The device described herein comprises a sweatband adapted to collect sweat from the forehead of a runner or other exerciser and optionally to feed the collected sweat to a tube running down to the runner's mouth so that the salt and water given off in the sweat may be returned to the body. If it is not desired to return the sweat to the runner's mouth, it may be allowed to run off away from the runner's face. The sweatband has one or more grooved strips which have the open portion of the groove ...

The present invention is an improvement in a dust collecting apparatus of the type having a dust receiving pan with a flat bottom wall, a straight lip at a leading portion of the bottom wall and a dust containing wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall. According to the invention, spaced, side wall portions of the dust containing wall have support edges substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and residing in a single plane with the lip. The side wall portions have free upper edges at...

A receptacle 10 for collecting fluid, especially suitable for use on the floor of an operating room for collecting irrigating fluid during a surgical procedure, for example, during arthroscopic surgery on a joint, such as the knee. The receptacle is thin and generally flat, with a gridwork of small basins 12 that form a collecting surface 14 with drains 24 through which the fluid flows to channels 16 formed between the receptacle and floor and then to a common discharge port 20, which suitably m...

A collecting box for collecting debris from a garden tool, for example a lawn mower or a lawn raker, has a lightweight, self-supporting collecting box body and, on each side of the body, a tubular fastening member for fastening the collecting box to the garden tool. The fastening members extend at least one third of the way along the sides of the body with a view to preventing the body being subjected to high stresses, and the ends of the fastening members project from the body and can be insert...

A self-cleaning collecting device for cleaning a dirty gas stream including a flow-through housing having a dirty gas inlet at the base of the housing and a clean gas outlet at the top of the housing interconnected by a gas treating passage adapted to direct a gas stream vertically through the housing. As the dirty gas stream enters the housing, it is circulated through a liquid bath where noxious vapors and larger particulates are entrained in a mist of liquid droplets which are in turn capture...

A method and apparatus for collecting saliva from a test subject comprises providing a flavored absorbent mass, such as a sponge, for mastication and charging with saliva and then expressing the saliva from the mass. Apparatus for this method comprises a barrel-piston arrangement in association with a specimen vial for storage until diagnostic testing.

A solar-heat collecting apparatus of the direct conversion type wherein a black working fluid directly absorbs solar-heat. A plurality of solar-heat collecting tube units are arranged in parallel with each other within a box-like casing. Each tube unit comprises a transparent outer tube and an inner tube mounted within the outer tube with a bottom face of the inner tube being in contact with an inner face of the outer tube. Both ends of each inner tube are closed, forming a fluid passage between...

A method and apparatus for collecting ova removed from fowl moving along a poultry processing line. Ova are removed from the fowl shortly before inspection, and the removed ova are transferred to a separate ova conveyor. One or more ova-ejection stations are located along the ova conveyor, which operates at a speed correlated to the speed of the bird conveyor line. If a defective fowl is detected by inspection after removal of ova, ova are ejected from a corresponding location along the ova conv...

A solar ray collecting device in which solar rays are focused by a lens and guided into an optical fiber and transmitted through the optical conductor onto an adequate desired portion for use in illumination or for others purposes. A solar ray collecting portion is comprised of a large number of lenses arranged on a common plane and optical fibers, the light-receiving edge of which are precisely positioned at the focal position of the respective lenses, a horizontal hollow shaft for rotatably su...

A viewer for optically inspecting the interior ear cavity having a tubular body with a passage having an open end adapted to be inserted into the ear cavity and a lens in optical alignment with the passage. A light mounted on the viewer operates to illuminate the passage and interior cavity adjacent the open inner end thereof. The viewer is used with a collector to manually collect liquid samples from the ear cavity. The collector has an elongated tube associated with a plunger that is spring bi...