Abstract: The disclosure is of a golf club having a grip provided with a small hole which can receive the sharp, tip end of a tee. With a tee inserted in the hole, the club can be laid on grass with the grip supported away from the grass and thus not affected by water or other materials on the grass.

Abstract: A synchronous digital decoding circuit decodes Manchester-encoded data using a clock regenerating circuit which produces a decoding clock that is continuously adjusted in accordance with detected phase deviations in the received data signal. The Manchester-encoded data are transmitted with high-to-low and low-to-high transitions at the centers of the data bit cells. On the receiving end, a digital state machine, which is coupled to a timer/counter unit, detects whether a transition is on-time, early, or late in each bit cell as compared with the established decoding clock. If the transition is early or late, the state machine produces a correction signal which is used to correspondingly shorten or lengthen the clock count by a predetermined incremental amount. The adjustment of the clock counts on an on-going basis reduces or eliminates the phase deviation and prevents the accumulation of phase error over an extended length of time. In the preferred embodiment, an oscillator input of 1.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a catheter assembly including a hollow T-shaped member having a patient end and a rear end which is blocked from the patient end by a wall. A catheter is adapted to be introduced through the rear end of the member into a patient and the rear end includes a sponge, located out of the airway of the patient by the wall but the wall includes means for opening the wall to let the catheter through it for introduction into the patient. The sponge cleans the catheter as it is withdrawn but mucus cannot be returned to the airway to the patient.

Abstract: A dual-purpose catheter for performing suction or oxygen feed on a patient including two cylindrical bodies rotatably coupled together and held together by a spring which is biased to hold the bodies in a first position with respect to each other but permits rotation to a second position. One body includes first and second tubes which can be coupled to a source of suction or a source of oxygen, and the other body includes means for receiving said tubes in a tight fit and tube means for coupling either suction or oxygen to the patient, depending on the rotation state of the two bodies with respect to each other. The catheter bodies include solid tubes positioned to block the oxygen path to the patient when suction is operating and to block the suction path to the patient when oxygen is operating.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a system for measuring the frequency of an audio signal by converting the signal to a rectangular wave, counting the number of oscillator pulses which can be generated during one cycle of said wave and decoding the number of pulses to obtain the frequency of the audio signal.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a remote process sensor and signal transmitter including apparatus for configuring the sensor and transmitter to perform various functions. The transmitter includes a program and apparatus for cycling through the program and the system microprocessor to set into the transmitter various conditions including its temperature range of operation, one of many possible remote temperature sensors and other operating states. The program includes two portions each of which can be entered by a switch. Each portion of the program can be cycled through and as selected portions of the program are reached, a selected parameter can be set into the microprocessor as a permanent operating condition. The set operating conditions can be set or reset at any time by cycling through the program in accordance with the set protocol.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a safety lighter including the usual lighter mechanism having a finger-operated activating lever which is coupled to a vertical rod which extends into the body of the lighter or a sleeve which encloses the lighter. The lower end of the vertical rod is coupled to apparatus which is operated by the user to permit the lighter to be operated once and then disabled.

Abstract: Tattooing apparatus including a vibratable housing carrying a tattooing needle and a source of tattooing pigment coupled by flexible tubing to said needle through a peristaltic pump by which the flow of pigment to the needle is controlled.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a capillary tube having input and output ends and having a detector coupled thereto. A rotatable table is provided at each end of the capillary tube and each table includes sample cups for containing samples to be analyzed, and, if desired, a medium to be introduced into the capillary for transporting a sample substance to be analyzed. An electrode is provided adjacent to each end of the capillary tube for applying electrical potential across the capillary tube to cause charged particles of a sample to flow through the capillary tube and past said detector which detects the components of the sample.Electronic means, including a computer, are provided for causing various portions of the apparatus to operate automatically when performing an analytical operation.

Abstract: The disclosure is an eyeglass frame including a straight relatively rigid bar having a plurality of notches disposed along its length, and carrying a generally U-shaped nose piece having a tab adapted to be inserted in and locked in the central notch in the bar. The bar also carries a pair of circular lens holders having tabs for insertion in selected notches in the bar so that the spacing between the lens holders and the lenses carried thereby can be adjusted. A headband is also provided having tabs for insertion in notches in the frame bar to hold the frame on the head of the user.

Abstract: A two-tube dual purpose catheter comprising two flexible tubes, an oxygen tube and a suction tube secured together by a rupturable bridging member, the two tubes having different diameters. An adapter is also provided for coupling the two tubes to means for providing oxygen or suction to a patient.

Abstract: A display panel includes a group of cathode segments, each segment comprising two cathode bars adapted to glow simultaneously to produce a single segment and circuits for coupling energizing signals to each bar of a segment separately and simultaneously so that if one bar does not light, the other will and proper display will be achieved. The panel also includes anode electrodes.

Abstract: The radon removal system includes one or more pipes coupled to the source of radon gas beneath the basement floor in a building. The pipes are coupled through the side wall of the basement to a fan which draws the radon out of the basement and away through piping coupled to the fan housing. The fan has a DC motor which is current limited to improve its operation. In addition, a vacuum switch is provided in the fan housing to sense proper operation of the fan. The switch is coupled to a signal light at the power cord inside the basement to indicate when the fan is operating properly.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a stand having a tool mount so that a driven tool can be mounted on the stand and a work-table for supporting a work-table to be machined by the driven tool. A pair of articulated arms connect the work-piece to the stand and each articulated arm is connected at one end of the stand so as to be pivotal with respect to the stand about a first pivot axis, and is connected to the work-table so as to be pivotal with respect to the work-table about a second pivot axis. In addition, each articulated arm comprise at lease two arm segments, the (or each) pair of adjacent arm segment being interconnected so as to be pivotal with respect to one another about a further pivot axis, the first, the second, and the (or each) said further pivot axes being parallel to one another.

Abstract: A lighter comprises a body containing lighter fuel and a vertically slidable fuel tube by means of which fuel can be brought from within the body to the vicinity of the sparking wheel of the lighter. The lighter includes a pivotable lever which raises and lowers the fuel tube and a two-position locking means which, in one position, permits the fuel tube to be raised and permits firing of the lighter and in a second position, prevents the fuel tube from being raised and prevents firing of the lighter.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a tube having a mouthpiece for a medical technician and a mouthpiece for insertion into the mouth of a patient.Means in the tube provides a first flow path for air to flow from a patient into the tube and to the surrounding atmosphere, and a movable member in the tube is used to block the first flow path and provide a second flow path for air from the medical technician to the mouth of the patient.

Abstract: The handle is made by casting in a two part mold. The lower mold part includes a vertical split post having two vertical spaced posts with their upper ends in the form of lateral tabs. The upper mold part has a flat wall member cooperating with the lateral tabs.

Abstract: The mounting apparatus is used for securing an electrical device and its electrical outlet in place over the original outlet box in a wall which is to have siding applied thereto. The mounting apparatus comprises a first plate adapted to be secured flat to the wall to be sided and positioned over an electrical outlet box therein. The first plate has an opening and a rectangular wall surrounding the opening and rising from its top surface. A second plate is provided having an opening and rectangular wall means surrounding the opening therein and secured to its lower surface. The second plate is coupled to the first plate by means of the two walls on the plates being adapted to form a tight mechanical fit with each other.The openings in the two plates are aligned with each other and this permits the electrical outlet to be removed from the outlet box, drawn through the aligned openings and secured to the second plate.

Abstract: A detachable cutting blade assembly includes an elongated handle having a rear end and a front end on which a cutting blade can be detachably supported and a blade-locking member, in the form of a wall, is secured to the top surface of the front end of the handle. A portion of the wall of the blade-locking member has lateral lips which give the wall a T-shaped cross section and this provides securement for a cutting blade. The lips of the blade-locking member are aligned with a hole in the handle and this permits the entire handle to be made with a two-part mold in a relatively inexpensive molding process.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a first horizontal bar adapted to be coupled to a building column and a second horizontal bar is rotatably coupled to and beneath the first bar. A bracket which can be coupled to a screed is coupled to the second bar so that it can rotate with respect to the second bar and it can slide with respect to the second bar. The apparatus is pivotably mounted on opposite columns in an area where a concrete floor is to be leveled and the brackets are coupled to the ends of a screed which the operators wish to move up to the columns and then move around the columns, all the while smoothing and leveling the concrete.