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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5964291 | Well treatment Chemical treatment agents are supplied to a well or borehole extending through an earth formation by subjecting the well to a fracturing treatment with a high pressure fluid and proppant particles. The proppant particles are thereby trapped in fractures i... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5954222 | Hot water storage tank with replaceable liner A fluid storage tank comprising a main body and covers to close off openings of the main body. The main body and covers have inside surfaces which are, in use, in contact with fluid stored in the tank the main body is made up of a casing and a liner which... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5775031 | Temporary cover for excavations A temporary cover for excavations comprising a platform having a lowermost surface for contact with the ground surrounding the excavation and an uppermost surface and means attached to the platform for securing the platform to a below ground anchor point.... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5777049 | Polymerisation processes and reactors A loop polymerization process or apparatus primarily for vinyl and related monomers in aqueous suspension. The monomers and water are pumped into four rectangular passageway loops (10) operated at a sheer rate above 800 s-1 while sustaining lam... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5740624 | Identification card holder An identification card holder for cards of a defined size is provided. The card holder includes a base plate and a front plate secured in spaced apart relationship to define a card receiving slot to receive an inserted card and a mouth opening at the edge... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5729473 | Method and device for generating colorimetric data for use in the automatic sorting of products, notably fruits or vegetables In a method and apparatus for generating colorimetric data useful in the automatic colorimetric sorting of products, such as fruits or vegetables, each product is illuminated by means of a beam producing a succession of lines of light, the energy reflecte... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724959 | Powder inhaler with specific orifice and baffle arrangement A dry powder inhaler (10) consists of a chamber (12) into which powder is introduced from a metering system, and a mouthpiece (26) through which a patient inhales, connected by a duct (16), so that air flows through the chamber carrying the powder into th... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5707585 | Liquid metal pump and apparatus for use in cleaning and recycling solder A liquid metal electromagnetic pump 17 operates by passing an electric current through the liquid metal in a direction transverse to an applied magnetic field and the longitudinal axis of the liquid metal flow pipe. The direction of the pump is reversible... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5701943 | Manufacture of composite materials Metal matrix composite is made by blending non-metal reinforcement powder with powder of metal or metal alloy matrix material, heating to a temperature high enough to cause melting of the matrix metal/alloy and subjecting the mixture to high pressure in a... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5699986 | Railway crossing collision avoidance system With the vehicle anti-collision system of the present invention, road vehicles in the vicinity of a railway crossing are alerted as a train approaches the crossing. A signalling device operating in conjunction with a GPS receiver located in the train emit... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5688162 | Blast wheels and cages for blast wheels A blast wheel assembly has a bladed rotor and an impeller which rotate together. A cage has an axial and angular wall including an aperture through which in use particulate material passes. The cross section of the aperture is irregular to control the uni... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5682268 | Gas lens A colliding shock wave lens consists of a set of spark gaps capable of generating a number of shock waves in a gaseous medium which coalesce at the centre of the device, forming a region of transitory high density gas. This region of high density acts as ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5673113 | Analysis device for the automatic grading of products, in particular of fruits or vegetables The invention relates to an analysis device for the automatic grading of products, in particular of fruits or vegetables, comprising punctiform lighting means (4, 8, 12) capable of generating a polarised incident beam, means (19) for deflecting the polari... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5658534 | Sonochemical apparatus A liquid is subjected to ultrasound within a stainless steel pipe (35) of wall thickness 2.5 mm. Three ultrasonic transducers (56) are equally spaced around the pipe, each fixed to one end of a tapered resonant coupler (46) with a nodal flange (48) by whi... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5644655 | Identification method and apparatus A method of comparing two nominally identical entities each of which can be represented by an assembly of arcs, comprising the operations of producing images of the entities, analysing each of the images into an assembly of arcs, producing respective data... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5636769 | Negative pressure dispense system comprising a dispense assembly and mateable coupling head A negative pressure dispense system comprises a dispense assembly to be fitted to a drum or other fluid container, and a coupling head to mate with the dispense assembly. The dispense assembly has an air valve to control the ingress of air to the fluid co... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5611283 | Insertion and guidance of a pipe travelling vehicle in the pipe A method for guiding a motor driven wheeled device in a required direction along the interior of a pipe comprises providing the device with a guard, lowering the device with the guard leading through a hole bored in the wall of the pipe to gain access to ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5601235 | Aerosol generator An aerosol generator (10) includes a plate (18) defining an orifice (20) through which a jet of liquid is projected, which breaks up into droplets. The plate (18) is vibrated to control the droplet size, and the size distribution. The droplet size distrib... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5586691 | Combination dispense tap and customer information display Customer information display apparatus is attached to a beverage dispense tap. In one embodiment the dispense tap handle 18 is formed of or includes light transparent and/or light reflective material, a light generating means 22, 30 is attached to the tap... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5584981 | Electrochemical deionization An electrochemical cell (50) for deionizsation utilizes electrochemical ion-exchange to remove ions from a feed solution. Under the influence of an electric field, ions are adsorbed into, are scored within and pass through a permeable layer (54, 64) of pa... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5579332 | Plasma light source A light source including a gaseous medium which is excited to a light-emitting state by means of a microwave electromagnetic field, wherein the electromagnetic field is generated by circularly polarised microwave radiation. A preferred form of the inventi... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5566938 | Artificial curling rink An artificial curling surface comprised of a rectangular-shaped sheet of plastic is disclosed. The sheet of plastic has a target zone and a hack at each end thereof. The sheet of plastic has a pebbled surface adapted to emulate ice pebbles on a sheet of i... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5558474 | Apparatus for discharging particulate material Apparatus 10 for discharging particulate material such as sand has a container 11 for the material, a supply conduit 20 for pressure gas, e.g. air, connected to an inlet 16 and via pipe 17 to an outlet 12 and a flexible discharge conduit 14 leading to noz... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5556491 | Method and device for manufacturing adhesive elements to be applied to a three-dimensional surface for the purpose of decorating it A method for manufacturing adhesive elements intended to be applied to a three-dimensional surface for the purpose of decorating it involves, starting from a three-dimensional model representing the surface to be decorated and physical references thereof,... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5545311 | Filter cleaning An electrically conducting filter medium (20) is cleaned in situ by applying, at intervals, a brief voltage pulse between the medium (20) and a counter electrode (18) so the process liquid undergoes electrolysis. The cleaning process is significantly impr... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5536387 | Silver removal Effluent streams from photographic processes contain both silver and thiosulphate ions, and because of the formation of complex anions it is difficult to remove the silver. The silver may be removed using a cell (12) with a cathode (24) exposed to the eff... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5511692 | Fluid dispense system Disclosed herein is a method of and apparatus for negative pressure dispensing of fluids wherein a dispense valve assembly (12) seals a container (18) and has valves (26) for ingress of ambient air and (38) for egress of dispensed fluid respectively, and ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5512244 | Gas sterilization A method of sterilising objects including the operations of activating a gaseous medium, ensuring that the activated medium is substantially free of charged species and exposing the object to be sterilised to the activated gaseous medium for a period suff... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5504420 | Current-generating apparatus for therapeutic treatments in the field of biophysics and physiology The invention concerns a current-generating apparatus for supplying at least two probes designed to be applied to a part of the human body for the purpose of therapeutic treatment in the field of biophysics and physiology. This apparatus comprises a self-... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5503807 | Gas activation An apparatus for producing chemically active species by passing a precursor gaseous medium through a plasma at pressures of at least 50 millibars is described.... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5499687 | Downhole valve for oil/gas well A downhole drilling device utilizing a spring-loaded sleeve within a casing for controlling circulation of fluid material. A plastic, i.e., deformable ball is used to block a flow opening in the sleeve for positioning the sleeve and aligning flow ports. S... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5495710 | Dual-flow turbine engine equipped with a thrust reversal system and a device for restricting the annular channel for the ejection of cold gases, and a restriction device equipping such a turbine engine The invention concerns a dual-flow turbine engine equipped with a thrust reversal system and at least one device for restricting the annular channel for the ejection of cold gases. According to the invention, each restriction device, consisting of a fitti... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5483160 | Eddy current testing system with scanning probe head having parallel and normal sensing coils An eddy current testing system consists of a multi-sensor probe, a computer and a special expansion card and software for data collection and analysis. The probe incorporates an excitation coil, and sensor coils; at least one sensor coil is a lateral curr... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5479969 | Apparatus for dispensing substances which are biologically hazardous A dispensing apparatus comprises a robot device (14) having gripping means (20a, 20b) presentable to a plurality of stations, each station being adapted to provide an operation in a sequence of operations such as to produce a measured quantity or dose fro... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5473948 | Flow measurement The movement of particles carried along with a fluid is detected by isonifying a region of the fluid with pulses of ultrasound, and detecting pulses of ultrasound scattered by an individual particle from successive transmitted pulses. The difference in ar... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5470756 | Gas sensors SnO2 gas sensors are described incorporating Bi2 O3 in an amount less than 35% but sufficient to confer hydrogen sensitivity and selectivity to the sensors described comprises 25% by weight Bi2 O3 and... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5464708 | Titanium dioxide-based material Electrochemical insertion of lithium into titanium dioxide initially in its rutile form, the insertion being performed at an elevated temperature (for example 120° C.), produces a material Lix TiO2 with x between 0.5 and 1.0. This m... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5462573 | Valve seat inserts of sintered ferrous materials Sintered ferrous materials are described having a composition in wt % lying within the ranges of C 0.8-1.5/W 1-4.4/Mo 1-4.4/V 1-2.6/Cr 1.3-3.2/Others 3 max./Fe balance. The material may be made by a method comprising the steps of mixing between 40 and 70 ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5461776 | Method of manufacturing piston rings A method for the manufacture of piston rings, includes the steps of producing a tube and machining the desired ring free shapes on the inner and outer diameters of the tube providing desired cross sectional profiles by grinding, for example, and then cutt... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5450943 | Apparatus for handling elongate articles Apparatus for moving axially elongate articles, such as nuclear fuel pins, between work stations and comprising aligned rollers forming at least two substantially parallel paths tranversely spaced apart. Drive devices are provided for axially moving the a... | 09/19/1995 |
