Abstract: The padded ladder protector is an easily attachable and detachable device for mounting on edges of a ladder to cushion and protect the user from injury. The protector is made of a foamed polymer with an adhesive surface covered by a peel strip. By removing the peel strip, the protector may be temporarily attached to edges of the rungs or tray or other parts of the ladder as desired by the user. After a specific use, the protector can be easily removed and another protector may be placed on the same parts or other parts of the ladder. The protector may also be adhesively attached to a rigid support which can be attached to the ladder.

Abstract: A shelf anti-sagging support brace for attachment to a side edge of a shelf to prevent the shelf from sagging or drooping. The shelf anti-sagging support brace includes an elongate member with a pair of opposite ends, and front and back side faces extending between the ends of the elongate member. The back side face of the elongate member has a pair of elongate channels therein extending between the ends of the elongate member. Each of the elongate channels is designed for receiving a side edge of a shelf therein. The channels each have a spaced apart pair of side walls, an end wall connecting the side walls of the respective channel together, and a width defined between the side walls of the respective channel. The width of one of the channels is greater than the width of the other channel.

Abstract: A device is provided for protecting children from injury due to impacts with hard edges and corners of tables and other furniture. The Air-guard Corner and Edge Protector has a dual deceleration system, and is a one-piece, pneumatic, shock-absorbing elastomer table corner and edge guard with multiple air chambers separated by elastomer partitions. It has bleed holes in the bottom of each chamber for further shock absorption through pneumatically controlled collapsibility. In its pre-impact state, the chambers are filled with air. As the head of the child begins to load the device, two energy absorption mechanisms are in effect. The first is the compression of the elastomeric material in the outer wall of the device and the partitions. Second, the outer wall is displaced into the chamber. Air is forced from the bleed hole as the chamber collapses, with the bleed hole being sized such that an appropriate rate of collapse is achieved.

Abstract: A cushioning cover (10) that is initially planar in form is wrapped around a bed frame leg (56). An upper tongue (20) is inserted into and through an upper slot (26). In like fashion, a lower tongue (24) is inserted through a lower slot (28, 30). The tongues (20, 24) have enlarged portions (e.g. 38, 40) that function to lock the tongues (20, 24) into the slots (26, 30). When the cushioning cover (10) is placed on a bed frame leg (56) it provides an outwardly directed wall of cushioning material that will absorb a striking blow imposed on it by a person's toe or toes.

Abstract: A storage rack post protector for use in absorbing and dissipating direct impact loads and deflecting indirect or off-center loads to the column frame on which it is attached or located adjacent to, consisting of a material with greater flexibility and compressibility that the rack itself and formed into such a shape as to deflect impact loads.

Abstract: A corner guard for protecting floor fixtures from the impact of collisions with shopping carts, floor scrubbers, and the like provides for a hollow molded polyethylene body having a single lightweight construction that is anchored to the floor by a leg assembly that is attached to the molded body.

Abstract: A base cover for a utility pole comprises a first base member and a second base member secured to one another to form a base unit to fit round the utility pole. The base unit has an opening at its upper end, the opening adapted to fit closely around the utility pole. A resilient gasket is formed adjacent the opening and is adapted to engage the pole and resist forced movement of the base unit up the pole. The gasket consists of two gasket members, one secured to each base member. The gasket member is a ring with a trunco-conical inner opening. The opening is narrowest at the top. The shape of the gasket allows sliding of the base unit down the utility pole, but resists sliding up the pole. The base unit is assembled at a convenient position along the pole, and slid down to its in-use position at ground level. The gasket prevents it from being lifted out of position without dismantling the two base members.

Abstract: There is described a method and a system for edging a core, comprising a carrier adapted for connection to a contiguous edge of a core, a surface casing adapted for a conformable fit over the carrier and means for connecting the surface casing to the carrier for a conformable fit therebetween.

Abstract: An impact protecting modular block includes an anchoring portion adapted to be secured on a corner of an industrial computer, and an abutment portion integrally formed with and extending transverse to the anchoring portion and adapted to abut against a surrounding wall of the industrial computer. The anchoring portion of a first modular block can be stacked upon and can be secured on the anchoring portion of a second modular block so as to permit the abutment portion of the first modular block to abut against the abutment portion of the second modular block, thereby raising rear corners of the base body relative to front corners of the base body of the industrial computer for convenient operation.

Abstract: A mounting bracket for securing an electronic label to the front of a store display shelf. The bracket is a one-piece metal sheet formed to provide a central body portion with clips for securing the electronic label. An upper support member extends rearwardly from the upper edge of the body portion and has shelf-engaging lugs adapted to be received in selected ones of regularly spaced openings in the shelf. A spring clip extends rearward from the bottom edge and resiliently and/or frictionally engages bottom contours of the shelf, to secure the bracket at the front edge of the shelf. The bracket is considerably less expensive and easier to install then conventional devices for this purpose, which typically extend the full length of a display shelf.

Abstract: A deflector for attachment to a vertically adjustable hospital bed so that when the bed is raised or lowered the deflector engages equipment that is attached to the wall and moves the bed frame away from the equipment to prevent damage thereto. The deflector comprises a vertically oriented member having a pair of surfaces that form a predetermined angle with one another so that one surface engages the equipment as the bed is raised and the other surface engages the equipment as the bed is lowered.