Abstract: The invention disclosed is a clamping device, particularly for use in conjunction with a conventional sphygmomanometer cuff and electronic stethoscope in order to obtain a blood pressure reading from a patient's arm through heavy overgarments or the like, the patient's arm not being directly accessible. The clamping device includes a pair of pivoting jaws each carrying pressure plates for exerting pressure on the patient's arm. The sphygmomanometer cuff is placed against the patient's arm over the overgarment and the clamping device holds the cuff firmly against the arm. A releaseable lock serves to maintain the clamping device in a working position.

Abstract: A viscoelastometer for measuring and displaying a viscoelastic effect in a liquid such as water, oils, paints, blood or thickened liquids or suspensions including types commonly used as foods or pharmaceuticals as a reproducible force time signature.

Abstract: An air burst munitions simulator which provides for the aerial dissemination of readily dispersable substance. A payload container adapted to contain the substance to be dispersed is launched into the air by a propellant charge, typically gunpowder. A time delay fuse assembly serves to detonate a high energy explosive charge which shatters the container to release the dispersible substance in air.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the rapid transfer of substantially all of a sample adsorbed in a gas sampler tube into a gas or other chromatograph analysis system, in which the chromatograph carrier gas or other fluid is circulated through the chromatograph and a bypass valve in an injection device mounted externally thereof so as to establish equilibrium conditions therein and simultaneously permitting loading of the sampler tube into the injection device without disturbing the fluid flow. The sample is heated and then the fluid flow is diverted through the sampler tube to desorb the sample and carry it directly to the chromatograph column.