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Charles L Sowers

William Frank Buckminster

A portable ice bucket apparatus for storing and dispensing ice includes: (a) an upper bucket portion including an insulated bucket with an opening at the top of the bucket and an ice body chute opening in a bottom wall of the bucket; (b) a motorless lower stand portion, the upper bucket portion being detachably attachable to the stand portion; (c) a dispensing mechanism including a movable gate flap within the bucket portion, a spring-loaded lever, and a gate shaft and a dispensing lever within the stand portion, the dispensing lever being coupled to the gate shaft, the gate shaft being coupled to the spring-loaded lever, the gate shaft being coupled with the gate flap; and (d) a water drainage and collection mechanism including a reservoir in the stand portion, and preferably a drain valve; wherein the movable gate flap in a closed position substantially covers the ice body chute opening.

Ice bucket dispenser apparatus

A flexible plastic solar heating panel, such as may be floated on the surface of a body of water and used to heat a swimming pool, comprised of a water supply manifold which communicates with one end of a plurality of water carrying tubes each of which communicates at their opposite end with a water collection manifold each of the water carrying tubes being separated from the next water carrying tube by one or more sealed tubes of air. The flexible solar heating panels may be interconnected to form a solar heating system which covers essentially the full surface of the swimming pool or other body of water.

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Salisbury, NC, United States of America

Charles L Sowers