Wilton Industries, Inc.

Enlight Corporation

Med-eng Systems Inc.

Dutailier International Inc.

Seanix Technology Inc.

Derek Hunziker

Gad Shaanan

Patrick Mainville

Francois Duval

Yvan Brousseau

Jean Marcoux

Walter Francovich

Benoit Orban

Aristidis Makris

Richard J L'Abbe

Serge Dubeau

Pierre Voisine

Harald Hermann Kleine

Vladislav Ircha

Joseph Germain Girard

Charles De Gagne

Can opener

Container grater

Rotary grater

Garlic press

Mini grater

Rocking chair

A system to provide foot protection against anti-personnel land mines is designed for use by mine clearance personnel and includes a raised frame having a central foot support location thereon which ensures a spacing of the wearer's foot above the ground surface of from 10 to 30 cm. The ground-engaging parts of the frame are spaced forwardly and rearwardly of the foot location and the frame includes on its underside blast protection material, the combined results of these measures being to greatly attenuate the blast and fragmentation effects of an exploding mine on the foot of the user. Moreover, the underside of the structure, including legs, is aerodynamically shaped to deflect the blast wave loading and fragments generated by the mine detonation.

Anti-personnel mine foot protection systems

A computer case having at least one 31/2' drive housing which can be removably mounted within the case. Each 31/2' drive housing has one or more (typically, two) channels. A 31/2' drive is slidably insertable within each channel. A plurality (normally, as many as four) 31/2 drive housings are removably mountable at different locations within the case via quick release connectors provided at different locations within the case. A 'U' shaped mounting bracket captures each 31/2' drive. The bracket has two opposed legs, with one or more inwardly projecting pins on each leg. The pins slide into apertures located in the opposed sides of industry standard 31/2' drives. A one-piece backplane with quick release connectors is easily removed and replaced by adjacent a cutout provided in an outer wall of the case. A series of cutouts are provided in the backplane. Each cutout is positioned to align with a connector on a motherboard mounted in the case, when the backplane is in place adjacent the case outer wall cutout. This allows external plug-in connectors to protrude through the backplane cutouts for direct connection with the motherboard connectors.

Computer case having slidably insertable drive housing with U-shaped

A weighing scale comprising a housing having an upper platform for receiving a load, and a base; a lever assembly comprising a plurality of levers, each of which is in operative contact with the upper platform and supported by a post element mounted on the base. A cantilever beam is mounted on the base and positioned between the lever assembly and the base. A weight-transmitting pin is provided for supporting the lever assembly and acting on the cantilever beam for transmitting the load from the intermediate cover to the cantilever beam through the lever assembly. A strain gauge element is fixed on the cantilever beam for converting a strain developed therein into an electrical signal. An indicator responsive to the electrical signal is provided such that a displacement of the upper platform into the housing results in a corresponding movement of the levers, and exerts a force on the cantilever beam through the weight-transmitting pin to cause the strain gauge element to develop the electrical signal and causes the indicator to display a weight of the load. The arrangement of the lever assembly and weight-transmitting pin prevents variation caused by differing load positions on the upper platform.

Weighing scale with cantilever beam for transmitting force to a strain

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Derek Hunziker