1. A heat-dissipating device, including:
a base having a plurality of troughs on its outer periphery; and
a plurality of first heat-dissipating fins, the fins being spaced about the outer periphery and unconnected to each other and having a first heat-dissipating portion, the heat-dissipating portion having a first end and a second end respectively, the first end and the second end being separately connected to said base;
wherein the first end of the first heat-dissipating fin and the second end of another first heat-dissipating fin are simultaneously disposed in a single one of said plurality of troughs.
2. The heat-dissipating device according to claim 1, the first heat-dissipating portion is configured as any one of a curved shape, a pointed shape, a recessed shape, a waved shape, and a linear shape.
3. The heat-dissipating device according to claim 1, wherein a central axis is defined in the base, the trough is formed by extending parallel to the central axis.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Apparatus for applying a biocide liquid composition to billets formed from sugar cane stalks, the apparatus being comprised of a container for containing the liquid composition, a conduit in fluid communication with the container, and one or more nozzles in fluid communication with the conduit, the apparatus being sized and configured for connection to a billet-type sugar cane harvester so that the nozzles are disposed to direct the liquid composition onto the billets either before or as they are received by a hopper configured to receive the billets dispensed from the harvester during operation of the harvester.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising pressurizing means for pressurizing the liquid composition fed into the conduit.
3. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the pressurizing means is a pump.
4. Apparatus according to claim 3 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the one or more nozzles are disposed around the periphery of a chute of a billet conveyor portion of the harvester so as to direct the liquid composition onto the billets while they pass through the chute during operation of the harvester.
7. Apparatus according to claim 6 further comprising pressurizing means for pressurizing the liquid composition fed into the conduit.
8. Apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the pressurizing means is a pump.
9. Apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
10. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the one or more nozzles are disposed around the periphery of the hopper so as to direct the liquid composition onto the billets as they fall into the hopper during operation of the harvester.
11. Apparatus according to claim 10 further comprising pressurizing means for pressurizing the liquid composition fed into the conduit.
12. Apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the pressurizing means is a pump.
13. Apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of the liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
14. In a billet-type sugar cane harvester, the improvement which comprises one or more nozzles disposed at the periphery of the down-spout of a billet conveyor portion of the harvester, a conduit in fluid communication with the one or more nozzles for supplying a flow of a liquid biocide composition to the one or more nozzles, and a container for storing the liquid biocide composition and dispensing the same into the conduit.
15. The improvement according to claim 14, further comprising pressurizing means for pressurizing the liquid composition dispensed from the container and into the conduit.
16. The improvement according to claim 15 wherein the pressurizing means is a pump.
17. The improvement according to claim 16 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of the liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
18. The improvement according to claim 14 further comprising a controller for controlling the dispensing of the liquid composition through the one or more nozzles.
19. A method of inhibiting microbial degradation of one or more components of sugar cane billets formed from sugar cane stalks, the method comprising the step of applying a biocidal liquid composition to the billets while the billets are either conveyed through or dispensed from a billet-type sugar cane harvester.
20. A method according to claim 19, wherein the liquid composition is applied while the billets are falling through a chute of a conveyor of the harvester.