Abstract: A proactive machine is used for assessing and improving a user's proprioception. The machine has a tilting platform upon which the user stands, a non-rotating tilting means connected to the platform for tilting the platform along a first axis and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a control means for controlling the tilting means.

Abstract: A proactive machine is used for assessing and improving a user's proprioception. The machine has a tilting platform upon which the user stands, a non-rotating tilting means connected to the platform for tilting the platform along a first axis and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a control means for controlling the tilting means.

Abstract: A proactive machine is used for assessing and improving a user's proprioception. The machine has a tilting platform upon which the user stands, a non-rotating tilting means connected to the platform for tilting the platform along a first axis and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a control means for controlling the tilting means.

Abstract: A collapsible, foldable container with reduced deflection and increased strength and convenience is provided. A door can be provided in the lower portion in one or more of the sidewalls, opening upward and outward without unduly loading the door hinges. A latch is provided to hold the door in the open configuration engageable by slamming open and disengaging by jerking close. In one embodiment, the base of the container includes a plate having ribbing extending upwardly therefrom. When a smooth-bottomed surface is desired, a plate may be installed on top of the upwardly extending ribbing. Ribbing on the bottom surface and/or sidewall surfaces can include close-loop or circular ribs with integral ribbing extending radially therefrom. Preferably, containers are configured so that they can be stacked, one upon the other, either with or without a top or lid. Preferably, the lid, when provided, avoids pooling of liquids such as rainwater by having a domed-shape and by providing channels in a peripheral ridge.

Abstract: A collapsible, foldable container with reduced deflection and increased strength and convenience is provided. A door can be provided in the lower portion in one or more of the sidewalls, opening upward and outward without unduly loading the door hinges. A latch is provided to hold the door in the open configuration engageable by slamming open and disengaging by jerking close. In one embodiment, the base of the container includes a plate having ribbing extending upwardly therefrom. When a smooth-bottomed surface is desired, a plate may be installed on top of the upwardly extending ribbing. Ribbing on the bottom surface and/or sidewall surfaces can include close-loop or circular ribs with integral ribbing extending radially therefrom. Preferably, containers are configured so that they can be stacked, one upon the other, either with or without a top or lid. Preferably, the lid, when provided, avoids pooling of liquids such as rainwater by having a domed-shape and by providing channels in a peripheral ridge.

Abstract: A system and method for mounting fishing reels on a mounting surface. The system employs a base member having retaining walls and detent members. The base member is mounted on the mounting surface. Tangs on the reel are held by the detent members against the retaining walls to hold the reel in place. A stop member is formed on an inner surface of one of the retaining walls to reduce the likelihood that the reel will become inadvertently dislodged. The base member is designed to be injection molded as a single part.

Abstract: A collapsible, foldable container with reduced deflection and increased strength and convenience is provided. A door can be provided in the lower portion in one or more of the sidewalls, opening upward and outward without unduly loading the door hinges. A latch is provided to hold the door in the open configuration engageable by slamming open and disengaging by jerking close. In one embodiment, the base of the container includes a plate having ribbing extending upwardly therefrom. When a smooth-bottomed surface is desired, a plate may be installed on top of the upwardly extending ribbing. Ribbing on the bottom surface and/or sidewall surfaces can include close-loop or circular ribs with integral ribbing extending radially therefrom. Preferably, containers are configured so that they can be stacked, one upon the other, either with or without a top or lid. Preferably, the lid, when provided, avoids pooling of liquids such as rainwater by having a domed-shape and by providing channels in a peripheral ridge.

Abstract: A heat exchange apparatus made up of a plurality of sheets, desirably made of thin film plastic, bonded one to another to form a unitized heat exchange structure. Alternate first pairs of sheets are bonded one to another along a first set of longitudinally extending bond lines positioned at first transverse locations along width dimensions of the sheets. There is a second set of pairs of alternately spaced sheets (made up of adjacent sheets of adjoining first pairs of sheets) which are bonded one to another along a second set of longitudinally extending bond lines positioned transversely intermittent of the first set of longitudinal bond lines. These sheets are expanded from one another to form a plurality of diamond-shaped heat exchange passageways arranged in parallel rows. In the preferred form, each end of the heat exchange structure is bonded into a molded base member, which in turn is connected to a related manifold structure.

Abstract: A plurality of horizontally positioned plates stacked on top of one another, with thin film plastic sheets separating each adjacent pair of plates. Each plate is formed with a substantially identical, horizontally extending, vertically through passageway, with the sheets separating the passageways of each plate. Upper and lower pressure plates, provided with pressurized air bags, maintain uniform pressure across the plates to prevent leakage from the passageways. Manifold devices at opposite ends of the passageways direct a first heat exchange medium through a first set of vertically alternate passageways, and direct a second heat exchange medium through a second set of vertically alternate passageways positioned intermittently with respect to the first set of passageways.

Abstract: A condenser/evaporator heat exchanger comprising a plurality of vertically oriented panel units spaced moderately from one another. Each panel unit comprises a pair of thin film plastic sheets bonded to one another along a plurality of vertically extending bond lines transversely spaced from one another at regular intervals. The two sheets form between adjacent pairs of bond lines a plurality of vertical tubular condensing chambers adapted to receive pressurized steam. Brine is directed onto the outer surfaces of the panel units at the upper ends thereof, the brine descending down the outer surfaces of the panel units to be in heat exchange relationship with the steam inside the tubular condensing chambers.

Abstract: The heat exchange structure made by the method of the present invention comprises a plurality of sheets, desirably thin film plastic, bonded to one another to form the unitized structure. Alternate first pairs of sheets are bonded one to another along a first set of longitudinally extending bond lines positioned at first transverse locations along the width dimensions of the sheets. There is a second set of pairs of alternately spaced sheets (made up of adjacent sheets of adjoining first pairs of sheets) which are bonded one to another along a second set of longitudinally extending bond lines positioned transversely intermittently with respect to the first set of longitudinal bond lines. In the method of the present invention, the sheets are arranged in vertically stacked relationship. One set of bonding bars is positioned between sets of adjacent intermediate pairs of sheets at the locations where the first set of longitudinally extending bond lines are to be formed.

Abstract: A liquid distributing device for use in the upper end of an upright tube in a vertical, tubular heat exchanger, which device comprises a ferrule having a head adapted to seat upon the upright tube, a cylindrical sleeve adapted to fit snugly within said tube, a bore in said head, and means to distribute liquid from said bore onto the inside surface of said cylindrical sleeve and then onto the inside surface of the upright tube as a falling film, whereby errosion of the tube by impingement of liquid thereon is minimized. Means are also provided to prevent building of scale within the ferrule.