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The present invention provides compositions, medicaments, and methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of conditions associated with the binding of Streptococcus mutans to teeth. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for preventing dental caries and infective endocarditis in a subject by treating the subject's oral cavity with a composition or medicament comprising the competence stimulating peptide (CSP) of the causative bacterium, which inhibits the ability of the said bacteria to attach to the surface of teeth. Novel anti-caries compositions using the CSP are also disclosed.

A process for latex preparation including:a first heating of a mixture of at least one free radical polymerizable monomer compound, a free radical initiator compound, and a stable free radical compound to form a latomer mixture with from about 1 to about 8 percent conversion of the monomer compound to an oligomeric compound of the formula I-R'-SFR, wherein R' is an oligomer comprised of from about 1 to about 30 monomer units, I- is a covalently bonded free radical initiator fragment arising from the free radical initiator compound, and -SFR is a covalently bound stable free radical group; dispersing the resulting latomer mixture in water with high shear to form a miniemulsion; and a second heating of the miniemulsion, wherein there results a high stability polymer particle latex which contains a polymer with a high monomer to polymer conversion of from about 98 to about 100 weight percent and a narrow polydispersity of from about 1.1 to about 2.0.

The present invention relates to a inclement weather safety system where the purpose of the system is to allow other drivers in your vicinity to see your vehicle at a further distance away, when there is very severe weather conditions by strobing the head lights or fog lights or strobe lights at microsecond speed and / or increasing the illumination of various secondary lights of the motor vehicle.

A mounting display device for a flag, a banner or a pennant for detachably mounting to a vehicle or other metal structures. The mounting display device includes a flag, a banner or a pennant being referred to as a flag and having a mounting section. The mounting section includes a first mounting side and a second mounting side. The mounting display device further includes a first magnetic member for magnetically attaching to a metal surface of the vehicle or metal surface having a first contact surface and a second contact surface; and a second magnetic member for magnetically attaching to a metal surface of the vehicle or metal structure having a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface of the first magnetic member includes adhesive, glue or epoxy cement thereon for adhering to the first mounting side of the mounting section of the flag, respectively; and the first contact surface of the second magnetic member includes adhesive, glue or epoxy cement thereon for adhering to the second mounting side of the mounting section of the flag, respectively. The second contact surfaces of each of the first and second magnetic members are for attaching the flag to a vehicle or a metal structure.

A method to register visitors applies to many events, such as funerals. The method, deployed upon a computer, allows a user to select personalized services. The method also stores event organizer information common to various events. The method then automates the generation of invitations and tracking of RSVPs for an event. Then the method guides event visitors to enter information and comments through a computer into a database. The visitors do so upon a dedicated screen. Following an event, the method provides for production of a book compiling the information and comments of the visitors in a pleasing format suitable for long term use. The method also produces customized printed materials for mailing or emailing to event visitors.

A shelf for overlying a shower barrier uses a pair of shelves that are connected by a connector shelf allowing the device to telescope. Each of the pair of shelves abut a side wall and overlie a curtain rod or the top of a shower door. Each shelf has a flat upper surface and a decorative downwardly depending front surface for enhancing the aesthetics of the shower enclosure and concealing the rod or top of the door. Various devices can be used to hold the shelves against the walls including telescoping rods attached to the connector shelf and the other two shelves with a set screw holding the rods in place. A compression spring can also push on the outer shelves; or screws can pass through either screw bosses on the two other shelves and into the respective walls or a bracket can, be attached to the outer shelves and the walls.

The invention comprises an anchor, rope and pulley system to load and unload cargo into and out of passenger vehicles. The anchor system comprises two load bearing straps and a means to attach the straps together. The straps are looped around the vehicle's side handle grips. The looped straps attach to each other near the center of the cargo area. The rope and pulley system comprises a rope, a large pulley, a small pulley, a means to attach the rope and pulley system to the anchor system, a means to attach the cargo to the rope and pulley system, and a means to clamp the rope to create a handle. Cargo can be lifted into a vehicle by pulling the handle with one hand and guiding the cargo with the other hand. A durable guard material over the cargo area's point of entry protects the vehicle and cargo from damage.

The present invention provides compositions, medicaments, and methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of conditions associated with the binding of Streptococcus mutans to teeth. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for preventing dental caries and infective endocarditis in a subject by treating the subject's oral cavity with a composition or medicament comprising the competence stimulating peptide (CSP) of the causative bacterium, which inhibits the ability of the said bacteria to attach to the surface of teeth. Novel anti-caries compositions using the CSP are also disclosed.

An ultra light, low cost and easy-changed-contour-surface golf swing platform is invented. The platform is easy to operate and capable of providing plurality of lie conditions such as uphill, downhill, sidehill up and sidehill down lies which usually are provided only by complicated inclination and rotation mechanisms in other inventions of similar purpose. The ultra-light and low cost golf swing platform needs no power to operate so that it is also portable to anywhere. It is easily affordable for driving range stations and individual golfers.

A light and fan assembly has a generally tubular housing that has a turbine fan located on one end, the fan discharging a stream of air therefrom, and a light located on the opposing end, the light discharging a light beam therefrom in opposite direction to the direction of the air stream. A clip clips the housing to an appropriate surface such as a hat brim. A monocular is attached to the housing. Alternately, the fan can be held within an assembly that is pivotally attached to a lower surface of the housing.

A religious display structure includes two or more removably interconnected wall panels forming a freestanding enclosure for accommodating one or more users. Each wall panel includes a visual 3-dimensional photographic image formed on the front surface of the wall panel where the images on all of the wall panels form religious scenery depicting a place of worship for the one or more users. In one embodiment, the religious scenery is selected from a church, a chapel, a temple, or a synagogue. The enclosure formed by the wall panels can be a partial enclosure or a complete enclosure forming an enclosed space. In one embodiment, the religious display structure is made of plastic and the structure is made for easy assembly and disassembly. The religious display structure can be used in various settings, such as a home or an office, to provide a place of worship for the user.

A press for hot dog rolls and hamburger rolls uses a pair of elongate rollers that are attached to one another by one or more connector legs. One of the rollers serves as a handle while the other is radially rolled across a hot dog roll. A hamburger press is a short plate cylindrical member that has a flat lower surface and an upper surface that is removably attached to one of the rollers. With the opposing roller being used as a handle, the hamburger press is pressed onto a hamburger roll. A patty press is a cylindrical member with a flat bottom and an upwardly depending sidewall that define a hollow central portion. The patty press receives an appropriate food product therein and thereafter the hamburger press is received within the hollow central portion and presses onto the food product in order to form a patty out of the food product.

The invention is Display Frame System comprised of an outer unit and inner member which pivots where a female and male edge of each respectively meet. The inner member swings into the outer unit engaging the remaining edges by means of a locking mechanism. The combination of the outer unit and inner member serve to hold a display panel / board in place. Pins, medals or the like can be secured to the display panel / board. The system allows for extreme ease of accessing the pins or medals displayed as well as the ability to transport and use the assembled frame in other manners of display such as upon an easel as well as vertically or horizontally.

A sliding shutter apparatus comprising an opening of a predetermined shape, a shutter adapted to seal the opening in closed position and unseal the opening in opened position, and guiding means for facilitating movement of the shutter along a single straight line trajectory between opened and closed positions.

Liquid chemical compositions are disclosed for anaerobic biodegradation, detoxification, and transformation of toxic organic and inorganic compounds in a contaminated geologic media under reducing conditions, including, but not limited to, denitrifying, manganese-reducing, iron-reducing and sulfate-reducing conditions. One such liquid chemical composition includes sodium nitrate in the range of one-fifth (0.2) to four (4) pounds per gallon of the chemical composition; sodium hexametaphosphate or other biologically hydrolyzable ring or linear polyphosphate in the range of one twentieth (0.05) to five (5) pounds per gallon of the chemical composition; a surfactant in the range of 0.01% to 10% by volume of the chemical composition; and a diluent in the form of water.A method is disclosed for anaerobic biodegradation, detoxification, and transformation of toxic organic and inorganic compounds in a contaminated geologic media comprising the steps of pressurizing one or more storage tanks containing a chemical composition using an inert carrier gas; connecting a plurality of quick disconnect valve couplings to one or more pressurized storage tanks; connecting a well to an automatic ball valve for supplying the chemical composition and the inert carrier gas through the well to the contaminated geologic media; and opening and closing the automatic ball valve to dispense the chemical composition and the inert carrier gas under pressure through the well to the contaminated geologic media. Methods are also disclosed for alternating the cycles of redox potential and the predominant microbial respiration pathway within the contaminated geological media.

A self-correcting scope compares the original aim point of a projectile discharge device with the actual impact point and self-corrects the scope to account for the offset between these two points. The scope uses a typical optical lens which converts the incoming image to a digital image which is displayed by the invention on a digital display device which functions as the “eyepiece” of the scope. The invention also compresses the image either to the left or to the right or both of the field of interest in order to allow a shooter to be able to detect an intrusion into the field on interest from a point farther than can be achieved in a non-compressed image.

A fingernail grinder uses a bench grinder-like configuration wherein a motor has dual output shafts with a wheel with an abrasive outer circumference attached to one of the shafts. The wheel is contained within a protective housing that has a longitudinal slit through which a fingernail passes to be ground down by the abrasive wheel. A padded member may surround the slit in order to help the user control the depth of insertion of the fingernail. At least one additional slit can be provided with a padded member of different thickness. The opposite side of the device can have a second abrasive wheel with a different coarseness, a buffing wheel or a centrifugal fan contained within a fan housing and having a debris collection bag near the bottom thereof. The fan housing is connected to the abrasive wheel housing and draws the fingernail debris out of that housing and deposits the debris in the debris bag.

A protective sleeve used to cover and isolate tools such as cooking utensils, medical tools, industrial tools and the like from contaminants. The sleeve comprises an interior portion, an exterior portion, and an exterior trim and is comprised of a malleable material so that it may be crimped and secured to the end of any utensil or tool. The sleeve, being malleable, may also be shaped to supplement the utensil or tool. For example, a sleeve over a spatula could be shaped with lipped edges so as to allow the spatula to more easily hold and maneuver foods. An example of a use of the protective sleeve is to protect foods from cross-contamination of harmful bacteria that may be present on raw or undercooked meats.

A cleaning tool for cleaning the weather sealing strip at the windows of a vehicle has a flat elongate strip that has a brush end and a handle end joined by a medial section, the medial section being offset relative to the brush end by a first obtuse angle and being offset relative to the handle end by a second obtuse angle. The brush end as a twist offset relative to the handle end, the twist being right-handed for right-handed users. The brush end is tapered and has a rounded tip and has a brush material covering this end except at the rounded tip. A handle encompasses the handle end.

A weight member is removably attachable to a racquet for use during warm-up. The device is a skeletal structure that has a laterally expandable mouth, a throat, and a pair of heads that resiliently converge toward one another. The skeletal structure is formed of a metal bar member of a gauge to match the desired device weight and is coated with a protective outer layer. At least one resilient member can bridge a gap at the mouth and throat. The device is symmetrical in both the X-plane and the Y-plane.

An anchoring system for landscape projects uses at least a pair of hollow lightweight spaced apart post such that each post has a body member removably sitting atop a base and having either another body member or a cap sitting atop its upper surface. Each post has openings thereon such that a landscape timber extends between corresponding openings on adjacent body members pairs. The hollow internal cavity of each post may be filled with appropriate weighting material.

The present invention relates to an umbrella or parasol system that has two shafts for connecting multiple umbrellas or parasols. The system further has opening springs in the upper parts of the shafts, which together with a support arrangement in the lower parts of the shafts, are arranged to open stretchers of the system.

The present invention strategically utilizes the sturdiness of thin wires enwrapped inside a thick layer of soft material such as silicone rubber which is smoother and softer than human tissue. Therefore, the device doesn't cause any damage or side effect and feels comfortable to user. The exposure of skin is 90% or higher, therefore solves the lack of sensation issue faced by prior art devices. The device is hard and yet flexible, the side walls or double bars are positioned toward ventral side of the device so that it is pleasing to the eye during use in addition to feeling good by the user.

The present invention relates to an umbrella or parasol system comprising two shafts. The system further comprises opening springs in the upper parts of the shafts, which together with a support arrangement in the lower parts of the shafts, are arranged to open stretchers of the system.

A generally Mo-free, ferrite-austenite duplex stainless steel has a ferrite phase area ratio of about 20 to about 60% and a composition containing, in mass %, not more than about 0.08% of C, about 0.5 to about 1.5% of Si, not more than about 1.0% of Mn, about 4.0 to about 8.0% of Ni, about 23 to about 27% of Cr, about 2.0 to about 6.0% of Cu, about 0.05 to about 0.3% of N, and the balance being Fe and generally unavoidable impurities.