A back support for use with a bed having a headboard, in which a back member has an upper edge adapted to bear against the headboard and a lower edge carrying a rearwardly extending arm having a flange adapted to bear against the mattress or frame of the bed. A seat may extend forwardly from the lower edge of the back member.

A back for a sofa, the back comprising a frame, the frame including a stationary segment and a movable segment connected to the stationary segment. The stationary and movable segments include respective abutments mutually engageable with one another for maintaining respective portions of both the stationary and movable segments in spaced relation with one another and between which portions is defined an accessible concealed storage space in which accessories to the sofa are storable.

The principle of the back exerciser is a pedal held in an initial position by elastic strips and a back brace and side handles in such relation that the person pressing on the side handles and bracing his back against the back brace, repeatedly pressing his heels on the pedal against the action of the elastic strips, exercises his back muscles. The structure is a skeleton frame with a pivoted pedal having its rear edge raised by elastic strips toward a back frame so that the elastic strips pull ...

A camera back for processing film units of the self-developing or instant type. The camera back, which preferably is adapted to replace the back of a conventional camera, e.g., a 35 mm camera, includes a first housing for supporting a film cassette containing a stack of film units in position for exposure of an endmost film unit in the stack and a pair of rollers for spreading a processing fluid across an element of the film unit after it has been photographically exposed. A second housing inclu...

An improved back massager for creating a new massaging action in the form of angular oscillatory motion in a single plane. The angular oscillatory motion is created through the use of a drive mechanism carried by a base frame which imparts the oscillatory motion to a massaging applicator. Additional apparatus is also provided for preventing undue deviation of the massaging applicator from the oscillating plane and for creating massaging action in addition to the oscillatory motion.

A back brace for the treatment of scoliosis having posterior and auterior metal uprights secured to a pelvic girdle and extending vertically upward to a level just below the level of the patient's clavicles, and having laterally extending arms fastened to the upper portions of said vertical uprights for encircling the space to be occupied by the upper torso of the patient at the level of, and just below, the patient's armpits.

A back pack which may be in the form of a four-limbed animal where the limbs provide straps to couple the pack to the wearer and also provide storage space.

A back rest constructed to be supported at its foot on a seat structure and to rest against the back of the seat structure comprising a rigid frame, a normally flat, flexible back support mounted on the frame with the lower end thereof stationary and the upper end movable and a screw rotatably mounted to the frame at the upper end operable to move the movable end of the flexible back support relative to the stationary end to bow the back support convexly forwardly with respect to the frame. Alte...

This invention relates to a back scrubber for bathing which is specifically constructed to facilitate quick and easy changing of the scrubbing cloth mounted thereon while providing highly effective means for positively holding the cloth in operative position.

Disclosed herein is a steering mechanism for an outboard motor having a swivel bracket mounted for vertical swinging movement about a horizontal tilt pin, and a marine propulsion unit mounted for pivotal movement on the swivel bracket, the mechanism including a slide support rod connected to pivot about an axis normal to the axis of the tilt pin and a slide lock assembly connected to the marine propulsion unit and mounted for movement axially of the support rod, the slide lock assembly releasabl...