A document holder preferably for use during outdoor activities which do not normally leave the hands free to hold a document. The document holder comprises a plurality of flexible members joined together to form a pouch with a clear or otherwise see-through sheet such as a mesh material, thereby allowing the document to be viewed. The document holder further comprises a securing means for attaching it to a wearer's arm or leg or the sleeve or pant leg of his or her garment.

A protective cover for a limb, cast or the like including a bag of flexible material substantially impervious to an element to be protected against. The bag includes an opening through which the limb or cast to be protected may be inserted and on the interior of the bag, adjacent the opening, is provided with mating fasteners so that the internal sides of the bag may be fastened together to conform the size and shape of the opening of the bag to the size and shape of the limb or cast on which it...

An improved archery bow limb fabricated by inserting a moldable slug having a plurality of longitudinally oriented resin impregnated glass fiber filaments into a bow limb profiling compression mold. The mold includes a female cavity mold and a male mold. The female mold having a raised portion defining a limb tip slot area so that when the mold is closed a depressed tip impression is formed in the slug. The raised portion may include peripherally thereabout, reinforcing filaments for strengtheni...

A prosthetic limb and alignment adapter includes an elongated straight, flat bar that elastically flexes in fore and aft directions while being resistant to flexion in the lateral directions. A separate adjustable prosthetic link is fastened to each end of the straight, flat, flexible bar. Each prosthetic link includes a two-component, male/female adapter in which a socket having an integral bracket is affixed to an end portion of the flat bar so the axis of the socket is aligned generally with ...

A limb restraint permits proper positioning of a limb of a patient while medical or surgical operations are being performed on the patient. The preferred embodiment includes a fixed restraint and an adjustable restraint which cooperate with each other to encircle the limb and hold it in place. One end of the adjustable restraint can be wound around or unwound from a spool using a handle assembly to tighten or loosen, respectively, the restraint on the limb. A clutch is provided to prevent the sp...

A lower limb prosthesis for an above-knee amputee has an adaptive control system which includes a knee flexion control device arranged to resist flexion at the knee joint both hydraulically and pneumatically by means of a dual piston and cylinder assembly. Sensors arranged to sense knee bending moments and knee flexion angle provide electrical signals which are fed to a processing circuit for automatically adjusting the hydraulic and pneumatic resistance to flexion according to the activity mode...

An archery bow limb may comprise a thermoplastic material having reinforcing. A tension side of the bow limb may have continuous unidirectional reinforcing spanning substantially the entire length of the bow limb. A method of manufacturing such bow limbs may comprise building up layers of reinforcing fibers preimpregnated with thermoplastic resin (prepregs) over a core of thermoplastic material to make a preform, and compression molding the preform to consolidate the thermoplastic of the prepreg...

A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.

A hypobarically-controlled artificial limb for amputees includes a single socket with a volume and shape to receive a substantial portion of the residual limb. A sealed cavity is formed between the socket and the residual limb. Optionally, the wearer may use a liner over the residual limb for comfort. A vacuum source is connected to a vacuum valve connected to the cavity to suspend the artificial limb from the residual limb and to control and minimize volumetric and fluid changes within the resi...

A device for attaching an artificial limb to the stump of an amputated limb. The device comprises a sleeve (1, 2) intended for receiving the stump, the sleeve being in load-transferring connection with the artificial limb. The sleeve is made of a flexible material which is non-stretchable when subjected to the loads in question. The shape and volume of the sleeve are arranged to be adapted to the stump so as to obtain substantially total contact between the surface of the stump and the inner sur...