Abstract: A clothes steaming and drying cabinet comprising a housing defining an interior region for the clothes. Hangers and a bar are provided for suspending jackets and trousers respectively. Weighted bars tension the clothes during steaming. A sub housing houses a heating element and a fan for delivering heated air into the interior region. A boiler tank generates steam for delivery into the region. During the steaming and drying cycle, steam is delivered for a steaming period of the cycle and subsequently heated air is delivered during the drying period of the cycle. During the steaming period, heated air is intermittently delivered into the interior region simultaneously with the steam to reduce the formation of condensation on the interior of the cabinet.

Abstract: An inexpensive, disposable rectal catheter which safely, gently and securely anchors the neck of a plastic bag within the patient's rectum. The device is of such simple construction that it may be both inserted and removed by the patient with one hand. The device features a stool-collecting bag having a narrow neck opening which is folded about a retaining member in the form of a cannula having a plurality of flexible, outwardly biased flanges which act to securely hold the neck of the bag against the inner wall of the rectum. To insert the retainer, an obturator is coupled to the tips of the flanges to hold same inwardly during insertion into the patient's rectum. The obturator is then removed, leaving the bag and retainer in place, which may be easily withdrawn after completion of a bowel movement by the patient.