Abstract: A motivational savings bank set, the motivational savings bank set including a savings bank, the savings bank including a plurality of separate and discrete chambers, the chambers being of sequential, ordered, and ascending vertical heights, each of the chambers having indicia provided thereon, the indicia on the chambers indicating a plurality of sequential, ordered, and ascending levels of achievement corresponding to the sequential, ordered, and ascending vertical heights of the chambers, all but one of the chambers having an associated insertion slot and the shortest of the chambers lacking an insertion slot, and a plurality of tokens, each of the tokens bearing indicia thereon indicating a denomination, and the indicia on the tokens being of ascending denominations.

Abstract: A diaphragm for minimizing interfacial porosity during the insertion of a femoral component into the cavity in the medullary canal of a femur. By providing a seal around the outer medial, lateral, anterior and posterior surfaces of the component during insertion through the diaphragm, the introduction of pores into the cement during the insertion process is minimized and flow of cement out of the cavity is resisted. The diaphragm may be formed of at least one rigid layer and a resilient layer, the resilient layer providing the desired seal. In another embodiment, the diaphragm may be formed of two stacked discs which permit expansion in two orthogonal directions and which have holes which include seals on the inner surface thereof to provide a seal between the diaphragm and the outer surfaces of the component.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for incorporating pre-personalized signatures within magazines, books, catalogs, etc. which are intelligently matched to recipient name and address information printed on the covers of the magazines, books, etc. In one embodiment, pre-personalized signatures are printed off-line and later supplied to a signature feeder in the bindery line. Before or after deposit on the bindery chain conveyor, coded indicia on the pre-personalized signatures are machine read and processed through a control processor and related storage memory for locating and printing recipient name and address information on the magazine cover, matched to the pre-personalized signature.

Abstract: A drill alignment apparatus for a drill adapted for osteoplastic surgery comprises an alignment rod mounted thereto and a clamp element. The alignment rod is parallel to and disposed a predetermined distance (D) from a shaft of the drill. The clamp element includes an aperture which permits passage of the rod. The clamp element is adapted to be affixed to a bone, such as a femur, so that the aperture is displaced from the central axis of the bone by substantially the same distance which the center axis of the alignment rod is displaced from the center axis of the drill shaft. When drilling is commenced, the forward end of the alignment rod is placed within the aperture of the clamp element. As drilling progresses, the rod passes through the aperture, thereby ensuring that drilling occurs along a predetermined drilling path extending along the bone axis.

Abstract: A freight carrying railroad car including a body supported at each end by wheel-containing trucks; the body having a vertical center beam extending the length of the car between bulkheads at each end of the car; the center beam having a center sill, a top sill parallel to and spaced above the center sill, and a plurality of vertical spaced apart columns connected at their lower ends to the center sill and at their upper ends to the top sill; a vertical plate at each end of the car extending from the center sill to the top sill, and from the respective bulkhead at that end inwardly along the center sill; each vertical plate being joined to the center sill, top sill, bulkhead and a plurality of said columns such that opposed facing ends of said vertical plates are spaced from each other a distance of at least about 60% of the length of said car between the bulkheads; and between the facing end of each of the vertical plates and the car length center, at least one bracing bar extending diagonally downwardly, tow

Abstract: A freight carrying railroad car including a body supported at each end by wheel-containing trucks; the body having a vertical center beam extending the length of the car between bulkheads at each end of the car; the center beam having a center sill, a top sill parallel to and spaced above the center sill, and a plurality of vertical spaced apart columns connected at their lower ends to the center sill and at their upper ends to the top sill; a vertical plate at each end of the car extending from the center sill to the top sill, and from the respective bulkhead at that end inwardly along the center sill, each vertical plate being joined to the center sill, top sill, bulkhead and a plurality of said columns such that opposed facing ends of said vertical plates are spaced from each other a distance of at least about 60% of the length of said car between the bulkheads; and between the facing end of each of the vertical plates and the car length center, at least one bracing bar extending diagonally downwardly, tow

Abstract: A method and apparatus for extracting a prosthesis, particularly a femoral component of a hip prosthesis, which is embedded in a skeletal bone. The apparatus of this invention includes a hollow housing having a lower bearing surface which bears against the proximal end of the bone surrounding the prosthesis to be extracted, a threaded shaft having one end extending into the housing, means mounted externally of the housing which can be rotated to axially advance the shaft and means disposed on the one end of the shaft disposed within the housing for grasping the prosthesis for extraction thereof. A bearing plate may be provided between the proximal end of the skeletal bone and the bearing surface of the housing to evenly distribute the reaction forces applied by the housing over the exposed surface of the proximal end of the bone, and for a cemented prosthesis, over the exposed bone and cement surfaces.

Abstract: A freight carrying railroad car including a body supported at each end by wheel-containing trucks; the body having a vertical center beam extending the length of the car between bulkheads at each end of the car; the center beam having a center sill, a top sill parallel to and spaced above the center sill, and a plurality of vertical spaced apart columns connected at their lower ends to the center sill and at their upper ends to the top sill; a vertical plate at each end of the car extending from the center sill to the top sill, and from the respective bulkhead at that end inwardly along the center sill; each vertical plate being joined to the center sill, top sill, bulkhead and a plurality of said columns such that opposed facing ends of said vertical plates are spaced from each other a distance of at least about 60% of the length of said car between the bulkheads; and between the facing end of each of the vertical plates and the car length center, at least one bracing bar extending diagonally downwardly, tow

Abstract: Apparatus and method for polymerizing cement under pressurized conditions and for applying the cement under pressure at the appropriate time to a human bone cavity for implantation of a prosthesis, including a stemmed femoral component and an acetabular component. This apparatus alters the physical conditions under which bone cement cures, causing a decrease in cement porosity and thus increasing the resultant cement strength. The apparatus includes a pneumatically actuated gun having a piston for applying pressure to the cement, and applying cement to the bone, a pressurizable housing securable to the gun for containing the cement, and a nozzle having a valve which allows the cement to remain pressurized until application thereof through the nozzle. In one embodiment, one component of a two component polymerizable cement is provided in a sealed bladder secured to the nozzle while the other component is injected into the bladder and mixed with the first component when the cement is ready for use.

Abstract: A stemmed femoral component for the human hip for which fixation is provided in one embodiment by bony ingrowth and which may be easily removed for replacement thereof by an osteotone. The two-piece component includes a stem which is elongated and has on its proximal end a Morse cone and a laterally extending collar adapted to reside on the cortical bone in the region of the femoral neck. In the one embodiment the stem is textured or provided with a porous material on its outer surfaces only in the metaphyseal portion and only on the anterior, lateral, and posterior surfaces. The medial surface is smooth, as is the diaphyseal portion of the stem. In this manner, bony ingrowth takes place only in regions that can be reached with a osteotone for removal. A threaded extractor and mating hole in a driving platform may also be provided for removal.

Abstract: An elongated mandrel is coaxially secured at one end to one end of a larger diameter handle. The other end portion of the mandrel converges and terminates in an annular outstanding shoulder facing the handle. A sleeve-like hammer slidably surrounds the mandrel and is spring urged for impacting on the adjacent handle end when manually moved away from the handle and released. The hammer is provided with an outstanding flange adjacent the handle for manually moving the hammer away from the handle.

Abstract: A stemmed femoral component for the human hip for which fixation is provided by bony ingrowth and which may be easily removed for replacement thereof by an osteotone. The two-piece component includes a stem which is elongated and has on its proximal end a Morse cone and a laterally extending collar adapted to reside on the cortical bone in the region of the femoral neck. The stem is textured or provided with a porous material on its outer surfaces only in the metaphyseal portion and only on the anterior, lateral, and posterior surfaces. The medial surface is smooth, as is the diaphyseal portion of the stem. In this manner, bony ingrowth takes place only in regions that can be reached with a osteotone for removal. A threaded extractor and mating hole in a driving platform may also be provided for removal.