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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 |
| 7350318 | Continuous thermal treatment of bulk material The invention relates to a device for continuous heat treatment of granulated materials, especially to the crystallization of polymer granulate, such as polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) for example. The device comprises several adjacent fluidization chambers respecti... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7272912 | Method and apparatus for converting spent water-based drilling muds into fertile indigenous top soil A method and apparatus for converting spent water-based drilling mud into fertile indigenous top soil at a well site or location. The fertile indigenous top soil is produced by the steps of: admixing, at a well site, effective amou... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7105040 | Wine must and pomace pump A wine must pump (10) for pumping a wine product (23) such as must or pomace, has an intake port (14) for receiving the wine product (23), a discharge port (16) for discharging the wine product (23) under pressure, vacuum ch... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6993857 | Milling and drying apparatus incorporating a cyclone A cyclone which includes an upper cylindrical portion opening into the wider end of a lower frustro-conical portion, with a primary air inlet such that the inlet air is substantially tangential to the circumference of the cyclone, and an exhaust outlet at or adjacen... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971188 | Brine shrimp egg processing apparatus and method An enhanced apparatus and method for cleaning, drying, and disinfecting brine shrimp eggs is provided. The apparatus may have a blower and a furnace that provide pressurized, dry air to a screening device. The screening device may include a vibrating screen designed... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6820351 | Brine shrimp egg processing apparatus and method An enhanced apparatus and method for cleaning, drying, and disinfecting brine shrimp eggs is provided. The apparatus may have a blower and a furnace that provide pressurized, dry air to a screening device. The screening device may include a vibrating screen designed... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6754977 | Method and apparatus for drying long fibre hay A method and apparatus for drying long fiber hay. A first step involves providing round bales of long fiber hay. A second step involves separating the bales to form a loose mass of long fiber hay. A third step involves feeding the loose mass of long fiber hay into a... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6711830 | Cuttings treatment system A method of treating drill cuttings containing a detectable amount of hydrocarbon-based drilling fluid comprises injecting a non-toxic additive to the cuttings and mixing the cuttings and additive to the point where the amount of hydrocarbon-based drilling fluid is ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6629375 | Apparatus for collecting ablated material The invention provides an apparatus for collecting ablated material generated by exposure of an imaging layer to a source of radiation, said apparatus comprising a vacuum supply means, and a vacuum head connected to, and in close proximity with, a centrif... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6558726 | Coffee bean roasting apparatus A roasting apparatus for roasting nuts, cocoa beans, coffee beans, and other small food stuffs comprising a base, a motor and afterburner assembly attached to the top of the base on one side thereof, a roasting assembly attached to the top of the base on ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6049996 | Device and fluid separator for processing spherical shaped devices An apparatus and method for separating fluid from a device such as a spherical shaped semiconductor integrated circuit. To this end, one embodiment provides a first area for receiving the device, a reducing area registering with the first area, a first pa... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6000146 | Apparatus and method for continuously granulating powder material An apparatus for continuously granulating powder material has a feeder for continuously supplying powder material, and a granulation vessel. The granulation vessel includes a granulation zone and a drying zone. The apparatus also has a spray nozzle dispos... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5879618 | Apparatus for treating fine ore An apparatus for treating fine ore in which fine ore is dried by aid of a hot drying gas flowing around the ore particles. After having flown around the ore particles, the drying gas is purified while releasing entrained dust ore particles. The dust ore p... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5865993 | Filter centrifuge with a drying device for the moist solids collected in the centrifuge drum A filter centrifuge includes a centrifuge drum having a solids removal opening for solids collected in the centrifuge drum. A solids drying housing into which the solids removal opening opens is provided. The solids drying housing has a sieve bottom, a ga... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5735194 | Apparatus for separating chaff and roasting coffee and cocoa beans An improved apparatus for separating chaff from coffee and cocoa beans is designed for use in combination with either the hot air blowing base of the common household consumer appliance, the electrical popcorn popper or the larger volume coffee roasters. ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5607649 | Method and apparatus for processing a particulate material in a fluidized bed chamber An apparatus for processing a particulate material containing an inflammable component, such as ethanol or another solvent, comprises a fluidized bed chamber with a perforated bed plate arranged therein. The particulate material may be fluidized on the be... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5603169 | Bubbler for solid metal-organic percursors A bubbler for solid metal-organic precursors is described. The bubbler includes a bubbler body, a carrier gas feed tube, an exhaust tube, a compressing plate and a pair of porous thin plates. A carrier gas is fed into a mass of metal-organic precursors th... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5540001 | Device for removing dust from nuclear fuel pellets The invention concerns a device for removing dust from nuclear fuel pellets. The object of the invention is to embody a device able to simply and effectively remove dust from pellets coated with dust, including non-electrically charged dust. This aim is o... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5426868 | Method for making a fluid bed furnace having an external circulation system The present invention provides a method for making an external circulation fluid bed furnace which does not require a chamber for retaining heat transporting medium communicating with the down comer. According to the method of the present invention, said ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5378434 | Fluidized multistaged reaction system for polymerization This invention relates to a novel horizontal fluid bed reactor, which in a single unit, provides for the polymerization of monomer to polymer and mixed monomers to co-polymers. Within one reactor shell the reactor contains a plurality of polymerization st... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5355783 | Apparatus for separating chaff and roasting coffee and cocoa beans A method and apparatus for separating chaff from coffee and cocoa beans is designed for use in combination with the hot air blowing base of the common household consumer appliance, the electrical popcorn popper. The method comprises a hopper having an ope... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5325606 | Process and apparatus for drying and calcining sodium bicarbonate Damp sodium bicarbonate filter cake is pre-dried and calcined to produce light soda as in a process comprising a carbon dioxide ebullated fluid bed pre-dryer working in connected series relationship with a plurality of carbon dioxide ebullated fluid bed/b... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5325603 | Solids feed system and method for feeding fluidized beds The invention provides an improved method and apparatus for feeding solids to a fluidized bed reactor. A back pressure control valve regulates the pressure drop between the pressure above a solids column in a standpipe and the pressure in the reactor. Sol... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5283959 | System for drying moist sludge A system of drying moist sludge includes a drier as a main component. The drier is composed of a lower gas fluidizing section and an upper high speed fluidizing section. Moist sludge to be be dried is introduced into a mixer in which each particle is coat... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5276977 | Ocean-chill drying of microalgae and microalgal products This is a method and apparatus for drying microalgae/microalgal products which have been harvested and strained of excess water by a spray drying process. The method comprises, obtaining drying gas from a burner in which metered input air for combustion i... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5275788 | Circulating fluidized bed reactor A circulating fluidized bed reactor comprises a reaction chamber (10) with an upwardly directed flow of gas with entrained particulate solid material, a separator (18) for separating the particles from the gas flow, and a particle recycling system (23) fo... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5227018 | Gas distributor and heater for spray drying A gas distributor and heating device for a spray dryer which includes a feed liquid atomizer in a drying chamber, a gas distributor for supplying a uniform flow of gas, a guide duct for conveying the flow of gas from the gas distributor and to an outlet p... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5175943 | Solids feed system and method for feeding fluidized beds The invention provides an improved method and apparatus for feeding solids to a fluidized bed reactor. A back pressure control valve regulates the pressure drop between the pressure above a solids column in a standpipe and the pressure in the reactor. Sol... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5171542 | Circulating fluidized bed reactor Dynamic fluidized-bed reactor for carrying out a chemical or physical multi-component process, which said reactor comprises a preferably vertical, cooled or uncooled reactor chamber and a preferably horizontal cyclone that discharges the solid matter thro... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5171545 | Apparatus and method for decontamination of microspheres used in a fluidized patient support system An apparatus and method for decontaminating contaminated microspheres of a patient support system employing a fluidizing medium to fluidize the microspheres to provide support for the patient, includes a tank for containing the microspheres. The tank incl... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5158754 | Process and apparatus for effecting chemical and/or physical reactions Disclosed are a process and apparatus for effecting chemical and/or physical reactions by means of solid-gas contact. The apparatus has a shaftlike reaction chamber widening in upward direction and divided into compartments by means of horizontal grids. T... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5068978 | Apparatus for the treatment and conveyance of feed sludge Apparatus for treating and conveying feed sludge to a vitrification device comprising a fluidized bed drier, means for feeding glass frit and the sludge into the upwardly flowing gas in the drier and a long conduit leading from the drier to a vitrificatio... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5042169 | Interstage separator An interstage separator for transferring polymeric crumb from a first stage pneumatic conveyor with hot wet air, to a second stage pneumatic conveyor with cool dry air. The interstate separator is characterized by a tangential inlet for the crumb, and an ... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5043145 | Minimal holdup reactor grid The present invention contemplates an improved grid for fluid bed reactors which minimizes catalyst coking in fluidized catalytic cracking operations by shedding catalyst dispersed through the grid from feed risers located therebelow. Indeed, the grid has... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5037617 | Apparatus for the return of particulate solids through a cyclone separator to a vessel An apparatus and process for transferring and regulating the recycle of particulate solids separated from a gas-particulate solids suspension in which an auxiliary vessel and slanted pipe are provided to transfer and regulate particulate solids flow.... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4976755 | Stripping and depressurization of solids and gas mixture An apparatus and method for stripping and depressurizing fine particulates mixed with gas discharged from a vessel operated at elevated temperature and pressure conditions to a low pressure vessel using a purge gas injected into a conduit designed for sig... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4931260 | Process and apparatus for the treatment of granular solid materials in a fluidized layer Solid material which is carried out of a fluidized bed reactor with the gas discharged therefrom and which is separated off in a separator is returned to the reactor by way of a recycling means. To reduce problems caused by virtue of differing pressure le... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4721457 | Method and apparatus for cleaning and drying metal chips There is disclosed a process for producing dried and cleaned metal chips by entraining metal chips in a gas, introducing the gas into a cyclone separator having a wall heated to fluid-vaporizing temperature by combustion effected in a surrounding chamber,... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4706390 | Dehydrator A dehydrator for fluent materials includes a pulse combustor and a cyclone separator having a cylindrical cyclone chamber and a central gas discharge tube. The pulse combustor has a finned tail pipe which is contained within a casing disposed generally ta... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4580618 | Method and apparatus for cooling a high temperature waste gas using a radiant heat transfer fluidized bed technique A method and apparatus for cooling waste gases of a temperature in excess of 800° C. using radiant heat transfer to a plurality of fluidized beds. Solid particulate material is contained within a housing and divided into a plurality of fluidized beds by ... | 04/08/1986 |
