Abstract: An automated and interactive system that allows a physician, counselor, teacher, employer or trainer to produce and send information, messages and/or questions to, or to elicit responses or information from, a client, patient, employee or student. The system consists of a client database and a client program that includes for each client individual information. The database and program are operated by a central computer that has the capability to, at preselected or delayed time periods, send messages, information and/or questions to the client through the use of a variety of transmission means. The client is provided a message retrieval system having a visual indication that a message is waiting to be retrieved.

Abstract: A small, hand-held, battery-operated portable light which provides substantial lighting by the use of a fluorescent cold cathode lamp. The light has a flat surface so that it may be placed on a flat work surface and does not have to be held by the user. It also comprises means to hang the light, such as on a nail or around the user's neck. The light is adapted to be attached to the inside of a purse, briefcase or other container. It is powered by standard or rechargable batteries.

Abstract: A self-contained, portable device for decomposing ions present in a liquid includes a housing shaped to be held within a human hand; a source of electric current; an anode that is comprised of an inert material, attached to the housing and in electrical communication with the source of electric current; a cathode that is comprised of an inert material, attached to the housing and in electrical communication with the source of electric current; and a switch for electrically connecting the anode, the cathode and the source of electric current.

Abstract: A sealed envelope or enclosure, shaped to fit a portion of the internal anatomy of the human mouth at a surgical site, said enclosure containing a non-toxic liquid or gel material capable of freezing to a semi-solid or solid state. The envelope may also contain a binder such as a sponge material or gauze impregnated with the liquid or gel material. The enclosure is placed in the mouth, to provide both pressure and cold, to reduce bleeding, swelling and pain after oral surgery or trauma.

Abstract: A multi-stage manual hydraulic pump comprising a plurality of cylinders in tandem. A block holds each cylinder assembly. One or more cylinders are the high volume stage, one or more cylinders are the medium volume stage and the final cylinders are the low volume, high pressure stage. The pump utilizes check valves built into flow tubes that control the direction of fluid. A variable hydraulic piston and cylinder assembly in each high volume block and each medium volume block automatically turns off the vacuum and flow of fluid to each cylinder at a designated pressure. At the point of highest pressure only the smallest cylinder or cylinders are pumping fluid, where the effort expended is significantly reduced.

Abstract: A method and device for stopping a person from snoring while sleeping including an elastic fabric panel, having adhesive covering one surface, the adhesive covered by a protective peel-off cover sheet. A narrow slit is cut through the panel near the center of the panel. The panel is adapted to fit tightly over the mouth and lips of the person, held by the adhesive to the face, preventing the mouth from opening while sleeping, which prevents snoring, but enables mouth breathing and talking.

Abstract: A multi-stage manual hydraulic pump comprising a plurality of cylinders in tandem. A block holds each cylinder assembly. One or more cylinders are the high volume stage, one or more cylinders are the medium volume stage and the final cylinders are the low volume, high pressure stage. The pump utilizes check valves built into flow tubes that control the direction of fluid. A spring and piston in each high volume block automatically turns off the vacuum and flow of fluid to each cylinder at a designated pressure. At the point of highest pressure only the smallest cylinder or cylinders are pumping fluid, where the effort expended is significantly reduced.

Abstract: A grommet adapted to be placed through an aperture in a work surface, such as a desk. A lip, with a diameter larger than the aperture in the work surface, is located at the top of the housing, or body of the grommet, so that the lip rests over the aperture in the desk while the housing of the grommet passes through the aperture, so that the great majority of the grommet lies below the surface of the work surface. The grommet contains a plurality of electrical plugs or duplex receptacles and a plurality of modular couplers for communication terminals so that power or communications wires may be passed over the top of the grommet and down into the housing to be connected inside of the grommet. The grommet has a power wire and communication connection wires connected to the bottom of the grommet, for connection to a power source, such as a wall plug, and a communication source, such as a telephone plug.

Abstract: An ocular biometer utilizing a light emitting source (7) and corresponding optics to illuminate areas of the eye in order to analyze the wavefront of the reflected light. Aperture sharing elements, such as "hot mirrors" (4) are used to allow the eyes (1) to view the world, as the ocular biometer measures various characteristics of the eye such as the refractive (i.e., accommodative) state, the gaze angle and the pupil diameter at any instant of time and continuously. Optical wavefront conditioning and wavefront sensing techniques are used to determine the refractive power of the eye and the instantaneous accommodative state. Reflected light is projected through a reticle (26) or plurality of reticles (26, 28). Spatial characteristics of the resulting shadow pattern uniquely determine the characteristics of the eye. These shadow patterns can be measured directly or by causing a modulation of the lines with a second identical reticle placed appropriately between the first and the imaging plane.

Abstract: This invention comprises a rigid, semi-rigid or flexible membrane upon which are located a plurality of raised projections or protuberances in a variety of possible geometric shapes. The membrane also has a plurality of vents or cut-outs which give stress relief for the membrane and act as air vents to provide ventilation for the comfort of the wearer. The device is adapted to be placed under the side panels of a woman's brassiere to aid lymphatic flow of the breast tissue lymphatic system by performing a massaging action and removing constriction on the axillary lymphatic vessels.

Abstract: A system to create, for screening purposes, an adjustable, pre-selectable synchronous relationship between motion picture film segments and their matching audio files, by transferring the audio to a digital format, storing the audio files on a portable or removable computer storage device, such as a compact disk, and utilizing a computer program to define and maintain the synchronous relationship. The system provides the ability to screen continuously, multiple rolls of film each having a plurality of film segments with the appropriate synchronized digital audio files.

Abstract: A building material comprising, in layers, a thin waterproof membrane base of rigid plastic such as PVC, a mortar bed, a layer of cement, a metal lath, and a layer of ceramic tile, brick-veneer, granite tile or marble tile, which provides a pre-fabricated panel adapted to be attached to any flat surface, such as a wall or counter.

Abstract: A system for partially vaporizing the fuel to a vehicle internal combustion engine comprising a set of fittings for passing the fuel from the fuel pump or injection pump through a vaporization chamber which is placed adjacent the engine to heat the fuel, partially vaporizing it. Another set of fittings carries the partially vaporized fuel to the carburetor or injectors where it is mixed with air and carried in the usual manner to the combustion system. No special heating system is required as the fuel is heated simply by the vaporization chamber being in close proximity to the engine heat.