Abstract: A wipes dispenser includes a container having an interior holding a plurality of wipes. A grip orifice provides communication between the interior and the exterior of the container, and the grip orifice serves to prevent wipes from falling back into the interior. The dispenser also includes a rip fence, and a lead end of a lead wipe of the plurality of wet wipes within the container extends through the grip orifice and then through the rip fence such that pulling on the lead end to pull the lead wipe against the rip fence causes the remainder of the lead wipe to be removed from the container and become disassociated with the remaining wipes of the plurality of wipes. As the lead end is pulled against the rip fence, the following wipe of the plurality of wipes is pulled through the grip orifice to provide its lead end outside of the interior of the container, and the grip orifice prevents this lead end of the following wipe from falling back into the interior of the container.

Abstract: Personal dispensers include a refill unit and a refill casing. The refill unit is a collapsible container that is associated with pump mechanisms for dispensing fluid from within the collapsible container. The refill casing retains and protects the refill unit, and includes a pump lock that is manipulated to selectively cover a pump opening in the refill casing. When the pump lock covers the pump opening, the pump mechanisms cannot be manipulated, and when the pump lock does not cover the pump opening, the pump mechanisms can be manipulated to dispense product.

Abstract: A flexible impeller pump includes first and second component housings. The first component housing includes a first flexible impeller and the second component housing includes a second flexible impeller. As these impellers rotate within their respective housings, they draw in and expel individual components into a common receiving chamber. In a particular application, one component is a foamable liquid, and the other component is air, and a mixture of foamable liquid and air is thus created in the common receiving chamber.

Abstract: A shoe storage shelf assembly is suitable for mounting to an organizer system and has at least one storage shelf with a top side, an underside, a depth from front to back, and a width from side to side. The shelf is configured for use as a standard storage shelf in an organizer system. The assembly also has a pair of shelf support brackets each with a body having a rear end and an upward facing shelf support surface. The support surface is forwardly and downwardly inclined and has an upturned stop at a distal forward end. Connectors extend rearward from the rear end of the brackets and are configured to connect to uprights in an organizer system. The shelf can be inverted such that its top side rests on the shelf support surfaces with its front borne against the upturned stops.

Abstract: A shoe storage shelf assembly is suitable for mounting to an organizer system and has at least one storage shelf with a top side, an underside, a depth from front to back, and a width from side to side. The shelf is configured for use as a standard storage shelf in an organizer system. The assembly also has a pair of shelf support brackets each with a body having a rear end and an upward facing shelf support surface. The support surface is forwardly and downwardly inclined and has an upturned stop at a distal forward end. Connectors extend rearward from the rear end of the brackets and are configured to connect to uprights in an organizer system. The shelf can be inverted such that its top side rests on the shelf support surfaces with its front borne against the upturned stops.

Abstract: A shoe rack has a pair of supports with bottoms arranged to lay in a base plane reference. The bottoms are adapted for resting on a support surface that is co-planar with the base reference plane. The pair of supports are spaced apart and define a shoe storage region therebetween on a support surface. At least a first shoe storage shelf has a front edge, a rear edge, and a pair of sides. Each side is coupled to a respective one of the pair supports. The first shoe storage shelf is supported in an elevated position relative to the base reference plane and lays in a first shelf plane that is tilted at an angle relative to the base reference plane with the front edge higher than the rear edge.

Abstract: A basketball assembly comprising a base (4), a lower post (6) attached at a lower end to the base and having an axial bore (41) extending downwardly therein from an upper end, an upper post (10) receivable in the lower post bore and extending upwardly therefrom, a backboard member (12) having a transverse slot (80) extending therethrough, and a hoop member (14) assembled over the top of the post (10) after insertion through the slot (80) in the backboard member (12). The upper post (10) is longitudinally repositionable within the axial bore (41), and a latching mechanism (52) is provided to engage detents (66) located in the upper posts (10), whereby securing the post (10) at a desired height.

Abstract: A magnetic base drilling machine includes a base having a magnet coil therein and a motor assembly mounted on the base for driving a rotary cutting tool. Electrical circuitry, including switches for applying power to the magnet coil, for reversing the direction of current to the magnet coil, and for controlling the current to the motor are provided for controlling the magnet coil and motor. A user-manipulatable control handle includes a multi-function control cam having cam surfaces that selectively control the switch that applies power to the magnet coil and which physically blocks operation of the motor switch until the magnet coil is energized. Conversely, the magnet coil cannot be de-energized until the motor switch is moved to its off position. If desired, the direction of the electrical current applied to the magnet coil can be reversed to assist in removing the base from a magnetized work surface.