Abstract: A smoking substitute device. The device comprising: a battery; and a connector, usable to connect a consumable to the battery. Wherein the connector includes one or more electrical connectors, for connecting a heater in the consumable to the battery, and one or more physical connectors configured to releasably retain the consumable. The connector further comprises a flexible seal, disposed between the battery and the consumable when the consumable is retained by the connector.

Abstract: A kit for use in forming a water pipe includes a glass tube defining a bowl housing at a proximal end thereof and a smoke outlet at a distal end thereof. The glass tube is configured for insertion into a bottle. A grommet is configured for positioning in a sidewall of the bottle. The grommet is configured to receive the glass tube therethrough. A drill bit is configured for forming a hole in the sidewall of the bottle. The hole is configured to receive the grommet therein. A drill bit guide is configured to be secured against the sidewall of the bottle. The drill bit guide is configured to guide a path of the drill bit as the drill bit forms the hole in the sidewall of the bottle.

Abstract: A floating system configured for energy generation via wind power. The wind turbine system includes an associated aquaculture cultivation system, especially for kelp growth and kelp farming. The aquaculture apparatus includes a vertical central mast connected to horizontal buoyancy bars that are also connected to six vertical vertex struts surrounding the central mast. Buoyancy bars further connect adjacent vertex struts, such that the top profile of the apparatus is a hexagon. Multiple systems are able to be connected together, allowing for ease of aggregation of the apparatuses for scalable wind and aquaculture farming. The central mast acts as a base supporting the wind turbine, which is able to power water pumps in the six vertex struts, which serve to transport water upward around the apparatus for more efficient carbon sequestration by the apparatus.

Abstract: A tube loading, filling and sealing system that includes a tube loading apparatus, a tube filling apparatus, a tube sealing apparatus configured to receive and seal a plurality of tubes, and a weighing apparatus configured to weigh a plurality of filled tubes. A method of filling tubes with a herb mixture using a tube loading, filling, and sealing system. The method including loading the tubes into a tube filling apparatus using a tube loading apparatus, filling the tubes loaded into the tube filling apparatus with a herb mixture, sealing the filled tubes using a tube sealing apparatus, and weighing the sealed tubes using a weighing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic cigarette, which comprises a main body, a controlling member and a tobacco pot detachably mounted on the main body, wherein the main body is provided with a receiving chamber with an opening; the tobacco pot is provided with a receiving space configured to receive tobacco products, the tobacco pot is received at the first position in the receiving chamber when the tobacco pot is mounted on the main body; the controlling member is movably mounted on the main body and is configured to drive the tobacco pot to move, and when the controlling member drives the tobacco pot to move from the first position to the second position of the receiving chamber, the tobacco pot partially protrudes from the opening of the receiving chamber outside the receiving chamber.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an aerosol delivery component comprising a tank defining a storage chamber for storing a first liquid aerosol precursor and an air bleed channel extending from an outside channel opening outside of the tank to an inside channel opening within the tank. The air bleed channel has a volume between 1% and 20%, e.g. greater than 10% of the volume of the storage chamber. The air bleed channel may comprise an s-bend channel for retaining the first liquid aerosol precursor in an inverted orientation of the component.

Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of manufacturing a tubular element (500) for use in an aerosol generating article. The tubular element (500) may comprise gel (124), or comprise a porous medium (125) loaded with gel (124), or comprise thread loaded with gel (214), or comprise a combination thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a casting apparatus (100) to cast a sheet (50) of a material containing alkaloids, the casting apparatus including: ? a casting box (10) adapted to contain a slurry (18) to be cast to form the sheet, the casting box defining an inner volume; ? a slurry supply element (5) defining a supply channel (15) adapted to feed the slurry along a supply direction in the inner volume of the casting box from an inlet (90), the supply direction forming an angle with a horizontal plane comprised between about ?45 degrees and about +45 degrees; ? a movable support (2); ? and a casting element (1) adapted to cast the slurry contained in the casting box onto the movable support so as to form the cast sheet. The invention also relates to a method to cast a sheet of a material containing alkaloids.

Abstract: A porous metal coated implant is produced by diffusion bonding metal powder particles, preferably spherical or flattened spherical metal powder particles of commercially pure titanium grade, in the form of an insert or pad to a substrate, preferably commercially pure titanium or Ti 6Al-4V ELI, a prosthesis, below the beta-transus of the substrate material, under pressure and temperature in a non-reactive atmosphere, such as vacuum. The use of pressure permits bonding temperatures to be reduced to approximately 50% of the melting point of the substrate material. A clamping mechanism for applying pressure to the components is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for brazing aluminum components with a flux, wherein the flux and the aluminum components are heated together in a brazing furnace filled with a nonoxidizing gaseous medium, thereby fluxing and brazing the aluminum components at one time, or wherein the flux is previously pulverized and electrostatically deposited on the aluminum components, and the fluxed aluminum components is heated to a brazeable temperature in the furnace, thereby melting the braze metal and effecting the braze joints between the aluminum components.

Abstract: This invention relates to the placement of insecticides in such a manner that precludes their contact by larger non target species and in a manner that isolates these insecticides form contact with food and other surfaces that may be contaminated by random application of insecticide products.Specifically, the invention concerns itselft with the construction of a device that allows containment of the insecticide in a manner that will deliver a lethal dose to the target insect.Additionally, the construction of the device entices crawling insects to its interior and thereby insures a more effective usage of a limited amount of insecticide concentrate.And, the invention allows for unique and stable application of premeasured amount of insecticide product in a manner that insures the stability of the insecticide and thereby lengthens the useful killing life of the insecticide product.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fishing aid, comprising a body having a nose and a tail defining a keel. An attachment point is provided in the body for suspending it from a towing line. A headpin or similar securing means is provided for securing a baitfish by its snout to the body so that the baitfish is towed behind the body when the body is towed through the water by the towing line. A water impingement surface extends upwardly and rearwardly from the nose of the body. An underslung mass is provided below the attachment point on the body, and is so arranged in relation to the attachment point, the water impingement surface and the headpin that, when towed through the water, the body is oriented so that the water impingement surface faces upwardly, and is impinged upon by the water, which imparts life-like movements to the body. These movements are transmitted to the baitfish to cause the baitfish to execute a swimming-like motion through the water.

Abstract: The trap comprises optical attractants for luring the flying insects in the form of vertically arranged strips (15) of which the ratio of the sides is greater than 4:1. The trap base (3) and the layer of adhesive located thereon are both transparent. The trap itself is a delta trap in which the roof slopes (2, 4) reduce the amount of dust falling onto the adhesive. On both sides of the triangular openings of the trap the base (3) is extended to form approach surfaces (16). The strips (15) are fastened so as to hang down from the ends of the approach surfaces (16).

Abstract: In accordance with the invention there is provided an insect trap of the type which employs light and desirably odor to attract flying insects, especially common house flies. It comprises a light and tray-holding housing which is generally oblong in shape defined by bottom, upstanding side walls and a base member. This housing is open at the top and has its side walls provided with a pair of internal longitudinally extending mutually facing grooves. A mounting member is hinged to the base member, permitting the housing to swing approximately 180.degree. from an open position wherein the housing is located substantially in the plane of the base member to another position wherein the members are folded against each other. An insect attracting light is mounted within the housing and a tray carrying insect trapping material on its surface is removably carried in the grooves.

Abstract: A foldable lure container has a series of horizontally aligned removable tubes positioned in at least two tiers. These tiers can be of any suitable length and the tubes can be any suitable diameter. This lure container when in use is unfolded and opened so that one series or alignment of tubes are positioned alternatively above the other series of tubes. When the device is to be carried from one location to another, the lower level or series of tubes is folded upward so as to be in horizontal alignment with the upper level or series. Each tube has a flip-open top or cap that permits entrance or exit of the lure housed therein. The tube is removed from the tube holder, inverted, the cap opened and the lure removed. In the preferred embodiment, the bottom of the tube has a spring-loaded hinge which when opened will allow the lure to freely drop out. It also could be a non-springloaded cap that would just snap in place either externally or internally.

Abstract: A device for disgorging a fish hook attached to a line from a fish which has various adaptable knobs for various size fish hooks with the knobs being rotatable to lock the line into the knob to hold and secure the fishing line while using the device. The device may also contain a mechanism which removes the slack of the line between the device and the fish hook allowing the fishermen to use one hand to hold the fish while working or walking the device down the line with the other hand to engage the hook and then securely lock the line into the device for easy removal of the hook and line from the fish's mouth.

Abstract: For precisely positioning a vehicle body relative to robots which spot weld the vehicle body, the vehicle body is mounted on a lower tool which is rigidly connected to front and rear upper tools which are selected from a tool magazine as a function of the geometry of the vehicle body. All of the tools are rigidly connected to one another to form a rigid annular structure surrouding the body and alone capable of positioning the body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for pest control in which chambers are permanently placed at various positions in the walls of a building. Each chamber comprises a duct having an open proximal end and holes in its sides. The chambers may be placed in the walls either during building construction or in retrofit applications. Insecticide or rodenticide is sprayed or placed in the chamber using extermination methods known in the art. A cover plate prevents children and pests from accessing a chamber and any pest control substance within it. In a further embodiment, an adaptor nozzle is placed on a sprayer of fogger nozzle before insertion into the chamber. When rodenticide or insecticide is sprayed through the nozzle, the nozzle evenly disperses the rodenticide through the holes in the chamber to ensure the entire cavity of the interior wall is reached.

Abstract: The invention is about fastening a hook snood 6 with an endless line 1 and includes a mechanical automatic changing of broken hook snoods 6 when long-line fishing, a so called addendum apparatus.The fastening 4,14 is made as an oblong tube 4 of pliant material open to be able to grasp around the line 1, but able to close with a snap lock 11,12,13 a kind of a snap 4, which is clapped on the line 1 and locked with a hitch lock 9,11,12,13. The tube 4 can turn around the line 1. Underneath it there is a cylinder 14 fastened to the line 1, on its ends are fixed hindrances 3 which prevent movement on the line 1. On the tube 4 is a hold 5 for the snood 6. Within the hole 5 on the end of the snood 6 is a proturberance, knob 8, bigger than the hole 5 and corresponding space, knob house 7 and a seat for the knob, knob seat 18. The snood 6 can rotate in the hole 5 and thus develops a swivel, but the knob 8 prevents that the snood 6 is pulled through the hole 5.The cylinder 14 is fastened, e.g., fused to the line 1.

Abstract: An ice fishing apparatus incorporating a housing with a heating chamber having a heat source such as a candle for preventing the formation of ice in an ice fishing hole as well as for preventing the freezing of the fishing reel. A tip up system is mounted on the housing so as to signal a fisherman that a fish has been hooked.