Abstract: A lure having a body with a line tie and one or more hooks attached to the body. The body may be formed by a head portion and a tail portion that is removably attached to and from the head portion. The lure may also include one or more noisemaking elements.

Abstract: A lure having a body with a line tie and one or more hooks attached to the body. The body may be formed by a head portion and a tail portion that is removably attached to and from the head portion. The lure may also include one or more noisemaking elements.

Abstract: A bait having a frame, a hook and a blade that spins when the bait is retrieved in the water. The spinning blade contacts a housing containing one or more balls. The contact causes the balls to contact each other and/or the housing to create noise and vibration to attract fish.

Abstract: A bait having a frame, a hook and a blade that spins when the bait is retrieved in the water. The spinning blade contacts a housing containing one or more balls. The contact causes the balls to contact each other and/or the housing to create noise and vibration to attract fish.

Abstract: A lure having a body with a hook that may move with respect to the body. In one embodiment, the hook is rotatably attached to the body such that the hook may rotate vertically. In another embodiment, the hook is rotatably attached to the body such that the hook may rotate horizontally. In another embodiment, the hook is attached to the body such that the point of the hook may slide closer to and further away from the body.

Abstract: The phase-change accommodating rigid fluid container disclosed herein includes a variety of features that protect the container from phase changes of a fluid stored therein. As a result, the container may be in direct contact with the fluid without any flexible membrane or bag there between. For example, the fluid container may include one or more of matched pairs of recesses for physical manipulation of the container, stiffening ribs extending between the recesses, and input/output assemblies acting as inputs for fluid into the container, outputs of fluid from the container, and vents for pressure equalization of the container.

Abstract: A fishing bait having a body with at least one hook. The fishing bait may have one or more keels on the bottom side of the body. The hooks of the bait may be pointed upward and located in pockets formed in the body. The fishing bait may include a tube extending through the body with a noise making element within the tube.

Abstract: A lure having a hook and a tube extending through the body with at least one noise making element within the tube. As the lure moves in the water, the noise making element creates noise and vibrations and the appearance of a moving eye to attract fish to the lure.

Abstract: The phase-change accommodating rigid fluid container disclosed herein includes a variety of features that protect the container from phase changes of a fluid stored therein. As a result, the container may be in direct contact with the fluid without any flexible membrane or bag there between. For example, the fluid container may include one or more of matched pairs of recesses for physical manipulation of the container, stiffening ribs extending between the recesses, and input/output assemblies acting as inputs for fluid into the container, outputs of fluid from the container, and vents for pressure equalization of the container.

Abstract: An operator for moving a barrier between closed and open positions mounted on, or close to, the counterbalance for said barrier. The operator is connected to the counterbalance shaft and lifts the barrier by rotating the counterbalance shaft with attached cable drums and thereby takes up cable connected to the bottom of the door. There is an upper cable connected to the top of the door through a cable drum in the operator. A power spring biases the operator cable drum to always take up the upper cable, keeping it wound. The operator cable drum is connected to the motor through a clutch which when engaged allows the operator to pull the door closed. While the door is closing the clutch can be disengaged to allow the operator cable drum to take up and then pay out the upper cable connected to the top of the door as needed.

Abstract: An operator for moving a barrier between closed and open positions mounted on, or close to, the counterbalance for said barrier. The operator is connected to the counterbalance shaft and lifts the barrier by rotating the counterbalance shaft with attached cable drums and thereby takes up cable connected to the bottom of the door. There is an upper cable connected to the top of the door through a cable drum in the operator. A power spring biases the operator cable drum to always take up the upper cable, keeping it wound. The operator cable drum is connected to the motor through a clutch which when engaged allows the operator to pull the door closed. While the door is closing the clutch can be disengaged to allow the operator cable drum to take up and then pay out the upper cable connected to the top of the door as needed.

Abstract: A separator for lead starved storage batteries comprises at least one layer of nonwoven fabric made from fibres of one or more organic polymers. In at least one embodiment, the nonwoven fabric is made from staple fibres of polyester with count between 0.1 and 4 dTex. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a lead starved storage battery is provided with such separators.

Abstract: A system and method are provided that employ web service applications to obtain up-to-date information from a plurality of distributed sources in substantially real-time over a network. The system includes web service applications that reside at a plurality of distributed devices. One or more client terminal devices submit data requests, which are broadcast over the network to the plurality of distributed devices. The web service applications receive data requests and authenticate the source of the data request. If authenticated, the web service applications analyze the data request and retrieve information corresponding to the data request from the distributed devices. The retrieved information is forwarded to associated servers and merged into up-to-date reports or other documents.

Abstract: The invention refers to the field of self-locking safety disposable syringes with needle protection after use. The syringe comprises a hollow barrel (1) ending on its lower side with an internal seat (2) adapted to receive a hub (3) carrying a cannula (4). A hollow driving rod (5) adapted to house a spring (6) is inserted in the hollow barrel. Such rod is closed at its lower end by an extracting element (8) that can slide into the hollow driving rod. The extracting element has an annular notch (9) in which a sealing ring rubber gasket (10) is housed that seals the internal wall of the hollow barrel (1). The extracting element (8) with related sealing ring gasket (10) form a liquid sucking and compressing plunger.

Abstract: The invention refers to the field of self-locking safety disposable syringes with needle protection after use. The syringe comprises a hollow barrel (1) ending on its lower side with an internal seat (2) adapted to receive a hub (3) carrying a cannula (4). A hollow driving rod (5) adapted to house a spring (6) is inserted in the hollow barrel. Such rod is closed at its lower end by an extracting element (8) that can slide into the hollow driving rod. The extracting element has an annular notch (9) in which a sealing ring rubber gasket (10) is housed that seals the internal wall of the hollow barrel (1). The extracting element (8) with related sealing ring gasket (10) form a liquid sucking and compressing plunger.

Abstract: A method for cultivating and rearing ornamental plants and treelike plants as potted plants with the following method steps:a tube covered with opaque, heat-insulating insulating material with a funnel-shaped or shell-shaped enlargement at the upper end is placed upright into a pot;the enlargement, tube and pot are then filled with a substrate; andinto the substrate of the enlargement a cutting or seeds are inserted.

Abstract: A circular loom for the manufacture of tubular fabrics having an annular frame with an upper annular plate and a lower annular plate, both having bearing bores for vertically moving healds (heddles) guiding the warp threads of the hose to be manufactured. Said healds are arranged on the periphery of said frame and are mounted on at least one continuous circular path such that they may be individually vertically displaced. For this purpose, the lower ends of the healds arranged in each circular path have cam following rollers running on a rotary driven cam-like control ring. More than one set of healds (with corresponding rotary driven control rings) along additional circular paths may be used.

Abstract: This linear bearing comprises travel circuits for balls (3) which are held by needles (2). Each circuit is formed of passages constituting the longitudinal portions of the circuit and developed in two adjacent modules, these passages being connected at their ends by curved portions. The adjacent modules have resting faces which make it possible to arrange them side by side. A protruding part (23) is introduced into a longitudinal window (6) dimensioned to receive also a needle (2) which is arranged in the cutouts (44 and 45). On the one hand, the needle maintains the balls in their travel circuit and, on the other hand, it holds the modules together.The modules are obtained by injection in a mold having a single slide operating in a single direction while the balls and needles are parts of known type.

Abstract: A device for holding and controlling the temperature of a corrosive chemical processing bath. The device has a tank having a bottom intimately covering thermally conductive fins, a heat sink thermally connected to the fins and heaters, connected to the heat sink, for changing the temperature of the fins. Preferably the device is produced by rotationally molding the tank about the fins coated with a polymeric material thereby covering the fins and forming an integral seamless tank.