Abstract: A tape for attaching bandages, with non-adhesive tabs at each end for easy manipulation and removal while wearing gloves is disclosed. Also disclosed are tapes with target markings for location of a puncture wound, tapes with pressure disks or plates attached, and methods of making and using the tapes.

Abstract: A tape for attaching bandages, with non-adhesive tabs at each end for easy manipulation and removal while wearing gloves, are disclosed. Also disclosed are a temporary bandage with non-adhesive ends; a roll formation of such tapes, each tape section separated from the others by a perforated section, such that it may be easily removed from the roll; and methods of forming the tapes and bandages.

Abstract: A pressure bandage and method for using it is disclosed. The bandage comprises a piece of multi-layered absorbant material having a target marking on a bottom side and a corresponding target marking on a top side, wherein the target markings form a line which is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the bandage. The target marking on the bottom side of the bandage is aligned with the wound site and pressure is applied on the corresponding target marking on the top side of the bandage, thus permitting the application of pressure directly on the wound site.

Abstract: A nutcracker, mounted on a base, grips a nut to be cracked between a movable piston and an adjustable anvil. The user sets the optimum cracking distance initially by lining up an index marker located on the piston and adjusting the anvil to firmly hold the opposite end of the nut. Thereafter, the user need only move the lever handle to its up position and insert the nut--no further adjustment of the anvil is necessary for similar sized nuts. The user then moves the piston a limited distance by activating the lever handle connected to the piston through a toggle joint, or by some other limited-movement arrangement. This limited movement enables the inventive nutcracker to crack the nutshell without damaging the meat inside.

Abstract: A nutcracker which automatically adjusts for nut size. The nut is cracked between a piston and a receiver. The receiver holds the nut and is locked into place by a latching mechanism made up of a plurality of disk elements, stacked together. A locking lever raises one or more disk elements out of place and latches against the flat face of an adjoining disk. A cover may be provided to activate the latching mechanism and cover the nut to be cracked, protecting the user.

Abstract: An elongated knife handle is provided with a blade carrier with a thumb button extending through a longitudinal top slot in the handle and is depressed for manipulating and latching the blade carrier in its sheathed and unsheathed positions. An integral upstanding abutment which extends higher than the thumb button is provided adjoining the forward end of the top slot and extends rearwardly along both sides of the forward end of the top slot to form a recess in which the thumb button is nested when it is in its forward or operating position to prevent the accidental unlatching of the blade carrier during heavy cutting operations.