Abstract: The modular insole system includes a base pad with a plurality forms releasably connected to the top surface thereof. The forms respectively correspond to orthotic support for the heel, arch, and ball portions of a foot. The forms are preferably releasably connected by hook and loop fastening material to the base pad and are made of foam. The forms are adjustable in any location on the top surface of the base pad to provide a custom configuration for a given user. The base pad and foam forms can be provided in different sizes, foam types, durometer hardness, and the like, and can be mixed and matched as needed to further customize the modular insole system for the given user. The forms have edges that complement each other so the insole can more closely simulate expensive custom insoles that are monolithic even when moved about on the base pad.

Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a housing and a plunge basket. The housing has a sidewall, a closed lower end and an open upper end, defining an internal cavity connected to the open upper end. The housing further has a surface defining a mating forming on the sidewall. The plunge basket is received through the open upper end and within the cavity, and includes a sidewall, a lower perforated surface and an open upper end, defining a compartment to receive clothing therein, a perforated lid removably connected to the open upper end, and a handle having a gripping portion and a rod extending therefrom, connected to the sidewall, and a reciprocal mating formation configured and arranged to cooperate with the mating formation on the housing to guide the plunge basket within the internal cavity of the housing.

Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a housing and a plunge basket. The housing has a sidewall, a closed lower end and an open upper end, defining an internal cavity connected to the open upper end. The housing further has a surface defining a mating forming on the sidewall. The plunge basket is received through the open upper end and within the cavity, and includes a sidewall, a lower perforated surface and an open upper end, defining a compartment to receive clothing therein, a perforated lid removably connected to the open upper end, and a handle having a gripping portion and a rod extending therefrom, connected to the sidewall, and a reciprocal mating formation configured and arranged to cooperate with the mating formation on the housing to guide the plunge basket within the internal cavity of the housing.

Abstract: A clothes drying apparatus includes a frame having an upper end and a lower end, configured to support an article of clothing. An airflow path is defined within the frame. A number of exit holes are spaced about the frame and connected to the airflow path. An airflow generating device is configured to blow air through the airflow path and out the exit holes, thereby increasing airflow on the article of clothing, enhancing the drying of the article of clothing. The air may be heated. The frame may further include interconnected arm, vertical and horizontal members, connected to the airflow path, further enhancing the airflow over the article of clothing. Valves may be included to selectively close the airflow path to the arm members or upper end of the frame. The frame may further include a hook to hang the frame from a surface, such as a shower bar.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a novel and unique basketball shooting target removably connected to a basketball goal. The target is an object that includes a female member having a female member core and female outer layer and a male member having a male member core and male outer layer. The female member core includes female lock flanges and female contact surfaces for engaging the male member core. The male member core has buttons that each includes respective cam locks configured for releasable engagement with female lock flanges on a female core to prevent horizontal movement. The male member core has male contact surfaces for engaging the female contact surfaces of the female member to prevent vertical movement. In operation, the male and female members removably connect with one another to engage a netting of a basketball goal and prevent movement relative to one another in horizontal or vertical direction.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a novel and unique basketball shooting target removably connected to a basketball goal. The target is an object that includes a female member having a female member core and female outer layer and a male member having a male member core and male outer layer. The female member core includes female lock flanges and female contact surfaces for engaging the male member core. The male member core has buttons that each includes respective cam locks configured for releasable engagement with female lock flanges on a female core to prevent horizontal movement. The male member core has male contact surfaces for engaging the female contact surfaces of the female member to prevent vertical movement. In operation, the male and female members removably connect with one another to engage a netting of a basketball goal and prevent movement relative to one another in horizontal or vertical direction.

Abstract: After purchase of a footwear article of manufacture, such as a sneaker, boot or the like, the substitution for the traditional lacing-up of the article of studs and lace of elastomeric construction material in a criss cross pattern to facilitate the fitting on and removal of the article from a user's foot.

Abstract: An elastomeric shoulder pad to serve as a buffer between an over-the-shoulder carrying strap and a user's shoulder in which lacing openings, similar to those used in footwear, are provided in a top surface of the shoulder pad and the carrying strap seated in a recess between the lacing openings and laced in place, so that the shoulder pad in use is in an interposed position between the carrying strap and the user's shoulder.

Abstract: A two-piece clamp, of a spherical shape convenient for use as a hand grip, attached about a cord in an interposed position therebetween, which impales the cord with pointed teeth so that the clamp holds fast to its position at the attachment site despite forces exerted longitudinally of the cord.

Abstract: A connector, primarily for lacing up footwear, having a finger grip which houses opposite ends of a closed loop of elastic disposed on opposite sides of a wall in the finger grip housing, and a crank pivotal into contact with one elastic loop end to hold this end and to push the wall against the other elastic loop end, so that the elastic is held as a closed loop during footwear lacing.

Abstract: After purchase of a footwear article of manufacture, such as a sneaker, boot or the like, the substitution for the traditional lacing-up of the article of studs and closed loops of elastomeric construction material to facilitate the fitting on and removal of the article from a user's foot. The application of the studs and loops uses to advantage the original equipment manufacture (OEM) structural features to contribute to use on a wide range of footwear.

Abstract: A method of engaging a belt-clamping buckle to hold a waist-encircled belt in place about the user in which the buckle closes from a clearance position into clamping engagement with the belt in the same direction as the waist-encircling direction, so that the closing movement tightens, rather than loosens, the belt and contributes to other noteworthy benefits.

Abstract: A resistance spring-type exerciser for exercising one or more fingers against spring resistance while the exerciser is held in the palm of the user, in which finger-assigned plungers used for the exercise routines are adjustable both in their adjacent spaced relation to each other and in their height, to thereby accommodate the hand width and finger length dimensions of the user.

Abstract: A belt buckle which screws down to engage a belt end necessarily requiring two degrees of movement, namely rotation and vertical descent, in which the belt-engaging member is confined to just the vertical descent incident to engagement of the belt surface being engaged so that this surface is not abraded or marred.

Abstract: At least one target for sighting during execution of an intended non-backboard banked basketball shot in which the target, in the specific form of a brightly colored ball, is attached to a cord of the net supported in depending relation from the rim, in which location it does not prevent also a "dunk" shot, i.e. not a shot requiring a target but nevertheless commonly used in scoring, such that all varieties of shots are possible with the within target permitting its use under game conditions and with the pressure to the user attendant therewith.

Abstract: A shoulder pad for a guitar strap characterized by a noteworthy decorative pattern, wherein the shoulder pad uses a see-through netting cover for the strap slidably disposed beneath same such that the strap decorative pattern always is in visual display.