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Title: The Safety Mailbox
America has a long history of the roadside mailbox dating back to the RFD inception in 1896. This new mail service provided for a way for rural and suburban homes to send and receive inexpensive mail. Now 584 million pieces of mail are delivered daily.
As wonderful as roadside mail is,
Utilize a multi-layered medium to high pressure hose to reline and repair damaged distribution system. Oil Vent stack, sanitary sewers, meduim to high pressure water and chemical distribution system.
Parker Hannifin has the technology to build multi-layer hose.
Problem: heat load increases and temperature uniformity decreases in the area of process openings for both indexing (Fig. 1) and continuous equipment (Fig. 2)
Causes: Equipment typically maintained with slight negative to contain process fumes and POC from direct fired heating systems.
Solution: Cross between non-recirculating and recirculating air curtain.
This machine's concept is one of the non-traditional machining concepts, machining technique based on electrolysis in which metal is tooled in an anodic way and locally dissolved.
Introducing the Chariot
Chariot Electric Vehicles has combined the best attributes of the scooter, bicycle and the electric utility/golf cart to create a unique electric three-wheeled vehicle that provides a natural stability unequaled in its class. The Chariot has an exciting functional design that is safe, cost effective and environmentally friendly.
WORLDS MOST VERSATILE AND EFFICIENT (POINT FOCUS) TRACKING SOLAR COLLECTOR CONCENTRATOR
This unique Tracking Solar Collector Concentrator (TSCC) design employs a Cassegrain style primary and secondary conic collector-concentrator arrangement. Solar disk half angle offset is accounted for in the secondary conic reflector design therefore eliminating propagation spread of the concentrated beam.
ZigZag is a unipersonal totally electric three wheeled vehicle, conceived by the need for environmentally friendly transport for the city and different places where this problem is not entirely satisfied. The product can be easy manufactured with purchasable technology, because the frame is made of aluminium alloy 6161. This material is commonly used on bicycles,
“52 PICKUP”
An Invention of Bálint Szent-Miklósy
Picking up trash in the parks or along roadways is one of the most inefficient tasks currently performed. Equipment given to Parks and Sanitation Department workers saves them from bending by using a gripping tool that lets them grab the offending object and place it in a receptacle.
CATHETEREASE
The present method in catheter insertion is uncomfortable to say the least.
This invention from Balint Szent-Miklosy
works to make it a simple procedure taking nature’s own way into account.
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