Abstract: The cereal bowl comprises a bowl which is in a generally cylindrical shape and a strainer therein to keep the cereal elevated and separated from the milk resting at the bottom of the bowl. The strainer provides an individual to control when and how long the cereal is immersed in the milk so that the cereal can be kept from soggy from milk.

Abstract: A method for making multi-channel structures suitable for use as filters, catalyst carriers or the like. A composite rod comprising an outer shell and an inner core is formed of respective mixtures of powders. The mixture for the outer shell comprises a sinterable powdered structural material such as ceramics, metals, intermetallics, and a powdered binder. The inner core comprises a powdered carbon channel-forming filler material such as graphite or amorphous carbon, and a powdered binder. The composite rod may be deformed, as by extrusion, to reduce its diameter. A bundle of composite rods is assembled and deformed, as by extrusion, to reduce the diameter of the bundle and of its component composite rods. Further bundles of the reduced diameter bundles of composite rods may be likewise deformed by extrusion to reduce further the diameter of the component composite rods of the successive bundles, thereby also increasing the number of such rods per given cross section area of the bundle.

Abstract: Process for producing sintered aluminum nitride bodies, comprising sintering a relatively impure aluminum nitride powder comprising at least 95% by weight aluminum nitride and having no more than 3% bound oxygen content, no more than 0.6% metal or metal compound impurities, and no more than 0.5% silicon or carbon impurities, the sintering being carried out by heating the aluminum nitride body from room temperature to the sintering temperature at a rate of no more than 250.degree. C. per hour; introducing an inert gas containing from 1 to 4% by volume hydrogen until the temperature reaches 1200.degree. C.; continuing to introduce solely an inert gas as the temperature is further increased to the sintering temperature; sintering the body at a sintering temperature of from 1600.degree. to 1900.degree. C.; and cooling the sintered body at a rate of no more than 300.degree. C. per hour.