Abstract: This invention relates to a fecal microbiome transplant material preparation method and apparatus for the preparation of fecal material for a fecal transplant. A healthy patient's stool is collected and deposited in a first container which has its open end attached to a second container to form a fecal processing device. Blender blades are positioned in the second container and a filter is mounted therein. Liquid is injected into the second container through a syringe port having a valve therein to block the escape of liquid from the connected containers. Intake and exhaust ports allow air to enter and escape from the connected containers while blocking the escape of liquid. The liquid and fecal matter in the connected containers is blended and the blended liquid is strained through the filter in the second container and removed through the syringe port for use in a fecal transplant.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fecal microbiome transplant material preparation method and apparatus for the preparation of fecal material for a fecal transplant. A healthy patient's stool is collected and deposited in a first container which has its open end attached to a second container to form a fecal processing device. Blender blades are positioned in the second container and a filter is mounted therein. Liquid is injected into the second container through a syringe port having a valve therein to block the escape of liquid from the connected containers. Intake and exhaust ports allow air to enter and escape from the connected containers while blocking the escape of liquid. The liquid and fecal matter in the connected containers is blended and the blended liquid is strained through the filter in the second container and removed through the syringe port for use in a fecal transplant.

Abstract: A tripolar antenna is described having at least two electromagnetic signal transmitting/receiving elements arranged such that their axes of signal transmission/reception sensitivity are not parallel, wherein said elements are provided on or at least partially in a substrate of dielectric material so portions of said at least two elements are coplanar and dielectrically isolated from one another. In a preferred arrangement, two dipoles are provided on the substrate in perpendicular orientation and in the plane containing of the surface of said dielectric material. Most preferably a further third element is provided so as to render the antenna tripolar, said third element comprising a first circular disk element secured to an upper surface of the dielectric material, and a second slightly larger circular disk element, concentrically positioned on the corresponding opposite and lower surface of the dielectric.

Abstract: A tripolar antenna is described having at least two electromagnetic signal transmitting/receiving elements arranged such that their axes of signal transmission/reception sensitivity are not parallel, wherein said elements are provided on or at least partially in a substrate of dielectric material so portions of said at least two elements are coplanar and dielectrically isolated from one another. In a preferred arrangement, two dipoles are provided on the substrate in perpendicular orientation and in the plane containing of the surface of said dielectric material. Most preferably a further third element is provided so as to render the antenna tripolar, said third element comprising a first circular disk element secured to an upper surface of the dielectric material, and a second slightly larger circular disk element, concentrically positioned on the corresponding opposite and lower surface of the dielectric.

Abstract: A technique for providing volume adjustment capabilities in a digital telecommunication system. A composite two-part address is applied to a memory which stores amplitude adjusted digital voice words. The first part of the address comprises the digital voice word carried by the TDM time slot. The second part of the address comprises a parameter which defines the extent of amplitude adjustment. The readout of the memory thereby defines a different digital voice word having a desired amplitude level. The second address part of the composite address is generated by an amplitude parameter memory in synchronism with each time slot so that the amplitude of the digital voice words in corresponding time slots can be adjusted independently and dynamically with respect to the others.

Abstract: In a correction tape dispenser, wherein a backing ribbon carrying a layer of correcting composition is fed from a supply spool (2) around the edge (6) of an applicator tip (10) used to press the tape against a paper surface (P) to transfer the layer of correcting composition onto the paper, and back to a take-up spool (3), a tape guide system (11,12; 22,23) is provided near the tip to redirect the tape, the tip edge (6) being at an angle to the feed direction so that the body of the tape dispenser may be held in a forwardly and downwardly inclined orientation similar to that in which a writing instrument is normally held.

Abstract: A communication system having full call processing capabilities in the user ports, each port being connected to a TDM collection bus and a TDM distribution bus. A bus controller terminates the collection bus on which voice words are deposited in time slots by the respective user ports, the voice words being realigned and transmitted by the bus controller on the TDM distribution bus. Each user port is assigned a time slot and can thus communicated simultaneously with one or more other user ports, such as during a two-way telephone conversation or a multiple party conference call. A memory in each user port combines plural voice words obtained from respective TDM time slots of conference participants, and combines such voice words into a composite signal representative of all the other conferees. The conference circuit of each user port combines the voice words of all the other participating ports over a frame period, except its own voice word, and thus the composite voice word of each user port is different.