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Teams: Holy Cross (4-4-0, 3-1-0 Atlantic Hockey) vs. Canisius (4-4-2, 3-3-2 Atlantic Hockey)
Dates: November 13-14, 2010
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: Buffalo State Sports Arena (1,800), Buffalo, N.Y.
Live Video Streaming: One Networks
Series Records (Holy Cross varsity games since 1966-1967):
With Canisius: Holy Cross leads 26-11-8
Last Meeting: Holy Cross 3, Canisius 2 (10/25/09; Buffalo, N.Y.)
Last Canisius Win: Canisius 2, Holy Cross 1 (2/17/08; Buffalo, N.Y.)
First Meeting: Holy Cross 3, Canisius 1 (11/1/86; Potsdam, N.Y.)
Current Win Streak: Holy Cross three games
2009-2010 Series: Holy Cross won 2-0-0
HC TO PLAY TWO ROAD GAMES VERSUS CANISIUS: The Holy Cross men's hockey team (4-4-0 overall, 3-1-0 Atlantic Hockey) will travel to Buffalo, N.Y., to play two Atlantic Hockey games versus Canisius (4-4-2 overall, 3-3-2 Atlantic Hockey) at the Buffalo State Sports Arena on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13-14 at 3:30 p.m. The Crusaders have won four of their last six games and are coming off a split in a two-game series with Robert Morris. Last week, the Golden Griffins lost to Niagara and went 0-1-1 versus UConn. Canisius is in second place in the Atlantic Hockey standings with eight points as it has a .500 league winning percentage which is tied for sixth best, while the Crusaders are in third place with six points as they have a .750 winning percentage which is third best in the conference. The Crusaders enter the contest averaging 2.62 goals scored per game which is seventh in the AHA, while the Golden Griffins are fourth in the conference with 3.20 goals per game. Canisius has been strong on defense as it has allowed just 2.40 goals per game which rank second in the league and 15th nationally. The Crusaders bring a solid power play to this match up as their .200 power play percentage is fourth in the conference and tied for 19th in the country, while the Golden Griffins' .867 penalty kill percentage if fourth in the AHA and 14th nationally. Canisius' Cory Conacher leads Atlantic Hockey with 12 points.
BIG IN CLUTCH SITUATIONS: The Crusaders have so far demonstrated the ability to win close games. Holy Cross is 4-0-0 this season in one-goal contests, including three overtime victories. In the overtime win over Army, HC scored with just 11 seconds left and the overtime winning goal over Robert Morris was with just five seconds left. All four of Holy Cross' game-winning goals this season have occurred in either the third period or in overtime.
BOUNCING RIGHT BACK: HC has responded well after losing a game this season. Holy Cross is 3-1-0 so far following a loss.
CRUSADERS OFF TO A GREAT START: Holy Cross' 3-1-0 Atlantic Hockey record is its best start since going 3-1-0 in the 2006-2007 season. The last time the Crusaders started the AHA season with a 4-1-0 record was in the 2005-2006 season.
CRUSADERS 3-0-0 IN OVERTIME: Three of the four Holy Cross wins this season have been in overtime as they are a perfect 3-0-0 in overtime games. The three wins are the Crusaders most overtime victories in a season since they won three in the 1994-1995 season which was Paul Pearl's first season as head coach of the Crusaders. Last season, the Crusaders played in nine overtime games with a 0-3-6 (.333) record in those games. The six ties are tied for the second most ties in a season at the school as the record is seven set in the 2007-2008 season. The most overtime games played in a single-season at Holy Cross was in 2008-2009 when the Crusaders played 10 and went 2-3-5 (.450) in those games. Since the 2006-2007 season and 153 total games, the Crusaders have played 38 overtime contests with a 5-10-23 (.434) record as .248 percent of their games have gone to overtime. Last season, Holy Cross played three straight games that went to overtime as it tied RIT, 1-1, lost to RIT, 3-2, and tied No. 7 Quinnipiac, 1-1. This was the fourth time in program history that the Crusaders had played three straight overtime contests as Holy Cross did it twice in the 2008-2009 season and once in the 1986-1987 season. The school record is four consecutive overtime games set in the 2007-2008 season.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The Crusaders started the 2010-2011 season with six straight games away from Worcester. Holy Cross went 0-2-0 on neutral ice at the Ice Breaker Tournament and then went 3-1-0 on its opponents' home ice. Holy Cross won league road games over AIC (Oct. 15) and Army (Oct. 17), while the Crusaders lost at ECACHL member Quinnipiac (Oct. 23). The Crusaders then defeated Hockey East member Northeastern (Oct. 29). Last season, Holy Cross compiled a 6-12-1 record on its opponents' home ice and went 0-1-0 on neutral ice.
THE SERIES WITH CANISIUS: This week's games will be the 46th and 47th meetings between the Crusaders and the Golden Griffins with Holy Cross leading the all-time series, 26-11-8. Last season, the Crusaders won the series, 2-0-0, as both games were played at the Buffalo State Sports Arena and Holy Cross won each game by a 3-2 score. The Crusaders have won three straight games over the Golden Griffins and are 6-3-1 versus Canisius in the last 10 meetings. Holy Cross is also 4-1-0 against the Golden Griffins in the last five games in Buffalo.
FLETCHER AND LINSMAYER WITH SIX POINTS: Sophomores Kyle Fletcher (Kanata, Ontario) and Rob Linsmayer (Winnetka, Ill.) are tied for second on the team with six points. They have each recorded at least one point in three consecutive games and in four of the last five. Fletcher scored his first collegiate game-winner in the 3-2 overtime victory over Robert Morris on Nov. 6. Fletcher is tied for first on the team in goals with three. Linsmayer is second on the team with five assists. For his career, Linsmayer has five goals and 20 assists for 25 points in 45 games.
KUMP EARNS WIN IN COLLEGIATE DEBUT: Freshman goalie Derek Kump (Falmouth, Maine) made 30 saves and allowed two goals in his collegiate debut in the 3-2 overtime win over Robert Morris on Nov. 6. He recorded a 1.85 goals against average and a .938 save percentage in the victory.
SHEEN SHINES: Senior co-captain Everett Sheen (Lethbridge, Alberta) leads the team in points with eight and in assists with six, while he is tied for fourth in goals with two. Sheen's six assists are tied for second in Atlantic Hockey. He was named the AHA Player of the Week on Oct. 18 as he recorded two goals and three assists for five points as the Crusaders earned two conference victories on the road. Sheen tallied two assists, including one on the game-winner, in the 3-2 win versus AIC on Oct. 15. He then scored two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, and recorded one assist for three points in the 5-4 win over Army on Oct. 17. He has played in all 119 games in his four seasons. This is his second straight season as a captain. He leads all current Crusaders with 37 goals and 40 assists for 77 points. He has been named AHA Player of the Week twice, while he was named to the AHA All-Rookie Team, earned AHA Rookie of the Week honors three times and was named the AHA Rookie of the Month once. Sheen led the team with 15 goals as a freshman.
STOCKTON & SCHMIDT WITH FIVE POINTS EACH: Freshmen Shayne Stockton (Rochester, N.Y.) and Adam Schmidt (Warrington, Pa.) are tied for fourth in rookie scoring in Atlantic Hockey with five points each. Stockton has three goals and two assists, while Schmidt has one goal and four assists. Stockton is also tied for the team-lead in goals. Both Stockton and Schmidt each recorded one goal and one assist for two points in their collegiate debuts versus No. 17 Notre Dame (Oct. 8). Stockton scored the first goal of the season for the Crusaders and Schmidt scored the second goal. Stockton was named the Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the Week for his performance. Stockton was then named the AT&T Crusader of the Week as he scored his first collegiate game-winning goal in the 3-2 victory over AIC (Oct. 15) and then recorded one goal and one assist in the 5-4 overtime win over Army (Oct. 17).
BALDASSARI TIED FOR LEAD WITH THREE GOALS: Junior Gianni Baldassari (Fort Wayne, Ind.) is tied for the team-lead with a career-best three goals. He scored two goals including his first collegiate game-winner in overtime in Holy Cross' 4-3 victory over Northeastern at Matthews Arena on Oct. 29 and was named the AT&T Crusader of the Week for his performance. Two of his three goals this season are shorthanded. His two shorthanded goals are tied for first nationally. For his career he has recorded five goals and three assists for eight points in 55 games.
ZNUTAS LEADS DEFENSEMEN IN POINTS: Senior Mark Znutas (Emerson, N.J.) is tied for third on the team in assists with four and is tied for fourth in points with five. His five points are also tied for fourth in Atlantic Hockey by defensemen. For his career, Znutas has played in 116 games with 11 goals and 37 assists for 48 points.
HC ON ONE NETWORKS: All of Holy Cross' home games and Atlantic Hockey away games can be seen via live video streaming. The games can been viewed through One Networks.
TYSOWSKY WITH THREE WINS SO FAR THIS SEASON: Sophomore goalie Thomas Tysowsky (Amherst, N.Y.) is 3-3-0 overall on the season as he recorded two conference victories on Oct. 15 and Oct. 17, and earned a win over Northeastern on Oct. 29. He made 20 saves and allowed two goals in the 3-2 win over AIC, while he recorded 31 saves and allowed four goals in the 5-4 overtime win over Army. Tysowsky made 28 saves and recorded a .903 save percentage in the Crusaders' 4-3 win over the Huskies. For his career, he is 14-20-6 with a 2.59 goals against average, 1,008 saves and a .906 save percentage. Last season as a freshman, he had a 2.43 goals against average ranking him second in Atlantic Hockey, 17th nationally and fourth on the school's Division I single-season list. Tysowsky was fourth in the league with a .910 save percentage and ranked second on the all-time Holy Cross Division I single-season save list with 839 saves. He was named the Atlantic Hockey Goalie of the Week twice, and Goalie of the Month, Rookie of the Month and Rookie of the Week once.
HOLY CROSS HEAD COACH PAUL PEARL: Paul Pearl is in his 16th year at the helm of the Holy Cross ice hockey program, and is just the fifth head coach in the history of ice hockey at Holy Cross. On January 21, 2006, with a 3-2 victory at Dartmouth, Pearl became the school's all-time winningest coach with the 168th victory of his career. Pearl has forged a 230-230-54 (.500) record at Holy Cross and has been the man behind the bench in seven of the nine most successful seasons in Holy Cross history, while he has had three teams post 20-plus win seasons. Along with 14 post-season appearances in 15 years, Pearl led the Crusaders to their first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006, while he coached the Crusaders to their first ever NCAA Tournament win with the 4-3 overtime victory over Minnesota in Grand Forks, N.D., on March 24, 2006. In 2005-2006, Pearl led the Crusaders to a school single season record 27 victories, as the team posted an overall record of 27-10-2. Holy Cross also claimed the AHA regular season and tournament titles.


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A display rack assembly for the display of product packages, with provisions for pushing packages toward the front of the display as individual packages are removed. The assembly includes a support base for supporting the packages and slidably mounting a spring-urged pusher. The pusher has front and back panels, with the back panel being joined along its upper edge to the back of the front panel, and the respective bottom edges being spaced apart in the front to back direction. A generally flat, front extension panel is removably attached to the front pusher panel to extend its dimensions upwardly or laterally, or both. This enables a standardized display rack to be easily adapted for tall and/or wide packages, as well as packages of smaller sizes. Interchangeable extension panels also can be provided with product advertising, specific to the product being displayed, which can be replaced or interchanged when a new product is displayed.
1. A display rack assembly for the display of multiple product packages, with provisions for pushing product packages toward a front of the assembly as packages are removed, the assembly comprising
(a) a support base,
(b) a product pusher mounted on said support base for forward and rearward sliding movement, for urging packages to the front of said display assembly,
(c) said product pusher comprising a front pusher panel
(d) said front pusher panel having a first height and first width, and
(e) a front wall extension panel having a second height and a second width, at least one of which is greater than the corresponding first height or first width,
(f) said front wall extension panel being removably attachable to said front pusher panel to enlarge the effective front surface area of said product pusher to accommodate product package larger than said front pusher panel.
2. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said product pusher comprising front and back panels,
(b) a top edge portion of said back panel being joined with said front panel, and
(c) bottom edge regions of said panels being spaced apart in the direction of said sliding movement.
3. A display rack assembly according to
(a) the front and back pusher panels comprise a one-piece extrusion in which an upper edge of said back pusher panel is integrally joined with said front pusher panel,
(b) said product pusher being of substantially uniform cross section from one side to the other.
4. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said front wall extension panel is of extruded construction, of substantially uniform cross section from top to bottom.
5. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said front wall extension panel is formed with laterally spaced apart mounting flanges on a back surface thereof forming inwardly opening channels on said back surface,
(g) said inwardly opening channels engaging opposite side edge portions of said front pusher panel.
6. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said product pusher is formed with edge slots in the region at which said back pusher panel joins with said front pusher panel, and
(b) said mounting flanges are received in said edge slots.
7. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said product pusher is extruded in a generally inverted V-shaped cross sectional configuration, comprising said front and back pusher panels and a bridging section joining upper edges of said panels, and
(b) said edge slots are formed in said bridging section adjacent a back surface of said front pusher panel.
8. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said front pusher panel is formed with an integral rib in a lower portion thereof, projecting forwardly from a front face of said panel,
(b) said integral rib serving as a position stop for said expansion panel.
9. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said front wall extension panel is of greater height than said front pusher panel.
10. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said front wall extension panel is of greater width than said front pusher panel.
11. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said support base comprises a plurality of spaced apart wire support elements extending in the back-to-front direction, and
(b) said front and back pusher panels are formed in lower edge areas thereof with notches for slidably engaging said wire support elements.
12. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said display rack assembly includes width-adjustable side guide elements mounted on opposite sides of said support base, for confining product packages on said display rack assembly.
(b) said pusher front panel having a width less than a minimum width adjustment of said side guide elements, and said extension panel having a width greater than said minimum width adjustment.
13. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said display rack assembly is dimensioned for the display of particular predetermined product items having a predetermined height dimension,
(b) said extension panel has an effective height greater than predetermined height dimension, whereby an upper margin of said extension panel projects above said height dimension, and
(c) informational material is provided on said upper margin.
14. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said extension panel is provided on a front surface portion thereof below said upper margin with additional informational material visible primarily when all product items have been removed from said display rack assembly.
15. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said display rack assembly includes a plurality of extension panels, each intended for use with different products and each having informational material thereon relevant to the product with which it is intended to be used.
16. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said product pusher includes a back panel having a top edge joined with said front panel and having a bottom edge spaced rearwardly of a bottom edge of said front panel,
(b) said front wall extension panel having spaced apart vertically extending mounting flanges projecting from a back surface thereof and slidably engaging opposite side edges of said front panel.
17. A display rack assembly according to
(a) said back panel is of equal width to said front panel, and
(b) slots are formed in the opposite sides of said product pusher, in the region thereof in which said back panel top edge joins with said front panel, to accommodate the passage of said mounting flanges.
18. A display rack assembly according to
This application is related to U.S. applications Ser. No. 10/219,800, filed Aug. 16, 2002 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,745,906), Ser. No. 10/232,509, filed Aug. 30, 2002, and 10/323,461, filed Dec. 18, 2002, all of which are owned by Trion Industries, Inc., the owner of this application.
Product display and shelf management frequently requires that a supply of products of the same type, displayed on a shelf or rack, be kept in an orderly, upright arrangement and be constantly urged forwardly, as product items are removed, so that the display is always neat and the product is always visible and available for display at the front of the display device. A variety of devices and systems have been proposed over the years for accomplishing this objective. Some of the more important improvements in such systems are reflected in the above-mentioned related applications.
The above mentioned pending applications are directed to various features of a product display rack comprised preferentially of a wire rack structure supported at front and back ends by special low profile plastic bases. A product pusher is slidably mounted on the wire rack structure, and actuated by a spring which constantly urges the pusher device toward the front of the display rack in order to maintain the product inventory in the front portion of the rack as individual product items are removed by customers.
In many, if not most cases, it is desirable to provide the product display rack with width-adjustable wire side guides, in order to maintain products in an orderly alignment while accommodating changes from time to time in the width of the products displayed on the rack. Such side guides advantageously comprise wire elements extending from front to back at each side, and having transverse mounting sections slidably engaged with the plastic bases at opposite sides of the display rack.
For a variety of reasons, and particularly when adjustable side guides are incorporated into the product display rack assembly, the pusher element must have a maximum width corresponding to the minimum adjustable width position of the side guides. Likewise, even in those cases where the display rack is not provided with side guides, it is typically desired to position laterally adjacent racks as close together as practicable, unless the width of the product items requires a greater lateral spacing. For similar reasons, the height of the pusher tends to be determined as a function of the height of the shortest product to be displayed on the rack. These practical physical limitations on the height and width of the pusher can present problems when the product to be displayed is relatively tall and/or wide, particularly if the product is of a flexible nature, for example, packaged clothing items, certain bagged food products, etc.
In accordance with the present invention, a novel adjustable product display system is provided, which incorporates an inexpensive removable/replaceable extension panel, which is inexpensive to produce, easily and conveniently stored, and quickly installed when needed and removed when not needed. Extension panels can be inexpensively provided in various combinations of height and width, enabling a standardized product display rack assembly to be quickly and easily adapted for the handling of variously oversized products.
In a particularly advantageous form of the invention, the product pusher comprises flat, sheet-like front and back panels, joined at the top, in a generally inverted V-shaped configuration. The spaced-apart bottom edges of the pusher are formed with openings for the slidable reception of support wires extending in the front-to-back direction in the track structure, and a pusher spring is contained in the space between the two panels. To advantage, this design of pusher element is formed as a continuous extrusion having the inverted V-shaped configuration, which is cut to the desired width and then notched appropriately along the lower edge portions of the front and back panel sections for engagement with the support wires of the display rack structure. Although it is theoretically possible to provide pusher elements in a variety of heights, as a practical matter the pusher elements are provided in only one or two different heights each intended to handle a wide array of products, in many cases in a less than optimal manner. According to the present invention, however, extension panels can be provided inexpensively in any convenient height and width, and attached to the front panel of the pusher so as to effectively extend the height and/or width of the pusher as necessary or appropriate for the particular merchandise being displayed.
In a particularly advantageous form of the invention, the extension panels are of extruded form and are extruded in the direction of the height of the extension panel. Accordingly, extruded panels may be easily cut to a preset length as part of the extrusion process. Similarly, for the production of extension panels of different width, the extrusion die can be designed for the largest width of a range, and the extruded product trimmed along its lateral edges, or the extrusion die can be temporarily closed off at the edge extremities for the production of narrower extension panels.
As a feature of particular advantage, extension panels may be designed for specific products and provided with advertising exposure on the front surfaces thereof. Thus, when displaying a particular product, a dedicated extension panel may be provided for that product, with a margin exposed above the top of the product bearing advertising or other information relating to that product, and perhaps also containing additional information about the product that will be exposed when the last product item is removed. In cases such as these, even though a new product to be displayed in the rack may not require a change of the size of the extension panel, a new extension panel may be inserted without advertising information or with advertising information relevant to the new product.
In an advantageous alternative form of the invention, an extension panel of the type described above may be provided on its front surface with an opposed pair of vertically extending guide flanges adapted for the vertical reception of a printed card containing advertising material or the like. In this alternative form, instead of providing dedicated extension panels, with advertising or other indicia relating to a particular product printed thereon, the extension panels may be provided in a more generic form, with spaced-apart guide flanges for replaceably receiving cards pre-printed with the desired information. The individual pre-printed cards may be removed and replaced as appropriate to provide a new display message.
For a more complete understanding of the above and other features and advantages of the invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, and to the accompanying drawings.
Referring now to the drawing, the reference numeral 10 designates generally a display rack of the type, for example, shown in co-pending application Ser. No. 10/323,461. The display rack includes a support base 11 which preferably comprises four wire support elements 12-15 arranged in a spaced-apart, parallel manner, extending in the front-to-back (longitudinal) direction. The end extremities of the wire supports 12-15 are welded to underlying transverse cross bars 16, 17 to provide a rigid, grid-like support base structure. Molded plastic base elements 18, 19 are formed with upwardly opening grooves (not specifically shown) to receive the respective cross bars 16, 17, preferably with a snap-in assembly action such that, once assembled, the base elements 18, 19 remain firmly attached to the cross bars 16, 17 unless intentionally removed therefrom.
In a preferred form of the invention, the opposite side support elements 12, 15 are integrally joined at the front by a suitably shaped connecting section 20, which extends upward and forms an abutment stop at the front of the display rack.
A product pusher 21 is slidably supported on the longitudinally extending wire elements 12-15. To particular advantage, the pusher element 21 consists of generally flat front and back panels 22, 23 joined along their upper edge extremities at 24 somewhat in the configuration of an inverted "V". Alternatively, the back panel may join the front panel below the upper edge of a flat front panel, in somewhat of an inverted "Y" configuration. The bottom edges 25, 26 of the pusher panels 22, 23 are notched for the reception of the support wire elements 12-15. As described in our before mentioned applications, each of the panels is formed with two downwardly opening notches 27, 28 positioned to be loosely received over the inside wire support elements 13, 14. The opposite side edges of the panels are provided with laterally opening notches 29, 30, preferably with restricted edge openings, arranged to be loosely received over the outer wire elements 12, 15 of the support base, all as shown particularly in FIG. 1. The design and construction of the pusher element 21 is such that it can be installed on the pre-assembled support base 11 by squeezing the front and back panels close together and orienting the panels at a slight angle to the perpendicular relative to the wire elements 12-15. This allows the panel elements to be installed with a twist and lock motion, after which the pusher element is engaged by the wires for free sliding movement in the longitudinal direction while being effectively permanently engaged with the support wires unless intentionally disassembled.
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In accordance with the disclosures of the above mentioned co-pending applications, the display rack 10 advantageously is provided with adjustable side guide elements 35, 36 for the lateral confinement of product items positioned on the support base 11. The side guide elements preferably include transversely extending mounting portions 37, 38 which are snugly but movably received in transverse recesses 39, 40 provided in the plastic base members 18, 19. The mounting members 37, 38 may have a length substantially equal to that of the base members 18, 19. When fully received in their respective recesses 39, 40, the mounting portions 37, 38 support the side guides 35, 36 in positions closely adjacent to the opposite ends of the base members, providing a minimum-width configuration of the display rack. To accommodate products of greater width than the minimum, the side guides may be adjusted outwardly (usually symmetrically). The position of maximum outward width adjustment is that which leaves an adequate length of the mounting portions 37, 38 engaged within the recesses 39, 40 to provide adequate support for the side guides.
As will be understood, the minimum width configuration of the display rack, with the side guides in their innermost positions, fixes the maximum width of the pusher 21. Practical considerations fix the optimum height of the pusher panel, so that it is tall enough to handle a wide variety of product items, yet not so tall as to present an unsightly display with smaller products. This can present problems when displaying large products, and the problems are aggravated when the product items are of a soft or flexible nature. Packaged clothing items, for example, are best displayed in a straight and upright manner, with minimum sagging or drooping. Likewise, such products as snack foods packaged in bags, magazines, etc. are best displayed where the support by the pusher is geometrically suited to the product, from a width and/or height standpoint.
Pursuant to the present invention, the pusher 21 can be provided with an interchangeable extension panel 50, of an inexpensive nature, which can be quickly installed on and/or removed from the pusher 21 in order to optimize the display rack to a particular product being displayed. The extension panel advantageously is in the form of a flat panel 51 of rigid plastic material, preferably formed by extrusion and provided with spaced-apart, vertically extending L-shaped mounting flanges 52, 53 along the back surface of the panel. The mounting flanges define inwardly facing channels of a size and shape to closely receive opposite side edges 54, 55 of the pusher front panel 22.
Where the back panel 23 is of the same width as the front panel 22, which will be true in the majority of cases, the pusher panel is formed with laterally opening notches 56, 57 in the region of the pusher where the back panel 23 joins the front panel 22. The notches receive the inwardly directed portions of the mounting flanges 52, 53, enabling the extension panel 50 to be assembled with the pusher panel 21 by sliding the extension panel downwardly over the front panel 22 of the pusher.
To advantage, the front panel 22 of the pusher is provided with an integrally extruded, forwardly projecting rib 58, positioned slightly above the spring opening 33. The rib 58 engages the bottom edge 59 of the extension panel and forms a limit stop for downward movement of the extension panel.
As will be readily appreciated, the extension panels 50 may be inexpensively produced by continuous extrusion, cut to any height desired and provided in any suitable width by edge trimming during the extrusion process and/or plugging the extremities of the extrusion die. The panels are flat and easily stored, quickly removed and installed, and thus enable the product display rack to be quickly optimized to the characteristics of the particular products being displayed.
An additional advantage of the use of the interchangeable extension panels 50 of the invention is that the panels may be provided with advertising and other information specific to the particular product being displayed and quickly interchangeable whenever a new product is loaded onto the display rack. In the arrangement illustrated in the drawings, for example, the extension panel 50 is shown to have a height slightly greater than the product item 60 being displayed. Accordingly, a margin 61 of the extension panel is exposed above the top of the product 60 and can be provided with product information 62 (
In the alternative form of the invention shown in
In those cases where the pusher 21 is configured in the form of an inverted "Y", with a portion of the front panel extending above the level at which the back panel joins with the front panel, it may be desirable in certain instances to eliminate slots, such as 56 or 57, for receiving mounting flanges at the back of the extension panel. In such a case, the extension panel will come to a stop position at the level where the back panel joins with the front panel, giving the front panel somewhat of a T-shaped configuration.
The present invention greatly extends the usefulness and flexibility of product display racks having forwardly movable product pushers. Important advantages can be realized in connection with fixed-width display rack arrangements, but the advantages become even more pronounced in racks having a width adjustment capability, where the width of the basic pusher element must be proportioned to the minimum adjusted width of the display rack.
In connection with fixed-width display rack arrangements, for example, the extension panel can be used to advantage to provide for increasing the effective height of the pusher, enabling a given pusher to handle products of a variety of heights. Likewise, the invention enables a fixed-width display unit to be configured with replaceable advertising information, either extending above the displayed product and/or exposed when the last product item is removed.
Although the advantages of the invention may be realized to the greatest extent with a display rack constructed of wire in the manner specifically illustrated herein, the invention is also useful, and many of its important advantages are realized, with more conventionally constructed display racks with pusher features. Additionally, the invention is not limited to pusher display arrangements in which the pusher is actuated by spring means. Particularly in connection with certain relatively heavy product items, the spring force required to reliably move the displayed product forwardly may be such as to make it difficult for the display to be reloaded, and the spring forces required may be such as to introduce an element of injury risk. For displays of this type, the pusher element may be manually operated from the front of the display, as by means of a puller element operated from time-to-time by a store clerk. The important features of the present invention are fully realized in such a pull-type display system, as will be readily understood.
It thus will be understood that the specific forms of the invention herein illustrated and described are intended to be representative only, as certain changes may be made therein without departing from the clear teachings of the disclosure. Accordingly, reference should be made to the following appended claims in determining the full scope of the invention.
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A method and system of delivering energy to material in which energy is converted to thermal energy in the material, and prior to significant therapeutic or other physiological change in a selected or target region of the material, results in a temperature rise which is maximum in a selected region of the material but which is insufficient to cause significant therapeutic or other physiological effect, the system for selective preheating of subsurface target regions of material such as human tissue including an energy source to preheat the material or tissue, a passive or active cooling means, and a device for delivering therapeutic or treatment energy, such as pulsed, electromagnetic, laser or non-coherent energy, to tissue during or after the preheating and cooling of the tissue.
1. A method for treatment of subsurface tissue using a pulsed energy source and delivery system, the method comprising at least the following steps:
preheating both a subsurface target portion of tissue and a non-target surface portion of tissue to a first temperature below a target treatment temperature;
maintaining the subsurface target portion of tissue and non-target surface portion of tissue below the target treatment temperature for a period of time;
subsequently administering a cryogen spray to the non-target surface portion of tissue for a period of time of about 100 milliseconds and delivering pulsed energy with a delivery device to the preheated tissues, wherein the subsequent administration of cryogen spray and delivery of pulsed energy causes the subsurface target portion of tissue to be raised to a target treatment temperature greater than said first temperature while the non-target surface portion of tissue remains at a temperature below the target treatment temperature; and
maintaining the delivery of pulsed energy to the tissues such that the non-target surface portion of tissue is maintained at a temperature lower than the target treatment temperature.
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The application claims benefit to Provisional application Ser. No. 60/055,927 filed Aug. 16, 1997.
The invention relates to a method and system of delivering energy to material such that the energy is converted to thermal energy in the material and results in a temperature rise which is maximum in a selected region of the material prior to treatment of the selected region to affect therapeutic or other physiological effect.
It is sometimes desirable to cause heat affected changes in a selected portion inside of material, such as living tissue, without causing heat affected changes in portions that lie on either side of the heat affected portion.
Early attempts to use thermal energy to cause useful changes in collagen in attempts to perform thermalkeratoplasty and produce beneficial changes to the curvature of the cornea of the eye relied on heating layers of the cornea. External surface probes were used to apply heat, but resulted in several undesirable problems including epithelial thinning, stromal scarring, necrosis, and lack of reproducibility. Later, microelectrodes were used to apply heat at a set depth and time. Problems of scarring and ulceration were observed. Photothermalkeratoplasty using lasers to apply energy evenly into the stroma without excessive heating of the epithelial layer has been described. Laser energy at wavelengths near 2.6 μm or 3.9 μm were predicted to be efficacious for the procedure. Researchers described a method of cooling the surface layer to affect a beneficial temperature gradient and result in the desired temperature profile after the prescribed application of laser energy.
In 1992 the first use of a pulsed carbon dioxide laser for resurfacing of skin was reported. Skin tightening was discovered as a beneficial side affect of the procedure. The laser was designed to vaporize tissue water by rapid temperature elevation of directly irradiated tissue. The pulse duration was restricted to limit the spread of thermal energy to underlying tissue by conductive heat loss. The thermal profile of tissue after adjacent tissue has been vaporized varies from near 100� C. at the surface to near 37� C., body temperature, several millimeters below the surface. Desirable treatment of collagen occurs at temperatures near the range of 60� C. and 70� C. so there is a portion of tissue which reaches this temperature range during laser resurfacing, however, the surface layer or portion reaches temperatures which result in tissue necrosis.
Laser based photoepilation has been the object of study since the advent of the laser. It has been know for several years that optical pulses of the appropriate wavelength, pulse duration, and energy density impinging upon human skin will result in significant and enduring hair loss. The accepted theory for this phenomenon is that the penetration of the laser into the skin and its subsequent scattering results in heating of the hair shafts and follicles through selective absorption by melanin. The absorption of the radiation leads to heating of the follicle and subsequent thermal necrosis.
It has been found that for effective photoepilation to occur the energy must be penetrate approximately 3 mm into the tissue. Prevailing thought indicates that this means the absorption should occur in the melanin and not the oxyhemoglobin, thereby heating the regions around the hair follicle instead of heating the blood and blood vessels. Energy absorption in the melanin leads to elimination of the hair and the reduction or elimination of the ability of follicle to produce hair. Based on the absorption spectrum of melanin and oxyhemoglobin the wavelengths in the neighborhood of 700 nm have been thought to be efficacious. Therefore the Ruby laser at 694 nm, the Alexandrite laser around 760 nm, and flashlamps with emission spectrum centered near 700 nm have been used for this application. The aforementioned lasers are very inefficient, requiring high voltages, large supplies of cooling water. In addition, delivery of the energy to the skin surface is problematic due to the energy required for photoepilation. The pulse energies often exceed damage thresholds of delivery systems or are difficult channel to from the laser to the skin. The flashlamps themselves are inefficient, emit in all directions making efficient energy delivery difficult, and the flashlamps can be cumbersome to use in a handheld device. The convenient and controlled delivery of the optical energy of the appropriate wavelength, fluence and pulse duration to the skin surface for photoepilation in an efficient device has been difficult.
Attempts to cause thermal affected changes in collagen without vaporization or damage to the epithelial layers have met with difficulties. Additionally, most of the method of applying electromagnetic energy to materials such as tissue result in temperature increases which are greater at the surface. Methods to limit the rise in surface temperature by applying lower levels of energy result in heating deeper portions of tissue because a longer time of exposure is required to conduct thermal energy into deeper layers. Methods to minimize surface temperature elevations by using energy sources which have low absorption in the top layer of tissue also result in insufficient or inefficient heating, since these forms of energy generally have lower absorption in the underlying areas also. Attempts to cool the surface in order to limit the temperature rise at the surface, however, result in an increased energy requirement for subsurface heating, which must overcome the incidental subsurface cooling.
Attempts to treat specifically targeted regions within tissue, such as vascular tissue or melanin-containing tissue surrounding hair follicles, have resulted in undesirable temperature elevation in the tissue surrounding the targeted tissue. Utilization of cooling devices, passive as well as dynamic, have been effective in removing heat from surface tissue as well as the tissue surrounding the targeted tissue. However, the subsequent or simultaneous therapeutic treatment to be performed on the target tissue requires delivery of additional energy due to the inevitable cooling of the targeted tissue by the cooling device. The resulting net increase in treatment energy required, therefore, may not only interfere with the efficacy of the cooling device utilized but may also place a greater demand on the treatment energy source.
It is therefore an advantage of this invention to provide an improved system for creating selective temperature profiles in material such as tissue.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which utilizes energy with an efficacious absorption coefficient in tissue.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively preheats a subsurface region within the tissue to be therapeutically or otherwise physiologically treated.
It is a further advantage of this invention to reduce the level of pulsed energy needed for treatment of the target portions of tissue by preheating the target portions of tissue.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface layer in tissue to cause thermal affected changes in underlying layers of tissue.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface region in skin tissue to cause thermal affected changes in selected regions of the skin without significant heat damage to surrounding regions.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface region in tissue to cause a temperature profile which results in thermal affected changes in the selected region without undesirable thermal affected changes in portions surrounding the selected region.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface portion in tissue to cause collagen shrinkage or collagen regeneration in skin.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface region of vascular tissue.
It is a further advantage of this invention to provide such a system which selectively heats a subsurface region of tissue which contains portions of hair follicles.
In the preferred embodiments, the system for generating treatment energy contains a pulsed energy source, such as a solid-state laser, a neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser, a gas discharge flashlamp, a filament lamp, or an electrical current source.
In a preferred embodiment, energy from the system may be provided through a delivery device, such as but not limited to an optical fiber or fiber bundle or articulated arm for transmitting the light energy to tissue, or a electrically conductive applicator for delivering electrical energy to tissue.
The pulsed energy may be focused on tissue with a focusing lens or system of lenses.
The tissue may be preheated with any operative heating device such as, but not limited to, any intense light source, a gas discharge or other flashlamp, a filament or other incandescent lamp, a laser diode or other laser source, electrical current, probe or conductor, radiofrequency waves, microwaves, ultrasound or other source of electromagnetic energy which penetrates into regions of tissue, by conduction or convection as with a forced air blower, contact device, active or passive heating means, etc., beneath the surface such that the preheating occurs simultaneously with or just prior to the pulsed treatment application of energy from the energy delivery device, thus preferentially preheating a region of tissue without excessive or otherwise undesirable heating of or effect on surrounding tissue.
Material preheating may be accompanied by, at any time either prior to, concurrently with or subsequent to surface cooling, which may be accomplished using either passive or active heat sink or cooling means, to elevate the material forming the selected region or regions to temperatures closer to but yet below the temperature level threshold at which therapeutic or other physiological effect occur.
Numerous other advantages and features of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description of the invention and the embodiments thereof, from the claims and from the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a representative schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the system for subsurface heating of material of the present invention.
FIG. 1A is a representative schematic block diagram of another preferred embodiment of the system for subsurface heating of material of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a representative plot of the temperature rise of selected material using the system of the present invention such as shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a representative plot of the surface temperature and adjacent target portions of material using the system of the present invention such as shown in FIG. 1 with precooling.
The description that follows is presented to enable one skilled in the art to make and use this invention, and is provided in the context of a particular application and its requirements. Various modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principals discussed below may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Therefore, the invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments disclosed, but the invention is to be given the largest possible scope which is consistent with the principals and features described herein.
FIG. 1 is a representative schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the system 100 for subsurface heating of material of the present invention. Operation of energy source 102 to produce energy for delivery by the system 100 is controlled according to control signal 104 from control system 106. Control system 106 includes a physician interface 108 for operating the system. Said interface 108 includes a footswitch for energy delivery, display and interactive and/or menu driven operation utilizing operator input, prompts, etc. Additional energy delivery control interface means shall be known to those skilled in the art.
In a preferred embodiment, energy source 102 is a neodymium doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser, energized by a flashlamp or laser diode. Energy source 102 is controlled by control system 106 which comprises the software and electronics to monitor and control the laser system, and interface 108. The beam of laser energy 110 from the energy source 102 is directed into a delivery device 112 which may be an optical fiber, a fiber bundle or articulated arm, etc.
Optional heat sink 114 is provided directly on the surface 116 of material 118. Studies have shown that use of the light energy, produced via laser, flashlamp, filament lamp, etc., with an appropriate heat sink produce an optimum thermal profile in skin tissue for collagen shrinkage and hair removal. It has been shown, for example, that irradiating tissue with the infrared radiation through a surface thermal absorption element or heat sink 114 permits an optimum thermal profile within the target tissue with near physiologic temperature at the surface 116 of the irradiated material 118, thus minimizing surface thermal damage. In the case of collagen shrinkage, this is clearly desirable. Attenuating the surface temperature before irradiation or other delivery of energy to tissue and creating a boundary layer on the skin surface results in selective cooling of the target tissue thus preserving the normal overlying epidermis.
Providing a glass or sapphire tip probe to the surface of the tissue being treated, while transparent to the radiation being delivered to the tissue, will act as an efficient and convenient passive-type heat sink 114 for the surface layers of the skin or for other applications.
Modern instruments to provide dynamic cooling of the surface layers of tissue or other materials are well suited to these applications. A coolant spray can be provided through a handpiece or it could be provided with another separate device. Finally, a connection to a computer and the control system 106 of the energy source 102 will allow the system 100 to utilize electronic or other thermal sensing means and obtain feedback control signals for the handpiece. An optimum cooling strategy might be one that uses a short spurt of cryogenic liquid (e.g., 5-20 ms) to reduce the local temperature in the overlying epidermis, while minimizing attenuation of the filament lamp energy by the boundary layer, followed by post-irradiation cooling spurt that provides cooling or dissipation of the epidermal heat generated by absorption of energy in the non-isotropic skin, optionally containing various pigmentation levels. An appropriate cryogen spray would be tetrafluoroethane, C2H2F4, an environmentally compatible, non-toxic, non-flammable freon substitute. In clinical application the distance between the aperture of the spray valve and the skin surface should be maintained at about 20 millimeters.
During a typical dynamic cooling process, the surface of the skin is pre-cooled to as low as 0 degrees Celsius or lower, at a rate fast enough to cool the surface only but not dissipate heat from below about 400-500 microns below the surface. In a preferred embodiment, during the cooling step the target tissue remains at body temperature and is not cooled at all. By applying cooling to the surface of the skin for a short period of time, typically between about 5 and 100 milliseconds and then delivering laser energy, the surface is initially cooled but the target tissue never is. Generally, the surface layer of skin is rapidly cooled. A high rate of cooling will prevent local and vicinal hypothermia and will also tend to have a numbing, anesthetic or analgesic effect. It will be understood that in at least one preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention, since only a relatively very thin outer layer of skin is cooled in a relatively very rapid period of time, laser energy must be applied either instantaneously with termination or dynamic or removal of passive cooling or essentially immediately thereafter. Therefore, upon delivery of laser energy onto the surface and therethrough, the target tissue will be raised to the optimal thermal shrinkage temperature and generally not any higher, in an adequately rapid process, with the surface temperature of the skin remaining unelevated from body temperature, or if elevated at all, not elevated to a temperature which would have any adverse effect on the tissue. Adverse effects of elevated tissue surface temperature include discomfort or pain, thermal denaturing of proteins and necrosis of individual cells at the surface only, or deeper tissue ablation potentially leading to hyperplasia, scarring, or hyperpigmentation, a proliferation of cells formed in response to the induced trauma. In a preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention, cooling and heating are performed in a predetermined timing sequence, optionally with the use of timer circuits and/or other controller means.
Thus, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that a passive heat sink includes glass or sapphire tip probes, and other types of devices to lay on the surface of the skin. It will also be obvious that a dynamic type of heat sink will refer to those actively cooled by flowing gas or liquid, jets or spurts of coolant such as freon, and other active types of heat exchangers suitable for surface cooling while irradiating sub-surface portions of collagen tissue. U.S. Pat. No. 5,820,626 issued Oct. 13, 1998 to Baumgardner, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, teaches a cooling laser handpiece with refillable coolant reservoir, and can be utilized as a handpiece for delivery device 112 and heat sink 114.
FIG. 1A is a representative schematic block diagram of another preferred embodiment of the system 100′ for subsurface heating of material of the present invention. As described with respect to FIG. 1, operation of energy source 102′ to produce energy for delivery by the system 100′ is controlled according to control signal 104′ from control system 106′. Control system 106′ includes a physician interface 108′ for operating the system. Energy 110′ from the energy source 102′ is directed into a delivery device 112′ which may be an optical fiber, a fiber bundle or articulated arm, etc.
A secondary energy source 130 controlled by an independent control signal 132 from control system 108′ also communicates energy 134 to delivery device 112′. Said secondary energy source 130 can be incorporated within the primary energy source 102′ or can be separate.
Thus, in a preferred embodiment, the energy source 102′ comprises a pulsed or continuous wave laser source, a flashlamp or filament lamp, other source of electromagnetic energy including ultrasound infrared, electrical or radiofrequency transmitter or radiator, and is used to provide energy source for the primary therapeutic or other physiological application. The secondary energy source 130 may consist of a similar energy source 102′ or may be different. Secondary energy source 130 is utilized to provide the subsurface preheating prior to the delivery of therapeutic or physiologically active amounts of energy from the primary energy source 102′. Therefore, the power rating and/or delivery rate of energy from secondary energy source 130 may be less than that of the primary energy source 102′. In a preferred embodiment, secondary energy source 130 of preheating energy is a diode laser, a filament lamp a gas discharge flashlamp, a source of radio frequency electrical energy, or a microwave source, such that the preheating energy 134 from secondary energy source 130 is delivered to the target portions 120 of material 118 as desired.
Furthermore, it will be understood that in the case of surface cooling via optional heat sink 114, secondary energy source may provide the major share of total amount of energy delivery, i.e., delivery of energy to maintain subsurface target regions 120 within material 118 at an elevated, preheated temperature as well as overcome heat loss from those target regions 120 during surface cooling by active or passive heat sink 114. In this case, primary energy source 102′ will provide the necessary additional energy, such as at a different wavelength or some other variation in the type of energy, to effect the desired treatment or other physiological change to the target portions 120 of material 118.
Therefore, it will be understood that the energy utilized for preheating target portions 120 of material below the surface 116, one or more energy sources may be used, and may be controlled independently, both through a common control system 106′. In either case, the system 100 or 100′ may comprise wavelength multipliers or dividers, beam splitters, filters, collimators, focusing lenses, gates or gratings, mirrors or other optical and/or electronic and/or electrical devices, and the energy, however originally produced, may be converted from one form to another, such as from electrical to photonic, prior to delivery to the target portions 120 through the surface 116 of the material 118 to be treated.
FIG. 2 is a representative plot of the temperature rise of the selected material using the system of the present invention such as shown in FIG. 1. This invention is a method of warming the areas to be treated to a temperature above normal, but below treatment levels in order to reduce the amount of additional pulsed energy needed to treat the target tissue. As mentioned above, tissue is modified or destroyed at a generally fixed and known temperature that is usually independent of the starting, native, resting, natural, ambient temperature of the tissue. It is known that collagen will shrink at approximately 65� C. Most methods of shrinking collagen deliver energy in a pulsed manner to raise the tissue from an initial temperature, such as the normal body temperature of 30� C., all the way to 65� C. at one time. This temperature rise of 35� C. requires energy sources capable of delivering up to 6 joules to elevate a 5 mm diameter spot. The present invention performs this same process in several steps.
In a first step, the target portions of material 120 are raised from their initial, native or body temperatures Ti to a controlled, non destructively heated intermediate level Th, e.g., 40� C., utilizing one of several techniques including incoherent or laser irradiation, radiofrequency waves, microwaves, or contact, such as with warm materials or sprays of heated liquid or gas. The heat capacity of dermatological tissue is relatively linear over this region so the energy needed to provide the second and final temperature rise from Th to Ti, such as about Δ20� C., will be only about two thirds, or more or less, of the amount energy need to produce the same end temperature Tt from Ti, or about 30� C. ambient or initial temperature. The reduced amount of energy needed for treatment, therefore, provides the opportunity to treat a larger area and to use a smaller and safer device.
A preferred method of pre warming target tissues is to utilize selective techniques that will warm the target area or structure more than surrounding tissues to minimize collateral damage. For example in the treatment of unwanted hair, the target is the hair follicle which can be selectively heated with a range of optical wavelengths which are absorbed only by the melanin in the follicle. An ideal sequence would be:
1. Pre warm 1 to 3 mm into the target tissue or treatment area where the hair follicle is located with electromagnetic radiation of between about 600 and about 1200 um wavelength for approximately one to five seconds until the hair follicles are between about 40� C. and about 50� C.
2. Cool the surface of the skin with a contact plate or dynamic cooling spray for 10 to 1000 milliseconds so as cool only the epidermis and not affect the hair follicle,
3. Irradiate the area with pulsed light of between about 600 and about 1200 nm wavelength that will selectively heat the follicle to the point of damage without affecting the surrounding tissue.
The prewarming or preheating of the target tissue can be done with a continuous source or a series of pulses that are low enough in energy as to act like a continuous source.
Since the treatment portion of the procedure only uses between about � and about ⅔ of the energy previously needed to damage hair follicles, such as for hair removal or for stimulation applications, temperature increase in surrounding or non-target tissue or other portions of the epidermis will likewise be reduced by as much as between about � and about ⅔ of what would otherwise be expected, thus minimizing the risk of burning, blistering or scarring of the superficial and top layers of skin.
The reduced energy need, therefore, to treat the target tissue, also allows use of the same power filament or other incandescent lamp operated in a pulsed fashion to treat a relatively larger area. This is a significant advantage when treating legs or backs which can take hours to treat using the 5 to 8 mm spot sizes of current systems. This invention will allow, therefore, the use of treatment spot sizes of 33 to 50% more area than possible heretofore.
The method includes treating dermatological tissue using a pulsed, non-coherent light source, such as by pulsing electric current through a filament or other portion of an incandescent lamp at a maximum potential and for a maximum time period. It will be understood that this maximum potential and/or maximum time period for the pulse rate will be determined by the materials and method of construction of the lamp. As is well know, excessive potential or current flow through a filament lamp will have a destructive effect on the lamp and its components, thereby reducing the efficiency of the procedure, and possibly causing destruction of the light source and/or other portions of the device including the lamp housing, as well as a potential cause of injury to a patient or physician.
FIG. 3 is a representative plot of the surface temperature and adjacent target portions of material using the system of the present invention such as shown in FIG. 1 with precooling. FIG. 3 is representative of treatment of human tissue. The waveforms are representative of oscilloscope-type traces which reproduce signals generated by one or more thermal detectors.
The lower waveform 242 indicates the period of time during which energy is delivered to the material, in this case about 2.0 seconds. On the upper waveform 248, at an initial time 250, temperature of the surface 116 of the material and the target portions 120 are at Tsi and Tii, respectively. The temperature of both the surface and the target portions of material is raised over time period 252 to pre-warmed states at temperature Tsh and Tth. It will be understood that by controlling delivery of energy, the temperature of both the surface as well as the target portions of material can be maintained for any length of time at the pre-warmed temperatures Tsh and Tth.
Trace 240 becomes bifurcated at point B, at which point cryogen spray is initiated and/or at which point delivery of additional energy increases the temperature of the target portions 120 of material 118 above Tth. Although the temperature of the target portions 120 of material continue to rise upon continued delivery of energy, from Tth up to a maximum temperature desired for the course of intended treatment, such as at temperature Ttt, with initiation of cryogen spray or other coolant, passive or active, the temperature of the warmed surface of the material Tsh is maintained at Tsh or drops to a lower temperature Tsc during time period 254, correlating with a cryogen spray time period of about 100 milliseconds as shown in FIG. 3. The temperature Tsc of the cooled surface 120 starts to rise again throughout the remainder of time period 242 during which time energy is delivered, up to some intermediate temperature, between about Tsc and about Tsh.
Thereafter, on termination of delivery of energy, the temperature of both the surface 116 as well as the target portions 120 of material drop through thermal decay time period 258 back down to the baseline temperatures of about Tsi and about Tii, respectively. The cycle shown in FIG. 3 can be repeated to provide treatment of a large target portion of material below broad surfaces areas.
It will be understood that cooling may be initiated before, concurrently with or after initiating delivery of energy to the material. In any case the target portions 120 of material 118 are raised from their initial temperatures at Tii to an intermediate, pre-heated or pre-warmed temperature Tth, while the temperature of the surface 116 of the material 118 is similarly raised from Tsi to Tsh and is maintained anywhere between Tsc and Tsh. Thereafter, treatment of the target portions 120 of material may take place at any time, by raising the temperature of the target portions 120 of material 118 to treatment temperature Ttt.
It will be understood that while numerous preferred embodiments of the present invention are presented herein, numerous of the individual elements and functional aspects of the embodiments are similar. Therefore, it will be understood that structural elements of the numerous apparatus disclosed herein having similar or identical function may have like reference numerals associated therewith.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Although any methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described can be used in the practice or testing of the present invention, the preferred methods and materials are now described. All publications and patent documents referenced in this application are incorporated herein by reference.
While the principles of the invention have been made clear in illustrative embodiments, there will be immediately obvious to those skilled in the art many modifications of structure, arrangement, proportions, the elements, materials, and components used in the practice of the invention, and otherwise, which are particularly adapted to specific environments and operative requirements without departing from those principles. The appended claims are intended to cover and embrace any and all such modifications, with the limits only of the true purview, spirit and scope of the invention.
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Rob Cameron is a Technical Marketing Manager for Juniper Networks' high-end security systems and the author of several SSN and SSL books published by Syngress. He is an expert on the SRX and leads the engineering teams supporting the technology across carrier, enterprise, and service provider venues. Brad Woodberg is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Juniper Networks high-end security systems. He currently holds the JNCIE-M #356, JNCIS-FWV, JNCIS-SSL, JNCIA-IDP, JNCIA-AC, and CCNP certifications and a BS in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University. Before joining Juniper Networks Brad worked as a senior engineer at a Juniper Elite Partner where he designed, implemented, managed, and supported large network and security infrastructures. Patricio Giecco is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Juniper Networks' branch security systems, where he designs best-practice security solutions and features for Juniper Networks. He has more than ten years of network consulting experience working for both vendors and service providers in Latin America, Europe, Asia and North America. At Juniper Networks, Patricio specializes in network security architecture, routing, risk management, and high-availability designs. Timothy Eberhard is a Subject Matter Expert for the wireless data networks at Sprint, where he has been a member of the Network Operations team for more than four years. He is CCSP, C|EH, JNCIS-FWV, JNCIS-ER, and JNCIS-M certified. He has written two open source software tools utilized by engineers around the world for supporting Juniper firewalls: the NSSA firewall session analyzer and the TPCAT packet capture analyzer. James Quinn is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Juniper Networks' high-end security systems. He was previously the Senior Resident Engineer for Juniper Networks at one of the largest wireless carriers in the world, and before that a senior engineer for a large public university system. He is JNCIE-M #117, JNCIE-ER #40, CCIE #8919, JNCIS-FWV, and JNCIS-ES certified and has contributed to writing Juniper Networks certification exams.


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"HOW'S JOYA?" Beirut to Haverford, 2006-7
After the $700, eight-hour taxi ride from Beirut to Damascus last August 12, the Israeli-shelled truck wrecks on the battered roads, the bridges dangling like tinker-toy shards, Hezbollah fighters in civilian rags brandishing Glocks and Sig-Sauers and popping crazily at Israeli Defense Force surveillance planes droning above them, Joya Manasseh, her mom Jocelyne and her 16 year-old brother Philip, finally cleared customs. Then they climbed the steps to the Middle Eastern Airlines flight to take them to Paris.
She should have been relieved, happy to leave Lebanon and the Shia war...her dad Tony, a financial adviser (and writer on the war), had gotten the family out during a cease-fire day brokered on the Israeli side by Condi Rice. After the awful news photos of villages like Qana , where 28 Lebanese civilians, 16 of them children, had been bombed to death, world opinion abruptly switched from sympathy for Israel – which had lost two soldiers to kidnapping and five more trying to rescue them from Hezbollah – to horror at its "overreaction." On July 12, when Israel's massive retaliation began, normal life across all of Lebanon evaporated. Eventually, 1,200 people were killed by bombs and groundfire; electrical and water services were destroyed; 975,000 Lebanese and 300,000 Israelis were displaced; the Beirut airport and harbor closed; and much of southern Lebanon was polluted with unexploded cluster bombs, which seemed designed to turn ordinary Lebanese against Hezbollah, Syria and Iran, the Shia sources of Israel's fury. For bringing all this down on people who still remembered the destruction of Beirut in the first Israeli occupation 25 years ago...
But climbing into the Middle Eastern jet, Joya couldn't breathe. She kept seeing whorls of fire. Bloody pools on shrapneled macadam. Dead animals. Worse, the human corpses and sheep carcasses, when they began to bloat, started to seem indistinguishable – obscene caricatures of life...and then a kind of guilt would hit. For getting out. For losing focus.
Joya had been in Paris' Orly airport before, en route to New York, where her uncles lived, but she'd never gotten to the Rive Droit shops and the Left Bank clubs that an 18 year-old ordinarily thinks about. Now, Jocelyne tried to get her interested, while they waited in a hotel near the Champs D'Elysee to arrange for visas and an Air France flight to New York. Her brother kept watching the war on plasma, and her mom kept telling him to turn it off. Tony was still in Beirut. So was Jocelyne's mother Agnes, living relatively safely in the mountains outside Beirut, in the village of Baabdat. That was where the family had gone when the bombing became intense.
Joya's best friends, Natasha Ghantous, Soraya Tabet and Randa Eid, all from the same comfortable Beirut neighborhood, also had family houses in the mountains, and they'd try to keep in touch via cell. But reception was poor, and frustrating, and the girls would all end up crying. Joya's girlfriends hadn't wanted her to leave. They'd all just graduated from College Louise Wegmann, "a good French school" and "much more strict than here," and "had made plans for all that we'd do all summer and next year too," Joya said. It would have been their first year of college together...
When Tony first mentioned that the family should take advantage of its Quaker roots ("We've been Quaker for three generations," Joya declares), she was horrified at the thought of leaving: "My friends are like sisters. Even when we moved to Baabdat when the war started, I missed our house in Beirut. I missed my bathroom, my bedroom, all my things..." Even though she couldn't sleep, anticipating the IDF bombers rolling in at 4 a.m. to begin blasting Beirut airport and the Shia neighborhoods and outlying villages where Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets from, she wanted to stay. At 18, it's hard to leave your country and friends, even with your family...By 6 a.m. when the roaring usually stopped, the sort of long moaning whistles followed by whumps!; the little fearsome pauses between; the thrum of the engines; the white and black smoke and eddies of screaming – was it real? – scratching against the windows...you couldn't tell what was there and what was in your head, Beirut was so far away – even with that, she'd wanted to go home. So that later, in France, when Tony'd call Paris from Lebanon, and talk to Jocelyne and Philip, he'd always ask: "How's Joya?" And sometimes she'd beg him even then, to let her come back.
Joya Manasseh arrived at Haverford the week before school started late last August. Dean Kannerstein and Associate Dean Donna Mancini, who handles International Academic Programs from her office in Chase, arranged her status as a "guest student" — like the many LSU and Tulane transfers displaced by Katrina a year-and-a half ago. Kannerstein actually met Joya's plane at Philly International and ferried her out to the Main Line: "They were sooo nice, but I was like freaking out!"
There was no one around. She didn't know anybody. Her English is good, but she's more comfortable in Lebanese and French. (When I asked her how she was doing she'd sometimes reply in French: "ce qui ne te detruit pas te rend plus fort"—"what doesn't destroy you makes you stronger.") The green swards of Haverford were beautifully empty. The freshman class was yet to show up. Joya wandered, tried to settle into Barclay, talked on her cell phone to her mom and brother, tried to plan her course of study: Political Science with an emphasis, naturally, on the Middle East. Edward Webb teaches her main class, and was able to fill her in on context: The Shia War within Islam is a fundamentalist reaction to Western influence which began in T.E. Lawrence's time, and has spread recently to pit poor and disenfranchised Muslims (Shia) against the more contemporary, "westernized" Sunni Muslims (and in Lebanon, Christian Arabs). Organizations like Al Queda and the Taliban, Hezbollah and Hamas, in concert with the governments of Syria and Iran, among others, fund and arm independent militias and splinter groups such as the Mahdi Army in Iraq . Regional plans to destabilize Lebanon, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan and Afghanistan, are based on free-floating, ever-changing coalitions, that aren't necessarily orchestrated by Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, as the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld axis used to spin it; therefore they're difficult to address by conventional warfare – as the American debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan are sho
Lebanon, with its traditionally strong Christian population, perpetually in conflict with fundamentalist militants, who'd been using the southern part of the country to attack Israel since long before the 1982 war, had largely failed to control militancy within its borders. Having lost out in Israel/Palestine and in Jordan to the IDF and the late King Hussein's forces, Yassir Arafat's PLO had moved its operations to southern Lebanon. With Arafat's rout there in 1982, the post-modern phase of Lebanon's political ordeal began. Christian Arabs allied with Western Europe and the U.S. were facing off with Shia fundamentalists. Many were bombed and assassinated, most recently and significantly Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in Beirut, two years ago, and Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, last November: "You could see it was getting worse," Joya remembers now, "but you hoped it would stabilize...even when the recent trouble began, they would close the schools for a week, but then open again...the electricity would go off and on, but you sort of pretended it would be all right..."
In Haverford, she tried to cope. She'd visit her uncles in New York, where she could taste true Lebanese food again – "real tabouli salad with tomatoes and onions, real falafels – the ones at the DC are trying, but they're not supposed to be green inside..."
Philip had an easier time adjusting to the high school he'd transferred to (he's 17 now): "He's a little macho, you know, 'Whaddaya so upset about?' – a boy thing." Jocelyne moved around, visiting family and friends. Tony stayed in Beirut for a while, tending to business. After most Israeli troops withdrew by last October, it wasn't as dangerous, but in November, he'd come to the States, too, writing and lecturing here about the situation at home.
Joya talked with Natasha, Soraya and Randa as often as she could. When she got the blues, her roommate Julia Bravin tried to cheer her up: "Sometimes, I was just impossible," she admits. "I'd just bawl like a baby. I was making plans to go back to Beirut for Christmas break. At first, my father was against it. But he left it up to me. He said 'You know it's expensive, especially since we'll all have to go back...You're not traveling alone. And it could be dangerous. You never know what's going to happen there. What if they close the airport again? Do you remember that taxi ride?'
"Of course, I'll never forget it. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. And a girl I knew had been riding in her car when one of those Hezbollah crazies stopped her. He wanted to see her papers. He had a gun! What if she'd had like a Christian name? In Lebanon, you can tell by the given names whether you're Christian, Shia or whatever...Thank God he let her go! She had a Shia name...Before, when I was little, Muslims and Christians got along, but it's dangerous now."
When Joya told her friends she might not be able to visit, they all began wailing. They wanted to see her so badly. No one in her family seemed anxious to make the trip, she explained, but they wouldn't let her rest. Finally she went to her dad again.
"I've explained it all to you," he said. "I leave the decision to you."
But Joya knew Jocelyne really wanted to see Agnes, and that maybe Tony was testing, to see how she'd react. She told him she'd thought it over, and still wanted to go home.
Beirut was "working," but bizarre. Hezbollah, trying to pressure the Christian moderates, had filled the place with "wild" Shia and others, whole families of country poor who were living in tents with their animals around them in the chic downtown streets, cooking on fires and giving fierce looks when you walked by in jeans and sunglasses, window-shopping. The men never threatened you, but ne pouvait se vanter d'etre propre – they couldn't brag of being clean, either. It got to the point where Joya felt most comfortable at home, or with her friends' families. As it turned out, her parents and brother were more easy in Beirut than she was: "We had a good time, it was great to see each other [friends] again, but Lebanon is changing. It's already different from when I left."
"Do you think you'll go back?" I asked. She paused:
"It was very hard to leave. My friends acted like I was betraying them by not just staying...
"But it's different now, like I said. I don't know what will happen.
"I love my home, but we just don't know now..."
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA - A fugitive wanted in Sacramento and Placer County was arrested Monday morning after a short car chase and manhunt.
Daniel Kapustin was spotted driving a black Audi by the a Sacramento County deputy around 9 a.m. at Fulton and El Camino. When the deputy got behind him, Kapustin sped off and led the deputy on a 3 mile chase.
During the chase, Kapustin took a corner too fast and wrecked his car at a gas station on the corner of Fulton and Hurley. He then fled the area on foot into an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Hurley.
Deputy Jason Ramos said a woman bruised her knee after she fell when the car crashed, but refused medical attention.
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Woman killed in far North Side crash
By Eva Ruth Moravec : November 11, 2012 : Updated: November 12, 2012 1:09am
A woman was killed in a single-vehicle rollover early today on the far North Side.
Hilary Schero, 26, died at the scene of the crash, which took place on Blanco Road at West Oak Estates Drive, the Bexar County medical examiner's office said.
According to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Schero lost control of her vehicle around 2:40 a.m. and rolled into a ditch. A person who called 9-1-1 said Schero was unresponsive.
Other details of the crash were not immediately available. Schero's relatives, reached by telephone, declined to comment this afternoon.
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You'd think the winner of a major home makeover would be happy. Not the Ohio mother who won the third "Search for the Messiest Home in the Country," the Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Sharon Baglien, 57, a retired Cincinnati detective, was so upset with the "Clean House" crew on the last day of filming that she […] [Read More]


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A legally blind man had a personal request after being acquitted of shooting and killing his friend in Geneva, Florida. He wanted his guns back. John Rogers, 40, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of James Dewitt, 34, in March 2… [Read More]


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SPARTA Special Agents from the Wisconsin Department of Justices Division of Criminal Investigation along with the Monroe County Sheriffs Department and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Paul R. Doucet on December 10, 2008 for possessing thousands of video and still photographic images which are consistent with child pornography.
On Wednesday, December 10 an Internet Crimes Against Children search warrant was served at the residence of Paul R. Doucet at 3999 Backtrail Road, in Sparta, WI. A search was conducted and charges have been forwarded to the Monroe County District Attorneys Office.
Seized as a result of the search warrant were 23 computer/hard drives and 1 external hard drive. A forensic preview revealed thousands of images of child pornography contained on Doucets computers. Doucet admitted that he had been involved in trading, distributing and possessing child pornography for approximately the past 10 years. Doucet had been using unsecured wireless internet access from random locations throughout the Monroe, Jackson and La Crosse County area.
This investigation was initiated by the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and was forwarded to the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation for investigation.
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