Abstract: A modular radial head system including a modular implant for replacing the head of the proximal end of a radius and for articulating with the capitellum of a humerus. The modular implant includes a modular head and an modular stem. The system further includes a modular radial head locking instrument for locking the modular head and the modular stem of the modular implant to one another. The locking instrument includes a first jaw, a second jaw, and a control mechanism for urging the first and second jaws together to provide offset axial compression of the modular head and the modular stem of the modular implant.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a portable massaging machine to a support member having a seat portion. The apparatus includes anchor structure for being held fixed to the support member by the person using the apparatus; a backboard member attached to the anchor structure; and securing structure for movably securing the portable massaging machine to the backboard member.

Abstract: A distal radial plate including a longitudinal segment having a proximal end and a distal end; a transverse segment having a lateral end and a medical end; the distal end of the longitudinal segment attached to the transverse segment intermediate the lateral and medial ends of the transverse segment to form a T-shape; the longitudinal segment having a plurality of spherically recessed holes and having a slot with a proximal end and a distal end; the distal end of the slot having a spherical recess; the proximal end of the slot having a beveled edge which converges distally with the spherical recess of the slot; the transverse segment having a plurality of spherically recessed holes. An extender seats in one of the holes in the transverse segment of the distal radial plate and provides an additional hole on the lateral side of the transverse segment of the plate. Buttress pins have specially formed collars to be secured to the distal radial plate via a “snap-lock.

Abstract: A system including modular radial head implants, sizers for trial reduction of the joint, and instrumentation for preparing the radial head, implanting the sizers, assembling the implants.

Abstract: A roof ridge vent for covering an opening at a peak of a roof. The roof ridge vent includes a top panel portion having first and second opposed lateral edges and having first and second opposed ends. The roof ridge vent includes a plurality of support members depending downwardly from the underside of the top panel portion, and the roof ridge vent also includes first and second lateral ventilation louvers respectively disposed adjacent the first and second opposed lateral edges. The vent also has first and second undulating sidewalls respectively downwardly depending from, and adjacent to, the first and second opposed lateral edges, with each of the sidewalls being non-planar and undulating along its said respective lateral edge such that the roof ridge vent may be flexingly rolled lengthwise into a spiral roll prior to installation and further may be unrolled lengthwise during installation over the peak of a roof.

Abstract: An apparatus including ductwork with an inlet duct having an inlet port for receiving a cotton/trash mix discharged by a cotton gin, a lint cotton outlet duct having a lint cotton outlet port for allowing lint cotton to exit therethrough, and a trash outlet port intermediate the inlet port of the inlet duct and the lint cotton outlet port of the lint cotton outlet duct for allowing trash to exit therethrough; the inlet duct having an interior passageway, at least a portion of the interior passageway of the inlet duct having a contour with a variable cross-sectional area; the lint cotton outlet duct having an interior passageway, at least a portion of the interior passageway of the lint cotton outlet duct having a contour with a variable cross-sectional area.

Abstract: A roof ridge vent for covering an opening at a peak of a roof. The roof ridge vent includes a top panel portion having first and second opposed lateral edges and having first and second opposed ends. The roof ridge vent includes a plurality of support members depending downwardly from the underside of the top panel portion, and the roof ridge vent also includes first and second lateral ventilation louvers respectively disposed adjacent the first and second opposed lateral edges. The vent also has first and second undulating sidewalls respectively downwardly depending from, and adjacent to, the first and second opposed lateral edges, with each of the sidewalls being non-planar and undulating along its said respective lateral edge such that the roof ridge vent may be flexingly rolled lengthwise into a spiral roll prior to installation and further may be unrolled lengthwise during installation over the peak of a roof.

Abstract: An automatic warning signal system for a leading vehicle (e.g., an automobile, car, truck, tanker, van, bus, motor home, motorcycle, or other vehicles, etc., as well as trailers of all kinds in-tow, etc.) including a detector for detecting when a following vehicle comes within a target area too close to the rear of the leading vehicle, and a circuit for coupling a signal device and an energy source to cause the signal device to produce a warning signal which includes activating the brake light or lights of the leading vehicle without the actual application of the brakes to caution the driver of the following vehicle when the detector detects the following vehicle within the target area too close to the rear of the leading vehicle, causing the driver of the following vehicle to slow down and thus increase the distance between the two vehicles and prevent rear end collision in case of an emergency.

Abstract: A horseshoe cleaning tool and method for cleaning under a horseshoe shod to a horse's hoof. The tool includes a blade portion having a blade neck with proximal and distal ends, and the blade portion has a substantially thin and planar tip portion adjacent the blade neck distal end. The tip portion has left and right wing-type extensions each extending laterally outward within the plane of the tip portion and respectively having a left and a right pointed tip remote from the blade neck. The left and right wing-type extensions respectively form left and right notches of about 90 degrees adjacent the blade neck distal end, and the tip portion is substantially rounded intermediate the left and right pointed tips. The tool has a handle grip spaced from the plane of the tip portion, and a blade mounting segment extends upwardly and rearwardly from the blade neck's proximal end and joins to the handle grip.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cleaning a dental articulator of the type including a body member having a plurality of precisely spaced holes extending therethrough. The apparatus including a base; and a plurality of precisely spaced pins extending from the base for insertion into the plurality of precisely spaced holes in the body member of the dental articulator to clean any debris from the plurality of precisely spaced holes in the body member of the dental articulator. The pins of the apparatus have the same precise spacing as the precisely spaced holes extending through the body member of the articulator and being sized to be inserted into and through the precisely spaced holes extending through the body member of the articulator. The method includes the step of forcing the pins of the apparatus through the precisely spaced holes extending through the body member of the articulator.

Abstract: A drapery system comprising, in combination, an elongated track; a carrier slidably attached to the track, the carrier having a snap member; a connector including a body member, an arm member attached to the body member, and a snap member attached to the arm member thereof and removably secured to the snap member of the carrier; and a drapery panel including an upper end attached to the body member of the connector.

Abstract: Eyewear with earpieces supported from a wearer's ear with optional audio apparatus for use by the wearer, having a front frame browpiece portion including a front transparent panel that may be tinted and/or may be designed to correct vision impairments, being supported on a wearer's head by a nose bridge and by at least one earpiece or earplug that is received into the concha of the wearer's ear and/or into the ear canal. The earpiece or earplug is attached to a rear end of its respective temple of the eyewear and the respective temple for the earpiece or earplug is not supported over the wearer's ear. Preferably both temples are only supported by their respective rear earpiece or earplug. The earpieces of some embodiments sealingly and protectively plug the ear canal of the wearer. The eyewear may include an optional microphone, whether as a boom-mounted microphone or an ear microphone, and may include audio earpieces for reproducing sound from an audio signal source.

Abstract: Apparatus for the expansion and/or heat treatment of oleo resinous material of the type which includes a tubular housing having a rotatably driven screw for conveying material to be treated towards the outlet end of the tubular housing. An outlet discharge device is adjacent the outlet end of the housing for providing for the discharge of the material from the outlet end. The outlet discharge device includes a main ring attached to the housing at the outlet end. The head in the preferred embodiment has a plurality of teeth and depressions around the periphery of the head and the main ring also has a plurality of matching teeth and depressions in the inner circumference thereof. Alternatively, the peripheral face of the head and the inner circumference of main ring may be without depressions and teeth, but instead may respectively be in the form of a continuous face.

Abstract: An improved soccer goal of the type including a net and a frame for supporting the net. The frame includes a first vertical front post, a second vertical front post, a front bottom cross bar, a front top cross bar, a first horizontal side bar, a second horizontal side bar, a rear bottom cross bar, a first diagonal strut, and a second diagonal strut. The improvement includes an intermediate cross bar having a first end for attachment to the first diagonal strut and a second end for attachment to the second diagonal strut with the net attached to the intermediate cross bar to create a first back stop portion extending between the intermediate cross bar and the front top cross bar and a second back stop portion extending diagonally between the intermediate cross bar and the front bottom cross bar.

Abstract: A focal plane scanner having a front objective lens, a spatial window for selectively passing a portion of the image therethrough, and a CCD array for receiving the passed portion of the image. All embodiments have a common feature whereby the spatial window and CCD array are mounted for simultaneous relative reciprocating movement with respect to the front objective lens, and the spatial window is mounted within the focal plane of the front objective. In a first embodiment, the spatial window is a slit and the CCD array is one-dimensional, and successive rows of the image in the focal plane of the front objective lens are passed to the CCD array by an image relay lens interposed between the slit and the CCD array. In a second embodiment, the spatial window is a slit, the CCD array is two-dimensional, and a prism-grating-prism optical spectrometer is interposed between the slit and the CCD array so as to cause the scanned row to be split into a plurality of spectral separations onto the CCD array.