Abstract: A process of converting food waste to a dry rehydratable, edible food material, including the steps of collecting large quantities of edible food and food scraps at one location, feeding food and food scraps to a device for chopping to comminute the food and food scraps to a mixture of food pieces, feeding the mixture of food pieces to a device for grinding the mixture to a flowable mixture of homogeneous food particles, feeding the flowable mixture of homogeneous food particles to a filter to extract a portion of liquid therefrom to product a more flowable mixture of homogeneous food particles, subjecting food particles to intimate contact with ultra-violet radiation to kill unwanted bacteria and viruses in the mixture, feeding an irradiated mixture of homogeneous food particles to a drying device for drying the mixture of food particles to a dry mixture of homogeneous food particles that are packageable and later rehydratable with addition of liquid.

Abstract: An elastic portable cushion for enveloping the butt-end of a fishing rod for interposition with the fisher-person's body, to protect the body when fighting a fish, the cushion having the property of generally retaining its shape during use and defined by an outer surface having a high coefficient of friction including first device formed therein for receiving the butt-end of the rod in temporary fixed position therein, the device comprising a passageway, of equal or lesser diameter than the butt-end of the fishing rod, passing into the cushion.

Abstract: A supply station with internal computer, comprising an upright cabinet having integrally connected top, bottom, side and rear cabinet panels defining a tall storage and interior dispensing cavity accessible through a front opening, a plurality of horizontally openable and lockable doors, including door frames and transparent windows, hingedly mounted at various locations over the front opening, a mechanism for locking the doors when they are closed over the front opening, at least two partitions in the cavity in spaced-apart arrangement to form a smaller sub-cavity therein, a computer, including a keyboard, for inputting coded information concerning the particular dispensable items in the cabinet needed for a patient and information as to the party entering the information that causes electrical impulses to be issued therefrom in conformance with such information, mounted in the sub-cavity and accessible through the front opening; and, door unlocking mechanism interconnected the computer and the locking mecha

Abstract: A pet collar including first and second flexible belt segments of terminal length adapted to pass around the neck of the pet and form an encircling loop thereabout, an interlocking device attached to the other ends of the belt segments to connect the segments together in end-to-end fashion, a pocket formed in one segment and, a bib connectable to the pocket for depending from the collar.

Abstract: A measuring ruler, having a straight edge and a set of subunit measuring indicia adjacent the edge, wherein the indicia comprise a series of first and second measuring marks of equal width, in side-by-side alternating arrangement, normal to the edge, wherein the color of the first marks is in stark visual contrast to the color of the second marks.