Abstract: An apparatus for preparing reduced-fat meat by injecting dry solids such as phosphate powder into a flow of meat supply, includes a passageway for passing the meat therethrough, a ram chamber having a feed ram such that the feed ram is capable of being positioned in any one of a feed position and a fill position, the ram chamber having a particulate opening for entry of dry solids into the ram chamber, and a feed port providing a path for the feeding of the dry solids into the passageway. A control gate is placed generally along the passageway wherein it is capable of opening and closing the feed port.

Abstract: A portable outdoor fireplace with a fire screen assembly convertible into a cooking grill includes top and bottom cover members and a fire screen assembly extending vertically therebetween. The fire screen assembly is cylindrical and includes multiple screen panels supported vertically therein. At least one screen panel may be hinged to provide a side entrance to the fireplace. The fire screen assembly includes a plurality of supports that support a cooking grill near the entrance of the fireplace at different locations.

Abstract: A stent crimper is provided for loading a stent onto a catheter in order to provide a stenting assembly that is suitable for use in procedures in conjunction with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty catheters. The crimper has a stent holding member or sheath which supports the stent by its exterior surface so that a balloon of a catheter can be slid within the stent. An elongated wrapping member or belt winds around the sheath. By properly manipulating the belt, the belt applies generally cylindrical radially directed forces onto the sheath and thus onto the stent within the sheath, as well as the balloon beneath the stent, in order to crimp the stent onto the balloon. A procedure is also illustrated by which a stent is crimped onto the balloon by a hand-held crimper which can be discarded after stent delivery and crimping has been completed.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for reducing the scale formation in a hot water reservoir in which a metal element of copper and/or zinc, and preferably brass, is positioned in the hot water in the reservoir.

Abstract: A tamper indicating closure cap for a vacuum sealed container includes a metal end panel, a rim portion formed in the outer margin of the end panel and a skirt depending from the rim portion. The metal end panel includes a central tamper indicating area comprising a tamper indicating button and a generally concave shaped annular region extending radially outwardly toward the rim portion. The tamper indicating area is adapted to defect axially between a non-tamper indicating position and a tamper indicating position.

Abstract: An adapter assembly is provided for adapting a portable cellular telephone to receive an external replacement antenna or an external direct feed connection by replacing the internal antenna connection of the cellular telephone. The adapter assembly includes a body portion with an antenna-receiving bore, a telephone chassis contact portion at the other end a circuit board interposed between the body and contact portion which spaces them apart and interconnects them together. The circuit board has circuitry thereon which transposes the connections effected thereby between coaxial conductors of the assembly body and contact portions.

Abstract: A molar protector comprising a pair of right and left molar protecting portions (1) each having faces complementary to the occlusal faces of the corresponding superior and inferior maxillary molars and a connecting portion (3) bridging said molar protecting portions (1), each of said molar protecting portions comprising a top layer, a bottom layer, and an intermediate layer lying between said top and bottom layers, said top layer and bottom layer being respectively made of an easily softenable material, the softening point of which is higher than human body temperature and lower than the boiling point of water, such as a thermoplastic resin, and said intermediate layer being made of an elastic, hardly softenable material which does not soften at temperatures below the boiling point of water, such as elastomer, silicone rubber, synthetic rubber, silicone resin, or high-temperature thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: An ergonomic keyboard is provided having a top surface and a bottom surface and a front edge closest to the user, and a plurality of keys arranged in a plurality of adjacent rows. Each row includes a central arcuate portion, a left portion, and a right portion. The left and right portions extend tangentially from the arcuate portions. The arcuate portion of each row is convex to the user side of the keyboard. A wrist support extends along the front edge. A pair of legs pivotally mounted to the bottom surface elevates the wrist support from an underlying support surface.

Abstract: An endoprosthesis is provided which includes a stent component and a graft component capturing a portion of the stent component. The stent component is made of generally malleable material arranged to provide the stent component with a collapsed transluminal positioning configuration and an expanded, deployed configuration. The stent component has adjacent end windings that are welded together. In a preferred arrangement, a plurality of these welds define a spine-like welded arrangement, and a number of these arrangements are positioned generally circumferentially around the ends of the stent component. The graft component extends generally between the welded end portions of the stent component, with limited overlap being possible. Also provided is a method for forming this endoprosthesis and a procedure by which the endoprosthesis is implanted by deployment with a suitable expansion device.

Abstract: A fault indicator for use in conjunction with a load-break elbow connector includes a resilient mounting collar which wraps around the body of the fault indicator at a location overlying the arc-suppressing non-conductive margin between the electrically conductive sheath and the connecting end of the connector. An electrically conductive layer on the inside surface of the collar capacitively couples the circuitry of the fault indicator to the conductor within the connector to provide operating power to the fault indicator. A ground connection is provided by a second conductive layer on the collar which contacts the grounded connector sheath, or by a spring contact which extends from the fault indicator to the sheath. A voltage indicator is also disclosed using the same collar and capacitive coupling to the monitored conductor.

Abstract: A radiographic film mask includes a planar sheet sized for receipt on an illuminated radiographic film examination box. The mask has two opaque sections and a transparent section. The transparent section is disposed on the sheet between the two opaque sections to form a radiographic film viewing area which has an area less than the entire area of the sheet. The sheet may include semi-transparent sections which border the viewing area and interconnect the opaque portions to provide reduced transmission of light along the marginal edges of the radiographic film.