Abstract: A system for providing multi-sensory therapy including a computer having an audio output and a screen, wherein the computer is configured to provide audio stimulus and visual stimulus, a motion chair, and an actuator coupled to the motion chair, wherein the actuator is configured to cause movement of the motion chair, wherein the motion of the motion chair is configured to provide tactile stimulus, vestibular stimulus and proprioceptive stimulus to a patient seated in the motion chair, wherein the stimuli provided by the computer is provided concurrently with the stimuli provided by the motion chair.

Abstract: A system for providing multi-sensory therapy including a computer having an audio output and a screen, wherein the computer is configured to provide audio stimulus and visual stimulus, a motion chair, and an actuator coupled to the motion chair, wherein the actuator is configured to cause movement of the motion chair, wherein the motion of the motion chair is configured to provide tactile stimulus, vestibular stimulus and proprioceptive stimulus to a patient seated in the motion chair, wherein the stimuli provided by the computer is provided concurrently with the stimuli provided by the motion chair.

Abstract: A method of using a masonry block mold includes the steps of loading the mold with block fill through the top of a cavity formed in the mold, drawing excess block fill from the top of the cavity, compressing the block fill within the mold with a compression head moving into the cavity from top to bottom of the cavity. The mold includes opposing sidewalls which each have at least one step formed on their respective top edge to retain additional block fill proximate thereto and assist in the formation of a flange or other structural feature on the formed masonry block.

Abstract: The invention is a heated stripper shoe assembly for use in manufacture of concrete masonry blocks. The heated stripper shoe has a stripper shoe plate, at least one heat blocks and at least one heat element fitted within the heat block. Optionally, the stripper shoe assembly may also include a heat shroud positioned over the heat block on the upper surface of the stripper shoe plate, a standoff attached to the heat shroud for affixing the assembly to a block machine, and a mold for use with the stripper shoe assembly. The invention also includes methods of using the assembly.

Abstract: A hollow shaft, threaded on the interior, permits a workpiece, having a square cross section, to be rotated therein and thereby moved axially to be driven against a cutting edge to form the dowel.

Abstract: The invention includes block molds and manufacturing processes as well as a composite masonry block comprising a block body having an irregular trapezoidal shape and comprising a front surface and a back surface, an upper surface and a lower surface, and first and second sidewalls. Both the first and second sidewalls have a first and second part, the sidewall first part extends from the block front surface towards the block back surface at an angle of no greater than ninety degrees in relationship to the block front surface, the sidewall second part surfaces adjoins and lies between the sidewall first parts and the block back surface. The block also has a flange extending from the block back surface past the height of the block. Also disclosed are landscaping structures such as a retaining wall comprising a plurality of the composite masonry blocks of the present invention.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite masonry block comprising a substantially rectangular body having a bevelled surface and an interlocking flange. Also disclosed are structure made form the masonry block and methods of making the block.

Abstract: The invention features repeating building block units of generally rectilinear shape, which have arcuate mating end wall surfaces that are rotatable with respect to each other.Curvilinear surfaces of varying degrees of arc can be formed from a tandem array of the block units, such that assemblies of many different shapes can be fabricated.