Abstract: A stretcher for moving hospital patients from place to place to place has a bed portion carried by a chassis preferably with suitable conventional means for raising and lowering head and foot portions of said bed portion with respect to said chassis, said chassis having a wheel at each of the four corners thereof is improved so as to be easily operable by one man instead of the usual two, by providing means, operable from the head end of the stretcher, for causing the swivel frame of one wheel at the foot end of the stretcher to turn and maintain the plane of the wheel in any desired direction, said means is preferably operable through a telescoping guide member.

Abstract: Molded articles of carbon or graphite suitable as heat absorbing or friction elements in brakes for jet aircraft are made by coating devolatilized carbon particles with a phenolic resin, especially boronated phenolic resin, reducing the volatile content of the coated carbon to below a critical value, mixing these with a resin coated or uncoated powdered abrasive, molding under critical pressures and temperatures, and then post-curing the resin and carbonizing and optionally graphitizing the product according to a schedule whereby delamination is avoided.