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Daniel E Johnson

Stephen M Sanocki

Jimmy Minh Le

Andrew R Fox

Glen O Gregerson

Michael R Berrigan

Zhiqun Zhang

Jayant Chakravarty

Thomas J Gilbert

Mark A Peltier

Neelakandan Chandrasekaran

Shou-Lu G Wang

Brett P Krull

Bryan L Gerhardt

Stanley Rendon

Dawud H Tan

Ibrahim S Gunes

Christopher K Enstrom

Edward Keith Willis

Todd L Nelson

Bernard G Rolstad

Jacob J Thelen

Edward P Cox

Jr Pitzer Starr L

Jerald W Hall

A relofted, spunbonded nonwoven web exhibiting a solidity of from less than 8.0%, to at least 3.0%, and exhibiting a Quality Factor of at least 0.30. Methods of making a relofted web; and, methods of using a relofted web as an air-filtration web, e.g. as a filter media or a layer thereof.

Air-filter media comprising a relofted spunbonded web, and methods of making and using

Hook

Hook with surface pattern

Air filter

Sheet material

Predetermined non-uniform residual compressive stress distributions are induced in the spring wire of metallic coil springs. The residual compressive stress tends to reduce deleterious effects of both fatigue and coil binding impacts on spring performance. Transverse cross-sections of coil spring wire reveal non-uniform distributions of residual compressive stress that exhibit substantial symmetry about various transverse axes, including axes connecting potential or actual opposing coil binding contact points on the spring wire surface. Residual compressive stress in coil spring wire of the present invention may also vary in a predetermined manner when measured longitudinally along the coil spring wire.

Fatigue and damage tolerant coil spring

A food waste mixing and heat treating vehicle used in feeding hogs has a wheeled chassis. A mixing drum is rotatably mounted on the chassis having an inner wall forming a mixing and heating cavity and having an opening into the cavity. Means are provided for rotating the mixing drum. Two opposing helical mixing blades are each affixed along the inner wall from the opening into the cavity for drawing the food waste into the cavity from the opening, mixing the food waste in the cavity and evacuating the food waste out of the cavity through the opening. Steam injecting means are along the inner wall within the cavity for injecting steam through the food waste for heat treating the food waste for later feeding hogs after the food waste has cooled. The method involves the collecting, heat treating and feeding of the food waste to hogs with the vehicle. The hog lot for raising and feeding hogs the heat treated food waste comprises a plurality of adjacent elongate pens with a juxtaposed feed pen there along. The feed pen is easily accessible by the vehicle.

Food waste mixing and heat treating vehicle, hog lot and method of

A body restraining device for restraining movement of the body of a subject which comprises a flexible strap construction having Velcro-covered segments at the ends thereof, and also having an enlarged section of the strap construction thicker than the thickness of the strap itself, the enlarged strap section acting to prevent the strap from slipping through the space between an automobile door and the door jamb when the door is closed. The device is particularly adapted for restraining the movement of prisoners who are positioned in the jump seat of a police car or the like.

Restraining device

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Daniel E Johnson