An early meltdown process of wax sweating is provided which enhances the efficiency, quality, product yield, and throughput of wax. In the early meltdown process, slack wax is crystallized. The crystallized wax is then sweated while simultaneously draining the liquid drippings from the sweating oven. The congealing point of the liquid drippings are monitored. When the congealing point of the liquid drippings indicate that the melting temperature of the desired wax product has been obtained, swea...

The present invention is directed to a wax applicator having a mop, a container for wax and mechanism for siphoning the wax between the container and the mop. A valve controls siphoning rate. The mop includes an applicator portion having a reservoir for receiving the wax with a plurality of openings for periodically distributing the wax from the reservoir to an applicator pad.

A wax shaping tool comprising a handle portion, a means for slidably supporting wax rod with a stopper at the front end thereof, a forming spatula portion in front of the handle portion for holding and flowing wax, a wax melter provided on the forming spatula portion, a heater, a wax feed controller for controlling the contact of wax rod with the wax melter by means of controlling the movement of the wax rod supporting means and/or wax rod and/or the stopper and/or the wax melter. The tool enabl...

A clamp apparatus (10) for use in combination with a flexible sheet (30) of material (31) to cover a cooking receptacle (40) to prevent the splattering of foodstuffs in the interior cavity of a microwave oven (20), wherein the clamp apparatus (10) comprises in general a male clamp member (11) and a female clamp member (12); wherein the male and female clamp members cooperate to vary the effective length of the clamp apparatus (10).

A wax-pellet thermostat having a valve seat, a piston secured to the valve, a guide member slidably mounted on the piston, a valve secured to the guide member, a diaphragm secured to the guide member, and a wax provided in the cylinder. A gap is provided in the guide member around the piston so as to accumulate coolant which has entered along the piston. The gap is provided to discharge the coolant from the guide member when the wax expands to cause a part of the diaphragm to enter into the gap.

A golf club head wax pattern molding process, employing a mold having a first cavity and cores in the mold cavity, including closing the mold with the cores positioned in the mold cavity, certain of the cores slidably interfitting endwise; injecting flowing heated wax into the mold to flow about the cores; allowing the injected wax to cool and solidify to form the wax pattern; removing the cores from the solidified wax pattern, while the mold holds the pattern in position in the mold, by endwise...

The invention provides genes that activate wax biosynthesis in plants. Also provided are constructs comprising these sequences, plants transformed therewith and methods of use thereof. The invention allows the modification of plants for increased wax production, particularly in leaves. The inventors have demonstrated increased drought tolerance in connection with increased leaf wax production engineered in plants.

Hearing aids, particularly hearing aids of the type embodying an ear-fitted housing having an interior receiver at the receiver tube leading from the interior receiver to the exterior of the housing. Particularly, a wax guard in the form of a coil of wire which is interference-fitted within the receiver to provide a restrictive path for ear wax and, thus protect the receiver.

Heavy intermediate petroleum wax is separated into two fractions in a wiped film evaporator to provide a lower boiling fraction of narrow melting range particularly suitable for use in hot melt adhesive formulations.

A wax shaping tool of the present invention is a tool which is used in manufacturing an artificial denture model by a dental technician. The tool comprises a tubular handle portion 10 having a slit 12 extending in an axial direction for interconnecting an internal bore with the external space, a wax cartridge holder 13 provided on upper side of the handle portion including edges of the slit for slidably provided guiding a wax cartridge 16, a roller 14 rotatably onto said handle portion so as to ...