A flooring system and a module for a flooring system made of a series of floor support modules each of which has a number of props in a grid matrix and joined together by an integral frame. Attachment means is provided to join the units to adjacent units and clamping plates are used to provide a positive location of a floor panel on the module. Services such as electricity, telephone and computer cables may be laid in the cavities or voids under the floor panel.

A container for beverages, particularly beverages, such as coffee, which form a froth upon being dispensed in the container for consumption, has an interior base portion extending to a sidewall portion and defining an interior beverage containing surface having a shape in the form of an ellipsoid of revolution having an eccentricity of from 1.15 to 5.0, a hyperboloid of revolution having asymptotes forming an angle of less than 90.degree., or a paraboloid of revolution wherein a distance from a ...

A device for creating a waterfall effect and a fountain effect in an adjacent swimming pool spa or the like, has a tubular manifold with spray orifices which produce streams of water. The manifold is positionable so that the streams of water can be aimed away from the housing at an inclined angle, thereby producing a fountain effect, or so that the streams of water can be directed to fill a reservoir located within the housing and adapted to discharge water in the form of a waterfall.

A device for enabling a first part to be detachably assembled to a second part, the device comprising a first fastener and a second fastener fixed respectively to the first part and to the second part, assembly being obtained by engaging the fasteners along an "Engagement" axis, with engagement causing a retaining component of the first fastener to be inserted by deformation into a reception component of the second fastener, wherein: the first fastener is fitted with return means tending to move...

A method of providing a user of a telephone with a set of instructions respecting the use and function of the telephone. The method including the steps of providing a telephone, providing an attachable information providing device which includes means for attaching said device to an extensible, coiled telephone cord interconnecting elements of the telephone, and attaching the attachable information providing device to the telephone cord so that the set of instructions respecting the use and func...

A process for providing a biological pacemaker for the human heart wherein the sino-atrial (S-A) node cells are removed from the heart and cultured to generate a critical mass of S-A node cells of sufficient quantity to generate a depolarization wave capable of stimulating the cells of the myocardium to ensure normal or near-normal pumping action in the heart. The critical mass of S-A node cells are then implanted in the myocardial tissue of the right ventricle to provide biological pacing for t...

An improved portal-caval shunt (20) includes a male section (25) and a female section (26). A cutter (52) is first inserted through a patient's vena cava and is used to punch or cut an opening between proximate portions of the vena cava and portal vein. The female section (26) is then inserted through the opening. Once so inserted, spokes (36') on the female section move to their outward positions. The male section (25) is then inserted through the vena cava, is aligned with, and is joined to th...

Pillars are formed on a substrate at the same time as electrical circuit components are formed thereon and of the same materials used to form the circuit, the pillars serving to maintain standoff of an integrated circuit chip during bonding of solder bumps on the chip underside to the formed substrate circuit. The pillars are provided without extra materials and steps, under the existing alignment requirements for providing the circuit components, during the applying of a series of discontinuous...

A microprocessor is encrypted with a unique code during its manufacture. When copy protection of software designed to operate with the microprocessor is desired, software is encrypted to function uniquely with that microprocessor. The software is ciphered such that only the unique cryptographic code in the microprocessor can decipher it. If the software or its copy is executed on another processor, the deciphering cannot occur. Two-pairs of CMOS transistors form each bit of the code integrated w...

An apparatus for providing an automatic transmission, including at least one planetary gear, at least one braking pump, at least one flow control valve and an oil path system provided therebetween for obtaining a continuously variable transmission (CVT). Each braking member of at least one planetary gear of the present invention is connected to each rotor shaft of at least one braking pump. A sensing means is provided for sensing a rotation speed of a rear propeller shaft and to output predeterm...