Abstract: A culture collecting swabbing tip is carried on one end portion of a small diameter flexible wire which enables the tip to reach into a curved and narrow body passage. A sleeve-type handle is telescoped slidably onto the other end portion of the wire and enables the effective length of the wire to be adjusted so that the wire can fit into an outer transport tube but can be effectively lengthened to reach into a long body passage. The transport tube contains a glass ampoule which may be broken to moisten the swabbing tip with a culture-sustaining transport media after a culture has been collected on the tip.

Abstract: A fluid dispensing unit having a housing in which is carried a fluid-containing ampoule and a porous pad secured to the underside of the housing has its structural integrity enhanced by a central planar depression formation in the housing top wall to thereby facilitate rupturing the ampoule without hazard of broken glass puncturing the housing walls. An improved porous pad structure also is provided.

Abstract: A process for making an aural communications receiving device of formed-in-place elastomeric composition constructed especially to provide a smooth, tight seal over the mouth of the ear canal when stretched and including a formed-in-place sound transmitting passageway acoustically coupled to an integral connecting means for securing a communications component or to an embedded speaker at an outwardly presented surface.