Abstract: This application relates to systems and methods of distributing orders for articles, in which a request is received from a user comprising an article identifier and a user identifier. The article identifier is compared with an inventory database which comprises a list of available articles, if the article identifier matches an available article, the user identifier is then compared with an identifier database which comprises a list of user identifiers and a corresponding list of articles previously supplied to each listed user identifier. If the article identifier is not listed in the identifier database as being previously supplied to the user identifier then a fulfilment request is forwarded to a fulfilment system and the article delivered to the user.

Abstract: A soap dish having a planar surface that is angled from the horizontal to retain a conventional bar of soap. The planar surface has a plurality of ridges that provide the primary resting surfaces for the bar of soap. The planar surface is surrounded by walls that prevent the soap from sliding out of the angled soap dish. At the convergence of the base of the planar surface and the lowermost or front wall are a series of holes or slots to permit water and liquefied soap to exit the angled soap dish. The angled soap dish may be either freestanding or mounted to a vertical surface, such as a shower wall. The freestanding version is capable of being moved to any location desired.

Abstract: An oil removing device for cleaning pipes that are present in the form of coils in a furnace that accommodates and heats the pipes, with or without associated cooling zone, has a gas guiding device for feeding a scavenging gas to or removing it from the pipes. The gas guiding device is provided with connections for detachably and sealingly linking with a gas feed line and a gas discharge line. Ends of every pipe are separately connected to one and the same connecting head that has a gas inlet and a gas outlet opening the axially aligned therewith. The end of the gas feed line and the end of the gas discharge line are opposite each other and can be displaced along with the gas inlet opening and/or the gas outlet opening while sealingly connected.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil removing device for cleaning pipes that are present in the form of coils (13). Same device comprises a furnace that accommodates and heats the pipes, with or without associated cooling zone, and a gas guiding device (15, 16′) for feeding a scavenging gas to or removing it from the pipes. Said gas guiding device is provided with means for detachably and sealingly establish a link with a gas feed line and a gas discharge line. The aim of the invention is to configure the link with the pipes in as easy and reliable a manner as possible. For this purpose, the device is configured in such a manner that both ends of every pipe are separately connected to one and the same connecting head (4) that has a gas inlet (5) and a gas outlet opening the axially aligned therewith. The end (7) of the gas feed line and the end (8) of the gas discharge line are opposite each other and can be displaced along with the gas inlet opening and/or the gas outlet opening while sealingly connected.

Abstract: Armor resistant to knife attack comprises a flexible sheet having a threat side facing a direction of threat and a protected side adjacent, in use, an area to be protected, and a plurality of armor plates attached to the sides of the sheet, the plates being grouped such that a first group attached to the protected side is in overlapping registration with a second group attached to the threat side, the registration being such that exposed regions of sheet on the threat side register with the first group of plates so preventing penetration of the armor through the exposed regions. By placing the overlapping groups on separate sides of the sheet, the armor is made more flexible than arrangements where the plates are mounted on the same side and are in engagement.