ten digits across the top of the oscilloscope screen and respectively represent years, hundreds of days, tens of days, days, tens of hours, hours, tens of minutes, minutes, tens of seconds, and seconds. The device essentially comprises a time-keeping module for generating binary coded decimal signals representative of the date and time data, a slightly modified standard oscilloscope keyboard read out plug-in unit, and, of course, the oscilloscope itself. Initialization of the data may be accomplished by manually operable thumbwheel switches located on the time-keeping module. The device keeps time to an accuracy of about one-fifth second per day and is extremely useful when precise time recordation of remotely obtained data is necessary.