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Muskie Bucket Company LLC

Product Discovery, Inc.

Gregory R Brotz

Michael A Pfister

Jeffrey A Reichard

Angelo N Dallas

A process for producing a strong, lightweight, pH-neutral phenolic foam by providing a novelac resin and a resole resin with a solid-state blowing agent activated at a specific time in a melt for the formation of a foam.

Process for producing a phenolic foam

A bath and its method of use are disclosed, such bath containing fluid and producing waves of sufficient size to provide exercise to a user, such bath having areas of movement in its bottom, the sequential movement of which causes such waves to move to cause the user to exercise his or her body by maintaining equilibrium in the bath.

Wave exercise device and method of use

A structure and kit and method of use are disclosed of a plurality of interegaging panels forming a plurality of open-topped compartments, such structure adapted for positioning within a bucket for storage of objects including bait fish.

Bucket for holding live bait

Some embodiments of the present invention provide a speech translation system comprising a display upon which at least one word spoken by a user can be displayed. The speech translation system can include a holographic storage medium having a plurality of frames, each having data representative of at least one word in a source language. In some embodiments, the system includes one or more lasers positioned to direct a first beam of light to the display to generate a first modified beam of light leaving the display. This modified beam of light can be directed to the holographic storage medium to scan for a matching speech segment stored in the holographic storage medium. Upon detecting a match, some embodiments of the system can generate a translation of the speech segment by receiving a second modified beam of light from the holographic storage medium and carrying information representative of the translation.

Holographic speech translation system and method

A dampening bearing support member having a plurality of bearings disposed between an object and a base with rheological medium disposed around the bearings, with the rheological medium being under the control of the user at times when it is desired to stiffen the rheological medium and limit or prevent movement of the bearings and the object in relation to the base.

Dampenable bearing

A speech translation system and method are disclosed utilizing a holographic storage medium having a plurality of frames therein, each frame containing one or more discrete speech wave forms thereon for comparison with a spoken word wave form to select a wave form of a second language of equivalent meaning which through a digital audio player can be made audible for speech translation.

Speech translation system utilizing holographic data storage medium

A structure and kit and method of use are disclosed of a plurality of interegaging panels forming a plurality of open-topped compartments, such structure adapted for positioning within a bucket for storage of objects, baited fish or seedlings therein.

Multi-use bucket

An inexpensive disposable cutting board is disclosed having a tough plastic upper sheet on a lower base. In one embodiment the lower surface of the base has a tough plastic lower sheet thereon, making the cutting board reversible for two uses. The reversible cutting board can include a manually removable, lightly adhered cover sheet to protect the lower sheet from contamination when it is face down on a surface when the upper surface of the cutting board is being used.

Disposable cutting board

A blood vessel grafting aid is disclosed for joining two blood vessels together, such grafting aid in one embodiment having a shaft with a centrally positioned plate thereon and a plurality of prongs extending from the shaft to engage into the vessels within the vessels' lumens with the ends of the vessels disposed against the centrally positioned plate which has apertures formed therein which plate, along with the prongs, aids in holding the blood vessels together. The grafting aid dissolves and is absorbed over time, leaving the blood vessels healed together.

Blood vessel grafting aid

A suture member for joining the first and second sides of a cut in body tissue, such suture member having an elongated body member in one embodiment with a needle and thread member disposed at one end thereof and with externally activatable adhesive disposed on the suture member. The adhesive is activated by application of high-frequency radiation directed through the body tissue to retain the suture member securely in the body tissue.

Suture and method of use

A multijunction thermoelectric actuator comprising a composite of a plurality of serially connected alternating electrically conducting material strips, P and N type semiconductors, for example, which actuator is operated by the passage of an electrical current across the composite and the connections or junctions of such strips. Depending upon the direction of flow of the current, a cooling effect takes place on one side of the composite or the other, and simultaneously a heating effect takes place on the other side causing the composite to bend toward the heated side. The strips can be constructed so as to overlap the adjacent strips and a programmable power supply can be used to provide different levels of electrical power at various positions along the composite yielding complex and controllable bending patterns of the actuator.

Multijunction thermoelectric actuator employing alternating electrically conducting material strips

A device for determining the melting point of a sample material utilizing an infrared sensor to measure the temperature of the sample material and photocells to detect changes in transmissivity of the sample material at its melting point.

Material melting point determination apparatus

A disposable cutting board is disclosed having a tough plastic upper sheet and a lower base made of papier-m&acirc;ch&eacute;. In use, when the upper sheet is pierced, liquid from the food being cut thereon passes through such cuts in the plastic sheet to the base, causing the papier-m&acirc;ch&eacute; base to disintegrate and rendering the cutting board unusable. The user is thus encouraged to dispose of the cutting board.

A therapeutic stimulatory massage apparatus for receipt therein of a body portion, such apparatus containing a thixotropic fluid medium subject to selective increase in viscosity and increase in pressure at such areas of increased viscosity. Also, other therapeutic modes can be incorporated into the device of this invention.

Therapeutic stimulatory massage apparatus

A craft that includes superconductive materials that are supported within the geomagnetic field of the earth by means of the Meissner effect. The craft is propelled by means of directing a current from a point to another therein which creates a propelling force thereon within such magnetic field as determined by the right-hand motor rule.

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Sheboygan, WI, United States of America

Gregory R Brotz