Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: A protective wash garment for use by workers during washing operations is disclosed. The protective wash garment is comprises a two-layer construction in which the first layer is a water resistant material. The second layer is a high porosity material that is laid over the first layer. Water that comes into contact with the second layer passes through and is caught between the first and second layer. The water then falls to the bottom of the first layer into a gutter formed by folding a bottom flap of the first layer up. The bottom flap is folded such that the gutter runs at an angle to urge the water that falls into the gutter to flow to a lower end of the gutter. The lower end of the gutter is beyond the feet of the worker wearing the garment. Thus, water spayed upon the garment falls into the gutter and flows out away from the feet of the worker wearing the garment.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: An applicator for an analyte monitoring device may include an actuatable housing having a body defining a cavity therein and having a distal opening and a side opening. A cuff and a shuttle are received within the cavity and are separately translatable relative to the housing body. A base may removable engage the housing body at the distal opening. The housing body, the cuff, the shuttle, and/or the base may be engaged with one another with one or more releasable coupling features. The base may be removed from an engagement with the housing body, causing the cuff and the shuttle to be aligned and positioned in a configuration in which the analyte monitoring device, held by the shuttle, is ready for insertion into the skin.

Abstract: A device and method for the insertion of an analyte-selective microneedle array sensor into a dermal stratum of a user is disclosed herein. The device comprises a body portion, a recessed actuation portion, a carrier, a gating feature, and a disengagement feature. A user-directed application of a specified force to the actuation area causes the carrier to overcome the gating feature, thereby to effect the acceleration of the microneedle array sensor device towards the skin surface of a user with a specified impact force and velocity.

Abstract: A hand-held personal hygiene device includes a main body having an upper end, a lower end, and a pump therein. The pump is configured to pump water or another fluid from an inlet port at the upper end to an outlet port at the lower end. A reservoir has a lower base configured to removably seat in the upper end of the main body to engage and open a self-closing valve with the inlet port of the main body. A tubular nozzle member has a lower end comprising one or more nozzle outlets and an upper end configured to be removably secured to the outlet port of the main body causing liquid pumped by the pump to flow through the tubular nozzle member to the one or more nozzle outlets. The reservoir and the main body may be aligned to form a liquid flow path that may be held vertically to allow gravity flow from the reservoir to the pump.

Abstract: Briefly, a putter head is provided that concentrates the weight of the putter head at the far ends of the heel and toe of the putter head. The putter head has an ultralight putter body that includes a putter face and a shank for attaching a putter shaft. The ultralight putter body has an axially aligned heel cavity and toe cavity that are constructed to receive weights. The heel weight and toe weights are very dense, and constructed to be received into the respective weight cavity of the light putter body. Due to the extreme concentration of weight at the fare ends of the heel and toe of the putter head, the putter face has exceptional rotational stability with a substantially larger sweet spot than known putter heads. The weights may be provided as changeable weight pairs, such that the overall weight and balance of the putter head may be adjusted, while maintaining the position of the sweet spot.

Abstract: Briefly, a putter head is provided that concentrates the weight of the putter head at the far ends of the heel and toe of the putter head. The putter head has an ultralight putter body that includes a putter face and a shank for attaching a putter shaft. The ultralight putter body has an axially aligned heel cavity and toe cavity that are constructed to receive weights. The heel weight and toe weights are very dense, and constructed to be received into the respective weight cavity of the light putter body. Due to the extreme concentration of weight at the fare ends of the heel and toe of the putter head, the putter face has exceptional rotational stability with a substantially larger sweet spot than known putter heads. The weights may be provided as changeable weight pairs, such that the overall weight and balance of the putter head may be adjusted, while maintaining the position of the sweet spot.

Abstract: A protective wash garment for use by workers during washing operations is disclosed. The protective wash garment is comprises a two-layer construction in which the first layer is a water resistant material. The second layer is a high porosity material that is laid over the first layer. Water that comes into contact with the second layer passes through and is caught between the first and second layer. The water then falls to the bottom of the first layer into a gutter formed by folding a bottom flap of the first layer up. The bottom flap is folded such that the gutter runs at an angle to urge the water that falls into the gutter to flow to a lower end of the gutter. The lower end of the gutter is beyond the feet of the worker wearing the garment. Thus, water spayed upon the garment falls into the gutter and flows out away from the feet of the worker wearing the garment.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to clean a tonsil include a bite-piece and a fluid delivery tube. The bite piece has a longitudinal axis and the bite-piece is configured to be clenched between at least one upper side tooth and at least one lower side tooth within a user's mouth. A fluid delivery tube is slidingly engaged with the bite-piece. The fluid delivery tube is configured to direct a flow of water onto a tonsil and to wash debris from the tonsil.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses include applying a biting force to a bite-piece, the biting force is applied by a user's teeth, wherein the bite-piece is held inside of the user's mouth. Closing the mouth and the biting force suppress the user's gag reflex and the user's tonsils and adjacent Throat structures can be treated by spraying fluid onto the tonsil or manipulating the surface of the tonsil and related structures. The tonsils can be cleaned thereby.

Abstract: A vessel comprising a fluid-confining surface, a basal surface disposed below the fluid-confining surface, and a light guide. The light guide includes a first window partly defining the basal surface and a second window partly defining the fluid-confining surface, where the second window is disposed above a lowest region of the fluid-confining surface. In other embodiments, an isolating structure is provided that substantially surrounds the light guide between the first and second windows.