Abstract: A method and apparatus for cleaning squid bodies which have been separated from the heads and tentacles, employing upstream and downstream, partially overlapping, facially confronting, perforate conveyor belts, through the perforations in which a vacuum apparatus is employed to hold such bodies tightly against the belts. On the upstream belt, successive bodies are slit along one side to fillet them, thus to enable them to lay out flat on the belt, with mechanical and hydraulic scrubbing action then employed to clean one side of each body. Where the two belts overlap, a transfer action takes place, with the successive bodies there transferred to, and then held against, the other belt to expose the opposite sides of the bodies for mechanical and hydraulic scrubbing action.

Abstract: Plating bath solution usable in the electrodeposition of chromium on a cathode which includes methyl and/or ethyl alcohol.

Abstract: A positive-separation, orthodontic, face-bow/mouth-bow mechanism, wherein a spring device effects sure separation of a disengageable face-bow and mouth-bow under circumstances when, during normal usage, compression transmission through these devices relaxes.

Abstract: An earth-working vehicle with a pair of articulated booms mounted side-by-side adjacent the forward end of a turntable in the vehicle. The booms pivot in parallel vertical planes that parallel the longitudinal axis of the turntable. An operator's station is located at the forward end of the turntable, on the opposite side of the turntable from the booms.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing from two different liquid input streams which are at different temperatures, a single output stream with a selectable, low-thermal-noise, regulated temperature which is intermediate the input streams' temperatures. The invention operates with successive, recurrent, fixed-length operating cycles, during each of which a variable-length pulse of liquid from each stream, exclusively, is permitted to flow. Temperature monitoring of the resulting blended output stream effects continuous adjustment of the respective pulse-lengths (or duty cycles) of such alternate differing-temperature pulses to maintain the desired regulated temperature.

Abstract: A self-propelled troller having an elongate hull which is powered by a rear propeller for movement in a forward direction in water. An elongate tube in the troller extends from the bow of the hull rearwardly of, and below, the propeller. A fishing line adapted to be received slidably through the tube, in a bow-to-stern direction, is used to guide the troller toward the direction of pull on the line.