Abstract: The present invention uses a cold temperature activated batter composition to coat chilled portions of a food substrate. The latent cold temperature of the chilled food, which is preferably fish, is in the range of approximately -10.degree. to 38.degree. F. and activates the batter so as to cause it to gel or set on the food portions. As a result, the batter coating adheres evenly and uniformly to each food portion. After coating with the batter, the chilled food portions may also be coated with a toasted bread crumb mixture, before the batter sets, to form a bread coating mixture, in-situ, on the chilled food portions. The bread crumbs may also include flavored oils derived from frying battered and fried fish or fried battered and breaded chicken in vegetable oils for the purpose of imparting savory and fried food flavor characteristics to the non-fried food.

Abstract: A tool for attaching an identification tag body and a tag retainer to an ear of an animal. The tool includes a main handle member and a first bracket pivotally mounted on the main handle member. An opening in the first bracket receives a hollow boss of the tag body. A second bracket is pivotally mounted on the main handle member. A boss on the second bracket is received inside the hollow boss of the tag body when in a tag body supporting position. A link assembly is pivotally mounted on the main handle member. A drive pin member receives the tag retainer. The drive pin is resiliently mounted on the link assembly and is urged toward a position in which the tag retainer enters the hollow of the boss of the tag body as the link assembly is advanced in a retainer actuating direction. The link assembly is driven in retainer actuating direction to drive the tag retainer through the ear of the animal and into position for holding by the boss of the tag body.

Abstract: A cable sheath cutter knife for use in slicing through the aluminum and steel layers covering telephone cables. The knife includes a pointed end portion which in initially extended through the aluminum and steel sheaths or layers. The knife is then rotated downwardly about the pointed end to properly position the knife. The knife is then pulled longitudinally relative to the cable with a cutting edge on the knife slicing through the aluminum and steel layers. The knife is also designed to limit the penetration of the cutting portions into the cable.

Abstract: Protective gloves and the like and a yarn comprising a core of a flexible wire alongside an aramid fiber strand or strands and a covering of aramid fiber such as that manufactured and sold under the trademark "Kevlar" by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Del. in which the aramid fiber is either spun or filament. Two aramid fiber strands, either spun or filament, are wrapped around the core with one strand wrapped in a clockwise direction and the other strand wrapped in a counter-clockwise direction with the opposite spiral wrapping of the strands serving to secure the strands in position on the core without any other securing means. The yarn having a flexible core with aramid fiber strands wrapped thereon is used to make protective gloves on conventional glove knitting or weaving machinery and is capable of movement in relation to needle eyes and the like without jamming in the same manner as various natural and synthetic fiber yarns.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for ultrasonic nebulization of liquid samples or suspensions in which the piezoelectric transducer is protected from chemical attack and erosion. The transducer is protected by being bonded to the inner surface of a glass plate which forms one end wall of a first hollow body provided with apparatus for circulating a fluid for cooling and stabilizing the transducer. The glass plate, which is one-half wavelength in thickness to provide an acoustically coupled outer nebulizing surface, seals an opening in a second hollow body which encloses an aerosol mixing chamber. The second body includes apparatus for delivering the sample solution to the nebulizing surface, a gas inlet for providing a flow of carrier gas for transporting the aerosol of the nebulized sample and an aerosol outlet.