1. An apparatus for making cream style corn comprising:
a. a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body;
b. teeth disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit;
c. a scraping blade member with a cutting edge attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber; and
d. said second circular end of the blade bit attached to a shaft, and a first end of the shaft is threaded and the second circular end of the blade bit is threaded, and the blade bit is removable and replaceable with a smaller blade bit.
2. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 1 in which said teeth are outward disposed like a circular saw blade on the entire periphery of the first circular end.
3. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 1 in which at least one set of at least three of said scraping blade members are included and said cutting edge of each scraping blade member extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber.
4. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 3 in which each of said three scraping blade members of said each set extends progressively further inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber.
5. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 1 in which said shaft is a cylinder with the blade bit attached to a first end of the cylinder and a punch device attached to a second end of the cylinder.
6. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 5 in which said punch device includes a tubular sleeve and a rod sliding within the tubular sleeve.
7. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 6 in which said second end of the shaft is threaded and the tubular sleeve of punch device includes a first threaded end attached to the shaft and the tubular sleeve includes a second capped end with an aperture for the rod of the punch device.
8. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 7 in which said punch rod includes a retaining member on one end and a knob on the other.
9. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 1 in which said platform provided includes a block attached to and supported on the platform, and the block including a bearing, the shaft passes through the block and is retained by the bearing, and a pulley is attached to the shaft for driving the shaft.
10. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 9 in which said pulley is anchored on the shaft on one side of block and bearing and the blade bit is attached to the shaft on an opposing side of the block and bearing, whereby said shaft is retained in part by a lip of indentation on the shaft with respect to said bearing.
11. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 9 in which said blade bit’s interior chamber is large enough to accommodate a corn cob.
12. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 9 in which said blade bit is removable and different sized blade bits accommodate larger or smaller corn cob size.
13. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 9 in which a shield is attached to the block and includes a cover member situated over the blade bit attached to the shaft.
14. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 13 in which the cover member provides an arch over the blade bit to deflect corn material downward and prevent corn material from splattering or spilling upwards or laterally away from the blade bit.
15. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 13 in which said cover member is attached for receiving corn cob and protecting from the blade.
16. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 11 in which holes in the blade bit allow for cream to pass downward into a container.
17. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 11 in which said blade bit includes a triangular o-ring for pressing juice out.
18. An apparatus for making cream style corn as in claim 6 in which said rod on the punch device is hollow for air to escape.
19. An apparatus for making cream style corn comprising:
a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body;
said blade bit is removable and different sized blade bits accommodate larger or smaller corn cob size;
teeth disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit;
a scraping blade member with a cutting edge attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber; and
said second circular end of the blade bit attached to a shaft; and
a platform provided includes a block attached to and supported on the platform, and the block including a bearing, the shaft passes through the block and is retained by the bearing, and a pulley is attached to the shaft for driving the shaft.
20. An apparatus for making cream style corn comprising:
a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body;
teeth disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit;
a scraping blade member with a cutting edge attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber;
said second circular end of the blade bit attached to a shaft, and said shaft is a cylinder with the blade bit attached to a first end of the cylinder;
a punch device attached to a second end of the cylinder, and said punch device includes a tubular sleeve and a rod sliding within the tubular sleeve; and
said second end of the shaft is threaded and the tubular sleeve of said punch device includes a first threaded end attached to the shaft and the tubular sleeve includes a second capped end with an aperture for the rod.
21. An apparatus for making cream style corn comprising:
a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body, and said interior chamber is large enough to accommodate a corn cob;
teeth disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit;
a scraping blade member with a cutting edge attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber;
said second circular end of the blade bit attached to a shaft;
said blade bit includes a triangular o-ring for pressing juice out; and
a platform provided includes a block attached to and supported on the platform, and the block including a bearing, the shaft passes through the block and is retained by the bearing, and a pulley is attached to the shaft for driving the shaft.
22. An apparatus for making cream style corn comprising:
a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body;
teeth disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit;
a scraping blade member with a cutting edge attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber;
said second circular end of the blade bit attached to a shaft;
said shaft is a cylinder with the blade bit attached to a first end of the cylinder and a punch device attached to a second end of the cylinder;
said punch device includes a tubular sleeve and a rod sliding within the tubular sleeve; and
said rod on the punch device is hollow for air to escape.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
I claim:
1. A method of treating a blood product which contains a nucleic acid-containing pathogen to be inactivated, said method comprising
a) adding psoralen to the blood product;
b) irradiating the psoralen and the blood product to form a mixture comprising said blood product, free psoralen, and low molecular weight psoralen photoproducts; and
c) contacting said mixture with a hypercrosslinked resin to remove at least substantially all of said free psoralen and said low molecular weight psoralen photoproducts.
2. The method of claim 0 wherein said psoralen comprises an aminopsoralen selected from the group consisting of 4-primary amino-substituted psoralen and 5-primary amino-substituted psoralen.
3. The method of claim 0 wherein said blood product comprises plasma.
4. The method of claim 0 wherein said hypercrosslinked resin is not pre-wetted prior to said act of contacting said mixture with said hypercrosslinked resin.
5. The method of claim 0 wherein said hypercrosslinked resin comprises a polyaromatic resin that is capable of adsorbing said free psoralen and said low molecular weight psoralen photoproducts.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein said psoralen comprises an aminopsoralen selected from the group consisting of 4-primary amino-substituted psoralen and 5-primary amino-substituted psoralen.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein said aminopsoralen comprises 4-(4-amino-2-oxa)butyl-4,5,8-trimethylpsoralen.
8. A method of removing free psoralen from a biological fluid comprising blood or a blood product, said free psoralen having been exposed to light having a wavelength that causes psoralen to covalently bind to a nucleic acid, the method comprising contacting said biological fluid with a hypercrosslinked adsorbent resin that is capable of removing said free psoralen; and removing at least substantially all of said free psoralen from said biological fluid with said hypercrosslinked adsorbent resin.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein said resin is selected from the group consisting of: a polyaromatic resin having a mean surface area of about 1100 m2gm, a mean pore diameter of about 46 , and a mesh size of about 20-501 m; a polyaromatic resin having a mean surface area of about 725 m2gm, a mean pore diameter of about 40 , and a mesh size of about 20-60 m; and a functionalized polyaromatic resin having a mean surface area of about 800 m2gm, a mean pore diameter of about 25 , and a mesh size of about 20-50 m.
10. The method of claim 8 wherein said biological fluid comprises a plasma blood product.
11. The method of claim 8 wherein said biological fluid comprises a platelet-containing blood product.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein said biological fluid further comprises a synthetic medium containing phosphate.
13. The method of claim 8 wherein said resin is not pre-wetted prior to contacting said biological fluid with said resin.
14. The method of claim 8 wherein said psoralen comprises an aminopsoralen selected from the group consisting of 4-primary amino-substituted psoralen and 5-primary amino-substituted psoralen.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein said aminopsoralen comprises 4-(4-amino-2-oxa)butyl-4,5,8-trimethylpsoralen.
16. The method of claim 8 wherein said hypercrosslinked resin comprises a hypercrosslinked polyaromatic resin.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein said biological fluid is selected from the group consisting of plasma and platelets.
18. The method of claim 16 wherein said psoralen comprises an aminopsoralen selected from the group consisting of 4-primary amino-substituted psoralen and 5-primary amino-substituted psoralen.
19. The method of claim 16 wherein said psoralen comprises a brominated psoralen.
20. The method of claim 16 wherein the biological fluid further comprises psoralen photo products, and wherein said resin additionally removes at least substantially all of said psoralen photo products.
21. A biological fluid formed by the method of claim
22. A biological fluid formed by the method of claim 3.
23. A biological fluid formed by the method of claim 8.
24. A biological fluid formed by the method of claim 12.