Abstract: An apparatus for opening a container, mixing the contents contained in the container, and cleaning the container by removing its contents using a single tool. In removing the contents, the tool has a sharpened edge with a radial curvature for scraping the sides of the container.

Abstract: A fireplace fountain having a base, a basin adapted to hold a liquid supported by the base, and a hood supported by the base over the basin. A fire pan is supported by the base over the basin and under the hood, with a burner being supported above the fire pan and adapted to be connected to a fuel source. A perforated tubing is supported in the hood, with a pump and supply tube connected thereto. The pump and supply tube are in fluid communication with the basin so that liquid held in the basin may be circulated by a pump to the perforated tubing. Liquid exits the perforated tubing and falls into the basin, but not into the fire pan so that the liquid does not extinguish any flame generated by the burner.

Abstract: An MOSFET latching driver circuit is disclosed which employs a depletion mode FET load bistable latch whose first node drives a depletion mode FET device and whose second node drives an enhancement mode FET device which are interconnected in a push-pull driver circuit. The latching driver has a reduced size when laid out in an integrated circuit and operates at a high speed.

Abstract: An integrated monolithic switch is fabricated in an epitaxial layer united to a semiconductor substrate. The switch includes a Darlington amplifier, a power output switch, a bilateral device, typically a diffused diode, and an epitaxial resistor, the combination being connected between a set of high voltage lines. The epitaxial layer has an appropriate thickness and resistivity to accommodate all active and passive elements. For a first input signal, the switch is connected to one high voltage line. For a second input signal, the switch is connected to the other high voltage line. The switch is adapted to sink current. The diode structure, when forward biased by the sinking current, forms a parasitic path to direct the sinking current to the substrate even though the high voltage lines are up. The Darlington is connected to the switch output to lower output voltage during the sinking condition.A set of switches of the same conductivity type may be employed to drive a cross point in a gas panel display.