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Pharmacia & Upjohn Company

Kai S Lee

Esther W Lee

Arthur M Brown

Dennis E Epps

Allen Edwin Buhl

Xiao-Dong Sun

Bruce M Taylor

Norio Akaike

A gardening system includes a drive shaft operably coupled to first and second shafts for driving the first shaft in a first direction and the second shaft in a second direction. A first ground manipulation device is attached to the first shaft. A second ground manipulation device is attached to the second shaft.

Twin shaft gardening system

A counter-rotating twin shaft gardening system is provided herein. The gardening system includes a drive shaft operably coupled to first and second shafts for driving the first shaft in the first direction and the second shaft in the second direction. A first ground manipulation device is attached to the first shaft. A second ground manipulation device is attached to the second shaft. The first and second ground manipulation devices including a plurality of teeth and a plurality of long arms. The plurality arms extend further outward from a planar portion than the plurality of teeth. A release system is disposed within the drive shaft to reduce or reverse the rotation of the first and second shafts when debris is disposed between the first and second ground manipulation devices. The release system is formed from a first portion and a second portion of the drive shaft.

Twin shaft system for gardening systems

A mower deck is provided herein. The mower deck includes a housing having a top plate and a downwardly extending wall that depends from a substantial portion of a perimeter of the top plate. The housing includes an attachment member configured to hingedly couple the housing to equipment such that the housing may rotate through a plurality of positions. First and second blades are disposed within the housing configured to rotate in respective first and second directions. A driving unit is operatively connected to the first and second blades. A flexible transmission is coupled to the power source of the equipment and configured to power the drive unit, wherein the transmission is operable at each of the plurality of positions of the housing.

Operationally tiltable counter rotating twin blade mowing deck

A gardening/landscaping utility machine having a counter-rotating twin shaft system that can perform multiple types of work required for gardening/landscaping, including tilling, trench-edging, weeding, brush cutting, snow removal and lawn mowing. These processes can be accomplished by exchanging attachments from, or altering the orientation of, the counter-rotating twin shafts.

Counter-rotating twin shaft system for gardening machines

Among other things, assays and methods of diagnosis and treatment of disease (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) based on the surprising observation of an interaction between amyloid &bgr; or its aggregates with the sodium channel are provided. In particular, methods to identify compounds that modulate this interaction are provided, as well as methods of diagnosis and treatment that are based on this interaction.

Method for identifying compounds that modulate the interaction of amyloid beta or its aggregates with a voltage gated sodium channel

A gardening utility machine having a counter-rotation twin shaft system can perform multiple types of work required for gardening (tilling, soil removal, weeding, raking and shredding of leaves), snow/ice removal and for power de-thatching and mowing of lawn grass. This can be done by exchanging attachments on the counter-rotating twin shafts: if tines are installed on the twin shafts, soil tilling, weeding can be done; if auger blades with or without digging bits are in place instead, the machine can simultaneously till and remove soil or can remove ice/snow, or rake and shred leaves; if the front shaft is installed with a spiked roller and the rear shaft, a shearing reel, then the machine can power de-thatch and mow grass at the same time, and additional grass clipping mulching ability can be performed if a fan blower equipped with a mulching fan blade and a retractable bedknife is in place.

A gardening utility machine having a counter-rotation twin shaft system can perform multiple types of work required for gardening (tilting, soil removal, weeding, racking and shredding of leaves), snow/ice removal and for power de-thatching and mowing of lawn grass. This can be done by exchanging attachments on the counter-rotating twin shafts: if tines are installed on the twin shafts, soil tilling, weeding can be done; if auger blades with or without digging bits are in place instead, the machine can simultaneously till and remove soil or can remove ice/snow, or rack and shred leaves; if the front shaft is installed with a spiked roller and the rear shaft, a shearing reel, then the machine can power de-thatch and mow grass at the same time, and, additional grass clipping mulching ability can be performed if a fan blower equipped with a mulching fan blade and a retractable bedknife is in place.

A rotor tiller having a counter-rotating twin shaft system and counter-rotating digging means such as tines, paddles, or blades for efficient tilling of soil. In another embodiment, the tines on the twin shafts can be replaced by counter-rotating helical auger blades for removal of loose soil or snow. Furthermore, digging bits of suitable kind and size can be affixed to the helical auger blades for simultaneous digging/tilling and removing of soil, snow. This new design eliminates many problems associated with conventional tillers and increases the utility of the subject tiller.

Rotor tiller having counter-rotating twin shafts

An electrical sensing and stimulation electrode small enough to record intracellular activity within a single living cell. The electrode incorporates a cylindrical chamber with a finely tapered end section. The chamber is evacuated to hold the cell at its tip. Contained within the chamber are piping, circuitry, and controls to provide selected life support environment, stimulation, and continuous sensing of the iternal ionic composition of the captured cell.

Suction electrode for intracellular potential measurement

An automatic fluid filtering system especially designed for reclaiming, deodorizing, decolorizing, and filtering hot frying greases or oil used in restaurants, hamburger stands, fried food industries, homes, and other places and having a means of utilizing wood charcoals, Norite, Salite and various filtering materials such as filter paper, toilet tissues, porous ceramics, etc., to remove food debris, odorous materials and also being very simple in operation and capable of rapidly carrying out the filtration task automatically right in the kitchen working area at any time when fresh clean grease is needed.

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Portage, MI, United States of America

Kai S Lee