Abstract:
A mounting structure for a cylindrical window section of a pressure vessel, wherein the mounting structure includes a cylindrical outer band, a mounting block mountable within the cylindrical outer band, securing members for securing the outer band and mounting block a predetermined fixed axial distance from the end portion of the pressure vessel, and a seal member for axial movement with respect to the outer band for maintaining sealable engagement of the cylindrical window section between the seal member and the end portion of the pressure vessel.
Abstract:
An environmental enclosure or clean room composed of a structural frame which supports a flexible transparent plastic film which defines a sealed chamber or room. Air is introduced into the chamber through a two-stage filter system and is exhausted through a filter duct. Located adjacent the chamber is a small entry compartment, and the entry compartment has sealed doorways leading to the exterior and to the interior of the sealed chamber respectively. To inspect objects in the sealed chamber, the operator enters the entry compartment and puts on a hermetically sealed suit that is normally stored in the compartment. With the operator sealed within the suit, the entry compartment is sterilized and the operator can then enter the main chamber. The suit has a provision for receiving air from the outside and for discharging air from the suit to the exterior of the chamber. The operator can move freely within the chamber without destroying the germ-free atmosphere in the chamber, and without the operator being contaminated by toxic or hazardous materials contained within the chamber.
Abstract:
An oxygen stream is supplied to an incubation hood for diffusion therein at a rate such that a concentrated oxygen layer forms in the hood lower interior at a zone about a patient''s head; displacement gas such as air is admitted into the hood upper interior to diffuse into the concentrated oxygen layer for reducing the oxygen concentration at the zone about the patient''s head, and to effect exhausting from the hood of downwardly displaced gas containing breath expelled carbon dioxide; and the oxygen supply is controlled in response to sensing of the oxygen concentration in the hood to maintain within a predetermined range the oxygen concentration at that zone.
Abstract:
A compartment, adapted to receive the head of a patient therein, which includes means for receiving a supply of oxygen or similar gas therein, the geometry being such that a continuous supply of such gas is provided adjacent the patient's face.
Abstract:
An exclusion or containment isolator provides an isolated environment for example for surgery or for preventing spread of infection. Known sleeves for allowing operators to manipulate inside the isolator from outside present difficulties in manufacture and can reduce easy movement of the operators arms. An isolator (11) of flexible, transparent plastics material has wide, triangular sleeves (35, 36) extending from regions of conjunction (44, 45) with the main isolator body (43), the regions of conjunction partially overlying one another to give greater freedom of movement. Preferably the sleeve construction utilizes a side sheet (13) providing a lower wall (25) of one sleeve (35) and upper wall (27) of the next adjacent sleeve (36).
Abstract:
A portable recompression chamber for emergency treatment of and transportation of divers stricken with the ''''bends.'''' It is in the form of an elongate pressure chamber of circular cross section capable of receiving a patient on a stretcher. It is collapsible into a small space and has an end closure means which is reversible in order to protect the instruments located thereon during storage.
Abstract:
Self-contained apparatus for supplying cooled, dry, clean air under pressure for therapeutic use. A motor and compressor is contained in a sound-conditioned cabinet through which air is circulated to cool the motor and compressor. Condensate from the compressed cooled air is ejected into the cooling air through a pressure relief valve.
Abstract:
A recompression chamber is disclosed comprising a frusto-conical shell with an end wall closing the base of the shell and having a sealable hatch in the end wall to provide access to the chamber. The chamber may be tilted endwise to vary the position of the patient lying in the chamber. The chamber is dimensioned to accommodate a patient lying down with his feet towards the apex of the shell and an attending medical technician sitting adjacent the sealable hatch. The hatch is also provided with a rotatable bayonet fitting to enable a further chamber to be attached thereto to provide for a transfer under pressure between the chambers.
Abstract:
A transportable hyperbaric chamber which is generally cylindrical in configuration and has a manway opening at one end, the chamber being of sufficient length and diameter to receive an injured person. The chamber is adapted to be temporarily connected to a deck chamber or other emergency chamber to receive an injured person and to subsequently be connected to a hospital or other more permanent chamber wherein such person may be treated over a longer period. The chamber is mounted on a support platform which is vertically adjustable at various points in order to align the chamber with such deck and hospital chambers. A pressure safe chamber door is mounted interiorly of the chamber and is movable between a closed, sealed position and an open position wherein the door is fully out of the path of the manway so that an injured person may be transferred without obstacle.