Abstract: A light on a self-supporting collapsible arm having a plurality of frictionally restrained articulating joints, where the frictional joint has a male half joint with a first plate and an annular shaft with an inner wider diameter. In the surface of the first plate is a first O-ring seated in a first groove. A matching female half joint has a second plate and coaxial to the bearing in the surface of the second plate is a second O-ring seated in a second groove. The opposing side of the second plate of the female half joint has a third O-ring in a third groove. The third O-ring tensions a snap pin that couples the male and female half joints. The snap pin has a head with a compressible ridge which expands when the snap pin is pushed in far enough to engage the inner wider diameter of shaft.

Abstract: A light on a self-supporting collapsible arm having a plurality of frictionally restrained articulating joints, where the frictional joint has a male half joint with a first plate and an annular shaft with an inner wider diameter. In the surface of the first plate is a first O-ring seated in a first groove. A matching female half joint has a second plate and coaxial to the bearing in the surface of the second plate is a second O-ring seated in a second groove. The opposing side of the second plate of the female half joint has a third O-ring in a third groove. The third O-ring tensions a snap pin that couples the male and female half joints. The snap pin has a head with a compressible ridge which expands when the snap pin is pushed in far enough to engage the inner wider diameter of shaft.

Abstract: An improved and concealed wall mounted soap storage device having a housing with an opening on one side, and a center rotating door closure member with a vertical wall that serves as a door, and a projecting soap tray that can rotate into the housing. The closure member is pivotally connected to the housing. The opening has stops that are raised dimples on the housing which restrain, but do not prevent rotation. The vertical wall is held in the open or closed position by the stops. When the vertical wall is pressed the vertical wall engages the restraining stops with sufficient force that the vertical wall moves past the stops and swing through the opening. As the vertical wall moves past the stops there is a snap. The soap tray can rotate into or out of the housing, whatever the case may be.

Abstract: The invention is an apparatus that is an extendable articulated flashlight. The apparatus have an electric power source; a housing for the electric power source, where the housing has a base; a light generating device; and an adjustable extendable collapsible arm connected to the housing and to the light generating device. The housing can additionally have a compartment for tools and a handle. In the invention, the collapsible arm and light generating device have a combined weight that is less than a total weight of the housing and an electric power source if the electric power source is contained in the housing. The housing acts a ballast that stabilizes the light generating device, so that the adjustable extendable collapsible arm can be fully extended in any direction, and the light will retain its position.

Abstract: An outdoor storage compartment with a housing having exterior rectangular side walls, an interior semicircular side wall, with an open-side, a center swinging door with an integral tray, and a magnetic closure. The door has a center elongate bearing, to hingedly rotate on an axial pin that is vertically spanning the open-side of the housing. The magnets in the magnetic closure are not in contact. When opened, the integral tray is conveyed from the protective interior of the housing to the exterior of the housing. As the door is opened it sweeps the interior semicircular side wall. The door has one radial length section that is slightly shorter than the second radial length section, where the radial length is the length of door measured from the elongate bearing to an end of the door. The shorter section and the integral tray can sweep through the interior of the housing, while the longer section is restrained.

Abstract: The invention is an outdoor storage compartment. The major components are a housing having an interior with an open-side, a center swinging door with an integral tray, and a magnetic closure. The door can nominally be opened by pressing a designated push point near an end of the door, therein causing the door, which has a center elongate bearing, to hingedly rotate on an axial pin that is vertically spanning the open-side of the housing. The door can smoothly and easily be opened with the pressure of only one finger. The magnets in the magnetic closure are not in contact. When opened, the integral tray is conveyed from the protective interior of the housing to an easily visible position on the exterior of the housing. As the door is fully opened it sweeps through a rotational arc of about 180 degrees, so that an interior face of the door pivots to the exterior of the housing.

Abstract: This invention is a convenient and easily accessible apparatus for the “in the wall” storage of soap or other items. The stored item or items are “concealed from view” while invention is in the “closed position”.

Abstract: A self contained and compact, battery powered light emitting device for the illumination of the interior of a rural mailbox. This device is user actuated by the pressing of the unit's momentary switch. This modular device also contains a timer circuit and thus the light turns off automatically when the electronically predetermined time period is reached.