Abstract: Prepared tape for securing devices, such as inserted intravenous needles, catheters, and/or associated tubing and tubing components comprising lengths of a base tape and an anchoring tape, each having a pressure sensitive surface and a nonadherent backing, the backings being joined together so that at least one segment of the anchoring tape's adhesive surface can be wrapped onto the device to be secured by adhesion of the base tape to a patient's skin or a support. The adhesive surfaces of the tapes are covered prior to use by release materials provided with pull-tabs. An edge of the base tape is preferably idented to stabilize the patient's skin adjacent the point of entry of an inserted needle.

Abstract: Newspaper retaining closure used in combination with an open-ended newspaper delivery receptacle. The closure is pivoted in the upper portion of the receptacle near its open end; it has a length greater than the vertical distance from the pivot to the bottom of the receptacle and extends inwardly of the receptacle, whereby the closure is lifted as a newspaper is inserted but partly closes the open end of the receptacle after the newspaper is inserted. The frontal area of the closure is insufficient to allow it to be lifted inwardly by normal winds and drafts.

Abstract: Self-closing, snap-open pouch or sack type of flexible container having closure emore transversely flexible in one direction than in the other under longitudinal load and/or more outwardly flexible at or toward its center than at its ends. Opposed transverse creases adjacent the ends of each closure strip insure that the strips will spring apart under a longitudinal compressive load applied substantially to both strips. The walls of the containers are made from sheet material with a pair of closure strips secured to the sheet margins; longitudinal center folding of the sheet brings the closure strips into opposed juxtaposition and allows the folded sheet to be severed and end-sealed to form individual containers and place the ends of one closure element in a pivotal relationship with the ends of an opposite closure element.

Abstract: A motor-fan unit for a wet pick-up type of vacuum cleaner comprising a fan-section and a separately ventilated motor section. A motor-end bracket in the motor housing structure serves as a common end wall with the fan section and carries a bearing for the common shaft of the motor and fan. A baffle carried by the motor-end bracket within the fan section has an apertured central portion, at least partly enclosing the bearing, to provide a passage-way for high velocity air sealing the bearing from detergent-containing cleaning liquid entrained in working air drawn into the fan section. A normally closed check valve at an inlet to the sealing air passageway inhibits back-flow of either air or liquid through the inlet but permits such sealing air to serve as cooling air when the entrance of working air into the fan section is impeded.

Abstract: Glazed ceramic jardiniere with raised integral portions on the interior of its bottom section providing stable support for and drainage from a flower pot to be enclosed therein, the upper edges of said support being unglazed, and a method of making the same comprising positioning unglazed vitreous supporting members after applying glaze to the ware and then firing said ware after stacking with other such ware.

Abstract: An omnidirectional, vertically polarized antenna having a lower, 1/4 wavelength skirt made up of circumferentially-spaced arms which extend down from the lower end of a vertical, 1/4 wavelength, upper radiator at an angle between 12 degrees and 25 degrees, and preferably 17 degrees. The upper radiator carries a multi-spoke capacity "hat" to increase its electrical length.

Abstract: A hollow building-block-type module for a wall construction that utilizes a plurality of such modules laid up with mortared joints in staggered courses and with horizontal and vertical reinforcing bars embedded in concrete poured into the spaces or voids within the hollow blocks. The module comprises parallel side walls joined by vertical webs to define an integral void between adjacent webs of the module and voids between adjacent webs of abutting modules. The voids in each course are vertically aligned in stacks with voids of other courses and the webs are provided with notches for locating the horizontal reinforcing bars away from an adjacent side wall. The module also has lips projecting inwardly from the side walls defining an integral void so that a vertical rod inserted in a stack of voids between a side wall and the horizontal reinforcing bars is also spaced away from the interior surface of the respective side walls of the vertically aligned voids.

Abstract: A wet pick-up type vacuum motor fan unit with a separately ventilated motor section and a motor end bracket serving also as a support for, and part of a discharge end housing wall for, the working air fan section, has on the bracket fanward face a centrally apertured metal disk plate defining a flow space or path for bearing sealing air flow from ambient air inlets external of the motor section to a central discharge into the inlet eye of an auxiliary fan clamped on the shaft back-to-back with a larger diameter working air centrifugal fan adjacent the end bracket.

Abstract: Body constructions for valves responsive to temperatures of inlet fluid so as to open or close thermostatic valve elements and, respectively, direct fluid flow to heat-exchangers or by-pass them. Flow is diverted from the axis of the inlet to permit ready access to thermostatic valves and/or improve flow to heat-exchangers.

Abstract: Antenna having a selectively rotatably extendable sensitivity pattern provided by an array of three or more dipole antenna units, each of substantially equal mechanical length and located at the corners of a substantially regular polygon having the same number of sides as the number of units in the array and switching means having connections to each dipole unit to selectively energize at least one of said units and interpose an electrically-lengthening inductive reactance in at least two other units located, with respect to the direction in which the sensitivity is to be extended, behind and on either side of an energized unit to serve as parasitic reflectors extending the lobe of sensitivity of an energized unit in the selected direction.

Abstract: Disposable container closures of low gas and vapor permeability, high-impact resistant, cleanly combustible thermoplastics fusable to the rim of container openings to seal the same but readily manually opened by integral tab positioned to commence tears along score lines promoting and utilizing the unexpected relatively low resistance of the otherwise tough materials to continued tearing once a tear is started.

Abstract: Reinforcing patch for corners of sails, particularly clews and tacks, comprised of substantially rectangular patch panels fanned outwardly from the grommets at the corners of a sail, the outer edges of the patch panels defining chords of a substantially circular arc centered on the point of strain at the sail corner. Patch formed by sewing overlapping edges of the formed patch panels to each other and the panel or panels of the sail's corner reinforced thereby.