Abstract: An improved portable bathing apparatus useful for washing toxic substances from a patient in a prone position includes a support platform mounted on a support frame, a circumferential rail with a sheet attached to the rail, the rail being movable between a position parallel with the table to a position above the table to define a vessel. Specialized liners may be positioned within the vessel for use when bathing a patient to wash toxic substances therefrom. A stretcher with a special stainless steel construction and configuration is provided for support of a patient within the vessel.

Abstract: A prefabricated, readily adjustable easily assemblable product display fixture having components which can be installed and interchanged without the use of special tools and substantially without nut-and-bolt type fasteners. As a result of the abundant flexibility provided through the readily interchangeable components employing a substantially common type interlocking system, the fixture may be adapted for display of such diverse product items as greeting cards in a stair-stepped array on a special inclined deck structure. The fixture includes a base a pair of extensible upright standards interlockingly secured to the base at the rear of the latter and, in one form, a simplified card display deck suspended from the standards by sling brackets which support the deck in overhanging relationship to the base therebelow and which permit the deck to angle upwardly and rearwardly from the point of suspension in rearwardly leaning mode to bear against upper portions of the standards.

Abstract: A cattle guard for highways and other thoroughfares, as an extension of a fence line to prevent cattle from crossing into forbidden areas, is made up of concrete slab sections faced with sheet steel and placed end-to-end across the thoroughfare. The sheet steel facing for each section is fabricated by interconnecting in side-by-side relationship a series of trough-like lengths of sheet steel or the like pre-bent to provide alternate, up-facing valleys and ridges and an undersurface to serve as a form having reverse valleys and ridges into and onto which is poured wet concrete to provide a structural concrete base for the section. The trough-like lengths are preferably interconnected by flanges extending integrally from respective sides of the valleys and overlapped to provide double thick, sheet steel traction surfaces for the upfacing ridges. Tie plates are provided to interconnect the slab sections and to facilitate handling and placement of the individual sections.

Abstract: A fireplace heat transfer unit consists of a forced-air-fed distribution manifold extending across the rear of the fireplace parallel to the back wall, a series of heat transfer conduits interconnected with the manifold and extending forwardly from it to the fireplace opening, supported by a generally rectangular, side-walled grate enclosure from which support legs extend downwardly at each corner, an expanded-metal coal grate positioned on the grate enclosure below the heat transfer conduits to hold glowing coals in proximity to the conduits and in proximity to the manifold, the heat transfer conduits having restricting orifices where connected to the distribution manifold and at the emission orifices through which heated air is directed into the room. Forced air input is provided by an enclosed, heat-protected electric blower which may be positioned just inside of the fireplace on either side of the heat transfer unit, connected to the manifold by means of a heat transfer conduit at either end.