Abstract: A shirt stay garter employs a releasable fastening clip for reducing a tendency for plastic and/or clam-type button clips to fail (e.g., come loose). Use of the improved fastener provides a center pin that keeps the shirt stay device from coming loose. The shirt stay garter may be embodied in a variety of forms including a stirrup style, a 4-strap style, and a Y-style, for example. The shirt stay garter may include a distal member adapted to be engaged with a support surface, a proximal member slidably coupled to the distal member, and a fastener attached to the proximal member. Notably, the fastener is adapted to engage the shirt tail and resists external forces acting thereagainst during extended periods of time.

Abstract: An continuous passive lumbar motion (CPLM) device for alleviating lower back stiffness and/or pain. A person seated on a backless seat is subjected to cyclical forward and backward horizontal acceleration, thus imposing a horizontal to-and-fro force to the lower part of the body resulting in flexion and tension of the upper torso relative to the lower torso in the lumbar spinal region.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying small articles of wearing apparel wherein the articles of wearing apparel are placed in a drying chamber having a curved surface on which the wearing apparel is placed, applying warm air under pressure along the curved surface to dry and tumble the wearing apparel to expedite the drying thereof.

Abstract: A metallic profile wire screen for a filter surface for use with a tilting pan type filter exhibiting sufficient open area for acceptable liquid flow with optimum spacing between the profiled wires for the retention of solids being filtered.