Abstract: A method for maintaining a micro-roughness finish after etching chrome from a surface of a calcium fluoride (CaF2) object. Etching the chrome a first amount in a first chrome etchant. Etching the chrome a second amount beyond the first predetermined amount in second chrome etchant, such that the CaF2 object maintains a low micro-roughness.

Abstract: The invention relates to the welding electrode of a resistance welder, comprising a shaft (10) with a welding cap (10) and cooling water pipes (20) disposed inside the shaft (10). A probe is acoustically coupled with the ultrasound probe (14) for transmitting and/or receiving ultrasound signals and is linked with an evaluation device outside the welding electrode via signal lines (24). The probe (14) is disposed inside or in the vicinity of the welding cap (12) and coupled therewith via an elastically deformable pad (16).

Abstract: A small hole electrical discharge machining apparatus 1 is comprised of electrode holding 27 means for holding an upper part of an electrode 39, electrode guide means 41 for guiding a lower part of the electrode 39, a jet nozzle 73 injecting a water let (WJ) from the electrode holding means 27, and a fluid channel 97 which supplies a gas, such as air, to an electrode guide 75 of the electrode guide means. The electrode 39 is guided with the water jet (WJ) toward the workpiece (W), and small hole electrical discharge machining is performed while the gas is being released from the electrode guide 75 into a working liquid via the fluid channel 97.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for indicating a temperature of a torch consumable is disclosed. The invention includes a shielding cup constructed to be attached to a torch having a coating which indicates a temperature of the shielding cup during a welding/cutting process. Preferably, the coating indicates to a user when the temperature of the torch is beyond a preferred operating range thereby preventing excessive wear of the consumables associated with overheating.

Abstract: The invention concerns method and a system for plasma arc cutting of a workpiece with automatic adaptation of the plasma jet characteristics by simultaneous and practically real-time correction of several parameters, in particular in the complex portions of the cutting path. The inventive method can be used for cutting out more or less complex shapes involving sharp changes of direction in the cutting path, for example when producing an acute angle or a pointed profile, or patterns of small dimensions or complex shapes forming recesses in the steel plate. The invention consists in modulating the plasma jet heat energy and kinetic energy, and the plasma arc voltage (U).

Abstract: A local environmental cell for a welding spray gun includes an annular ring having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the annular ring is adapted for attachment to an outer perimeter of the spray gun; and a plurality of fluid passageways radially disposed about the annular ring comprising a plurality of openings in the bottom surface of the ring in fluid communication with a vacuum source for providing a vacuum thereto. The use of the local environmental cell permits deposition of local bond coats as well as minimizes the number of steps associated with welding repair processes. For example, the use of the local environmental cell permits welding and formation of a low oxide bond coat during the welding process, thereby eliminating the need for placing the substrate subsequent to a welding process in a separate spray cell to deposit the bond coating.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for a plasma cutting system including a plasma cutting power source and a plasma torch operationally connected to the plasma cutting power source. A processing unit is disposed within the plasma torch and is configured to control the plasma cutting power source during a plasma cutting process based on operational feedback gathered of the plasma cutting process.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a marking or engraving means (1), automated (A) or manual, applied over the external surface (S) of meat (2) in general, meats as obtained in parts (2a), pieces/cubes (2b), slices (2c), milled portions (hamburgers, meatballs) (2d), sausages (2e) and/or any other form, meat (2) of any kind or origin (bovine, swine, poultry, fish, buffaloes, filled in natural and/or artificial tripes, and other kinds), in raw (refrigerated or frozen), baked, fried, cured, dried, smoke-dried state or others, originating or not from preparing stages (E), i.e. seasoned or not, which is forwarded to equipment or devices (3) producing calories or rays with appropriate intensity, preferably regulated by PLC, so that, according to the type of meat to be marked, engravings (4) in high or low relief are obtained, which can reproduce logos (L) and further technical information (T) on the surface (S) of said meat (2), enabling its recognition visually and/or by touch, by the consumer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for dynamically controlled laser amplifier configuration for composite cutting includes the steps of generating an initial wavelength-swept-with-time optical pulse in an optical pulse generator, amplifying the initial optical pulse, compressing the amplified optical pulse to a duration of less than 10 picoseconds and applying the compressed optical pulse on the composite with an ablating energy density, to controllably remove a slice of material from the composite.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously heating materials, in particular for welding plastic components, having an arbitrary shape of a flat heating contour by laser radiation is provided. The apparatus has, an appropriate optical arrangement that is used to convert a laser beam into an annular laser beam and focus it onto the end wall of a light-guiding tube and couple it in. At an exit end, the tube is deformed in accordance with the desired heating contour such that the emerging laser beam has this heating contour.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a flux cored wire for gas shielded arc welding which comprises a seam section for improving the rectilinear property of the wire, thereby preventing the occurrence of bead meandering. The flux cored wire for gas shield arc welding is manufactured by forming a metal sheath, packing the inside of the metal sheath with a flux, followed by forming into a metal pipe shape and wire drawing and satisfies Relationship (1) below: 1.4?(Rrcts/Ructs)?4.0??(1) wherein Rrcts represents the range of tensile strength of real cross section (real tensile strength range in a state where the flux is packed), and Ructs represents the range of tensile strength of unpacked cross section (real tensile strength range in a state where the flux is unpacked).

Abstract: A welding protective mask (1) includes illumination equipment (3) for illuminating a work area. The illumination equipment (3) includes an illumination device (5), a detection device (8) for detecting an ambient light intensity, an energy storage (7) for electrically supplying the illumination equipment (3) and controller (6) for controlling an intensity of light radiated by the illumination means (5) according to the ambient light intensity. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the controller (6) is set up to detect a welding process with a flicker circuit and to switch off the illumination device (5) during the welding process.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is the application of simple production methods for electrical resistance heating elements with a honeycomb body and use total capacity with regard to the specific electrical power per volume unit. Said aim is achieved for an electrical resistance heating element with a honeycomb body of resistance material with positive temperature coefficients for the resistance (PTC resistance), in which the channels, for throughflow of a medium for heating, comprise metallised walls and are electrically alternately contacted after the fashion of a chess-board on the front faces of the honeycomb body by means of a front face metallisation, whereby an insulation region (1) is alternately let into the metallisation (3) on the walls of the channels running from the front faces, whilst the front face metallisation (2) completely covers the front faces.

Abstract: A reactor chamber is positioned between a top array of LED heat lamps and a bottom array of LED heat lamps. The LED heat lamps forming the top and bottom arrays are individually or controllable in groups such that power output along each array of LED heat lamps can dynamically differ. The LED lamps can be controlled in response to, for example, feedback from chamber sensors, a desired temperature profile, and a failed LED lamp. In this way, the methods and systems described herein can dynamically compensate for operational characteristics of the reactor chamber. In one configuration, the LED heat lamps are arranged in a rectangular pattern. In some configurations, the LED heat lamps are arranged in a circular or a concentric pattern.

Abstract: A burn-in oven is provided with a wall that has a number of vertically stacked, laterally extending slots aligned with each of the burn-in-board supports in the oven. When a burn-in-board is placed in the oven on the supports, an edge portion of the burn-in-board extends through a slot into a connector area. Each of the slots has a shutter associated therewith that will move from an open position to permit the burn-in-board connector portion to extend through the slot, to a closed position wherein the shutter covers the slot. A cam operator moves the shutters to a closed position, except when a burn-in-board is extending through a particular slot, it will support the shutter in its open position and the shutter will not be moved by the cam. All the shutters associated with openings through which no burn-in-board connector portion extends will be closed to prevent air flow from the burn-in oven.

Abstract: A container with a neck having a protrusion adapted to engage a sealing lid when the lid is placed on the container. The sealing ring or protrusion has a discontinuity, forming a gap when the lid is engaged on the container. The gap allows gas to escape during heating of product within the container when the lid is engaged.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus for providing a tilting cooking surface. The cooking apparatus may include a cooking surface for receiving food; a motion element for providing movement to the cooking surface; and a coupling attached to the motion element. The coupling may traverse a periphery portion of the cooking surface, maintaining the cooking surface in a tilted position and rocking the cooking surface back and forth. The cooking apparatus may also include a heating element.

Abstract: A wafer holder is provided in which local heat radiation in supporting and heating wafers is kept under control and temperature uniformity of the wafer retaining surface is enhanced, and by making use of the wafer holder a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus suitable for processing larger-diameter wafers is made available. In a wafer holder (1) including within a ceramic substrate (2) a resistive heating element (3) or the like and being furnished with a lead (4) penetrating a reaction chamber (6), the lead (4) is housed in a tubular guide member (5), and an interval between the guide member (5) and the reaction chamber (6) as well as the interior of the guide member (5) are hermetically sealed. The guide member (5) and the ceramic substrate (2) are not joined together, and in the interior of the guide member (5) in which the inside is hermetically sealed, the atmosphere toward the ceramic substrate (2) is preferably substantially the same as the atmosphere in the reaction chamber (6).

Abstract: A device for homogeneous heating of an object comprises a supporting surface for supporting the object, and a heating layer arranged on the supporting surface. The heating layer absorbs at least partly energy received from a radiation source and emits at least partly the thus-absorbed energy to the object supported on the supporting surface. The layer is made of a material such that the energy absorbed by the layer is in a self-regulating manner distributed uniformly along the surface of the layer. The heating device forms a simple and compact unit which can be used to rapidly heat the object to a homogeneous temperature.

Abstract: A stirring hot plate for simultaneously heating and stirring a mixture includes a phase controlled motor that spins magnets which couple to, and thereby spin, a stir bar within the mixture. In addition to spinning the magnets, the motor includes an operational mode in which the motor is rapidly braked thereby quickly spinning down the stir bar. The stirring hot plate also includes a visual indicator to the user that the platform is hot-to-the-touch that is especially effective when the stirring hot plate is not in use.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electrical connection and is particularly concerned with an electrical connection to conductive materials that can serve the purpose of a heating means. It has long been known that materials that are electrically conductive can generate heat. This phenomenon has spawned a considerable number of heating means for a considerable number of different purposes. Whilst electrical heaters at large are generally successful, and more than capable of meeting their intended purpose, what has proved to be difficult, is the achieving of a uniform heating effect over a relatively wide area, substantially free from hot and cold spots or areas. Sheets or webs embodying or coated with carbon particles are known, as are flexible semi-conductive materials. Even with considerable care being exercised the surface of such materials can exhibit roughness with peaks and troughs formed by carbon particles where undesirable arcing can occur.

Abstract: A cooking appliance including at least one heating unit for heating a cooking area and including at least one extractor fan. At least one parameter of the extractor fan can be controlled to different values by a control unit, regardless of the selected cooking mode. At least one parameter value is stored in an electronic storage unit.

Abstract: A method of induction heat treatment of articles having curved outer surfaces, such as differential housings. The method employs a semi-rectangular induction coil that is adapted to provide a plurality of lateral magnetic fields that are used to induce currents in, and thereby provide heat to, a portion of the curved section of the article. The method and induction coil are particularly adapted to provide an induction hardening heat treatment of a curved heat treatment portion of a differential housing. The differential housing was cast from nodular iron. The induction-hardening heat treatment comprised heating the heat treatment portion of the differential housing above the austenite transition temperature and quenching to below the martensite transformation temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined toaster and microwave oven that can obtain uniformly toasted slices of bread even when the slices of the bread are toasted successively several times. The combined toaster and microwave oven includes a key input unit for selecting user's favorite kind of the bread and baking level, a memory for storing heating time of the heaters according to the favorite kind of the bread and the favorite baking level, a temperature sensor for sensing internal temperature of the toaster, a controller for counting an elapsed time for the heaters to operate after the heaters stop and adjusting the heating time of the heaters according to the counted time and the internal temperature of the sensor.

Abstract: A collapsible cooking container formed from a generally, rectangularly shaped paperboard blank folded along crease lines so as to have a bottom portion, a first side portion, a top portion, and a second side portion wherein the top portion and the first side portion are adapted to be attached to form a cube having opposed, open sides. The opposed, open sides are substantially covered when the collapsible cooking container is in an expanded condition by segments provided to the bottom portion, first and second side portions, and top portion that cooperate to form first and second collapsible sides.

Abstract: A collapsible enclosure includes a roof, a rear wall, a pair of sidewalls, a front wall, each wall having an outside and inside surface and an open bottom. The cover includes heat insulation material covering substantially all of each inside surface of each wall. A hinge pivotally mounts the roof to rear wall and a hinge pivotally mounts each side wall to the rear wall. Bolt fasteners removably attach the front wall between the side walls. A heating element is disposed within the housing. The front wall includes an upper panel and a lower panel mounted together by a hinge in a manner to allow the upper panel to be foldable outwardly and downwardly to position the outside surface of the upper panel against the outside surface of the lower panel.

Abstract: An underground storage tank is lined in situ by first clearing the inner surface of the tank using water jetting. The surface is then inspected and grit blasted. A corrosion barrier coating in the form of glass flakeepoxy resin is applied to a minimum dry film thickness of 1000 microns. An adhesive is applied to the barrier coating and sheets of an HDPE interstitial grid are bonded to the adhesive forming an air gap of about 5 mm. A pliable glass reinforced plastic layer is laid upon the grid. The GRP material is exposed to UV lamps to form an impermeable shell within the tank. A surface coating layer may be applied. A leak detector is installed in the interstitial space defined by the grid.

Abstract: A container assembly for packaging nonliquid material includes a can body that may be filled with nonliquid material and an end panel that is secured to the can body, preferably by seaming. A score line that is formed in the end panel defines a first removable portion and a second nonremovable portion. Structure such as a tab is provided for initiating separation of the first removable portion from the second nonremovable portion at a first location along the score line that defines an axis of symmetry about which separation of the first removable portion from the second nonremovable portion during opening will progress substantially symmetrically. The score line is shaped so that the second nonremovable portion defines a spoon leveling shelf that is shaped and sized to permit a consumer to level a spoonful of nonliquid material. Moreover, at least one exposed edge of the spoon leveling shelf is afforded cut protection by a safety fold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a closure cap (10) for a stationary reservoir neck, especially of an automotive radiator. Said cap has a cap outer part (16) and a cap inner part (15), and the cap outer part (16) comprises a closure element (17) for the reservoir neck and a grip element (18) that permits it to be rotated relative thereto. A torsional stop (19) is provided between the grip element and the closure element (17) of the cap outer part (16). The torsional stop (19) that can be/is engaged under the action of a spring can be disengaged by a thermally or pressure-controlled drive (14). Said drive (14) is disposed in a zone of the cap inner part (15) facing the reservoir interior. A mechanical motion transfer device (70) is arranged between the drive (14) and the torsional stop (19) and extends off-set from the central axis of the closure cap (10).

Abstract: An improved container designed to provide all of the foregoing attributes (including light weight, low cost, ease of use and carrying, and climatic tolerance) while also presenting a virtually impenetrable barrier to animals. One exemplary embodiment comprises a highly resilient, lightweight, one piece polymer (polycarbonate) body or shell having a large-diameter aperture disposed at one end. A threaded, partially flexible lightweight polymer cap element mates with the body; the cap element comprises a tamper-resistant configuration with locking features which prevent rotation of the cap with respect to the body past a certain point. A ridge is formed on the body along the mating region of the cap, the ridge acting to prevent any animal (or human for that matter) from being able to insert anything (e.g., claws) under the cap when installed to pry it off.

Abstract: A container such as a blow-molded plastic can has a flange encircling the top opening, and a flexible membrane lid sealed to the flange. The seal between the lid and the container does not have uniform bond strength all along its length. In particular, the seal has at least one portion having reduced width and hence lower bond strength than other portions of the seal. Consequently, initiation of peeling of the lid from the container can begin relatively easily at the lower-strength portion of the seal. Overall, however, the seal can be relatively strong to resist inadvertent detachment of the lid. Once the peeling of the lid is initiated, it becomes relatively easy to completely detach the lid.

Abstract: An easy-opening container and a closure and method therefor are provided. The closure is bonded to a base portion of the container by a bond that can be weakened by radiation, such as microwave radiation. The bond can be weakened after a retort process or other operation so that the bond and, hence, the container is strong enough to resist the forces associated with retort processing but easily opened by a consumer or other user. Either or both of the closure and the base portion can be formed of plastic, and the container can be hermetically sealed for containing food or for other uses.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a container comprising forming a basket portion of metal mesh material and a rail connected to the basket portion. The rail extends substantially outwardly from the outer surface of the basket portion and the rail extends continuously around the outer surface of the basket portion. In one example, the method includes forming the rail so that it does not contain or surround a free edge of the basket portion. In another example, the method includes forming the rail so that it includes an opening for containing or surrounding a free edge of the basket portion. The method may also include forming a lower rail. The present invention is also directed to a container formed by such method.

Abstract: A tank for cryogenic liquids, which is intended for installation in motor vehicles and which consists of an outer container and of an inner container suspended in the latter in tension or compression struts. In order to take the contrasting requirements in motor vehicles into account in an optimum way, between the outer container and inner container abutments and supporting faces are additionally provided, which can be spaced apart from one another when the vehicle is at a standstill and can be brought to bear when the vehicle is driving. The abutments inside the outer container Co.-operate with supporting faces on the inner container and can be displaced by means of an actuator.

Abstract: A subterranean tank assembly is provided which broadly includes a vessel, a cover, and a riser which is configured to permit the riser to be adjusted in axial length at the job site. The riser is configured to permit coupling of the cover to the topmost connector portion thereof and to a portal of the vessel. The riser includes a plurality of substantially parallel, axially spaced circumferentially extending flanges which mate with the rim of the portal surrounding the opening, whereby the flanges may be fastened to the vessel in lengths intermediate to the initial length of the riser without the necessity of altering the tank or the cover.

Abstract: A spilless caddy having a carved lip that forms an opening in its upper top surface. The caddy is also provided with thumb gripping surfaces formed on an indented portion of the lip and finger gripping surfaces formed on a bottom portion of the caddy located between two spaced apart ridges. When these gripping surfaces are engaged by the thumb and finger of the user, it provides a way in which the caddy can be held in a rigid position in the hand of the user.

Abstract: A pressed glass lid with an attachable knob. A threaded post is molded in glass for purposes of attaching a knob. The threaded post is integrally formed on a surface portion of a lid. The surface portion may be a lid or formed of a conical body. The internal threaded channel of the knob has a diameter greater than the diameter of the threaded post.

Abstract: A remote drinking apparatus includes a cap assembly having at least two concentric bottle caps molded, preferably, as a single unit, a connector tube, which passes concentrically-through the cap assembly, and which is preferably molded unitary with the concentric bottle caps, a drinking tube, which connects to the upper end of the connector tube, and can be routed to the mouth of an athlete or patient, an extender tube, which slideably connects to the lower end of the connector tube, and an aperture or valve, which prevents liquid within a container from spilling, yet allows air to enter a bottle to which the remote drinking apparatus is secured by one of said bottle caps as fluid is withdrawn from the bottle.

Abstract: The present invention is generally comprised of an appliance for holding a bottle and a method of using the appliance. The appliance is generally comprised of a cap member that is removably connected to a container member. In some embodiments of the invention, the cap member has a cylindrical portion adjacent to an opening in the cap member, such cylindrical portion being threaded on its interior surface. In such embodiments, the container member also has a cylindrical portion adjacent to an opening in the container member, such cylindrical portion being threaded on its exterior surface. In such embodiments, the cap member is screwed onto the container member by means of the threads. In other embodiments, the cap member is also comprised of a bottle holding portion that has threads on its interior surface of a size and structure adapted to receive threads on a cylindrical portion of the bottle adjacent to bottle opening.

Abstract: The thermal container in accordance with the present invention is a portable thermal chest such as a cooler having a pedal-operated hinged lid. An articulated linkage is provided between a foot-operated pedal and the hinged top of the chest to allow the chest to be conveniently opened without use of the user's hands.

Abstract: A lid for large size industrial or commercial solid waste containers is mounted to the upper rear edge of the containers by single or double linkages that permit the lid to hang down close to the rear of the container, to reduce the front to rear extent of the assembly when the lid is fully open. A plurality of prop lugs are formed on the underside of the lid and aligned with a rear edge banding which forms a fulcrum support for the prop lugs when the lid is in an intermediate open position.

Abstract: A cover opening and closing mechanism has a shaft portion for slidably engaging a guide groove section, so that a cover is switched between a closed state and an open state relative to a main body. The guide groove section is provided on the main body, and includes two arc-shaped grooves. The shaft portion is provided on the cover, and includes two shafts guided in the arc-shaped grooves. A forcing device is provided between the main body and the cover for urging the cover. When the cover switches from the closed state to the open state, one of the shafts slides toward one end of one of the arc-shaped grooves around the other shaft after the other shaft slides toward the other end of the other of the arc-shaped grooves around the one shaft.

Abstract: A dispenser adapted to dispense sheets as a table top dispenser and convertible into a dispenser configured to dispense sheets from a conventional rolled product fixture is provided. The dispenser includes a housing having sheets provided therein and at least one opening oriented to dispense sheets therefrom. The housing is adapted to be positioned on a horizontal surface such as a table top and dispenses sheets therefrom. The housing includes a platform positioned thereover which is masked due to its appearance as providing at least a portion of the housing. The dispenser is converted into a dispenser for dispensing sheets from a conventional rolled product fixture when the platform is released. The platform is pivotably moved on an axis and a portion of the platform is positioned against the housing such that the housing is supported above the platform on a fixture for dispensing sheets therefrom when coupled thereto.

Abstract: A screw feeder adapted for rapid changeover of the type of screws to be fed. The feeder has a collator section having a floor with slots to collate random screws into rows and an enclosure about the floor for retaining random screws on the floor. The collated screws are fed along the slots into slots in a dispensing section of the feeder where they are then moved in queues to an escapement to be picked off one by one for deposit into a receiver. The collator section floor is oscillated about an axis between a position where the floor slopes downward from a downstream end in the slot direction from an upstream end in the opposed slot direction to a position where the floor slots slope upward to the upstream end.

Abstract: A coin-operated vending machine includes a magazine which stores small boxes or packages of items one on top of the next in columns or stacks arranged in a circumferential row thereof and a dispensing mechanism operable to effectively dispenses such small boxes or packages of items one at a time from a selected one of the stacks thereof. The vending machine also includes a one-way indexing mechanism operatively adapted to limit rotation movement of the magazine to only one rotational direction and a reciprocal locking mechanism capable of coacting with the dispensing mechanism to lock the magazine in a stationary position when a lowermost package is received in the dispensing mechanism from the selected one of the stacks.

Abstract: The present invention provides a paper roll dispenser comprising a tube having an open upper end through which rolls may be introduced and an open lower end through which dispensed rolls may be retrieved. The tube is adapted to hold a plurality of rolls comprising at least a lowermost roll and a roll upwardly adjacent the lowermost roll. A lever member is supported on the tube to pivot on the tube, and is pivotable between a retaining position (in which a lower end of the level engages the lowermost roll and an upper end of the lever is spaced from the upwardly adjacent roll) and a dispensing position (in which the lower end of the lever is spaced from the lowermost roll and the upper end of the lever engages the upwardly adjacent roll). Also provided is a biasing device biasing the lever from the dispensing position to the retaining position.

Abstract: A pill delivery and packing apparatus having a feeder tube for delivering pills is provided. The feeder tube has a helical delivery chute that extends between an inlet side and an exit side of the tube. The delivery chute has a helical inner contour and a rectangular cross section that corresponds to the shape of the pills. The helical delivery chute is configured such that each of the pills rotates while proceeding through the delivery chute, whereby such rotation of the pills prevents jamming of the pills in the delivery chute. Independently extendable pins are used to alternately block and open the delivery chute, thus providing an escapement mechanism for dispensing pills. The tube also has an outer surface defining a helical outer contour that guides a rotatable tray on which pills are disposed. Associated apparatuses and methods are also provided.

Abstract: A cup-dispensing apparatus and system is disclosed that utilizes a front piece that comprises a side-access port into which is reversibly inserted a cup-dispensing insert. This front piece/cup-dispensing insert assembly may be manufactured separately from or integral with other components of a cup-dispensing unit. The cup-dispensing unit comprises a flexible gasket or other cup retaining means that retains the last of a stack of cups in place, against an opposing cup-advancing force developed within the cup-dispensing unit. The use of the side-access port provides for improved performance, maintenance, repair, and aesthetic qualities.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for a liquid product, the apparatus comprising a) a housing (2) or frame (3), b) a receptacle (4) for the liquid with a feed nozzle (4a) arranged substantially stationary with respect to the housing or frame, c) a dosing chamber (11) having an orifice (11a), d) a mechanism arranged to allow at least ejection of liquid through the orifice and e) a through passage (7) arranged to allow the ejected liquid to pass in a direction different from the feed nozzle or opening.

Abstract: A multiple-opening container is configured to facilitate the simultaneous opening of two or more material containing compartments, thus allowing for the material contents within the multiple containing compartments to be suitably mixed upon pouring into another container, such as a pitcher, glass or cup or other like container. As a result of the simultaneous opening and pouring ability facilitated by the multiple-opening container, the time for mixing of multiple materials, such as beverages, fluids, powders or other like contents, can be suitably reduced. In addition, the de-carbonization and/or deterioration or other side affects caused from pre-mixing of the contents can be eliminated.