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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186077 | Heating apparatus, heating method, and computer readable storage medium A disclosed heating apparatus for heating a substrate on which a film is coated includes a process chamber having a gas supply opening for supplying a first gas to the process chamber and a gas evacuation opening for evacuating the first gas from the process chamber... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7370957 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus which includes a recording head, and forms an image by ejecting printing liquid including a volatile organic compound (VOC) from the recording head onto a recording medium, wherein the ink jet recording apparatus includes a volatile or... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7354146 | Dryer Structures and methods are disclosed for at least partially forming an image on a media disposed on a platen, directing air from a dryer at the platen, and circulating the air from the platen back to the dryer. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7241003 | Media drying system having a heated surface and a directed gas flow A drying system and method are provided. The drying system includes a plenum and a gas source in fluid communication with the plenum. A gas flow guide is attached to the plenum and is operable to direct gas flow provided by the gas source. A support includes a surfa... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7220397 | Modified oxygen reduced valve metal oxides Pressed material such as anodes are described and formed from oxygen reduced oxide powders using additives, such as binders and/or lubricants. Methods to form the pressed material are also described, such as with the use of atomizing, spray drying, fluid bed process... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7181862 | Sol-gel process for the production of glassy articles Glassy articles are prepared by subjecting to hydrolysis and policondensation a solution or suspension of a suitable precursor, mainly comprising a silicon alkoxide, and by drying the obtained gel in a pressure chamber, the gel solvent having been substituted by a n... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7086727 | Heat fixing apparatus for sublimating and fixing sublimating ink to recording medium A heat fixing apparatus has a heating unit for heating a recording medium having a substrate, a fixing layer and a surface layer so as to sublimate sublimating ink applied in advance to the surface layer for transferring the sublimated ink to the fixing layer. The h... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7052124 | Ink assist air knife In operating an inkjet printing mechanism, media passes through a printzone including a support apparatus supporting the media thereat. When passing through the printzone, print imaging is applied by application of ink from an ink dispensing element and onto a surfa... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6877249 | Method of drying a lactulose solution A method of drying a lactulose solution comprises introducing the solution into a vacuum chamber at elevated temperature and at reduced pressure so that the solution forms a foam, drying the foam under reduced pressure, and milling or grinding or breaking the dried ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6463674 | Hot air impingement drying system for inkjet images A dryer uses a two-phase drying system having a brief water condensation interval, followed by impinging parallel laminar recirculating hot air jets which impinge on wet ink to increase the copy rate of inkjet printing and to increase the quality of the p... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6151798 | Process and apparatus for spray drying or spray cooling In a process and an apparatus (1) for spray drying or spray cooling of the so-called Filtermat.RTM. type, a more uniform product layer (7) is achieved by collecting and/or treating the product on a screen means (8, 14, 19) providing a pressure difference ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6138377 | Apparatus and process for cooling and de-steaming calcined stucco The present invention is an apparatus and process for cooling and de-steaming hot calcined stucco used in the production of gypsum boards or bagged plaster. The apparatus is a fluid bed stucco cooler and comprises a cooler housing having a plenum with two... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6052919 | Process for making granulate of polymeric material In a process for making plastic granulate, a polymeric material is plastifyed into a plastic mass which is divided into single plastic strands. After pressing the plastic strands in a stream of cooling liquid, the plastic strands are shredded in the cooli... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5656498 | Freeze-dried blood cells, stem cells and platelets, and manufacturing method for the same The present invention provides a method for manufacturing freeze-dried blood cells, stem cells and platelets comprising the steps of: pre-treating a liquid selected from the group consisting of blood including blood cells, bone marrow fluid (hemopoietic s... | 08/12/1997 |
| 4305502 | Pharmaceutical dosage form packges The invention relates to packages containing shaped articles carrying chemicals, particularly to pharmaceutical dosage forms carrying pharmaceuticals. The shaped articles, which disintegrate rapidly in water are contained in depressions in sheets of filmi... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4286378 | Process for producing a body of sintered TiO2 for resistive gas sensor A titanium oxide resistive-type exhaust gas oxygen sensor having a unique microstructure of interlocked highly irregular, flake-like particles forming a highly durable porous body preferably having a surface area greater than about 3 square meters per gra... | 09/01/1981 |
| 3981934 | Method for drying trinitrotoluene Aqueous trinitrotoluene is dried by means of air which is passed through the melted trinitrotoluene by passing the melted trinitrotoluene over a porous area and forcing hot air from below through the porous area and the melted material. The porous area is... | 09/21/1976 |
