Abstract: A funnel control device is fixed on a shear box or respective cells in various soil mechanics/dynamics testing devices, and the funnel control device enables to produce soil samples to be tested by discharging a soil through a funnel into a sample preparation mold at a given axis and rate. The funnel control device includes at least one supporting body for being placed on the soil mechanics/dynamics testing device, at least one holder, wherein the at least one holder is provided on the at least one supporting body to be movable in vertical axis and the funnel is placed on the at least one holder, at least one driving member, wherein the at least one driving member is located in or on the at least one supporting body and is used for moving the at least one holder in the vertical axis.

Abstract: A stabilization bracket device for facilitating servicing of in-line piping regulators includes a bracket, which is removably positionable around a regulator, such as a valve, a pump, a sensor, and the like, which is positioned in-line with a pipe, so that a lower end of the bracket abuts a bottom of the regulator. A support element is engaged to and extends bidirectionally from an upper face of the bracket. Each opposing end of the support element abuts an upper surface of the pipe proximate to a respective opposed end of the bracket. A load imparted by the regulator to the bracket is transferred by the support element onto the pipe, positioning a user to service the regulator.

Abstract: A funnel is formed with a planar base having a forward edge, a rearward edge, and parallel side edges. The funnel has side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from the side edges at an angle from horizontal. The funnel has a rear wall extending upwardly and rearwardly from the rearward edge at an angle from horizontal. The base and the side walls and the rear wall form a chamber with a forward passageway. A support assembly removably couples the funnel to an edge. The support assembly includes a forward support plate extending downwardly from the forward edge of the base at an angle from horizontal. The support assembly includes a rearward support plate extending downwardly from the base parallel with the forward support plate from a location spaced rearwardly from the forward support plate.

Abstract: A portion measuring and dispensing device comprises a chamber, a handle and a hingeable lid. The chamber comprises a bottom, a side structure attached to the bottom, and an aperture opposite of the bottom. The handle comprises a body defining a longitudinal channel with a first end opening to the chamber and a second end opening at a distal point on the handle. The second end is proportioned to be received within a mouth of a bottle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to devices, kits and methods to aid the home owner in the transport of salt to their cellar-based water softening system. The device of the present invention uses rectangular piping because of the greater ease of supporting the piping and greater stability during use.

Abstract: A tool is provided for filling a gearbox with lubricant. The tool includes structure which prevents the gearbox from being over filled with lubricant. The tool of this invention enables access to the fill opening of the gearbox and prevents spillage or leakage. The tool is ideally suited for use with a gearbox mounted on the drive unit of a mechanized irrigation system.

Abstract: A portion measuring and dispensing device comprises a chamber, a handle and a hingeable lid. The chamber comprises a bottom, a side structure attached to the bottom, and an aperture opposite of the bottom. The handle comprises a body defining a longitudinal channel with a first end opening to the chamber and a second end opening at a distal point on the handle. The second end is proportioned to be received within a mouth of a bottle.

Abstract: A Marsh funnel is equipped with a valve at the funnel outlet. The valve may be of the quick opening type selected from stem valves (internal of the funnel), ball valves, plug valves, flapper valves, butterfly valves, slide valves and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for containing aircraft fuel. According to some embodiments the apparatus includes a structural connector comprising an open shape, a first surface and a second surface, a seal defining a suction area disposed in the first surface, and a boot extending from the structural connector. The boot may comprise a lateral opening. The boot includes first and second ends, such that the first end of the boot may be attached to the structural connector and the second end may be spaced from the structural member. According to some embodiments the second end comprises a center offset laterally from the center of the structural connector.

Abstract: A waste funnel system for pouring liquids into a container. The waste funnel system has an adapter with a closure that can be mounted to an opening of the container. A funnel body has a cover that is pivotally connected to the funnel body and is used to open and close an inlet end of the funnel. The funnel body is also assembled in the adapter, thereby permitting different size funnel bodies to be assembled with the same container closure. A ventilation path extends between the funnel body and the adapter to permit vapors to be displaced from an interior of the container. In addition, a screen disposed in a liquid path between inlet and outlet ends of the funnel body prevents objects from passing through the funnel system.

Abstract: A flowable material can be transferred from a contained mass of material to a remote container, by using a manual scooping implement that includes an elongated hollow tube having a funnel configuration. One end of the tube is closed, while the other end is open to form an exit opening. An entrance opening in the tube side wall near the closed end of the tube enables the tube to be inserted downwardly into a mass of flowable material to capture some of the material within the tube. The tube can be inverted for pouring the captured material into a container.

Abstract: A biological fluid collection device with a pivotable faucet is disclosed. The device is designed to collect, hold and transfer a biological specimen into a non-evacuated tube through an integrated pivotable faucet component. This device uses no needles, either blunt or sharp, and provides safety from needle puncture. The device works with a non-evacuated tube and a specially designed cap that attaches to the container via the pivotable faucet. The device includes a container for collecting, holding and transferring the biological fluid. The design of the container facilitates use of the tube as a handle in order to position the container to receive collection of the biological fluids. The method of collection begins with using the non-evacuated tube as a handle to hold the container and collecting the biological specimen in the container. A lid is attached to the top of the container to prevent contamination and exposure to the specimen during transfer into the non-evacuated tube.

Abstract: An oil funnel assembly for providing a user with a more efficient and quicker way to change oil. The oil funnel assembly includes a funnel that includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion includes a distribution opening that is designed for inserting into an oil receiving port of an engine. A plurality of dividers are coupled to the upper portion of the funnel. The dividers are positioned to form a grid that includes a plurality of spaces. Each of the spaces is designed for receiving and holding an inverted oil container such that oil in the inverted oil container drains into the funnel and out of the distribution opening.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling flexible bags with a fluent material that includes a receiving bay, a curvilinear cylinder and a support frame. The receiving bay has an open top for receiving fluent material and funnels down to a discharge opening. The curvilinear cylinder has a top input opening attached to the discharge opening, a bottom output opening, and a curvilinear sidewall therebetween. The curvilinear sidewall has a front wall with an outwardly and downwardly projecting portion that has a predetermined length and extends away from an opposing rear wall of the curvilinear sidewall at a predetermined angle of inclination relative to the vertical direction. The support frame is attached to and supports the receiving bay or the curvilinear cylinder such that the bottom output opening of the curvilinear cylinder is suspended at a predetermined clearance height above the ground.

Abstract: The present invention features a kit and method for replacing used antifreeze/coolant in the cooling system of an automobile. The kit is composed of inexpensive parts, consisting of: (1) a plastic, flexible capture tank; (2) a flexible plastic drain sleeve for directing fluid from a cooling system hose to the capture tank; (3) a funnel for introducing fluids into the cooling system via said radiator; (4) a hose adaptor for placement of a funnel into the hose line; (5) differently-sized hose menders for re-establishing a severed radiator hose line; and (6) metal clamps for tightening the severed hose portions about one of the appropriately sized hose menders.

Abstract: A remote fill receptacle device is provided comprising (1) a receptacle body and (2) a receptacle conduit, the device being employed in conjunction with a tree stand including a water reservoir for conveniently filling/refilling the tree stand's water reservoir in the invention process by receiving water additions via an inlet opening in the upper portion of the body and permitting said water to gravity discharge from the body via an outlet opening in the lower portion of the body through the receptacle conduit which directs the discharged water from the outlet opening to the water reservoir.

Abstract: As an article of manufacture, a fluid pouring guide is formed from a length of rigid sheet material folded to define an open end V-shaped trough having opposing marginal side edges converging toward one end.

Abstract: A liquid disburser device for simultaneously equally filling a plurality of liquid containers from a source of liquid including a top member having an upper funnel chamber section for receiving liquid and a lower liquid discharge column leading downwardly from the upper funnel chamber section; the lower discharge column including an inner diameter of sufficiently reduced size whereby liquid enters the discharge column from the upper funnel chamber in a filling equal amount; the discharge column having a plurality of equally angularly spaced tubular members spaced in equal distance about the bottom portion of the discharge column; the tubular members extending downwardly and having respective end portions adapted to be inserted into the inlet of a liquid container for conducting equal amounts of liquid from the funnel chamber into respective containers to be filled therefrom.

Abstract: A portable and highly efficient method for filling the hard to reach watering stands of inside trees, and particularly where the environment or nearby objects are susceptable to damage from splashes or spilled water. The invention is made up of approximately four sections of loosely fitting tubing sections with an angular set funnel at the top, which are held together with a tensioned inside elastic cord, and which can be placed downward through the limbs of an inside tree to quickly feed water from the funnel to the watering stand with a syphon effect generated by the moving water in the full length assembled tubing.

Abstract: An ice cube funnel which has a combination receptacle and funnel where the ice cube funnel is contemplated to slide onto the lip of an ice tray creating a hood above ice cubes in the ice tray such that the tray may be flipped upside down and pressed to release ice cubes into said hood. The hood includes a funnel portion such that when tilted, directs cubes down a chute and into a receptacle such as a glass.

Abstract: A powder filling apparatus comprised of a frame means having a cylindrical channel extending therethrough. A cylindrical funnel means is rotatably mounted in the channel, the funnel means having a bore extending therethrough. The bore has an axial section for receiving a flow of powder and an angled section at a preselected angle from the axis for directing the powder flow from the funnel means. A drive means is operatively connected for rotating the funnel means.

Abstract: An apparatus to include a storage container arranged for vertical mounting to a support surface, wherein the storage container mounts an outlet conduit and valve associated therewith. The container is provided with a cavity to receive and store a fluid-receiving pan container permitting ease of disposal of waste oil from an associated vehicular oil change. Waste oil containers are thereafter positioned below the storage container conduit to receive the waste oil for subsequent recycling. A modification of the invention includes a first and second storage container mounted to opposed side walls of the primary storage container to include respective granular absorbing material and saturated oil absorbing material respectively. An underlying tray is positioned below a manifold mounted to the container conduit for permitting filling of a plurality of waste oil containers simultaneously.

Abstract: A vehicle 10 is provided with a remote oil fill apparatus 12. The remote oil fill apparatus 12 includes a volume chamber 18 coupled to one side of the raised frame 11 of the vehicle 10. A motor 14 having an oil fill opening 16 formed therein is mounted in an intermediate front portion of the vehicle frame 11. A conduit 34 and hose 36 direct the flow of oil from the volume chamber 18 to the oil fill opening 16. A adapter coupler 48 is provided to couple the conduit 34 and hose 36 to the motor 14 in the oil fill opening 16.

Abstract: The liquid fuel funnel features a no-drip configuration which includes an elongated generally horizontal fuel-receiving rear portion with an open top, which may bear a closeable lid, and a front, fuel-dispensing, spout portion which is preferably oval in transverse cross-section and which curves and tapers downwardly and forwardly to an open exit end which may bear a removable plug. That end may be generally vertical or at an angle thereto. The funnel can include one or more detents for releasably holding the funnel in a proper pouring position with the spout portion within and against a fuel container opening such as a vehicle gasoline tank opening. The detents can be on the bottom and top of the spout portion. The top detent can be on a long angled leaf spring or the like connected to and extending about the top of the spout portion. The funnel is preferably of metal and can be made economically of one-piece durable construction.

Abstract: A multipurpose funnel is designed to be threadably attached to the top of a container to thus facilitate the filling of the container with a chosen material. Interchangeable internally threaded caps may be used in combination with the funnel to permits its attachment to various sized containers having conventional closure-engaging external threads. When not threadably attached to a container, interchangeable neck portions may be threadably attached to the funnel. At least one neck section is of a bifurcated design to facilitate the filling of two containers at the same time.

Abstract: A funnel body for mounting at the rear of a garbage compaction truck which includes a rear wall flanked by sidewalls; the sidewalls having lower portions which are generally vertical and upper portions which are outwardly flared; the forward portions of the sidewalls being equipped with a flange and flange secured by cushioning gaskets to the truck body.

Abstract: A funnel has a relatively wide-mouthed bowl for receiving a liquid such as gasoline or the like. The bowl communicates the liquid for gravity flow downwardly through an angularly disposed central section, and further through a relatively small-mouthed spout sized for reception into a suitable receptacle, such as the filler pipe of an automotive vehicle fuel tank. The central section is formed to define a wedge-shaped configuration for binding reception partially into the receptacle, and further to define a flow path for venting air from the receptacle while the receptacle is being filled with the liquid.

Abstract: A tray for counting a discrete number of pills or capsules from a bulk supply including a housing having a bottom wall, two vertical opposed sidewalls and a pair of arcuate-shaped end walls that are arranged to turn upwardly and inwardly from the bottom wall. A divider extends between the two sidewalls or the housing to separate it into two individual compartments. A horizontal platform is removably supported upon the top of the divider in contiguous relationship with the end walls to establish elongated entrances to each compartment therebetween. In operation a bulk supply of pills or capsules is deposited upon the platform and the desired amount counted out using a conventional spatula. The counted tablets are passed into the entrance of one compartment while the overage remaining on the platform is passed into the other thereby positively segregating the tablets.