Two devices having a latching mechanism of the present invention can be mounted back to back within a single mounting hole in a mounting surface. Each latching mechanism has two or more prongs designed such that they do not interfere with the prongs of another device mounted within the same mounting hole from the opposite side of the mounting surface. In one embodiment, the present invention can be implemented as a retainer for retaining wires, cables, and cables for telecommunications applicati...

An integrated back pain and back health program incorporating proper posture to achieve joint realignment and muscle relaxation, proper breathing to achieve stress management and muscle relaxation, and an exercise program focused on the muscles of the back, neck, shoulders, abdomen and hips to achieve muscle and joint flexibility and strengthening. By providing instruction on maintaining proper posture, the protocol offers back pain sufferers relief from the stress caused by muscles involuntaril...

A back support for placement on a back of a person. The back support comprises a concavity having opposing lateral slopes and formed by a flexible structure having a thickness and a longitudinal central site disposed substantially equidistant between the opposing lateral slopes. A protuberance having a thickness extends into the concavity, and preferably is substantially tubular in shape and disposed substantially equidistantly between the opposing lateral slopes of the concavity along the longi...

An exercise bench for strengthening the muscles of the lower back, having a seat mounted to an inclined beam and a knee brace mounted to the beam at a position spaced downwardly from the seat, and a first restraining belt affixed proximate the seat, and a second restraining belt affixed proximate the knee brace.

A back support to be worn by sufferers on their bodies comprises a patch of fur having a shape with a contour including an uppermost widest side, two lateral sides extending downwardly from the uppermost side and converging toward one another, and a smallest lower side connecting the lateral sides with one another, and means for holding the patch on a user's body.

A back brace having an at least partially elastic waist belt, a substantially non-elastic rear waist belt portion and a pair of arms extending from the rear portion and having overlapping interconnecting end portions for holding the belt in place around the waist of a human body. Each of the arms carries a pocket, and each of the pockets is adapted to carry a stiff, flexible stay. A pair of non-elastic shoulder straps each have one end anchored by the rear member of the back brace or belt and an...

A back brace for providing back support to the lumbar region of a wearer. The back brace includes a band that wraps around the torso region of a person in covering relationship to the region of the iliac crests. The base has accommodation panels attached to it that cover the iliac crest regions and accommodate the protuberance thereof in order to provide a better fit on the body. In one embodiment, the base includes an elastic band and the panels are of an inelastic material. In another embodime...

A manifold is disposed within a pair of abutting pre-load mold plates in a pre-load relationship. Fluid flowing through the manifold is heated by a first heater. The fluid is then divided into a plurality of passages in the manifold. Pairs of passages have a back-to-back in-line relationship. A cylinder between each pair of the in-line passages holds a pair of pistons in the in-line relationship. Each piston in the pair has piston units in an interdigitated relationship with piston units on the ...

Apparatus is provided for generating position signals useful and particularly advantageous as feedback inputs to a servo control system for a paper cutting machine movable back gauge assembly. The generated feedback signals provide binary-coded position information associated only with key control positions established at selected intervals in the back gauge total traverse and pulsed counting information for incremental position changes in each interval between the key control positions.

A method for producing a multi-layer web, and the web produced thereby, are disclosed. The nonwoven web consists of two half-thickness portions laminated to each other. A first half-thickness portion is characterized by a given overall concentration of long and short fibers and has one face enriched in long fibers above the overall concentration and the other face enriched in short fibers above the overall concentration. The concentrations of long and short fibers decrease substantially uniforml...