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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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| 8141270 | Gas flow rate determination method and apparatus and granular material dryer and method for control thereof Methods and apparatus for determining flow rate of air or other gas through a conduit independently of conduit cross sectional area include providing apparatus for and measuring temperature of the air or other gas at a first position along the conduit; providing app... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8056258 | Cord drying method and cord drying apparatus for carrying out the same A cord drying apparatus dries cords for forming cord-inserted bands, such as belts and components of tires, such as carcasses. A plurality of cords C unwound from a plurality of reels 1a held in a wheeled creel 1 are passed through guide holes f... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056257 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, and a cleaning-liquid supply unit that supplies a cleaning liquid containing hydrofluoro ether onto a substrate to be processed placed in the chamber. In the chamber, there is further disposed a gas supply unit th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8011114 | Vehicle dryer with butterfly inlet valve A vehicle dryer includes an energy-conserving rotatable inlet butterfly valve to selectively admit or block air to a fan encased in a blower housing. The valve includes a plate mounted on a shaft that extends across the inlet portion of the blower housing. The plate... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7966746 | Needle penetrable and laser resealable lyophilization method A device and related method are provided for lyophilizing a substance within the device and storing therein the lyophilized substance. The device is penetrable by a needle for filling the device with the substance to be lyophilized, and a resulting needle hole in th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7921577 | Method and apparatus for drying sprinkler piping networks A sprinkler system and a method for mitigating scaling, microbiological influenced corrosion and oxidative corrosion are disclosed. The system includes a piping network in fluid communication with a source of pressurized water and an air pump. The network is vented ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7644512 | Systems and methods for drying a rotating substrate A method of drying a surface of a substrate is provided. The method includes supporting and rotating a substrate; applying a liquid to the substrate surface at or near a rotational center point via a liquid dispenser (so that a film of the liquid is formed on the su... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7198655 | Method and apparatus for thermally upgrading carbonaceous materials Carbonaceous materials are thermally upgraded in a pressurized steam environment to remove moisture and other byproducts. A variety of water/solid separation devices may be employed in a process vessel to maximize moisture removal from the upgraded charge. Heating m... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7118764 | Process for cooking/drying high-amylose starches The subject of the present invention is a process for preparing pregelatinized high amylose starch, comprising the steps consisting of: forming a suspension comprising a high amylose starch and water; subjecting th... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7098157 | Method and apparatus for thermally treating disk-shaped substrates A method and apparatus for thermally treating disk-shaped substrates, especially semiconductor wafers, in a rapid heating unit having at least one first radiation source, which is spaced from a given substrate for heating the substrate. The substrate is heated in a ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6912800 | Autoclaving prefilled syringes A container which is to be autoclaved has a shiftable plunger that defines a compartment filled with a fluid. The container is confined in a pressurizable chamber and heated so as to change a pressure in the compartment of the container. The pressure in the compartm... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6892474 | Method for controlling air conditioner In drying the interior of an indoor unit, room humidity (Rh) is detected by a humidity sensor, and a drying operation cycle, in which after first heating operation, which is weak heating operation in which a compressor included in a refrigerating cycle is operated a... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6804900 | Method for drying microstructure member Method for drying a microstructure member having many micro concavities in a surface, the micro concavities containing water, includes adjusting the temperature of liquid inside the micro concavities to a temperature in the range of the cloud point of a surfactant Â... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6789330 | Apparatus and method for drying solutions containing macromolecules An apparatus and method for quickly drying solutions in one or more arrays of vessels includes a manifold that receives gas and a base plate that receives the one or more arrays of vessels. The manifold includes one or more hollow tubes that direct the gas into the ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6790291 | Method of and apparatus for processing substrate In a substrate processing apparatus for use in performing a reduced-pressure pull up drying method, a liquid drainage pipe (46) for draining a drainage liquid containing an organic solvent from a processing chamber (26) including therein a processing b... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6772537 | Pressure-heat drying method and an apparatus therefor An object of the present invention is to provide a pressure-heat drying method which allows a catalytic substance and the like to be deposited uniformly onto a workpiece to be dried in a dramatically short time as compared to a prior art method, and also an apparatu... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6670402 | Rapid aerogel production process Methods of more rapidly producing aerogel products by means of a rapid solvent exchange of solvent inside wet gels with supercritical CO2 by injecting supercritical, rather than liquid, CO2 into an extractor that has been pre-heated ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6588229 | Method for controlling heat treatment in process of fabricating high purity silica glass Disclosed is a method for controlling a heat treatment in the process of fabricating a high purity silica glass via a sol-gel process using a low temperature heater having an inhalation line and an exhaust line. Accordingly, the method includes the steps ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6497054 | Upgrading solid material Solid material, e.g., coal, is upgraded, e.g., the water content reduced and the BTU value increased, by a method comprising the steps of: (a) supplying the solid material to a reactor; (b) heating the solid material in the reactor under water saturation press... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6449871 | Semiconductor process chamber having improved gas distributor A process chamber 25 for processing a semiconductor substrate, comprises a support for supporting a substrate 50. A gas distributor 90 provided for introducing process gas into the chamber 25, comprises a gas nozzle for injecting process gas at an incline... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6432267 | Wet crepe, impingement-air dry process for making absorbent sheet A wet crepe, impingement-air dried process for producing absorbent paper sheet is disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the process utilizes recycle furnish and the web is delaminated as it is wet-creped from a Yankee dryer. Particular embodiments include ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6409929 | Steam drying of rotary filter cakes without crack formation Apparatus and a method are presented for the mechanical removal of moisture from a filter cake. Differential pressure causes the flow of a treatment fluid through the filter cake. The treatment fluid displaces liquid originally present in the filter cake ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 5817184 | Industrial cleaning apparatus and method A cleaning apparatus capable of supplying on a substantially continuous basis an anhydrous agent and water to an area to be cleaned. The cleaning machine includes an inner enclosure disposed in an interior chamber of an outer enclosure. The outer enclosur... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5761827 | Method and apparatus for creating air flow in a wall, ceiling, or floor around a pipe extending from the wall, ceiling, or floor Air flow in a hollow wall, ceiling, or floor is created by forcing air into or drawing air out of the wall, ceiling, or floor through a hole around a pipe through which the pipe extends from the wall, ceiling, or floor. The apparatus of the invention incl... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5655466 | Method and configuration for facilitating the fuel feed into a pressurized space A method and configuration suited to feeding a water-containing fuel such as peat or brown coal into a pressurized space such as a pressurized dryer or a high-pressure gasifier. A fuel with a high moisture content requires drying in a dryer prior to gasif... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5361515 | Method of drying a protective polymer coating applied onto a surface of an article from a solution, and device for effecting thereof The method and apparatus operate to complete the following stages. At the first stage the coating is held at room temperature in the time interval from 20 s to 1 hour, depending on the type of polymer coating. At the second stage the coating is held at an... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5269076 | Balanced draft vent system for kiln A balanced draft vent system for a lumber kiln is shown and described wherein external and internal air pressure differential is taken into account in conjunction with internal humidity measurement in providing a balanced volumetric exchange of cool moist... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5188856 | Method of drying lumpy agricultural products After a thermal treatment the products are subjected to an overpressure treatment of at least 10 seconds. Afterwards, an expansion is effected from the state of overpressure directly to the state of vacuum, wherewith the cells are opened such that the sub... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5172487 | Method for continuous drying of a material and an assembly for carrying out said method A method for the continuous drying of a material. The temperature of the material is adjusted to below the boiling point of the material at atmospheric pressure. The material is fed into a vacuum chamber and led through the vacuum chamber without a heat s... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5167248 | Dishwasher relief valve A relief valve is provided in a dishwasher for relieving an overpressure condition in the washing chamber of the dishwasher. The relief valve includes a cap portion fitting over a chimney opening and a base portion slidably extending into the chimney. The... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5088387 | Fluidized bed fluid pressure regulator A method and apparatus for venting purge fluid from an enclosed housing to maintain a positive known reference pressure differential between the housing and the variable pressure atmosphere surrounding the housing. The apparatus utilizes a specially desig... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4849185 | Catalytic converter with multiple removable catalyst panels Apparatus for effecting high temperature catalytic conversion treatment of exhaust gases flowing in a large volume exhaust path comprising a plurality of separate catalyst panel assemblies, and a panel support assembly arranged to be mounted within the ex... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4635379 | Method of drying material using an indirectly heated system The invention relates to a method of drying particle material in a bed under pressure by indirect heating. The method according to the invention is carried out so that the steam driven off from the material is superheated with heat of a higher temperature... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4552529 | Device for pressure measurement in a pressurized container To prevent the tube to a pressure measuring means from being blocked by solid material mobile in a pressure container, a small part of the clean pressure medium from a source of such medium is injected into the tube so that the tube is continuously purged... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4521977 | Method and an apparatus for extracting gases and vapors from a drying hopper filled with bulk material In order to ensure, in a method for extracting gases and vapors from plastics granules and powders which are being pre-heated and dried in a drying hopper by a stream of dry air flowing into the lower region of the hopper while the outlet air is extracted... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4441260 | Process and apparatus for dehydrating organic solid material A process for dehydrating water-containing organic solid material which comprises steps of introducing the material into a pressure vessel, applying saturated steam to said vessel to heat the material so that water in the material be removed and mixed wit... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4368582 | Process for drying finely divided pigments A process for drying finely divided pigments contained in a press cake or a suspension, wherein a mixture of the pigment and a liquid whose critical temperature is below the decomposition temperature of the pigment is heated under pressure to above the cr... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4268971 | Optimum low profile continuous crossflow grain drying and conditioning method and apparatus A grain drying and conditioning apparatus having a housing with an outer pervious skin with impervious end walls, air inlet, grain inlet, grain outlet and air exhaust duct structures connected thereto has air pervious walls which are spaced within the str... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4268247 | Method for drying fabrics To dry wet fabrics, a hot drying gas is introduced into a drying chamber containing the fabrics. The drying chamber is maintained at a sufficiently high pressure greater than atmospheric pressure so that a portion of the gas in the drying chamber can be d... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4223452 | Drying process and apparatus for accomplishing the same A process and apparatus for drying wet solid material are provided. The process comprises introducing material into a dryer, bringing it into contact with one side of a plurality of heated surfaces located therein and vaporizing liquid in the material. Th... | 09/23/1980 |
