Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for golf balls and golf club heads has a base portion that houses a motor, the base portion being adapter to removably engage a receiver housing containing a rotatably mounted brush. The motor removably and operably engages the brush through a plurality of gears that are brought into operable engagement when the receiver housing removably engages the base portion. The receiver housing is then filled with cleaning fluid and the user can wash his clubs in the cleaning fluid by holding the clubs against the brush as the motor causes the brush to rotate. A golf ball cassette filled with dirty golf balls can also be inserted into the receiver housing. The rotation of the brush drives the dirty golf balls in a circular pattern, causing them to be cleaned by top and bottom ball wash brushes of the golf ball cleaning cassette.

Abstract: A mechanism for transforming heat energy into mechanical energy capable of tilizing heat from low temperature sources such as solar heated water, geothermal hot water and rejected heat from conventional engines. The mechanism uses a series of elements manufactured from a nickel-titanium alloy. These elements are formed into a particular shape called the memory shape and, when mechanically deformed, may be instantly returned to the memory shape by the application of heat.

Abstract: Thermocouples are fabricated by painting lines of two dissimilar thermal-ment materials on a non-conducting substrate such that the painted lines intersect at the location where temperature is to be measured. Alternatively the paint may be thinned to the consistancy of ink and used in a printing process. Thermocouples may be thus formed on paper, cloth or plastic surfaces, for example.