A reservoir wand for use in the washing of windows where a supply of water is captured within the interior of the reservoir wand and subsequently dispensed to the exterior washing cloth of the wand.

A blood reservoir adapted for use in an extracorporeal circulatory support circuit. The blood reservoir comprises a housing having a chamber for holding blood, an outlet in the housing for draining blood from the chamber, and first and second inlets for supplying venous blood to the chamber. The first inlet includes an first inlet tube extending from the top in the vertical-downward direction into the chamber, and the second inlet tube having a generally inverted U-shape extending into the chamb...

A reservoir unit to be installed within a fuel tank, in order to prevent bubbles generated by the fuel transfer jet pump of the fuel tank from feeding into the internal combustion engine, comprising a wall formed in a closed bag shape so that the delivered flow of fuel can fully turn round the discharge port of a jet pump, against which fuel containing bubbles delivered from the jet pump hits and, after turning around a partition wall a plurality of times, fills the reservoir unit, with the resu...

A fluid reservoir for an oral hygiene appliance has a floor valve in its floor which opens when the reservoir is placed on the oral hygiene appliance. The fluid reservoir is subdivided into two separate fluid chambers, each with a fluid outlet leading to the floor valve. The fluid outlets can be controlled by a manually operable selector valve in such a way that one fluid outlet is opened and the other is closed alternately.

A linker lipid for use in attaching a membrane including a plurality of ionophores to an electrode and providing a space between the membrane and the electrode in which the membrane is either in part or totally made up of the linker lipid. The linker lipid has within the same molecule a hydrophobic region capable of spanning the membrane, an attachment group used to attach the molecule to an electrode surface, a hydrophilic region intermediate the hydrophobic region and the attachment group, and...

The present invention pertains to an ink reservoir for an inkjet printer, having a chamber that can be filled with ink, in the underside of which is an ink outlet with an ink discharge opening. In order to make the delivery of the ink uniform and independent of fluid movements of the ink contained therein, the invention suggests that the ink outlet be configured in a siphon-like fashion, having a segment that extends from the ink discharge opening into the interior of the chamber and that makes ...

A venous reservoir including a blood collecting chamber with heat seamed peripheral edges incorporating fillet-defining beads for enhanced blood flow and debubbling. Flow diverters are provided vertically between lower inlet tubes and upper air vents, and laterally between the inlet tubes and an outlet tube. The diverters are vertically spaced and upwardly inclined toward the vent within the flow path of the blood between the inlet and outlet tubes for an enhanced upward directing of entrapped a...

A reservoir, particularly for cigarette packets, stores rectangular arrays of packets on vertically-spaced platforms. The reservoir is filled or emptied by moving successive batches of packets transversely off (or onto) a conveyor on which packets are moved in line, e.g. from a cigarette packing machine to a cigarette wrapping machine. When a platform is completely full it is indexed upwards and another platform moved from a store to take its place. The spacing between adjacent platforms in the ...

A liquid reservoir, for example a swimming bath, a test tank or an aquaculture tank, comprises an open-topped container having at least one side wall, a first floor fixed relative to the side wall(s) and a second floor above the first floor which is able to move upwardly and downwardly relative to the side wall(s) in order to vary the height and/or inclination of the second floor in relation to the first floor. The reservoir comprises means for varying the specific gravity of the second floor be...

A toothbrush having a water reservoir in the handle and squeezable to force water therefrom through a plurality of spaced apart orifices located at the base of bristles that project from the head of the brush.