United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Lapol, LLC

Mattel, Inc.

The Standard Oil Company

General Foods Limited

Barnes Engineering Company

William Kelly

Lennard F Torres

William J Orts

Allison Flynn

Robert W Astheimer

Thomas J Bond

Richard C Adams

George Marvin Glasser

John H Smithwrick

Robert P DeRobertis

A wall bed is configured to allow a user to maximize a living space with a functional bed that can transform from daytime use to nighttime use. The wall bed is configured to function and serve a plurality of purposes as an entertainment center, a bedroom, or an office and is easily operable between these purposes with simple movements. The wall bed system comprises of a fireplace that has an embedded television which can function both as a television and be used to simulate an active fire via an external source connected to the television. The wall bed also comprises of an adjustable workstation where a height of the workstation may be adjusted to suit a user to work either standing up or sitting down. The wall bed also comprises of a bed and other fixtures such as and not limited to a mirror and an artwork.

Wall bed with a fireplace and an adjustable workstation

Stereocomplex biopolymer compositions having tunable and improved mechanical properties and methods of making such compositions are disclosed. The biopolymer compositions include combinations of a matrix-forming polylactic acid comprising an essentially pure enantiomer and a tough polyester to form a polylactic acid matrix. The polylactic acid matrix is further combined with a base polylactic acid comprising an essentially pure opposite enantiomer of the first essentially pure enantiomer of the matrix-forming polylactic acid to form the stereocomplex.

High heat deflection temperature polylactic acids with tunable flexibility and toughness

L-Polylactic acid and D-Polylactic acid biodegradable biopolymers are combined with torrefied biomass and a plasticizer to create a biodegradable cardstock composition. The biodegradable cardstock composition provides an alternative to conventional plastic cardstocks, which are manufactured using petroleum-based materials such polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or polystyrene (PS). The biodegradable cardstock described herein can be incorporated into a variety of end products such as key cards, driver licenses, security badges, calling cards, and other plastic cards, including those that have a magnetic strip containing stored data such as credit and debit cards.

Biodegrable cardstock composition

A microwave viewing device and, more particularly, an arrangement facilitating the internal viewing of a microwave oven during the preparation of a food product or the like in a microwaving process. The viewing device incorporates a tubular support which is extendable through an opening formed in a side wall of a microwave oven, and which extends into close proximity to a food product being subjected to microwave processing in the oven. The viewing device includes a member constituted of telescopable tubular sections; in essence, which member is adapted to be varied in length by adding or removing sections, in dependence upon the size of the food product contained in the microwave oven, and which includes grid structure for supporting an optical viewing device within and in coaxial relationship with the tubular member; with the optical viewing device, such as an endoscope, fiberscope, boroscope or the like, being conducted outwardly from the microwave oven into operative interconnection with a suitable photographic or video recording apparatus. Within the tubular member, the viewing device, which is hereinafter generally referred to as an endoscope, is supported in concentric and coaxial relationship therewith through the interposition, in the annular space between the outer diameter of the shaft of the endoscope and the inner diameter of the tubular member of at least one transversely extending aperture disc component having a plurality of grid-forming through holes provided therein, and which will to a considerable degree reduce the leakage of microwave from the interior of the microwave oven.

Microwave oven video viewing device

Selective thermal examination of a target is provided by scanning the field of view of an infrared detector over predetermined areas of a target. The selection is made by a plurality of infrared fibers having first and second ends with the first ends being stationarily mounted in a fixed array suitable for being scanned by the detector or a detector coupled to each first end which are electrically scanned, while the second ends of the infrared fibers are directed by the user to selected areas of the target which are desired to be thermally examined. The infrared detector or detectors are then scanned over the first ends of the infrared fibers in the fixed array for sequentially thermally examining the selected areas of the target. The selected areas may be changed simply by rearranging and redirecting the second ends of the infrared fibers with respect to the target areas desired to be examined.

Method and apparatus for thermal examination of a target by selective

A toy having a pivotable component in the form of a construction wheel loader having a shovel, the toy including a manually actuable handle cocking a spring coupled to a slidable member having a rack portion for operating the shovel. Movement of the slidable member during cocking of the handle simultaneously moves a coupler connected to a piston slidable axially within a stationary closed ended cylinder. The piston has a minute aperture in the face thereof with a larger aperture in the skirt thereof with the apertures being on opposite sides of the piston seal. A locking lever coacts with the coupler for retaining the parts in the powered position against the force of the spring. Manual release of the locking lever permits the spring to urge against the slidable member with the two apertures in the piston providing speed regulation during movement of the piston into the cylinder for moving the slidable member gradually.

Toy with spring-operated speed regulated motor mechanism

An improved apparatus which allows for uniform axial stretch rate and careful temperature control in the production of biaxially oriented plastic containers having uniform wall thickness and good clarity.

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Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

William Kelly