Device For Detecting and Displaying the Position of Components of Vehicle Couplings
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1. A method of making a fabricated snack chip having an image disposed thereon, comprising:
- (a) providing at least one fabricated snack piece;
(b) providing an image source, wherein said image source comprises a plurality of different images;
(c) creating a script, wherein said script comprises a script image selected from said image source;
(d) communicating a script image from the script to an image disposal device, wherein said image disposal device comprises an ink jet printer;
(e) disposing said script image on said fabricated snack piece with said ink jet printer to form an image-disposed fabricated snack piece.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for detecting and displaying the position of components of vehicle couplings, in particular semi-trailer couplings. A combined sensor and display unit is located in a common housing. The sensor unit comprises at least one sensor and the display unit at least one display element. The device can be mounted on the exterior of a semi-trailer coupling or of a sliding unit of a semi-trailer coupling, adjacent to a manual actuating element of a closing or locking device.
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1. A method of making a fabricated snack chip having an image disposed thereon, comprising:
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(a) providing at least one fabricated snack piece; (b) providing an image source, wherein said image source comprises a plurality of different images; (c) creating a script, wherein said script comprises a script image selected from said image source; (d) communicating a script image from the script to an image disposal device, wherein said image disposal device comprises an ink jet printer; (e) disposing said script image on said fabricated snack piece with said ink jet printer to form an image-disposed fabricated snack piece.
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2. The method of claim 2, wherein said fabricated snack piece is an uncooked sheeted dough.
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3. A method of making fabricated snack chips having a variety of images disposed thereon, comprising:
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(a) providing a stream of fabricated snack pieces, wherein said stream comprises a plurality of fabricated snack pieces; (b) providing an image source, wherein said image source comprises a plurality of different images; (c) creating a script, wherein said script comprises a plurality of script images selected from said image source, and wherein said script images are arranged in a pre-determined order in the script; (d) communicating the script images in a pre-determined order from the script to an image disposal device, wherein said image disposal device comprises an ink jet printer; (e) disposing script images on the fabricated snack pieces with the ink jet printer to form image-disposed fabricated snack pieces. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. A method of making edible substrates having a variety of images disposed thereon, comprising:
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(a) providing a stream of edible substrates, wherein said stream comprises a plurality of edible substrates; (b) providing an image source, wherein said image source comprises a plurality of different images; (c) creating a script, wherein said script comprises a plurality of script images selected from said image source, and wherein said script images are arranged in a pre-determined order in the script; (d) communicating a plurality of script images in a pre-determined order from the script to an image disposal device; (e) disposing a plurality of script images on a plurality of edible substrates to form a plurality of image-disposed edible substrates, wherein said image-disposed edible substrates have a level of pattern change of from 2% to 100%. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of creating a modified script, wherein said method comprises:
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(a) providing a stream of edible substrates, wherein said stream comprises a plurality of edible substrates; (b) providing an image source, wherein said image source comprises a plurality of different images; (c) creating a script, wherein said script comprises a script image selected from said image source; (d) communicating a script image from the script to an image disposal device; (e) disposing said script image on a first edible substrate to form a first image-disposed edible substrate; (f) detecting an image on said first image-disposed edible substrate; (g) evaluating said detected image and providing feedback to modify said script of images, as a function of the evaluation of said detected image, to create a modified script; (h) communicating a second script image from said modified script to an image disposal device; (i) disposing said second script image on a second edible substrate with said image disposal device to form a second image-disposed edible substrate - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. An article of commerce comprising:
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(a) a container; (b) a plurality of image-disposed edible substrates wherein each said image-disposed edible substrate has an image different from every other said image on each said image-disposed edible substrate contained within said container, wherein the number of different images disposed upon each said image-disposed edible substrate is equal to the number of image-disposed edible substrates contained in said container.
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14. An article of commerce comprising:
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(a) a container, (b) a plurality of image-disposed edible substrates contained within said container, wherein the number of different images disposed upon said image-disposed edible substrates is ≧
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17. An article of commerce comprising:
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(a) a container; (b) a plurality of image-disposed edible substrates contained within said container; (c) a message associated with the container, wherein said message communicates to the consumer that all of the image-disposed edible substrates contained within said container have a different image disposed thereon. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. An article of commerce comprising
(a) a container; (b) a plurality of image-disposed edible substrates wherein each said image-disposed edible substrate has an image different from every other said image on each said image-disposed edible substrate contained within said container, wherein the number of different images disposed upon said image-disposed edible substrates is equal to the number of edible substrates in one serving size of said edible substrates. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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