Packages for embossed-surfaced pats of butter, and the like, comprising pocketed trays that hold the pats in surface-protected, spaced apart, and easily dispensable relationship to each other.

A butter pat dispenser including a rectangular box-like container having a U-shaped cover and a rectangular plate-like member. An end wall closes the first end of the container and the second end defines an opening. In one embodiment, the first end of the plate is pivotally mounted to the side walls defined by the legs of the cover. In another embodiment, side edge portions of the plate are received in longitudinally extending grooves in the interior surface of each of the side walls. A driver a...

A tool for unclinching nails from horseshoes, securing said horseshoe from horse's hoof. It is comprised of a top handle with a chisel-like end, generally having a chisel on the end of a lever, a bottom handle comprised of a raised quarter circle, bow down, pivot slot and a flat hook which curls up and attaches to said horseshoe. The top handle slides the chisel end under the clinched nail and lifts it up to a straight position allowing easy removal of the horseshoe.

A self-congratulatory apparatus having a simulated human hand carried on a pivoting arm suspended form shoulder supported member. The hand is manually swingable into and out of contact with the user's back to give an amusing or an important pat-on-the-back.

A dispenser suitable for use on a dining table for dispensing to the ultimate consumer individual packages of food, such as butter pat packages. The dispenser includes means to maintain the food packages in a refrigerated state and a dispensing mechanism adapted to sequentially dispense the bottom food package from a vertical stack of pats.

A system for testing a bus is described. The system utilizes a tester which includes decompression circuitry to decompress digitized ADPCM signals transferred over a bus, data in the decompressed ADPCM signal is used to determine whether data losses or transmission errors are occurring on the bus. When such errors occur, the tester transmits a warning signal.

The present invention provides methods for increasing yield in plants by introducing a gene encoding phosphinothricin acetyltransferase. The invention further involves a method of transferring said increased yield phenotype to other lines of plants by crossing. A maize transformant is identified in which the phosphinothricin acetyltransferase gene integration event is correlated with increased yield.