A composite seafood product is made by assembling smaller butterflied shrimp into composites of two to four shrimp, all but/one of which are tailless, resembling in appearance a single large butterflied shrimp. The shrimp composites are dusted and frozen apart from each other to retain individuality. The individual composites can then be coated with batter and deep fried to yield a food product seemingly consisting of large individual shrimp.

Whole crayfish is processed to derive a food serving resembling in appearance a small lobster by deheading the crayfish, making a U-shaped incision around the belly shell encompassing the anal opening of the crayfish, and peeling away the belly shell including the anal opening and the digestive tract still attached to the anal opening, thereby to devein the crayfish and expose the edible flesh contained in the hard shell in a single operation. When subsequently heated during cooking, the flesh t...

An apparatus for directing a vaporized substance into a space. The apparatus has a base with operating components capable of converting a liquid substance into a vapor, and a substance supply container that is separable from the base. The substance supply container in an operative state in relationship to the base delivers a supply of a substance therein in liquid form to the operating components on the base to be vaporized thereby. Vapor generated by the operating components is directed into a ...

A method of simulating dropping of a box on an impact specimen is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the method includes providing an impact head simulating a corner of a box, providing an impact specimen, causing impact of the impact head with the impact specimen and examining the impact specimen. A method of simulating dropping of a box on an impact specimen is also disclosed.

A simulation system includes glitch injection circuitry in one or more hardware design units to allow the injection of glitches or noise to evaluate the system's response to errors on signals between the hardware design units. The simulation system includes a stimulation module with a set of drivers to input simulation patterns into the design units. Some inputs to software models are driven by the outputs of software models of another design unit. The stimulation module can monitor these signal...

The electronic musical instrument, which is suitable for generating sustaining tone of a rubbed string instrument, has a manipulator for achieving performance manipulation in a linear manipulation region or in a plane manipulation region to simulate the motion of a bow of the rubbed string instrument, and a processing circuit for applying smoothing treatment to signals given by the manipulator. The musical tone generated by the electronic musical instrument can be prevented from being contaminat...

An improved lighting system for growing plants indoors, the lighting system comprising a means for continuously moving a high intensity light over the plants in a cyclic manner simulating daily exposure to the sun in a natural environment.

A portable battery tester with a meter to measure the battery voltage through a series resistor adjusted to limit the current to the meter to the operating range of the meter, and with variable shunt resistors adjustable to a value that will simulate the load conditions to which the battery is to be applied, to simulate the current drain for that usage.

Methods and systems for conducting gaming activities are disclosed. In one method, wagers are placed on a game and cards are dispensed. An indicia of a play card is used to determine an outcome of the game. A feature bet is included, wherein if the indicia of the play card is a predetermined indicia, an indicia of the second card is identified. If a predetermined indicia on the second card is identified, a feature bet payoff is made to players that wagered on the feature bet. A method and system...

The present invention relates to a continuous transparent glass sheet having the appearance of a multi-pane structure. The glass sheet includes a glass panel having opposed surfaces first and second colored bands formed on at least one of the surfaces and intersecting one another. A plurality of parallel, immediately adjacent straight walled grooves is positioned on opposed sides of the colored band, the straight walled grooves positioned parallel to the colored band. Two of the straight walled ...