A palletizing device of container packs, being of a sliding table type, including a structure and a loading surface of the packs with side-by-side parallel rollers mounted on mobile frames with a freely rotation, with two side parts movable from a closed position to an opened position, and reversely, wherein when a locking system of the rollers with a locking means with a cart with a locker mobile from a folded position to an unfolded position, and reversely, is in the unfolded position, the locker is blocking the freely rotation of the rollers, and the locking system has a fixed locking actuator cooperating with the locking actuator to move the locker from the folded position to the unfolded position to lock the rollers of the two sides parts during the movement from the closed to the opened position.

Example sunflower seed food and beverage compositions and related methods of preparing are described. In an embodiment, a method of preparing a sunflower seed beverage composition includes heat treating hulled sunflower seeds at a temperature of about 10 C. to about 150 C. for about 1 minute to about 45 minutes, comminuting the heat treated sunflower seeds, mixing water with the heat treated and comminuted sunflower seeds to form a composition, pasteurizing the composition, and homogenizing the composition to form the sunflower seed beverage composition.

Example sunflower seed food and beverage compositions and related methods of preparing are described. In an embodiment, a method of preparing a sunflower seed beverage composition includes heat treating hulled sunflower seeds at a temperature of about 10 C. to about 150 C. for about 1 minute to about 45 minutes, comminuting the heat treated sunflower seeds, mixing water with the heat treated and comminuted sunflower seeds to form a composition, pasteurizing the composition, and homogenizing the composition to form the sunflower seed beverage composition.

A method, apparatus, and/or system for soft defects modeling of measurements using time-domain reflectometry. Electro-Optic Sampling based Time-Domain Reflectometry (EOS-TDR) may quickly detect soft defects in a chip under test. For example, EOS-TDR may detect soft defects in each pin from a trace-structure point at a relatively high resolution. To interpret the results in a time sensitive manner, a reference model for chips may be established from chips that are known to have met the expected quality standards. Through automated analysis of the features of the device under test waveform, soft defects of a chip may be detected that would be otherwise undetectable under time constraints, temperature variations, applied current variations, applied voltage variations, vibration variations, moisture variations, or any other kind of possible variation.

Disclosed are various embodiments of an auger-style treatment tank equipped with instrumentation. In one embodiment, an auger treatment tank includes an auger configured to rotate within treatment liquid in the auger treatment tank. The auger includes an auger shaft and at least one auger flight coupled to and helically disposed about the auger shaft. The auger treatment tank also includes one or more sensors configured to provide data directly or indirectly indicating a torque transmitted to the auger to effect rotation.