Itt Industries, Inc.

Braun Gmbh

Thermoscan Inc.

Braun Thermoscan

Helmut Franke

Jacob Fraden

Alfred Birkenbach

Robert P Lackey

Joseph P Brown

Wolfram Debus

Heinz Bultges

Randall R Howe

Gunther Bautz

Antonio Rebordosa

Wolfgang Vorbeck

Mariano Penaranda

Juan Carlos Coronado

Robert Rafols

Jose Millan

Alejandro Hernandez

Sergi Gili

Montserrat Vilalta

A food storage container includes a lid with a vent hole, and a removable cover removably secured to the lid to cover the vent hole. The cover has an evacuation hole. The food storage container further includes a one-way air valve disposed between the vent hole and evacuation hole. When the cover is secured to the lid, the one-way air valve inhibits air flow into the container through the vent hole, and when the cover is not secured to the lid, the one-way air valve allows air flow into the container.

Food storage containers

A disposable cover for an infrared thermometer provides IR window isolation of handling and usage generated forces. The cover comprises a thin sidewall linked to the film window with a collar structure. The collar structure includes one or more characteristics that either isolate the film window from externally applied forces, or develops counter forces in a way that precludes film stretching and other transmission distorting effects. In a preferred embodiment, the probe includes retention ears and the cover includes a rim that cooperatively engages the retention ears. This combination of retention ears and an interlocking rim decreases movement of the cover along the probe axis. The cover of the present invention permits sanitary application of an infrared clinical thermometer without hindering reading accuracy or patient comfort.

Enhanced protective lens cover for an infrared thermometer

A disposable cover for an infrared thermometer provides IR window isolation of handling and usage generated forces. The cover comprises a thin sidewall linked to the film window with a collar structure. The collar structure includes one or more characteristics that either isolate the film window from externally applied forces, or develops counter forces in a way that precludes film stretching and other transmission distorting effects. The cover of the present invention permits sanitary application of an infrared clinical thermometer without hindering reading accuracy or patient comfort.

Mechanical actuating devices for disc brakes known in the art are of complicated construction and are composed of a large number of parts. The actuating device of the present invention reduces the number of parts by providing an actuating nut with an adjusting screw thread on its outer surface and by disposing the actuating nut in a threaded bore of an actuating or brake piston movably guided in a cylindrical bore of the brake caliper. The actuating nut and brake piston from an automatic brake clearance adjusting device in which the brake piston is progressively moved toward the brake disc on the actuating nut when the actuating stroke exceeds a predetermined amount due to wear of the brake pads.

Mechanical actuating device for a spot-type disc brake

The brake actuating device is disposed in a cylindrical bore of a disc brake caliper leg and comprises an actuating spindle and an actuating nut interconnected by a ball bearing thread. The actuating spindle has a central bore receiving an adjusting spindle surrounded by a sleeve, one end of which is connected to an adjusting nut threaded onto the adjusting spindle and transmitting the actuating force thereon. The other end of the sleeve is accessible through a bore from the outside of the caliper leg and can be turned with a tool in order to reset the adjusting nut for replacement of the worn brake pads.

An adjustable brake-actuating device of the spindle and nut type eliminating need of an adjusting thread includes an actuating nut driven by an actuating lever through a one-way clutch, which opens during the release stroke of the lever, and a clutch-spring encircling the actuating nut to limit the release movement of the actuating nut to an amount corresponding to the desired brake pad clearance.

Mechanical actuating device for a disc brake

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Wehrheim, Germany

Helmut Franke