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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6540472 | Work support system and method of inverting a workpiece A work support which assists in the inversion of a large workpiece has a supporting frame and a top frame. The top frame is provided with an intermediate hinge and an end hinge along at least one end, so as to be collapsible, and the leg of the supporting... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6468024 | Apparatus and method for orienting and stacking generally planar workpieces Disclosed are machines and methods of orienting and stacking a stream of workpieces when it is desirable to stack at lease some of the workpieces in a face-to-face or back-to-back orientation. The apparatus has a receiving assembly for receiving a continu... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6318953 | SMIF-compatible open cassette enclosure An ergonomic loading assembly for an I/O port onto which a bare cassette may be easily loaded and unloaded. The loading assembly further provides isolation between the operator and the I/O port after loading of a cassette to minimize safety risks and to m... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6273667 | Apparatus for inverting containers A container turn-over apparatus (1) including a base (2) and a container cradled (3) with openable latchable ends (8,9) and an open side (6) to allow a container to be placed in the cradle (3). Two selectively engagable spaced apart pivotal connections (1... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6149376 | Pipe moving method, apparatus and system A system, apparatus and method are disclosed for moving an elongate object such as a pipe between lowered and raised positions, preferably while rotating the object to maintain its shape. The system and method use two apparatuses, an upender and a downend... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5755816 | Tilt carriage A tilt carriage assembly including a base frame and a carriage pivotally supported by the base frame. The carriage includes a bottom member adapted to support a container and a back member positioned above the bottom member. A manual locking mechanism is ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5507614 | Holder mechanism for simultaneously tilting and rotating a wafer cassette A holder mechanism tilts and rotates a vertically oriented wafer-loaded cassette for proper presentation in a horizontal orientation to the robotic arm of a workstation. The mechanism includes a cassette holder, a support member, and a motor. The cassette... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5207331 | Automatic system and method for sorting and stacking reusable cartons A system and method for automatically processing a supply of cartons, in flattened form and of different types, in accordance with a selectable number of plural, different and separately identifiable carton types. Unsorted cartons are removed in successiv... | 05/04/1993 |
| 4983098 | Separating and feeding a preformed container from a nested stack An improved apparatus for separating and feeding a preformed container fron a nested stack, said apparatus adapted for accepting a nested stack of containers in a vertical array, tilting the nested stack to a horizontal array by means of a tilting carriag... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4854442 | Bottle stand up apparatus Bottles are moved along a conveyor between a pair of spaced belts while lying on their sides, and may be in neck leading or base leading orientation. Each bottle is detected individually to determine its orientation. Signals, corresponding to the orientat... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4484675 | Board turner apparatus and method capable of multiple turn inspection The board turner apparatus and method is capable of turning a board over several times for repeated inspection of both sides of such board for more accurate grading of such board before allowing the board to be conveyed forward past a retractable stop. Th... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4155133 | Bookmaking Method of, and apparatus for, making books using the two-up, coming and going method in which halfblocks, two of which form a double book block, are moved in a single stream, alternate halfblocks being turned through 180° as they move and the halfblocks ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4020941 | Article inverter Apparatus for inverting an article being transported by a conveyor includes means extending into the travel path of the article to restrict the forward motion of the leading portion of the article relative to the forward motion of the trailing portion of ... | 05/03/1977 |
