Abstract:
An apparatus, a loop burner element, and a method for surface-roasting a food product wherein the roasting apparatus comprises (a) a conveyor which carries the food product and (b) at least one non-linear ribbon flame burner element or element assembly which preferably applies a ribbon flame to at least the upper and side surfaces of the food product as it is conducted through the roasting apparatus.
Abstract:
A vignetting frame for use with cinematic and other projected images in which the image is projected on to the front of either a screen or any other surface that is to be used as a screen. The frame is positioned to mask and conceal the borders or edges of the projected image from the viewers line of sight. The masking frame is composed of such a material that while it allows the image to be projected through the frame onto the screen, it prevents that part of the image which is masked by the frame being seen by the observer e.g. a one-way mirror.
Abstract:
A protective cap for use in the building industry. The plastics cap fits over the end of a timber joist to protect it from the elements. It has a series of recesses along its inner surfaces, which recesses allow air to circulate around the joist.
Abstract:
A vertical cutting apparatus for cooked meat products which can be installed on the outlet of a spiral oven or other heating apparatus for directly receiving and cutting the cooked product in sterile condition while still hot in order to prevent cross-contamination of either the (a) sliced, cubed, diced, or shred cut product or (b) the cutting apparatus. The hot product can also be delivered directly from the vertical cutting apparatus into its final product packaging and immediately vacuum seal for further product safety.
Abstract:
A device used in conjunction with fixation hardware to provide a two-stage process to address the competing needs of immobilization and re-establishment of normal stress-strain trajectories in grafted bone. A method of determining a patient-specific stress/strain pattern that utilizes a model based on 3D CT data of the relevant structures and cross-sectional data of the three major chewing muscles. The forces on each of the chewing muscles are determined based on the model using predetermined bite forces such that a stiffness of cortical bone in the patient's mandible is determined. Based on the stiffness data, suitable implantation hardware can be designed for the patient by adjusting extemal topological and internal porous geometries that reduce the stiffness of biocompatible metals to thereby restore normal bite forces of the patient.
Abstract:
Method of cleansing hair comprising: (a) applying a composition to the hair; (b) dissolving and lathering the composition using a water-based solvent; (c) rinsing the hair with a water-based solvent; wherein during the rinsing a total of about 100 gram to about 300 gram of water-based solvent per gram of hair (dry weight) is employed; wherein the composition comprises from about 3 wt% to about 35 wt% of a mixture of at least two compounds of Formula (I).
Abstract:
A thick film pastes comprising at least one particulate platinum (alloy)/metal oxide composite, an organic vehicle and, as an optional component, at least one particulate platinum (alloy), wherein the total proportion of particulate platinum (alloy)/metal oxide composite plus the optionally present particulate platinum (alloy) in the thick film paste is 84 to 95 wt.%, based on total thick film paste composition.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to concentrated personal cleansing compositions having desirable lathering and dissolution properties. The compositions comprise greater than 23 weight % of a surfactant in an iostropic phase, and greater than 0. 05 weight % of a conditioning agent.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for the manufacture of glass-crystalline particles comprising a glass component and a crystalline component comprising the steps of : a) providing a precursor solution comprising a solvent, a glass component composition, and a crystalline component composition; b) forming an aerosol comprising finely divided droplets of the precursor solution, wherein the droplet concentration which is below the concentration where collisions and subsequent coalescence of the droplets results in a 10% reduction in droplet concentration; c) heating the aerosol wherein, upon heating, glass-crystalline particles are formed, wherein the glass-crystalline particles comprise a glass component and a crystalline component, and wherein the crystalline component comprises one or more metal oxides; and d) isolating the glass-crystalline particles.