A breast comfort padding system is provided which includes a compressible body having an upper surface sized to support at least a chest area of a user thereon, at least a pair of recesses formed in the compressible body which are positioned with respect to each other on the compressible body to correspond to position of breasts, and compressible inserts received in the recesses, the compressible insert being more easily compressed than the compressible body.

An integrated padding machine that incorporates a front digging auger that is preferably mechanically as opposed to hydraulically powered, which in conjunction with a breaker bar assembly provides for digging and crushing capabilities, and that incorporates several other improvements and advances, including screen and cross-pass conveyor level control, a real-time padding level monitoring system, and an assistant's control module, improved controls, dust control, and cold weather padding, and me...

Padding for mattresses, cushions, pillows etc. comprises a soft board-like base member and a plurality of elongated padding members disposed in parallel relationship on the base member. The construction provides the mattress with a proper hardness and flexibility and enables the sleeper to maintain an ideal sleeping posture. The elongated padding members may be provided with small projections to give a moderate stimulus to the human body, and may be formed with perforations for ventilation. The ...

A vibration dissipating sports glove for use in holding a bat while hitting a baseball having an energy-absorbing front pad between the index finger and the thumb. The glove also has a back padding covering the metacarpal portion of the hand and may furthermore have knuckle padding for covering the middle knuckle of each of the fingers. By using padding in a discriminate fashion, only in areas of the hand most vulnerable to impact and vibration, the glove maintains adequate flexibility and feel ...

A stick controller for a glove, particularly a hockey glove, includes a padded wedge of a generally trapezoidal shape to cover the palm side of the hand to stabilize a hockey stick or the like which fits within the palm of the hand. The pad is preferably above the radiocarpal joint of the wrist and below the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joints overlying the carpometacarpal joints of the long finger, the ring finger and the small finger.

A self-propelled pipeline padding machine and a method for padding pipelines in ditches without damaging the pipeline prior to backfilling of the ditch. A spoils pile comprising dirt, various size rocks, and sand taken from the ditch during the digging thereof lie in a generally continuous pile along side the ditch from the excavation thereof. The machine includes an excavator having an arm with end bucket for scooping up material from the spoils pile on the opposite side of the ditch and placin...

Described is the adding of padding to a content file (e.g., image and/or audiovisual file) for anticipated subsequent use such that the content file need not be re-encoded to add metadata and other data to it. For example, padding may be added to an image file directly after an image file directory, whereby the directory can grow as needed into the padded space. Metadata can likewise be added to the padding, e.g., from the opposite direction that the directory extends into the padding. The paddi...

Adjustable padding systems for garments, incorporating a pocket and a pad. The pocket is coupled to the garment and has a wide, proximal portion and a narrow, distal portion. The pad has corresponding wide and narrow portions. The narrow portion of the pad is longer than the length of the narrow portion of the pocket, but is adjustable in length. Accordingly, the location of the wide portion of the pad along the length of the garment can be adjusted by adjusting the length of the narrow portion ...

A socket connector includes a bottom shielding (10) with a receiving room (15), an electronic module (2) received in the receiving room of the bottom shielding, an elastic padding (20) defined between the electronic module and the bottom shielding, and a top shielding (30) for engaging with the bottom shielding and pressing the electronic module tightly in the bottom shielding. Wherein, the electronic module has an un-coplanar lower surface, and the thickness of different parts of the padding va...

A padding support for upholstered furniture comprising a resilient fabric consisting of a series of parallel, spaced-apart, resilient cross wires extending between and connected at their ends to a pair of parallel side strands extending at right angles thereto, and a series of parallel, spaced-apart pairs of resilient wires extending parallel to and intermediate said side strands, the wires of each pair being twisted together to connect them both to each other and to said cross wires.