An adjustable position shoulder arthroscopy chair for surgical operating tables consisting of a back supporting platform pivotally attachable to the end of the table and an externally powered position actuator mounted at the base of the platform nearest the table and pivotally mounted to the platform at a location spaced apart from the base. The actuator is extendable and retractable and may be powered either electrically, hydraulically, or by compressed air. The extension and retraction of the ...

There is provided a pad for a medical patient to be placed in a supine position thereon during a medical procedure which requires the use of cable in monitoring the patient during the procedure. The pad includes a cushioned substrate having a top surface adapted to contact the patient and a bottom surface adapted to contact a procedure table. The substrate has an outer edge about its periphery. An elongated channel is attached to the substrate along a portion of the outer edge. The channel is ad...

A device for adapting a surgical operating table such that the upper torso of the patient can be raised in order to place the patient in a seated position, the device further providing the means of exposing or supporting a side of said patient's upper torso and limbs. The device contains a continuously adjustable positioning mechanism, and corresponding actuator for said mechanism, in a way that a user can rapidly and conveniently put a patient in the desired position, from a supine posture to a...

A surgical table has an articulated leg section with accessory attachment rails on opposite sides thereof. A shoulder surgery attachment for the surgical table includes a chair back assembly having a base on one end thereof and a cooperating second connector at each of its sides. Each second connector is releasably attachable to its corresponding first connector. A pair of mounting blades are provided on opposite sides of the base. A rail clamp is positionable along the attachment rails to be fa...

Forming a hollow structure having an internal coating includes the steps of placing a core shaped to form the internal surface of the structure in a mould, filling the mould with a material powder, hot isostatically pressing the powder about the mould to consolidate the powder, and removing the core from the hollow structure formed, wherein a coating is applied to the core prior to placement in the mould, which coating bonds to the hollow structure formed, during the hot isostatic pressing, to f...

A medical apparatus has a support mechanism for a treatment and/or examination subject having a support plate for the treatment and/or examination subject that is adjustable at a base and is radiation-transparent in at least one region. The support plate is seated so as to be height-adjustable at the base and adjustable around three spatial axes and is seated so as to be optionally displaceable in the longitudinal direction and/or the transverse direction in floating fashion, or displaceable by ...

A process for molding a structural body of ceramic or other granular materials which has hollow portions inwardly enlarged or complicatedly configured, which process comprises preparing a removable insert member which is fusible at temperatures not affecting an unbaked structural body and has the contours corresponding to an intended hollow portion, molding a structural body with ceramic or other granular material integrally with the removable insert member as by injection or transfer molding, h...

A textile web is advanced in a path, and one or more printing stations print onto it. Downstream of the printing station or stations is provided a suction arrangement which contacts the advancing textile web from below, extending across the entire width of the web and exerting suction through the latter.

A decorative device simulating a decorative bow knot in ribbon includes a base member and individual pieces which may be bent into a loop configuration, with each of the loop-configured pieces attached to the base member by corner portions which extend through slits defined in the base member. The slits are preferably of two-legged "V" configuration in order to grip the loop members resiliently, and adhesive material may be used to hold the loop members in an arcuate loop configuration and to at...

Provided is a method for making high-temperature high-performance fuel particles wherein fertile or fissile metal carbides are dispersed in spherical graphite skeletons. That is, a fissile metal salt, such as uranyl nitrate, is added to an aqua-mesophase in alkaline solution, to form a fuel solution. The fuel solution is added to an oil bath to form an emulsion of aqueous pitch-derrived spheres in oil. The emulsion is heated and stirred to drive water from the spheres to dry them into solid sphe...