Abstract: A medical safety device which reduces the risk of transmitting disease to health care personnel who take or handle body fluid samples such as blood samples. The device reduces the risk of the transmission of disease caused by needlestick and accidental spillage of fluid samples. The device comprises a funnelshaped needle guard having a neck portion which fits snugly over the end of a sample tube such as a vacuum tube. The glass sample tube is coated with a resin to make it substantially shatterproof. The interior surface of the needle guard has interconnecting vertical and circular grooves to channel accidentally spilled fluid into the tube.

Abstract: A mechanism for permitting a shift lever to be stowed away when it is not being used to operate a shiftable mechanism in a motor vehicle. The mechanism may be attached to shifting apparatus already in place in a vehicle or provided as original equipment. The mechanism has first and second portions that are slidably arranged so that in a first position the shift lever is rigidly connected to the shiftable mechanism and in a second position the shift lever is moved to an out of the way, (stowed position), near the floor of the vehicle. A slot on one of the sliding portions and a pair of pins on the other sliding portion are arranged to permit easy selective movement from the rigid to the stowed position. A biasing spring is connected between the sliding portions to releasably hold the lever in which ever position it is moved to.