Abstract: A suture anchor system and procedure for securing a suture, into to extend from a bone cortex surface. The system includes forming a hole into a bone cortex surface that is of a diameter and depth to provide a wall surface area that is at least as great as the surface area of an end section of a suture or sutures fitted therein, and, by filling the hole with an adhesive that is allowed to cure, a suture mounting is provided that will have a pullout strength or purchase that is greater than a load as is anticipated to be applied thereto when the suture is used to connect a ligament, or the like, to the bone.

Abstract: A cap and mounting for a fencing system that includes a number of straight plastic tubes that are cut appropriately into posts, cross members and pickets as the fence members and are for connection together to form a picket fence, with embodiments of cap arrangements for fitting over an open top end of each post and picket that includes a connectorless coupling for each cap for locking the cap onto each post and picket by urging a lower cap end into the post or picket, whereby ends of a lock bar are urged into the post or picket inner side walls, securing the cap thereon.

Abstract: A purging electrostatic gun for uniformly and essentially completely electrostatically charging the outer surfaces of a flow of sorbent material particles passed therethrough under pressure that are then injected into a polluted gas stream for contacting to electrostatically attract and react to pollutant particles and pollutant gases in that gas stream that are then removed in a conventional pollution control filtration device. The purging electrostatic gun includes a housing wherein a charging electrode is maintained that is electrically coupled to receive a high voltage and is axially centered in a cylindrical barrel charging section wherethrough a laminar flow of sorbent material is directed. The charging electrode has a forward portion that extends beyond a barrel charging section forward end and is immediately opposite to a surface of a grounding ring or collar. The grounding ring or collar is maintained in the housing and is connected to earth ground.

Abstract: A coin vending machine body liner and locking plate as a coin safe that is for original installation or retrofitting in a conventional coin operated vending machine where, with the deposit of an appropriate coin in a coin mechanism and turning of that coin mechanism handle, a measured volume of product, such as loose candy, nuts, or the like, will vend from a chute in a front face of the vending machine and onto a person's hand. The liner is formed from a plastic material for closely fitting into the machine body, is closed across its bottom end, and has its top end arranged to be covered over by a locking plate that is includes a lock for maintaining the locking plate secured across the liner top end. The combination of the liner, that is closed across its bottom end, and the locking plate, provides a coin safe for maintaining coins therein as have passed through the coin mechanism.

Abstract: An expandable body suture that has a suture body that is formed in the manufacturing process over at least one pledget device that has an elongate shape with essentially a constant cross section along its mid-section and is of a diameter to fit snugly into a hole formed in a bone, ligament, tendon, or the like. The pledget device can be formed from a cloth, fabric or resinous material, is preferably resilient, is positioned in the suture body during manufacture or can be arranged on a cord or string whereover the suture body is formed during its manufacture as by weaving suture threads or strands thereover. For forming a hole in bone, ligament or tendon to receive the pledget device pulled therein, a needle or needles are secured to the suture body end or ends for forming the hole and pulling the suture body therethrough.

Abstract: An ACL bone tunnel projection drill guide and method for its use that includes a body configured to by held by a surgeon that includes a straight wire guide tube secured to extend, at approximately a right angle outwardly, from a lower end thereof and contains an arcuate slot formed therein to receive a radial arm fitted to slide in and out therefrom. A drill tube mount is secured across an end of the radial arm that includes a longitudinal passage wherethrough a barrel is fitted to be installed into a tibial tunnel section formed in a patient's proximal tibial in an anterior cruciate ligament replacement procedure. The wire guide tube contains a connecting wire that connects, on a distal end to a straight articulating tip pivotally connected to the wire guide tube distal end, and is fitted over at least one roller to extend to pivot the articulating tip when the radial arm travels out of the body arcuate slot.

Abstract: An elevating mailbox consisting of a housing that is open therethrough and is closed across a top end by a cap, with the housing to telescope into and out of a ground sleeve that is seated in a hole in the ground adjacent to a road way, and providing a sealing arrangement for discouraging water entry into the ground sleeve. The housing includes a mail receiving cavity that is exposed when the housing is in an elevated attitude. A screw jack is maintained to a bottom of the ground sleeve to extend and retract a screw from a nut arranged across a cylinder when the screw is turned, with a screw top end journaled to the housing to lift and lower the housing, with the screw arranged to be turned by operation of an electric motor that is operated by a remote control connected through wires to operate at set times and on demand, and including limit switches for turning off motor operation at upper and lower limits of housing travel into and out of the ground sleeve.

Abstract: An electrostatic gun for electrostatically charging and injecting sorbent particles into a flue gas stream to contact, and electrostatically charge, pollution particles in that flue gas stream. The electrostatic gun is for inclusion as a component of an apparatus for the remediation of pollution particles from a flue gas stream whereafter the clean gas flow is vented to atmosphere. The electrostatic gun receives laminar flow of a selected sorbent material and charges, either positively or negatively, the surface of each sorbent particle in that flow. To provide electrostatic charging to the individual particles, the flow is directed through a straight barrel of a housing of the electrostatic gun to pass alongside a charging wand that is centered axially in the straight barrel. The charging wand is connected to receive a voltage from a high voltage power supply to produce a corona discharge wherethrough the sorbent materials pass to electrostatically charge each sorbent particle.

Abstract: A fish hook formed to have a straight shank portion with a lower shank end formed into a curve and ends in a point that is barbed or barbless, and having an upper shank end that includes a pair of separate parallel loops that are each open at their ends and have flat opposing faces juxtapositioned to one another with each face including a lateral slot or groove, formed thereacross, the slots or grooves to align to form a hole or passage therethrough.

Abstract: A fencing system with mounting clip for joining fencing members to one another. The system includes a number of straight plastic tubes that are cut appropriately into posts, cross members and pickets as the fence members and are for connection together using mounting clips to form a picket fence. The mounting clip is for joining the fence members together is formed from a section of a stiff material, such as spring steel, for attachment to a post or cross fence member, has an upper section that is bent at intervals thereacross and includes a broad lower end section. The lower end section has a flat end and is bent at spaced intervals thereacross, upwardly and then downwardly to where the flat end is approximately aligned with the flat center section undersurface. The mounting clip is to fit into a keyhole opening that is formed in fence member fitted, with the mounting clip broad lower end to fit through a keyhole opening wide end.

Abstract: A mobile sanitation that includes at least one conventional self-contained chemical toilet and at least one hand washing system that are mounted together onto a flat bed of a trailer. The self-contained chemical toilet or toilets are arranged to gravity drain through a common line and the hand washing system includes a housing with a sealed bottom end that is secured onto the trailer flat bed to be positioned alongside the chemical toilet or toilets. The hand washing system housing includes a divider plate secured thereacross forming the housing into a fresh water reservoir that is accessed through the housing top end, a hand washing section that is accessed through an opening in the housing, that includes a drain plate secured across the housing as a bottom of the hand washing section, and with a dirty water reservoir as the housing bottom portion.

Abstract: The invention in a torque responsive actuator device for a belt drive system as is commonly utilized with snowmobile and like type vehicles. An actuator cover plate of the invention is connected by rods to a lower half of a split pulley, with the upper pulley half mounting a helix or cam cone extending towards the actuator cover plate undersurface that includes a plurality of cam tracks formed therein that are each to receive a cam follower for travel therealong that extends from the actuator cover plate undersurface. Movement of the actuator cover plate towards the top face of the pulley upper half is thereby translated through the rods to spread the pulley upper and lower halves apart, opening a V slot therebetween to a drive belt that is maintained therein.

Abstract: A closed automatic system for removing (for facilitating the removal) and safely storing potentially contaminated medical (or other) needles in which the operator only uses one hand to operate the system. The system has a counter which counts the number of actuations of the needle sensor. When a predetermined limit is reached the device signals the operator that the safe is nearly full. A further fixed number of needles can then be removed, when that limit is reached, a fuse on the safe is blown causing the system to be inoperative until a new box is installed. Removal of the box also causes the fuse to be blown and the circuit is disabled until a new box is inserted. The safe storage box contains a tab which when fixed in the locked position can not be opened except upon the application of substantial force with a tool. The system uses a Motorola 705 EPROM or similar microcontroller. (Motorola product literature is incorporated by reference herein.

Abstract: An adjustable shelf support system for display cases and showcases for containing articles for display. The system includes a plurality of individual pins that are each for adjustable mounting onto a showcase vertical support whereto showcase walls are maintained, each pin to extend into the showcase, at a right angle to the vertical support. Each vertical support includes a longitudinal slot formed therein that has a keyhole cross section the longitudinal slot to receive a head end of the pin fitted to travel therein, which pin head end is an end of a threaded shaft to extend through a narrow section of the slot, at a right angle, into the showcase. A sleeve, that has a smooth wall center longitudinal passage formed therethrough, is disposed over the threaded shaft, and a cylinder, that includes a threaded center longitudinal passage formed therethrough, is arranged for turning onto the threaded shaft.