Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.

Abstract: A carbonated beverage bottle handle, pour and storage device comprises bottle top, flapper, handle and actuator portions. The bottle top portion defines a spout screwed to a bottle. The handle portion is fixed to the bottle top portion, and is gripped for holding a bottle. The actuator portion is squeezable toward the handle portion. The flapper portion is joined to the actuator portion and positioned over the spout to be lifted to and from the bottle top portion, to allow liquid to be poured. A stopper is attached to the flapper portion such that lifting the flapper portion lifts the stopper, opening the top of the attached bottle. A screw-threaded, segmented collar welded in the bottle top portion forms female threads for screwing to the bottle. The stopper includes a dome and an annular outer wall, and defines an interior within the annular outer wall. The dome and all of the stopper are formed of material which is flexible in the range of pressures exerted by carbonated beverages.

Abstract: An improved dispensing container for articles with the container having a lower, generally cylindrical receptacle rotatably interconnected to a cover, the cover and the receptacle form a chamber for containing the articles. An opening, sized for the passage of the articles therethrough, is formed in the cover. The lower receptacle also has an upward extending interior wall which forms at least a portion of a boundary wall of a blank cell closed to the intrusion of the articles within the chamber. The opening is positioned on the cover to move into and out of registration with the cell upon rotation of the cover relative to the receptacle, wherein upon registration between the cell and the opening, the articles are prevented from being dispensed from the chamber.

Abstract: The valve has a ported valving element which removes from, and seats upon, a ported valve seat, to open and close the valve to fluid flow through a ported stop plate, and the valving element, in relation to ports in the stop plate, has relieved steps formed therein to create rolling vortices in the through-flowing fluid. Additionally, the valve, in a first embodiment thereof, has two ported buffer plates, however, the latter, vis-a-vis the stop plate ports, have no steps; rather the ports therein are of the same dimension as the ports in the stop plate with which they align or register.

Abstract: A cargo elevator system, that includes a pivotable cargo platform, particularly adapted for mounting on a truck. The system is operable through a unique open/close sequence for translating the platform between a substantially vertical, upright storage position, and a horizontal elevator use position that permits the truck to be loaded and unloaded. The system is characterized by a unique latching mechanism for latching the platform in, and unlatching the platform from, the storage position. The system is also characterized by a first fail-safe structure for preventing the platform from swinging on its pivot axis toward ground level beyond its horizontal elevator use position. The system is further characterized by a second fail-safe structure that prevents the platform from moving out of its vertically upright position when so stored.

Abstract: An improved cargo platform system of the type particularly adapted to be mounted on the rear of a truck's cargo body. The cargo platform includes, in the preferred embodiment, a first section pivotally mounted along its front edge to a combined elevating and storing mechanism fixed to the cargo body, and a second section pivotally mounted to the first section adjacent the rear edge of that first section. The two platform sections include support structure adapted to maintain the platform sections in substantially coplanar configuration when those sections are horizontally disposed in the elevating attitude. An interconnect structure is provided that maintains the folded platform sections in latched engagement with the elevating and storing mechanism when the folded platform sections are vertically disposed in the storage attitude.

Abstract: An elevator platform structure that basically includes a framework having side panels and an elevator platform horizontally disposed between those side panels and carried on hydraulic rams positioned within those side panels. The elevator platform includes a fixed horizontal ramp at one end edge thereof, and a pivotable ramp at the other end edge thereof. The pivotable ramp is spring biased so as to restrain same in a horizontal attitude at which the elevator platform may be loaded or unloaded over that ramp, and in a vertical attitude at which that ramp functions as a stop when the platform is loaded. The pivotable ramp is thus structured to cooperate with, e.g., a trailer's floor, during loading and unloading of that trailer. The framework, at the top thereof and adjacent to the fixed ramp end of the elevator platform, includes a safety bar extending across and above the platform to aid in protecting an operator when the elevator platform is in an elevated position.