Abstract: The invention relates to a system of analyzing and quantifying a user's posture and gait, characterized in that it includes a pair 10 of soles 11, 12 each provided with an electronic box 100, 101, 102, each box comprising: an inertial platform, a data processing module 120, 121, 122, a data storage module 130, 131, 132, a means of communication 140, 141, 142, a power source 150.

Abstract: The present invention includes a display apparatus including an item retention wall defining a cavity, and a suspension member coupled to the item retention wall, wherein the item retention wall is configured to retain an item within the cavity by a retention seal between the item and the item retention wall.

Abstract: A cover display for a container in some implementations having a dome shaped cover base with a flat bottom and a top with a radius of curvature with one or more frame catches positioned near the periphery of the cover base. An adorned Tiara shaped cover with an annular wall supporting frame latches positioned to correspond to said frame catches is affixed over said dome shaped cover base.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a base includes the following steps. First, a plate is provided. Next, the plate is machined to form a bottom frame. The bottom frame has a bottom portion and a plurality of side walls disposed at the bottom portion. Next, whether the bottom frame is designed for being assembled to a first display panel or a second display panel is determined. The size of the first display panel is different from that of the second display panel. Next, if the bottom frame is designed for being assembled to the first display panel, a pad is formed on the bottom portion of the bottom frame such that a first base is formed. Next, if the bottom frame is designed for being assembled to the second display panel, the bottom portion is punched to form a plurality of barricades such that a second base is formed.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for displaying a padlock. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a padlock, a card and a back plate, wherein the card includes a front side, a back side and an aperture sized to receive at least a body of the padlock, and the back plate is configured to be attached to the back side of the card (e.g., via coupling portions). The card further includes a plurality of retaining tabs that extend from a face of the card and are used to retain the padlock by restricting movement of the padlock in a direction orthogonal and/or parallel to the face of the card. Each retaining tab is configured to retain the padlock by providing at least one retaining surface.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for displaying a padlock. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a padlock, a card and a back plate, wherein the card includes a front side, a back side and an aperture sized to receive at least a body of the padlock, and the back plate is configured to be attached to the back side of the card (e.g., via coupling portions). Once the padlock is placed in the aperture and the back plate is attached to the card, the padlock is secured (e.g., between at least one retaining tab and the back plate) and ready to be displayed (e.g., on a hook, on a shelf, on a display rack, etc.).

Abstract: A method and a device for preparing drinkware where a substance is applied to the rim of the drink-ware and substances can be dispensed from the device. One device includes a cabinet that can house and dispense substances, and the substances may either be filled directly into receptacles, stands, arms or drawers and/or pre-filled in contoured drawer liners. The cabinet may include a moistening reservoir and separates the moistening reservoir from the Spice by housing the moistening agent in a distinct and separate location.

Abstract: A drug storage and dispensing system including a container for containing the drug, a storage tray and a drug identification key. The storage tray includes a plurality of drug storage chambers each defined by a sidewall and configured to receive the container. The key member includes at least one projection and at least one opening configured to receive the at least one projection. The at least one projection is disposed on either the sidewall or the container. The at least one projection receiving member is formed in the other of the sidewall and the container. The at least one projection and at least one opening have configurations that corresponding to at least one feature of the drug. The at least one projection is received in the at least one opening when the container is received in the storage chamber.

Abstract: The container of this invention may have a plurality of slots formed proximate an upper perimeter of the container such that a lower portion of the slots is exposed when a lid is secured over the upper perimeter. Optionally a plurality of notches may be formed in the container below the slots. Hooks of tie down straps engage the slots and are held in place therein by the lid. When the slots are present hooks of tie down straps are secured in the slots. Another embodiment includes a hanger having a handle and an optional L-piece, the handle having apertures or notches, which can be, for example oval or rectangular, for securing both hooks of a tie down strap, the L-piece either attachable, or permanently attached, to the handle for further securing the hooks disposed in the apertures. Yet another embodiment includes a receptacle having an attachable or permanently attached bracket or plurality of brackets, each bracket having slots, each slot for storing both hooks of a tie down strap.

Abstract: A carton having two opposed crush-lock ends, a flat bottom and opposed top with a substantially central opening which can accommodate receptacles having necks of varying diameters. The carton is designed to be shipped as a flat partially assembled blank which can be erected into a substantially rectangular box by pushing inwardly on the edges so the side panels of the box lock in substantially flat configuration. The top opening has outwardly radiating cut lines to define wedge shaped segments with an arcuate score line intersecting the segments whereby the segments can deflect and accommodate different sized receptacles.

Abstract: This invention provides a device for removably securing a wide variety of objects to different surfaces utilizing a partial vacuum. The device includes flexible material comprising one or more opening(s), wherein each opening is capable of forming a continuous seal with a portion of an object and the remaining material is capable of forming a continuous seal with a surface. The size of the opening and the size of the material can vary within the constraints that adequate material remains surrounding the opening to enable a continuous seal to be formed with a surface when an object is inserted into the opening. The device is used by inserting an object into an opening, thereby forming a continuous seal between the object and the opening and pressing the device against a surface, displacing air to create a partial vacuum in a manner that causes a continuous seal to form between the flexible material and the attachment surface, thereby removably securing the object to the surface.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for securing a vase upon a car seat, the apparatus and method including elements and steps of providing a vase holder, the vase holder, having a ceiling panel, including a forward end, a rearward end, a right end, a left end, and a vase receiving aperture, the vase holder further having a front wall panel hingedly attached to the forward end of ceiling panel, a rear wall panel hingedly attached to a rearward end of the ceiling panel, a floor panel hingedly attached to a lower end of the front wall panel, a car seat engaging panel hingedly attached to a rearward end of the rear wall panel, and a tab and slot attachment for connecting the rearward end of the floor panel to the lower end of the rear wall panel; downwardly pivoting the front and rear wall panels; rearwardly pivoting the floor panel; attaching the floor panel to the lower end of the rear panel; inserting the car seat engaging panel into a cleft within the car seat; and, inserting the vase into the vase receiving aperture.

Abstract: An endless drive belt storage and display module enables a plurality of endless drive belts of different sizes to be placed circumferentially, one inside the other, in a way that makes optimal use of available space, causes minimal belt bending, enables easy removal and replacement of any given belt, maintains organization among the belts placed therein, and protects the belts from exposure to elements such as dust and sunlight.

Abstract: A retail display with bowls for holding and displaying weighty small parts such as steel bolts, nuts, screwdriver bits, drill bits and the like, having a base portion and an upright portion holding the bowls. The upright portion is resiliently cantilevered to the base portion such that it flexes downwardly toward the base portion under applied weight. The bowls are supported in the upright portion in such location that they gently touch or almost touch each vertically adjacent bowl, and the bottom bowl gently or almost touches the base. When a load is applied, particularly when the bowls are filled with weighty products to be displayed, the upright portion flexes downwardly until the vertically aligned bowls firmly touch each other and the bottom bowl firmly touches the base, thereby providing strong support for the weighted bowls.

Abstract: A foldable package for an endoscopic specimen retrieval bag device. The package has a base panel having a pair of opposed major sides and a pair of opposed minor sides. The trapezoid shape connecting panel having a pair of opposed major sides and a pair of opposed angulated sides is foldably connected along the first major side to one major side of the base panel. A trapezoid shaped cannula retention panel having a pair of opposed major sides and a pair of opposed angulated sides is foldably connected along one major side to the second major side of the connecting panel and a regularly shaped upper panel has a first side along which the upper panel is foldably connected to the second major side of the retention panel. The upper panel has a pair of opposed angulated sides and an upper side.

Abstract: A wrench set holding system which contains wrenches therein at their open jaws is disclosed. Gradually increasing dimension element and openings provide positions therealong at which each wrench jaw in a set of wrenches, rests in use. A rod is also provided which can be inserted to secure a set of wrenches in place by sandwiching present wrench shanks between the rod and a primary body element or a bottom element. The wrench set holding system is economical to fabricate and easy use.

Abstract: A retainer for holding a plurality of tools (10), (16), (17), (18), comprising a retention layer (12) having opposed first and second sides and a planar, horizontally disposed top containing a plurality of openings (11) supported by a more rigid interlocking base layer (13). The retention layer (12) is configured for gradient depths. The base layer (13) has a diametrically configured upper surface permanently affixed to the lower portion of the retention layer (12) to provide a rigid planar base. The openings (11) are formed to accept a plurality of tool shapes particular to the individual retainer. Color contrast between the retention layer (12) and base layer (13) provides visual recognition of missing tools. The retention layer (12) has a smooth top surface to accept the permanent application of size markings (14) and other pertinent information including graphics which gives the retainer the ability to be custom designed.

Abstract: The invention provides a unitary packaging structure for a shock sensitive article. The packaging structure includes a platform portion which includes a platform portion adapted to support the article, and a sidewall structure of preferably flexible material forming an enclosure around the platform portion. The sidewall structure includes an inboard wall being integral with the platform portion, and an outboard wall maintained in spaced relationship from the inboard wall by a bridge section, the inboard wall being relatively shorter than the outboard wall so that the platform portion is held a specified cushion distance above a lower edge of the outboard wall. Shock limiting formations are formed in the sidewall structure for restricting the movement of the platform portion toward the lower edge of the outboard wall upon shock loading of the platform portion.

Abstract: A package for holding a mesh onlay having a mesh plug attached perpendicularly thereto. The package comprises a folder which has a central floor panel for receiving the mesh onlay and mesh plug assembly. The central floor panel has a pair of opposed major sides and a pair of opposed minor sides. A first end panel is foldably connected to one minor side of the central panel for retaining the mesh onlay on the central panel in a substantially flat position when the first end panel is folded inwardly on top of the mesh onlay and central floor panel. A connecting panel foldably connected to the opposite minor side of the central panel is, in turn, foldably connected to a plug retaining panel. The plug retaining panel secures the mesh plug in a position substantially perpendicular to the mesh onlay and the central floor panel. The plug retaining panel is in turn foldably connected to a second end panel. The assembled package may have a pyramidal-like configuration.

Abstract: A display for holding a golf ball for viewing includes a pair of body members, including a front body member having an opening for viewing a portion of the golf ball surface, and an internal opening behind the viewing opening for accommodating the ball such that it is trapped between the two body members.

Abstract: A housing apparatus for storing a data storage device comprising a disk-shaped body having a cavity for receiving the storage device and configured to be stored in a storage facility adapted to store and receive magnetic tape-type reels.

Abstract: A device for holding and moving miniature electronic components utilizing an elastomeric material which grasps the sides of such components is described.

Abstract: A package for a fluorescent tube includes a substantially rigid blister surrounding and spaced from conducting pins extending from an end of the tube. The blister is spaced from the pins and has a surrounding shoulder which rests on the end of the tube so that impact on the blister is transferred to the end surface of the tube and does not damage the pins. The tube ends may pass through apertures in a tube-separating card attached to the blisters, and the card may be adapted for receiving identifying graphics.Blisters may also be formed into trays for use in bulk packaging of fluorescent tubes.

Abstract: A retainer for cattle implants comprising a main body portion and a plurality of retention elements capable of implantation into cattle along with the implant itself. An injector and new process of implanting is also disclosed wherein a double acting trigger mechanism on an injector properly loads a retainer and implant into a needle and then injects the retainer and implant into the animal.

Abstract: The present invention deals with a new display card of plastic material, which is particularly usable in the packaging of collars and leashes for cats or dogs, distinguished in that the display card includes:a device, preferably on the side of the card, for hanging the card on the bar of a display unit;a first longitudinal anti-theft device comprising an elongated strap, one end of which is hingedly secured to the card, and the other end of which includes a series of ratchet teeth adapted to be inserted through and secured in a slot in the card;a second anti-theft device similar to the first, preferably arranged in a direction perpendicular to that of the first device; andoptionally, a notch formed in the bottom edge of the card and at least one opening in the card adjacent to the notch for winding up therein objects of a certain length.

Abstract: A package is designed for a container having a raised bead ring on a top end and a dispensing valve within and protruding up from the ring; a cover cap for the dispensing valve and the bead ring. The package includes a support body made of cardboard foldable to make two layer structures having a pair of expand faces, a flat section and a support flange. The two layers of support flange contacts each other and is secured together. The support body and support flange have an aperture to receive the top end of the container.

Abstract: A pallet for feeding components to a robotic assembly system at accurate reference locations and orientations includes a pair of parallel sheet members rigidly secured together. One sheet member has an array of locating apertures for receiving and locating a plurality of the components in the reference locations and orientation. The other sheet member has an array of rubber grommets, a grommet corresponding to each locating aperture for automatically receiving and releasably, frictionally engaging a component placed in a locating aperture.

Abstract: A folder for a sampler perfume vial is provided in which the front and back panels of flexible sheet material having cutouts extending to their distal edges are folded to effect a gripping relationship with a protuberance on the vial.

Abstract: A container for a plurality of surgical patties having a recess for receiving a number of surgical patties and a plurality of count slots for receiving locating strings attached to the patties so that each pattie may be readily counted by surgical personnel. Additional slots are provided so that the locating strings can be wound back across the pattie recess to hold the patties in the recess during shipping. Wetting fluid may be introduced into the recesses to wet the patties before they are used in the body. If a plurality of pattie recesses are used, channel recesses are provided to provide fluid communication between the pattie recesses to that wetting fluid may be distributed among the multiple recesses.

Abstract: A trot line dispenser of inverted-truncated-cone configuration, having a flat bottom and an annular wall sloping upwardly and outwardly from the bottom to an upper annular rim provided with slots for temporarily retaining the short or hook lines prior to and during dispensing. The slots are so fashioned as to taper downwardly and outwardly in the rim from zero depth near the interior surface of the receptacle wall to maximum depth at the outer marginal edge of the rim, being so designed as to prevent the snagging of line during dispensing. The receptacle is provided with angularly spaced exterior radial wings that effectively increase the diameter of the bottom and thus stabilize the receptacle against tipping during transport. The interior of the receptacle is provided with matching slots to receive the wings of a like, stacked dispenser.

Abstract: A jewelry display card is disclosed that includes a cellulosic card having means formed thereon for suspending said card from a support. A flexible synthetic foam sheet is fixed to said card with at least a portion of its perimeter bonded to said card to form an enclosure suitable for supporting an article of jewelry. The enclosure may be located on the forward side of the card for displaying the article of jewelry thereon, or may be located on the rear side of the card for containing a portion of a jewelry article therein such as a chain which is interconnected to an article of jewelry that is displayed on the front side of the card.

Abstract: A display device for use in the display of ornamental articles such as jewelry, comprising the combination of a plurality of display inserts and a support for releasably mounting such inserts within recesses formed in the front surface of such support. Each insert is provided with a pair of outwardly rearwardly extending ribs for engagement with relatively straight side edges formed by the terminal portions of webs inwardly extending from the recesses and in turn defining openings therein, the openings particularly adapted to receive rearwardly projecting portions of the articles of jewelry mounted on the inserts.