Abstract: This invention discloses a food manipulating tool for indoor and outdoor use, that allows the user to skeweringly hook and relocate, or skeweringly hook and turn and/or flip food on a cooking surface. This invention also discloses several methods for using this tool so as to optimize its functions.

Abstract: The invention herein provides an apparatus and method for effectively removing the cork and its stoppering elements from a bottle containing a pressurized beverage such as champagne and/or sparkling wine. The apparatus has a support structure configured to be grasped by the operator. The support structure supports at least three blades made of a metal material which extend obliquely upwardly and convergingly inwardly into a space in the apparatus. Due to the relative positioning of the blades, the apparatus screwingly crimps the structure of the stoppering elements in the apparatus when it is applied and rotated. The cork and stoppering elements can then be pulled from the bottle in a controlled fashion.

Abstract: A slide mount for pick-up truck carriages which includes a mounting frame adapted to be connected under the ends of a transverse mounted toolbox with suitable rollers carried by the frame for supporting the toolbox and permitting the same to be transferred along the sides of a truck body on suitable rails mounted on the upper edges of the truck body sides with means for stabilizing roller movement of the toolbox and means for locking the toolbox in different positions along the length of the truck body in accordance with the desired functional position of the toolbox.

Abstract: An adjustable clothes dryer vent mounted between the studs within the wall of a house and providing an adjustable connection between the housing and the dryer outlet.