Abstract: A head support designed to maintain a face-down position for a user during post-operative care after eye surgery. The head support is wearable like a hat, has a removable liner, is cushioned to protect the head and eye, is adjustable to head size, is adjustable to height in use, is securely retainable on a user's head, and is adapted to prevent side to side rocking or tipping over.

Abstract: A wheel assembly for use in combination with wheeled luggage to counter-balance gravitational forces exerted on the wheeled luggage when it is tilted forwarded and rolled. The wheel assembly has a shock-absorbing bias mechanism to absorb shock while transporting the wheeled luggage across a surface; a housing for the shock-absorbing bias mechanism; and a transport mechanism adjacent to the shock-absorbing bias mechanism to provide additional surface contact and load support to aid in rolling the wheeled luggage.

Abstract: A method of preparing organic acids (fulvic, humic, and ulmic) for use as an electrolyte for producing high ionizations of precious metals (such as silver) which entails leaching out the organic acid from its source, stabilizing the organic acid first with ascorbic acid followed by sodium benzoate, removing cations, and using the organic acid as an electrolyte. A precious metal (such as silver) is used as a sacrificial electrode in this electrolyte. A non-sacrificial electrode could either be the same precious metal or an inert non-precious metal (titanium or graphite carbons). If the same material is used for the non-sacrificial electrode as for the sacrificial electrode, the size of each electrode may be about the same. If different material is used for the non-sacrificial electrode, its size should be larger that of the sacrificial electrode. Current at about 2 or more volts is applied to the electrodes and the ionization process begins yielding high concentrations of ionized precious metals.

Abstract: A method of printing personalized variable image requirements by (a) placing all print jobs with similar print image requirements into a particular group, all images for a specific entity in that group being a set; (b) printing images of each set in sequence of arrangement and in cycles, each cycle being a number of images up to the number of storage bins of a printing apparatus used for the print job; (c) storing the printed cycles in the storage bins until all sheets to the sets being stored there are completed; (d) unloading completed sets; repeating steps (b) and (c) if additional sets in the group require printing; (e) ending the print job if all sets for the group have been printed; (f) determining whether a next print job for another group is pending; (g) repeating steps (b)-(g)if a next print job is pending; and (h) ending all print jobs if no print job is pending.

Abstract: A transcutaneous medical electrode for use with devices for introduce electrical signals into areas of the body or for receiving electrical signals from body areas. The electrode includes a flexible electrically conductive sheet having an electrically conductive adhesive layer on one surface. A female connector having an opening for receiving a conventional lead wire tip is secured to the opposite surface of the sheet. A sheathed male connector includes a tip for insertion into the female connector opening without exposing the tip to touching by the operator of the device or the patient. The female connector is preferably tubular with an approximately axial opening. The female connector may be secured to the sheet, parallel to the sheet, with the male connector receiving end extending beyond and edge of the sheet.

Abstract: An illuminatable beverage accessory device having at least one light; at least one power source; a cartridge having a chamber for the light and a chamber for the power source which is either adapted to permit the power source, upon suitable application of external force, to reciprocally translate from one side (to turn the light on) to the other side (to turn the light off) or which uses a push-button switch device; and a housing having a cavity therein covering the cartridge. It is preferably constructed in a water-tight fashion to permit its use and illumination in a liquid. It is also preferably constructed to simulated a partially melted ice cube or ice berg and is adapted to house and display messages of various three-dimensional objects from within.

Abstract: An adjustable screed with a flexible body (suited for use in cut-out areas) or a rigid body (suited for use adjacent to wall-like structures), a horizontal adjustment mechanism for establishing a horizontal plane for the screed and for securely maintaining the horizontal plane, and a vertical stabilizing mechanism for attaching the screed to an external object whereby when one or more screeds are being attached to the external object, the screed is adjusted and aligned to a single horizontal plane, securely maintained at that horizontal plane, and the vertical stabilizing mechanism maintains the attachment of the screed to the external object and maintains vertical stability of the screed as horizontal adjustments are being made.

Abstract: A segue component for transferring data between a client and server such that the transfer is platform- and protocol-independent. The component is linked to applications in a computer system and connected to a transport medium for transporting data between applications.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating raw influent water to remove particles, algae and toxic chemicals from the water. Basically, air is dissolved in recirculated water under high pressure in an air contactor unit, the air saturated water is intimately mixed with the raw, particle bearing, water in a particle mixing system, and the water, particle and air mixture is passed through an air bubble separator wherein bubbles formed when the pressure on air saturated water is reduced carry away toxic gases and particulate material. If desired for further cleaning the water can be sent through a second series of air contactor, particle mixer and air bubble separation, but with a gas comprising ozone to further remove suspended particles and non-volatile dissolved organic matter. In order to improve mixing of the particles and the air saturated water passing through tubes, preferably a pattern of dimples is formed on at least part of the interior wall of the tubes.

Abstract: A method of repairing metal surfaces, in particular hydraulic cylinder interior walls and pistons, which are damaged by scoring, denting, grooving, etc. A catalytically hardened synthetic resin, preferably an epoxy, is mixed with a selected metal powder to form a mixture which, when hardened has a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially equal to that of the metal surface. A hardener is mixed with the filled resin and the damaged areas are filled with the mixture. The resin is cured, then dressed so that the damaged areas conform to adjacent undamaged surfaces. The repair area (and other surface areas, if desired) is then electroplated with a hoard, tough, wear-resistant metal, preferably by brush plating. The plated areas are then polished and the repaired article is ready for use.

Abstract: A method of strengthening threads holding an article, such as a button, onto a fabric substrate by applying a bonding solution onto a damaged thread bundle holding the article onto the substrate; ensuring penetration of the bonding solution such that the bonding solution coats all thread strands of the damaged thread bundle from top to bottom including thread strands sewn into the fabric substrate to thereby form a coated thread bundle; and curing the coated thread bundle to form an aggregate stem which is stronger than the original thread bundle and more securely holds the article onto the fabric substrate. The properties of the bonding solution to perform in the manner stated require that it be a low-VOC, water-based urethane, water-based acrylic, or water-based urethane-acrylic being a single-component, non-catalyzed, solution further having non-ambering and heat- and water-resistant qualities after curing.

Abstract: A poultry steamer having a base with a floor and an upstanding perimeter wall; an upwardly projecting removable support member on the floor for receiving and supporting poultry; a contourable ante base above the floor; a non-porous contourable protective shield above the ante base; and a removable cover, with a removable handle mechanism, fitting over the support member and contourably onto the ante base thereby defining a sealed chamber inside the cover for housing the poultry and defining an open space between the cover and the upstanding perimeter wall.

Abstract: An assembly for wheels which are mountable on objects, such as in-line skates and wheel chairs, which have a frame for receiving the wheel.

Abstract: A dispensing device having a first member connectable to a container which has a passage. A second member is movably connectable to the first member. A registration mechanism reflects a first position and a second position as the members are moved relative to each other. The first member has a mixing chamber, with one or more capillaries, and an opening; each in communication with the passage of the container. The second member has a dispensing chamber, to hold Fluid-1 for dispensement, and an outlet. In the first position, the outlet is in discharge communication with the opening permitting discharge from the outlet of Fluid-2 in the container. During relative movement when the device is between the first and second positions, the outlet is sealed from the opening and the capillaries, and the dispensing chamber passes over the mixing chamber depositing Fluid-1 into the mixing chamber.

Abstract: A steering shaft lock for heavy-duty trucks having a steering shaft and accessible universal joint. The steering shaft lock has an elongated member and a flexible member attached to one end of the elongated member. The elongated member is steel bar-like member and the flexible member is a link-chain type member having one or more apertures or links. The elongated member is adapted to engage a spaced defined in the universal joint and protrude therefrom. The flexible member is adapted to lockingly engage the outer perimeter of the elongated member (at the point of its protrusion) with a locking device, such as a padlock. The steering shaft is locked by moving the flexible member toward the protrusion of the elongated member and placing the shackle of a locking device through one aperture of the flexible member and over the outer perimeter of the elongated member.

Abstract: A writing implement having an elongated body with a chamber inside; a removable end member on the body; an elongated rod-like removable inscribing member within the body; and, on the body, a door with a hinge edge movably attached to the body and an opening edge opposite the hinge edge which, when the door is opened, exposes the chamber inside the body and also exposes an outer edge on the body which, when the door is closed, this outer edge is adjacent to and aligned with the opening edge. The writing implement also has a removable (and thereby, replenishable) roll of paper housable in the chamber and rollably held there by the inscribing member such that as paper is needed, the door is opened, the paper is unrolled to a desired length, the door is closed, and the paper so removed from the chamber is torn at the opening edge. Serrations on the opening edge and the outer edge facilitate the tearing.