Abstract: The invention includes systems and methods for melting materials to make glass and other materials subject to electric melting that improve the capacity of the melters and/or the melt quality and/or the melting costs and/or the life of tank melters. These systems and methods use one or more of boosting with one or more streams of super hot melt coming from one or more boosting melters, cooling one or more components of one or more of the melters normally cooled using water with a high temperature cooling fluid or fluid suspension and protecting the normally high wear areas of refractory linings by covering those high wear areas with one or more strips of a corrosion and oxidation resistant metal or alloy useful above 2400 degrees F.

Abstract: A plurality of extremely flexible, functional, convertible and potentially compact tables having various optional features are disclosed. The tables comprise 4 or more folding table top panels, two or more joining pieces, four or more fixed legs and four or more swing out supporting legs and can be used in any of several configurations to serve from one to more than a dozen people. In its most compact configuration it is useful as a hall or wall table taking up very little space making it especially useful for apartments, condos, small homes, schools, churches and offices. Its extremely compact configuration makes it less costly to inventory and ship for the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer, and to store and/or use by the consumer.

Abstract: Disclosed are various reclining and/or declining mechanisms or systems allowing a greater range of recline and an easy way to recline and decline a chair. Optionally, the chair can also have a reclining and declining backrest and a leg rest, a footrest, or both and also optional storage compartments. The reclining and/or declining systems of the invention cause at least a portion of a vertical or generally vertical support for the plate or frame of the chair seat to tilt with respect to vertical.

Abstract: A reclining and declining chair, preferably one that rotates with respect to its base, having a chair seat frame or plate and having a vertical or generally vertical member that extends beneath to support is reclined and declined by tilting at least an upper portion of the vertical or generally vertical support. Optionally the chair can also have a reclining backrest and a leg/foot rest that can be raised and lowered. The tilting, reclining, declining and raising and lowering motions are accomplished by drive mechanisms that can be manually powered, electrically powered, fluid driven, etc. with operator controls allowing increased range and ease of reclining, declining plus other desirable advantages with these types of chairs.

Abstract: The invention is a rotating or non-rotating reclining and/or declining chair having various reclining and/or declining mechanisms or systems allowing a greater range of recline and an easy way to recline and decline. Optionally, the chair can also have a reclining and declining backrest and leg rest and/or footrest and also optional storage compartments. The reclining and/or declining systems of the invention cause the plate or frame of the chair seat to recline or decline.

Abstract: Foam products of a material having many voids or gas bubbles therein are marked by one or more of a plurality of devices capable of melting and/or vaporizing a desired pattern into a surface portion of the foam product, at least some doing so by movement of a hot tool, laser, flame, hot gas or other hot item, and systems and methods for making the mark or marks forming the desired pattern are disclosed along with the so marked foam products

Abstract: The invention includes systems and methods for melting materials to make glass and other materials subject to electric melting that improve the capacity of the melters and/or the melt quality and/or the melting costs and/or the life of tank melters. These systems and methods use one or more of boosting with one or more streams of super hot melt coming from one or more boosting melters, cooling one or more components of one or more of the melters normally cooled using water with a high temperature cooling fluid or fluid suspension and protecting the normally high wear areas of refractory linings by covering those high wear areas with one or more strips of a corrosion and oxidation resistant metal or alloy useful above 2400 degrees F.

Abstract: Parts having superior high temperature hot creep strength over extended time of as much as 3-9 months or more comprised of one or more precious metals of the platinum family and optionally other alloying metals with a common characteristic of a high rhodium content. The parts are particularly useful at high temperatures in contact with molten glass or molten ceramics such as fiberizing bushings. Different portions of the parts can also be made up of different metals and/or different alloys. Systems and methods are also disclosed for making these parts including hot forging, hot rolling, hot pressing, casting, continuous strip/sheet casting, casting multiple layers, selective laser melting and selective laser sintering.

Abstract: A reclining and declining chair, preferably one that rotates with respect to its base, having a chair seat frame or plate and having a vertical or generally vertical member that extends beneath to support is reclined and declined by tilting at least an upper portion of the vertical or generally vertical support. Optionally the chair can also have a reclining backrest and a leg/foot rest that can be raised and lowered. The tilting, reclining, declining and raising and lowering motions are accomplished by drive mechanisms that can be manually powered, electrically powered, fluid driven, etc. with operator controls allowing increased range and ease of reclining, declining plus other desirable advantages with these types of chairs.

Abstract: Decorating devices for creating a desired decorative pattern of edible or non-edible particulate material on the surface of an article by causing particles, granules, etc. of the particulate material to pass through a pattern comprising a plurality of holes in a template are disclosed. The method of using the devices to decorate the surface of articles is also disclosed.

Abstract: The disclosed invention involves a combination of a tray of various sizes and shapes and having a wall around at least a part of its periphery and one or more removable pocket shapers comprised of separators, grids, etc. for forming pockets on a top surface of the bottom of the tray, the pockets having a bottom area of 3 inches or more, the combination allowing easy, fast preparation of attractive patterns of different edible and/or non-edible items having distinctive boundaries therebetween when the pocket shapers are removed vertically. Also disclosed are methods of forming a multitude of such arrangements using such combinations.

Abstract: Methods, systems and storage media are disclosed for enhancing the sounds of any vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device by feeding the output of a playback device of the invention fed by a storage medium of the invention containing signals including one or more sounds of an operating DEV of choice and a signal indicating the RPM of the operating vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device into one or more speakers and/or headphones. DEV's (Driving enthusiast vehicles) includes performance vehicles, race cars, trucks, tanks, motorcycles, power boats and the like. Using the invention, a driver or passenger is able to produce, inside the passenger compartment of any vehicle, etc., the sounds that a DEV makes at the corresponding RPM's of the separate engines.

Abstract: Decorating devices for creating a desired decorative pattern of edible or non-edible particulate material on the surface of an article by causing particles, granules, etc. of the particulate material to pass through a pattern comprising a plurality of holes in a template are disclosed. The method of using the devices to decorate the surface of articles is also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods, systems and storage media are disclosed for enhancing the sounds of any vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device by feeding the output of a playback device of the invention fed by a storage medium of the invention containing signals including one or more sounds of an operating DEV of choice and a signal indicating the RPM of the operating vehicle, motorized conveyance, vehicle simulator, video game or vehicle like device into one or more speakers and/or headphones. DEV's (Driving enthusiast vehicles) includes performance vehicles, race cars, trucks, tanks, motorcycles, power boats and the like. Using the invention, a driver or passenger is able to produce, inside the passenger compartment of any vehicle, etc., the sounds that a DEV makes at the corresponding RPM's of the separate engines.