Abstract: A modular hook mounting apparatus for hanging ornamental objects from a fireplace mantel includes a track or rail member that defines a plurality of socket openings including an insertion socket sized to receive both lower and upper portions of a hook assembly and a remainder of sockets sized to receive only an upper portion of a hook assembly. Each hook assembly is spring-loaded so as to be slidably movable along a channel defined by the track member before being locked in place. Each hook assembly includes a C-shaped or J-shaped fastener capable of receiving and securing a holiday ornament.

Abstract: A transportable gravity flow display rack for food and/or drink containers (such as milk gallons) having a pallet base adapted to receive the forks from a forklift or pallet jack, a plurality of vertical upright supports, a first cross bar and a second cross bar, and one or more inclined storage racks, thereby facilitating the flow of the containers towards a costumer in response to gravity.

Abstract: Systems and methods for effective brushing and performing activities on a communication device without limiting the person's movement are disclosed. As aspect of the system comprises an electric drone system which provides a platform for placing an electric toothbrush and a communication device. The drone system and the electric toothbrush are connected via a communication network and the drone is operated via the electric toothbrush. The electric toothbrush and the mobile device are also connected via a communication network. The bushing and gaming activities are displayed and operated on the communication device placed on the drone system which moves along the person performing brushing activity with the electric toothbrush.

Abstract: Rods for use in a filing system are disclosed. An example file folder rod includes a first end, a second end and an elongated body extending between the first end and the second end, the elongated body having a longitudinal axis. The example rod also includes a hook coupled to the first end of the rod. The example hook includes a longitudinal portion extending along the longitudinal axis, an elongated hook portion coupled to an end of the longitudinal portion with the elongated hook portion extending from the longitudinal portion a first distance, and a first extension extending from the longitudinal portion with the first extension extending from the longitudinal portion a second distance, the second distance less than the first distance.

Abstract: A form-fill-seal system includes a tube feeding system, an end seal carriage, and a computing device. The tube feeding system feeds a tube of flexible material at a first velocity. The computing device controls the end seal carriage to cause an increase in a velocity of the end seal carriage to substantially the first velocity, a start of a dwell time of the end seal mechanism on the tube of flexible material while the velocity of the end seal carriage is at substantially the first velocity, and an increase in the velocity of the end seal carriage to a second velocity during the dwell time. The end seal mechanism cuts a package from the tube during the dwell time. The increase in the velocity of the end seal carriage to the second velocity results in an increased distance of the package from the tube.

Abstract: A card support is provided that passively and automatically adapts to variations in the length of an electronic card. When a card is inserted into a slotted bar of the card support, variations in the length of that card are adjusted for by the compression or expansion of a spring disposed between the slot and a supporting face.

Abstract: A blade-tip flow isolator that can be used on a propeller, rotor, or wind turbine is provided. The blade-tip flow isolator integrates with the blade at the outer radius and shields the blade-tip boundary layer, reducing blade-tip vortices. A twist along the blade-tip chord further reduces or eliminates the blade-tip vortices that inherently occur on the exposed blade tips during normal operations. Efficiency and performance are improved while noise and acoustic levels are reduced.

Abstract: A mobile robot tool has a wheel demounting sub-system mounted to a tool frame for screw disengaging fasteners from respective anchor elements integral with a hub of a vehicle from which the wheel is being demounted. Also mounted on the frame are fastener storage seats for storing respective ones of the fasteners. A transfer mechanism is operable to remotely transfer disengaged ones of the fasteners from the anchor elements to respective ones of the fastener storage seats.

Abstract: An air vehicle has a body and a canopy disposed on the body so as to be able to move relatively to the body and enabling access and providing protection to the cockpit. More than one hook is located on the canopy. More than one pin is located on the body thus enabling the canopy to be fixed to the body by engagement to the book. The canopy has an open position enables access to the cockpit so as to leave a gap between the canopy and the body. The canopy has a closed position in which the canopy contacts the body so that there is almost no gap left between the body and the canopy. The canopy has an locked position in which the canopy is fixed to the body by locking the pin to the hook.

Abstract: A rack-type mobile device for presenting parts of breeding cages for washing, the device being adapted to be inserted into a washing/rinsing machine for use in pharmaceutical preclinical research centres, the device including: a load-bearing structural frame for the parts of breeding cages; apparatus adapted for moving the mobile device, connected to the frame; one or more hooking and positioning elements for hooking and positioning the parts of breeding cages on the device, the hooking and positioning elements being located on at least one lateral face of the frame and being constrained to the load-bearing structural frame; the hooking and positioning elements being shaped as an open hook tilted downwards relative to the horizontal plane, with the hook bottom facing outwards from the lateral face of the mobile device, and the hook tip facing inwards, the open hook having such a width as to be able to internally house at least a part of the cage parts.

Abstract: Modular shelving including at least one shelf supported by at least one tube, wherein said shelf is coupled to said tube by means of a coupling element which is arranged externally in said tube and internally in a hole passing through the shelf, where each coupling element is divided lengthwise into two identical halves which are tongue and groove coupled together and, being coupled, can fit snugly into the hole of the shelf, whereby a tube supporting the shelf is fitted.

Abstract: A handling system for a receptacle space in a vehicle for storage for containers. A linear guide is on an inner wall of the receptacle space. The linear guide guides at least one carrier element in the movement direction of the container, wherein the storage position of the container is provided having the rear wall thereof in the region of the rear wall of the receptacle space. The removal position is provided in the region of an insertion opening, arranged opposite the rear wall. The at least one carrier element is operatively connected to at least one spindle nut of a spindle drive. The container is thus moved linearly from a stowage and storage position to a removal position and vice versa.

Abstract: An induction heat sealing device for providing a transversal sealing of a tube of packaging material, said induction heat sealing device including a main body including a first and a second sealing surface arranged to face the packaging material during a sealing state, a recess provided in the main body for receiving a knife during a cutting state, wherein the first and second sealing surface are placed on opposite sides of the recess, and an electric conductor arrangement, provided in the main body, for inducing eddy currents in the packaging material during the sealing state, wherein at least part of the first and second sealing surface are inclined and provided with a first and a second top section, respectively, such that particles in a product held inside the tube are pushed away from a sealing band of the tube as the sealing band is pressed toward the first and second top section.

Abstract: The present invention is an Electric servo system which controls and automates gate openings based on GPS speed and position data that results in precise and reliable modern variable and constant rate application. The Electric servo system also allows for Mechanical gate linkages to remain intact, resulting in few changes to the aircraft and redundancy of emergency components. A Mechanical input connect/disconnect is used to effortlessly transfer between the automated Electric servo system and the Mechanical gate system.

Abstract: Provided is prefabricated furniture and, more particularly, to a prefabricated shelf (angle) having assembly holes and assembly protrusions for assembling frames together, the frames being more firmly assembled as a pressing protrusion portion protrudes from a narrow portion of an assembly hole so that an assembly protrusion is forcibly fitted by the pressing protrusion part. The prefabricated shelf includes a first frame in which a pair of assembly holes, each having a wide portion and a narrow portion, are arranged symmetrically, and a second frame in which a pair of assembly protrusions, corresponding to the assembly holes and each protruding to fit into the narrow portion, are arranged symmetrically, wherein the narrow portion includes a pressing protrusion portion configured to protrude from a first end thereof and press the assembly protrusion to a second side thereof to force the assembly protrusion into place.

Abstract: A transport mechanism of a server rack including a carrier plate, a server rack disposed and fixed onto a top surface of the carrier plate, and multiple supporting assemblies respectively stacked onto a bottom surface of the carrier plate is provided. Each of the supporting assemblies has at least one cushion member. The cushion member has at least one hollow portion, and an opening of the hollow portion is exposed to an environment. The stiffness of the cushion member is smaller than the stiffness of the carrier plate. A pallet structure is also provided.

Abstract: A storage apparatus is provided for storage of elongate articles in a vertical orientation, such as for storage of flexible esophageal dilators. The storage apparatus includes a gripping element of flexible material supported at a support frame. The gripping element includes receiving slots or apertures aligned with the spaced holes in the rigid panel. The support frame may include a rigid support panel with a pattern of spaced holes corresponding to respective ones of the receiving apertures of the gripping element. The gripping element grips and holds elongate articles at respective receiving apertures to suspend the articles in a vertical orientation. The elongate articles are retained in the gripping element until a user exerts a removal force on the article to retrieve it from the storage apparatus. The support frame may be disposed inside of a container, such as a cabinet or drawer.

Abstract: A food storing and tracking system comprising: at least one food container; at least one sealing lid, each complementary to one of said at least one container; a vacuum seal inducer, and sensors for measuring freshness of the food item, wherein the system is configured to allow: placing the food item in the container; releasably sealing the container with the sealing lid complementary thereto; subjecting the sealed container to sub-atmospheric pressure by employing the vacuum seal inducer on the sealed container, and tracking the freshness of the food item with the sensors for measuring freshness.

Abstract: A modular system for autonomous food assembly includes: a skid operable in a first configuration configured to transiently install on a vehicle and in a second configuration configured to transiently install in a kiosk; a set of food dispensing modules configured to transiently install on the skid and store and dispense food based on food orders; and a fixed infrastructure configured to distribute power from a first power source in the truck to the set of food dispensing modules in the first configuration, from a second power source in the fixed kiosk to the set of food dispensing modules in the second configuration, and to the set of food dispensing modules; a controller installed on the skid and configured to receive food orders and control the set of food dispensing modules to dispense food orders from the truck in the first configuration and from the kiosk in the second configuration.

Abstract: A seedling-package forming system includes a first conveyor including a first track and a first sheet arranged on the first track. A second conveyor is located at a downstream position and includes a second track and a second sheet arranged to lie on the second track. The second track is configured to transport the second sheet toward the first sheet. The first sheet and the second sheet are packed around a plurality of seedlings to form a seedling package.