Abstract: A hot melt glue gun includes a charging cylinder mounted to the rear of the gun with chambers for holding solid glue sticks. The cylinder is mounted to the hot melt gun housing via a centered shaft allowing it to revolve circumferentially. The cylinder is mounted in a position on the back of the glue gun so that each chamber when rotated to the top aligns with the glue stick entry port in the back of the glue gun. Each chamber has resilient flanges within the chamber that cause friction when a glue stick is inserted into the chamber, thus lightly securing the glue stick before it is pushed forward into the glue gun port and taken up by the trigger activated forward grip.

Abstract: A video system including a camera engaged with a rotary drive is mounted rearwardly on a vehicle. The camera provides a rectilinear video image. A drive controller includes two switches to control camera rotation to stop at a point in either direction from a neutral field of view aligned with the vehicle to either of a view including vehicle “blind spots” or a view including a directly lateral image. The video images are displayed on a monitor in the vehicle.

Abstract: A self contained, hermetically sealed, cigarette shaped nicotine inhaler tube includes a cylindrical wall and formed closed ends. The two or more elements making up the tube are formed and sealed together after forming at a location between the closed ends, capturing a filler within. The filler is in the tube to carry nicotine. The closed ends are recessed from the end of the cylindrical tube and may be truncated conically shaped. The closed ends may be drawn further into the tube using heat and the pressure of a probe. A tool for piercing the ends of the tube includes a supportive cylindrical cavity slightly larger than the tube with a centric spike and a terminal surface in the cavity. The cylindrical wall of the tube is supported by the cavity and the truncated conical shape of the end wall to receive the spike for penetrating the end wall at each end. The terminal surface prevents excessive penetration of the spike.

Abstract: A self contained, hermetically sealed, cigarette shaped nicotine inhaler tube includes a cylindrical wall and formed closed ends. The two or more elements making up the tube are formed and sealed together after forming at a location between the closed ends, capturing a filler within. The filler is in the tube to carry nicotine. The closed ends are recessed from the end of the cylindrical tube and may be truncated conically shaped. The closed ends may be drawn further into the tube using heat and the pressure of a probe. A tool for piercing the ends of the tube includes a supportive cylindrical cavity slightly larger than the tube with a centric spike and a terminal surface in the cavity. The cylindrical wall of the tube is supported by the cavity and the truncated conical shape of the end wall to receive the spike for penetrating the end wall at each end. The terminal surface prevents excessive penetration of the spike.

Abstract: A chair mat includes two first flat panels having sufficient rigidity to support a chair with a person therein. The panels have abutting straight panel edges. Flexible fabric is permanently adhered to and fully covers one side of the abutting panels. The other side of the abutting panels has an anti-skid surface provided by the panels themselves or covering material not essentially providing tensile strength across the abutting straight panel edges. A material strip extends the length of the abutting first and second straight panel edges permanently adhered to the panels between the flexible fabric sheet and the panels with high tensile strength filaments oriented laterally of the material strip.

Abstract: A cover that may be attached directly to the ceiling around a recessed down-light fixture to change the appearance of the recessed light fixture to an external light fixture without losing access to the fixture. The cover includes a first lens with an outer dome, a flange lying in a plane extending from a first periphery of the first lens and a central circular hole through the outer dome. Notches are arranged about the periphery of the central circular hole. A second lens includes an cup which has a circular periphery with a diameter of noninterference fit with the central circular hole. Tabs extend radially outwardly from the circular periphery and are configured and arranged to fit through the notches.

Abstract: Nasal dilators comprise tubes having a length to width ratio of no more than unity. The tubes are right cylinders which are shown in circular, oblong and radiused cornered rectangular forms. One or more tabs can extend from the outer end of the tube, a rim may extend outwardly about the periphery of the inner end of the tube and a septum may diametrically bisect the hole within the tube. Dilator kits provide variable outside diameters for accommodating differences in nose structure. A member extending between two such tubes can be employed to provide a set for both nasal passages of the nose.

Abstract: An inhaler for dispensing volatile ingredients including a one piece tube pinch closed and sealed at the ends. The tube may include reservoirs formed therein and noncircular cross sections. A volatile or volatiles such as nicotine and/or flavoring and/or medication are loaded in the tube with or without other ingredients and the ends closed. Absorbent material may be used to retain more volatiles within the tube or better wick the volatile vapors when air is drawn through the tube. A cutter including a body, a blade slidable in a longitudinal path within the body and a slot access receiving the pinch closed and sealed ends of the tube allow the ends of the tube to be cut off. Drawing air through the tube transfers vapors of the volatile or volatile including other ingredients from the interior of the tube to the user.

Abstract: An inhaler for dispensing volatile ingredients including a one piece tube pinch closed and sealed at the ends. The tube may include reservoirs formed therein and noncircular cross sections. A volatile or volatiles such as nicotine and/or flavoring and/or medication are loaded in the tube with or without other ingredients and the ends closed. Absorbent material may be used to retain more volatiles within the tube or better wick the volatile vapors when air is drawn through the tube. A cutter including a body, a blade slidable in a longitudinal path within the body and a slot access receiving the pinch closed and sealed ends of the tube allow the ends of the tube to be cut off. Drawing air through the tube transfers vapors of the volatile or volatile including other ingredients from the interior of the tube to the user.

Abstract: A shoe shine kit including a case with a cavity therein. A buffer pad is affixed to the case with a layer of napped material attached thereto. The case contains three containers with lids all integrally formed with the case. Polish is contained within the containers. Applicators are retained through interference fit in seats defined within the cavity of the case. The applicators each include a handle and an applicator pad having material to which shoe polish adheres.

Abstract: A device for cleaning soft contact lenses includes a cage having two cavities to loosely receive soft contact lenses therein. The cavities are defined by spaced ribs and provide surfaces approximating the surfaces of the lenses to be contained therein. The cage is positionable within a container which is fluid tight and can be associated with a rotary drive. The drive is oriented to rotate the container in a horizontal axis. The container includes an appropriate fill line allowing filling of one-half of the internal volume of the container with multipurpose liquid or cleaning solution. The rims of the lenses contained within the cage are arranged with the planes of such lenses substantially parallel to the axis of rotation and displaced from that axis to accommodate lifting the lenses repeatedly out of the body of liquid and then fully immersing them.

Abstract: The fabrication of a plastic-wood composite wherein a raw wood is prepared by drying and crushing of at least the outer cell layers of the veneer using a heated platen. A plastic sheet with a coating of more easily fluidized material is then combined with the wood through heat and pressure. Cooling then fixes the composite structure to define a plastic covered composite having the appearance of coated wood.

Abstract: A partition for a vehicle having a front panel, side panels and attachments hinged together for deployment from a stowed position against the wall of a vehicle cargo area to a stand-alone extension forming smaller cargo compartments.

Abstract: A horizontal cut stepped mirror mounted to the pillars of an automobile to either side of the windscreen. Such mirrors may be mounted for adjustment or affixed directly to the pillar. Cushioning and mechanical adjustments may be used in mounting to the pillar for safety. The mirrors can be mounted inwardly and/or outwardly of the side window.

Abstract: A thin wood dimensionally stable flat laminate panel made out of one or more wood veneer sheets attached to one or more sheets of core ply material such as chipboard by adhesive. The thickness of the panel is in the range of from about 0.080 inches to about 0.180 inches. Apertures passing through the panel are positioned around or arranged along the edges of the panel in order to decrease warpage of the panel due to moisture passing to and from the wood veneer sheets at the edges of the panel as a result of moisture passing to the atmosphere from the sheets and from the atmosphere to said sheets. The apertures are preferably spaced the same distance apart. The apertures may be formed by using a commercial sewing machine to position the stitching along the edges of the panel. The stitching provides a capillary "wicking" action facilitating venting of the moisture from the wood veneer sheets to the atmosphere. Stitching may also be used to attach a bias cover material around the edges of the panel.

Abstract: A loose-leaf notebook (10) including a spine (12) on which a ring assembly (14) with openable rings (18) is mounted includes front and back cover flaps (22,24) of plywood with a generally uniform thickness in the range of about 0.08 to 0.18 of an inch. The plywood cover flaps (22,24) provide a lightweight, high strength, rigid construction and each has an outer exposed wood surface (28) that facilitates writing on the notebook as well as providing an aesthetically appealing appearance. A hinge (30) of the notebook is preferably embodied by a flexible hinge strip (38) such as adhesive backed decorative vinyl that secures the front and back cover flaps (22,24) to the spine (12) for movement between open and closed positions.

Abstract: An antistatic phonograph record envelope for storing records in a cardboard jacket is made from extruded plastic film having a thickness between about 1 and 6 mils with an antistatic agent extruded within the film. Layers of the plastic film have one or more seams providing a closed end and sides while an open end of the envelope has an elongated slit through which the record is inserted into the envelope for storage and pulled out of the envelope for use. The antistatic agent in the plastic film layers prevents the buildup of static electricity on the record as it is inserted into and pulled out of the envelope and also dissipates any accumulated static electricity on the record during storage within the envelope. At the open end, the plastic layers preferably have cooperable projections that are snapped into engagement with each other to provide a seal for the envelope.

Abstract: A manual record cleaner that is manually grasped and engaged with a rotating record to provide effective cleaning of the record grooves as well as removal of static electrical charge from the record. A body of the cleaner includes rigid leading and trailing projections spaced from each other and having coverings of a soft pile for cleaning the records. A receptacle mounts the cleaner and has a first compartment that receives the leading projection and a second compartment that receives the trailing projection. Within the first compartment, an absorbent material is mounted on the receptacle in a spaced relationship from the pile covering of the leading projection so that cleaning liquid applied thereto creates an atmosphere that dampens the leading projection pile covering the proper amount. Static charge on a record being cleaned and dust accumulation are removed by the dampened leading projection while the dry trailing projection removes any remaining dust accumulation.

Abstract: A cleaning kit for magnetic tape type sound reproducing equipment is disclosed as including a rectangularly shaped receptacle for receiving and storing cleaning tools. The size of the box is such that the kit can be conveniently stored along with or in the space normally provided for tape cassette boxes of a conventional size. In its preferred embodiment, the receptacle includes a base member injection molded from opaque plastic and a cover which is also injection molded from clear plastic and pivotally connected to the base member for movement between open and closed positions. A tool rack on the base member secures the tools which comprise a brush, an elongated probe holder, and a mirror. A compartment of the cover receives a bag of cleaning probes and a bottle of cleaning fluid for use in cleaning magnetic tape type sound reproducing equipment in cooperation with the tools.

Abstract: A phonograph record cleaner having a pair of soft pile covered projections extending downwardly from a cleaner body with a still brush and a soft brush also extending downwardly between the projections. During cleaning of a record, the cleaner is oriented so that the stiffer brush precedes the softer brush, and the pile covered projections properly locate the ends of the brush bristles relative to the record surface. The stiffer bristles are longer than the softer bristles, while the softer bristles of the shorter length are more densely packed than the stiffer bristles. Indicia on the cleaner body allows the cleaner to be hand held and properly oriented during use. Both of the brushes project downwardly through openings in a hollow lower member of the cleaner body and have retainers that limit the downward movement through the openings.