Abstract: A soft tissue expander includes a dimensionally adjustable base. The shape of the base is optimally adjusted prior to inserting the expander into an incision formed below a layer of skin to be expanded.

Abstract: An apparatus for in situ preparing and applying foam to a surface, such as a roof, and at the same time applying a membrane onto the surface of the foam, produces a foam-membrane sandwich having an upper surface of controlled smoothness and thickness or pitch, which sandwich is firmly held to the treated surface. The apparatus is normally self-propelled and may be automatically controlled so as to be advanced across the surface to be coated with membrane-covered rigid polymeric foam, preferably of polyurethane foam, as the curing pre-foam and covering membrane are applied. In preferred embodiments of the invention the membrane is a roofing felt or fiberglass web, mat, treated paper or cloth fed from the apparatus from a roll thereon, producing with the roof or other surface to be coated, a form into which a curing pre-foam is deposited as the apparatus is advanced.

Abstract: An apparatus for in situ preparing and applying foam to a surface, such as a roof, and at the same time applying a membrane onto the surface of the foam, produces a foam-membrane sandwich having an upper surface of controlled smoothness and thickness or pitch, which sandwich is firmly held to the treated surface. The apparatus is normally self-propelled and may be automatically controlled so as to be advanced across the surface to be coated with membrane-covered rigid polymeric foam, preferably of polyurethane foam, as the curing pre-foam and covering membrane are applied. In preferred embodiments of the invention the membrane is a roofing felt or fiberglass web, mat, treated paper or cloth fed from the apparatus from a roll thereon, producing with the roof or other surface to be coated, a form into which a curing pre-foam is deposited as the apparatus is advanced.