Abstract: A medical device production and supply information management system synchronous with manufacturing, planning and scheduling, product consumption forecast, and component purchase to enable just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing, distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web enabled information network and data communications with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order and build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the consumption management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related information hubs including manufacturing facilities.

Abstract: A medical device production and supply information management system for just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management, to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web-enabled information network and data communication with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order or build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the information management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related consumption hubs, including manufacturing facilities.

Abstract: A self-locking deal tray for use in a countertop and a transaction barrier. The deal tray has a frame with at least a partially open top and can be secured to the countertop. The deal tray further has a movable receptacle that is movably connected to the front face of the frame. The movable receptacle can then move between lowered position away from the barrier above it and a raised position against the barrier above it. Finally, the deal tray includes a support movably attached to the bottom of the movable receptacle that can be moved between a supine position and a standing position, respectfully corresponding to the receptacle's lowered and raised positions.

Abstract: A self-locking deal tray for use in a countertop and a transaction barrier. The deal tray has a frame with at least a partially open top and can be secured to the countertop. The deal tray further has a movable receptacle that is movably connected to the front face of the frame. The movable receptacle can then move between lowered position away from the barrier above it and a raised position against the barrier above it. Finally, the deal tray includes a support movably attached to the bottom of the movable receptacle that can be moved between a supine position and a standing position, respectfully corresponding to the receptacle's lowered and raised positions.

Abstract: A medical device production and supply information management system synchronous with manufacturing, planning and scheduling, product consumption forecast, and component purchase to enable just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing, distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web enabled information network and data communications with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order and build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the consumption management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related information hubs including manufacturing facilities.

Abstract: A medical device production and supply information management system synchronous with manufacturing, planning and scheduling, product consumption forecast and component purchase to enable just-in-time inventory control at the manufacturing facility, vendor stocks, material/product tracking, distribution and shipping management, to thereby reduce inventory at all points in the product manufacturing distribution/delivery chain. The system is implemented using a preferably Web-enabled information network and data communication with a programmer. The programmer provides access to product information, specification and related data for implanted medical devices from which build-to-order or build-to-replenish commands are issued to the manufacturing center. The system is interactive within the information management system that is integrally and seamlessly connected with patients, hospitals, sales offices and related consumption hubs, including manufacturing facilities.

Abstract: A collection device is useful to scoop and bag refuse, such as pet excrement, from a surface. The device includes a handle that supports a working head that has an intake portion, a discharge portion and a guide portion therebetween. The working head has bag holders to secure a bag, such as a plastic grocery bag, with a mouth engaging the discharge portion so that refuse may be introduced into the intake at an upstream end and dumped into the bag at the downstream end. The intake portion has forwardly extending tines. The bag holder is shown as radial posts and/or a ring clamp. The handle may be either a short hand grip or preferably an elongate rod that permits use of the collection device while the user is standing. The working head is preferably cylindrical, but it may be flattened if desired.

Abstract: A unitary countertop and deal tray assembly comprises a drawer mounted within a countertop. The assembly is for business transactions through a barrier, such as a building wall, illustrated as a bulletproof cashier window for example. The assembly is pre-fabricated for installation in an opening in the barrier. The countertop has an opening in the top face of the countertop on the cashier (internal) side of the window, and an opening in the front face of the countertop on the customer (external) side of the window. The drawer is movably mounted within the countertop, and is normally in an assembly-closed position where the drawer is open and its interior is accessible through the internal opening in the countertop while the front end of the drawer is adjacent or flush with the front face of the countertop, whereby the drawer interior is inaccessible from the customer side.

Abstract: A cash-and-carry transaction drawer assembly comprises a housing mounted to a cabinet on a cashier's side of a building wall. A front door is provided in the housing. A drawer is glidably mounted in the housing behind the door and has a lid at its top. When the drawer is "closed", the lid accommodates access of the cashier to the contents of the drawer, and the front door is closed. Cam means on the drawer operate to raise the lid to an access-excluding position as the drawer is opened, and open the door for access to the drawer by a customer outside the wall. The cam means for the lid and door have different rates of actuation so that the lid is closed more quickly than the door is opened. The mounting of the door minimizes projection thereof outside the wall when opened, to maximize the access of the customer to the contents of the drawer, when opened.

Abstract: A pass-through assembly includes a housing installable in a building wall structure as a finished complete unit. It has a sector-shaped shelf with upstanding transparent walls on the straight edges of the shelf and intersecting adjacent a vertical hinge. The walls cooperate with a part-cylindrical wall of the housing to provide doors on the assembly and preclude direct access from outside to the inside of the building wall. The housing and shelf are arranged for a normal closed position avoiding need for a sheltered location, but the unit is useful regardless of weather conditions.

Abstract: A countertop with a teller window has an open-topped, specially shaped box under the window with a tray pivotally mounted in the top of the box for passage of small items under the window from the front of the counter to the rear, with the pivotal mounting of the tray enabling passage of larger items under the window while maintaining security of the space behind the window, from direct access to the space in front of the window.