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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 |
| 7617924 | Tray transportation device A tray transportation device is disclosed in this invention. The tray transportation device includes a transfer stage, a loading handler, an operation handler and an unload stage. The transfer stage has a buffer area and an operation area. The loading handler is dis... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7367445 | Horizontal ratcheting case feeder mechanism A case feeder mechanism, used in quantities of two or more in a horizontal magazine, feeds cases to a removal position at the discharge end of the magazine, for extracting and processing by a case erecting machine. Each mechanism has two U-shaped channels, a sliding... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7284652 | Tiered control architecture for material handling A control architecture for material handling includes multiple tiers of controllers, such as three. The lowest-level controllers interact directly with sensors and actuators used in the material handling system, such as photo-eyes and motors used with conveyors. The... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7028935 | Apparatus and method for shredding wet chip materials A shredder apparatus and method for shredding wet chip materials in which the shredder utilizes a shredder mechanism having a shaft attached to a frame, a bearing assembly disposed on the shaft, and a rotatable rotor disposed on the bearing assembly. First shredder ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6968807 | Cage arrangement for poultry The invention relates to a cage arrangement for poultry having cage batteries arranged above a manure pit, each battery displaying two cages facing each other, the cages being placed one atop another in tiers, in which arrangement ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6868653 | Aligning device and method for feeding products into an automatic packaging machine Device and method for the alignment of stacked products to be wrapped such as newspapers, magazines and books, with or without inserts, of any thickness or size. Sheet placers feed products into the device via a conveyor system equipped with pushers, set at predeter... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6601694 | Chip plow conveyor having bearing improvement A chip plow conveyor for conveying abrasive scrap includes an elongated trough having a flat bottom and sides, and a chip-motivating pusher bar. The pusher bar moves longitudinally and floats laterally as the pusher bar reciprocates to move scrap along th... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6422798 | Process and arrangement for continuous treatment of objects The invention relates to a process for continuous treatment of objects in a processing unit, where the objects are moved along a conveyor track passing through the processing unit by a first linear-action conveyor device performing a back-and-forward move... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6199704 | Sludge collecting apparatus A sludge collecting apparatus comprising: a vehicle body which is long in advance/retreat directions and has driving means; and a plurality of scrapers which are disposed at intervals in the advance/retreat directions including a sludge scraper which is m... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6145651 | Guide rail mechanism for a bonding apparatus A guide rail mechanism for a bonding apparatus for transferring a workpiece such as a lead frame, etc. including a pair of guide rails each comprising an edge surface guide rail element for guiding the edge surface of the workpiece and an undersurface gui... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6135270 | Guide rail mechanism for a bonding apparatus A guide rail mechanism used for, for instance, a die boding apparatus and a wire bonding apparatus, including a pair of guide rail sections that face each other and convey a workpiece such as a lead frame in between. The guide rail sections include rail h... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6129204 | Machine for asynchronously operating dual indexing conveyors A machine including a single power source for asynchronously operating dual indexing conveyors. The single power source is a reversible servo unit operatively connected to gear sets and one-way clutches to drive the conveyors. Alternately, the power sourc... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125992 | Chip conveyor with actuator arrangement A chip conveyor has an upwardly open housing defining a U-shaped trough for conveying metal chips from a machining operation. The housing includes a bottom and defines an upper edge. A reciprocatable plow ram is positioned in the housing for motivating th... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6085894 | Conveyor system The present invention, in certain embodiments, is an apparatus for the movement of objects on rollers. The apparatus comprises a frame element, a series of rollers, a rotating pipe element suspended over the series of rollers, at least one push-arm assemb... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6073746 | Assembled part in assembly line An assembled part for being placed on a conveyor frame having a pair of guides along a direction of conveyance, being located between an upstream delivery member and a downstream positioning member and being conveyed and guided through the movement of the... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5957266 | Feeder The present invention relates to an apparatus for feeding solid fuels in a space limited by a plane bottom plate, side walls and a pusher device arranged adjacent the bottom surface. A drive is located outside the walls and is attached to the pusher in or... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5908105 | Internal holddown for single rod stoker A stoker rod assembly employs a stoker rod having a longitudinally extending bore. A holddown device has a base which is mounted in the trough of the discharger floor, an engagement assembly which is inserted through a slot in the bottom wall of the stoke... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5727671 | Step conveyor Step conveyor comprising a primary stationary beam (1) and as secondary beam (2) being movable upwards and downwards as well as to and fro relative thereto. The secondary beam (2) is supported by restrictedly pivotable bow-shaped eccentrically journalled ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5607046 | Manure removal system and method A scraper assembly and method for clearing manure deposits from a manure collection board associated with an animal cage arrangement is provided. The scraper assembly includes a first scraper blade extending in a generally diagonal direction with respect ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5363785 | Non-intrusive workpiece pallet locator A workpiece pallet locator is provided which is adapted to engage a workpiece pallet on a support surface in a non-intrusive manner. The pallet locator includes slots formed in the workpiece support surface and pawl members which are movable in a vertical... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5363685 | Transfer device in a press Workpieces are transported step-by-step by means of transport bars which are provided with grippers and which are longitudinally and transversally displaceable only in cyclic relation to the reciprocating movement of a press. The transport bars have the c... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5320212 | Bi-directional ratchet conveyor A bi-directional ratchet conveyor is shown including a carrier bar slideably mounted centrally of a frame and operated by a power cylinder. The carrier bar has a first plurality of gravity dogs pivotally secured along a first side thereof, and a second pl... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5261524 | Apparatus for conveying loose material, with back-and-forth motion An apparatus for conveying loose material includes a chute with static bottom shaped like a trough, adapted to accommodate the material to convey, and a series of conveyance members mounted to move back and forth on a movable frame. Each conveyance member... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5219062 | Conveyor arrangement for loose material, especially blasting materials for sand-blasting installations A conveyor installation for loose material, especially blasting materials for sand-blasting installations, includes on the hall floor, respectively, blast chamber floor at least one longitudinal conveyor (1, 2, 3, 4) and at right angle thereto at its conv... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5184711 | Apparatus for the transfer of pasta nests into packaging containers The present invention relates to an apparatus for transferring pasta nests or skeins from drying frames to packaging containers. In particular, it relates to an apparatus having three consecutive and horizontal translators, the first two having vertically... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184366 | Aircraft cargo handling system An on-board aircraft cargo handling system comprises a plurality of tines which are mounted within a cargo ramp and beneath its surface and are capable of extension aft of the ramp across a truck bed or the like. The tines have a plurality of rollers exte... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5140716 | Cargo rail system for an aircraft Fixed parallel cargo rails are positioned on the cargo bed floor of an aircraft, spaced sufficiently to fit a pallet snugly therebetween. A plurality of collinear slots arranged along the length of the cargo bed floor are positioned just inboard of each r... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5123520 | Apparatus for gathering and removing particulate material Apparatus for gathering particulate material in mines and similar plants has a mobile platform which collects particulate material and surrounds the trailing end of a material removing conveyor. The sides of the trailing end of the conveyor are flanked by... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5062188 | Transfer apparatus for moving pallets using hydraulic lift In an automated machine tool assembly where a plurality of work stations are interconnected by slide rails on which pallets can slide, the pallets having workpieces affixed to them, with at least one transfer bar for engaging a pallet and sliding the pall... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4901412 | Apparatus for moving pallets in automated machine tool assemblies An automated machine tool assembly has a plurality of work stations between which pallets with workpieces mounted on them can be moved for the performing of various machine tool operations on the workpieces. The pallets slide on slide rails, and during th... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4805762 | Reciprocating discharger A reciprocating discharger for discharging solid materials from the underside of a pile, has at least one reciprocating stoker rod with a piston at one end connected to a piston rod reciprocating in a stationary cylinder which is mounted on a thrust membe... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4790426 | Transfer apparatus A transfer apparatus which is designed to transfer workpieces at different pitches by a plurality of transfer bars. The apparatus has a horizontal guide provided on a frame which supports first and second transfer bars in such a manner that these transfer... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4768646 | Accumulator conveyor An accumulator conveyor having a load support frame defined by side rails each having a series of idler wheels, the load support frame defining a load support plane adapted to support a series of loads along its length. A shuttle frame is reciprocable rel... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4763777 | Reciprocating discharger A reciprocating discharger for discharging solid materials from the underside of a pile, has at least one reciprocating stoker rod with a piston arm at one end reciprocating in a stationary cylinder which is mounted on a thrust member frame. The frame has... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4687409 | Article handling apparatus There is disclosed article handling apparatus (10) which is primarily intended for transferring ammunition shells to and from a storage magazine in a mobile weapons system such as a tank or warship. The apparatus comprises a storage magazine having a stor... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4660713 | Transpot unit for tablets A transport unit for tablets transports the tablets fed from a filling unit through the use of a rake with at least one V-like fork on a horizontal guiding track to tablet testing stations, packaging units etc. The guiding track comprises on either side o... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4642015 | Bearing support for discharger mechanism A discharger mechanism is provided for discharging solids from the bottom of a pile. The discharger comprises a reciprocating stoker rod of a substantially rectangular cross section and plastimeric bearing member engaging the bottom and sides of the rod f... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4594045 | Hold down and sealing assembly for discharger mechanism A discharger mechanism is provided for discharging solids from the bottom of a pile. The discharger comprises a reciprocating stoker rod having a series of stoker cross bars, affixed thereto, which is supported by bearings within a trough. An arrangement ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4474284 | Double pitch mechanical transfer drive A drive mechanism for an automatic transfer machine has a mechanical transfer drive including a motor driven gear box with an output shaft connected to a single, rotatable drive arm with cam follower means thereon selectively engageable with one or the ot... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4466532 | Replaceable finger elements for transporting hot glass articles This invention relates to conveyor systems and more particularly to article handling or positioning mechanisms for serially conveying or transporting hot glass containers between two or more work stations and into precise locations on alignment. The syste... | 08/21/1984 |
