Abstract: A lens-carrying device is adapted to receive and contain a plurality of optical lenses in side-by-side non-contacting relation. The device is constructed of a first tray and a second tray, adapted to be releasably engaged, with either tray serving as the base or cover of the device. Each tray contains at least one row of longitudinally-spaced side-by-side annular cavities. When the trays are engaged with each other, the annular cavities of each tray are juxtaposed in mirror relation to each other to form a plurality of side-by-side lens-carrying annular chambers for receiving and supporting optical lenses therein.

Abstract: A portable air pump assembly and detachable safety lamp, includes an air compressor; an air supply line supplying pressurized air from the air compressor to a tire; an electrical supply line supplying current to the air compressor; electrical contacts which connect the electrical supply line to the air compressor only when they are in a closed condition; a by-pass air supply line having one end with the air compressor; a pressure limit switch connected with the opposite end of the by-pass air supply line for automatically causing termination of the current supply to the air compressor in response to back pressure from the tire when the tire has been inflated to a desired air pressure; and a safety lamp detachably connected with the housing for providing a warning light and operable in a connected or detached position.

Abstract: A decorative glove for use with fashionwear, wherein the glove completes the fashion look at the wrist and arm areas of the wearer, by providing decorative ornamentation at the outer wrist area of the glove, which may be sleeveless, and terminate at the wrist area, or which may include sleeves which can also incorporate fashion features complementary to the wearer's dress. The decorative glove includes a thin elastic wrist strap; a decorative piece secured to the wrist strap and positioned thereon and a loop having two free ends secured to the wrist strap for removable securement about a finger of the wearer. Such glove leaves the wearer's hands substantially uncovered and unencumbered to perform all of its normal functions. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a sleeve extending rearwardly of the wrist strap, whereby such sleeve forms part of the fashion look of the glove to complement the wearer's dress.

Abstract: A peumatically operated playing device for randomly casting at least one discrete article includes a substantially rigid cubic enclosure having a first opening on one wall thereof and a second opening on another wall thereof; a first elastic membrane covering the first opening; a second elastic membrane covering the second opening; a retraction element on the first elastic membrane for retracting the first elastic membrane; and the substantially rigid enclosure and the first and second elastic membranes defining a hermetically sealed chamber within the substantially rigid enclosure, such that retraction of the first elastic membrane results in a consequent retraction of the second elastic membrane, and subsequent release of the first elastic membrane causes the second elastic membrane to impart a force to any discrete articles which may be positioned in engagement with the second elastic membrane.

Abstract: A device for holding and dispensing paper toweling in roll form, includes a base adapted to be mounted onto a supporting surface for supporting the device; a shaft for rotatably supporting the roll, the shaft including (a) a first shaft portion having first and second opposite ends; (b) a second shaft portion having a first end secured to the base and a second end secured to a first end of the first shaft portion so as to secure the first and second shaft portions selectively in either a co-axial relation or a perpendicular relation; and (c) a third shaft portion having a free end and being telescopically receivable in the first shaft portion in a retracted position when the first and second shaft portions are secured in the co-axial relation and an extended position when the first and second shaft portions are secured in perpendicular relation, whereby the effective shaft length corresponds all times to the length of the paper toweling roll; and a closure cap secured to the free end of the third shaft portio

Abstract: A combination ice scraper and mitt includes an ice scraper formed by an elongated member having a handgrip section and an opposite scraping end with a beveled scraping edge, the elongated member tapering down in width from the scraping end toward the handgrip section; a hook engaging material secured to the ice scraper; a mitt positioned about the handgrip section, the mitt including a first end having an opening to permit insertion of a hand of a user, a second end having an opening for insertion of the handgrip section of the ice scraper, and an inner lining made of a thermal insulating material, to provide warmth to the hand of the user; a hook engageable material secured to the lining inside the mitt, immediately inwardly of the opening in the second end of the mitt, for engagement with the hook engaging material secured to the ice scraper so as to removably secure the ice scraper to the mitt; and an elastic band secured to the mitt in surrounding relation to the opening in the second end for causing the

Abstract: The placing of an artificial intraocular lens device (IOL) in the anterior chamber of the eye (in front of the iris) for treating myopia. The intraocular lens device includes a meniscus style lens which has a plano anterior surface and a concave posterior surface. The edges of the lens are rounded off and the peripheral portion of the lens is considerably thicker than the central portion of the lens. The lens is a minus (negative) refracting lens. The lens is suspended in the anterior chamber by three or four carrying angles or haptics having solid footplates at their ends for anchoring the device in the anatomic angle of the eye. The solid footplates are sized to prevent tissue overgrowth and resulting synechia after placement, additionally facilitating subsequent removal of the lens device from the anterior chamber if necessary. A ridges lens glide is also provided to facilitate insertion of the lens device into the anterior chamber during implantation.

Abstract: A starting solution comprising one or more noncrystalline natural proteinaceous polymers of animal or vegetable origin is molded and gelled in a lens shaped mold and then removed from the mold. Thereafter the gel is crosslinked by immersion in a liquid containing a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for supporting a lamp shade on a variety of lamp sockets of different diameters. The supporting device, also referred to as a lamp shade holder, is constructed with an outer rim adapted to be secured to the lamp shade, an inner rim secured to the outer rim, and two sets of fingers extending from the inner rim and terminating in two different sets of socket engaging ends. One set of socket engaging ends is adapted to engage a first lamp socket having a size falling within a first range of sizes. The other set of socket engaging ends is adapted to engage at least a second lamp socket having a size falling within a second range of sizes which are different from the sizes within the first range. As an additional feature, a plurality of washers of different thicknesses are provided integrally with the lamp shade holder.

Abstract: A device and method for the continued maintenance of percutaneous sinus tracts between medical catheterization procedures. The device comprises an outer tubular and inner cylindrical members designed to be used with a flexible catheter introduced surgically or with the aid of a trocar device. The method comprises the steps of initially introducing the catheter; sleeving the outer tubular member over the catheter until its outer portion rests against the newly formed sinus tract; completing the desired catheterization procedure; removing the catheter while leaving the outer tubular member in place along the sinus tract; sealing the sinus tract by introduction of the inner cylindrical member into the outer tubular member. As a result the integrity of the sinus tract is maintained for subsequent catheterizations. When a new catheterization is desired the inner cylindrical member is removed; the new catheter is introduced and the members of the invention replaced if subsequent catheterizations are desired.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for accurate insertion of a ventricular catheter through the cranial surface into the ventricular system of the human brain. The method includes providing an orifice through the human cranial surface, cutting and coagulating the dural membranes separating the cerebral substances from the interior cranial surface, and inserting a flexible catheter rendered rigid by incorporation of an obdurator in its lumen, or central cavity, through the cranial orifice and the cerebral substances into a ventricle of the brain. The catheter defines its path of entry into the ventricular system through a guide assembly mounted on the exterior of the cranial surface. The guide assembly is disposed to enable the catheter and incorporated obdurator to enter the cranial orifice and cerebral substances and hence the ventricular system at an angle of 90.degree. in relation to an imaginary plane formed by a tangent to the cranial suface at the point of entry through the orifice.

Abstract: An angular position sensor comprising a generator coil driven by an oscillator to provide an alternating magnetic field which is symmetrical about an axis, an annular rotor of electrically-conductive or magnetic material such that it distorts the magnetic field around it and arranged so that it is asymmetrical about its axis of rotation and lies outside the equatorial plane of the magnetic field and two sensing coils disposed within the magnetic field. As the rotor 16 rotates about its axis the emfs induced in the sensing coils vary in dependence upon the angular position of the rotor relative to the axis of the undistorted magnetic field.