An aisle delivery system operable in limited traffice areas such as the passenger aisle in a commercial aircraft, said system permitting delivery of food and beverages by placing trays on pallets pivoted to a bracket depending from an overhead carrier which moves along a conveyor track fixed to the upper part of the fuselage. Means are provided to immobilize the overhead carrier at selected positions along the conveyor track, and a universal joint is provided between the bracket and the overhead...

A bobbin tube delivery assembly is disclosed for the delivery of bobbin tubes in an axially upright position to a tube donning apparatus servicing a textile machine, wherein a pivotable tube cage having an open side, top and bottom receives tubes one at a time, and pivots to an indexed tube discharge position over one of a plurality of pegs on a moving conveyor; during receipt and pivoting, the cage is closable at the open side and bottom sufficiently to retain a tube therewithin by means of a s...

This rural delivery mail box comprises an upper compartment closed by a front, upwardly and forwardly swinging hinged door, to contain letters, and a shelf therebelow to receive newspapers and magazines. The shelf is open at both ends and has a through passage at one side. A flag is so mounted at one side of the mail box that it can be easily moved to and maintained in vertical position or in flipped back horizontal position.

The invention relates to an equipment for the delivery of slurries and for their refinement during delivery, which has a housing provided with axial inlet opening and tangential discharge opening, furthermore a disc-shaped stationary part in the housing with a concentric opening adjoining the inlet opening, and disc-shaped rotary part arranged opposite the stationary part. Rods are concentrically arranged according to the invention alternately on the stationary part and rotary part in such a way...

A delivery device for delivering a dose of washing material, especially a detergent tablet, into the interior of a washing apparatus such as a machine dishwasher. In one preferred form, the device comprises: a chamber for containing the dose of washing material to be delivered, the chamber including at least one opening for allowing communication between the interior of the chamber and the outside of the device; closure means for selectively closing or opening the at least one opening in the cha...

Nasopharyngeal congestion, irritation, and inflammation and associated upper respiratory infections such as otitis media, sinusitis are adjunctivly treated and prevented by nasal application of xylitol/xylose in a saline solution.

The invention features a catheter and methods for delivering drug to tissue at a desired location of the wall of a body lumen. The catheter is constructed for insertion in a body lumen and has a catheter shaft and an expandable portion mounted on the catheter shaft. The expandable portion is expandable to a controlled pressure to fill the cross-section of the body lumen and press against the wall of the body lumen. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the exterior surface of the expandable p...

A delivery device having a retaining mechanism for pre-tensioning a valve against a feed pump that is installed in an area removed from the sealing structure that provides surfaces used to seal the connection between the valve and the feed pump. The retaining mechanism has a locking device.

A delivery unit which is provided for feeding motor-vehicle fuel has an electric motor (1) with vanes (1) arranged on the lateral surface of a rotor (4). During rotation of the rotor (4), the vanes (11) feed the fuel in a pump channel (19) between the rotor (4) and a stator (3). The delivery unit is thus constructed in a particularly compact manner and is cost-effective to produce.

Delivery for sheets being delivered by a transport system in a conveying direction from a sheet-processing machine and being deposited alternatively in a pile and on catching arms of a catching device, the catching arms being temporarily movable out of a basic position into a catching position above the pile, including stops for respective leading edges of the sheets, the stops being disposed at the pile and being flappable away from the pile in the conveying direction, and a transmission system...