Aurand
Christopher R. Aurand, Middleburg, PA US
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20120152109 | FEEDER ARM SAFETY STAND - A safety stand for minimizing the effect of hydraulic failure in an agricultural harvester is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for raising or lowering a pivotable safety stand is provided which may take the form of a remotely operated hydraulic safety stand. In another embodiment, the mechanical stop provides multiple stops along the length of travel of the piston to prevent the dramatic falling of the feeder arm under the force of gravity. In one embodiment, the safety stand is provided with a series of notches along a longitudinal edge of the safety stand which are designed to accept and received a protrusion affixed to a cylinder of a hydraulic cylinder which raises and lowers a feeder arm. When the feeder arm is raised, the hydraulic cylinder is in the full upright position, the safety stand can be lowered such that the protrusion enters and is held within a notch to prevent accidental downward movement of the feeder arm. If the notch fails, or the safety stand is not properly engaged, the longitudinal edge of the safety arm is allowed to follow the protrusion, until a subsequent notch is reached, which then engages the protrusion, safely stopping the downward path of the feeder arm. | 06-21-2012 |
Craig Aurand, Lock Haven, PA US
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20080213906 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING PROTEIN PRECIPITATION AND SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION - A composition, method and device for the preparation of biological samples for subsequent LC-MS analysis using a combined and concurrent protein precipitation and solid phase extraction (SPE) process is described. Through an integrated combination of protein precipitation, filtration, and SPE using a novel zirconia-coated chromatographic media, interfering compounds, such as proteins and phosphate-containing compounds, are eliminated from the biological samples, affording a higher degree of analyte response during LC-MS analysis. | 09-04-2008 |
Susan Aurand, Fairport, NY US
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20100084809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SUBSTRATE FLATNESS IN PRINTING DEVICES USING THE FLOW OF AIR - Systems and methods are provided for controlling substrate flatness for sensor measurements in printing device. A flow of air may be provided from a blower to a plenum. A printed sheet of media may be transported between upper and lower transport baffles that are generally spaced apart to permit the sheet of media to pass. Located on one of transport baffles may be a sensor to measure a property of the printed sheet. Air from the plenum is provided to the back surface of the sheet to urge it toward the sensor. | 04-08-2010 |
Thomas Aurand, Woodbury, MN US
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20140106054 | BROWN BUTTER AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION THEREOF - A system and method for the continuous production of brown butter involves concentrating butter while retaining solids non-fat in the butter, and continuously transferring and heating the concentrated butter to cause the solids non-fat in the butter to react in a maillard reaction to form a brown butter product. The system may use one or more of a heating vessel, an evaporator and a reaction vessel to form the brown butter in the continuous process. A brown butter product derived from butter includes reacted solids non-fat particulates from a maillard reaction suspended by nascent fat crystals nucleated about the reacted solids non-fat particulates and by large fat crystal structures joined to the nascent fat crystals. | 04-17-2014 |