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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 |
| 7359291 | Magneto-optical storage medium capable of recording plural rows of marks on each track An optical disk recording method of recording data on an optical disk by applying laser light to a track of the optical disk, includes the steps of a) driving a plurality of laser light sources in sequence in a time division manner, and applying a light flux to one ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 6944396 | Lens barrel and image taking apparatus An image taking apparatus of the present invention includes: a shooting lens which comprises a plurality of lens groups and which has a variable focal length and adjusts a focus; and a lens barrel which accommodates the shooting lens and which can advance and retrac... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6598117 | Recording medium library device and control method thereof A cassette library (1) is provided with a driving apparatus (13), cassette housing shelves (14, 15) and a cassette carrier (16). A library controller (2) simulates as if driving apparatuses (13) having continuous address numbers were apparently used in th... | 07/22/2003 |
| 5231622 | Method of and system for cleaning a floppy disk with an ionizing needle A floppy disk has a magnetic disk (1) accommodated in a casing provided with a head insertion opening. When cleaning the floppy disk, air in the casing is sucked through the head insertion opening while the magnetic disk is rotated and ionized air is blow... | 07/27/1993 |
| 4987630 | Destaticizing and cleaning apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for destaticizing and cleaning partially assembled items being transported on a continuously movable line, the apparatus comprises a housing which substantially surrounds the continuously movable line, static reduction apparatus whi... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4835808 | Probe for removing dust from moving webs A probe is employed for removing dust from moving webs, paper webs for example. It has at least one electrostatic high-voltage electrode, at least one blower for gas, preferably air, oriented against the direction that the web travels in, and a vacuum cha... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4829497 | Optical disc recording method and apparatus for digital data having a plurality of transmission rates When a time-sequential signal such as an audio or digital data signal is optically recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium, the transmission rate of the digital data is determined or the time-sequential audio signal is sampled at a predetermined sampli... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4751759 | Surface cleaning appliance The appliance is intended to remove dust from solid objects and comprises an ionization device (7) which is operatively associated with an incorporated air nozzle (1), which has an obliquely arranged, narrow, linear blowing slot (2) which serves to produc... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4198059 | Method and means for playing back or moving of records or tapes substantially free of electrostatic charges A method of playing back or moving an electrically nonconductive recording medium, such as magnetic tape, film, perforated tape, record or video record on a recorder or a reproduction unit substantially free of electrostatic charges. In order to prevent t... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4198061 | Electrostatic-vacuum record cleaning apparatus An apparatus for cleaning record disks in which the disks are held by a turntable and rotated beneath a mechanism that imparts an electrostatic charge to dust particles on the information bearing surfaces. The charged and thus loosened particles are remov... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4139201 | Dust removing methods and apparatus The invention relates to methods and apparatus for removing dust from, or preventing dust from being attracted to, record discs. This is achieved by giving a negative charge to the dust particles in the atmosphere in which the record disc is located. Reco... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4105213 | Device for cutting a sound groove on a disc recording medium A stylus for cutting a sound groove on a disc recording medium comprises a diamond body having a groove cutting part, for producing a chip cut from the disc recording medium. The stylus also includes a structure made of a material which does not readily g... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4040105 | Magnetic disk drive unit with flexible skirt A magnetic disk drive unit or machine adapted to receive disk-jacket assemblies for magnetically reading from and writing on a disk in such an assembly. The jacket of the assembly is made of a material with high electrical resistance which accumulates sta... | 08/02/1977 |
