Abstract: A surgical cable for use in the repair of fractures or fusions of small bones and to assist in the repair of torn ligaments and tendons. The surgical cable has unique characteristics of high tensile strength, flexibility and inelasticity or stiffness.

Abstract: An orthopedic prosthesis including a trunk engaging means, an arm engaging means and a lift assist means. The trunk engaging means includes a shoulder engaging means comprised of a strap which passes over the injured shoulder and a support plate attached to each end of the shoulder strap, the support plates being positioned in front of and behind the shoulder to be supported. The trunk engaging means also includes a lateral support strap, one end of the strap being connected to one of the support plates and around the body of the wearer under the arm opposite of the shoulder to be supported where it is connected to the second support plate. The arm engaging means includes a strap passing around the humerus of the arm of the wearer. The lift assist means utilizes two pulley systems, one mounted on the arm engaging means and one on the support plate of the shoulder engaging means.

Abstract: A heated handle for a fishing pole, having an aluminum tubular body received in an internal chamber in the handle for containing a dry fuel element. Both the handle and the tubular body have ventilating openings. The tubular body has a lesser diameter than the internal chamber to form an air space about the body which prevents the handle from overheating, but permits the fuel element to burn.

Abstract: An inertial exercise apparatus and method for exercising body muscles using acceleration and deceleration forces. A mass slidably mounted along a track is connected to a body part by a tether in such a way that the body part accelerates the mass along the track, and thereafter the motion of the mass is converted without substantially decreasing the speed of the mass to a motion which can be decelerated by the body part. In a preferred embodiment, the mass is accelerated toward a curved central portion of the track which then reverses the motion of the mass, after which the mass is decelerated. A rotating mass can also be utilized.

Abstract: An exercise apparatus permitting external torque applied in resistance to an exercise to be adjustably controlled during the course of the exercise to match the external torque applied with the internal torque produced by the muscles involved in the exercise. The exercise apparatus is disclosed embodied in a sit-up apparatus in which weights can be adjustably mounted on weight arms extending in line with the subject's torso and behind the subject's torso for normal subjects, and below the torso to assist weak subjects for rehabilitative purposes.

Abstract: Apparatus for jerking a fishline in response to a fish taking the bait on the end of the line, comprising a base, a one-piece, spring-biased wire arm having one end connected to the base, a trigger pivotally connected to the base and having a hook-shaped portion for engaging the arm such that a fishline connected to the outer end of the arm and through a hook-shaped portion of the trigger causes the trigger to release the arm in response to a fish taking the bait.