Abstract: An extruded, fluted, plastic tube is inserted through the neck of a container containing liquid. The free end of the tube is spaced from the bottom wall of the container, while the opposite end is frictionally held in the container neck portion. The side wall of the tube is provided with at least one flute formed by a longitudinal recess extending either the entire length of the tube or a portion of the length of the tube. During the filling of the container, the tube functions as a fill tube, and the flute functions as an air vent. During the pouring of the liquid from the container, the tube functions as a dispensing tube, and the flute functions as a dispensing port to thereby provide a continuous, rather than a turbulent, flow of liquid from the container.

Abstract: A display rack wherein a one-piece die cut blank is constructed and arranged to be folded and interconnected to form a plurality of stepped card receiving slots or pockets forming a terraced display rack for items, such as baseball and football cards. The rack can be substantially trapezoidal in configuration so that a plurality of such racks can be placed in side-by-side relationship to form an enclosure resembling a stadium. A base board can be employed for holding the racks in side-by-side relationship, and indicia representing a playing field is placed on the base board within the enclosure.

Abstract: A disposable, shielded catheter-cannula insertion needle wherein a catheter-cannula assembly is detachably connected to the distal end of a housing having a piston assembly slidably mounted therein. The insertion needle extends through the catheter-cannula and is connected to the piston assembly. A stem, including a cap, is detachably connected to the housing to provide a cover for the catheter-cannula and connectable to the piston assembly for drawing the contaminated insertion needle into a shielded position within the housing. The catheter-cannula assembly includes a self-sealing bushing for closing the flow-through passage in the catheter-cannula when the insertion needle has been removed therefrom.

Abstract: A disposable shielded medical syringe wherein the contaminated needle is connected to a piston slidably mounted in the syringe barrel. The syringe plunger piston is threadably connectable to the needle piston for pulling the contaminated needle into the barrel to the shielded position. The syringe plunger is disconnectable from the plunger piston after the needle has been moved to the shielded position and a cap is insertable into the open end of the syringe barrel to completely enclose the contaminated needle.

Abstract: A disposable shielded medical syringe wherein the contaminated needle is drawn into the syringe barrel and a cap or scabbard is insertable into the open end of the syringe barrel to completely enclose the contaminated needle. A spring clip is mounted on the proximate end portion of the syringe barrel providing a stop member to prevent the syringe plunger from being pulled completely out of the barrel.

Abstract: To protect patients, medical and hospital personnel against the spread of infectious diseases, a molded syringe vial is equipped on its exterior with an array of tracks, rails, stops and detents which can cooperate with elements on an external shield to enable the shield to be first held on the vial in a position allowing normal usage of the medical syringe for injecting or withdrawing fluids, and to be subsequently moved to a non-releasable locked position on the vial in which the contaminated needle of the syringe is completely covered. The shield is manipulated on the vial through a series of simple longitudinal and rotational movements. The syringe lends itself to current mass production economical molding techniques with no alteration of the vial piston bore or piston.

Abstract: An anchor for deck boards resting on a truss includes a deck board hold-down element, a truss-engaging resistance element and a threaded adjustable connector between the hold-down element and the resistance element.

Abstract: To deal with the annoying problem of deck board rot and warping, an anchor bracket is provided for installation in newly constructed decks to resist warping or in existing decks where warping has already occured to rectify the situation. The bracket includes a plate body portion which transversely spans abutting end portions of deck boards, and a pair of depending bifurcated extensions on each end of the plate body portion which straddle the underlying support beams or joists of the deck structure and are anchored thereto by nailing. Several embodiments of the bracket are disclosed.

Abstract: A high density connector module which may form part of a receiver having a plurality of similar modules is structured in its rows of passages to receive lockingly a like number of tri-paddle contacts, which in turn are capable of receiving sessile conductors including spring clips for anchoring them to an individual test adapter or panel. The tri-paddle contacts at their ends away from the individual test adapter are connected through wire-wrapped posts to a printed circuit board held by fasteners against a seating surface and within a registration notch of the high density module.

Abstract: A receiver includes an inner frame and outer walls. Between the outer walls and adjacent side of the receiver frame are placed fixed hanger plates provided with straight slots and interior slides having coacting cam slots. The slides are driven by a hand lever and attached torsion shaft with connected slotted linkage having an over-dead-center locked position. An individual test adapter has four sets of dual bearings or rollers on common dry lube sleeves and can rotate oppositely during the camming action to minimize friction. The individual test adapter rollers rest on dwell shoulders of the cam slots and then descend through the straight slots during movement of the slides to produce positive straight-on engagement of test adapter and receiver multiple contacts, such as ball detent contacts with paddle contacts. The slides have elongated linear guide bearings with attached dry lube pads for precision free movement.

Abstract: A precision rectangular fixture frame includes top, bottom and grooved side members. A middle bar of the frame parallel to the top and bottom members has a pair of recesses aligned with opposing recesses in the top member whereby a single vertical bar having a pair of spaced notches can be interlocked with the top member and middle bar of the frame in two positions of use parallel to the side members. The vertical bar is grooved in its opposite sides whereby in each position of use of the vertical bar one of a pair of contact gage and alignment bars can be supported at plural elevations on the fixture frame during servicing of successive ranks of contacts in two distinct areas of an upper tier of contacts in a receiver. A third contact gage and alignment bar is employed without the vertical bar and is engaged with grooves of the frame side members at plural elevations during servicing of successive ranks of contacts across a lower tier of contacts in the receiver.

Abstract: A mechanism to reduce the physical effort and arm movement of an operator in positioning the multiple electrical contacts of a test adapter and receiver in engaged relationship with the receiver located in a support well of a table and the operator seated at the table. The mechanism includes a short stroke low effort hand lever depending from the table in ready reach of the operator, the hand lever forming one component of a compactly stacked motion and force reducing linkage held in a recess in one side frame member of the receiver and operatively connected with a rotational cam shaft on the receiver which cams the test adapter into operative engagement with the receiver by overriding accumulated forces created by the deflection of the multiple contacts.

Abstract: A dispenser for razor blade cartridges of the character in which one or more blades are permanently secured in a plastic body which has a slidable interlocking connection with a razor head longitudinally of the carriage parallel to the blade cutting edges, the dispenser comprising a cellular arrangement of plastic wall sections forming a plurality of parallel cells connected together as an integral unit each cell having a longitudinal slot at the exterior surface of the unit to receive the razor handle stem, the cells having common walls interiorly of the unit and each cell having interiorly of the cell lug arrangements to prevent accidental escape of the cartridge but cooperative with parts of the razor head and cartridge parts to aid in the insertion and withdrawal of a cartridge.

Abstract: A magazine for razor blade cartridges in which the cartridges embody a plurality of blades permanently secured in a plastic body, the magazine including a main housing into which is insertable a spring clip preloaded with a stack of the cartridges, the housing having an end wall with a pair of openings a first one being adapted for the endwise insertion of a used cartridge at one end of the stack and a second opening being adapted for the endwise extraction of a new cartridge, the stack being pressed by elastic means toward the second opening, the arrangement and relation of the stack and the openings in the end wall being such that a used cartridge may be inserted at the first opening by endwise advance in contact with and parallel to the adjacent cartridge, the cartridge at the other end of the stack having its end fully exposed at said second opening but normally releasably restrained against accidental escape.

Abstract: A multiple blade razor of the double edge type in which the blades are permanently fixed in a razor head cartridge there being two pairs of small blades with the blades at each edge arranged in a superposed but spaced relation the cartridge being adapted for releasably mounting on a handle to enable replacement of a used cartridge, the razor head including a bridge or base member and a generally U-shaped cap member with intervening pairs of blades and a spacer member between the upper and lower pairs of blades, the several members embodying particular elements cooperating to simplify assembling operations and insure accurate relations in the final assembly of the head.