A floating device comprising a plurality of floats removably attachable to various, predetermined positions of the body such as the head, torso and feet wherein each float includes a portion specifically configured to engage, in supporting relation the specific area of the body to which it is attached. A sail and mast structure serves as a propelling means for the device and is removably attachable to each of the floats individually.

A body restraint for persons having diminished control of motor functions while sitting in chairs. Adjustable circumference cuffs are placed around the person's legs just under the knee and above the belly of the calf muscle. Retaining rings secured to the cuffs are positioned to the rear of the calves. First and second straps, both having closed loops at one end, the second having a buckle at the other end, are secured to the front legs of the chair by circumnavigating the chair legs with the f...

A truck body of the hopper type including a bottom longitudinally extending conveyor and a rear end gate arranged for pivotal opening for dumping without tilting of the truck body and with a metering feed gate in the end gate for use in spreading. The body is further equipped with a spreader of the spinner type which receives material from the conveyor, the spreader being selectively pivotable to one side to facilitate dumping. The conveyor is equipped with a hydraulic power system providing the...

A valve body for an under fixture plumbing valve, of the type known as a straight valve, and having end nipples and a central valve stem nipple, generally of the class of valves shown in a prior U.S. Pat. to R.M. Zell No. 3,417,450 of Dec. 24, 1968. The valve body is improved by having transverse barrier walls whose upper parts form a valve seat; one of the walls has in its lower part an orifice communicating a holding chamber with one end nipple; the other wall has an orifice in the form of an ...

A door body has a stile that is slotted at its front end and receives a core that is relatively stiff; but somewhat resilient. A pad located at opposite sides of said core is yielding and resilient. A compliant sheet covers said pad, and provides an exterior cover for the door body.

A vehicle body extender having a frame, at least one housing supported by the frame, the frame resiliently attached to an axle by a spring, wheels rotatably mounted at each end of the axle, the frame comprising of at least two frame members longitudinally extending towards the vehicle to which the extender is to be coupled, a connecting device to rigidly connect the longitudinally extending frame member to the vehicle.

The present invention provides an exothermic body for use of an insole of shoes and so forth with elasticity, softness and flexibility, the exothermic heat of which is distributed uniformly along the entire area thereof. The exothermic body includes a foamed plastic sheet having cells therein, the cells being filled with an exothermic agent such as a mixture of iron, saline solution, activated carbon and woodmeal or pulp powder. The foamed plastic sheet is covered by an air-permeable thin film s...

A tool for straightening metal of automobile bodies and the like or lifting metal sheets has a heavy ring carrying a pair of arms with looped ends about the ring and L-shaped outer ends for insertion through one or more apertures formed in metal to be straightened whereby pulling of the ring automatically turns the outer ends of the arms into desired alignment.

A manometer body is electroerrosively formed with an arcuate hole having a tubular core with the body of the core being simultaneously formed in the electrical machining operation so that the Bourdon tube is fixed in place by soldering with a minimum of solder.

A tubular body on whose external surface are formed a series of periodically wavy recesses of specific depth and angle, said recesses becoming the corresponding series of similarly wavy projections and thereby improving the mixed state or heat conduction efficiency of a fluid flowing therein.