Abstract: An apparatus is provided for lifting and transporting patients. The apparatus may include a base frame, a central frame, a knee pad, and a boom configured to pivot relative to the central frame. The knee pad may have a guide and a rail configured to travel within the guide to allow positioning and adjustment of the knee pad relative to the central frame. The guide may be configured to selectively secure the rail at any location within an adjustment range of the knee pad. The boom may have at least one hook portion for attachment of a device for holding the patient during lifting. The hook portion may include a hook formed from a curved portion of a central member and a clip attached to the curved portion and movable between a closed position and an open position.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for lifting and transporting patients. The apparatus may include a base frame, a central frame, a knee pad, and a boom configured to pivot relative to the central frame. The knee pad may have a guide and a rail configured to travel within the guide to allow positioning and adjustment of the knee pad relative to the central frame. The guide may be configured to selectively secure the rail at any location within an adjustment range of the knee pad. The boom may have at least one hook portion for attachment of a device for holding the patient during lifting. The hook portion may include a hook formed from a curved portion of a central member and a clip attached to the curved portion and movable between a closed position and an open position.

Abstract: Concave curve-shaped stem capturing recesses are provided in edges of stem guiding slots in non-blade carrying member of a rechargeable, battery powered reciprocating hedge and shrub trimmer. The recesses have portions presenting acute stem contact angles to the guided stems, which portions extend inward from about the location of the blade tip a distance greater than about 50% of the effective blade height.

Abstract: A workpiece supporting and clamping assembly is adapted to be mounted on a wall or similar structure and to be adjustable between a substantially vertical storage position, closely adjacent the wall and a working position substantially perpendicular to the wall. The assembly comprises a pair of brackets, a pair of spaced apart, parallel hinge assemblies, each having locking means and a release lever associated therewith, and a workpiece supporting and clamping device, pivotally coupled with the brackets and hinge assemblies. The workpiece supporting and clamping device comprises a generally rigid base frame which includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart frame members and a pair of elongated, coplanar top members which are mounted on the spaced apart members, extending generally transversely thereto such that their upper surfaces define the work supporting surface and their opposed side surfaces, the work clamping surfaces.

Abstract: An improved arrangement for mounting an auxiliary workpiece support body to a workpiece support device includes a restraining means for selectively inhibiting and enabling motion of the auxiliary support body in the direction of a longitudinal axis while simultaneously enabling rotation of the body about the axis. The auxiliary support body includes a means for restraining jaw cladding bodies of different thicknesses on a workpiece support device and permitting rotary motion of the support body.

Abstract: A port in the cylinder wall of a two-stroke cycle engine is connected by a passage and a restricted orifice with the idle reservoir of a diaphragm type carburetor. The idle reservoir is connected through an adjustable idle mixture valve with the metering chamber. The passage from the engine port is connected by a vent passage with the venturi of the carburetor. The dry side of the metering diaphragm is vented by a restricted opening and is connected with the dry side of a crankcase pressure operated fuel pump through a passageway having therein a check valve and a valve which is open when the choke valve is closed. This connection allows pressure pulses from the crankcase to influence fuel flow so that the desired fuel flow is obtained under more than one engine operating condition. In addition fuel is introduced directly into the crankcase at idle speeds instead of into the throttle bore giving more stable idle condition.