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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7185610 | Heated flooring module for livestock stables A heated flooring module is provided for livestock stables, which includes an upper plaque, for walking on, which is essentially level; a hollowed central section, with no bottom surface, whose upper surface is equipped with at least one continuous runnel, adapted t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7165509 | Hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment and method of use A hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment includes a building providing protection from weather elements. The farrowing boxes have an entrance to permit free ingress and egress of female hogs but restrain the piglets. An alley is provided outside the boxe... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7013837 | Method for building environment-affinitive pigpen and pigpen structure A pig pen structure has a walking passage and a plurality of pig houses for housing an animal installed along the walking passage. Each pig house has an evacuation room, a lodging room having front, back, and two side walls, and an evacuation room gate installed bet... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6095235 | Heating element for a floor A heating element (12) is described for use in flooring, preferably for pigstys (3). The heating elements consist of a liquid filled chamber (16). The liquid in the chamber is brought into heat transmitting connection with a conduit (24) connected with a ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5832875 | Pig raising apparatus with heated cuddle and comfort surfaces Apparatus (10) for use in enticing baby pigs (42) to rest and sleep at a safe distance from a sow (38) includes an elongated partition (12) with first and second elongated cuddle surfaces (16) that are disposed on opposite sides of the partition (12), fir... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5766466 | Sectors for rotary disc filters having flow channels that are parallel and aligned toward elongate side channels at radial sides of the sector The present invention pertains to rotary disc filters and in particular to sectors for such filters. Drainage channels are formed in broad, planar surfaces of the filter media support member of the sector, with the drainage channels being parallel and ali... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5687534 | Frame element and insertion element for stables A modular flooring system for stables is made up of a plurality of modules that each include a frame element (1) and an insertion element (30). Each frame element (1) is equipped with supporting profiles (6,7) intended for the support of the insertion ele... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5622138 | Multi-crate pig farrowing facility An artificial sow apparatus that substitutes for a divider panel between the creep areas of adjacent farrowing crates and provides both heat and alternative food and liquid in close association with one another is described in two embodiments. In both emb... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5456209 | Preformed heated flooring system for stables and other animal shelters The present invention is a preformed, shaped part that forms a surface for farm animals to stand on in stables. The preformed parts are made to interconnect into an intermediate floor for mounting on a grating. The preformed, shaped part, when assembled, ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5371340 | Low energy animal heating pad with directional heat transfer A heating pad for pets and livestock that includes a plastic surface and an envelope containing a reflective insulation upon which is mounted an electric heating circuit. The reflective insulation includes layers of foil and bubble insulation to store, di... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5092271 | Heating pad A heating pad for example for animals particularly piglets in a farrowing crate comprises two vacuum formed sheets which lie parallel one on top of the other with a shallow compartment therebetween. A pipe where heating fluid passes into the compartment t... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4495892 | Incubator for piglets Pig incubator includes a container formed of a substantially rectangular housing with an interchangeable floor plate and a curved cover in the upper section of which an insert is provided which extends into the interior of the cover and carries a heating ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4348986 | Farrowing pens A pallet is provided for farrowing pens and structured to prevent the sow from crushing newborn piglets. The pallet comprises an enthickened central portion having a flat upper surface and laterally sloping side panels extending downwardly and outwardly f... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4254737 | Slotted floor section with built-in means adapted for heating weaned pigs in nursery Slotted floor sections formed of reinforced concrete and commonly referred to as gang slats, are provided for underlying and serving as a floor for pig nursery pens and wherein conduit means are embeddedly built into respective end sections of the gang sl... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4252082 | Slotted floor section with built-in means adapted for concurrently heating litter and cooling sow in farrowing house Slotted floor sections formed of reinforced concrete and commonly referred to as gang slats, that underlie and serve to support farrowing crates within a farrowing house, are provided with conduit means embeddedly built in the gang slats for circulation o... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4217859 | Slotted floor section with built-in means adapted for heating litter in farrowing house Slotted floor sections formed of reinforced concrete and commonly referred to as gang slats, that underlie and serve to support farrowing crates within a farrowing house, are provided with conduit means embeddedly built in side sections of the gang slats ... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4135339 | Slatted floor system According to the present invention, a slatted floor system comprises a plurality of elongated, spaced, generally parallel slats. Each slat has a top, load-carrying surface with spaced apart, opposite outer edges; a bottom surface substantially parallel to... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4018271 | Flooring system A flooring system for sties and other animal shelters having thermoplastic slats, means provided in the slats for circulating a heat exchange fluid therethrough to heat or cool the flooring, means for joining the slats into a floor panel, and manifolds fo... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4013044 | Rearing units An animal rearing unit enabling early weaning comprises a rectangular body with a cage or cages inside it, with air inlet means at one end of said body and air outlet means at the opposite end. A controlled temperature air heating device is provided in a ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3995592 | Piglet weaning There are disclosed housings for use in weaning piglets including walls, a roof and, at the bottom of the housing, an electrical heater lying flat underneath a surface providing at least a part of a floor for the housing. In one of the examples, the heate... | 12/07/1976 |
