Abstract: A drawing toy including a housing supporting a roll of paper for rotational extraction and a battery powered light source. The paper passes over a light transmitting platen disposed above the light source and a selectively insertable transparency bearing a graphic design. An opening in the housing provides access to the portion of the paper passing over the transparency, platen and light source to permit repetitive tracing of the graphic design. Storage for additional transparencies and drawing materials is also provided in the housing.

Abstract: An ostomy appliance including a faceplate having an inner surface, an opposite outer surface, and an opening engaging said inner surface. The faceplate is adapted to be placed so that its inner surface is generally against the body of the ostomate and the opening registers with the stoma of the user. The faceplate has outflow channels communicating with the opening and engaging the outer surface for allowing the outflow of stoma waste products from the stoma through the faceplate. A groove sealing arrangement attaches the receptacle to the faceplate and the stoma waste products flow through the outflow channels into the receptacle. A stoma protector shield having an inner shield surface adapted to face the user and an outer shield surface is positionable so that the inner shield surface is over the opening and spaced a small distance from the inner surface away from the user whereby a chamber is defined adjacent the stoma. The outflow channels communicate with the chamber.

Abstract: Manually overridable servo controlled valve mechanisms for controlling the flow of fluids through a flexible tube for use in a photoactivatable reagent treatment system wherein photoactivatable reagents, in contact with patient blood cells, are irradiated extracorporeally and then returned to the patient.

Abstract: A new use of an elastomeric material to which a stitchable covering is laminated. More specifically a thin knitted fabric may be laminated to an elastomeric material, optionally a foamed or porous material. Other materials are contemplated. In addition, the invention is directed to forms over which the simulated skin may be placed to reproduce the curvature of the human anatomy. One form has a varying curvature but is essentially square. The various curved portions simulated various curved portions of the skin that would be found on the abdomen, thigh, arm, chest or scalp. Another form is a mannequin simulating the face of a patient and which optionally has means for securing the simulated skin to the mannequin in a life-like configuration which include a simulated mouth and simulated eyes. These in turn assist in anchoring the simulated skin to the mannequin and also provide realistic guidelines for surgical practice.

Abstract: Rounded moveable members such as a ball are directed in two established and independent lengths of transparent tubing which are arranged within a transparent sphere. The rounded moveable members such as a ball have a diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the transparent tubing thus the rounded moveable members such as a ball follow a path that gives a spinning motion. The spinning motion for the first path will be directed by the tubing secured to the inside of the transparent sphere from top to bottom. Thus the first path follows the curvature of the sphere from top to bottom. The second path is directed by the transparent tubing arranged in a cylindrical spiral about the center of the sphere which allows the rounded moveable member such as a ball to follow a cylindrical spiral path from top to bottom of the sphere. The length of tubing about the center of the sphere that is arranged in a cylindrical spiral is supported by a transparent cylinder that is secured by the transparent sphere.

Abstract: An ostomy appliance including a faceplate having an inner surface, an opposite outer surface, and an opening engaging said inner surface. The faceplate is adapted to be placed so that its inner surface is generally against the body of the ostomate and the opening registers with the stoma of the user. The faceplate has outflow channels communicating with the opening and engaging the outer surface for allowing the outflow of stoma waste products from the stoma through the faceplate. A groove sealing arrangement attaches the receptacle to the faceplate and the stoma waste products flow through the outflow channels into the receptacle. A stoma protector shield having an inner shield surface adapted to face the user and an outer shield surface is positionable so that the inner shield surface is over the opening and spaced a small distance from the inner surface away from the user whereby a chamber is defined adjacent the stoma. The outflow channels communicate with the chamber.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a game is disclosed in which a plurality of word-building structures, each having a plurality of playing spaces, are disposed about a gameboard. The preferred word-building structure comprises a pyramid shaped grid having 49 playing spaces. The pyramid is arranged in seven rows, with thirteen playing spaces in the base row and two less playing spaces in each succeedingly higher row.A word-building structure is associated with each respective competitor, as well as a color-coded set of playing pieces containing alphanumeric characters. These pieces are used by each competitor for building words in the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions in his respective word-building structure during a three minute word-building phase.

Abstract: A game primarily though not exclusively intended for mass-communication media such as radio, television and newspapers and periodicals, involves the answers to a set of questions being assembled, for example, as numbers, according to a predetermined explicit or problematic algorithm into an instruction such for example as a telephone number by means of which the first solver can identify himself and claim a prize.

Abstract: A multi-dimensional game wherein a player takes successive turns without being able to see the result of previous plays. The game comprises a substantially rectangular flat base portion having an upstanding central tower portion, transverse of the base portion and intermediate the length. A plurality of marker receiving vertical bores extend through the tower. A tray member including a plurality of sets of bores, each set being alignable with the bores of the tower allow capture of the markers one row at a time for scoring.

Abstract: A teaching methodology provides the student with hand conformed symbols representative of the numbers 6 through 9. Observation of these symbols permits the students to use their mastery of multiplication of the numbers 1 through 5 and 10 to solve problems in multiplication and division involving the numbers 6 through 9.

Abstract: A swivel stand for amusement games that includes a swiveling body which is turnable and mounted in bearings in a frame with a small air gap between two footboards and drivable by a gear motor and on which a car seat, a motorcycle seat, a bike seat or vehicle seat with control elements of a driving simulator belonging therewith can be mounted.

Abstract: A game including a cubical main element 2 having a plurality of spaced vertical bores 4 extending therethrough. A removable receiving tray 10 is positioned beneath the bores during play such that the playing pieces 9 which are placed in the bores 4 can fall within receiving cups 12 within the tray 10. A selectively movable slide piece 16 is resiliently mounted beneath the receiving tray 10 and the main element 2 such that it effectively prevents game pieces from passing into the tray until deliberately actuated, such that a single layer of game pieces 9 may be dropped into the tray 10 each time the slide 16 is moved. The players slice off individual sequential layers of playing pieces enabling the scoring to be on a two-dimensional basis.

Abstract: A method for behavior modification using olfactory stimuli. The method comprises microencapsulating different smelling odors into a patch such that at least one odor is dominant and at least one odor is subservient, placing the patch on a hand associated with the behavior to be modified, scratching the patch when the urge to engage in the behavior to be modified occurs, thereby temporarily releasing the subsurvient odor, smelling the patch with the released subservient odor to act as a stimulus to effect behavior modification, and smelling the patch after the urge to engage in the behavior to be modified passes thereby reinforcing the behavior modification with the dominant odor.

Abstract: A simulator device for demonstrating the advantages of wearing a vehicle safety harness comprises a track and a seat connected to and moveable along the track. A dummy object comprising an egg is used to simulate a person seated in a vehicle. A safety harness is mounted to the seat and, in a first mode of operation of the device, harnesses the dummy object in the seat. A means is provided for propelling the seat forwardly along the track while a stop means limits the forward movement of the seat along the track. An impact shield is mounted at one end of the track for impacting the egg thereagainst in a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the egg is harnessed on the seat to simulate the restraining effect of a safety harness on a person harnessed in a seat during a vehicle crash. In the second mode of operation, the egg is left unharnessed in the seat to simulate the impact effect on an unharnessed person involved in a vehicle crash.

Abstract: A skydiving simulator includes a framework (B) and a flying chamber (A) supported within the framework (B). The framework (B) is constituted by a plurality of symmetrically-positioned, inclined girders (1) the lower ends (1a) of which are bolted to a base (4), and the upper ends (1b) of which are interconnected by cross-pieces (2). The flying chamber (A) has an air inlet at the base thereof and an air outlet at the top thereof. The flying chamber (A) is made of tensioned sheet material (6). A plurality of motor/fan units (11) are provided for producing an upward stream of air within the flying chamber (A).

Abstract: Provided are apparatus and methods of use for extracorporeally treating a patient whereby blood is withdrawn from the patient, separated into a leukocyte enriched portion which, in contact with a photoactivatable reagent, is irradiated and all blood portions being returned to the patient. The preferred apparatus is suitably modified with appropriate tubing sets, valves, pumps, centrifuge and controlling means to perform the patient treatment in three operational phases.

Abstract: A promotional game disclosed includes a game card (10) having concentric first and second sets of circular indicia (14 and 16) and a third set of radially extending indicia (18) spaced angularly from each other. Each set of indicia (14, 16 and 18) includes at least one series of distinctive markings. Game tickets (22) of the game have selected indicia corresponding to the indicia of the first, second, and third sets such that a prize is won by matching tickets with the markings of any series of indicia on the game card. Slits (28) in the game card (10) permit securement of the game tickets (22) to the game card over the appropriate markings.

Abstract: Cassette drawer assembly for receiving an irradiation cassette wherein patient blood is irradiated to photoactivate a reagent in contact therewith, said irradiated blood being returned to the patient as part of the complete treatment.

Abstract: Methods are provided for ensuring the safety of a patient undergoing extracorporeal treatment by irradiation of a photoactivatable reagent in contact with the patient's blood including simultaneous digital and analog monitoring of temperature, voltage and current sensor signals. Also provided is a control system for controlling and regulating the various components of the photophoresis patient treatment system.

Abstract: In a system for altering cells such as by irradiating said cells when in contact with a photoactivatable reagent useful for the extracorporeal treatment of a patient's blood, a three phase method for performing the operations in a safe and efficacious manner.