Abstract: A receptacle for packaging particulate ice and for selectively storing and cooling consumables including a box type receptacle with an extendable upper portion consisting of folded cardboard flaps. The upper portion of which includes expanding top flaps which fold to form a top seal through the use of frictional engagement offset notches. The upper portion of the structure is provided with circular access areas through which drinks may be inserted while being consumed.

Abstract: A machine including a control system having a timer for producing bags made from thermoplastic resin films of varying thickness. A pair of feed rollers intermittently feeds a continuous flat tubular web of thermoplastic resin between an upper heat sealing bar and a lower sealing surface. The sealing bar, which approaches but does not contact the web, is heated to effect a weld bead on the web, a cutting edge severs the web adjacent the bead, and the feed rollers advance the web as the sealing bar and cutting edge are withdrawn. A sequencer provides timed control of a motor that operates the rollers and another motor that operates the sealing bar and cutting edge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a live vaccine against mumps, which contains live mumps viruses which are capable of multiplication and have been attenuated principally by passages in diploid human tissue cultures. The vaccine is substantially free from proteins and antibiotics.The invention also relates to the process for the preparation of a live vaccine against mumps, which comprises obtaining live mumps viruses from the urine of patients with an acute attack of mumps, passaging the viruses in diploid human cells, thereby attenuating the viruses by repeated passages in tissue of this type and, optionally further attenuating the viruses by passaging in embryonic or fertilized chicken eggs, optionally further attenuating the viruses by further passaging in diploid human cells, thereby adapting the viruses to human tissue, isolating, cultivating, and then processing the live mumps viruses.

Abstract: A balanced skeletal traction apparatus for aligning fractured leg bones of a patient lying in a supine recuperative position including an underlying solid polygon support member, a horizontal traction device operable to be connected to a patient's lower leg for providing longitudinal traction and at least one securing member operable to releasably secure a patient's leg with respect to the underlying solid polygon support member.

Abstract: A support for a disc narrow assembly wherein a standard ball bearing unit is utilized and is encased in a housing formed of opposing mirror image bushings which are further enclosed by a pair of opposing mirror image flange members that are releasably affixed to a vehicle carrier.

Abstract: A bag making machine sealer slitter apparatus for transversely sealing together and severing two layers of a tubular web of thermoplastic resin film, thereby forming a bag wherein the sealer slitter apparatus essentially comprising a sealing mans having two opposing seal bars equipped with heaters and a severing means including a retractable, superheated cutting edge.

Abstract: A caster wheel which enhances critical shimmy velocity so as to minimize shimmy effects in operation. Two tread surface for contact with a ground surface and a pivot assembly for pivoting the wheel about a first vertical axis displaced from a second vertical axis extending through the center point of the wheel are provided such that the separation between the two tread surfaces strategically relate via a mathematical equation to said displacement in a manner for achieving a desired critical shimmy velocity.

Abstract: A tissue holding and processing technique suitable for immunofluorescence, histochemical, and light microscopic analysis of the same specimen. The tissue is first placed in formol sucrose, and then transferred to gum sucrose. The tissue is subsequently washed in phosphate buffered saline, then acetone-water, then acetone, and finally in xylene. Finally, the tissue is embedded in paraffin. Tissue processed according to the present invention may be stored indefinitely in the gum sucrose or paraffin.

Abstract: This invention relates to a universal medical forcep tool having a main body portion for receiving a replaceable grasping portion having grasping tips and respective support handles on which the tips are mounted. The main body portion forms a receptacle for receiving the replaceable grasping portions.

Abstract: For the disposal of salt-containing dusts of incinerator plants, with addition of water the salt-containing dusts are intensively mixed with other waste materials, such as ashes and fly ashes from thermal power plants fired with hard coal or brown coal, waste materials from foundries containing quartz sands and waste materials from calcium carbide production, the mixture containing at least 8% hydrothermally reactive calcium oxide or equivalent amounts of other hydrothermally reactive calcium compounds and the water addition being so rated that an optimum compacting is possible and the mixture is thereafter processed by compacting to give stable firm compacts and the compacts subsequently hardened in an autoclave by saturated steam at a pressure of at least 1 bar.

Abstract: A shoulder arthroscopy abduction apparatus for use during a diagnostic and/or surgical procedure including a generally rectangular, homogeneous forearm sleeve member having two apertures located at one end. The first aperture receives a patient's thumb and the second aperture receives a patient's little finger. The forearm sleeve member releasably attaches to a generally U-shaped gripping and support member, having a pair of lateral support arms.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of isolating deletion mutants of Vibrio cholerae, wherein the deletion is predetermined by digestion with restriction endonucleases of known specificity. The deletions are inserted into the Vibrio cholerae chromosome by in vivo recombination betweem a plasmid carrying the desired deletion, with adjacent flanking sequences, and the Vibrio cholerae chromosome. The invention includes the isolation and characterization of a new Vibrio cholerae strain having a deletion in the tox gene, as defined by Acc I restriction endonuclease sites.

Abstract: An adjustable splint made of silver or gold alloys for stabilizing in extension or realigning the interphalangeal joints of the fingers and thumb consisting of two elliptical rings joined by an elliptical spacer. The individually sized proximal and distal elliptical rings are worn about the fingers on either side of the joint being splinted and disposed at an angle with respect to the axis of the finger. The rings are joined by an elliptical spacer which is placed over the dorsal surface of the joint and sized to distribute and spread the pressure uniformly and comfortably over the surface of the joint. The spacer acts in conjunction with the proximal and distal rings to hold the finger in varying degrees of extension, depending on the adjustment of the splint. The splint may be rotated 90.degree., placing the spacer on the lateral border of a joint to realign an angularly deviated joint.