Abstract: An improved energy absorbing assembly for permanently mounting on the rear inner surface of a truck cab directly behind the occupants' heads to protect the occupants' heads and necks from impact.

Abstract: An improved fetal monitoring device which incorporates sensors which permit the monitoring of inutero fetal heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood chemistry and eliminates the collection of such information during maternal contractions.

Abstract: A method for the nonvisible location of pin connectors of cylindrical multi-pin electrical devices in orientation with pin sockets for insertion of the connector pins into the pin sockets to make electrical contact.

Abstract: Method and portable apparatus for separately cutting respective layers of sheet of double-layered sheets which includes a portable apparatus with a pair of adjustable upper and lower parallel cutting assemblies each having angularly oriented cutting blades for separately cutting each sheet in parallel as they are pulled through the upper and lower cutting assemblies.

Abstract: An improved self-contained puncture spout for ridgeseal gable containers which wedgedly engages the ridgeseal to hold it in place in proper orientation to the gable top.

Abstract: A device for handling game pieces is assembled from four uniform elements and when assembled includes a base portion that will fit over a game board and a chimney portion of sufficiently large internal size to permit passage by gravity of game pieces therethrough from the game board and into a bag that is placeable over the chimney portion. The device in one form is of plastic and in another form is of cardboard and is such that it is flat when disassembled to be packageable with a particular game.

Abstract: An improved device for piercing and supporting sheeting from a previously installed ceiling grid molding and method for a single worker to install and seal sheeting around the periphery of a room to isolate the room for asbestos removal.

Abstract: A device to releasably suspend plastic sheeting from a building component includes a suspension member and a clamping member. The suspension member includes a ratcheted mechanism to removably affix it to a building component and a shank which incorporates both an upper fixed clamping surface of a clamping member and a number of circular ratchet teeth which are removably engaged by a lower clamping surface of the clamping member. The upper and lower clamping surfaces acting to compress and hold the sheeting without tearing the sheet.

Abstract: An improved paperboard multiple can carrier made of multilayered laminated paperboard which has at least two layers of recycled paper and two layers of virgin paper. Tearing of the paperboard is prevented by multiple indentations or notches circumferentially extending around the orifices through which cans and fingers are inserted.

Abstract: An improved finger mountable holding device to temporarily hold an object in a tight space on a finger while an operation is performed utilizing the object, the device includes a tubular elastomeric body with a wall, a finger entering first open end an axis, a hole through the wall, a plurality of slits radiating outwardly from the hole to form flaps extending circumferentially around the hole. The flaps are capable of elastically flexing to dilate the hole whereby the object will pass therethrough to subject the flaps to elastic flexure to dilate the hole and to elastically hold the object in predetermined position in which the operation can be performed.

Abstract: Imitation thermostat which in its most elaborate form includes a thermostat face with temperature indication and setting indicator, a following device to have the temperature indicator gradually respond to a change in setting but not electrical or mechanical means to interconnect to a heating/cooling system.

Abstract: An aggregate floor length gown including an upper section which forms a knee length gown with an ornamental lower border and a lower section with an ornamental upper border, the two sections ornamental borders releasably interconnecting to become an integral part of the gown's design and ornamental appearance.

Abstract: A holder for holding a hypodermic syringe sheath includes an operative portion having an upwardly facing surface and a downwardly facing surface and a hole with an upper end in open communication with the upwardly facing surface and a lower end in open communication with the downwardly facing surface. The hole has a lateral size to receive therein a hypodermic syringe sheath of a predetermined size and to hold the sheath in a releasable sliding fit engagement. A method is provided for withdrawing a syringe from press fit engagement with its sheath while leaving the sheath assembled with the holder.

Abstract: An emergency flat roof repair method and material which can be used during rain storms in standing water which involves the spreading of a sealer composed of sodium bentonite particles over the leak by hand or spreader. On contact with water the sealer expands and gravitates to the leak almost instantly plugging the same.

Abstract: A slimming flattener for the female's abdomen which utilizes two lengths of longitudinally stretchable woven elastic webbing in its construction. The first length surrounding the body at the upper hip line on the sides and rear dropping in the front to the mid abdomen. The second length is attached to the first length at the mid abdomen and extends down to and through the groin, then upward across the buttocks to be fastened to the rear of the first length at its mid point.

Abstract: A two piece system and method for driving venous blood from a patient's extremity to prepare the same for local anesthetic. The first piece is a flexible protective undersleeve and the second a flexible pneumatic outer sleeve. Both sleeves have a closed end and an open end for insertion of the body extremity. The protective sleeve is first applied over the body extremity followed by deflated pneumatic outer sleeve. The pneumatic sleeve is then inflated to drive venous blood from the extremity. A tourniquet, which may be the well known proximal and distal cuffs is applied to disrupt arterial blood flow. The pneumatic sleeve is then deflected and removed from the upper body extremity as is the protective undersleeve prior to the administration of local anesthetic.