An awning mechanism for a recreational vehicle having a slider includes a box awning having a frame and a roller disposed therein with an awning rolled about the roller and extendable therefrom. The awning includes a leading edge and a bracket is provided for mounting the frame to a stationary wall of the recreational vehicle. A header attachable to the slider beneath the frame is provided with the bracket and the header having a generally coplanar relationship with the slide out in a fully retr...

A slide-out mechanism is provided that adjusts the elevation of a slide-out room relative to the main body of a vehicle. In one preferred embodiment, the slide-out mechanisms includes a tube roller mounted near the edge of the floor to slide vertically. The top end of the tube roller contacts the floor of the slide-out room while the bottom of the tube roller rolls along an extending arm. The extending arm includes a groove which allows the tube roller to reduce its vertical position when the sl...

An item taking-out container making it possible to take out small items, such as candies or chocolates, one by one is composed of a container main body equipped with an accommodating portion capable of accommodating a plurality of items of a predetermined configuration and a cover member, an opening communicating with the accommodating portion being formed at a predetermined position on the surface of the container main body, the cover member being rotatably supported with respect to the contain...

A pay-out tube adapted to be used in conjunction with a capable container for directing cable from a winding disposed within the container. The pay-out tube includes a molded tube for receiving and guiding cable from the interior of the cable container and includes a surrounding wall having a series of spaced-apart ribs integrally molded into the wall and extending from the wall such that the thickness of the individual rigs exceed the thickness of the wall. Further, the pay-out tube includes a ...

A pull-out kitchen sprayer, comprising a central body that is accommodated within an outer enclosure whose shape is such as to require assembly with a particular orientation, the central body comprising a switching device with a slider and a rod provided with a flow control element and with actuation buttons at its two ends, the outer enclosure having facing openings that allow to access the buttons, one of the openings being formed so as to face the user.

Memory access requests are successively received in a memory request queue of a memory controller. Any conflicts or potential delays between temporally proximate requests that would occur if the memory access requests were to be executed in the received order are detected, and the received order of the memory access requests is rearranged to avoid or minimize the conflicts or delays and to optimize the flow of data to and from the memory data bus. The memory access requests are executed in the r...

A tie-out that is attachable to a door and allows a user to secure an object or a pet to the door. When used with pets, the tie-out allows the user to connect a pet's leash to either side of a door without having to remove and reconfigure the tie-out, and is also configured to hold a pet's leash securely to a door without coming loose or damaging the door. Typically the tie-out is mounted to the bottom edge of the door, but may be mounted on a side edge of the door depending upon the design. In ...

A tray for food and beverages in which the beverage cup recesses are adapted to retain differing size cups by reason of an arcuate projection from the bottom at one side of such recess.

In loading apparatus for conveying the articles from inside a warehouse or the like and stacking them in a transport car parked at a loading dock or the like in a continuous operation. The loading apparatus includes a main frame positioned a distance inside a warehouse doorway, an arrangement of upper and lower conveyors that move in and are guided by the frame to extend toward and back away from the transport car a selected distance and a discharge conveyor pivotally mounted on a wheeled vehicl...

Apparatus for paying out a bonus or a premium when a machine, such as a petrol pump, has dispensed a predetermined quantity of a commodity. The apparatus comprises a control device in a housing and a pay-out device on the housing. The control device is arranged to generate an output signal to actuate the pay-out device when the machine with which it is associated has dispensed a predetermined quantity of the commodity.