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Transpirator Technologies, Inc.

General Electric Company

Oxygen Enrichment Co., Ltd.

Richard H Blackmer

Jonathan W Hedman

Christopher C Consaul

Tackle is provided to enable control of sail outhaul with one hand, while holding a windsurfing sail rig with the other. To avoid the use of jam cleats, pulleys and bungies, 3:1 ring cinches are used. A 3:1 ring cinch assembly is attached to right and left booms of the rig's wishbone boom. These are then attached to the ends of a clew line, which is part of 2:1 tackle from the boomtail to the outhaul grommet at the clew of the sail. The cinch line has four parts: (1) an anchor-part for a ring and a finder tab, (2) a pull-part for increasing sail outhaul, (3) a release-part for decreasing sail outhaul and (4) a cinch-part for pinching two cinch rings against the release-part while sharing the outhaul load with the pull and release parts. Through rigging geometry, the ring cinch pinch provides a self-energizing lock on the cinch line such that no slip can occur without a positive pull on the pull-part or release part. A tug line connects the ring cinches to a loop-cleat which, in turn, connects the 3:1 cinch assembly to the clew line.

Control tackle apparatus for a sailboard rig outhaul

A method and apparatus for delivering a humidified stream of gas to an animal's respiratory tract. The gas is delivered at a dew point temperature greater than the ambient dew point temperature.

Method and apparatus for pulmonary and cardiovascular conditioning of

An method and apparatus for delivering a humidified stream of gas to a young animal's respiratory tract. The gas is delivered at a dew point temperature greater than the ambient dew point temperature. The apparatus is especially useful in the treatment of foal pneumonia.

Method and apparatus for pulmonary and cariovascular conditioning of the

An improved hoisting apparatus for a sailboard rig of the type which is attached to a sailboard with a universal connection, the improved hoisting apparatus comprising a hoist pole with a bottom end and a top end, an attachment connecting the bottom end of the hoist pole to the mast to provide pivotable and rotational movement of the hoist pole with respect to the mast, a halyard including first and second tension members extending from the top end of the hoist pole, the first tension member connected to the boomhead, the second tension member having a graspable end portion for exerting a force on the hoist pole to hoist the rig, and elastic cord members connected to return the hoisting apparatus to a stowage position when the graspable end portion is released. A third tension member connects the bottom end of the hoist pole to the boomhead so as to transfer the axial force component on the hoist pole caused by hoisting forces to the boomhead, thereby requiring the bottom end attachment to sustain only transverse force components. In one embodiment, the first and second tension members are furnished by a single uphaul passing freely through a guide ring in the top end of the hoist pole.

Hoist apparatus for a sailboard rig

A method and an apparatus are described which are useful for respiratory tract therapy. The method comprises contact of mucous membranes with vapor-phase water in the substantial absence of nucleating water-vapor condensation particulate, and includes the use of a heated delivery tube, unheated nasal cannula, for the delivery of a nasal cannula vapor/gas stream to a nasal passageway at delivery rates in excess of 8 liters per minute at dew point temperatures equal to or less than dry bulb temperatures and heating of a delivery tube vapor-gas stream to a temperature sufficiently greater than the canula nare dew point use temperature in order to cause a readily observable cannula condensation film to form near the exit use ports thereby signaling that the appropriate cannula delivery stream dew point-dry bulb temperature differential exists which insures that the dry bulb nare exit temperature is equal to or greater than the nare dew point use temperature.

Method and apparatus for the treatment of the respiratory track with

A high humidity method and an apparatus are described which are useful for conditioning a pulmonary and/or a cardiovascular system in a large animal. The method broadly comprises delivering a humidified air stream at a dew point temperature greater than the environmental ambient dew point temperature to an animal's respiratory tract.

An oxygen enriching apparatus for increasing the proportion of oxygen in ambient air includes means for increasing or regulating the humidity of the air. Ambient air is drawn into the apparatus by a pump and caused to flow through a membrane stack to enrich the oxygen of air flowing through the membrane stack. The enriched air is fed to first and second condenser coils and from there to water separators which separate the water and lead it to an evaporator pad. One of the coils is warmer than the other, whereby the humidity of air leaving this coil is higher than that leaving the other. A proportioning valve is connected to control the air from the coils and deliver proportions thereof to the user. Heaters may be used to heat the air delivered to the user, if desired.

High humidity oxygen enricher apparatus

A nasal cannula is disclosed which may be easily and quickly adjusted to custom fit individual wearers. The nasal cannula comprises lengths of tubing with the ends formed to provide narine tubes which project into the nares of the wearer, and does not have any cavity-forming structure which might promote growth of bacteria or result in resonant flow noises. The formed ends of the tubing are secured to a formable bridge or saddle which spans the distance between the narine tubes, whereby the angular position as well as the spacing between the narine tubes may be quickly and easily adjusted by suitably forming the bridge.

Adjustable nasal cannula

The oxygen enricher apparatus provides a circuitous path for the flow of air to effect a reduction in noise while also using the oxygen-depleted air flow to cool the vacuum pump which draws the oxygen-enriched air flow through the membrane cells. The oxygen-enriched air flow is also passed through a condensor in heat exchange relation with the incoming air flow. Water which is separated from the oxygen-enriched air flow is wicked to an evaporator pad in the warm exhaust flow of the oxygen-depleted air flow.

Membrane oxygen enricher apparatus

A mobile, personal oxygen enricher includes means for producing a flow of atmospheric air, heating the air to a pre-selected temperature, and directing the air over an array of selectively permeable membrane cells which permit the permeation of oxygen at a greater rate than nitrogen. Vacuum means maintain the cells at a partial vacuum and draw off oxygen enriched gas. The enriched gas passes through a scrubber to remove pollutants and is directed to a patient for inhalation.

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Scotia, NY, United States of America

Richard H Blackmer