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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 |
| 7357163 | Digging or gripping tool This invention relates to a digging or gripping tool with at least one cutting edge, wherein rollers are disposed along the outer edge of the cutting edge in accordance with the invention. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7178273 | Cutting device for cutting trenches in the ground A cutting device for cutting trenches in the ground having at least one cutting wheel drivable in rotary manner and at least one first cutting element, located on the cutting wheel, for removing soil material during a rotation of the cutting wheel in one rotation di... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7152349 | Dragline bucket rigging and control apparatus A large electric dragline having a housing (35) and boom (37) is provided with spaced apart in-line sheaves (34) and (36) at boom point to separate hoist ropes (31) and (32) which are led to the front and rear of bucket (... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143532 | Marine backhoe dredge A marine backhoe dredge having a counterbalancing system that increases the hoisting capacity and hoisting speed of the backhoe. The device includes a backhoe mounted on a vessel and a counterbalancing system that includes an adjustable support structure, one or mor... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134541 | Conveyance apparatus for processing step A conveyance truck movable along travel rails includes a suspended supporting device for supporting a vehicle body, a raising and lowering device for raising and lowering the suspended supporting device, and a posture adjusting device for adjusting the posture of th... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7080730 | Conveyor assembly The invention provides an apparatus including a conveying member defining a loop that may be used for transferring a product into a container. The conveying member can be a belt, a chain, or plurality of hinged plates. The invention also includes first and second su... | 07/25/2006 |
| 5984081 | Continuous unloader A continuous unloader includes upper sprockets, lower sprockets located below the upper sprockets, and front sprockets located in front of the lower sprockets. An endless bucket conveyer is operatively taken on the upper, lower and front sprockets. A supp... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5709517 | Apparatus for unloading of bulk material from the cargo holds of ships An apparatus for unloading bulk material from a ship adjacent a dock has a portal support movable longitudinally on the dock parallel to the ship and carrying a boom having an inner end pivoted about an inner axis on the support and an outer end positiona... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5651447 | Self-scooping bucket conveyor The invention relates to an L-shaped bucket conveyor, in particular a ship unloader, that has a vertical conduit and a bucket-conveyor foot movable vertically relative to the conduit and having in turn a generally vertically extending section and a genera... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5507381 | Method for unloading a space and device for performing this method The invention provides a method for unloading a space filled with bulk material using at least one grab supported by a chassis, wherein the chassis is displaced in lengthwise direction of the space and wherein the grab is emptied above a cross conveyor, c... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5409343 | Ship loader or unloader A ship loader or unloader includes a vertically extending first region and a horizontally extending second region; a first hydraulic cylinder connected to a lower end of the first region and to the second region for translationally displacing the second r... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5394976 | Barrel reclaimers A barrel reclaimer has a drum member with axially extending series of openings provided with buckets for taking material from a stockpile. At least some of the series of openings terminate spaced from the end of the drum member and auxiliary tapered openi... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5393187 | Continuous bulk unloader/reclaimer A continuous bulk unloader/reclaimer that utilizes a bucket conveyor digging chain 18 to remove material 16 from the holds 14 of vessels such as ships, barges, railroad cars, pits, stockpiles etc. The conveyor chain 18 is comprised of an elastomer bushing... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5192180 | Load-relieving device for servomotors adjusting the height of cantilever arms An apparatus including a frame, a cantilever arm movably mounted on the frame, and a servomotor operatively connected to the frame and the cantilever arm for setting a height position of the cantilever arm. The servomotor is exposed to tension loads deriv... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5187097 | Composting system and composting method The disclosure is directed to a large composting system as well as to a new composting method for the automatic production of compost. A mobile layer rearranging unit includes a conveyor system which is changeable with respect to length can be remote-cont... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5048668 | Mounting and driving mechanism for a driving gear A paddle wheel, bulk-goods pick-up and moving device is disclosed, which picks up bulk goods from a storage container and deposits the same into the paddle wheel's interior. The device is provided with a motor-driven driving gear provided with a coaxially... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5024568 | Bulk material reclaiming apparatus A cargo reclaiming apparatus that may be fitted to a ship for emptying bulk solid material from the holds or to a warehouse for emptying such material from storage bins. The apparatus has a gantry movable across the top of the storage containers, a rotata... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4988250 | Bucket elevator type continuous ship unloader A bucket elevator type continuous ship unloader is used for both a sidewise shovelling operation and a catenary cleaning up operation. In this ship unloader, a bucket chain is wound around sprockets respectively provided at the front and rear ends of a ho... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4937956 | Ocean floor dredging A system of ocean floor dredging comprises a first vessel, two rotatable rollers on the vessel, a third roller lying on the ocean floor, and an endless net extending around the three rollers.... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4917234 | Wheel and chain power transmission machine This invention relates to a method for transmitting power to and from wheels via a train of links. The wheels have cam actuated members that effectively control the radial position of individual links as they enter, travel around, and exit the wheels; thu... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4890719 | Excavator for bucket elevator type continuous unloader An excavator for a bucket elevator type continuous unloader has a horizontal travel section constituting an excavating section of the bucket elevator which is constituted by an endless bucket chain, and a parallel link mechanism. The parallel link mechani... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4860884 | Bucket conveyor, particularly for unloading ships A bucket conveyor including self-scooping bucket elements, a support structure, and a mechanism for displacing the elements over a closed path along the support structure for conveying bulk material from a region below the structure to a region in the vic... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4832182 | Bulk materials handling machine having a tractor drive An endless loop tractor drive mechanism has equally spaced pushers meshing with a bucket train where its filled circular buckets are traveling along a substantially straight ascending path to a dumping support wheel. Wire rope cables or other flexible ten... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4830177 | Bucket elevator-type continuous unloader A bucket elevator-type continuous unloader in which guide rails are provided on a frame of a horizontal scraping section and rollers engaging with each guide rail are provided for a train of elevator buckets, wherein the guide rails are adapted to be enga... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4805756 | Loading device, in particular bucket-wheel excavator The bucket-wheel excavator comprises a swivellable bucket-wheel boom 6 and a swivellable bridge 11. At a transfer location, the bridge 11 is rotatably supported on a truncated conical superstructure 10 and the turntable b 16 l of the bridge comprises raki... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4779719 | Lifting device with a higher speed in the downward movement area than in the upward movement area Lifting device with a higher speed in the downward movement area than in the upward movement area, equipped with a driving motor with brake, a gear and a load pick-up system, which runs on an oval or circular or loop-shaped race via a lower and an upper r... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4738578 | Bulk material reclaiming apparatus A cargo reclaiming apparatus that may be fitted to a ship for emptying bulk solid material from the holds or to a warehouse for emptying such material from storage bins. The apparatus has a gantry movable across the top of the storage containers, a rotata... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737061 | Mobile bucket conveyor for bulk materials A mobile bucket mechanism for collection and conveyance of a bulk material which includes buckets carried by chains over generally vertically arranged sheaves, a support structure for the sheaves which drives the chains to move the buckets in a path to co... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4732523 | Ship unloading mechanism A ship unloading mechanism has an endless, vertically operating compartmented belt conveyor by which material to be lifted is transported from a ship's hold at the lower end of the conveyor onto a horizontal conveyor at the top end of the conveyor, when t... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4702366 | Bucket conveyor with a rotatable boom Bucket conveyor (13) with a rotatable boom, which comprises a frame (18) and a plurality of pulleys (21-22-23) on which an endless catenary (17) of buckets (20) is driven, the catenary (17) consisting of at least one chain (19) bearing a plurality of buck... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4693360 | Continuous operation bulk goods unloader A continuously operating bulk goods unloader which has by a vertical jib supporter (9) maintaining its direction been affixed to a supporting structure carrying the unloader and within the tubular vertical jib (1) of which runs an endless compartmented be... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4681503 | Method and device for unloading bulk material from a large container An endless conveyor belt 10 provided with angled-over entraining cleats 12 as well as lateral corrugated sidewalls 11 serves the purpose of unloading bulk material 1 from a ship 2 in particular, which not only carries the bulk material 1 out of the ship 2... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4613035 | Apparatus for removing bulk material from a dump Apparatus for removing bulk material from a dump comprises a horizontal scooping tube, which is mounted for rotation about its axis and provided with a plurality of buckets, which are distributed around the periphery and over the length of the scooping tu... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4605118 | Reclaiming device A reclaiming wheel which has a pair of annular members mounted on an axle. A flexible belt is fitted between the peripheries of the annular members around part of their circumference. Scoops are attached to one or both of the annular members, projecting b... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4585384 | Multi-stage conveyor system A multi-stage conveyor system consists essentially of a loading unit for loose material to be conveyed, an elevator unit and a transom unit for conveying the material to a depositing station. When transferring the material from the elevator unit to a deli... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4565280 | Bucket conveyor Bucket conveyor to load heaped materials from a plane on which the heap lies onto another higher plane, comprising lengths of chain, junction links and buckets to carry aggregate, and a framework consisting of a substantially triangular metallic structure... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4562918 | En-mass conveyor for verticle or steep delivery of bulk material An en-mass conveyor for vertically or steeply lifting bulk material has two, primary, flat, endless belt conveyors which are vertical or steeply-inclined throughout facing, correspondingly-progressing, material-conveying runs thus forming a belt shaft. On... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4558602 | Large capacity sample bucket and bucket sampler having low clearance A sample bucket is disclosed for intercepting a sample while cutting through a flow of particulate material. The bucket is in the form of a receptacle having an open mouth and a suitable depth for retaining a desired gross sample without overflow thereof.... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4549648 | Bucket-wheel loader for bulk material piles A bucket wheel loader, especially a bridging equipment or loader, for bulk material dumps or piles. The loader is equipped with several bucket wheels which are movable along the front of a pile. The axes of rotation of the bucket wheels are arranged so as... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4518498 | Metallurgical slag filtering apparatus which effects uniform charging of a conveyer belt A filtration apparatus comprised of a rotary drum having a plurality of internal vanes for conveying slag material is presented. The slag is conveyed upwardly by the vanes, after which is falls freely onto a conveyer belt passing longitudinally through th... | 05/21/1985 |
