Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a collapsible, storable device for carrying and protecting a multiplicity of fully rigged fishing rods and reels. The present carrier provides a compact load while sufficiently segregating the poles to prevent the tangling of lines, lures, hooks etc. The carrier preferably comprises a durable yet lightweight polymeric material to protect and secure the fishing rods in place. The carrier is also configured with a strap for hands free transportation.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for producing open-end spun yarn using an electrostatic field produced by a pair of spaced electrodes in combination with a spinning rotor having an acutely inclined circumferential wall and a circumferential groove at the junction between the inner surface of the rotor wall and the planar surface of the rotor. Staple fibers are fed to the electrostatic field where they are generally linearly oriented and straightened and from which the fibers are aerodynamically withdrawn and fed onto the inner surface of the inclined rotor wall by means of a feed passageway tangentially oriented to the inclined rotor wall and having a gradually decreasing cross-sectional area so as to impose upon the fibers fed therethrough an ever-increasing velocity.

Abstract: A molded plastic case has multiple pockets for bottles and recesses formed in its undersurface in register with the pockets for engagement with the tops of bottles in the pockets of like cases located thereunder for stacking. Partition walls within the case intersect each other and the outside walls to form the pockets, and the partition walls are cut away suitably for hand clearance adjacent the handholes in the end walls of the case. The recesses take a rimmed form defined by openings in the case undersurface leaving only ribs extending from the walls of each pocket to support its respective rimmed recess. The recesses are defined in lateral extent by walls of greater height than the edge radius of the bottles and bottle caps used therewith, and the recesses slope from those walls to flat midportions, which are the deepest parts of the recesses and are formed so that a bottle cap may be centered thereat by the sloping recess bottom without defacement of the flat cap top thereby.