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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 |
| 7523946 | Expandable chuck The process provides an expandable chuck with a variable diameter bulb having a variable wall thickness, the chuck being operatively designed to stretch the bulb to reduce its diameter for insertion into a photoreceptor pipe and upon relaxation to compress the bulb ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7380798 | Method for clamping and subsequently machining a disk or ring-shaped workpiece The invention pertains to a method and apparatus for clamping and subsequently machining a disk- or ring-shaped workpiece, wherein the workpiece is set down on a contact surface of a contact member made from elastomeric material. The workpiece is axially pressed aga... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7354480 | Stent mandrel fixture and system for reducing coating defects A stent mandrel fixture for supporting a stent during the application of a coating substance is provided. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 6457920 | Clamping system for detachably assembling two pieces A clamping system for detachably assembling two pieces. The clamping system includes a clamping device concentrically mounted in a receiving section which extends in a hollow shaft of one of the two pieces, when the two pieces are engaged. The clamping sy... | 10/01/2002 |
| 5893568 | Substrate support device A device for supporting a hollow substrate having two open ends in an aligned orientation, wherein one end of the substrate is engageable with a chuck assembly, including: (a) a base for contacting the other end of the substrate; (b) a post coupled to the... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5829759 | Chuck assembly There is disclosed a chuck assembly for engaging the inner surface of a hollow substrate comprising: (a) a housing having an open end and defining a passageway in communication with the open end; (b) a partially hollow elastic boot defining an entry hole ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5829760 | Chuck assembly with a radial spring There is disclosed a chuck assembly for internally holding a hollow substrate having an open end including: (a) a body including an end section having a width narrower than that of the inner width of the substrate to permit insertion of the end section th... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5613692 | Collet A circular flexible collet that provides a 360 degree gripping engagement with a cylindrical workpiece and which is operable by an actuator member incorporated in a workpiece chuck. The collet may be constructed as an internal collet for gripping engageme... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5539968 | Part holding press tool with non-magnetic part holding mechanism A workpiece holding press tool with an elongated body having an annular collar extending from an end face and a plug member secured to the collar by a fastener. The plug forms an annular groove with the body that receives a retainer clip which frictionall... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5150527 | Gun sighting arbor An expandable arbor for sighting a scope on a gun having a body with a conical portion and an axial throughbore. A shaft is journaled in the throughbore, and the shaft carries a knob on one end and a resilient plug on the other end, with a travelling spre... | 09/29/1992 |
| 4802637 | Apparatus for being positioned on an expandable mandrel An apparatus for being positioned between the outer circumference of an expandable mandrel and the inner circumference of a roll of sheet material. The apparatus includes a plurality of elongated, rigid beam members, each of the beam members having at lea... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4712720 | Device for mutually centering and clamping two pipe bodies to be welded to one another Device for mutually centering and clamping two pipepieces which are to be welded to one another, which device, for each of the workpieces (50, 51), has a clamping unit on both sides of a welding area (9) provided with an inert gas supply (27). Each clampi... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4519620 | Core chuck with resilient rollers A torque-transmitting chuck comprising an interior member having a longitudinal axis and exterior circumferentially-spaced, longitudinally-extending camming surfaces. A generally axially-extending, circular in cross-section roller engages each of the camm... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4479602 | Apparatus for the manufacture of hollow cylindrical bodies The disclosure relates to an apparatus for the manufacture of hollow cylindrical bodies by deposit welding, consisting of a supporting body rotatably mounted on bearings at both ends and a hollow cylindrical basic body concentric to the supporting body be... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4466576 | Metering drum for filamentary material The metering drum for the weft thread of a weaving machine has a circumferential surface of rubber which is clamped between two supporting rings. The supporting rings may be movable axially or rotatably relative to each other so as to expand or constrict,... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4427158 | Apparatus for removing filled packages from a filament winder and installing empty tubes on the winder A doffing/donning apparatus is used in combination with a row of winders each of which winds filamentary material upon a tube carried by a rotary spindle of the winder to form a package. The apparatus comprises a carrier mounted for movement generally par... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4334652 | Expandible devices for internally gripping cores or the like An expandible device for internally gripping a core carrying a web of material has jaw segments forming an outer cylinder surrounding a body member which may be solid or hollow. Balls are arranged in recesses around the exterior of the body member and the... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4284283 | Expansible chuck A chuck having a plurality of elastic and resilient compressible segments which have the general shape of a strip which, in longitudinal section, have a zig-zag configuration with flattened tops and bottoms, with upper and lower recesses which are filled ... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4263055 | Method for cleaning a paint roller pad A paint roller pad is cleaned while being supported on an apparatus including an elongated coil having a shank connected thereto and coaxially extended from one end thereof. When at rest, the coil has an outside diameter less than the inside diameter of t... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4195792 | Expandable mandrels An improved sleeve construction for mandrels of the type which grip tubular members such as paper rolls by selectively expanding a rubber or other deformable material sleeve into gripping relation with the inner wall surface of the tubular members wherein... | 04/01/1980 |
| 3980250 | Device for holding tube shaped objects A device for holding tube-shaped objects which objects are placed on or off a casing having a fixed portion, a slideable portion, and expandible members connecting said casing fixed and slideable portions, a piston inside said casing connected to said sli... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3977687 | Holder for hollow articles A holder for supporting a hollow article includes a base, a plurality of resilient fingers extending outwardly from the base, and restraining means for maintaining proper alignment of the fingers. The resilient characteristic and the design of the fingers... | 08/31/1976 |
