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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4654469 | Special purpose bellows assembly A bellows assembly to house and shield an electrical cable, and a connector attached thereto, from the effects of an electromagnetic pulse. The assembly includes: an expansible and contractable cylindrically shaped, flexible, bellows-like component made o... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4370854 | Fuel valve A valve assembly for controlling the flow of a liquid fuel. The assembly includes a spring-biased movable valve member made of tungsten carbide, a captured sleeve member also made of tungsten carbide, and a readily accessible filtering screen member dispo... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4359199 | Soft landing gear A bogie type landing gear especially suitable for providing soft landing capabilities for short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft wherein fore and aft wheels are mounted on opposite ends of a bogie which is pivotally attached to the lower end of a vert... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4343448 | All radial construction for continuous ribbon parachutes A continuous ribbon parachute construction including a series of substantially triangular gores having a plurality of parallel arcuate horizontal ribbons which are joined to make up a circle whose center is on the axial center of the parachute. Each side ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343593 | Composite blade for turbofan engine fan A turbofan engine fan blade made of composite material, and a method of making the fan, are taught. The fan blade essentially comprises an airfoil section having a root end and made of a plurality of bonded plies of composite material which are splayed an... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4340197 | Decoy missile A decoy missile having a high moment of inertia with a corresponding reduction of the natural oscillation frequency for simulating reentry of a ballistic nose cone into the earth's atmosphere. High density ballast material disposed in the forward section ... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4338711 | Brake adjuster tool A brake adjuster tool including a set of dies and a pneumatic press for assembly and disassembly of a main landing gear brake adjuster. The assembly operation requires only two steps saving considerable time while presetting the adjuster pin automatically... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4331391 | Lens system having wide angle objectives Wide angle optical objectives for use in aerial mapping cameras to provide improved resolving power and improved contrast rendition derived from the pattern of glass types and lens data employed. The outermost elements are weakly positive menisci to produ... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4327884 | Advanced air-to-surface weapon An unconventional advanced air-to-surface weapon of monowing configuration, and having a symmetrical, high lift fuselage of lenticular (i.e., biconvex or oblate) cross section, with a width-to-thickness fineness of approximately 2.5. The longitudinal prof... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4319809 | Symmetrical 1:1 photographic objective lens An objective lens system of the Double Gauss type wherein negative lens elements are symmetrically disposed on both sides adjacent the stop, each negative element being a cemented doublet comprising a double convex negative and a positive lens element. A ... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4310121 | Exhaust nozzle actuation assembly An actuation assembly for selectively varying the throat area of a convergent-divergent exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine and simultaneously achieving predetermined fixed ratios of throat area versus exit area. The assembly structurally comprises a p... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4302796 | Low drag integration of laser beam pointing device into aircraft A laser beam pointing system, adapted for use in an aircraft. A preferred embodiment of the system includes: a laser beam source, within the aircraft, emitting a laser beam; and, a plurality of laser beam pointing devices in optical alignment with the las... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4299166 | Containment and release device for fluids A dispenser retains a hermetically sealed metal canister which holds a pyrophoric fluid, radar chaff, other electronic countermeasure materials or a combination thereof for ejection from an aircraft. Several openings in the canister are sealed with Pyrofu... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4299158 | Last round detection device The device is for use with an ammunition storage drum for a modern multi-barrel high rate-of-fire machine gun (i.e., "Gatling" type gun) system, in which unfired ammunition rounds are transported from the drum to the gun, and the cases of the spent ammuni... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4290568 | Aircraft ejection seat safetying device The device retains the ejection seat arm/dearm lever in safe position to allow the seat to be tilted safely for required maintenance and repair work. A bolt positioned through a clearance hole in an inverted U-shaped base member engages threads in the eje... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4290302 | Biaxial shear force gauge A gauge for use with a test specimen that is made of a preselected ablative material to be tested, and that is in a high temperature gaseous flow (i.e., a hot environment) which is capable of ablating the test specimen, and which also is capable of induci... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4290756 | Dental twist-lock pin and drill A twist-lock pin for improving the retention and resistance characteristics of plastic dental restorative materials and a drill for drilling a tapered hole into sound tooth structure whereupon the geometrically similar but oversized left-hand threaded pin... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4289287 | Fixed skewed wing airborne vehicle Improvement to a fixed-wing airborne vehicle which results in significant delay drag rise well into the transonic regime. The fundamental features of the improvement include: fixedly skewing the wings at 45 degrees; shaping the outboard ends of the wing t... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4288845 | Aerial refueling receptacle floodlights-spoiler and fuselage, nose mounted A floodlight illumination system, in structural combination with a fuel-receiving aircraft having an aerial refueling receptacle, that permits efficient and effective in-flight night refueling of the aircraft. The illumination system comprises: a selectiv... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4285111 | Bearing puller alignment tool The tool is useful for the replacement of the lateral control torque tube bearings on high performance aircraft. The bearings are pulled into position into the bulkhead in a straight line thereby preventing them from becoming jammed because of the angle o... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4285633 | Broad spectrum vibration damper assembly fixed stator vanes of axial flow compressor Undesirable vibrations of stator airfoil vanes circumferentially disposed in annular rows, and fixed at their ends by a sectored outer shroud and a sectored inner shroud, in an axial flow compressor of gas turbine engine are damped by a damper assembly th... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4283988 | Tail carriage of stores A system for carrying and rearwardly launching and/or ejecting a store from an aircraft while flying at low altitudes. The store which may be in the form of a bomb, pod, missile, etc. is mounted at the top of one or more vertical stabilizers at the aft en... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4284254 | Low profile precision actuator A precision actuator of minimum thickness which provides high output force with low input torque and includes a single-piece metallic rhombus with a drive assembly made up of a right-hand threaded rod that passes through a right-hand threaded side apex of... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4279164 | Metallurgical specimen tester A plurality of cantilever beams, each fitted with a calibrated strain gage, are arranged to pivot on a corresponding plurality of upstanding pivots located near one end of each beam of a steel plate. A cylindrical specimen threaded at each end is disposed... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4278948 | Autopointing laser system An autopointing laser system utilized in the tracking and/or detection of objects having a stationary flat reflector, a pair of parabolic reflectors, and a telescope reflector, all in optical alignment with each other. When the telescope reflector is also... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4275859 | Optical dome protection device A conical shaped, screen-like structured device that is positioned over, and forward of, the rain-erodible, thermal shock-susceptible optical dome of an optically guided missile which travels at varying speeds, from sub-sonic to and including supersonic, ... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4275263 | Electrically insulating structurally strong bushing assembly An electrically insulating, structurally strong bushing assembly for use at the chassis mounting interface of an electronic chassis, especially a Low Power RF chassis requiring a single point electrical ground, includes a specially machined epoxy-glass bu... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4274612 | Multiple diameter wire bundle support A clamp fabricated of a springy material having two curved arms attached at a common anchoring point with a series of equally spaced holes along the length of the arms. A first pin extending inwardly and located on the outer extremity of the first of the ... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4274098 | Loss-free scanning antenna A system for, and a method of, scanning a collimated beam of electromagnetic radiation with a very large primary reflector of an antenna system without loss (i.e., with zero phase error) and without moving the primary reflector. The system is a two dimens... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4273352 | Combination push and tow bar A combination push and tow bar/hitch assembly including a pair of spaced apart parallel outwardly extending mounting bars pivotally attached at their lower ends to the front frame of a motor vehicle. A first transverse brace member is positioned between t... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4273183 | Mechanical heat transfer device A unidirectional heat transfer device for use between an electronic assembly on an aircraft and the skin and/or pod on the aircraft. The device includes a thermal decoupler mechanism which operates to disengage a retractable interface heat transfer surfac... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4273026 | Gun alignment adjusting device A device for mechanically adjusting a gun with respect to a separate sighting means. The gun has a gimbal mounting and a double eccentric mounting arrangement, whereby the gun can be adjusted or aligned to a specific relationship with the sight, and once ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4273419 | Light-scattering disc collector A light-scattering disc collector member useable in converting a classical (coherence-dependent) microdensitometer to a linear (mode) microdensitometer that is coherence-independent. The member is made of material that is transmissive, non-absorbing, and ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4261535 | Streamline afterbody for an ejection seat The ejection seat on a high performance aircraft is provided with a plurality of inflatable air bags on the back of the seat. The air bags are generally elliptical in cross-section and arranged one above the other in two parallel vertical rows on a suppor... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4258578 | Floated, internally gimballed platform assembly The azimuth shaft of an internally gimballed, gyro-stabilized platform assembly is maintained rigid by keeping the uniquely structured inertial instrument-mounting components neutrally buoyant in a flotation liquid that is captive within a spherical shape... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4257265 | Self-stressed mode 1 fracture mechanics test piece Two radial cuts are made in a disc-shaped solid, the wedge (or sector) thereby produced is removed, and the exposed faces of the radial cuts are forced into contact with each other. By bonding (or welding) together the faces of the radial cuts, a self-str... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4256363 | Speckle suppression of holographic microscopy An apparatus for, and a method of, reconstructing and viewing a speckled holographic image through a microscope, with the result that the speckle of the holographic image is significantly reduced, without loss of resolution of the image. A finely-structur... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4251721 | Pattern and threshold speed calculator A circular disk type calculator for determining the proper approach speed for a particular aircraft within a specified range of gross weights and flap settings. The calculator includes three superposed circular disks pivoted for independent rotation about... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4250608 | Label insert aid A device for inserting a typed or printed label into a label holder on the upper edge of a file folder including two, thin, flat, elongated, juxtaposed clamping blades and a handle on one end. The blades possess some spring action to normally urge them to... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4245911 | Economical fast scan spectrometer A slow scan, frequency limited spectrometer having a screw mechanism for driving a rotatable grating is improved by incorporating and interlinking the following new constituent members with the screw mechanism: a cylindrical cam member with a groove and a... | 01/20/1981 |
