Abstract: An electrical coupler for use with a ceiling-suspended chain lamp having a two-part housing secured together with an internally threaded ring fitted over externally threaded ends of the two parts. The electrical coupler permits ease of removal of the suspended lamp without any requirement to remove the electrical wiring within the ceiling suspended lamp.

Abstract: The gyroscopically stabilized magnetic suspension system constitutes a base assembly which itself constitutes a narrow beam source of electromagnetic energy disposed at substantially the radial center of the base assembly. The base assembly also includes a first toroidal magnet surrounding the source of electromagnetic energy, the first toroidal magnet having a polarity transverse to its toroidal plane. Also provided within the base assembly are first anti-spin magnets disposed beyond the outer toroidal radius of the first toroidal magnet, the anti-spin magnets having the same magnetic axis as the first toroidal magnet but, however, having an opposite polarity thereto. The system also constitutes a suspended assembly itself constituting an electromagnetic energy receiving and converting means, and a motor disposed upon the electromagnetic receiving means and powered thereby, the motor having an axis of rotation and alignment with the axial center of the first toroidal magnet.

Abstract: There is disclosed a reset mechanism particularly adapted for use within a magnet valve in which the reset mechanism comprises a passageway within the valve housing connecting the inlet and outlet passages in which a reset valve normally interrupts a communication between the inlet and outlet side of the said reset passage to permit normal operation of the magnetic valve and to permit normal fluid flow through the inlet and outlet passages thereof prior to movement of said magnetic valve from its normally open to its normally closed position.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid control device including housing, a fluid flow passage therein, and a fluid outlet passage communicating with said fluid inlet passage. Within the housing is a reciprocating valve capable of permitting or precluding communication between the inlet and outlet passages, the valve constituting a ferromagnetic armature susceptible to receiving an electromagnetic induction of a magnetic axis along its axis of reciprocation, such a magnetic axis generally corresponding to the longitudinal center of a fluid-tight chamber within said housing within which the valve may reciprocate. The valve is provided with a flow-responsive first radial end face disposed within a region of communication between the inlet and outlet passages. A fluid control device also includes a magnetic stator wound about the housing in the region of the reciprocating valve when the valve is in its open position.

Abstract: There is disclosed a water-ski construction in which there is provided an elongated element having an upper and lower surface. The lower surface is divided, in the longitudinal direction, into a fore zone, a mid-zone, and an aft-zone, the lower surface of the element being adapted for contact with water. The fore-zone is designed by a single concave surface the nature of an arrow-like depression. The mid-zone is defined by first and second concave longitudinal channels separated by a sharp edge. The longitudinal channels extend throughout the mid-zone of the ski and into the aft-zone. The mid-zone further includes a flat surface which defines and frames the outer periphery of both the fore and mid-zones of the elongated ski element, thusly defining the outer transverse extent of the longitudinal channels. The depth of the concave longitudinal channels progressively deepens at the mid-zone and lessens at both the aft and fore zones.

Abstract: An improved tape dispenser/receptacle having complimentary oblong-shaped top and bottom portions adapted to mate with each other, wherein the improvement consists of: first and second spool-dispensing axes, each axes composed of ten pegs; longitudinally-oriented inner and outer sets of ridges, extending downward from underneath the device's top portion; a plurality of tape exist and flattening apertures; resilient tabs extending outward from the device's side walls, in one-to-one correspondence with the exit/flattening apertures; and a cutting surface. The spool-dispensing axes hold rolls of tape or other material which may be marked with identifying indicia. The inner ridges touch the radial surface of the tape rolls to keep the rolls from wobbling during dispensing, while the outer ridges act as means to keep the tape straight en route through the exit/flattening apertures.

Abstract: A prosthetic axon for electrically bridging damaged nerve fibers constitutes a semi-conductive disc having therein pores substantially parallel to the polar axis of the disc, the pores having an interior coating of electrically conductive material extending substantially from the top to bottom surfaces of the disc, in which respective sides of the damaged nerve fibers are conductively secured to opposite sides of opposite pore ends of the conductive interior coating of the pores. The disc is embedded within a protein gel which is in electrical contact with both the conductive pore coating and the damaged nerve fibers.

Abstract: The ozone generator having in combination a first tubular electrode surrounded by a tubular dielectric which, in turn, is surrounded by a second tubular electrode. Entry of air to be ozonized occurs into a first end of the first tubular electrode and, through a pattern of perforations, is permitted to escape therefrom into an annular volume between the first tubular electrode and the tubular dielectric. The first tubular electrode is centrally, radially, sealed so as to form two chemically and electrically separate chambers. The second or output chamber of the first tubular electrode is provided with a pattern of perforations which permits re-entry of the air, which has been ozonized while exposed to a voltage across the annular volume between the outside of the first electrode and the dielectric, to the second or output part of the first tubular electric.

Abstract: It is herein disclosed a woman's bare midriff garment. The garment includes an outer shell supported about the shoulders of the wearer; the outer shell normally aligns against the inner area of the neckline and the upper breast area, the outer shell hanging freely downward from breast, such hanging beginning at the upper and middle of the breast of the wearer. The garment also includes an inverted frusto-conical segment having a first radial and a second radial end, the first end being narrower than the second end, the first end including elastic adapted for the engagement of the torso of the wearer near the top of the rib cage but beneath the bottom of the breast, and the second end defining a hem near the bottom of the rib cage, the hem integrally secured to the lower-most edge of the downwardly hanging portion of the outer shell.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air cleaner which directs dirty air onto the surface of a scrubbing liquid (41, 141) plus recirculates the scrubbing liquid and air contaminants through a cleaning liquid (43, 143). Additionally, filters (17, 117) may be provided across the recirculation path of the scrubbing liquid. This two liquid system provides a sufficient volume to establish a good recirculation pattern for practical scrubbing and also minimizes the amount of scrubbing liquid; the two liquids may be oil (the scrubbing liquid) floating on water (the cleaning liquid).

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a catheter introducer having an axially disposed cylindrical elastic segment which covers first and second substantially solid cylindrical elements each defining internal and external diameters, each of said annular elements, as well as the elastic segment, disposed radially symmetrically about a common axis. Also provided are means for rotatably securing said first and second elements relative to said common longitudinal axis for facilitating a reduction in diameter of said elastic segment in order to perform a fluid-tight seal against any elongated element placed along and within said longitudinal axis. A catheter so introduced may be advanced, withdrawn, held, or otherwise manipulated without loss of the fluid or atmospheric seal between the internal diameter of the elastic segment and the object introduced.

Abstract: An insertable multiple stop indicator gauge for selective height, depth and workpiece platform control as between the tool and the workpiece is disclosed. The multiple stop apparatus is detachably attachable to a milling machine tool carriage and to a screw shaft operably secured to the travel of the carriage, the carriage including upper and lower casting lips, the screw shaft including an adjustable knob threaded on and about the shaft and further including a carriage stop threaded on and about the shaft, but above the adjustable knob. The present inventive improvement comprises an insertable lower stop platform for controlling depth of tool cut in the platform in which the stop platform possesses one fork-like end detachably attachable to the lower casting lip and securable thereonto by the adjustable knob, the lower support platform having a circular opening in its opposite end.

Abstract: A fluid control device includes a reciprocating valve comprising a ferromagnetic armature capable of receiving an axis of magnetic polarity corresponding to its axis of reciprocation, the axis generally also corresponding to the longitudinal center of a chamber within said housing, said chamber having a greater radius than the radius of the valve which moves within the chamber. The valve also exhibits a flow-responsive rear radial end face located within a region of communication between said inlet and outlet passages. The valve further has a front end face capable of closing the fluid outlet passage of the device. Further provided is a bias and calibration means located in the housing and disposed co-linearly and distal-proximately to the valve, near the rear radial end face thereof, opposite to the flow-responsive rear radial end of the valve.