Abstract: A poster display, subject to out-of-door wind forces that will develop substantial overturning forces against the poster display, is provided with a self-righting feature by using a hollow support base, with a convex support side, that is ballasted by a flowable ballast material such as water, and upon which base, an upright, wind-catching, panel is mounted to project away from said convex support side. The base and panel are molded of inexpensive plastics. The base and panel may be formed as separate parts, or as an integral assemblage. In one preferred construction the base and panel are separate parts, have interfitting tongue and socket means provided on adjacent portions of the two parts. The panel is preferably provided with transverse edge flange means that bound the region adapted to receive a removable display sheet thereonto.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for metalizing the surface of metal bodies, such as bars, rods and tubes is providing using a substantially enclosed chamber in which the metalizing is caused to occur. An elongated body to be metalized is moved axially into the chamber through an entrance opening while the body is simultaneously rotated, and then passes through a first induction heating coil to pre-heat a portion of the body surface to a selected pre-heat temperature. The pre-heated portion is then advanced past the pre-heating coil to a point where it is subjected to, and bathed by, a flowing stream of metalizing powder entrained within a heated non-oxidizing gas, such as nitrogen, with the flowing stream directed against the pre-heated body portion so that the entrained metalizing powder impinges against and clings to and covers the entire surface of the pre-heated portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for metalizing the surface of metal bodies, such as bars, rods and tubes is provided using a substantially enclosed chamber in which the metalizing is caused to occur. An elongated body to be metalized is moved axially into the chamber through an entrance opening while the body is simultaneously rotated, and then passes through a first induction heating coil to pre-heat a portion of the body surface to a selected pre-heat temperature. The pre-heated portion is then advanced past the pre-heating coil to a point where it is subjected to, and bathed by, a flowing stream of metalizing powder entrained within a heated non-oxidizing gas, such as nitrogen, with the flowing stream directed against the pre-heated body portion so that the entrained metalizing powder impinges against and clings to and covers the entire surface of the pre-heated portion.

Abstract: An improved, knock-down, multiple-level, article storage and display rack may be assembled using article storage and shipping containers and dowel rod spacers. The containers, which preferably are molded plastic trays, each have a rectangular base and three retaining walls, one of which is a front wall. A display panel is angled forward from the container's front wall so that the bottom of the display panel and the bottom of the front wall cooperate to provide front, horizontal, support. A simple stand constructed to provide a pair of upright columns that fit into bottom-opening recesses in the two side walls, cooperate to provide a rear suppport for the display. Column-like dowels that fit into upper and lower recesses in the retaining walls of respective lower and upper trays are used to assemble the vertically disposed display rack.

Abstract: A motor-pump unit consists of a screw shaft pump and a slot-barrel motor located on the pressure side of the pump. The motor-pump unit is provided with a rigid, preferably one-piece, shaft by which the motor drives the pump. The motor is located on the pressure chamber of the pump with a bearing between the motor and pump. The shaft is supported within the pump, in part by the bearing, and the rotor of the motor is cantilevered on the free end of the shaft outside the pressure chamber. The pot-shaped stator part of the motor is telescoped over the rotor and fastened directly to the pressure side of the pump.

Abstract: An improved surgical glove, powdered to serve as a lubricant, is provided by using a polyol powder as the lubricant. The use of a polyol powder as the powdering agent for use on surgical gloves avoids the problem of starch peritonitis that has been reported upon in medical literature.In one preferred application, polyol powder is dusted onto the side of the glove that will be the glove exterior, or patient-contact surface of the glove when used. Alternatively, polyol powder is dusted onto both surfaces of the glove.

Abstract: An anti-security control for unlocking the normally locked door which separates the corridor side and the stairwell side of buildings, such as hotels. The anti-security control is preferably adapted for use with and draws power from any conventional-type of smoke and fire detection and alarm system. When the detection and alarm system senses the existence of a dangerous level of smoke or fire, current is shunted to a solenoid which operates to unbolt the normally locked separation door. A depressible button may be operatively affixed on the corridor side of the door to provide access from corridor to the stairwell regardless of whether a smoke or fire condition is sensed by the detection system.

Abstract: A medical suction device is provided in which a constant force means is utilized to create substantially constant vacuum in a chamber of the suction device, as the device progressively fills with fluid being drawn thereinto from a catheter or the like. The fluid drawn into the chamber of the suction device is selectively dischargeable therefrom into a discardable receptacle that is attached through a drain valve to the chamber. Multiple, folded, discardable receptacles, each connected through a separate drain valve, are connected to the storage chamber of the suction device. The arrangement operates to effect isolation against transmittal of infection. The multiple discardable receptacles accommodate a high volume of discardable material, while the suction device apparatus is of low bulk and is provided with means to prevent exposing the suction chamber to atmosphere, and to atmosphere-borne contamination.

Abstract: A unitary, molded, vending and article display tray, for flat articles such as magazines provides a substantially horizontal tray means for receiving, supporting, and holding, in a somewhat confined manner, but providing easy customer manual access to, a plurality of such articles. The head end of the display tray is provided with an upright retaining wall for the tray that has integrally formed therewith a pair of laterally spaced clip segments that operate to hold an exemplar of the tray-held articles at an upright display attitude.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for metalizing the interior of pipes or tubes is disclosed. The base metal pipe or tube to be internally metalized is moved axially while simultaneously being rotated at a relatively high rpm. A first pre-heat means, preferably an induction heating means, heats a portion of the pipe and its interior to a first elevated temperature, and particles of the metalizing material are deposited into the interior of the pipe to be heated to said first elevated temperature. The rotation of the pipe distributes the fluidized particles into laminae which, under the further influence of centrifugal forces, automatically distributes the semi-fluidized particles effectively. The fluidized metalizing material is bonded together and to the body substrate by application of a second induction heat at a higher heat level or temperature at which bonding occurs between the laminae of metalizing material and between the metalizing material and the base material of the tube or pipe.

Abstract: A new storage and dispenser rack is provided for quasi-cylindrical containers such as bottles, wherein the ends of the containers are of different dimension but with a belly portion of the container being substantially of the same size and shape as the large end of the container. The rack is made of molded plastic parts that are constructed and designed to snap together. The rack includes a pair of upright panels that define a bay and provide thereon tiers of tracks, each for supporting one end of the quasi-cylindrical containers. A plurality of transverse spacer shafts that connect with the pair of panels operate to provide a free-standing structural grid for the rack. The spacer shafts are of an axial length selected for the size of the containers to be supported on the rack.

Abstract: An improved molded tray for a display stand is shaped to provide a rectangular planar product-support member, whose support area is free of structural invasion by other parts of the tray. The planar product-support member is reinforced by an integral, transverse, peripheral reinforcing flange that extends vertically along the periphery of the support member. Integral, tubular corner post-receiving means are provided adjacent each corner of the support member and tangent to the peripheral flange. Reinforcing strips extend parallel to and outwardly of the reinforcing flange at two opposed sides of the tray, and are integral with the tubular post-receiving means. A horizontal top wall joins the upper edges of the peripheral flange and each parallel reinforcing strip. The underside of the planar support member is reinforced by a grid of orthogonal ribs, and the support member is apertured, between the reinforcing ribs to reduce the amount of plastic used in forming the tray.

Abstract: An improved packaging and assembly is provided for a multiple-point sacrifying device for vaccinating or skin testing. In order to insure economic wage of immunological or allergenic liquid pre-assembled on the scarifying device, each cluster of multiple points is assembled with a removable surrounding envelope that achieves a hermetic seal with its mounting and which presents a transverse annual attachment wall to which an envelope-closing lid is hermetically secured after a limited quantity of liquid is deposited into the limited volume chamber surrounded by the envelope.

Abstract: A novel cardiac lead assembly is described which includes an elongatable coil spring which serves to connect a screw-in electrode tip with a connector. A flange is affixed to the electrode tip and the lead is positioned inside a tubular lead insertion device. In order to install this lead in a heart, the coil spring is stretched while using the installation device to position the flange precisely with respect to the heart. Once proper position of the electrode tip has been assured, the coil spring is released abruptly such that the potential energy of the spring propels the electrode tip against the heart with sufficient momentum to embed the electrode tip in the heart in a single motion. Preferably, the spring also imparts an angular momentum to the electrode tip which tends to screw the electrode tip into the heart. The illustrated embodiments of the lead include a plurality of spirally oriented elongated prongs which serve to engage the surface of the heart mechanically.

Abstract: A plumbing network section for multi-storied construction is disclosed which uses an integral waste stack segment and waste receiving manifold for receiving waste from plumbing fixtures, and with multiple vents in the waste receiving manifold arranged for connection to a vent manifold. The combination waste stack section and waste manifold, and also the vent manifold uses sleeve type construction for connection to pipes which simplifies assembly in the field and effects reduction in labor and parts costs.

Abstract: The disclosed balloon catheter includes a proximal catheter segment, a distal catheter segment, and an inflatable balloon member secured to and disposed between the proximal and distal catheter segments. A tension member is secured to the distal catheter segment and passes through the lumen of a coil spring included in the proximal catheter segment, such that the tension member is free to slide within the coil spring. A stop member is secured to the proximal end of the tension member to limit the sliding movement of the tension member inside the proximal catheter segment. The disclosed structure permits the balloon member to stretch both axially and circumferentially as it inflates, thereby improving the concentricity of the resulting balloon.

Abstract: A new class of analgesics is provided by substances that inhibit breakdown of endogenous substance such as enkephalins and/or endorphins. The analgesic effect of an enkephalin breakdown inhibitor is greatly enhanced by being combined with an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory analgesic, herein designated as an aspirin-type drug. Specifically, both D-phenylalanine and D-leucine, each an enkephalin breakdown inhibitor, when used separately provides excellent analgesia in animals and man without developing tolerance or addiction in either species. Use of a combination of D-phenylalanine and D-leucine provides a greatly enhanced analgesia approaching the analgesia achieved by morphine. Analgesia by the latter combination is very long-lasting in animals. The injection of a combination of D-phenylalanine and an aspirin-like drug that is antipyretic and anti-inflammatory, in an animal provides a greatly enhanced analgesia approaching the analgesia achieved by morphine.

Abstract: Manifolds are disclosed for introducing fluid into the human body and removing fluid therefrom. The fluid removing manifolds include a plurality of separately valved containers sealed to the manifold. Each container is filled in series via the manifold and the associated valve is closed before the container is removed from the manifold for disposal. Thus, a closed drainage system is provided. The fluid introducing manifolds include a plurality of separately valved input ports. Preferably, each port is used only once to reduce contamination of the manifold and associated infection. In each case, the port is kept closed until it is coupled to a source of fluid, and it is reclosed before the source of fluid is disconnected from the port. In this way, contamination is further reduced. Both the multiple input port feature and the multiple container feature of the invention are incorporated in manifolds for use with peritoneal dialysis.