My quess is that the mask was used with patients who either bit, spit, or both. As cruel as it may have seemed there was probably a method to the madness (no pun intended).
This is a great picture. However being red/green color blind I dont see the "beautiful colors" that everyone else does. :(
By the way I always eat and drink while visiting Opacity. This is my refuge, my place to unwide and relax.
This is the main part. The Tube head. That square box on the bottom is the colimator, which focuses the x ray beam onto the surface being x rayed. Inside the tube is oil which cools the glass tube. The tube body is made of lead, and inside the glass tube which is inside the lead casing has a rotating anode. I assume the power supply is still there as well.
OK Where is this place?? Me, and Jeremy are going to rescue this X ray Machine, and add it to our collection. Do you happen to know who it's made by? Thanks
Man, Looks like another GE x ray tube sits and rots away. Me and my boyfriend Jeremy want that GE tube head! We have over 15 different x ray machines, and related parts. We have machines by Picker, Ge, Toshiba Rotanode, Transworld X ray which is out of business, I am sure you have seen these names in your searches.
Here's what I think this is. Me and Jeremy have come to the conclusion that this is a inflatable item of some sort. That yellow box is a high velocity air blower that's used to pump air at high velocity into the item that's being inflated, kind of like what you see at xmas time the inflatable snow man. When I was a child in elementary school we had this big 8 feet by 8 feet blow up pad that we could jump on, and it had a big yellow box just like this. By the way me and my partner Jeremy Turner just love looking at your site, we are abandoned building seekers as well, but we look for old electrical items, and machinery to collect, maybe you can keep your eyes open for us as well.
That is probably a rudimentary table used to positions patients with Cerebral Palsy or similar conditions so that the body could be fully supported. Many of those older devices look torturous, but they are the fore-runners of much more sophisticated customizeable equipment used today, with great therapeutic effect!