Abstract: A fastener cartridge can include, one, a cartridge body comprising a deck and a plurality of fastener cavities and, two, a plurality of fasteners positioned in the fastener cavities. The cartridge body can further comprise extensions extending from the deck having different sizes and/or configurations. The extensions can control the flow of tissue relative to the deck and/or support the fasteners as they are ejected from the fastener cavities.

Abstract: A fastener cartridge can include, one, a cartridge body comprising a deck and a plurality of fastener cavities and, two, a plurality of fasteners positioned in the fastener cavities. The cartridge body can further comprise extensions extending from the deck having different sizes and/or configurations. The extensions can control the flow of tissue relative to the deck and/or support the fasteners as they are ejected from the fastener cavities.

Abstract: A water pressure intensifying system for providing elevated water main pressure from water at a relatively low pressure head, such as may be available from a slowly flowing stream, for example. The basic system comprises two in-line cylinders of different diameters with the pistons being coupled together by a connecting rod. Associated valving directs water flow so that the low pressure water driving the large piston causes the small piston to produce water flow at substantially increased pressure. Multiple pumps can be driven in parallel in a companion pump battery from control valving associated with a single pump in a basic system, thus substantially reducing the cost of adding flow capacity to a basic pumping system of the invention. A modification of the system can be used as a proportional flow mixing system such as, for example, adding chlorine to a water supply in a municipal treatment plant.

Abstract: An improved poultry feed supplement is provided by homogeneously mixing together, preferably utilizing both rotary and lateral oscillatory motions, waste lime from a sugar refining process and not in excess of about 20% of nutritive agglomerating constituent selected from the group consisting of beet molasses, cane molasses, wood molasses, citrus molasses, corn steep liquor, invert sugar solution and mixtures thereof. The moisture content of the mix is adjusted, if necessary, during mixing to about 18 to 23 weight percent, preferably about 21 weight percent, and the resulting mixture preferably is formed into pellets of an average diameter of about 1/16", which pellets are then dried to a hard stable form, with a moisture content of, for example, about 0 to 4 weight percent. The feed supplement is used to improve the strength of poultry egg shells. The supplement is simple, efficient and inexpensive to make and use.