Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an emergency tourniquet for rapidly and easily reducing or stopping blood flow to an injured limb. The tourniquet utilizes a closed loop system that is formed by passing a portion of a twistable strap, which comprises the loop, through a side opening in a buckle and cinching the strap tightly above an injury and thereafter twisting the strap. Otherwise, a loop may be formed and the injured limb passed through the loop prior to tightening it about the injured limb. The buckle includes an elongated opening that accepts an end or edge of the twistable strap. A free end of the twistable strap passes into a J-hook opening and is secured therein. The strap is then twisted and a notch in the buckle is hooked on an edge of the twistable strap. Bulbous regions are provided on either end of the buckle. A base plate may also be included for further securing the buckle in place to maintain the tourniquet in place until it can be removed by a competent medical professional.

Abstract: A sorting device and method for dynamically allocating bins to objects such as mail pieces. The device has at least one reading device for reading delivery information of objects and a conveying system which transports the objects. At least one feeder inducts the objects onto the conveying system. A plurality of physical bin locations are adjacent to the conveying system for storage of the object injected from the conveying system. A controller or processor dynamically assigns and reassigns sort locations, as required, to the plurality of physical bin locations during a sorting operation for each object of the objects.

Abstract: A network of computers communicate with each other and with a single system manager computer in accordance with the QNX operating system to perform a series of related tasks. When computers at a number of sites running the operating system boot up, they have resident software that will read a hardware configuration switch that is external to the computer. After reading the switch, the hardware node ID is used as the host ID portion of the IP address. Once a network computer is configured with the correct IP address, communication with other computers on the network can begin. Each QNX node will access the System Manager hard disk to access executables and files using the SMB (Server Message Block) file sharing protocol. If the hardware node ID does not match the current software logic node ID as specified by the QNX system, then the proper QNX files will be retrieved from the System Manager and the QNX node will then reboot itself.

Abstract: A sorting device and method for dynamically allocating bins to objects such as mail pieces. The device has at least one reading device for reading delivery information of objects and a conveying system which transports the objects. At least one feeder inducts the objects onto the conveying system. A plurality of physical bin locations are adjacent to the conveying system for storage of the object injected from the conveying system. A controller or processing dynamically assigns and reassigns sort locations, as required, to the plurality of physical bin locations during a sorting operation for each object of the objects.