Abstract: A fishing lure with a main body as a tapered fluted screw and a metal journal insert for weight and vibration through the longitudinal axis. A shaft runs through the insert to provide line and hook attachment at the ends. A shiny metal overlay is loosely mounted on the shaft on each end of the main body, with the loose fit over one vane surface providing higher vibration and slower rotation due to the fit and off-balance of the lure.

Abstract: A method of manufacture in which the formation of unsightly stress cracks in sandwich-like panels of prestressed concrete are prevented by the formation of a "contraction joint" at selected locations in the panel's outer layer of concrete during its manufacture.

Abstract: A system for inducing a desired functional contraction in muscle tissue while conditioning the contractile properties of that tissue for the desired functional contraction. Pacing stimulation signals are generated having parameters established by a desired functional contraction of particular muscle tissue, the signals being applied to the body to initiate the contraction. A conditioning stimulation signal is also generated having parameters established by the desired functional contraction and applied to the body to condition the contractile properties of the particular muscle tissue. The conditioning stimulation signal may transform the contractile properties of the tissue or maintain those properties, which may also include the responsiveness of the tissue to pacing stimulation signals. In a preferred embodiment, the conditioning stimulation signal is a signal having a frequency from about 1.5 hertz to about 20 hertz and most preferably about 10 hertz.

Abstract: An ear wax removing device comprised of a hollow curette connected to a source of circulating warm fluid and movably mounted in forwardly and gently biased relation for longitudinal movement upon a mounting plate which is designed to rest against the side of the patient's head and carries an adjustable abutment which limits the depth of insertion of the curette into the patient's ear.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 4-amino-1-(2-pyridyl)piperidines with anorexiant action, of formula: ##STR1## in which R represents hydrogen, a halogen, a methyl group, a trifluoromethyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a trifluoromethoxy group, a 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy group, a lower alkylthio group, a trifluoromethylthio group, a possibly substituted phenoxy group or a possibly substituted phenylthio group; to salts thereof; to a process for preparation thereof; to drugs containing same; and to intermediate products in the synthesis thereof.

Abstract: A demountable wheeled liquid sprayer comprised of an elongated handle having an angulated forward end portion supporting a battery driven electric motor with a depending drive shaft rotatably mounting a cup having inwardly and upwardly extending sidewalls with circumferentially spaced openings extending downwardly and outwardly therethrough around the periphery of its bottom. The handle is detachably mounted on a small two-wheeled frame and supports a removable and disposable liquid container which discharges its contents into the cup through conduit means and an associated valve. Valve control means is mounted on the handle and simultaneously opens the valve while activating the motor, or closes the valve while deactivating the motor. The handle and described sprayer may be detached, transported and used manually absent the wheeled frame.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an arrangement of grooves on the rolls of a rolling mill stand intended particularly for the rolling of beams, rails, channels, squares, diamonds, rounds, tie plates, joint bars and similar shapes wherein a plurality of grooves for shapes with different web heights are nested on the same set of rolls in such a way that the whole of the part of a groove serving as a surround to the shortest web is common to all the nested grooves.

Abstract: An implantable blood access device has a matte titanium finish on the exterior subcutaneous surfaces thereof providing sites for tissue ingrowth. A preferred finish is a coating of porous titanium which may be manufactured by fusing titanium powder to the device.

Abstract: A body implantable ventricular cardioverting system. Circuitry is provided which detects the onset of a malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmia and provides a cardioverting signal in response thereto. The cardioverting signal has an energy level that is high relative to the pacing threshhold but below that necessary for defibrillation. In this manner, a ventricular tachyarrhythmia can be cardioverted before the onset of fibrillation and at a lower energy than required for defibrillation. Dependent on such factors as patient threshholds, the tissue/electrode interface and the electrode system employed, the energy level of the cardioverting signal is from 5 millijoules to 15 joules. The system can be configured such that increasingly malignant tachyarrhythmias result in higher energy cardioverting signals, including signals capable of defibrillation.

Abstract: The set of horizontal rolls or the set of horizontal and vertical rolls of a universal stand, especially a finishing stand for universal rolling of rails or like sections has, in addition to the finishing grooves, grooves other than universal or finishing grooves, preferably edging grooves.

Abstract: A sealed lay-in wireway comprised of channel members secured together in end-to-end relation with sealing flange gaskets thereinbetween and having longitudinally spaced covers having resilient gaskets extending continuously along their periphery and having a pivotally mounted bridging member extending along their open sides between the adjacent ends of their covers which shiftably mounts a sealing plate thereunder, the sealing plate having gasket material at each of its ends which bears against inwardly extending flanges of the channel members when drawn upwardly by a camming mechanism carried by the bridging member, the upper surface of the sealing plate at the same time bearing against gasket material carried by the ends of the covers to cooperatively perfect a seal at all of the joints.

Abstract: A device for both lifting and dumping of core material from long hollow core concrete panels. The device utilizes a pair of retractable clamp members to engage the longitudinal groove in the side of the panel.

Abstract: Battery cathodes of the iodine-complex type including one or more additives for improved iodine utilization.

Abstract: An improved medical electrode particularly adaptable to tape-like configurations for use in sensing and stimulation applications in which the electrode is applied to the skin. An essential electrode component comprises a mixture of a polymerized form of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid or one of its salts with water and/or an alcohol. The mixture possesses electrically conductive properties, flexible properties and adhesive properties particularly lending itself to skin contact and adhesion.