Abstract: A surgical device comprising a handle, an elongated tube extending distally from the handle, and a suction tip at a distal end portion of the elongated tube. The suction tip has a cavity formed therein. A cutting blade is positioned at least partially within the cavity and rotatable across the cavity to sever tissue, the cavity dimensioned to receive the severed tissue for removal from a patient's body.

Abstract: A bowl and spatula assembly provides an integrated spatula to scrape a mixture efficiently from a mixing bowl. The assembly includes a bowl having a bottom and a perimeter wall extending upwardly from the bottom. An arcuate spatula has opposite ends pivotally coupled to the bowl. The spatula also has an outer perimeter edge abutting an inner surface of the bowl whereby the spatula is configured for scraping a substance out of the bowl when the spatula is pivoted.

Abstract: An ice cream scoop includes a handle, a scooper coupled to an end of the handle, a scraper installed in the scooper, a link rod extended from an end of the scraper into the end of the handle, and a transmission device installed on the link rod. The ice cream scoop further includes an operating device with an end pivotally coupled to the handle, such that the operating device can be swayed between a first position and a second position with respect to the handle. The operating device further includes a driving portion coupled to the transmission device. If the operating device is swayed between the first and second positions, the link rod will be rotated, and the scraper will be moved along an internal wall of the scooper.

Abstract: A method and a device for feeding a molten resin capable of accurately feeding the molten resin without the delay of feed timing by preventing the molten resin from adhering to route members before it seats on a mold to increase the positioning accuracy of the molten metal in the mold, and a method of manufacturing a molded part by using the fed molten resin. Vibration is provided to the route members such as molten resin guide pins (10, 40, 50), throat members (62, 70, 85), and female mold positioned in a route in which the molten resin (25) passes before it seats on the female mold (7, 63) by a vibration imparting device (27) or a gas layer film is formed on the surfaces thereof. Thus, the molten resin can be fed while preventing it from adhering to the route members.

Abstract: An ice cream scooping implement includes an elongated handle that has an axial bore extending from a handle distal end and terminates approximately midway therealong. The handle has an end cap removably mated to a proximal end thereof. A scooping section is telescopically and removably insertable into the axial bore and includes a mechanism for locking the scooping section within the handle. A heating element is concentrically seated about a proximal portion of the scooping section, is in direct contact with the scooping section, is isolated from the handle, and is formed from thermal-conductive and electrical-conductive material, including tungsten. The heating element includes a pair of conductive terminals that extend proximally along a longitudinal length thereof. A mechanism is included for supplying power to the heating element. The terminals are directly engaged with the power supplying mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a portioning device for foodstuffs, in particular ice cream. Said device comprises a handle consisting of two handle halves that are interconnected by an articulation and can be pivoted in relation to one another, a scoop that is attached to said handle and a blade that is adapted to the interior shape of the scoop. Said blade is mounted so that it can pivot close to the surface of said scoop and carries out a pivoting displacement when the handle is operated. The handle is equipped, between the articulation and the scoop, preferably in the vicinity of the articulation, with a resilient pad consisting of an elastic material, preferably a rubber ring.

Abstract: An ice cream scooper includes a shank having a handle on one end and a scooper member on the other end, and a flexible panel attached to the scooper member and engageable with an ice cream ball scooped and received in the scooper member. An actuator is pivotally attached to the scooper member, and includes an arm engageable with the flexible panel, to move and actuate the flexible panel relative to the scooper member, and to disengage the ice cream ball from the scooper member. The arm includes a protrusion engaged into a slot of the panel, to solidly attach the arm to the panel. The scooper member includes a passage to slidably receive the hand grip of the actuator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ice-cream disher, which is easy to manufacture, and which can scoop out a certain amount of ice-cream stored in an ice-cream drum. It is an ice-cream disher, which comprises a hemispherical scooping bowl; a connecting member, extending to one side, which is attached to the scooping bowl; a handle joined to the connecting member; and a scooping means, comprising fixing to the support plate a rotation-axis rod with a gear for enabling semi-rotation of the scooping tongue within the scooping bowl, and fitting a lever having a working plate onto the clamp pin by way of a spring, which is in gear with the gear, wherein the attachment construction of the connecting member to the handle comprises inserting the rear end into the insertion groove formed at the frontal end of the handle, and then forcibly inserting a clamp pin into the pin holes formed in the vertical direction of the connecting member and the handle.

Abstract: A method for treating a roller cover includes the steps of positioning an element with respect to a roller cover and removing a portion of the roller cover with said element to form a pattern on said roller cover. The process for treating roller covers for a paint roller may also includes the steps of providing a surface, forming a pattern on the surface, heating the surface, and contacting the roller cover with the heated surface. The heated surface is a metal. The heat is transferred from the heated metal surface to the roller cover when the heated metal surface contacts the roller cover. The heated surface sears or melts the nap of the roller cover. The surface can be provided with a pattern so that a pattern can be placed into the nap of the roller cover. An apparatus used to treat the surface of a roller cover includes a surface having a desired pattern therein. A holder for a roller cover holds or presents the roller cover to the surface. A heater is attached to the surface.

Abstract: A product serving apparatus includes an apportioning scoop, a product separation assembly for separating the product from the scoop, a hand operated actuator assembly for driving the product separation assembly, and an integral handle and support assembly affixed to the scoop. The handle assembly provides a substantially smooth exterior which is impermeable to soil or food product. The handle assembly provides a crevice-free exterior extending over the entire distance between its ends.

Abstract: A food scoop is disclosed which disposes a temperature sensor in or on a spoon portion (which includes a handle), which is utilized for the scooping operation. The temperature sensor includes a counting mechanism that records the temperature changes of the spoon and uses them as a counting impulse. Most foods, whether such foods be ice cream or heated selections, have sharp temperature gradients which are counted and recorded by the scoop portion of the invention. The number of temperature changes counted by the counting mechanism equals the number of portions of a particular food which have been served.

Abstract: This invention relates to a scoop for dispensing balls of ice cream. The scoop comprises a spoon or dish portion equipped with a sweeping band or doctor blade mounted for rotation on the spoon, and a handle. The spoon and its sweeping band are removably engageable with the handle by means of three fixed pins, or through a ring nut which is secured to the spoon and can be fitted on the handle. The pivot pin of the sweeping band is operatively connected to a drive system actuated by an electric motor or a fluid-operated cylinder/piston unit housed in the handle. The electric motor or the fluid-operated unit can be controlled through a pushbutton and is arranged to impart a rotary motion through approximately 180.degree. first in one direction and then in the opposite direction to the sweeping band.

Abstract: The prostacyclins 6,9-epoxy-16-substituted-15-hydroxyprost-(13E)-enoic acids and esters useful as antisecretory agents, blood pressure lowering agents, anti-ulcerogenic agents, antihypertensive agents, bronchodilation agents and for combating gastrohyperacidity and as anti-blood platelet aggregating agents.