A process for producing burgundy colored olives including the steps of darkening the color of the olives (21); neutralizing the pH of the olives (23); while neutralized, soaking of the olives in an aqueous solution of Red Dye No. 3 at ambient temperatures for at least 12 hours (25); and packing the olives in an acidic brine solution for storage (27). In another aspect, the process includes flavoring the packing solution with a mother brine recovered from an olive fermentation process (29).

A food preparation system, a controller, a computer readable memory, and a method for providing precise on-line control of a heat transfer process on a food item is disclosed. The food preparation system comprises a heating and/or cooling chamber, a sensor, and a controller. The chamber is configured to transfer heat to or from the food item during a phase of the heat transfer process. The sensor is configured to sense an actual temperature in the heating and/or cooling chamber at each real time...

Custom molded wrist area impression sleeve (21) having a configuration substantially covering the wrist area (WA) of a patient. The impression sleeve (21) is formed from a thin, resin-impregnated, resilient fabric sleeve (21) mounted over a thin, flexible, resin-impervious release layer (23), and preferably over a cushioning and thermally insulating foam sleeve (25). The hardenable sleeve (21) can include one, and preferably two, longitudinally extending weakened strips (30, 40) which facilitate...

A plastic wheel (122, 222) and wheel mounting sleeve (127, 227, 327, 427) used to releasably secure the wheel (122, 222) onto an axle (123, 223). The wheel mounting sleeve (127, 227, 327, 427) preferably includes a resilient, radially displaceable, axially extending, cantilevered finger (146, 246, 346, 446) which includes an axle-engaging lug (155, 255, 355, 455), while a wheel-engaging shoulder is provided on the sleeve by an annular rib (201, 301). The sleeve shoulders latch the sleeve (127, 2...

An adaptive control device (77) and method (102-108) for control of the operation of an actuator (72), and particularly thermally-powered actuator (72) of the type used in a variable-air-volume diffuser (71). The preferred adaptive control device is an expert system circuit which controls a heater (74) provided on a thermally-powered actuator (72) to implement an adaptive process (102-108) in which a sensed variable, such as room air temperature, is driven toward a target temperature control ran...

Custom molded orthopedic impression shirt (27, 47) having a configuration substantially covering the torso of a patient. The impression shirt is formed from a thin, resin-impregnated elastic fabric shirt layer (27) mounted over a thin, flexible, resin-impervious release shirt layer (25), and preferably over a thin, elastic, thermally insulating fabric shirt layer (23). In the present method, the impression shirt is hardened on the patient's torso, cut off the patient's torso and then used to for...

An edge banding apparatus (21) for adhesively securing banding material (28) to an edge of a board (27). The apparatus (21) includes a board support structure (22) formed to support a board (26) in a near vertical orientation with the edge (27) to be banded in a downwardly facing orientation. An adhesive applying assembly (23) is positioned relative to the board support structure (22) and is formed to apply adhesive (54) to the downwardly facing edge (27) during relative motion between the board...

A combined adult and children's toilet seat assembly (21) having a seat mounting structure (22), a toilet seat lid (51) and an adult toilet seat (31) pivotally mounted to the mounting structure (22) for pivotal movement about a first axis (28). A children's toilet seat (33) is pivotally mounted for movement about a second axis (44) forwardly of the first axis (28). Pivoting of the child's seat (33) from an axis forwardly of pivotal mounting of the lid (51) enables the child's seat (33) to be lif...

A method for precision bending of a sheet of material (31,41,61,91,231) along a bend line (35,45,62-66,96,235) and the resulting sheet are disclosed. A method includes a step of forming and longitudinally extending slits (33,43,68,92,233) through the sheet of material in axially spaced relation to define bending webs (37,47,71,72,106,237), forming stress reducing structures such as enlarged openings (39,49,69,73) or transversely extending slits (239) at each of adjacent ends of pairs of slits in...

An invertible, hand-held, electronic game apparatus having a manually engageable housing, a display screen mounting in the housing, an electronic circuit electrically connected to drive the display screen, and a control switch assembly mounted for manipulation by at least one hand of the player while holding the housing. The control switch assembly includes a joypad and fire buttons which are positioned on the housing to permit rotation or inverting of the housing and operation of the switches i...