Abstract: Methods and apparatus for exercising or testing the strength of muscles in the lower trunk of the human body. The patient or exerciser is seated with his pelvis and legs fixed against movement and with his head, arms and upper back fixed relative to a movement arm which extends above the seat and is mounted for pivotal movement relative to the seat about a horizontal axis. While the movement arm is in a predetermined position, the patient applies a force through the upper back to the movement arm to stress the muscles of the lower trunk, and the strength of these muscles is measured. To exercise these muscles, the movement arm is moved by a force exerted by the upper back against a bias of a resistance weight to lift the weight, and then the force is released to lower the weight and the process is repeated. A compound weight system is employed to allow precise weight adjustment to suit the strength of the exerciser.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for exercising or testing the strength of muscles in the lower trunk of the human body. The patient or exerciser is seated with his pelvis and legs fixed against movement and with his head, arms and upper back fixed relative to a movement arm which extends above the seat and is mounted for pivotal movement relative to the seat about a horizontal axis. While the movement arm is in a predetermined position, the patient applies a force through the upper back to the movement arm to stress the muscles of the lower trunk, and the strength of these muscles is measured. To exercise these muscles, the movement arm is moved by a force exerted by the upper back against a bias of a resistance weight to lift the weight, and then the force is released to lower the weight and the process is repeated. A compound weight system is employed to allow precise weight adjustment to suit the strength of the exerciser.

Abstract: A compound weight system for use in exercising, or testing the human body includes upper and lower groups of weights normally resting on fixed supports, the weights in each group being, in the preferred embodiment, plates stacked one above the other and with the plates in one group having a different weight than the plates in the other group. Extending vertically through the weights for slidable movement relative to the weights is a connecting rod adapted to be connected at its upper end to a cable or chain which, in turn, may be connected to an exercise or testing device. In the preferred embodiment, the connecting rod has a series of apertures spaced along the length thereof and first and second keys are provided for selectively interconnecting any number of the weights of the first and second groups to the connecting rod such that the connected weights will move with the connecting rod in response to movement of the exercise machine.

Abstract: This machine includes a seat for supporting the user in substantially an upright position with the seat being mounted on a generally A-shaped frame assembly. An inverted U-shaped lever is provided with a padded roller on one end thereof. The padded roller is adapted to engage the back of the user at a position substantially in alignment with the shoulder blades and the other end of the lever is pivotally supported at a position in substantial alignment with the waist of the user. The other end of the user-actuated lever is operatively connected to a resistance applying device.

Abstract: This exercising machine is particularly adapted for execising the abdominal muscles of the user and is of a relatively lightweight construction adaptable for home use. The machine includes an exercising lever supported for pivotal movement in an arcuate path during each exercising movement and a resistance force is provided in the form of elongate resilient members. Variable numbers of the elongate resilient members are selectively connectable to the exercising lever for varying the amount of resistance force being applied to the exercising lever when it is moved by the user. A variable radius cam is interposed between the resistance force and the exercising lever so that the amount of resistance force required to move the exercising lever is varied throughout the various positions of the pivotal arc of movement of the exercising lever.

Abstract: A mooring buoy including an upwardly mast made of two sections with a spring therebetween, a large ring on a top of the upper section, and the spring permitting the upper section to be tilted over sidewardly.

Abstract: The machine disclosed is for particular use in the duo-squat exercising of the legs and provides the proper variation of resistance to movement in all positions when the legs are being moved between the extended and retracted positions and vice versa. The machine includes a negative profile cam to which the force is applied by the user and the negative profile cam has a different length radius (moment arm) at different degrees of rotation. A weight stack is supported by a flexible member reeved over a wheel which has a radius of uniform length and being fixed to rotate with the negative profile cam. The length of the longest radius of the negative profile cam is less than the length of the uniform radius of the wheel so that the amount of force applied by the user is greater than the amount of weight provided by the weight stack.

Abstract: This machine includes a saddle-type seat for supporting the user in substantially an upright position with the legs being maintained in position during use of the machine. A user-actuated lever is provided with a padded roller on one end thereof. The padded roller is adapted to engage the back of the user at a position substantially in alignment with the shoulder blades and the other end of the lever is pivotally supported at a position in substantial alignment with the waist of the user. The other end of the user-actuated lever is operatively connected to weights. The connection between the user-actuated lever and the weights includes a variable radius cam for providing a variable resistance force to lifting and lowering the weights with corresponding movement of the user between a first position with the spine in a forwardly bent position and a second position with the spine in a substantially straight position to provide a full range exercising of the muscles associated with the lower back of the user.

Abstract: An exercising apparatus and method incorporating an open loop system which monitors the activity of an exercising person and directs such activity by displaying the correlation of such activity with a programmed regimen. The apparatus is engaged by body portions of the exercising person operating the apparatus and preferably guides the person in "full range" exercise while monitoring and displaying a representation of work performed during exercising movement. Specific arrangements for using force exerted by one body portion to provide resistance to be overcome by another body portion are shown and described, as is an arrangement for monitoring the use of a number of apparatus so as to monitor a full physiological development program.

Abstract: Exercising apparatus comprising in combination an elongate housing with a first surface having a first slot adjacent one end thereof and a second slot adjacent the opposite end thereof; first and second pulleys rotatably supported between opposite sides of the housing and extending out of the first and second slots, respectively; a rope having first and second ends and first and second intermediate portions; first and second handles secured to the first and second ends of the rope, respectively; a clamping device operably associated with the rope for selectively extending or reducing the effective length of the rope; and a loop forming member for securing the first end of the rope around the first handle, the loop forming member having structure readily enabling selective expansion and contraction of the loop to position and secure the first end of the rope at any one of several desired locations on the first handle.

Abstract: A process for preparing substituted triazines. The process involves the reaction of cyanuric chloride with a polyhaloaniline under superatmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A process for preparing a form of chenodeoxycholic acid having a melting point of ca. 166.degree. C from the amorphous form of the acid or from the form melting at ca. 120.degree. C. The amorphous or low melting forms of chenodeoxycholic acid, in a suspension in water, are seeded with preprepared crystalline acid of the high melting form and the acid product treated, in suspension, at a temperature of not greater than 85.degree. C to complete the conversion of the chenodeoxycholic acid to the high melting form. Crude chenodeoxycholic acid of the low melting form is purified by a process which involves forming a mixture of the crude acid, methanol, a base and a calcium or strontium salt, separating the precipitated crystalline calcium or strontium chenodeoxycholanate, dissolving the salt in a solution of acetic or propionic acid, diluting the solution with water to precipitate the free acid in purified form and recovering the purified acid.

Abstract: A system for the direct firing of immersion tubes for heating of liquids in vats or tanks, including a gas burner, of the postmixer nozzle type comprising a gas supply tube having a blanked off downstream end provided with a series of peripheral gas ports, the gas tube being concentrically disposed within an air tube and having a perforated cone attached thereto slightly rearwardly of the gas ports, the arrangement being such that gas and air is entrained above atmospheric pressure and thoroughly mixed at the burner head by the turbulent flow of air through the perforated cone and around its periphery so as to create regions of gas rich and weak mixtures whereby to obtain flame stability. The system also includes a combustion chamber communicating the burner with the immersion tube.

Abstract: A force applying member for use in an exercising machine wherein the member includes a pair of generally L-shaped levers. A first leg of one L-shaped lever is parallel to a first leg of the other L-shaped lever and a second leg of one L-shaped lever extends generally parallel to a second leg of the other L-shaped lever. A member is attached to the first legs for receiving a force applied by a user. The latter member is adjacent the intersection of each of the first and second legs of each L-shaped lever. There is an angled portion on each of the second legs at an end away from the respective intersections of said first and second legs and a transversely extending stabilizing bar connecting the angled portions and having a clearance therebetween. Each first leg has a rotatable hub member integrally extending from one end thereof.

Abstract: A system for controlling communications between a plurality of computer devices via a common bus. The bus includes a multi-conductor data bus and lines for busy, strobe and acknowledge signals. The system involves one universal interface unit associated with each respective computer device. Each device can initiate access to the common bus, through its respective interface unit, on a first-come, first-served basis.