Abstract: An animal grooming apparatus for grooming an animal having a conduit for supplying a vacuum to the apparatus; a grooming tool for grooming a coat of the animal; a body portion fixed to the conduit and grooming tool; and an inlet having an open end in communication with the conduit, the inlet being flexibly attached to the conduit for following contours of the animal independent of the grooming tool, whereby debris from the coat of the animal dislodged by the grooming tool are evacuated through the open end of the inlet and conduit in communication therewith. In preferred implementations of the apparatus, the grooming tool is a curry comb and isolation hoods are provided to contain the debris within the apparatus. In a alternative embodiment, an air flow is supplied to the animal's coat instead of a vacuum.

Abstract: An improvement in a dental crown removing pliers having a pair of opposed arm members pivotally connected to define on one side of the pivot a pair of opposed jaws which improvement resides in a resilient deformable gripping surface on the surface of said jaws generally contoured to coincide with a side surface of a crown, said resilient deformable gripping surface adapted to hold at least one jaw of said pliers against the surface of a crown; a method of removing a crown by gripping the same in the jaws of a dental crown removing pliers which has on a surface of at least one jaw a resilient deformable gripping surface.