Abstract: Bed safety rails with added structures for added functionality are shown and described. The added structures may provide additional functionality, aside from safety and security, of electrical power access, a shelf, a cup-holder, a writing-implement-holder, a light-source, a dry erase board, and/or a magnet board for a given bed safety rail. A given bed safety rail may include at least one vertical-safety-rail-member and at least one horizontal-anchor-member that is attached to the vertical-safety-rail-member. The at least one vertical-safety-rail-member may provide the safety and security features; as well as the additional functional features. The at least one horizontal-anchor-member may have structure permitting the given bed safety rail to be removably anchored to a given bed.

Abstract: Flexible frameworks are described including a plurality of at least one structural component having a waveform axially stacked and configured to form at least one internal conduit.

Abstract: Flexible frameworks are described including a plurality of at least one structural component having a waveform axially stacked and configured to form at least one internal conduit.

Abstract: Bed safety rails with added structures for added functionality are shown and described. The added structures may provide additional functionality, aside from safety and security, of electrical power access, a shelf, a cup-holder, a writing-implement-holder, a light-source, a dry erase board, and/or a magnet board for a given bed safety rail. A given bed safety rail may include at least one vertical-safety-rail-member and at least one horizontal-anchor-member that is attached to the vertical-safety-rail-member. The at least one vertical-safety-rail-member may provide the safety and security features; as well as the additional functional features. The at least one horizontal-anchor-member may have structure permitting the given bed safety rail to be removably anchored to a given bed.

Abstract: A guide catheter includes an outer guide having an open lumen and a longitudinal pre-stress line extending between a distal end and a proximal end of the outer guide. The outer guide has a longitudinal stiffness that facilitates transmission of forces and prevention of kinking during steering of the outer guide within cardiac vasculature and structures. An inner guide has an open lumen and is movably displaceable within the open lumen of the outer guide. At least a distal end of the outer guide and inner guide are dimensioned for passage into the patient's coronary sinus. A guide handle is connected to the proximal end of the outer guide and includes a longitudinal pre-stress line separable into at least two sections such that guide handle separation splits the outer guide along the longitudinal pre-stress line at the proximal end of the outer guide.

Abstract: Methods of using a guide catheter employ a retractable inner guide movably disposed within an open lumen of a splittable outer guide. The outer guide includes a longitudinal pre-stress line extending from distal to proximal ends. The inner guide includes an open lumen adapted to receive a payload. The inner guide is translatable and rotatable relative to the outer guide. The guide catheter further includes a proximally attached guide handle which is separable into at least two sections. Separation of the guide handle splits the proximal end of the outer guide. Proximal outer guide retraction continues the splitting of the outer guide along the longitudinal pre-stress line.

Abstract: An intracorporeal catheter such as a guiding catheter employed for intravascular procedures which generally has an elongated catheter shaft with a polymeric wall with a multistrand reinforcing structure wherein the strands at a plurality of cross point locations of the reinforcing structure are secured together to hold at least part of the braided reinforcing structure in a desired shape for utilization. The strands may be metallic or polymeric or mixtures thereof. The strands can be secured together at the cross points thereof by a variety of ways.

Abstract: An intracorporeal catheter such as a guiding catheter employed for intravascular procedures which generally has an elongated catheter shaft with a polymeric wall with a multistrand reinforcing structure wherein the strands at a plurality of cross point locations of the reinforcing structure are secured together to hold at least part of the braided reinforcing structure in a desired shape for utilization. The strands may be metallic or polymeric or mixtures thereof. The strands can be secured together at the cross points thereof by a variety of ways.

Abstract: An axis indicator contains a long rectangular tube placed within the saddle of a dental bracket. The indicator contains a projection which is parallel to the archwire slot in the dental bracket and can be aligned parallel to the occlusal plane of the patient. Thus, use of the axis indicator insures proper placement of the dental bracket on the teeth.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for controlling the flow of cooling water to the top of a hot metal strip on a runout table is disclosed. Cooling water is continuously discharged from nozzles in spray bars above the strip and cooling is controlled by selectively diverting the water from selected ones of the spray bars to control the volume and location of the water applied. Movable deflector plates are mounted adjacent predetermined spray bars and actuators are provided to selectively move the deflector plates to deflect water into a fixed trough to be diverted from the top of the strip.

Abstract: A rolling mill stand has upper and lower work rolls supported in chocks which include liner plates on their side faces for bearing against the side faces of the mill stand housing, with the side faces of the chocks being shaped so that the liner plates on both the upper and lower work roll chocks extend both above and below the pass line defined by the work rolls. Projections on one chock and its liner plates extend into corresponding recesses on the other chock and its liner plates so that portions of liner plates on the two chocks extend in generally side-by-side relation in a region extending across the pass line.