Abstract: A fishing lure including a helical body portion which retains its helical shape and corkscrews when the lure is pulled through water and which assumes a horizontal orientation when the lure is attached to a fishhook and placed at rest in water.

Abstract: A restraint system for enabling a badly injured infant or small child to be immobilized on an adult size backboard, our device has a spinal immobilizer to be placed against the spinal portion of the injured infant, and held tightly in place by securing elements passing around the chest and abdominal portions of the injured infant. Our spinal immobilizer is radiotransparent and is constructed to offer considerable resistance to bending about its longitudinal axis, but permitting a degree of wrap around the torso of the injured infant. In one embodiment a collar member is affixed to an upper part of the immobilizer, and the securing elements of the immobilizer involve a pair of chest straps and a pair of abdominal straps. Fastening elements are located on the free end of each chest strap and abdominal strap, such that the respective pairs of straps can be properly fastened together tightly around the chest and abdominal portions of the injured infant.

Abstract: In conjunction with a commercial microprocessor controlled by a program stored in a ROM, a second microprocessor, similar to the first microprocessor, is connected into the system so as to operate similar to the first microprocessor. A four-phase clock steps the first microprocessor, then steps the second microprocessor, then compares the instruction registers of the two microprocessors and causes the instruction to be executed if an exact comparison is detected. If an exact comparison is not detected, the instruction is not executed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drying device for coagulating and/or drying a fluid material having significant solids content, such as animal blood, to produce a dried solid product where the device includes generally an upwardly sloped elongate housing of generally semicircular cross section of selected diameter to define a coagulation chamber where the top of a portion of the chamber can be open, heat source means to selectively heat the housing, elongate screw conveyor means disposed within the housing with its longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing where the screw conveyor has a shaft with generally continuous helical blade means extending radially therefrom and having an outer diameter approximately equal to the interior diameter of the chamber and where the screw conveyor is adapted for rotation in the chamber to agitate the fluid in a portion of the housing and to convey solid material from a first lower end of the housing, toward a second, higher, end of the housing for e

Abstract: A drawer slide assembly for slidably mounting a drawer in a cabinet includes a pair of channel track members, each substantially C-shaped in transverse cross section, respectively secured to the adjacent side walls of the drawer and cabinet housing, each of said track members defining upper and lower channels respectively provided with longitudinally extending substantially flat planar parallel support surfaces. A runner is provided with a pair of laterally spaced apart upwardly extending arms respectively disposable in the upper channels of the track members and a pair of laterally spaced apart downwardly extending arms respectively disposable in the lower channels of the track members, each arm having a substantially flat planar bearing surface disposable in parallel sliding engagement with the associated one of the support surfaces. Each bearing surface has end portions inclined so as to diverge from the associated support surface toward the adjacent end thereof.