Abstract: A latching mechanism for mounting on a closure, such as a storm door. The mechanism includes an inside housing with a latch movably mounted on the inside housing and including a tongue movable between a latching position for engaging the striker plate defining the doorway, and an unlatching position in which the tongue permits opening of the door. An operating shaft extends through the closure and the inside housing and is pivotally mounted with respect to them. Inside and outside operators are mounted on the shaft. A cam is rotatable with the shaft and is axially slidable with respect to the shaft between an operative position in which the cam is located to move the tongue toward its unlatching position, and an inoperative position in which rotation of the cam does not cause movement of the tongue.

Abstract: A nozzle tip trimmer adapted for use between a manually actuated caulking gun handle and trigger assembly having a shaped body with a curved contour along one edge and a pivot adjacent one end of the curved contour. A cutting edge is disposed along a second edge of the shaped body opposite from the curved contour and a detent is carried by the body for selective engagement with predetermined positions on the caulking gun handle. The shaped body is pivoted on a shaft remote from the trigger pivot and is preferably formed with a recess providing a curved finger engaging portion adjacent the end of the curved contour opposite from the pivot and adapted for moving the shaped body about the pivot to displace the detent from one position to an adjacent position on the caulking gun handle.

Abstract: A door with a pivot hinge which can be mounted to a frame with a pair of L-shaped brackets and which includes an insert comprising a nylon bushing that is mounted into the edge of the door and is adapted to receive a pivot pin mounted on the L-shape bracket. The door is mounted to a hinge Z-bar which is provided with an arcuate portion so as to allow the door to pivot and the door can be swung from either side by inserting the bushing and pivot pins on either side.

Abstract: It is conventional to use an electric motor for each device requiring such a drive even although only one such device may be used at one time, because it is inconvenient and time consuming to disconnect the motor and re-connect same to another device. The present invention enables a single electric motor to be used on a plurality of devices and is easily changed from one to another. The device consists of a base plate secured in the correct position on each of the devices. The single motor is mounted on a support plate having a pivot shaft at the rear thereof easily attached and detached for pivotal action, to one side of any of the base plates and having a compression spring reacting between the front of the support plate and the device to urge the support plate and the motor upwardly to supply sufficient tension to a drive belt operatively extending between the motor and the device upon which the motor is detachably secured.

Abstract: A cash box for paper currency has an opening therein through which a bill can be introduced into that cash box to form part of a stack of paper currency within that cash box. A closure is movable away from that opening to an open position to permit a bill to be introduced through that opening and stacked; and that closure is movable to a closed position adjacent that opening to prevent the removal of paper currency from that stack of paper currency. A latch for the closure permits the closure to be moved between the open and the closed positions; and the latch will, whenever that closure has been moved to open position and then to closed position, thereafter automatically prevent unauthorized movement of that closure out of closed position.

Abstract: A container element (11) for an electric storage battery includes a pair of carrying handles (15) extending between respective pairs of spaced holes formed in projecting lugs (13) on the container element (11). Each handle (15) includes at least one strip of rope (16) or similar flexible material passing through the associated pair of holes and joined at the ends to define a continuous loop.

Abstract: Positioning surfaces and complementary surfaces on the walls and frame of a coin handling device partially restrain and position those walls. Positioning surfaces and complementary surfaces on a coin dispensing sub-assembly and on the frame partially restrain and position that sub-assembly. A gate adjacent the outlet of a passageway, which is defined by two of the walls, can hold a coin and selectively direct that coin toward a coin return chute or a cash box chute while simultaneously preventing the exiting of any further coins in that passageway. Subsequently, that gate can receive and hold the next of those further coins, and then selectively direct that coin to the coin return chute or to the cash box chute. Coin slides in the coin dispensing sub-assembly are confined for reciprocal movement; and they have gears adjacent them which are axially translatable into and out of engagement with those slides to drive those slides.

Abstract: A coin separating device has a movable coin director which is mounted intermediate an inlet for coins of different predetermined diameters and a plurality of outlets that are generally in register with each other but that are located in separate planes. That coin director responds to the reception thereby of a coin of one of those predetermined diameters to be in a position to direct that coin to one of those outlets; and that coin director responds to the reception thereby of a further coin of another of those predetermined diameters to be in a different position to direct that further coin to another of those outlets.

Abstract: A coin-handling device responds to coins of at least three different values to establish corresponding credits on a movable credit-establishing element. A switch is closed in response to the insertion of each of those coins; and that switch energizes an electromechanical actuator to effect advancement of that credit-establishing element. Only that switch, that actuator, and the mechanical elements associated therewith are needed to effect the establishing of those corresponding credits.

Abstract: A bin for temporarily storing and subsequently dispensing particulate material has side and end walls with a discharge opening being defined between the lower edges of the walls. Material flow through the opening is controlled by a pair of gates normaly forming a bottom closure for the bin. The gates have spaced-apart inner side edges fitted with jaws in the form of longitudinally extending flanges. The flanges are spaced apart vertically and are staggered horizontally when the gates are closed and this arrangement serves to grip and hold a plug of material which seals the bottom opening to prevent loss of small amounts of the material.

Abstract: A fishing rod holder having a pair of spacially displaced rod supporting yokes. One yoke has a pair of relatively fixed jaws and the other yoke has a pair of relatively movable jaws. The fixed jaws are mounted on a lever which acts to close the movable jaws about the rod when the rod is in the position to be held. The holder also has a pair of pivot points which enable adjustment of the position of the fishing rod in two mutually perpendicular directions.