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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 |
| 5594938 | Universal TV interface for switch of broadcast video distribution (and related method) A multi-purpose interface apparatus for a television receiver for digital or analog, broadcast or switched video distribution systems is provided which eliminates the necessity of having the user operate a separate set-top cable converter at the location ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5576536 | Image forming apparatus including motor-driven rotary scanner and system for judging if motor rotation comes to steady state and for maintaining rotation at steady state A polygonal mirror is rotated by a brush motor, and a laser beam deflected by the polygonal mirror is detected by a sensor for generating a signal which determines a printing start position of each scanning line. The rotating speed of the motor is proport... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5570972 | Traffic barricade and flasher light assembly with combination flasher light mounting apparatus and carrying handle A combination mounting flange and handle for attaching a flasher light unit to a plastic traffic barricade is disclosed herein. A handle is integrally molded to each of the barricade panels to allow for convenient dismantling and transportation of the bar... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5557391 | Image forming apparatus for producing duplex or composite prints with improved efficiency by feeding sheets at shortened intervals An image forming apparatus includes a feeder for feeding a new paper accommodated in a feeding cassette, an image forming device which forms an image on the paper fed by the feeder, an intermediate container which temporarily accommodates the paper fed by... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5555197 | Video signal processor and method for processing a scanning line regardless of the synchronizing signal A coprocessor is incorporated in a processor comprising a CPU, an instruction cache, a data memory, a bus controller, an interruption control section and a DMA controller. This coprocessor has a parallel sum-of-products arithmetic operation section, a com... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5551433 | Method and apparatus for a geometric aberration transform in an adaptive focusing ultrasound beamformer system A method and an apparatus are provided for storage and retrieval of measured aberration correction values used in adaptive focus ultrasound imaging. The aberration correction values, corresponding to an aberration region in an imaged subject, are measured... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5552876 | Apparatus and method for forming superimposed images and copying machine equipped with apparatus Disclosed is an image processing apparatus by which a first image corresponding to first image information and a second image corresponding to second image information are superimposed one on the top of the other, the apparatus comprising a scanning devic... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5552865 | Charging device and method for charging a charge-receiving member by a charging member by discharge therebetween based on difference in electric potential between the charging member and the charge-receiving member A charging device and method in which a charging member, for example, of a brush, plate, film or roller type, for charging a charge-receiving member is disposed at a predetermined distance from the charge-receiving member. The distance is adjusted at not ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5551680 | Sheet sorting apparatus with rotating cam member A sheet sorting apparatus of a moving bin type for sorting sheets received successively from a sheet delivery station into collated sets, which apparatus comprises. This sheet sorting apparatus includes a plurality of trays stacked one above the other in ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5549098 | Glass range top-seal system A reliable, easily installable and replaceable range top system sealingly and removably connects a sealed glass panel to the structure of a range top. The system comprises a glass panel-elastic seal assembly, including a glass range top panel and an elast... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5549645 | Peritoneal dialysis catheter clip and method The present invention relates to a device for securing the terminal end of a catheter extension (300) used by a peritoneal dialysis patient. The Cosentino Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Clip (3CDP) (100) consists of a rigid plastic body (100) open at both t... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5546976 | Condensate trap installations A condensate trap installation comprises a condensate trap 6 and one or more further components such as a strainer 8 and a check valve 10. The condensate trap 6 and the further components 8, 10 are placed in face-to-face engagement at end faces 30 and cla... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5544824 | Pulverizer A pulverizer is provided with: a ring-form rotary hammer supported by a rotary shaft and having a pulverizing blade including a plurality of concaves and convexes on its outer surface; a liner fixed so that a gap is left between the rotary hammer and the ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545454 | Optical information recording medium and method of designing its structure Phase-change-type optical recording medium comprises a first dielectric layer, a recording layer made of a phase change material, a second dielectric layer and a reflecting layer wherein the thicknesses of the first and second dielectric layers are determ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545417 | Natural carbohydrate gum hydrolyzate coated chewing gum A chewing gum pellet coated with a coating of natural carbohydrate gum hydrolyzate material, wherein the material is selected from the group consisting of guar gum hydrolyzate, locust bean gum hydrolyzate and karaya gum hydrolyzate. The coating may also i... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545415 | Low moisture chewing gum compositions containing erythritol Chewing gum containing gum base, powdered erythritol, flavor and less than 2% moisture has an improved shelf life, i.e., does not absorb significant amounts of water from the atmosphere to soften with age, or give off significant amounts of water to the a... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5543302 | Proteases of altered stability to autolytic degradation Proteases are susceptible to autolytic degradation. The method of the invention provides a method to identify susceptible autolysis sites which are cleaved to produce a few discrete fragments. Once identified, amino acid(s) at or in the vicinity of the cl... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5543938 | Facsimile apparatus and method for transmitting information to a plurality of destinations An information transmitting method in a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention comprises a first step of reading image information of an original to be transmitted, a second step of accepting an entry for specifying a destination to which ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5543934 | Apparatus and method for respectively recording digital video and audio signals in both ends portions and middle portion of each inclined track of magnetic tape In an apparatus and method for recording inputted digital video and audio signals of one field, which are synchronous with each other, onto a plurality of inclined tracks of a magnetic tape using a plurality sets of helical scan type magnetic heads provid... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5541723 | Distance measuring device A distance measuring device according to the present invention includes a light projector, a controller, and a light receiver. The light projector projects light toward an object to be measured, and the controller controls the light projector to carry out... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539767 | Semiconductor laser device The present invention relates to a semiconductor laser device on which a high-frequency signal can be superposed without radiating said high-frequency signal externally. Said device consists of a semiconductor laser element mounted directly or indirectly ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5538742 | Multi-phase sheeted chewing gum and method and apparatus for making The invention is a multi-phase, sheeted chewing gum product, a method and an apparatus for making such a product. The product includes a first mass of a chewing gum formed in a generally flat sheet and a second mass of a confectionery product having a dif... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537345 | Mathematical function processor utilizing table information An input register holds, as an input operand to be square rooted, a floating-point number with an exponential radix is 2. An approximation of the reciprocal of a square root is retrieved from a table information store unit by an address composed of a leas... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537553 | Method of and apparatus for bus control and data processor In a processor having a central processing unit, an instruction cache and a data cache, a bus controller is provided for controlling giving and receiving of a signal between internal instruction and data buses and external bus. Upon concurrent miss of ins... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533253 | Apparatus and method for mounting an air-core coil In order that an air-core coil is sucked by a nozzle with its terminals being horizontal, the terminals of the air-core coil are brought into contact with horizontal regulating surface at the time of the suction or after the suction. The lower end surface... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535013 | Image data compression and expansion apparatus, and image area discrimination processing apparatus therefor An image signal compression apparatus which divides image data into plural blocks, encodes each block, orthogonally transforms the image data by each block, and outputs the transformation coefficients. Blocks which contain text and blocks which contain do... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534675 | Power supply system for electric discharge machines A power supply for an electroerosion machine having a switching element which controls the machining current in the gap. The value of the current is compared with a predetermined voltage and the signal generated based on this comparation is provided to a ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534637 | Starting materials for prepartion of sulfonylurea derivatives and process for preparing the same The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing sulfonylurea derivatives of formula (I) in a high purity and a high yield characterized in that a sulfonylchloride of formula (V) is reacted with 2-amino-4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine of formula (VI... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534162 | Method for disposal of biological waste A method and apparatus are provided for removing liquids from biological waste by the employment of centrifugal force to separate the liquid from the biological waste particulate and into a container separate from a biological waste container, permitting ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533428 | Ratchetable open-ended wrench A wrench allows the user to apply sequential strokes to a rotatable element such as an hexagonal nut or bolt without removing the wrench from the element--. The wrench has a head with two jaws adapted to engage the rotatable element. A spring-m... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5530975 | Method of lifting a patient with a sling A sling for a patient lifter has a generally U-shape with two leg straps and at least two side straps to permit the positioning of the patient in a comfortable position. The side straps are located on opposite sides of the sling and include at least two l... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533034 | High speed data transfer device having improved efficiency One data transmitter for transmitting a broadcast data onto an outside data bus and data receivers, whose number is "n", for individually receiving the transmitted broadcast data are provided. A single error signal line is connected in common to the data ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532841 | Facsimile apparatus comprising a plurality of image reading units A facsimile apparatus includes a plurality of image reading units, each reading an image and converting the read image into image data, and a main controlling unit for receiving image data through a communication line and transmitting the received image d... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532798 | Charging device having a plate electrode and a cleaning device for cleaning edges of the plate electrode A charging device with a plate-like electrode having a plurality of protrusions, the charging device having a cleaning device including cleaning members which are positioned bilaterally to the electrode and grip the electrode therebetween to clean. The cl... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532790 | Device for optically detecting an amount of remaining developer in an image forming apparatus A device for detecting the residual amount of a developer has a developer storing vessel, a light-emitting element for projecting a light for irradiation from the outside to the inside of the vessel, a light-receiving element disposed outside the vessel a... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532789 | Electrostatic copier having a marking unit for indicating unnecessary print matter on once-used paper The image forming apparatus, in forming an image on the blank surface of a recording paper the one-side surface of which has an image already formed thereon for the purpose of promoting further utilization of the recording paper, forms on the aforemention... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532675 | Alarm tester The present invention relates to a device and method for testing circuitry, such as that provided in an alarm system. The present invention tests the circuit by providing a momentary or a continuous trigger. The testing device of the present invention is ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5530560 | Image forming apparatus wherein images are formed on front and back faces of a paper such that they can be observed in a normal orientation In an image forming apparatus having a two-face copy mode wherein document images are formed on front and back faces of a paper, a direction of an image such as portrait or landscape in a document is set by a user or according to a document size, while a ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530955 | Page memory device capable of short cycle access of different pages by a plurality of data processors A plurality of data latch circuits each used to store row data for one page from a memory cell array are provided, each data latch circuit being allotted to a data processor. An address is given in a multiplexed manner of a row address RA and a column add... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530670 | Semiconductor memory device and control method for the same In a semiconductor memory device of a multiple-output port type including a plurality of read buses, data in a write bus are sequentially written into write registers, and the thus written data are transferred to the even-numbered bit-line pairs of a memo... | 06/25/1996 |
