Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a standardized method to obtain a material from Sapindacea family fruits, wherein the material is utilized by itself or in combination with other compounds to make preparations. The material by itself has surfactant, emulsifying and foaming properties, among others. In addition, the invention provides a preparation wherein the material is used in combination with Swinglea glutinosa extract. The preparation enhances the ability of the Swinglea glutinosa extract to kill and prevent fungi, and to kill and repel insects and mites.

Abstract: The present invention provides a poker game playing method wherein multiple five-card hands from once previously shuffled 52-card poker deck can be played without increasing probabilities against a casino, while maintaining maximum entertainment value, and with immediate certainty of winning or losing. The method of the present invention maximizes entertainment value derived from the poker deck by rewarding a gambler with free five-card hands when there had been five-card hand winning combinations, wherein the rewarding free five-card hands are from the remaining un-played cards of said same poker deck, thus, without increasing chances against a casino or gaming house, and wherein a gambler may have a false impression of increased probabilities in his favor because of the rewarding free five-card hands, therefore increasing his gambling desire to start anew waging against newly shuffled 52-card poker decks.

Abstract: The method of the present invention comprises: Obtaining an explant from the seeds of Jatropha curcas; Putting the explant derived from the seed of Jatropha curcas in a culture medium; Breaking the intercellular unions of the explants tissue, which generates individuals cells; Incubating for a determined time the culture medium with the generated individual cells, that were multiplied; and, Extracting oil from the cells that multiplied from the individual cells generated from the explants derived from the Jatropha curcas seed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for temporal immersion cell culture comprising: A first container for holding culture media; A second container for holding the culturing cells; At least, one tube that connects a port in the first container to a port in the second container; and, A mechanism to move cyclically the containers up and down wherein the culture media on the first container migrates by gravity to the second container when the first container is in a position higher than the second container, and wherein the culture media migrates back by gravity from the second container to the first container when the first container is in a position lower than the second container; and wherein the first container moves independently from the second container.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to make a blue colorant as a liquid and as a powder, wherein the blue colorant is derived from unprocessed raw juice obtained from Genipa americana fruit pulp, and wherein said raw juice is mixed with glycine (liquid) or with glycine plus starch (powder). Except for an additional step of warming up the juice-glycine mix, and in the case of the powder further dehydration of the juice-glycine-starch remix, no further steps are required to make a temperature and PH stable blue colorant which may be applied in textile, pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and other industries.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device to weld metallic elements. The device is an endothermic connector that comprises a chassis that is assembled by joining two equal halves around the end of a metallic rod with an assembling nut and a pressure nut. The chassis also accommodates a metallic cable, on contact with the metallic rod's end, with an external adapter that adjusts to the chassis with a third nut. The third nut, in the cavity defined by its internal diameter, houses the inferior part of a portable unit that contains a detonator and a mixture of an explosive powder with electrolytic metal particles. The ignition of the explosive powder increases the temperature, melting the metal particles, which in liquid state, migrate to the chassis' intermediate portion, wherein, as they solidify, weld the rod's end with the cable.

Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a system of brick and rod for the construction of inclined walls, with great rigidity and lateral resistance, and great resistance to extreme uniform, cyclic, and gravitational forces. The brick of this system is a block with horizontal and vertical protuberances and cavities which permits horizontal and vertical interlocks with the adjacent bricks of the wall. The brick is also perforated by holes that are aligned with the holes of the vertically adjacent bricks of the wall, thus forming continuous holes which go throughout the entire height of the wall. The rods of the system cross the bricks through the continuous holes of the wall. This system allows the construction of an inclined wall made of bricks reinforced with a skeleton of rods. The resulting wall is suitable for retaining walls.