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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7976306 | Devices and methods for heating pipes or tubing The subject invention provides devices and methods for heating pipes, tubing or similar equipment. More specifically, the subject invention pertains to devices and methods for heating pipes, tubing or similar equipment to melt-out blockages, such as for example, bit... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7352572 | Fire block module The fire block module includes a number of rectangular plate strips, arranged vertically and parallel to each other to form a grid layer. The grid layer is arranged horizontally in respect of the vertical direction of flame propagation occurring in the event of a fi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7287980 | Ton unit heating saddle Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and apparatus for delivering gas in a liquefied state at a controlled rate. The liquefied gas may be transported in ton cylinders by placing the ton cylinder on a transportation pallet. The transportation pallet... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274906 | Digital radio feedback systems A system including a digital radio broadcast station, a receiver, and a network. The digital radio broadcast station includes a transmitter and a server. The receiver is in communication with the digital radio broadcast transmitter and also includes a user interface... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7237329 | Bead seat band and wheel assembly A multi-wheel assembly includes an outer wheel having an outer wheel assembly for an outer tire. The outer wheel assembly includes an outer wheel rim, a removable front bead seat band such that the outer tire may be removed from the outer wheel rim. A removable rear... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7128197 | High volume conveyor sortation system A sortation system and method includes providing a sorter assembly and a slug-building assembly. Product is received by the sorter assembly and sorted to a series of sortation lanes. The slug-building assembly includes a plurality of supply lines supplying product f... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7101457 | Method and tool system for plastic pipe repair A repair method for a plastic pipe network allows a damaged pipe to be disconnected from a fixture carrying it in the network without damage to or removal of the fixture carrying the pipe to be removed or the disruption of connections of other pipes connected to tha... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7066730 | Pipeline heater A pipeline heater comprising a plurality of flameless catalytic IR emitters positioned about a section of pipe in a substantially diamond-shaped configuration, the diameter of the pipe section being greater than the diameters of the heater inlet and outlet manifolds... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6971872 | Pipe heating apparatus A pipe heating apparatus for heating pvc pipe to facilitate bending. The pipe heating apparatus includes a housing having a lower portion and an upper portion, and at least one aperture extending through a wall of the housing. The lower portion includes a bottom wal... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966105 | Process for reclaiming rubber-metal waste For a workpiece having a metal part bonded to a rubber part, a method is devised to separate the metal and rubber parts. A flame is used to heat a portion of an exposed surface of the metal part, while moving the flame relative to the metal part until substantially ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6933036 | Non-skid floor mat design A non-skid floor mat for use in a golf car is provided to enable traction with one of a hard spike and a soft spike of a golf shoe. The non-skid floor mat includes a sheet of elastomeric material and nibs in the wall area of the mat. The nibs are sufficiently spaced... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932210 | Self-cleaning oscillating conveyor for deburring, dedusting and the onward transport of small parts A self-cleaning oscillating conveyor includes a vertical tube and a conveyor channel that is helically wound upwardly around the vertical tube with a corresponding electromagnetic oscillating unit and a casing tube, which surrounds the exterior of the conveyor chann... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6923307 | High volume conveyor sortation system A sortation system and method includes providing a sorter assembly and a slug-building assembly. Product is received by the sorter assembly and sorted to a series of sortation lanes. The slug-building assembly includes a plurality of supply lines supplying product f... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917420 | Rotational stage with vertical axis adjustment A stage system is disclosed for supporting and positioning a semiconductor wafer for inspection in an optical metrology device. A chuck for supporting a wafer is mounted to the stage system. The stage system can move the chuck along two linear orthogonal axes. A rot... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6758668 | Preheating device for heavy wall pipe A preheating apparatus is disclosed which supports a hollow, cylindrical combustible heating element. A solid fuel mixture is used to generate hot gases for the heating of metal surfaces for pre-welding purposes. A grooveway is imbedded radially around the upper por... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6655373 | High efficiency conveyor oven A conveyor oven is heated by inshot burners, which eliminate blowers, ducts, and motors heretofore required to supply a force draft of combustion air to the burners. Apertures in front of the inshot burners have a diameter that regulates the amount of com... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6638062 | Sand and stone screw heater An axially rotatable materials handling apparatus for handling a mixture of solid particulate and water, includes a heater mounted on the housing that can transfer heat to the mixture to prevent or thaw frozen water inside the apparatus. The heater can be... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6561797 | Heating apparatus A heating apparatus for heating rigid plastic pipe for the purpose of bending and forming the pipe. The heating apparatus includes an elongate housing that has a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, a first end wall, and a second end wall to define an inter... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6450162 | Indirect radiant heating device An indirect radiant heating device burns gaseous or liquid fossil fuels for the heat treatment of running products, such as bars, tubes, and strips kept in a protective atmosphere. The device includes a radiant cassette of parallelepipedal shape, with a c... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6257880 | Heater box to bend PVC conduit A heater box to bend PVC conduit in the form of an elongated metal box, split into upper and lower portions and hinged along one side so as to be openable for insertion of a segment of a plastic conduit lengthwise through the box, the box having, at eithe... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6033214 | Heating apparatus having multiple heating chambers movable between a first position with opposed open sides and a second position with opposed open sides Described is a heating apparatus which in case of need guarantees nonproblematic access to the objects to be heated, without incurring heat losses. Used in conjunction with lip rolling apparatuses, the heating apparatus features at least two movably arran... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6033213 | Heater for bending plastic pipe An apparatus for heating plastic pipe includes an outer housing having distal first and second open ends and a diffuser plate mounted inside of and spaced apart from the top of the outer housing. An inlet extending through the housing is positioned for di... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5965046 | Method and apparatus for baking out a gate valve in a semiconductor processing system A device for achieving vacuum conditions more quickly in a semiconductor processing system having a vacuum pump, a gate valve and a chamber includes a rigid body containing heating elements that contact the surface of the gate valve. The device may includ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5882416 | Liquid delivery system, heater apparatus for liquid delivery system, and vaporizer A liquid delivery system for delivery of an initially liquid reagent in vaporized form to a chemical vapor deposition reactor arranged in vapor-receiving relationship to the liquid delivery system. The liquid delivery system includes: (a) an elongate vapo... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5853289 | Gas-supplied pipe heater The present invention is a pipe heater that uses a combustible gas burner to provide heat to the pipe. The gas burner permits the heater to be portable and to be used in remote locations where a source of electricity is not readily available. The heater c... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5755568 | Multiple flame torch apparatus The oxygen-fuel torch includes a torch body having fuel gas and oxygen conduits for conducting the respective gas to the torch head and therethrough to a torch tip. The torch tip is connected through an adaptor to the torch head and includes an elongated ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5617800 | System for cleaning fixtures utilized in spray painting A method for cleaning a fixture utilized in an electrostatic spray painting process to remove adhered paint particles from the fixture utilizing inductive heating to heat the paint particles to a temperature sufficient to thermally decompose the paint par... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5590238 | Horizontally and vertically movable radiant heater for removing paint from a surface A device for removing layers of paint from a surface including layers of paint which may comprise a base layer of oil paint. The paint is softened by radiation by means of at least one heating source. Immediately thereafter, the paint is removed mechanica... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5507640 | Apparatus and method useful in manufacture of two piece cups An improved heating method and heating nozzle useful in the forming of a two-piece thermoplastic foam cup assembled from two thermoplastic foam pieces on a cup-forming turret machine. The method and apparatus of the invention prevent premature sticking of... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5476089 | Hot air tool for heat-shrink tubing A hot-air generating tool for use with heat-shrink tubing in electrical wiring applications device includes a heat source such as a disposable butane lighter, a body member having a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion adapted for releasab... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5435162 | Zone heating apparatus A zone heating device has first and second spaced burners for heating first and second spaced sides of a metal plate during forming of a thickened edge along the edge of the metal plate. The first and second burners are elevationally movable by an actuato... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5394603 | Method for heating and molding platelike parts A method is provided for heating and transferring a substantially flat workpiece made of a deep drawable plastic material including the steps of enclosing at least a substantial portion of the workpiece between first and second opposing carrier plates suc... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5384889 | Heater for heating a plastic sleeve about a portion of a wire harness A heating device for recovering a heat-recoverable plastics sleeve about a portion of a wire harness comprises a housing having a heating location when the portion of the harness and heat-recoverable sleeve are introduced, and a heating unit that is movab... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5377959 | Apparatus for improving service life of thermite rail welds In the heat treatment in the field of a thermite weld between rail ends, the rail ends and the weld are enclosed within a containment filled with an aluminothermic material mixture. The mixture is ignited and the rail ends and the thermite weld are heat-t... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5372500 | Loader device for an automatic furnace in space A loader device for an automatic space treatment furnace having a longitudinal axis and means for driving the furnace in guided translation along said longitudinal axis. The loader device is disposed in the vicinity of the furnace and comprises both a car... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5351373 | Method and apparatus for heat stretching synthetic fiber rope A method and apparatus for heat stretching a synthetic fiber rope. The rope is buoyed in a vessel containing a liquid medium, and this is heated to a predetermined stretching temperature. Tension is applied to the heated portion of the rope so as to stret... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5340526 | Temperature conditioning A method for temperature conditioning a blank of plastic material in which a conditioning mandrel is placed within the blank and thereafter expanded into reliable abutment against the inner surface of the blank. The mandrel is thereafter returned to its i... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5328663 | Apparatus for the trapping of reaction products A device for trapping reaction products and especially for generating and trapping decomposition products from thermal decomposition processes, including combustion, is described. Decomposition products of a solid sample are formed at the top end of an ex... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5326258 | Method and apparatus for heating preform blanks composed of partly crystalline synthetic resins produced by injection molding A process and apparatus for heating injected, cold preform blanks composed of partly crystalline synthetic resins which have been produced by injection molding. The preform blanks are positioned in holders on a conveyor and are rotated about their longitu... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5306139 | Suction adhesion-type holder A suction adhesion-type holder used, for example, in a bonding machine including an air cooling device provided between a bonding stage and a vacuum pump that creates a vacuum suction in the bonding stage through the cooling device. Air suction holes form... | 04/26/1994 |
