Abstract: Mouthfeel can be improved by processing a beverage product having an insoluble food component with a static mixer. The beverage product can be a soy beverage containing insoluble protein components. The static mixer serves to reduce the average particulate size of the insoluble food component.

Abstract: A coffee grinder has a lower body with an opening for receiving coffee beans and a removable coffee bean container mounted on the lower body. The container has a discharge opening which, in situ, communicates with the opening in the body. A grinder is located in the body in communication with the opening for grinding coffee beans into smaller coffee grounds. A closure is located with the coffee bean container for selectively closing the discharge opening when required.

Abstract: A portable grill and cooker which can be transported on a vehicle's trailer hitch, on a separate trailer, or used as a free-standing stationary grill. This grill can also be used to bake, griddle fry, deep fry, boil, steam, smoke, and barbeque different foods. The grill can utilize propane, wood, or charcoal to provide a heat source for cooking. It includes a storage compartment as well as wheels/casters on adjustable-height legs to permit relocation easily, and a trailer hitch adapter which permits easy hookup and raising without the user having to physically lift the grill by hand.

Abstract: A rotisserie cooking device for use in an oven includes a food holding member. At least one motor is operatively linked with the food holding member. At least one thermopile is associated with the motor. The at least one thermopile provides energy for driving the at least one motor for rotating the food holding member.

Abstract: A sling fabricated of a high temperature flexible material such as silicone is used to support foodstuff such as a turkey for roasting and draining. The sling has a central portion with a relatively large area and narrower handle portions, which run in opposite directions from opposite sides of the central portion. The turkey or other foodstuff is wrapped in the central portion. The central portion has apertures formed therein. These apertures are surrounded by knobs, which raise the central portion off its support so that drainage through the holes is facilitated. A rack having a support with apertures for the foodstuff may be provided, this rack being attached to the handles so that it is supported by the sling and enables drainage in the oven and is removed with the turkey from the oven for drainage subsequent to roasting.

Abstract: A blender for blending foodstuff comprising a motor housing that encloses an electric motor and has a first end and a second end. An upper housing is attached to the first end of the motor housing. The motor housing includes a fan driven by the motor controlled by a plurality of switches positioned behind a flexible cover. A transparent base having translucent base feet and an open bottom partially surrounds the motor housing and has a first end. The first end of the base is clamped between the upper housing and the first end of the motor housing to thereby solely suspend the motor housing from the first end of the base. A shroud is positioned partially around the motor within the motor housing. The fan draws air through the open bottom of the base into the second end of the motor housing and then around and outside of the shroud into the open top of the shroud to thereby cool the motor. The air is then directed out through the open side portion of the shroud and then sealingly vented to atmosphere.

Abstract: A smoker for use in cooking food having a firebox and a smoking chamber connected together in a heating relationship for providing heat and smoke to the smoking chamber, at least one openable access door and at least one removeable divider covering an opening in the smoking chamber for sealing the chamber and providing access thereto.

Abstract: A food receptacle and modular heating apparatus 10 adapted to retain, heat, and dispense a quantity of food products 12 on a first-in-first-out (FIFO) basis, and to be facilely dismantled by a human user, including a main housing 20 defining an interior space 30, an inlet 22 and an outlet 24, and further including manually removable inlet and outlet doors 26,28, a heating module 14 manually disconnectable from the housing 20 and configured to heat the products 12 by introducing heated air in the space 30 within a minimum distance from the outlet 24, and a manually removable false bottom 32 and interior baffle 34 for directing products 12 away from the inlet 22 and towards the outlet 24.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an adjustable hydraulic press with both upper and lower double action, specially suitable for the cylindrical gear formed by stamping or expanding, closed forging and the metal cold forming or metal hot forming of punching, finishing, flanging and drawing of sheet materials. The press comprises four columns, an upper beam, a main slide block, a hold down slide block, a fixing worktable, a floating worktable and a lower beam. The hydraulic chamber of master cylinder fixed in the upper beam communicates to the hydraulic chamber of the auxiliary cylinder, the plunger of master cylinder is connected to the main slide block and drives it. The hydraulic chamber of gas-liquid power accumulator fixed in the main slide block communicates to the hydraulic chamber of hold down cylinder, the plunger of hold down cylinder is connected to the hold down slide block and drives it. The plunger of ejecting cylinder fixed in the lower beam is connected to the floating worktable and drives it.

Abstract: A split-trash compacting system for a vessel having a plurality of compartments comprising a trash compacting assembly disposed in a first compartment of the vessel readily accessible to persons on the vessel for receiving and compacting trash. At least one fluid actuator unit is provided for forcing the compacting head downward into a trash bin for compacting trash during a compaction cycle and retracting the compacting head during a retraction cycle. A fluid actuating assembly is disposed in a second compartment of the vessel remote from the trash compacting assembly for supplying pressurized fluid to the trash compacting assembly for actuating the fluid actuator unit. At least one fluid line connecting the fluid actuator in the first compartment and the fluid actuating assembly in the second compartment.

Abstract: An inkjet printing press is provided which can hold sheets extremely stably. An inkjet head 3 is provided at the outer periphery of a printing drum 1 rotated in one direction. The printing drum 1 is provided with holding claws 15 which are opened and closed to hold the leading end of the sheet S and clamps 21 which can be opened and closed for clamping the trailing end of the sheet S. When the clamps 21 are moved from their open position to closed position, the clamps 21 are moved backward with respect to the rotating direction of the printing drum 1 to impart a tensile force to the trailing end of the sheet S and tighten the sheet so that the trailing end of the sheet is held by a clamp 21 with the sheet in its tight state. Also, the clamp 21 is brought into contact with the periphery of the printing drum 1 by an attracting means to assure the holding of the sheet.

Abstract: A screen mask includes a screen mesh with a tensioning force of 196 to 392 N/mm; a tension mesh with a tensioning force of 49 to 98 N/mm; a resin plate (fixing part) arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the screen mesh for fixing a part of the tension mesh with a tensioning force of 392 to 980 N/mm; and a screen frame. A length Ls of the screen mesh in a first direction intersecting a direction in which a squeegee squeegees on the screen mesh when performing a screen printing is 0.6 to 0.9 times a length Lt of the tension mesh in the first direction, a length Lk of the resin plate, the length Ls, and the length Lt in the first direction satisfy a relationship Lk=a(Lt+Ls)/2, where “a” is a coefficient in a range of 0.5 to 1.2.

Abstract: In a process for producing a printed design creating 3D visual effect, a compound consisting of a printing ink blended with magnetic particles is used. The printing ink containing the magnetic particles is applied onto a printing plate on a printing apparatus, and a tool capable of producing a required magnetic force is positioned at a predetermined area of the applied printing ink, so that the magnetic particles in the printing ink are attracted and gathered to form ups and downs in the area and create a 3D visual effect.

Abstract: A printing machine utilizes several printing couples to produce at least one printed image on a printed material. Compensation for at least one of a longitudinal elongation and a transverse elongation of the printed material is accomplished. An anticipated elongation of the printed material is compensated for by matching of a printed image placement, with respect to length, width or position, with an imaging system generating the printed image placement on a printing forme.

Abstract: A rotary body protecting apparatus includes first and second rotary bodies, a cover, a cover detection unit, an optical detector, and a control device. The second rotary body is arranged in the same axial direction as that of the first rotary body and rotates while opposing the first rotary body. The cover opens/closes an opposing position of the first second rotary bodies. The cover detection unit detects a closed state of the cover. The optical detector is close to the opposing position of the first and second rotary bodies and arranged in the vicinity of the ends of the first and second rotary bodies. The optical detector includes a light-projecting portion which projects light in the axial directions of the first and second rotary bodies, and a light-receiving portion which receives the light from the light-projecting portion.

Abstract: A two-ended ink stamper has at least one handle with at least two ends. A first frame and a second frame are provided, and each frame is disposed adjacent to a different one of the ends of the handle. Each frame extends in a different direction from the handle. At least two platens are respectively operatively attached to, and disposed within, one of the frames for selective movement within the frame between a non-marking position and a marking position. Each platen is secured to the handle and extends outward from a different end of the handle. Thus, moving the handle moves the platens relative to the frames and between non-marking and marking positions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a jacket for any one of an impression cylinder and a transport cylinder of a printing press, which jacket is wound around any one of the impression cylinder and the transport cylinder of a printing press so as to prevent ink from adhering to the cylinder, the jacket produced by plating the front side of a sheet-shaped base having convex and concave portions thereon with a metal having ink-repellent particles dispersed therein, in a manner that the convex and concave portions on the front side of the sheet-shaped base are left.

Abstract: A liquid actuator, which contains: an electrolyte layer (14, 114) containing a liquid, two or more electrically separated electrode parts (13a, 13b, 113a, 113b) on one or both sides of the electrolyte layer, and a water-repellent layer (12, 112) having a porous structure on an outside surface of at least one of the electrode parts, in which the electrolyte layer (14, 114), the electrode parts (13a, 13b, 113a, 113b), and the water-repellent layer (12, 112) form a structural body, wherein voltage is applied across the plural electrode parts (13a, 113a) including the one provided with the water-repellent layer (12, 112), and the applied voltage is adjusted to change the superficial wettability of the structural body.

Abstract: A method is described of constructing a machine-readable document. The method comprises applying a machine-readable document construction process to input documents comprising a first, template machine-readable document and a second, variable data containing machine-readable document to produce an output machine-readable document binding the variable data to the template, storing the content of said output machine-readable document at a storage location and assigning an identifier to the output machine-readable document identifying storage location.

Abstract: A method for erasing the surface of a rewritable printing form within a printing press in which the form cylinder carrying the printing form rotates during the erasing process, wherein the erasure is performed over the course of two main erasing steps. That is, a first main erasing step is performed during the run-down of the form cylinder upon completion of a printing order, whereupon the second main erasing step performed, for which purpose the form cylinder is again driven after it has run down.

Abstract: A method of compensating for vibration-induced circumferential-register errors in a sheet-fed printing press includes compensating for at least one vibration-induced deviation of an actual angular position of a cylinder from a nominal angular position by adjusting the circumferential register of at least one printing unit, in particular of the cylinder. For this purpose, the current vibration state of the sheet-fed printing press is determined, the effect of the determined vibrations of an integer order on a position of color excerpts on a sheet of printing material is calculated, and the compensating circumferential-register adjustment required in accordance with the result of the calculation is carried out. A sheet-fed printing press for carrying out the method, is also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a blasting system which includes a plurality of electronic detonators which are configured in a blast array which has at least one row and a plurality of detonators in the row, each detonator including a memory in which is stored at least a respective identity code which is dependent, at least, on the row on which the detonator is, and on the detonator's position in the row, a harness which interconnects the detonators, and at least one control unit, connected to the harness, which generates a signal to fire the detonators.

Abstract: The present invention (2) is a small arms caliber and/or power reducing device for using a primer (18) to fire a projectile (21) and thence directionally guide the trajectory of said projectile from a firearm (1) the barrel bore of which may be substantially larger than the caliber of said projectile. The present invention may be adapted by selecting appropriate external dimensions, internal dimensions and form factors to enable its use with any existing breech loading small arm chambered for center-fire cartridge ammunition. The present invention may be constructed of two parts: 1) An adapter sleeve (10), and 2) a chamber (14), and intended to be re-loadable for multiple uses. Alternatively, the present invention may be configured as a single piece, fabricated with a primer and a projectile disposed therein, and intended to be used one time and discarded. Suitable primers may include Standard Small Rifle or Small Pistol Primers, Standard Large Rifle or Large Pistol Primers, or Standard 209A Shotgun Primers.

Abstract: A flat terminal for a guideway transit system is provided. The flat terminal comprises a gateway 24 connected to a guideway 20 through which a vehicle 10 moves, and through which the vehicle is driven in and out to enter/alight passengers, entering/alighting platforms 30 at which the vehicle stops at the gateway 24 to enter/alight the passengers or freights, and a waiting room 42 provided on the same plane as the entering/alighting platforms 30. Therefore, it is possible to install a single story structure terminal, rather than a two-story structure terminal, and install the gateway or the entering/alighting platforms at the exterior of the building since a movement of the vehicle does not overlap a passageway of the passengers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a safety device for train platforms, which is installed on a safety line of a platform of a subway station or a railway station so as to be raised and lowered. When a train has reached to boarding position of the platform, wire ropes (200) of the device are raised to allow passengers to board. When the train departs from the platform after the passengers have finished boarding, the wire ropes (200) are lowered to ensure the safety of passengers remaining on the platform. The safety device includes a wire rope raising/lowering means (100), two or more wire ropes (200), a wire rope holding means (300), and a wire rope control means (400). The wire rope raising/lowering means (100) has frames (110) secured upright at predetermined positions between a train entrance and a train exit of a platform which a train approaches, with a movable assembly (130) provided in each of the frames (110) so as to be moved upwards and downwards along the frame by a drive means (120).

Abstract: A truck apparatus for a railway car includes a pair of wheel sets each having a pair of wheels joined by an axle. A frame is provided for carrying one end of a railway car body and a system positions the frame in a pendulum fashion from each axle end in order to independently decouple, from each other, vertical, lateral and longitudinal forces applied to the frame by the wheel sets during operation of the railway car.

Abstract: A composite wire for producing a wear resistant and corrosion resistant coating on a substrate by thermal spraying, spray and fuse, or welding techniques are disclosed. The physical properties of the coating are particularly suited for high-temperature erosion-corrosion environments. The resultant coating exhibits good hardness, toughness, and bonding characteristics. The composite wire comprises a metallic outer sheath and an inner core containing boron carbide and chrome carbide.

Abstract: A pigmented phase change ink composition comprising an ink carrier, a dispersing agent, and pigment particles. The ink can be resistant to substantial aggregation and settling of the pigment particles in the melt and even when exposed to freeze thaw cycles.

Abstract: A liquid composition including: a radical polymerization inhibitor; a solvent; and a surfactant, wherein the content of the radical polymerization inhibitor is 0.1 to 50% by weight.

Abstract: A phase change ink having an ink vehicle, at least one colorant at least one triamide and at least one bis-urethane. The at least one triamide and at least one bis-urethane assist in dispersing colorants, such as pigments like carbon black, in non-polar ink vehicles. Also, disclosed are methods of making such phase change inks.

Abstract: A phase change ink having an ink vehicle, at least one colorant and dispersants, such as at least one polyalkylene succinimide, at least one triamide and/or at least one rosin ester. The dispersants assist in dispersing colorants, such as pigments like carbon black, in non-polar ink vehicles. Also, disclosed are methods of making such phase change inks.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for applying optical brightening agent (OBA) to a sheet of paper or paperboard substrate. The process comprises applying the composition comprising a cooked starch and a powdered optical brightener to at least one surface of a paper or paperboard substrate at the size press in a paper or paperboard manufacturing process to form a sized paper or paperboard substrate; and drying the sized paper or paperboard substrate to form a dried sized paper or paperboard substrate.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersion obtainable by placing in water an aggregated titanium dioxide powder having a specific surface area of from 20 to 150 m2/g in such an amount that the desired dispersion comprises at least 20 wt. % titanium dioxide, and at least onc amino alcohol having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and at least one carboxylic acid from the group comprising dibasic carboxylic acids and/or hydroxycarboxylic acids having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms,—the amino alcohol being present in the dispersion in an amount of from 2.5 to 7.0 ?mol./m2 specific surface area TiO2 and the carboxylic acid being present in an amount of from 1.0 to 3.5 ?mol./m specific surface area TiO2,—producing a pre-dispersion by introducing energy in an amount of less than 200 kJ/m3 and then producing a dispersion in which the aggregated titanium dioxide powder has a mean, volume-related aggregate diameter of less than 150 nm by grinding the pre-dispersion by means of a high-energy mill at a pressure of at least 500 bar.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-redispersible dispersion powder compositions based on polymers of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers, wherein one or more gemini surfactants are present.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cement mortar composition and concrete composition and particularly, it provides a cement mortar composition comprising 100 parts by weight of cements, 100 to 300 parts by weight of glass beads, and 50 to 200 parts by weight of blending water and a concrete composition comprising the cement composition and aggregates. The cement mortar composition and concrete composition of the invention have excellent fluidity with the use of a small amount of blending water so that they can promptly migrate in the direction of gravity in a mold complicated with steel rods and other wires, prevent material separation and remove bubbles present inner or outer areas due to superior filling performance, can remarkably improve waterproof property of mortar (or concrete) and prevent their degradation.

Abstract: A composite structural material suitable, for example, as a replacement for wooden boards, sheets, or posts, is disclosed. It comprises a dimensionally stable core material substantially surrounded by a dimensionally stable, laminar covering that is adherent to the core material. The laminar covering is comprised of at least one band of substantially parallel reinforcing cords bonded to at least one layer of a dimensionally stable web material selected from the group consisting of rigidified paper and rigidified cloth. Preferably the band of reinforcing cords is sandwiched between two layers of rigidified paper or cloth. The core material can be, for example, a foamed synthetic resin with or without filler. A continuous process for manufacturing the material is disclosed.

Abstract: Blow molded plastic structures are provided for use in various structures such as, but not limited to, tables, chairs, walls, backboards, storage bins, sports equipment and the like. The blow molded plastic structure has a first surface and a second surface extending between a first end and a second end and forming a chamber there between. A plurality of depressions is formed on the second surface and extends into the chamber. The depressions are usually unitary structures formed by a depression wall. Generally, the steeper the depression wall, the more strength is provided to the structure. In addition, where the plurality of depressions has a low profile and a greater density, increased strength is provided to the structure. The depressions may or may not be joined to the first surface.

Abstract: A folding table has a top shelf with a primary bracket pivotably attached to the top shelf and to a base. A top brace extends from the primary bracket and clips to the top shelf while a bottom brace extends from the primary bracket and clips to the base. The folding table collapses into a compact configuration. A folding shelving system has shelves mounted upon two opposing support sides. A typical shelf is pivotally attached to the support sides at one end and clipped at another end. The sides may be rotated to engage or release the shelf from the clip. The shelving system collapses to a compact configuration. A quick assembly cart has two opposing side structures that are secured in a spaced-apart parallel arrangement by removable connecting tubes.

Abstract: On a first furniture part, a first connector having an extending tab with a bolt hole transversely therethrough and having a bolt receptacle partially therethrough as well as a recess located parallel with the extending tab; and on a second furniture part, a second connector identical to the first connector and having an extending tab with a bolt hole transversely therethrough and having a bolt receptacle partially therethrough as well as a recess located parallel with the extending tab, the spatial orientation of the second connector being rotated 180 degrees with respect to the first connector during connection of the first connector and the second connector such that the extending tab of the first connector is matable with the recess of the second connector with the bolt hole of the extending tab of the first connector in alignment with the bolt receptacle of the extending tab of the second connector to receive a first bolt, and the extending tab of the second connector is matable with the recess of the fi

Abstract: A portable safe for assembly with an apertured member includes a safe housing and a safe door. The safe housing has an internal cavity extending to an access port, and at least one opening configured to align with at least one aperture of the apertured member. The safe door is securable to the housing to substantially block the access port. The safe door includes a locking mechanism having at least one locking member secured in a housing engaging position when the locking mechanism is in a locked condition. The at least one locking member is movable to a housing disengaging position when the locking mechanism is in an unlocked condition. The safe door further includes a lock interface that is selectively operable to move the locking mechanism from the locked condition to the unlocked condition.

Abstract: A cloth holding device including a support frame (11) made of magnetic material and a presser frame (12), clamping a workpiece cloth therebetween, including an attachment unit (13, 14) that attaches the presser frame (12) to the support frame (11) by magnetic attraction; and a positioning unit (12c) that positions the attachment unit (13, 14) to the presser frame (12).

Abstract: An apparatus to measure and display the pressures developed on the surfaces of a boat sail. This apparatus uses an electronic module that attaches to the sail to measure and calculate the surface pressures or differential pressure and transmit this data via wireless link to a separate display unit. The display unit provides a visual display of the measured pressures and a peak indication of the maximum or minimum pressures measured.

Abstract: A steering system for a vessel is provided. The steering system includes an electric motor assembly and a steering linkage for transmitting the rotational output of the electric motor assembly to the vessel's rudder. The steering system may include at least three linkage members. The steering system may provide a variable output torque that corresponds at least partially with the variable required torque of the rudder at different rudder angles. The steering system may partially decouple the electric motor assembly from vertical movements in the rudder. Embodiments may include additional motor assemblies and steering linkages. The additional motor assemblies and steering linkages may provide an opposing force to reduce flutter within the system and/or be used to reduce the load of any one electric motor assembly.

Abstract: A method for preparing and assembling parts of a skin for a curved structure, and apparatus for use in connection therewith. A gantry may be used to carry cutting torches and welder heads along predetermined paths to cut skin plates accurately into skin parts and to weld the skin parts together again after they have been fastened to internal frame elements.

Abstract: An actuator that at least inhibits the deleterious effects of corrosive fluids, such as seawater, does not rely on relatively expensive materials, and is capable of operation and relatively high pressures includes two sealed buffer chambers. One buffer chamber is supplied with a buffer fluid, and the other buffer chamber is maintained at a vacuum pressure. The buffer fluid in the first buffer chamber helps remove any residual corrosive fluid that may remain on the actuator translation member as it moves into the actuator housing, and any fluid that leaks into the second chamber will boil as a result of the vacuum pressure therein.

Abstract: An improved kayak provides a rigid open cockpit hull with air chambers attached to the hull. The air chambers provide a generally convex shape for increased maneuverability and also provide cushioning against impact to reduce the risk of injury to the kayak pilot. The air chambers allow for an open cockpit kayak with an exterior surface having a similar shape as a conventional closed cockpit kayak, providing a similar level of maneuverability and allowing for completion of maneuvers such as rolling the kayak from an inverted position in the water.

Abstract: A privacy screen for use on a bass boat to cover the cockpit area for use as a toilet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a boat roof, in particular a yacht roof, on a boat deck, the boat roof having a roof element. The roof element can be raised via a pivoting mechanism with a lifting unit, by pivoting about a pivoting spindle in order to produce, for deck areas remaining as a result, an opening gap between the roof element and the remaining deck area. The invention also relates to a boat with a boat roof of this type.

Abstract: A multi-piece bottom trim member secures a curved sheet element such as a boat windshield on a surface such as a boat hull. The trim member includes a base member securable to the surface and including a supporting leg, and an upper member including a base member receiving channel that is shaped to receive the supporting leg of the base member.

Abstract: A cover system for enclosing an opening on a boat is disclosed. The cover system includes at least one body portion. A plurality of fasteners are attached to the at least one body portion for attaching the cover system to the boat. At least one flexible portion is attached to the body portion. The flexible portion is operable to stretch when the fasteners are attached to the boat to enclose the opening.