Allied Corporation

Eltra Corporation

Makura Corporation

Gary E Lang

Roger J Lang

A pillow adjustable to maximize comfortable support of the cervical area of the neck and head includes a cover comprising upper and lower fabric cover panels forming therebetween an interior space filled with a flowable filler material such as buckwheat hulls. Internally protruding snap fasteners in vertically aligned locations on inner facing sides of the upper and lower cover panels are fastenable and unfastenable by application of external pressing or pulling forces applied to the cover panels, thereby forming or unforming subdivisions of the interior space of the pillow into which filler material may be externally manipulated into or out of. In the preferred embodiment, a rectangular array of fasteners offset to one long side of a rectangular pillow allows narrow or wide tubular neck support sections to be formed by subdivisions within the pillow.

Multi-adjustment cervical pillow

A jumper cable is formed from conventional ribbon cable having partial conductors embedded in insulating material, either by laminating insulated or uninsulated conductors between plastic films, by extruding a plastic film around insulated or uninsulated conductors, or by bonding insulated conductors together, and subsequently separating the resulting individual insulated conductors at spaced intervals, forming a jumper of increased flexibility and reformability for use in confined spaces, without the need for subsequent removal of any part of the ribbon cable. The ribbon cable is preferably formed in sections, each section containing an oblique section of separated conductors, and separated by an oblique stripped area of uninsulated conductors, adjacent insulated cable sections being offset from each other. The resulting cable is then preferably folded at a stripped area, to form a V-shaped offset reformable jumper which may be easily reformed and reoriented after installation to fit into a confined space, while also having sections of unmodified ribbon cable serving as support section maintaining the individual conductors at predetermined parallel spacing to facilitate interconnection and to prevent the individual conductors from becoming tangled. The jumper may be used to connect two devices that are side by side, or arranged in a V-shaped or W-shaped arrangement, as well as for connecting devices which are aligned.

Offset reformable jumper

A jumper cable is formed from conventional ribbon cable having parallel conductors embedded in insulating material, either by laminating insulated or uninsulated conductors between plastic films, by extruding a plastic film around insulated or uninsulated conductors, or by bonding insulated conductors together, and subsequently separating the resulting individual insulated conductors at spaced intervals, forming a jumper of increased flexibility and reformability for use in confined spaces, without the need for subsequent removal of any part of the ribbon cable. The ribbon cable is preferably formed in sections, each section containing an oblique section of separated conductors, and separated by an oblique stripped area of uninsulated conductors, adjacent insulated cable sections being offset from each other. The resulting cable is then preferably folded at a stripped area, to form a V-shaped offset reformable jumper which may be easily reformed and reoriented after installation to fit into a confined space, while also having sections of unmodified ribbon cable serving as support section maintaining the individual conductors at predetermined parallel spacing to facilitate interconnection and to prevent the individual conductors from becoming tangled. The jumper may be used to connect two devices that are side by side, or arranged in a V-shaped or W-shaped arrangement, as well as for connecting devices which are aligned.

This invention relates to a re-formable multi-conductor flat, or ribbon, cable, which comprises a plurality of spaced insulated conductors, aligned in a predetermined, laterally spaced, pattern along a single sheet or film of plastic, the single sheet of plastic being only intermittently bonded to the laterally spaced conductors. The intermittent bonding pattern preferably utilized is one that results in transverse, peelably bonded, areas extending across the width of the entire cable alternating with transverse unbonded areas which also extend across the width of the entire cable. Cable harness units are formed from such cable, by severing a main cable along adjacent bonded areas, mass-terminating conductor ends within the bonded areas, severing the film in the non-bonded area to create a pair of tear tabs, removing the bonding films by exerting manual force on said tear tabs to free the intermediate portions of the conductors so that they may be re-arranged or re-formed to fit optimally within a confined space.

Re-formable multi-conductor flat cable

This invention relates to a re-formable multiconductor flat, or ribbon, cable, which comprises a plurality of spaced insulated conductors, aligned in a predetermined, laterally spaced, pattern along a single sheet or film of plastic, the single sheet of plastic being only intermittently bonded to the laterally spaced conductors. The intermittent bonding pattern preferably utilized is one that results in transverse, peelably bonded, areas extending across the width of the entire cable alternating with transverse unbonded areas which also extend across the width of the entire cable. Cable harness units are formed from such cable, by severing a main cable along adjacent bonded areas, mass-terminating conductor ends within the bonded areas, severing the film in the non-bonded area to create a pair of tear tabs, removing the bonding films by exerting manual force on said tear tabs to free the intermediate portions of the conductors so that they may be re-arranged or re-formed to fit optimally within a confined space.

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Garden Grove, CA, United States of America

Gary E Lang