Abstract:
A webbed swimming aid formed from two planar sheets shaped to conform generally to the shape of an outspread hand from a first sheet of elastic, mesh material and a second sheet of thin, stiff, water impermeable material. Truncated finger stalls are provided by stitching or sealing regions along the upper edge of the sheets towards the palm portion of the aid. Webbing stiffener members may be secured along the fingertip edge of second sheet, or, alternatively, may be sealed within the triangular webbed regions sewn or sealed along the upper edge of the aid with apices of the triangles directed towards the palm portion ' of the aid to define the finger stalls.
Abstract:
A webbed swimming aid formed from two planar sheets shaped to conform generally to the shape of an outspread hand from a first sheet of elastic, mesh material and a second sheet of thin, stiff, water impermeable material. Truncated finger stalls are provided by stitching or sealing regions along the upper edge of the sheets towards the palm portion of the aid. Webbing stiffener members may be secured along the fingertip edge of second sheet, or, alternatively, may be sealed within the triangular webbed regions sewn or sealed along the upper edge of the aid with apices of the triangles directed towards the palm portion ' of the aid to define the finger stalls.
Abstract:
A method including, in one embodiment, severing a sample at least partially from a substrate by cutting the substrate with a focused ion beam (FIB), capturing the substrate sample by activating a grasping element, and separating the captured sample from the substrate. The captured sample may be separated from the substrate and transported to an electron microscope for examination.
Abstract:
A method including, in one embodiment, severing a sample at least partially from a substrate by cutting the substrate with a focused ion beam (FIB), capturing the substrate sample by activating a grasping element (155), and separating the captured sample from the substrate. The captured sample may be separated from the substrate and transported to an electron microscope (190) for examination.