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Minitek Feinmechanische Produkte Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Friedrich Schachter

Michel J Doucet

A valve is disclosed for selectively permitting passage of fluid media such as gaseous fuel, from a first location to a second location. A valve body has one end portion defining a cylindrical inner wall surface and a flat annular seat extending inwardly thereof. An end plug is positioned for axial movement toward and away from the valve seat and an annular seal ring is positioned between the end plug and the valve seat and adapted to provide gaseous sealing contact between the end plug and the valve body at a plurality of locations when the end plug is moved to a first closed position which prevents gaseous communication between the first and second locations. In one embodiment the seal ring moves axially with the end plug and in another embodiment the seal ring remains seated and the end plug moves in the axial direction away from the seal ring. Other embodiments provide alternative means to direct the gaseous media from the first location to the second. One application is disclosed wherein the valve is provided in a gas lighter for selectively permitting gaseous fuel to flow from the fuel reservoir to the burner nozzle.

One-way valve for fluids

In a shaving instrument including a razor blade having an edge attached to one end of a support and a guard bar arranged in precise spaced relation parallel to said razor blade edge, the improvement of a patterned texture on a region of an outer surface of the guard bar, the texture including one or more depressions each having a mound of minute height which constitutes a border of each depression, the material of each mound formed by a solidified part of the material which was melted and displaced from the guard bar to form the depressions; the texture being positioned such that when the shaving instrument is slidingly applied to skin having hair extending therefrom, the texture exerts a degree of drag or friction thereto which causes the skin to be pulled slightly and the hair to be properly positioned for cutting by the blade edge. The texture is imprinted upon the guard bar by a high energy beam, preferably from a YAG-Nd laser.

Shaving instrument with high energy beam induced microstretch element

The invention relates to an apparatus and method for the uniform treatment of the surfaces of a plurality of individual parts when such parts are processed as a single heap by introducing a mass of parts into a vessel where they form a heap; introducing a treatment medium into the vessel; repeatedly separating and dispersing the parts from the heap and then returning the parts back into the heap in during controlled cycles so that all surfaces of the parts to be treated are exposed to and contacted by the treatment medium. While the parts are separated and dispersed from the heap, the treatment medium is forced around, through and out from the parts so that, after a number of cycles, all surfaces of the parts are uniformly treated by said treatment medium. The parts move back and forth between a first position in a lower portion of the vessel and a second position above and radially outward from the first position, whereby movement of the parts between the first and second positions enables all surfaces of the parts to be uniformly treated by the treatment medium. The parts treated by this method constitute another embodiment of the invention.

Uniform treatment of large quantities of small parts

A fuel burning lighter, optionally having an adjustable flame height, comprising a supply of liquified gaseous fuel burner means communicating with the fuel supply, valve means positioned between the fuel supply and the burner means, means to provide first force to retain the valve means in a closed position to prevent gaseous fuel from passing therethrough, and means to provide second force less than the first force biasing the valve means toward an open position. The second force providing means normally provides sufficient force to move the valve means to an open position when the first force is relieved or released from acting upon the valve means.

Valve actuator for pocket lighter

A fuel burning lighter having an adjustable flame height comprising burner means, a supply of liquified gaseous fuel, valve means positioned between the fuel supply and the burner means, and a film having a plurality of micropores oriented substantially perpendicular to its surface. The film is positioned between the valve means and the fuel supply in such a manner so that all fuel flowing to the burner means must pass through the micropores. The lighter also includes means for conducting fuel passing through the film through the valve means to the burner means, and control means to selectively increase or decrease the passage of fuel through the film to the burner means so as to provide a flame of desired height.

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Vienna, Austria

Friedrich Schachter