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Sweetheart Cup Company Inc.

Mark L West

Kenneth H Bealer

Uk Lee

A feeder basically comprises a housing having a feed compartment, a supplement compartment, a supplement conduit, a pump for moving the supplement through the conduit, a motor and an electrical source for energizing the pump and the motor; an external impeller driven by the motor for distributing the feed; and an external opening in the supplement conduit for directing the supplement towards the feed distributed by the impeller.

Apparatus for dispensing game feed and supplement

A device for providing telephone communication and data transfer includes a base unit with a display screen and means for retrieving and displaying Internet information via a DSL connection or USB line, for example. A mechanism for recognizing and verifying handwriting is included for allowing a user to sign his/her name to confirm or validate a sales transaction. A voice recognition mechanism converts and translates speech input to text wherein a hearing-impaired user can read real time text messaging. A mechanism for providing access to an electronic phone directory via a CD ROM drive is also provided. The present invention further includes a handset for allowing a user to communicate via a plain old telephone system. Advantageously, an infrared mechanism for communicating with a portable electronic device is provided wherein a variety of devices employing either infrared or fiber-optic communication technology can send and receive wireless signals to the device.

Multifunctional electronic device

Systems and methods reorient head-to-head aligned leading and following articles to from an array of alternating head-to-tail oriented articles. The leading and following articles are initially captured at their respective head portions, and thereafter laterally shifted relative to one another. The laterally shifted leading and following articles may then be pivoted so that their respective tail portions swing towards one another to thereby form an array of alternating head-to-tail oriented articles. A moveable transfer tray may be brought into a position below the captured array of head-to-tail oriented articles so that upon their release, the array of a head-to-tail oriented articles falls by gravity and into the awaiting tray therebelow. The tray may then be retracted so as to carry the array of head-to-tail articles to a remote site, preferably above a transfer conveyor. A bottom wall of the transfer tray may then be retracted causing the array of head-to-tail oriented articles to again fall by gravity onto the transfer conveyor. The transfer conveyor may thus transport the array to another location, for example, a packaging station, where a secondary transfer assembly moves the array into an awaiting empty package. Most preferably, the articles are frozen dessert cones.

Methods for reorienting and transferring elongate articles, especially

An outdoor lighting fixture for providing coordinated visual and audio effects which includes a first housing adapted to be carried by a ceiling support, an electric light source mounted in the housing for directing light downwardly therefrom and a plurality of chime members, preferably tubular in configuration, depending from the housing in a laterally spaced array within the area below the light source. Upon activation of the light source in a light breeze, the chime members will contact one another to provide the melodic audio effect of a wind chime while their movement below the light source creates a moving shadow effect on the floor below having a tempo corresponding to that of the melodic audio effect created by the contacting chime elements.

Outdoor lighting fixture providing audio and visual effects

Apparatus and systems for reorienting and transferring elongate

Garden lighting fixture

Light fixture for mounting on a wall

A ball joint assembly comprising a base member, a spherical member, a ring of at least three rolling members mounted around the spherical member such that a point on a rolling surface of each of the at least three rolling members contacts a point on a first great circle on the surface of the spherical member, the ring of rollers being freely rotatable around the axis of the first great circle, at least two capture rolling members, one capture rolling member being mounted such that a rolling surface of the one capture rolling member is in contact with a point on the surface of the spherical member above the plane of the first great circle and another capture rolling member being mounted such that a rolling surface of the other roller member is in contact with a point below the plane of the first great circle.

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Mark L West