Abstract: The method for concurrently forming and hot-transfer printing a semimanufactured product which is of a thermoplastic synthetic resin or comprises a thermoplastic synthetic resin as a surface coating to be printed, which method comprises bringing said product, maintained at forming temperature, into contact under pressure with a sheetlike dye carrier suitable for transfer printing, said dye carrier being present on a heatable backing mold heated to a temperature suitable to effect dye transfer printing and having thereon a coherent layer of a moistened water absorbent material which supports said dye carrier, said backing mold being present in a forming mold in which said product is formed under pressure concurrently with said transfer printing.

Abstract: A back massager has folded padding, and upper pillow padding with a frame between the folded padding. The frame has a narrow upper portion and a wide lower portion with two arm portions having an opening between them. A casing comprising two metal pan halves has flat peripheral edges and contains a vibratory means which is attached in the open portion of the frame.

Abstract: A system is provided for promoting the circulation of blood through a patient's extremity. An outer retaining garment confines and constrains an inflatable air bag around the patient's extremity that is undergoing treatment. Compressed gas is supplied to and exhausted from the air bag to inflate and deflate the air bag in order to provide compression and decompression of the patient's extremity. Flow passages in the air bag extend from the gas inlet to selected distribution points within the air bag to provide uniform inflation of the air bag substantially simultaneously throughout its length. The rate of compression and decompression of the patient's extremity is controlled and phased to the patient's heart beat in order to promote the circulation of blood through the extremity.

Abstract: A screen printing machine has a reciprocable printing screen and below it a counter-pressure roller. Above the screen a squeegee unit is movable relative to the screen and has two vertically displaceable parallel squeegees. During movement of the screen in one direction, one of the squeegees forces ink through the screen and the other squeegee is retracted. During reverse movement the one squeegee is retracted and the other one pushes the ink pool over the screen back to the starting position. In the starting position, the one squeegee is lowered again and the other squeegee is retracted. The transfer of the ink pool from the other squeegee to the one squeegee takes place directly above the printing line which is defined by the screen in conjunction with the counter-pressure roller. The screen printing machine is provided with a control device for coordinating the movements of the squeegee unit with the movements of the printing screen.

Abstract: A ball point pen cartridge capable of being pressurized in a pressure vessel including an end stopper having an enlarged section shaped to seal the end of a cartridge tube, a narrower section connected to the enlarged portion and extending into the cartridge, an axial tube running completely through the enlarged section and partly through the narrower section, a radial tube in the narrower section that intersects the axial tube and a flexible, gas impervious tube surrounding the narrower section to form a check valve with the radial tube.

Abstract: An apparatus for over the edge printing including a printing squeegee which forces ink through clear portions of a printing screen onto a workpiece. Excess ink which is forced through clear portions of the printing screen and which extend over the edge of the workpiece, are cleaned by a cleaning assembly which includes a cleaning belt. The cleaning belt is unrolled below the printing screen and an excess ink squeegee prints the excess ink onto the cleaning belt which is then cleaned and re-rolled and the apparatus is made ready for the next printing stroke.

Abstract: A therapeutic bed for treating medical complications of immobility oscillates in a circular rhythmic fashion, an upper frame being caused to pivot about its central longitudinal axis with respect to an intermediate frame which is caused to pivot about its central lateral axis with respect to a base frame. Independent mechanical means having variable speed controls each employ a rotating eccentric arm which oscillates the respective pivoting frame. Shock absorbers provide smooth motion.

Abstract: An improved substrate suitable for use as a base for a lithographic printing plate, especially a plate useful for the production of continuous tone images. The substrate is produced by extremely uniformly graining an aluminum sheet which has a highly polished, mirror-like surface.

Abstract: Massage apparatus for medicinal-therapeutical treatment of human genitals at psychical or physical irritations. A carrier tube is enclosed in a toroidal rubber hose, also filled with an antifriction mass like glycerin. Pairs of support rollers inside of the hose are journalized on the tube in encircling relationship thereof. Driving rollers, each associated to one pair of support rollers, are in engagement with the rubber hose supported by the inner support rollers for effecting revolving movement of the hose longitudinally around the tube. The drive rollers encircling the hose on the tube are rotatably supported in a common frame or housing and by their engagement with the support rollers at the same time maintain and support the carrier tube and hose.

Abstract: An improved anti-shock treatment method and garment employ a series of resilient, stretchable straps and belts attached to semi-rigid elongated support rods positionable along the midline of the outer sides of the legs and abdomen of a shock victim. The support rods are each formed of two elongated parts which are connected together but can be slid relative to one another to adjust the lengths of the support rods to the combined length of the victim's leg and abdomen. By applying the straps to the legs and the belts to the abdomen of the victim, starting at the feet of the victim and proceeding upwardly to just below the victim's ribs, a milking action is created on the blood in the lower body of the victim which enhances blood return from the lower body to the victim's heart.

Abstract: A massager for massaging user's body with a pair of massaging elements pressed thereto, which comprises a main shaft carrying the massaging elements operatively with the shaft, a driving shaft shiftable vertically with respect to the axis with rotatable means carried at both ends for driving the main shaft and massaging elements, and means for controlling movements of the massaging elements in both directions of the main shaft axis and perpendicular thereto and rendering the movements to be startable always from a predetermined position, that is, from the inner side to the outer side of the user's shoulders or from his shoulder side on the back towards his waist, whereby the massaging elements can start from an optimum position for an intended massaging effect, ensuring an excellent convenience of use and a highly effective massaging operation.

Abstract: A device for controlling the raising and lowering of a fluidized bed for supporting a human body on a bed of particles which can be made to float and flow by supplying air under pressure thereto. A drive unit vertically raises or lowers the bed in response to a vertical movement command issued by a control unit. A flow stop command is issued for stopping the operation of an air compressor, which floats the beads, when the vertical movement command is generated. The vertical movement command is inhibited during a predetermined interval after the command has been generated in order for the flow of compressed air to stop to allow the beads to come to rest before the bed is raised or lowered.

Abstract: A massage apparatus having a movable massaging assembly is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a front open boxlike base member molded from plastic to have a closed bottom and side walls extending forwardly from the lateral sides thereof. A front cover closing the front opening of the base member is cooperative therewith to define a space for receiving therein the massaging assembly. The plastic base member is provided at its lateral sides with racks each of which extends longitudinally of the base member to be in meshing engagement with each one of the pinions provided on the massaging assembly, such that the assembly is guided along the racks to move in the longitudinal direction of the base member by applying a massaging force through the front cover to the back of a user resting on the front cover.

Abstract: A sheet material for mounting flexible printing plates to the drum of a printing press includes a base film, a flexible foam uniformly coated on the base film, and a pressure sensitive adhesive coated on both the base film and the foam. The cohesion of the base film and the foam, the adhesion of the base film to the foam, and the adhesion of the adhesive to the base film and the foam is greater than the adhesion of the adhesive to the flexible printing plate and to the drum of a printing press. When the sheet material is removed from the printing plate and the drum, the foam, the base film, and the adhesive remain an integral sheet. A method for preparing and using the sheet material is also disclosed.

Abstract: Elastic bearings supporting bearing bushings for shafts are mounted in recesses in plates of a machine frame. The elastic material is shaped so that, in at least one predetermined direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, its dimension is a multiple of that in other directions. What is achieved thereby is that the shaft is constrained to move in one defined direction only.

Abstract: A self-travelling vibration generator having a travelling frame movably supported by parallel rails, a lifting/lowering frame standing at substantially right angles with respect to the travelling frame, a plurality of eccentric rollers provided off-center with respect to a roller shaft rotatably provided on the lifting/lowering frame; and having such a construction that an induction motor is used for at least either of a motor for travelling the travelling frame or a motor for rotating the roller shaft so as to cause the eccentric rollers to give vibrations to a human body while travelling on the human body.

Abstract: A needle-carrying head for a printing machine has needles which are short and rectilinear, the distance separating them being greater than the distance which must separate the printed points produced in the printing operation. Hence, the needles do not have to be bent to enable electro-magnets which drive them to act thereon. The needle-carrying head is mounted in the printing machine in such a way that the plane of the needles is inclined with respect to the writing direction, which compensates for the effect of the distance separating the needles and permits, by appropriate choice of the said inclination, an overlapping of the printed points.

Abstract: An improved therapeutic vibration device using dual motors and rotating discs having eccentric weights. The rotating discs have slightly different effective diameters and are mutually frictionally connected by either providing the rims thereof with a different number of gear teeth or with an elastomeric or other friction material. A vibrational device having such separated motors can be enclosed in a cushion or pillow for convenient use by an individual.

Abstract: A platen assembly, including a cylindrical platen, for advancing a web of record material through a printing device, the record material having perforations along its borders for receiving pins disposed in pin sprocket wheel assemblies mounted on opposite ends of the platen.

Abstract: Massaging device comprising a slide movable back and forth along a stationary guide, a massaging brush arranged rotatably upon the slide and rotated, through a shaft, by a motor, and a reversing drive driven by the motor. The direction of motion of the slide is predeterminable and the reversing drive is adapted to be connected to the guide by means of a first gearwheel. The motor is arranged stationarily and the slide is locked in a predeterminable position while the massaging brush continues to rotate. There is provided an endless belt running over two deflecting rollers spaced from each other and driven by the stationarily arranged motor. The slide has a drive-wheel which is connected to the shaft and is in engagement with the belt, the reversing drive, driven by the drive-wheel, is mounted on a drive-carrier which moves upon the slide, the reversing drive being selectively connected to, or disconnected from, the guide and the slide being locked in relation thereto by means of a switching element.