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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D538155 | Container | 03/13/2007 |
| 7137229 | Floorboards with decorative grooves Floorboards consisting of a core and a surface layer with decorative joint edge portions which are formed by removing the surface layer. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7082296 | Method for sustaining radio frequency (RF) based communications connectivity during network outages A method and system are disclosed for ensuring data availability for a plurality of programmable radios that are waveform agile and that are capable of operating over a plurality of different data links. An enterprise network management tool makes a determination of... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7073948 | Roller bearing A roller bearing (e.g., a cross taper roller bearing) includes an outer ring, an inner ring and rolling elements (e.g., taper rollers) located between the inner and outer rings. The rolling elements are kept at a distance by a cage formed from a number of individual... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066648 | Bearing arrangement A bearing arrangement is provided with an area to be supplied with lubricant from a lubricant reservoir via a lubricant line. The lubricant reservoir has a number of individual reservoirs in which a portioned amount of lubricant is contained with closure to the lubr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059770 | Guide rail for a linear bearing A guide rail for a linear bearing has at least one rail element with a guideway for rolling bodies. The rail element is connected to a plastic body or borders the plastic body, with the plastic body forming the base body of the guide rail. To increase the precision ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059774 | Plain bearing bush A plain bearing bush possesses a hollow cylindrical shape and includes a first hollow cylindrical part of a first material and a second hollow cylindrical part of a second material, with the second hollow cylindrical part being coaxially surrounded by the first holl... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048639 | High moment of inertia putter A golf putter head has a generally triangular shape where a ball-striking leading wall has a first breadth greater than a second breadth of a trailing wall. The leading wall and trailing wall are interconnected at their respective opposite ends by sidewalls that con... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042033 | ULSI MOS with high dielectric constant gate insulator MOS transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and method of fabrication are provided. The device includes (a) an interfacial layer formed on the substrate; (b) a high dielectric constant layer covering the interfacial layer that com... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032445 | System and method for automatically measuring and tracking a feature of material used during a manufacturing process A feature of paper used in the production of a cigarette and the effect of the feature on the finished cigarette is automatically measured at specific locations along the paper, and data related to the measurement is stored in a database file. Indicia including the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032810 | Sealed package for pourable food products There is described a sealed package (1, 15) for pourable food products, formed from a multilayer packaging material (2, 16) and having an opening (10, 26) closed, on the inside of the package (1, 15), by a sheet element (11, 27), a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7021572 | Process and installation for warm dehulling soya The invention relates to a method for warm dehulling soya and other bean fruits and for subsequently grinding them, as well as to corresponding installation. The invention can simplify the process and the design of the installation. To this end, the fruits and heate... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017796 | Method of manufacturing paper packaging container and paper packaging container A paper packaging container is obtained by tube forming with a longitudinal seal of web-shaped packaging material. The package is filled with liquid food, and a transverse seal of the tube packaging material is made to form a pillow-shaped preliminary shape containe... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017734 | Apparatus and a method for marshalling out individual objects from a row of objects The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for marshalling out individual objects (1) from a row of such objects (1). The apparatus includes two pusher arms (8) placed one on each side of the row of objects (1). The apparatus also... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994898 | Packaging container packaging laminate and a method of producing a packaging container A packaging container for a pressurized, liquid food, the packaging container being formed from a packaging laminate which includes at least one core layer of paper or paperboard displaying one major fibre orientation in a first direction thereof. According to the i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6979132 | Cylindrical roller bearing and process for its assembly A cylindrical roller bearing includes an outer bearing ring, an inner bearing ring and cylindrical rollers located between the outer and inner bearing rings. One of the rings has side rims forming an axial stop for the cylindrical rollers. The bearing ring on which ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973218 | Dynamic range compression A method and apparatus for processing image data is described, comprising acquiring a frame of image data and compressing the dynamic range of the frame of image data using a dynamic range compression (DRC) algorithm that utilizes down-sampling, median filtering, an... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6961481 | Method and apparatus for image processing using sub-pixel differencing A method of processing image data is described. The method comprises receiving first image data corresponding to a first image and second image data corresponding to a second image, wherein pixels of the first image data and pixels of the second image data are regis... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6813782 | Safety device and system for head and neck stabilization A helmet restraint and head and neck support system is provided for a driver of a racecar which restrains the forward, downward and lateral movement of the driver's head when subjected to large deceleration or other impact forces. The system includes a helmet for re... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6730395 | Magnetic tunnel junction using nanoparticle monolayers and applications therefor A fundamentally new magnetic tunnel junction technology based on the use of magnetic nanoparticles is disclosed. The hard layer of the device is composed of the nanoparticles, while the junction insulating barrier is composed of a carbon-based coating on the nanopar... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6728608 | System and method for the creation of a terrain density model A system and method of constructing a density map is disclosed. The density map is a cellular grid representing local terrain, wherein each cell contains a density vector representing the density of portion of the terrain corresponding to the cell. The density map c... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721131 | Composite write pole for a magnetic recording head A main write pole for a perpendicular recording head for use with magnetic recording media includes a main body portion of a material with a low magnetic moments, a trailing edge of a material having a high magnetic moment and a non-magnetic de-coupling layer thereb... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6682104 | Interference coupling for a hose Disclosed is an improved handle for a clothing steamer which solves the problem of steam delivery hose working free of a barbed fitting. The handle is fitted with a plurality of protrusions that impinge the outer diameter of the hose, thereby securing it ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6681532 | Modular bi-fold door The present invention is a door adaptable for work spaces in a modular work area environment. The door is bi-fold in design, can be attached to any flat surface, and is particularly suited for attachment to the flat end portion of the modular wall separat... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6661620 | Differential CPP sensor A differential sensor for reading data from a magnetic medium is disclosed. The sensor comprises two GMR multilayer structures biased in opposite directions, such as to show the transitions between binary states recorded on the media as the media flows un... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6566347 | Controlled release pharmaceutical The present invention provides a controlled release pharmaceutical composition comprising a polydextrose, a drug that is complexed with the polydextrose, and a polymer matrix having the drug complexed with the polydextrose, wherein the polymer matrix and ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6566725 | Thermal isolation using vertical structures This invention relates to the construction of microfabricated devices and, in particular, to types of microfabricated devices requiring thermal isolation from the substrates upon which they are built. This invention discloses vertical thermal isolators an... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6394553 | Adjustable armrest assembly with single adjustment lever An armrest assembly for a chair which can be adjusted in multiple aspects with the use of single actuating mechanism. The adjustment aspects of the preferred embodiment include a vertical adjustment with respect to the chair and a horizontal rotational ad... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6301130 | Modular multi-level adjustable supply with parallel connected active inputs An improvement in a power drive is disclosed that allows four quadrant operation with reduced harmonics. The power drive has a multiphase, non phase shifted transformer with a single common input connected inductive reactance. Multiple series connected po... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6235234 | Device and method for enhancing zinc yield from dross A device for removing dross from the surface of the molten metal and for extracting usable elemental metal from the dross. The device comprises a container in which the dross is collected, a means for lifting the container out of the molten bath of metal ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6098247 | Plastic extrusion having unitary thermoplastic rubber and thermoplastic sections An improved extrusion having a flexible section of thermoplastic rubber, a substantially rigid section of thermoplastic unitary with the flexible section at a juncture of the sections, and tongue and groove means for increasing the surface area of the jun... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6090343 | Triphasic composite and method for making same A method for fabricating a triphasic composite such as a WC/Co/diamond composite with a high volume fraction of diamond in a WC/Co matrix. The method involves sintering of a WC/Co powder compact to develop a porous preform, which displays some rigidity an... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6059268 | Bumper system for limiting the mobility of a wheeled device A bumper for limiting the limiting the mobility of a wheeled device. The bumper is an elongated member having a base wall and an elastically resilient wheel engagement wall coupled to the base wall. The wheel engagement wall includes an outer surface and ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6034001 | Method for etching of silicon carbide semiconductor using selective etching of different conductivity types A method for selective conductivity etching of a silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor includes forming a p-type SiC layer on a substrate layer, forming an n-type SiC layer on the p-type SiC layer, and photoelectrochemically etching selected portions of the... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5746144 | Method and apparatus for nox reduction by upper furnace injection of coal water slurry In a method for reducing NOx in the flue gas a coal water slurry is injected into the furnace above the primary combustion zone into a region having a temperature from 1800° F. to 2700° F. The slurry is preferably injected through atomizers and through ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5743506 | Carpet protector A carpet protector to support furniture and reduce damage to a carpet thereunder is provided. The carpet protector in accordance with the present invention generally includes a deformable receiving portion and a rigid base. The receiving portion preferabl... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5529267 | Railway structure hazard predictor A hazard predictor that processes both rail and superstructure measurements to predict some potentially hazardous conditions on a railway structure. Measurement is collected in real time with the aid of fiber optic sensor based linear array mesh, and proc... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5507456 | Reduced harmonic switching mode apparatus and method for railroad vehicle signaling A signaling apparatus that includes a transmitter having a step-square wave generator for generating a signaling waveform, which waveform is composed of a plurality of square wave signals, and which has an information signal encoded thereupon. The apparat... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5501416 | Method and apparatus for inductively receiving cab signaling on board a railway vehicle A cab signaling apparatus for use on board a railway vehicle which is propelled on rail tracks by an electric drive motor. The invention utilizes a cab signal transmitted to the vehicle through a track circuit in the rails. On board receiving of the cab s... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5467654 | Method and apparatus for determining the operating speed of a rail vehicle The present invention provides a generally contactless method and apparatus for producing a speed reference for a rail vehicle which amenable to retrofit applications. The invention utilizes a laser source to direct a laser beam on a portion of the wheel ... | 11/21/1995 |
