Abstract: An air filtration device for intake of atmospheric air, removal of contaminants from the atmospheric air, expulsion of filtered air, includes a housing configured for application directly to an electrical outlet and provides air intake from the front surface of the housing and air expulsion from the side of the housing to utilize a wall surface to disperse the filtered air. A filter change indicator is provided to communicate that a filter should be changed, and a filter orientation system is provided to allow proper orientation of the filter with respect to air flow.

Abstract: A desiccating device and method providing variable drying conditions allowing the desiccated material to substantially maintain its natural characteristics upon rehydration as well as have a low microbial content. The method provides a process of subjecting the material to ultrasound and flowing hot air or gas for a defined period of time. The ultrasonic frequency, temperature, air flow and time of exposure can be varied to produce the most efficient drying conditions depending on the material to be dried. The apparatus has plurality of drying chambers with forced heated air or gas input and output ducts and ultrasonic emitter. The material passes through each chamber at a pre-determined rate on a perforated conveyor belt in one embodiment of the invention. Optionally, the material may be placed on a drying bed or substrate comprising a number of spheres.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus for improved heat circulation and containment when smoking or grilling using electric, gas, or charcoal as the heat source. The base pan design enhances heat containment, and offers a channel design in the bottom of the base pan. A flame disk for even heat distribution is provided and can be used in conjunction with the base pan, and prevents internal food drippings from escaping through the disk The disk design enhances the heat efficiency, and safeguards against drippings or ashes falling through to the burner or ground The holes in the disk are raised, and has attached covers strategically placed over the holes to deter drippings or ashes from falling through. A fire pit container is also provided and designed for use with the base pan. The fire pit container supports a: heat source such as a gas burner which directs a flame toward the base pan open hole and also toward the underside of a flame disk when a flame disk is suspended above the base pan hole.

Abstract: A mechanical press having a variable drive arrangement. The press includes a link drive which drives a crankshaft. The drive altering mechanism includes adjustment means which changes the position of the link drive, thereby altering the drive mechanism of the mechanical press and the corresponding velocity curve of the press slide.

Abstract: A marking press device having a pair of type arms that face each other to interpose a workpiece to be marked therebetween, a type fixed on each of said type arms for making a mark thereof, a circular type assembling member around which a plurality of said type arms are attached radially, a device for rotatably supporting said type assembling member around a rotary shaft and for pressing a selected type from said type assembling member onto said workpiece, a driver for rotating said type assembling member, a ribbon guiding mechanism that guides an inked ribbon for coloring marked characters, a ribbon supplying spool for supplying said inked ribbon, a ribbon winding spool for winding said inked ribbon, a ribbon frame to which said ribbon guiding mechanism, said ribbon supplying spool and said ribbon winding spool are mounted, and ribbon frame turning device for rotatably supporting said ribbon frame and turning said ribbon frame to a horizontal position above said type arms when said inked ribbon is replaced.

Abstract: A micro porous plastic sheet is stencil plate made by a method for stencil plate making of a stencil sheet for stencil printing under the following conditions: heat is provided to form a negative image with TPH at −30≦Tp−Tm≦300° C. (Tp is heating peak temperature and Tm is melting temperature(melting point) of the sheet) and in 10≦To×100/Ts≦80% (To is current-carrying time period and Ts is current-carrying cycle), micro pores are closed by the pressure for stencil plate making of 0.1≦P≦1.0 MPa, and the thermal shrinkage rate of the sheet measured by TMA is set to 1≦STm−30≦20% (STm−30 is a thermal shrinking rate of the sheet at a temperature 30° C. lower than the melting point TM).

Abstract: A dry-transfer stencil is provided for wall decoration. The stencil has at least three bleed-resistant color pigments, including a bleed-resistant magenta pigment, that will not bleed or show through a coat of paint once the stencil is painted over for redecorating. The stencil has an as-applied thickness of 2.5-5, preferably 2.3-5 mils so that it will not be visible through a coat of paint. A plurality of dry-transfer stencils are also provided having designs corresponding to a common design theme. The stencils can be placed by the consumer to provide a custom design suited to that consumer's personal taste.

Abstract: An ink key control system comprises a data processor, a local area network connected to the data processor, and a plurality of ink keys connected directly to the local area network. Each of the plurality of ink keys includes a protocol controller for receiving an input from the local area. network and a setpoint controller for receiving an input from the protocol controller. Also provided is a method for setting ink keys in a printing press comprising the steps of determining a desired setpoint for an ink key, transmitting the desired setpoint over a LAN to the ink key, receiving the desired setpoint at the key, and setting the key as a function of the desired setpoint.

Abstract: A stamper system includes a support and a pattern-forming member. The pattern forming member includes an expanse and a plurality of distinct design portions coupled to the expanse at spaced locations. The expanse is movable relative to the support to enable simultaneous repositioning of the plurality of distinct design portions relative to the support by movement of the expanse.

Abstract: A printing plate or decorator cylinder has a tapered bore for engaging the tapered outer surface of a sleeve member which is mounted on an untapered rotatable cantilevered printing press or decorator drive shaft and the sleeve is adjustably coupled to the shaft to permit axial and circumferential adjustment of the sleeve and the cylinder as needed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for creating an image carrying printing form on a printing form cylinder in a printing press.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing printing plates in particular a blank sleeve-like printing plate, includes a cylinder carrier for receiving a printing plate, the cylinder carrier being held in cantilever fashion at one end in a frame in a mounting and is driven by a motor, it being possible for the printing plate to be pushed onto the carrier cylinder at an opposite side of the latter which faces away from the mounting and is, therefore, more accessible for making printing plate exchange. An image-setting device is moved along the carrier cylinder.

Abstract: Device to produce electronic circuits of the type comprising at least a base support (12) on which electrically conductive material is deposited able to embody the conductor tracks, said device comprising at least a printing station (13) able to deposit said electrically conductive material on said base support (12), a drying oven (14) and first feed means (35, 60) to feed each base support (12) from said printing station (13) to said drying oven (14), stacking means (52) being provided to stack the base supports (12) one on top of the other so that said base supports (12) can be introduced in vertical piles into said drying oven (14), spacer means (18, 20) being provided to keep said base supports (12) separate from each other when stacked.

Abstract: A stencil disposal box is detachably provided to a stencil printing machine main body, and used stencil sheets are stored therein when the stencil disposal box is mounted to the stencil printing machine main body. An opening, through which a stencil sheet is conveyed, is formed on the stencil disposal box. The stencil disposal box includes a stencil disposal box main body for storing the conveyed stencil sheets, a sweeping member rotatively provided so as to move between an innermost position approximately adjacent to an inner surface of the stencil disposal box main body and a sweeping position located more adjacently to the opening side than the innermost position, and an operation lever portion, which can operate the movement of the sweeping member. This operation lever portion can be operated while gripping a handle portion.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for the production of a cylindrical embossing sheet that is to be fixed on a rotating clamping cylinder for the manufacture of continuous webs having surface structures, such as holograms, cinegrams, exelgrams, for safety and reliability engineering and decoration purposes, it is provided that the plate-like starting material is bent around an auxiliary implement in particular of cylindrical shape, the diameter of which corresponds approximately to the diameter of the clamping cylinder, with the plate-like starting material being prepared such that, when it is placed around the auxiliary implement, the longitudinal edges butt against each other by a flush joint, and that the plate-like material is fixed in this position, and that the longitudinal edges are then welded together without any gaps by means of a laser.

Abstract: Conventional linear induction motors (LIMS) have been used effectively to get linear thrust. These devices are typically short stator, and thus have entry and exit field effects. When a field enters a coil, there is a braking, drag force. A pulsed linear induction motor (PLIM) pulses the coils so that they push off the secondary shorted coils. Among the advantages gained by the use of these devices is no entry drag effect, simpler electronics required to excite the PLIM, and a smaller winding overhang past the steel structure of the PLIM. This invention describes coil arrangements useful for exciting a continuous array of coils, placed end to end, and coils that are overlapped. Control is realized by selecting the number of pulses to apply during the active excitation window.

Abstract: A corrosion protective lacquer is for producing a corrosion protective coating, and a method is for removing the corrosion protective coating. For a more favorable removal, while maintaining simultaneous corrosion protection, the corrosion protective lacquer, and thus also the corrosion protective coating produced from it, includes protective substances that react with oxygen. The corrosion protective coating is abraded by the abrasive effect of the brake linings during braking, the protective substances of the corrosion protective coating being rubbed into the braking surface.

Abstract: Novel magenta and cyan colorants for utilization within water-based inks are provided which exhibit improved chromatic properties. In particular, such colorants provide magenta or cyan colorations that exhibit increased color space characteristics, high water solubility, excellent compatability with impurities, and correspondingly cost-effectiveness for flexographic printing procedures. The methods of utilizing such colorants within flexographic printing processes are also encompassed within the invention.

Abstract: An aqueous ink composition comprising at least: a surface-modified pigment capable of at least one of dispersing and dissolving in an aqueous solvent without use of a dispersant; an organic amine compound represented by formula (A) or (B) shown below; and water, 1

Abstract: The present invention provides a coating for inkjet media, which includes at least one hydrophobic filler particle; and a binder. Another embodiment of the invention provides an inkjet media, which includes the above-described coating coated on a substrate. Another embodiment of the invention provides a method of inkjet printing, which includes inkjet printing at least one inkjet ink onto a substrate coated with the above-described coating.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing liquid pigment preparations which comprises spraying a from 10 to 80% by weight suspension of a crude pigment, prepigment and/or pigment, based on the overall weight of the suspension, in a flocculation-stabilizing, liquid medium through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting liquid pigment preparation and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises spraying a coarsely crystalline crude pigment and/or a poorly dispersible prepigment in suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inorganic cohesion agent for self-compacting cement pastes consisting of a co-precipitated SiO2/CaCO3 mixture.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises dissolving coarsely crystalline crude pigments in a solvent and precipitating them with a liquid precipitation medium by spraying the pigment solution and the precipitation medium through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrophobicizing agent for gypsum-plaster-bound construction materials comprising a substrate based on pulverulent organic or inorganic solids with a BET surface area >5 g/m2 and comprising one or more organopolysiloxanes having Si-bonded hydrogen (organohydropolysiloxanes) built up from units of the general formula HaSiR1bO(4-a-b)/2, where the radicals R1 are identical or different monovalent hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy radicals having from one to 15 carbon atoms, or are hydroxyl groups, with the proviso that at least one Si-bonded hydrogen atom per molecule is present, and a takes values from 0 to 3, and b takes values from 0 to 3.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a modular desk includes a frame defining a periphery of a worksurface area and at least one opening formed within the worksurface area. A storage accessory is removeably received in the opening and releaseably engages the frame. In one embodiment, the frame further comprises a plurality of sockets formed therein. An accessory includes a stanchion having an insert portion received in at least one of the plurality of sockets. In one embodiment, an accessory includes a flexible membrane, which forms at least a portion of a worksurface. A method of reconfiguring a worksurface with various accessories is also provided, as is a method for storing an article on a worksurface.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a table includes a support structure comprising a first wire support and a second wire support. Each of the first and second wire supports comprises opposite ends that are joined to define a first and second foot. A portion of each of the first and second wire supports form a first and second support platform respectively. A work surface is supported on the first and second support platforms. In another aspect, a preferred embodiment of the support structure further comprises a first and second cap member disposed on an upper surface of the work surface and connected to the first and second support platforms such that the work surface is clamped therebetween. In another aspect, an accessory includes a mounting portion that is disposed between a first surface of a work surface and one of the support platform and the cap member.

Abstract: The seed drill of the present invention particularly includes a front chassis resting on the ground by means of wheels and a rear chassis carrying elements for planting seeds in the ground, the rear chassis being connected to the front chassis by means of a central articulation the axis of which is at least substantially vertical. The seed drill is one which additionally includes means making it possible, as soon as the planting elements leave the earth, to align the rear chassis with respect to the front chassis. The object of the present invention is to avoid any possible shocks between the rear chassis and the front chassis, the shocks being caused by pivoting of the rear chassis about the central articulation when the seed drill is switched to the transport position on sloping ground.

Abstract: The invention is an apparatus including a seed carrier of a fibrous material, and at least one seed embedded within the seed carrier. The seed(s) and seed carrier are integrally formed with one another. The invention is also a method of planting, including the steps of providing at least one seed, and creating a seed carrier composed of a fibrous matter. Additionally, the inventive method includes the steps of embedding the seed(s) within the seed carrier such that the seeds become integrally formed into the seed carrier.

Abstract: A mooring and tender system comprising: a deck; a shape that results in a combined environmental load of less than 1000 kips in a 100-year extreme weather condition; a plurality of supports connected to the deck; a plurality of pontoons connecting to the supports, at least two hawsers for connecting the tender to a production platform, each having adequate elasticity to accommodate the wave frequency between the production platform and the tender, and adequate stiffness to synchronize the mean and low frequency movement between the production platform and the tender under an environmental load produced during a storm having a designation of up to a 10-year storm in the tendering position, connecting means securing each hawser; a hawser guidance system; an at least 8-point mooring system with each mooring lines consisting of: a first length of steel wire rope; a length of polymer rope secured to the first length of steel wire rope; a second length of steel wire rope secured to the polymer rope; and means for c

Abstract: A simple and compact Apparatus for holding a floating vessel to a fixed location without the use of ropes or flexable fastenings, connecting to existing hardware on vessel with a quick release mechanism, preventing any movement away from the dock as viewed from above, but allowing for three plains of movement associated with water, vertical tidal movement, rocking wave movement, and front to back dipping movement. A preferred embodiment includes that it retains the said vessel closer than any prior art making it impossible to fall between vessel and fixed location thus making it the safest docking system available.

Abstract: The invention features a hydrofoil device for reducing wake formation on a partially immersed hull of a sailing or motor vessel.

Abstract: A mooring system for a semisubmersible tender which comprises a deck, a shape that results in a combined environmental load of less than 1000 kips in a 100-year extreme weather condition, a plurality of supports connected to the deck, a plurality of pontoons connecting to the supports, at least two hawsers for connecting the tender to a production platform, each having adequate elasticity to accommodate the wave frequency between the production platform and the tender, and adequate stiffness to synchronize the mean and low frequency movement between the production platform and the tender under an environmental load produced during a storm having a designation of up to a 10-year storm in the tendering position, connecting means securing each hawser, a hawser guidance system; and an at least 8-point mooring system with each mooring lines consisting of: a first length of steel wire rope; a length of polymer rope secured to the first length of steel wire rope; a second length of steel wire rope secured to the pol

Abstract: Reactive gas is released through a crystal source material or melt to react with impurities and carry the impurities away as gaseous products or as precipitates or in light or heavy form. The gaseous products are removed by vacuum and the heavy products fall to the bottom of the melt. Light products rise to the top of the melt. After purifying, dopants are added to the melt. The melt moves away from the heater and the crystal is formed. Subsequent heating zones re-melt and refine the crystal, and a dopant is added in a final heating zone. The crystal is divided, and divided portions of the crystal are re-heated for heat treating and annealing.

Abstract: Gluing unit of a tail end of a log fitted in a load-bearing structure (12) of a machine to produce logs, in which the structure (12) comprises an inclined surface (13) for feeding logs (14) and in which fitted at the end of the inclined surface (13) is a rotating selector (15), equipped with a series of pockets (15a), to receive individual logs (14) and feed these towards an actual gluing unit (11). This gluing unit (11) comprises in succession a lower unwinding roller (16) and an upper conveyor belt (17) and, moreover, immediately downstream of the unwinding roller (16) a feed roller (18) followed by a suction roller (19), connected to a vacuum source, and a glue dispensing device (20), and also provided above the unwinding roller (16) and feed roller (18) with a blowing component (27) to blow a final end (21) of the log (14) and a photocell (28) which interacts to detect the final end (21) of the log (14).

Abstract: A dispenser device for dryable fluids is positioned at a product packaging machine dispenser station, with a first conveyor for feeding pieces of packaging material through the dispenser station, and a second conveyor for feeding the products to be packaged; the dispenser device being between the first and the second conveyors and designed to dispense a dryable fluid, consisting of an adhesive substance, onto the pieces at the dispenser station; the device having a dispenser part, with a plurality of nozzles for dispensing the adhesive substance and being located in a cylindrical shell of a hollow body; the shell having an opening which is opposite the pieces in the dispenser station, and the dispenser part being mobile relative to the hollow body between an operating position, in which the nozzles are at the opening, and a non-operating position in which the nozzles are at least at a cleaning and/or washing station inside a sealed chamber formed by the dispenser part and the shell.

Abstract: At the interior of a working booth (1) of a painting machine with a robotized head (13), on the same guide (5) for the longitudinal and vertical movements of the said head, there is mounted a second ancillary painting head (19) similar to the one robotized, but constructively simplified in order to perform only oscillation movements for works of simple type. The ancillary spraying head is fixed at one extremity of the booth when the machine has to operate with the robotized head (13) upon panels stationary inside the same booth. Otherwise, when it has to operate upon travelling panels, the ancillary head (19) is moved to an intermediate and pre-established point of the same booth, while the robotized head (13) is placed and stopped at a distance from the ancillary head variable and correlated to the speed of travel of the panels and to the oscillating speed transversely to the same panels of both the heads, the guns of which are now actuated for performing works of simple painting.

Abstract: A semiconductor processor for spray coating wafers or other semiconductor articles. The processor has a compartment in which are mounted a wafer transfer, coating station and thermal treatment station. The coating station has a spray processing vessel in which a movable spray-head and rotatable wafer holder. The spray station has coating viscosity control features. An ultrasonic resonating spray-head is precisely supplied with coating from a metering pump. The heat treatment station heat cures the coating and then cools the wafer. The system allows coatings to be applied in relatively uniform conformational layers upon irregular surfaces.

Abstract: In a pressure infiltrating apparatus 20 according to the invention, an upper end of an inlet side orifice 23 in the drawing is formed to take a tapered convex shape and a lower end of an insertion hole of an intermediate orifice 25 in the drawing is formed to take a concave shape having a diameter gradually increased corresponding to the convex shape of the inlet side orifice 23. Consequently, a space A between the inlet side orifice 23 and the intermediate orifice 25 is set to be small without damaging the fluidity of a molten metal 11 between the inlet side orifice 23 and the intermediate orifice 25 in a bath container 22.

Abstract: A chucking device of the present invention includes an annular elastic member sandwiched between an upper and a lower member. A rod is slidable up and down in a bore formed in the upper and lower members and is partly positioned in the elastic member. The rod presses the elastic member radially outward when raised or lowered, thereby causing the chucking device to chuck a hollow, cylindrical base. The elastic member contacts the inner periphery of the base over a minimum of area and surely, closely contacts it for thereby implementing desirable sealing. The chucking device can therefore form a uniform film on the outer periphery of the base.

Abstract: An improved crucible cover for multiple pocket electron beam sources has been invented. The invention provides selection between one of the multiple pockets for evaporative heating and a noncontacting, line-of-sight blocking baffle between heated and unheated pockets. In one embodiment, the baffle is formed by the cooperation of a crucible surface groove with a cover feature that extends into the groove. In a second embodiment, the baffle is formed by a barrier extending upwards from the crucible surface between pockets that cooperates with a cover to form the line-of-sight baffle. The crucible and cover in these embodiments accommodate deposits without hindering the ability of the baffle to reduce contamination or interfere with the operation of the source. Additionally, the cover and crucible may be operated separately, with a cover lifting mechanism that lowers the cover to form a baffle and raises the cover to allow the separately controlled rotation of the crucible.

Abstract: A construction for automatically milking animals comprises a milk box (1) with a milking robot (2), which is provided with a controllable robot arm (3) for connecting teat cups (4) to the teats of an animal to be milked. The milk box (1) is provided with a guide element (7) for the robot arm (3), said guide element (7) having such a shape that the robot arm (3) when moving along the guide element (7) pivots the teat cups (4) between a first position beyond the reach of the animal to be milked and at least one second position under the udder of the animal to be milked. The mechanical guide element (7) is robust and enables an accurate pivoting movement of the robot arm (3).

Abstract: A structure is provided for promoting growth of aquatic species for aquaculture operations and other purposes. The aquatic structure may have a buoyant member, a flexible sheet, and flexible strips (such as fronds, ribbons or filaments). The flexible materials are suspended from the buoyant member. The flexible materials may have high surface area structures for promoting growth of autotrophic (including algae) and heterotrophic organisms (such as bacteria) in photic and heterotrophic sections, respectively. The autotrophs and the bacteria are food, and the dispersed flexible strips provide an attractive habitat for the larger feeding organisms such as fish, crustaceans and mollusks. Ballast devices may be used, if desired, to secure the aquatic structure to the benthos. The ballast devices may be formed of flexible material. The flexible ballast devices may be filled with granular material after the apparatus is transported to the job site.

Abstract: A group of connecting homes, commercial and/or not-for-profit buildings that serve to enclose a self-sustaining wildlife habitat sanctuary, specifically targeting the natural environment of endangered species, where appropriate. The homes serve as an impenetrable cage wall, much like the walls of a mountain valley, preventing animals from entering or exiting the habitat, with the possible exception of migrating birds and fish. On one side of the homes there is a self-sustaining habitat and on the other side of the homes there is modem civilization. The animals eat plants that grow in the wild, hunt, defend territories, breed through natural selection, and choose pack leaders or matriarchs of herds, free from adverse human intervention (e.g., hunting, trapping, etc.).

Abstract: A brush handle is formed with a continuously arched upper surface portion and a lower surface portion separated into two arched portions by a humped semi-circular ridge. One of the lower arched portions forms a trigger grip for a single finger held in either a forehand or backhand grip. The handle is preferably covered with a high friction material in the form of a contoured rubber or elastomeric sleeve which is stretched over a complimentarily contoured molded plastic handle.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the teats of the udder of a dairy animal. The device is provided with a cleaning member that is drivable by a drive member. The cleaning member is provided with at least two cleaning elements that are rotatable about an axis. The drive member is constituted by a pneumatic drive member. The device comprises a torque measuring system for measuring the torque of the drive member during the drive of the cleaning member. A method of cleaning the teats of the udder of a dairy animal. The cleaning is carried out by a cleaning member driven by a drive member. The cleaning member is provided with at least two cleaning elements that are rotatable about an axis. The drive member is constituted by a pneumatic or hydraulic drive member, and the method comprises the step a) of measuring the torque of the drive member.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the teats of the udder of a dairy animal. The device is provided with a cleaning member that is drivable by a drive member. The device is further provided with a power measuring system for measuring the power of the drive member during the drive of the cleaning member. A comparator compares the momentary value of the power measured by the power measuring system with a lower threshold. The comparator supplies a signal when the lower threshold is exceeded. A method of cleaning the teats of the udder of a dairy animal. The cleaning is carried out by a cleaning member driven by a drive member. The method comprises the steps of measuring the power of the drive member, of comparing the measured power with a power threshold value, of choosing a lower threshold as a power threshold value, and of supplying a signal when the lower threshold is exceeded.

Abstract: An animal training apparatus having a receiving antenna and method of controlling the apparatus are disclosed. The transmitter of the apparatus varies or sets the intensity level of the electric shock linearly by an electric shock adjusting means, operates any one selected from the first through fourth function switches, and outputs a control signal corresponding to a selected switch from the antenna of the transmitter to a receiver worn on the neck of an animal, and the receiver receives the signal from the transmitter, outputs the electric shock to the animal while varying the electric shock linearly by the electric shock adjusting means for a predetermined period of time when the trainer operates the first function switch.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel assembly of a pet collar for a dog or other animal and a leash. The collar has an integrated, closeable pouch for holding a leash. The leash may be permanently or removably affixed to an anchoring element within the pouch or otherwise on the collar. The pouch seals in a manner so that the leash is hidden, giving a normal appearance to the collar.

Abstract: A cardon joint is provided for mounting in a wall of a boiler to accommodate a sootblower lance and to allow the lance to be manipulated with respect to the boiler wall. The cardon joint includes a wall box having a central opening. An outer ball having a substantially spherical outer surface and a central bore is mounted for axial rotation about a first axis within the central opening of the wall box. An inner ball having a substantially spherical outer surface and a central bore is mounted for axial rotation about a second axis within the central bore of the outer ball. The first and second axes are mutually orthogonal and the central bore of the inner ball is sized to accommodate the lance of a sootblower. As the lance is manipulated to clean an opposite wall of the boiler, the inner and outer balls rotate about their axes to accommodate the manipulation.