Abstract: A single use dispenser package is configured and sized for storing and dispensing a single serving of a liquid or viscous product. An elongated stem on one end of the dispenser package is provided, having an aperture adaptable for dispensing a variety of products, ranging from liquid to considerably viscous products. To prevent inadvertent emission of the product, and in order to keep the opening of the dispenser package closed and sanitary prior to use, a portion of the relevant end of the dispenser package is folded over on itself and sealed with a food grade adhesive. The food grade adhesive seal may be easily broken by the user for dispensing the liquid or viscous product. The single use dispenser packages are tube-shaped to allow for easy squeezing and emission of the product out of the aperture.

Abstract: A miniaturized image capturing device comprises: a lens base, which has a first open and a second open; at least one light source, which is disposed on a first PCB and around the periphery of the first open; at least one lens, which is accommodated in the lens base and close to the first open; a lens holder, which is accommodated in the lens base for holding the lens; at least one image sensor, which is accommodated in the lens base and close to the second open, the image sensor having an imaging region therein; and a PCB, which is electrically connected to the image sensor through a plurality of sensor signal pads.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for preparing a parting composition for facilitating the release of foodstuffs from cooking utensils, the composition containing an edible oil, lecithin, water, a organic, non-soap fluidizing agent. The water is present in an amount sufficient to partially, but not fully, hydrate the lecithin so as to render the partially hydrated lecithin insoluble in the edible oil. The method includes combining at least the lecithin and fluidizing agent and homogenizing the ingredients to reduce the size of the lecithin platelets. The composition, which may further include a suitable normally gaseous propellant to discharge the composition from a conventional aerosol spray can, provides a substantially clear and smooth spray coating on cooking utensils at ambient temperatures, without the need for ethyl alcohol in the composition. The composition may optionally include conventional modifying agents such as suspending agents, anti-oxidants, preservatives, flavorants, etc.

Abstract: A cover for the cargo area of a vehicle includes two rails secured to opposite sides of the cargo area of the vehicle. A cover material is bounded by four peripheral rails. Two of the rails have the same cross-section and are located on two sides of the cover material. The other two rails are of a different configuration and are located on other two sides of the cover. A biasing member, such as a torsion bar, is inserted into the ends of each of the rails secured to the vehicle bed. The opposite end of the torsion bar is located in and slides within a cylinder. The opposite end of the cylinder includes a slide member. The slide members are located in channels formed in two of the rails. In the closed position, latches engage the torsion bars and hold the cover in place. To open the cover, two of the latches are disengaged, thereby allowing the cover to rise in response to the force of the biasing members. The cover pivots about a hinge formed by the engagement of the secured latches with the torsion bars.

Abstract: By employing two integrated components which cooperate to achieve a product dispensing trigger assembly, and mounting these two components to a container within which the desired product is retained and on which a desired seal is mounted, a unique fluid product holding and dispensing system is realized. In the present invention, the fluid product holding and dispensing system possesses two separate and distinct locked positions which assures that the system is retained in either locked position, until change is desired by the user. As a result, accidental or unwanted activation of the system is completely eliminated and users are assured that the product retained and sealed in the container remains sealed until use is desired and accidental opening or rupturing of the seal is completely eliminated.

Abstract: By employing two principal integrated components which incorporate a reusable sealing member, a resealable product dispensing trigger assembly is achieved. By mounting these two components to a container within which the desired product is retained, a complete fluid product holding and dispensing system is realized. In the present invention, the fluid product holding and dispensing system is alternately repeatedly movable between two separate and distinct locked positions which assures that the system is retained in either locked position, until change is desired by the user. In one position, the container is sealed, while in the second position, the container is open and the fluid is accessible. By employing the present invention, users are assured that the product retained in the container remains sealed until use is desired and accidental opening of the container is completely eliminated. Furthermore, the product can be partially used and resealed by returning the dispensing system to its first position.

Abstract: A liquid level monitoring system for underground storage tanks includes a submersible monitoring pipe system having telescoping sections that are biased to an extended position enabling the pipe to be self-retained within the tank between its upper and lower walls adjacent to and offset axially from a selected access opening in the tank, such as the discharge opening which normally accommodates the pump for the tank. The pipe system houses an electronic level sensor which is coupled to an above ground control system via conductor wires. An elongate accessing member having an openable and closable clamp jaw assembly for gripping the pipe system and disposing it in a compressed condition within the tank offset from the riser opening is provided as a part of the system.

Abstract: A liquid level monitoring system for underground storage tanks includes a submersible monitoring pipe having telescoping sections that are spring biased to an extended position enabling the pipe to be self-mounted within the tank between its upper and lower walls adjacent to and offset axially from a selected axis opening in the tank, such as the discharge opening which normally accommodates the pump for the tank. The pipe houses an electronic level sensor which is coupled to an above ground control system via conductor wires. A tank adapter is secured to the tank opening and provided with a passage through which the conductor wires extend for routing out of the tank without interfering with the clearance normally provided for insertion and removal of the pump.

Abstract: A parting composition for facilitating the release of foodstuffs from cooking utensils contains an edible oil, lecithin, water, a carbonaceous, non-soap fluidizing agent. The water is present in an amount sufficient to partially, but not fully, hydrate the lecithin so as to render the partially hydrated lecithin insoluble in the edible oil. The composition, which may further include a suitable normally gaseous propellant to discharge the composition from a conventional aerosol spray can, provides a substantially clear and smooth spray coating on cooking utensils at ambient temperatures, without the need for ethyl alcohol in the composition. The composition may optionally include conventional modifying agents such as suspending agents, anti-oxidants, preservatives, flavorants, etc. The fluidizing agent, is either a glycerol ester of a fatty acid or a free fatty acid material, fluidizes the lecithin so that if the lecithin settles, it can easily be re-dispersed in the oil.

Abstract: A foodstuffs parting composition for coating cooking surfaces composed of a water-in-oil emulsion prepared from lecithin, an edible oil component, an emulsifying agent selected from the group consisting of one or more of monocalcium phosphate, calcium chloride dihydrate, dibasic magnesium phosphate trihydrate and potassium chloride, and water. The lecithin is preferably acetylated lecithin, and the preferred emulsifying agent is monocalcium phosphate and is present in an amount of at least about 1 percent by weight of the composition. In alternative embodiments, mono- and diglycerides, including, e.g., phosphated mono- and diglycerides, are used as substitutes for the lecithin. Medium chain triglycerides are sometimes used with or in place of the edible oil as part of the edible oil component.

Abstract: A parting composition for facilitating the release of foodstuffs from cooking utensils contains an edible oil, lecithin and water and, optionally, a humectant such as glycerol. The water is present in an amount sufficient to partially, but not fully, hydrate the lecithin so as to render the parially hydrated lecithin insoluble in the edible oil. The composition, which may further include a suitable normally gaseous propellant to discharge the composition from a conventional aerosol spray can, provides a substantially clear and smooth spray coating on cooking utensils at ambient temperatures, without the need for ethyl alcohol in the composition. The composition may optionally include conventional modifying agents such as suspending agents, antioxidants, preservatives, flavorants, etc.

Abstract: A stamp and a method for stamping is described in which rubberbands are placed on to a stamp body. One of the side surface of the stamp body is then pressed onto an ink pad. The surface of the stamp body is pressed onto a media so as to produce an image on the media. Any of a number of different geometry's of stamp bodies and rubberbands may be used to form a variety of images. The stamp body has grooves formed within it such that the rubberbands may be secured to the stamp body. Multi-colored images and patterns may be formed by using either multi-colored stamp pads or making multiple images by using a number of stamp pads having different colors.

Abstract: An aerosol-dispensable foodstuffs parting composition for coating cooking surfaces comprising a water-in-oil emulsion containing natural lecithin, refined lecithin or a chemically modified lecithin selected from the group consisting of acylated, preferably acetylated lecithin, hydroxylated lecithin, and acetylated-hydroxylated lecithin, or mixtures thereof; an edible oil; an emulsifying agent; water; and a pressurized, normally gaseous propellant suitable for discharging the composition as an aerosol spray. A procedure for preparing the water-in-oil emulsion comprises mixing together the aforesaid ingredients except the propellant with about 7 to 21% of the total water, to form a concentrate. The remainder of the water and the propellant are added later. The emulsion may also contain one or more of a humectant, a suspending agent, a release agent and a blocking agent.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting a leak in a high vapor-evolving hydrocarbon liquid underground storage tank filled incompletely with the liquid, wherein there is a projecting fill pipe connected with the ullage which is filled with hydrocarbon vapor and air. A vacuum source is connected to the fill pipe for withdrawing the atmosphere of the ullage and imposing a prescribed negative pressure. While some of the drawn off vapor and much of the air is exhausted to atmosphere, a significant portion of the ullage content is recirculated to build the relative proportion of hydrocarbon vapor to air in the ullage. The ullage is then isolated from the vacuum source and atmosphere, and allowed to stabilize over a predetermined time period with a reduced rate of hydrocarbon vapor release into the ullage.

Abstract: A parting composition for cooking foodstuffs includes a release agent which is a phosphate salt derivative of mono- and di-glycerides of edible fats, oils and/or fat-forming fatty acids, together with an edible oil and a pulverulent blocking agent. The edible oil may be any suitable vegetable or animal oil or shortening, and the blocking agent may be any edible clay, magnesium aluminum silicate, sodium bicarbonate, baking powder, ground limestone, calcium carbonate, calcium or magnesium stearate, flours or edible starches. For example, the blocking agent may comprise cereal flour or cornstarch, or a pharmaceutical kaolin, a food grade benetonite, calcium carbonate, or a mixture of two or more thereof. Preferably, the release agent is a mono-sodium glyceryl oleate phosphate. The composition may also include one or more of water, a suitable suspending agent such as fumed silica, and ethanol; a pressurized hydrocarbon propellant may be added when packaging the composition in a pressurized aerosol container.

Abstract: The invention provides a combustion device such as a stove which may include a pressurized fuel mixture, such as an aerosol container containing alcohol and a propellant which may comprise a normally gaseous hydrocarbon, such as a liquified petroleum gas. The propellant and air are fed to a combustion zone as a combustion mixture, which is combusted therein in a cold start period to pre-heat the liquid fuel and vaporize it. When the liquid fuel is vaporized by the heat provided by combusting the propellant gas, combustion is continued by combusting the vaporized liquid, e.g., alcohol, fuel. The pressurized fuel composition may comprise a major proportion of alcohol together with a minor proportion of the hydrocarbon propellant starter fuel. The method therefore includes carrying out an initial, cold-start phase of combustion utilizing the propellant as fuel, and a subsequent stage of combustion utilizing the vaporized liquid fuel.

Abstract: A thin wall irrigation emitter tube is constructed of a generally flat configuration having a plurality of holes in a crease extending along the top of the tubing for distribution from the tubing in vertical spray or streams. The method of forming the tubing includes the forming of a rib or crease along the upper surface in which holes are formed by means of laser or the like so that smearing of the melted tube material during subsequent flattening of the tubing and thereby closing or partially closing of the holes is prevented.

Abstract: A pressure compensating emitter comprises a generally cylindrical body member having a longitudinal passageway therethrough connecting an inward port and an outward port and a flexible pressure responsive boot mounted within the passageway for responding to increases in pressure within the boot or cup for biasing the walls of the boot into a water flow passageway and restricting the passageway communicating between the inlet and outlet ports in the body of the emitter.