Abstract: The invention provides a delivery catheter (12) for a stent valve (10), the delivery catheter has a distal portion (14) insertable into an anatomy, the distal portion comprises an accommodation region (18) for accommodating a stent-valve for delivery into the anatomy, the delivery catheter further comprises at least one sheath (20; 22) that is translatable between a closed position for at least partly closing the accommodation region and an open position for at least partly opening the accommodation region.

Abstract: This invention relates to a competitive board game comprised of a table with sides surrounding the playing surface. Hockey sticks are suspended from transverse bars suspended across the playing surface and slidably disposed between the sides of the table. The table has a goal at each end of the playing surface and the playing surface mates with sides in formed rounded corners. The playing surface is angled between each rounded corner toward the center of the board to provide for a fast game requiring high levels of skill. A ?th inch lip is provided over the edge of the playing surface to keep the puck in play for special Quninning shots.

Abstract: A technique for providing telecommunications service is disclosed that uses a test bus to test customer subscriber lines and to provide a connection between a customer subscriber line and transmission equipment, which handles outbound backup calls. This backup transmission equipment can be inexpensively retrofitted into switches and remote terminal equipment in the field. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of customer subscriber lines; a metallic test bus that can be electrically connected to any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines; drop test logic for testing at least one electrical characteristic of any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines via the metallic test bus; and transmission equipment for providing telecommunications service to any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines via the metallic test bus.

Abstract: This invention relates to a competitive board game comprised of a table with sides surrounding the playing surface. Hockey sticks are suspended from transverse bars suspended across the playing surface and slidably disposed between the sides of the table. The table has a goal at each end of the playing surface and the playing surface mates with sides in formed rounded corners. The playing surface is angled between each rounded corner toward the center of the board to provide for a fast game requiring high levels of skill. A 1/8th lip is provided over the edge of the playing surface to keep the puck in play for special Quninning shots.

Abstract: A technique for providing telecommunications service is disclosed that uses a test bus to test customer subscriber lines and to provide a connection between a customer subscriber line and transmission equipment, which handles outbound backup calls. This backup transmission equipment can be inexpensively retrofitted into switches and remote terminal equipment in the field. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of customer subscriber lines; a metallic test bus that can be electrically connected to any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines; drop test logic for testing at least one electrical characteristic of any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines via the metallic test bus; and transmission equipment for providing telecommunications service to any of the plurality of customer subscriber lines via the metallic test bus.

Abstract: An arrangement for providing signalling to the lines of a telecommunications system employing non-metallic switching crosspoints such as a solid state switching network or time division switching network. In a system employing either type of network, line signalling such as ringing, coin control signalling, wire chief testing, and such other signals which are essentially high voltage signals cannot readily be transmitted through the switching network. The present system as disclosed provides an arrangement employing a common, multiplex highway between one or more signal sources and the line circuits. Operation of a switching element such as a relay in a line circuit selected by the common control completes a metallic path from the source bus to the selected line through closed contacts of the relay. In addition, signals of one or more different types may be multiplexed within a signal cycle to produce signals to a number of lines during the period when one line is being signalled.