Ergotron, Inc.

Outdoor Creations, Inc.

Jeffrey M Eliason

Mustafa A Ergun

Shaun Christopher Lindblad

Robert William Fluhrer

Harry C Sweere

Joseph Funk

Joe Funk

Steve A Nistler

Ty J Caswell

Ron Saltz

Janice M Sweere, Legal Representative

The invention includes a display positioning assembly comprising a support, a display supported by the support, and a balance mechanism carried by the display and operatively connected to the support. The invention also includes an article for selectively exposing a display comprising a generally planar support surface having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. A balance mechanism operatively connected to a display may be positionable between a storage position proximate the first side of the generally planar support surface and an exposed position proximate the second side of the generally planar support surface. The invention also includes an assembly for arresting the free fall of an object. The assembly may comprise an outer slide in sliding or rolling engagement with an inner slide, and a brake comprising at least one pivot member may be coupled to the inner slide.

Lift mechanism systems and methods

Using a standard ice auger having a central shaft, a spiral flighting affixed thereon, and an ice cutting blade at the lower end of the flighting, a cylindrical ice hole is bored through an ice sheet. The inventive apparatus, mounted adjacent a lower portion of the standard ice auger, is then used to form an inverted funnel-shaped area at the lower end of the cylindrical ice hole. The inventive apparatus includes a bracket mounted to the ice auger and an ice hole flaring blade pivotally mounted to the bracket. A spring biases the ice hole flaring blade toward a transport position wherein the blade has its free end extending toward an upper end of the ice auger. The ice hole flaring blade is pivotable to an operable position wherein the blade is aligned generally below the ice cutting blade of the auger and has its free end extending downwardly and outwardly from the central shaft of the ice auger. In this operable position, the ice hole flaring blade is aligned to cut an angled cone-shaped face at the bottom edge of the previously formed cylindrical ice hole.

Inverted cone cutter attachment for ice auger

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Shoreview, MN, United States of America

Jeffrey M Eliason