Suncast Corporation

Damon A Johnston

George L Garcia

Paul E Papenhause

Thomas L Drehobl

Rotary sprinkler

A portable garden hose cart for windably holding a hose and for transporting the hose between a storage location and the use location. The cart includes a frame having a pair of vertical sides each of which has a bearing. A reel is positioned between the frame sides with the reel having a pair of sides and a hose support surface extending therebetween. Each reel side has a generally horizontally extending hub rotatably received in the corresponding bearing of its associated frame side. The cart has an outlet tube carried by a reel for rotation therewith and an inlet tube mounted in one of the hubs so that the inlet tube is held from rotation with the reel. The inlet tube and the outlet tube are in fluid communication. A crank is attached to the other of the hubs to rotate the reel. A hose guide defines a window for passage of the hose with the frame supporting the hose guide spaced from the reel. The hose guide permits free passage of the hose through the window and the hose guide is freely movable along a horizontal path so that the hose can be wound on the reel in layers with adjacent turns being contiguous and without the operator touching the hose, by the operator simultaneously operating the crank and moving the hose guide. A method of operating the hose cart is also disclosed.

Portable hose cart and method of use

A brush for home use such as washing cars and patios. The brush includes a body having a plurality of dependent bristles and defining a first compartment for a receiving soap and a second compartment for receiving rinse water. The body also includes an elongate tube partially defining each of the compartments. The first compartment has an outlet for providing soapy water to the bristles while the second compartment has an outlet for providing rinse water. A spool valve is slidable back and forth in the tube with the valve having a tubular wall defining an axial bore open to the conduit and an opening extending through the wall for communicating water to either of the compartments. Seals are carried by the spool valves flanking the opening to provide watertight seals between the valve and the tube. The brush also includes a thumb switch for reciprocating the valve along a linear path among a soap position, a rinse position, and an off position where water is supplied to neither of the compartments.

Vehicle and patio washing brush

The present invention relates to a fertilizer spreader having a hopper for holding a granular material. A handle is connected to the hopper for manipulating the hopper. The hopper has a discharge aperture in its lower portion to allow material to discharge from the hopper. A gate is selectively positionable adjacent to the discharge aperture for controlling the rate of discharge of material through the discharge aperture. A control apparatus is connected to the gate for holding the gate in a selected position relative to the discharge aperture. A pivotal support leg is connected to the control apparatus and the hopper, so that when the support leg supports the hopper, the leg is pivoted to operate the control apparatus to position the gate in an attitude for interrupting the flow of material through the discharge aperture.

Fertilizer spreader

The present invention is a quick coupling connector for use in connecting and disconnecting hoses adapted for conducting liquids. The connector includes a unitary molded plastic male connector body having a flow through passage extending therethrough. The body includes a guide cylinder, a lock recess adjacent to the guide cylinder, and a seating cylinder adjacent to the lock recess. The seating cylinder has an annular seal groove. An inner body O-ring is positioned in the seal groove. A unitary molded plastic female connector body having a flow through passage selectively mateably receives the male connector body. The female connector body includes a guide tube receiving the guide cylinder, a lock tube having a lock finger aperture, and a seating cylinder connected to the guide cylinder and sealingly engageable with the inner body O-ring. A mounting tube is connected to the seating tube. A tubular hose nose is mounted in the mounting tube. A locking sleeve is mounted on the mounting tube for holding a hose mounted on the hose nose. A unitary molded plastic lock ring is movably mounted on the female body having a portion engageable with the male connector body. A valve is mounted in the female connector body to control the flow of liquid through the female connector body. The valve is engageable with the male connector body to be displaced from its closed attitude to allow a liquid to flow through the female connector body.

Quick coupling connector for connecting flexible liquid conduits

The instant invention relates to a garden hose storage apparatus having a base and a storage reel rotatably mounted on the base for windably receiving a garden hose. A shelf is secured to the base. The shelf contains an aperture for movably receivng a garden hose. A plurality of rollers is rotatably mounted in the aperture. Said rollers are engageable with the hose to facilitate movement of the garden hose through the aperture for guiding the garden hose on and off the reel.

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Aurora, IL, United States of America

Damon A Johnston