Abstract: A scent dispenser is provided to dispense liquid scent during a hunt for wild game. The inventive scent dispenser uses age old scientific and natural phenomena to enhance the speed of the wind. The provided dispenser uses a venturi wind channel to accomplish a wind speed increase. Supported at its center of gravity from above or below, allowing rotation, the funnel shaped wind channel is continuously aligned with the wind direction by a wind vane. Liquid scent is introduced in the constricted section of the venturi wind channel where the wind velocity is increased. This increased wind speed, and continuous alignment to wind direction, enhances the vaporization of liquid scents that attract wild game, and that mask the scent of a hunter from the wild game's keen sense of smell.

Abstract: A personal device for releasing the aroma of an essential oil includes an inner flexible container received within a rigid outer shell that is open on opposite sides to expose side portions of the inner flexible container. An interior chamber of the flexible container is partially filled with cotton or other fibrous material and a charge of an essential oil that saturates the cotton material. A cap fitted to an open top end of the flexible container includes a flip nozzle with a ball valve. The flip nozzle is operable between a lowered position to close the ball valve and seal the open top of the flexible container closed, and a raised straight up position to open the ball valve and permit release of beneficial aromas of the essential oil from an open end of the nozzle upon squeezing the exposed sides of the flexible container while holding the nozzle below the user's nostrils so that the aromas are released for direct inhalation through the user's nostrils.

Abstract: A quick response trigger assembly for an automatic sprinkler head comprises an inherently unstable compression element positioned between the frame of the sprinkler body and sealing assembly. A thermal sensor surrounds the periphery of the compression element and includes at least one heat gathering element positioned a preselected distance from the compression element. The thermal sensor maintains the compression element in compression when the sprinkler head is in the non-activated condition. The presence of a heat gathering member spaced a preselected distance from the compression element increases the surface area through which conduction occurs, and thus, enables the trigger assembly to exhibit sufficient thermal sensitivity necessary to classify the sprinkler head as a quick response. Additionally, the thermal sensor is formed of two or more members which are substantially identical in configuration to thereby decrease manufacturing costs.

Abstract: An upright-type fire protection water spray mist nozzle has a base defining an orifice through which fire-retardant fluid can flow, an inlet section having an upstream end and defining a conduit for flow of fire-retardant fluid along a orifice axis and leading to an upstream end of the orifice, with a diffuser element defining an impingement surface that is at least substantially imperforate in an axial direction and positioned for impingement by a stream of fire-retardant fluid flowing from the orifice in a stream direction along the orifice axis, the diffuser element being positioned generally above a horizontal plane through a downstream end of the orifice.

Abstract: Aromatic liquids substances such as deodorizers, room freshener compositions, perfumes, fragrances and the like are dispensed in vapor phase from a container holding the substance in liquid phase. In the best mode, the container is in conical form, having a controlled opening or openings through which the liquid volatile substance is dripped downwardly onto a conical substrate, from which it is dispensed in vapor phase into the atmosphere. The dispenser is configured such that it may stand, as on a counter or any flat surface, or may be hung, as in a closet, in an automobile, or the like.

Abstract: Apparatus including a liquid vaporizer having a first wick of linear shape, a bottle for holding the liquid to be vaporized and a gravity-flow metering device having a second wick. The bottle has a closing cap to which two tubes are connected. One tube discharges the liquid from the bottle and the other extends through the cap to the opposite end of the bottle for counteracting the vacuum which is produced when liquid is discharged. The end of the discharging tube extends outwardly of the cap further than the end of the other tube so that a pool is produced in the dispenser. The level of the pool is limited by the position of the end of the tube for counteracting the vacuum. The second wick is of J-shape; one end is immersed in the pool and the other end is suspended over the first wick so that liquid absorbed at the immersed end drips from the second wick on the first wick and is evaporated and diffused from the first wick.

Abstract: A liquid diffuser device is disclosed that includes a liquid holding container having a neck portion that extends from the bottom wall thereof. A base portion is associated with the container, such that the liquid holding container and the base portion are slidably longitudinally movable relative to one another between an uppermost position and a lowermost position. The base portion is provided for tightly sealing the discharge opening of the neck portion. In the uppermost position, the discharge opening is engaged and tightly sealed, so that the flow of liquid from the container through the neck portion is prevented. In the lowermost position, the discharge opening is not sealed, so that the flow of fluid through the discharge opening is permitted.

Abstract: An evaporative dispenser is disclosed for emitting a vaporized material into the ambient. A battery powered, motor-driven fan forces air through the dispenser housing and across a material reservoir to evaporate and entrain material therein prior to being discharged from the housing. A supply container is supported directly on a reservoir lid and comprises structure which cooperates with the housing to direct the air flow across the reservoir. The supply container also comprises a battery nesting recess which affords compact packaging of the components within the housing. A transparent viewing window is provided for easy viewing of the level of material in the reservoir.