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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 |
| 7301257 | Motion actuator The present invention provides a shear motion driven motion actuator. The motion actuator provides a plurality of driving modes to drive a main body, including the inertial drive mode, the friction drive mode and the scanning mode. The motion actuator comprises a ba... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7162329 | Automated data storage system including a moveable rail system and garage Applicants' automated data storage system includes a first media storage library having a first rail system, a garage having a movable rail system, said garage being disposed adjacent the media storage library, and a plurality of accessors movably disposed on either... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7048634 | Skateboard rail A skateboard rail which is composed of a plurality of members which are to be connected together in an end-to-end relationship. The members are capable of being pivoted relative to each other. The members are capable of being stacked vertically and also are connecta... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6742458 | Machine for transport of passengers and cargo An electrically powered vehicle transportation system utilizes a guideway with parallel enclosed rails. Each enclosed rail has an electrical bus bar for supplying power to vehicles on the guideway. The guideway will accommodate dual-mode vehicles that are capable of... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6401625 | Machine for transport of passengers and cargo An electrically powered vehicle transportation system utilizes a guideway with parallel enclosed rails. Each enclosed rail has an electrical bus bar for supplying power to vehicles on the guideway. The guideway will accommodate dual-mode vehicles that are... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6129027 | Processing machine This invention concerns a processing machine, particularly for panel-shaped workpieces of wood or wood materials, which consists of: one or more processing stations which essentially lie in the same plane; at least one working unit which can travel over t... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6044768 | Apparatus to aid movement in a gravity free environment A support for aiding a person, robot or material-moving member in a gravity free environment. The support comprises a platform having slots therein with releasable securing means disposed on either side thereof which cooperate with a wheeled member dispos... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5528992 | Reciprocating combustion grate guide system A guide system for a reciprocating grate system having a grate surface, alternating rows of stationary and movable grate blocks, a movable carriage, a fixed undergrate structure, and a driving force device. The guide system includes guide units which guid... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5394806 | Ram feeder carriage system A new carriage system for a ram feeder has been designed and is provided. As in the prior art, the carriage system has a drive cart to which is attached a driving force member at one end thereof and a ram member on the other and opposing end thereof. The ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5289779 | Linear motion rolling contact guide unit having an enhanced seal characteristic A linear motion rolling contact guide unit includes a rail elongated in shape, a slider slidably mounted on the rail and a plurality of rolling members interposed between the rail and the slider. The rail has a top surface, a pair of side surfaces and a b... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5211114 | Offshore structure pulling system A pulling system for pulling or moving a large object, such as pulling components of an offshore oil/gas production platform onto an adjacent barge that is subsequently transported to the installation site. This pulling system incorporates a single elonga... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5012748 | Sleighroad A sleighroad is disclosed including a wheelless transportation system with a locomotive including motorized horsehoofing thrusters for propelling a plurality of carriages equipped with ball thrust bearings for running on steel rails instead of using conve... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4885996 | Apparatus for handling an assembly system having a carrier member and a slide unit An apparatus for a handling assembly comprises at least one carrier member and at least one slide unit displaceably arranged on the carrier member. The slide unit is in operative connection via a cable drag member electrically/pneumatically or electricall... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4821647 | Downhill tubular guideway having an air suspension system for passenger car An amusement ride down a ramp containing two air suspension flumes and a return conveyor belt system. The ramp is in a climate controlled transparent housing. There is ducting in the ramp for air conditioning, compressed air, and other possible fluid need... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4773809 | Device in a storage system A device in the storage system having movable units placed one beside the other and provided with shelves, the units being movable sidewise on tracks in order to form a passage between two units movable in opposite directions, the passage allowing access ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4703697 | Transportation system A transportation system is disclosed in which passenger carrying coaches are guided along paths defined by a trackway. The trackway has bottom, top and side tracks which limit movement of the coaches orthogonally to the trackway. The coaches proceed, for ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4701100 | Industrial robot An industrial robot has a head movable in first and second orthogonal directions within a working area to manipulate a workpiece. The industrial robot comprises a stationary base extending along the first direction, an intermediary base slidably disposed ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4664578 | Semiconductor substrate transport system A semiconductor substrate transport system includes a semiconductor substrate holder for holding semiconductor substrates to be transported, a linear pulse motor for driving and reciprocating the semiconductor substrate holder, a pulse oscillator connecte... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4627362 | Air sliding device for work pallets or the like An air assisted sliding device has a pallet supported on a base. The pallet has a recess provided on the periphery of its bottom surface in which a flexible tubular sealing member is mounted. The sealing member has a memory normally contracting it so as t... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4616960 | Air conveyor components Improvements to the various components of hydrostatic bearing levitation systems, systems wherein fluid pressure between a load and the rails of a track system supports and guides the load, are described. The rail has a plurality of lengthwise extending p... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4455945 | Air bearing power and traction drive system This invention is a combination consisting of a mechanism for supporting varying loads by use of compressed air in motion and transported by a set of traction wheels acting equal and opposite to the compressed air force while transporting the load. The un... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4271762 | Pleasure vehicle and a transportation system utilizing the same A pleasure vehicle which is to be used on a trough-shaped downhill track, includes a vehicle body and a leg support, extending frontwardly therefrom. A plurality of support elements support the vehicle on the downhill track for movement down the track. A ... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4246846 | Downhill sledding system A sledding system having a track installed on a ski slope in the summer has U-shaped track sections with a flat bottom and substantially upright sides which serve to retain a driver controlled sled sliding on the track. Braking is provided by extendable s... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4201137 | Sled and slide construction A slide and sled combination designed for use on the side of a mountain in conjunction with the operation of ski lift, consists of a monorail extending the length of a mountain from the upper end near the top of a ski lift along a path containing curves, ... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4193470 | Fluid propelled vehicular system A fluid propelled ground effect vehicle lifted by pressurized fluid directed upwardly through openings in a support floor. The vehicle body is propelled across the support floor by exiting pressurized fluid trapped in a receiving chamber underneath the ve... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4181080 | Support structure for a magnetically levitated vehicle The body of a magnetically levitated vehicle is carried by a support structure wherein chassis components support the body through first springs and wherein the magnets are secured to the chassis components by second springs. Each of the first and second ... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4165132 | Pneumatic control of the motion of objects suspended on an air film This specification deals with the stopping, positioning, orienting and redirecting a semiconductor wafer being transported along a track on an air film or bed of air. The stopping mechanism is an air jet located in a groove in the track, wafers passing ov... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4135666 | Artificial cross-country skiing practice set An artificial cross-country skiing practice set comprises a track formed of interfitted rail sections placed end-to-end to form parallel rolling bands receiving roller-ski members in normal skiing relationship. At least one roller of each ski member has a... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4109904 | Passenger slide The invention covers a passenger slide with bearings or ties installed at a slope, with length-adjustable interlocking supports resting on the bearings for the slide segments which fit on the tubular carriers arranged at the upper end of the length-adjust... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4089271 | Load supporting and moving portable roller skid A portable roller skid for moving bulky or heavy loads in which the skid has a body with a set of load supporting rollers, and means to fix the skid under a load. The skid is constructed to provide one direction of load movement and when coupled in pairs ... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4063517 | Rapid transit system An endless water way is supported by a superstructure and includes a bottom wall and side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall to form a trough. A pump system effects continuous forward flow of water through the trough of the waterway. A guide tr... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4061089 | Personal rapid transit system A land transportation system for a vehicle that is supported and guided by air bearings. The vehicle requires no driver or motorman because a guideway determines the direction of travel, except at switch-points in the network. The vehicle is propelled by ... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4057018 | Transfer system for long vehicles such as wagons In order to transfer long vehicles upon a ground surface and more particularly railway carriages or wagons, use is made of platforms which glide over the ground by means of fluid cushions and which carry track sections for receiving vehicle wheels. Two or... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4014266 | Transport track and sliding carriage for moving heavy loads A transport track and a sliding carriage for transporting heavy loads in substantially horizontal direction. The track comprising a bottom plate intended to be positioned loosely on a support capable to bear heavy loads. The upper surface of the plate and... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4010693 | Tracked air cushion vehicle The invention provides a tracked air cushion vehicle comprising a vehicle body, a lift platform from which the vehicle body is suspended, end bogies provided at each end of the lift platform, the lift platform and the end bogies being adapted to run withi... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4007692 | Braking device for sleds for sliding paths A braking device for sleds, according to which rollers are used as braking elements which by means of an actuating element are moved from a non-braking position into a braking position while being pressed against the surface of the sliding path for the sl... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4002124 | Tracked air cushion vehicle systems A tracked air cushioned vehicle system comprising an inverted channel section track and a vehicle body suspended from a lift platform guided by end bogies. The platform and bogies define a chamber with the track, which chamber is maintained at subatmosphe... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3970300 | Recreational facility slide A plurality of longitudinally extending straight and curved, slide segments, the upper ends of consecutive ones of which are overlapped by the lower ends of the preceding segment to define a continuous, sledding run having a predetermined configuration, i... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3962975 | Fluidic valve A fluidic valve allowing to propel and sustain a moving device on an air-cushion, by means of a fluid under pressure issued from caissons serving as guide-rails, through the opening, when the moving device travels, of valves forming air-locks and drawers,... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3952666 | Vehicular transportation system A transportation system in which a vehicle is adapted for guided longitudinal movement along a prepared track having a transversely curved support surface. In addition to a body and propulsion means the vehicle has at least two support members flexibly co... | 04/27/1976 |
