Abstract: An ice maker assembly includes an ice making apparatus for an appliance with an ice making tray having a water basin formed by a metallic ice forming plate and at least one perimeter sidewall extending upwardly from a top surface of the ice forming plate. The ice making tray also has a grid with at least one dividing wall. The at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall and the top surface of the ice forming plate form at least one ice compartment having an upper surface and a lower surface. An ice body is formed in the at least one ice compartment. Moreover, the at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall form a draft angle with the top surface of the ice forming plate, of about 17 degrees to about 25 degrees.

Abstract: An ice maker assembly includes an ice making apparatus for an appliance with an ice making tray having a water basin formed by a metallic ice forming plate and at least one perimeter sidewall extending upwardly from a top surface of the ice forming plate. The ice making tray also has a grid with at least one dividing wall. The at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall and the top surface of the ice forming plate form at least one ice compartment having an upper surface and a lower surface. An ice body is formed in the at least one ice compartment. Moreover, the at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall form a draft angle with the top surface of the ice forming plate, of about 17 degrees to about 25 degrees.

Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to an example evaporation panel, which can include an evaporation shelf that is laterally elongated and horizontally oriented and can include an upper surface and a lower surface. A second evaporation shelf can also be included that is laterally elongated and positioned in parallel beneath the evaporation shelf. The second evaporation shelf can have a second upper surface. The evaporation panel can further include a support column between the first evaporation shelf and the second evaporation shelf. The support column can include a plurality of stacked and spaced apart evaporation fins oriented in parallel with the evaporation shelf.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a pan formed from a base plate, a housing, a divider and an ejection plate. Together, the pan is shaped to form a pocket bun. The constituent parts of the pan nest together when baking, and disassemble when removing the bun from the pan. The pocket bun has an open-mouth design to allow ingredients to be retained in the bun while the sandwich is being consumed. The open-mouth design is formed having either a single cavity or a plurality of cavities, with each cavity adapted for carrying a filling. The pan is designed having one or more chambers, with each chamber adapted for baking a bun. Adjacent chambers optionally include openings therebetween such that adjacent buns will have a baked connection therebetween.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: an insulating substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the insulating substrate; a plurality of second signal lines formed on the insulating substrate and intersecting the first wire in an insulating manner; a pixel electrode formed in a pixel area defined by the intersections of the first signal lines and the second signal lines and including a plurality of subareas partitioned by cutouts and a plurality of bridges connecting the subareas; and a direction control electrode formed in the pixel area and including a portion overlapping at least one of the cutouts, wherein two long edges of each subarea are parallel to each other and the at least one of cutouts overlapping the portion of the direction control electrode defines one of two longest edges of the subarea.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of cellular or foamed, cast concrete bodies that are reinforced with metallic reinforcements, and to a reinforcement support frame for use in the production of cellular or foamed, cast concrete bodies that are reinforced with metallic reinforcing bars.

Abstract: A system for forming thin-wall pre-cast concrete forms and structures, using vertical casting and slip-form techniques to partition wet concrete into separate thin-wall sections, the system being particularly useful for fabricating pre-cast concrete column forms having a composition and vertical consistency substantially the same as the integral poured concrete core of the finished concrete column.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing one or more pre-cast concrete structures. The apparatus may include partitions that may be positioned in a side by side arrangement. The partitions may be moveable with respect to each other to facilitate installation of reinforcing material and removal of the concrete structures from the apparatus after the concrete has hardened. Cavities may be defined by the partitions for receiving concrete to form structures having panels with integral columns. The columns may include slots for receiving an adjacent panel such that adjacent concrete structures may be joined together to form a continuous wall. The partitions may also include interchangeable liners such that different textures or finishes may be applied to the concrete structures.

Abstract: A cake batter separator has first dividing wall 40 having a front surface 40A, a back surface 40B, a top edge 40C, a bottom edge 40D, a proximal side edge 40E, and a distal side edge 40G. The top portion of proximal side edge 40E of first dividing wall 40 has a hook shaped protrusion 40F extending outward away from the distal side edge 40G. A second dividing wall 50 has a front surface 50A, a back surface 50B, a top edge 50C, a bottom edge 50D, a proximal side edge 50F, a distal side edge 50G, and an upwardly facing channel 50H attached to front surface 50A. The top portion of distal side edge 50G of second dividing wall 50 has a hook shaped protrusion 50E extending outward away from the proximal side edge 50F.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pre-cast panel form insert used in precast construction. The insert comprises a substantially planar portion defining dimensions suitable to complement dimensions of a pre-cast panel form and a fluid diverting portion. The fluid diverting portion is configured to define a fluid-diverting recess in an edge face of a pre-cast panel bounded by a form including the form insert. The fluid diverting portion is configured such that said fluid diverting recess defines, a circular cross-sectional profile, or a multi-angular cross-sectional profile, that impedes the flow of water along said pre-cast panel edge face when said edge face assumes a substantially horizontal orientation.

Abstract: The object of this invention is the method of manufacture of a symmetric element of a round ring and cone-shaped ring applicable in serial production. The application area of the invention is particularly the prefabrication of ceramic coating elements, which match together and which are assembled in straight walls, a surface coating containing cylinder rings and cone-shaped rings. Good application objects are for example the cyclones and the ducts of circulating bed boilers, carburetor plants, etc. various combustion chambers and high temperature devices. The concerned elements have special conditions concerning their tightness, so that their seam surfaces must be shaped so that they are profile surfaces differing from plane surfaces, profile surfaces having the capacity to resist to leakage through seam better than straight surfaces.

Abstract: A tool for manufacturing the two tone plastic shell includes an electroformed mold (28) having a first surface (29) for forming a front of a shell; a second surface (32) for forming the side edge portion of a shell; and a third surface segment (34) for forming a return flange on a door shell and the third surface segment has a cut-out opening (36) therein and a runout surface (40) providing for entry and removal of a seal and divider wall assembly to seal against a sealing rib (38) in the mold which separates the first, second and third segments into first and second casting surfaces. The divider rib and runout surface are sprayed with thermoplastic material to form a joint between material cast on the first and second casting surfaces and a skin return flap for sealing the cut-out opening.

Abstract: An apparatus for making multi-sectioned and multi-colored products having a predetermined geometric or other shape from different slurry mixtures requires a carrier with a predetermined sized and shaped peripheral wall optionally used with a flat or a contoured support surface, the carrier has; a latticed grid formed by intersecting and interconnected members which define random openings, and at least one or more dividing blade slots so connected in the carrier that the latticed grid is divided into spaced slurry receiving sections, and dividing blades adapted to be removably positioned and repositioned in said dividing blade slots provide means for alternatively and selectively isolating the respective spaced slurry receiving sections so that different slurry mixtures can be poured into each of the isolated spaced slurry receiving sections to harden therein about the carrier to form a furnished integral product.

Abstract: A portable ice maker and container capable of utilizing available freezer space to provide additional ice-making capacity is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a bucket-shaped vessel having a plurality of coiled strips arranged in a vertical stack with adjacent strips separated by a partition member, each coiled strip being in a horizontal position with the curvature of the coils arranged so as to be generally concentric with the central vertical axis of the vessel. A plurality of transverse ribs are attached at intervals along the length of each strip for use in defining the shape of the individual ice cubes.

Abstract: A shippable assembly comprises:(a) a first mold having a recess therein, and cast and hardened material in said recess, and(b) a protective package on the mold.The package may comprise a second mold having a recess therein, and cast and hardened material in that recess.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for obtaining precisely registered, articulated castings of upper and lower dental impressions. The dental impressions are obtained through use of a dental tray having a non-porous, bite-deformable central septum. The impression material for the upper dental impression is contained in the upper portion of the tray. The impression material for the lower dental impression is contained in the lower portion of the tray and is supported by a bottom cover which is removed subsequent to placement of the tray in the mouth. As the patient bites, the impression material in the upper and lower portions of the dental tray is molded to the contour of the teeth and gums in their proper relationship with the teeth closed. After the material has set, the tray containing registered upper and lower impressions is removed from the mouth and placed into a mold.

Abstract: A manufacturing bench for molded construction elements is disclosed comprising molds whose bottom walls are defined by an elongated table and whose lateral walls are constituted at least in part by flexible blades placed edgewise on the table which are held taut. The lateral walls are longitudinally displaceable.

Abstract: A seedling growing container such as a tray, is illustrated providing a drainage channel opening in a side of the bottom of respective compartments to permit side removal of the seedling and the entire root system including any portion of the root system which may have grown through the drainage opening. Since the drainage channel opens at an open side of the compartments there is no obstruction to the removal of any roots which may have grown through and around the drainage passageway.