United Medical Manufacturing Company

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Maurice D Fuller

Richard A Riedel

A method of creating a decorative inlaid floor includes the first step of providing a cutting implement, such as a router, which is operable to machine an inlay recess in a finished wood floor. The next step is to position the router over a section of the floor and move the router in a particular manner so that the desired inlay recesses are machined. The operating and movement step requires that the decorative pattern be predetermined and a control program or NC tape be generated so as to control the drive motors which are associated with each of four slide assemblies. Once the desired inlay recesses are machined into the main floor, the control program is modified by scaling it up to a larger size and is then utilized on a panel of a contrasting material. A typical example would be to select a contrasting wood for the inlay elements. The reprogrammed router is then located over the second material panel and operated so as to machine a larger inlay recess in that second material panel. A by-product results in the form of a 'plug' which has a size and shape virtually identical to the inlay recess machined in the main floor. In this manner, a precise fit is ensured, allowing for the fast and efficient conversion of a finished wood floor into a decorative inlaid floor.

Method and machine for fabricating a decorative inlaid floor

A portable blood chemistry monitoring meter that employs an analog circuit in conjunction with a manually adjustable potentiometer to locate a null position that balances the measure taken of the blood chemistry-induced changes in the chemistries of disposable test strips. The meter displays in pre-printed, man-readable format blood chemistry concentrations that are individually calibrated to the specific batch-lot chemistries of the disposable test strips used with the meter. In a preferred embodiment, the meter is a blood glucose monitoring meter.

Blood glucose reflectance meter including a null prompting means and a

A portable blood glucose monitoring meter that employs an analog circuit in conjunction with a manually rotatable dial that varies the resistance of a potentiometer to locate a null position that balances the measure taken of the blood glucose-induced changes in the chemistries of disposable test strips. The dial supports a replaceable, pre-printed, man-readable calibration disk. The calibration disk displays in man-readable format blood glucose concentrations in milligrams per milliliter calibrated to the specific batch-lot chemistries of the disposable test strips used with the meter. A patient places a replaceable batch-lot calibration disk upon the dial, and inserts a corresponding test strip bearing a drop of capillary blood into the meter. The patient then manually adjusts the dial until prompting arrows indicate a null position. If the dial has rotated past the null position, an opposing arrow will illuminate indicating a need to rotate the dial in the opposite direction. The procedure is repeated until a null position is found. At the null position, the prompting arrows illuminate simultaneously. The concentration of the patient's blood glucose in milligrams per milliliter is then read directly from the number appearing on the calibration disk at the null point.

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Maurice D Fuller