Abstract: A periodontal cleaning device including a hollow housing having a handle member and a brush head member. The brush head includes a gear train reciprocally driven by a rack. The gear train includes at least one drive gear engageable by the rack which in turn drives a plurality of series interconnected driven gears. The drive gear includes one portion engaged by the rack and another portion engaged by an adjacent driven gear. An axial width of a gear portion of the drive gear is greater than the axial width of gear portions of the driven gears so that in operation, the rack does not engage the driven gears. The drive and driven gears each include a tuft holder by which bristles are removably held.

Abstract: A showerhead has a series of orifices together with a series of spray outlets and a turbine with a valve for sequentially opening successive ones of the orifices. The turbine is driven by water emitted from a nozzle. A multiply-apertured flow director plate communicates water to the nozzle, the orifices and the outlets. Overlying the director plate is a control plate that selectively couples water to different ones of the apertures in the director plate as the latter is moved by a control ring. First, second and third passages are defined in the showerhead, the first between an aperture in the director plate to the nozzle and also through the valve to the orifices, the second from an aperture in the director plate to the outlets and the third from an aperture in the director plate in bypass of the nozzle but through the valve to the orifices in a manner to retard the speed of the turbine.

Abstract: Successively-delivered liquid pulses are led into an elongated hollowed handle of a size and shape to be grasped by the human hand. A nozzle, mounted to the handle, delivers those pulses against the teeth and gums of the user. Also mounted to the handle is a toothbrush for scrubbing the teeth and massaging the gums. Included within the handle are elements that cooperate to drive the toothbrush relative thereto.

Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen cyanide are catalytically removed from air at room temperatures. Air containing H.sub.2 S and HCN in dilute concentrations is contacted with a dry, activated catalyst formed of palladium (II) and copper (II) salts such as chlorides, on an alumina substrate, at a temperature in the range of -20.degree. C. to 85.degree. C. The catalyst may also contain nickel (II) chloride.

Abstract: An oral hygiene apparatus includes means for producing a succession of water pulses at a preselected pressure together with means for delivering those water pulses into a handle shaped to be grasped by the human hand. An elongated nozzle projects outwardly from the handle, manipulation of the handle permitting the water pulses, flowing through the nozzle from the handle, to be directed against the teeth and gums of the user. Included within the handle are means to define a flow path from the delivery means into the nozzle. A valve disposed within the handle is selectively operable to open or close that flow path during the delivery of the water pulses. Also disclosed is the inclusion of an accumulator within the handle for adsorbing the pressure load of incoming water pulses during closure of the valve.

Abstract: A housing contains electrical components that constitute a battery-operated smoke detector and alarm. Forming a part of the housing is a transverse wall that includes at least one opening. Adjacent to that one opening in one surface of the wall are a first succession of semi-cylindrical cavities each diametrically sized to seat a cylindrical battery. A support web is suspended from the wall in a position spaced from and opposite the opening with the wall-facing surface of that web including a second succession of semi-cylindrical cavities each diametrically sized to seat the battery and aligned with the respective cavity formed on the wall so as to captivate a battery therebetween. A cover member is matable with the wall so as to overlie the compartment in which the batteries reside. A lug depends from the cover for locking reception with an aperture formed in the transverse wall. An ear depends from the cover in a position to press against the battery when the cover is installed.