Fiberballs for filling uses in pillows, cushions and for like support purposes, from blends of slickened fiberfill of regular denier, to provide support and resilience, mixed with minor amounts of lower denier slickened fibers to provide optimum aesthetics.

A work platform for use on bridges or other structures wherein a plurality of cables extend in spaced relation along a section of the structure and are supported by the structure and wherein a floor comprising a plurality of corrugated flooring panels or sections is supported on the cables and removably secured to the cables. The positions of the cables are adjustable in vertical and horizontal directions. A connector assembly releasably connects each of the platform flooring sections to a respe...

A holder for a container and other articles comprises a plurality of flexible retaining strips which can be formed in laterally extending loops to define a peripheral side wall of the holder cavity and in a longitudinal extending loop to define the bottom wall of the cavity. The ends of the loops are releasably secured together by Velcro type hook and loop elements which are releasably interconnectable. A longitudinal retaining strip extends upwardly from the cavity of the holder to form a waist...

A support or pad for equipment, especially electrical transformers, is disclosed. The pad is designed to permit multi-directional access to its underside; consequently, it need not be positioned specially once a transformer is mounted to it, but rather is accessible in almost any upright orientation to the tines of a fork-lift truck. In some embodiments the tine-receiving recesses do not abut an opening for electrical cables attached to the transformer, the opening instead being bordered by sect...

A tray system for use in the packaging of stacked rubber bales, which is adapted to support and stiffen one or more rubber bales when carried thereby such as to control lateral movement of the rubber and to increase the compressive modulus of the stack. The system comprises a plastics base tray for providing a lower support on which bales which has depressions arranged and dimensioned such that the rubber of a bale placed on the base portion can flow into these depressions whereby part of the ru...

An improved playing surface including a synthetic turf base positioned atop a foundation. The synthetic turf base includes synthetic grass fibers secured to a backing material. The synthetic turf base also includes a surface layer of growth medium intermixed with the synthetic grass fibers. Natural grass is planted in the surface layer of growth medium wherein the natural grass includes natural grass blades and roots. The backing is provided with perforations or openings sufficient in number to ...

The perceptibility of an undesirable odoriferous substance, for example a malodour or an off-flavour in a foodstuff, is reduced by means of a poplypeptide with binding affinity thereto, such as an antibody to the odoriferous substance or a fragment of such an antibody.

A videoscope for dental or oral use comprises a grip portion, an insert portion, a light window formed in the wall of the insert portion for illuminating an object, an acceptance window formed in the wall of the insert portion for receiving reflected light from the object, an image sensor disposed in the tip of the insert portion for receiving the light from the object to generate an electric signal corresponding to the object image, a light source disposed in the grip portion, and a light guide...

In a device for feeding articles, cylindrical feed screws having left and right hand pitched helical grooves are arranged in parallel and are driven rotationally in opposite directions such that an article deposited in the space between the roots of the grooves at one corresponding end of the grooves will be advanced axially to the opposite ends for exiting from between the feed screws.

An improved playing surface including a synthetic turf base positioned atop a foundation. The synthetic turf base includes synthetic fibers secured to a backing material. The synthetic turf base also includes a surface layer of growth medium applied on top of the backing material to reach a predetermined depth. Natural grass is planted in the surface layer of growth medium. The backing is provided with perforations or openings sufficient in number to permit the roots of the natural grass to exte...