Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which forms attractive pink blossoms which are lightly bicolor on the under surface. The blossoms generally are borne one per stem and exhibit long lasting qualities when cut. The new variety forces well and particularly is suited for the production of cut flowers under greenhouse conditions.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Jonathan apple tree is provided which originated as a limb mutation of the Snyder cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,650. The new variety produces attractive red variable-sized fruit which colors approximately 10 to 14 days earlier than the fruit of the Snyder cultivar. Also, the fruit of the new variety exhibits a brighter red appearance and is formed more abundantly and more consistently than the fruit of the Super Jon cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,086.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of cherry tree which is characterized by a date of maturity of approximately May 19 through May 23 under the ecological conditions prevailing at LeGrand, Calif., which is approximately three days prior to the King Cherry Tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,478, and the Bing Cherry Tree (unpatented) with which it is most closely similar, and which it is further distinguished as to novelty by producing a cherry which has exceptional storage and shipping characteristics.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which is of large size, vigorous, upright in growth, and a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit having a high degree of attractive red skin color. The fruit is further characterized by relatively uniform ripening throughout the tree, holding firm on the tree for 8-10 days after picking ripe, storing for 30 days in cold storage and maintaining 5-7 days of shelf life with good flavor and eating quality.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety:1. Firm white flesh freestone fruit.2. Fruit having attractive red skin color.3. Fruit with ability to store 3 weeks and maintain good flavor and eating quality.4. Heavy and regular bearer of large size fruit.5. Vigorous upright growth.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth and bearing large size, attractive, double pink flowers in the spring, giving the appearance of a flowering type ornamental tree but being a productive and regular bearer of large size, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, a yellow ground color which is overspread with an attractive red skin color.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of dwarf southern waxmyrtle distinguished by its compact production of branches and leaves spaced from 35 to 65 mm. apart along the ground-parallel stem and the overall tightness of branching growth; its rich light yellow-green leaves that mature to dark olive green, which are smaller than those of the species, and which grown from more closely spaced nodes thereby producing a much denser foliage. The plant is an evergreen shrub that will withstand temperatures as low as 0.degree. F., it has full sun or partial shade tolerance and the average linear growth of the main stem is approximately six inches per year.

Abstract: An Azalea plant named Cachet, particularly characterized by its fuchsia pink flower color, double flower form, evergreen foliage, early response, compact growth habit, ease of budding and by its excellent cooler and shipping tolerance.

Abstract: An Azalea plant named Ardent, particularly characterized by its shiny evergreen foliage, long lasting flowers, hot pink flower color, single hose-in-hose flower form, resistance to foliage burn and spider mite infestation, ease of budding in a year round controlled program, and excellent shipping, and cooler tolerance.

Abstract: An Azalea plant named Bolero, particularly characterized by its evergreen foliage, semi-double hose-in-hose flower form, salmon red flower color, its long lasting flowers, ease of budding, spreading growth habit, mid-season response, profuse and uniform flowering in a year round controlled program, and by its excellent shipping, and cooler tolerance.

Abstract: A new Begonia variety is characterized by its naturally short, compact plant with extensive and vigorously formed branches which are strong. The contrast between the orange flowers and dark green foliage is very pleasing. The new cultivar has a high tolerance to botrytis and powdery mildew.

Abstract: A new variety of geranium plant is distinguished from its parent, Veronica, (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,054) by the color of the petals. The upper side of the petals of the parent Veronica, is Red-Purple Group 58B (R.H.S.). The major outer portion of the upper side of the petals in the new variety is Red Group 46B (R.H.S.) the medial portion is Red Group 44C (RHS), a blotch of Red Group 53C is between the areas of Red Group 46B and 44C, the base portion where the petal joins the stem has a blotch of white, forming with the other petals of the corolla a white eye, and the underside of the petals is Red Group 41A.

Abstract: A Streptocarpus plant named Pegasus characterized by its pure white flowers which are long lasting and non-shattering; compact growth habit; ease of propagation; floriferous habit under conditions of both lower light and high temperature, and by its short flexible leaves.

Abstract: A Streptocarpus plant named Janus characterized by its compact growth habit, rosette form, violet blue flower color, floriferous habit, small pliable leaves, ease of propagation, and by its long lasting and non-shattering flowers.

Abstract: A new lily plant named Hilde characterized by its yellow tepals, sturdy stems, excellent disease resistance, retention of buds, excellent bulb production, good shipping qualities, and its ability to be grown in sub-tropical areas with higher soil temperatures.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Dieffenbachia characterized by a dark green, irregular margin, enclosing an almost white to delicate light green interior, sprinkled with irregular spots of dark green. Midrib and veins show a prominent white coloration in vivid contrast to interveinal areas. Type of growth is erect, compact, and vigorous.

Abstract: New and improved collector compositions for use in froth flotation processes for the beneficiation of mineral values from base metal sulfide ores are disclosed. The collector compositions comprise at least one hydrocarboxycarbonyl thiourea compound selected from compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or R.sup.2 ; R.sup.2 is selected from saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbyl radicals, hydrocarboxy radicals and aromatic radicals; and R.sup.3 is selected from saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbyl radicals, alkyl polyether radicals and aromatic radicals, said R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 radicals, optionally, and independently, being substituted by polar groups selected from halogen, nitrile and nitro groups. The use of the hydrocarboxycarbonyl thiourea collectors provides excellent metallurgical recoveries of sulfide mineral values in froth flotation processes conducted over a very broad range of pH including acid, neutral and mildly alkaline pH.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved moisture seal for an electrical connector assembly. The invention is characterized by an annular rubber member (10) having generally flat surfaces (11, 12, 13, 14) and an annular groove (15) in one of the surfaces (11) that abuts against a forward surface of one of the housings (30). A second groove (16) extending radially from the annular groove (15) to a circumferential surface (14) provides an escape path for air that would normally be trapped in the annular groove (15) when the sealing member (10) is compressed.

Abstract: The invention comprises a negative-pressure plastic bag leader in the form of a cylindrical chamber into which the plastic bag is received. The chamber is double-walled, an outer wall being imperforate, and the inner wall being foraminous, and the two being spaced apart, in a substantial concentricity, to define an annular void therebetween. A closure caps the upper, open end of the chamber, and has a conduit in traverse thereof through which to admit gas, and refuse suspended in such gas into the chamber. Further, the closure has an aperture formed therethrough for communicating with a source of negative pressure, and for extracting gas from the chamber. The aperture opens into the chamber and also into the annular void. Accordingly, both the chamber and the annular void experience the same negative pressure, and the plastic, refuse-collecting bag is held securely in place against the inner wall of the chamber.

Abstract: A communication system of the type wherein a central station assigns a limited number of information channels to a requesting one of a plurality of remote stations is disclosed. The requesting station sends its identification signal along with the request signal to the central station on a signal channel. The central station classifies the requesting station in either a priority or a non-priority queue. The priority queue corresponds to those stations which are continuing an on-going interchange, whereas the nonpriority queue contains those stations which wish to initiate an interchange. Stations are prioritized in the queues on a first-in/first-out basis.The central station constantly monitors the information channels and, as channels become available, assigns the channels first to stations in the priority queue, then to nonpriority queue stations.

Abstract: A face shield is provided for positioning on a forehead of an individual to help protect an individual from heat, wind, light and chemical sprays. A substantially conical member includes a base portion and a top portion displaced a predetermined distance from the base portion. The top portion is formed as a substantially elliptical section projecting through the substantially conical member. A slit connects the top portion with the base portion for defining a through opening in the substantially conical member. The substantially conical member is constructed of a resilient material for enabling the substantially conical member to be biased to an open position for mounting the substantially conical member on a forehead of an individual.

Abstract: A thermally insulated glove of the type which has a mitt portion and a thumb portion is formed with a forefinger or trigger finger portion which has a finger compartment communicating with the mitt compartment. The finger compartment is proportioned to accommodate and arranged to receive the forefinger of the wearer in use. The forefinger portion is formed from a thin, flexible material such that it will not significantly restrict the dexterity of the forefinger of the wearer in use and will allow the wearer a substantial degree of tactile sensitivity therethrough. The remainder of the glove is formed from a thermal insulation material which substantially restricts the tactile sensitivity of the wearer.

Abstract: A covering for the hand of a user comprising a sheath of material resistant to ultraviolet ray penetration. The sheath has a top side and a bottom side and an expansible opening at a wrist end adapted to receive the user's hand. A multiplicity of digit ringlets on the top side of the sheath at the distal end opposite the wrist end are adapted to receive the fingers and thumb of the user's hand so as to secure the covering to the hand. The underneath or bottom side of the sheath has an arcuated recessed portion with the top of the recessed portion near the wrist end of the sheath so as to expose the palm of the user's hand when the hand is received through the wrist opening and the fingers and thumbs are received into the digit ringlets.

Abstract: A glove comprising a glove base, a reinforcing sheet disposed thereon, and a reinforcing film of rubber or synthetic resin as coated on or impregnated into at least said reinforcing sheet, said glove base comprises a plurality of sheet pieces of required shapes sewn together with seams on the inner side thereof, said sheet pieces being soft, flexible closed-cell foamed rubber or plastic sheet pieces, said reinforcing sheet being a knitted or woven fabric laminated at least to the entirety or a part of the exterior surface of the sheet piece covering the palm of the glove, and the seam cavities of sheet pieces formed on the inner side of said glove base having been filled with rubber or synthetic resin.The glove excells in cold protection, water proofness, abrasion resistance, and ease of articulation.

Abstract: The invention comprises a new and improved garment having pant legs which are shaped at the inseam so as to conform to the natural anatomical shape of the thigh. The front and back of the pant leg assume difference curvatures such that when they are sewn to a seamless crotch piece such as the one disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,371,989, the garment will not rise up or bind on the wearer when the wearer sits, bends, walks or performs any other physical motion.

Abstract: The device is in the form of a pair of specially designed glasses, goggles or an eye mask sealingly engaging the wearer's head. In each case, a frame includes a front support bearing one or more transparent, preferably prescription-ground lenses or eye shields, and a pair of side supports connected thereto. Components are connected to or built into the frame to allow free passage of air to the eyes while blocking contaminant-bearing liquids and solids. Thus, in one embodiment, eyeglasses are fitted with two sets of triangular preferably air permeable flexible sheets. One set of sheets depends from the side supports and is connected to the sides of the front support, with the other pair is connected to the side and front supports above the latter, being connected at its rear end to slides in the top of side support channels to permit easy folding of the glasses. In two other embodiments, goggles and eye masks bear air vents fitted with liquid and solid-blocking filters.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the toilet seat of a toilet bowl, in which the toilet seat 22 is brought into vertical position in a tank 14 by a translational movement of transport means driven by vertical endless screws. A trap door 18 is thus controlled by a horizontal shaft and link rods 60a, 60b which opened during the entry and exit movements of the seat. A cleaning arm 66 is connected to a cleaning water intake, and means are provided to cause hot drying air to circulate in the tank. A control unit containing a cleaning water tank, a hot-air generator, and a time-delay control unit can be triggered to perform a complete cleaning cycle, and can be located as desired. The device is for toilets in private or public use.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for integrated passenger seat and toilet for vehicles. The apparatus includes a structural seat, an integrated toilet, a water supply, a waste system and a swivel mechanism. The method includes modifying the vehicle, supplying the apparatus, installing the apparatus and using the apparatus. The passenger seat rotates to lockable positions for use in multiple orientations. Segmented seat cushion is hingeably attached to structural seat members and molded to provide a seal with the toilet seat below. Water is pumped from a reservoir through a flexible hose to a ported water rinse ring in the toilet. Wastes are released through a flapper mechanism into a holding tank sanitarily sealed to the toilet. Privacy curtain is provided.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy spa having a water jet into which air is aspirated through a conduit and a control valve for varying the effective flow area to the conduit from space inside the spa. The control valve comprises two generally cylindrical valve body members fitted together and defining an inlet passage extending outwardly between the two, and an outlet passage extending inwardly through the inner member and containing a ball check valve for preventing a reverse fluid flow. A cup-shaped cap is snap-fitted on the outer end portion of the valve body and formed with a closure member on its underside for variably opening arcuate ports in the outer end of the body variably connecting the inlet and outlet passages through these ports.

Abstract: A sliding panel closure having three panels suspended from a header with three parallel tracks, has a sill disposed under the header with a sill channel opening downwardly and inwardly toward a bath enclosure or the like. A first of the door panels has a lower edge straddling the sill channel. The second and third of the panels have lower edges provided with guide means including outriggers slidable in the sill channel. A C-shaped guide positions the second panel relative to the sill, the outrigger being one of the legs of the C-shape. A E-shaped guide positions the second and third panels relative to one another and relative to the sill channel. The panels preferably have means along their vertical edges that allow the panels to lap but prevent adjacent panels from passing completely by one another.

Abstract: A collapsible bathtub adapted for placement on top of a mattress employs a horizontal flexible plastic rectangular sheet having two opposite sides and two opposite ends. First and second flexible plastic parallel side walls are integral with the sheet, each side wall having a collapsed position at which it is essentially coplanar with the sheet, each side wall having an erect position at which it extends vertically upwards from a corresponding one of the two sides of the sheet; First and second flexible plastic end walls disposed at right angles to said side walls are integral with said sheet.

Abstract: An adjustable electrobed includes a head which is adjustable in height and which is formed by two pieces joined together at the center of the bed. The two pieces may be pivoted about the center by an arm attached to the outer edge of each piece. The arms are moved by a motor-driven spindle to raise or lower the ends to form a "V" shape about a longitudinal axis of the bed. The bed includes a spring-mattress comprising two rigid bodies hinged near the center of the bed and adjustable by means of motor-driven arms to vary the angle between the bodies.A pneumatic mattress is superimposed on the spring-mattress and contains a cluster of slots for the arm of a patient. The elasticity of the pneumatic mattress is adjustable by changing its inflation pressure by means of a manual-pump-damper.

Abstract: An improved, versatile, lever bar which may be used as a crowbar, prybar, sledge hammer, pickaxe, wedge, etc. The lever bar has a long handle with a thick base plate chamfered at one end and secured perpendicular to the axis of the handle at one end thereof. A thick foot plate has a sharp end from which diverge edges defining an acute angle for entering under or behind boards to be pried. A massive, flat, triangular or trapezoidal anvil plate is secured to the base plate and handle. The base plate and anvil plate can serve as hammer heads while the tool is used as sledge hammer. The base plate and foot plate can serve as splitting wedges and as heads of a pickaxe.

Abstract: This invention comprises a resilient broom and scraper comprising an elongated broom block having a top and bottom portion, with a brush secured to the lower portion thereof. A bracket is rigidly secured to the center of the top portion of the broom block. The bracket comprises a plate portion secured to the broom block, and has front and rear edges. A connecting flange extends upwardly and rearwardly from the rear edge of the plate portion and terminates in a tongue element. An elongated hollow coil spring with upper and lower ends is connected by its lower end to the connecting flange. The tongue element protrudes into the lower end of the coil spring. An elongated handle has its lower end frictionally inserted into the inner end of the coil spring. The front edge of the plate portion of the bracket terminates in a scraper plate which dwells in a parallel plane with respect to the connecting flange.

Abstract: This invention comprises a plurality of side by side chains mounted on a base, so that golf shoe spikes may be combed therethrough.

Abstract: A rotary and reciprocating drive device applied to such as for example, a windshied wiper for automobiles includes a drive shaft, a slide shaft, a nut member driven by a motor, a screw shaft engaged with the nut member and a connecting member connecting the slide and screw shafts wherein the connecting member allows reciprocating movement of the slide shaft relative to the drive shaft but prevents the unitary rotation of the slide and screw shafts.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a floor cleaning apparatus which includes a nozzle-like structure for a vacuum cleaner. The apparatus is for vacuum cleaning and polishing hard floors and is moved by the operator in a desired direction. The apparatus includes a chassis defining a longitudinal axis and at least two working plates for working on the surface of the hard floor. The working plates are movably mounted on the chassis so as to perform respective reciprocal movements counter to each other and in a direction ninety degrees to the desired direction in which the apparatus is moved by the operator. The plates conjointly define a total depth extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the chassis and work plate takes up one-third of this depth. The other one of the work plates takes up two-thirds of this depth. The work plates have a flat shape and at least one of the work plates is pervious to air.

Abstract: A door check wherein a housing is affixed to the pivotable panel and a guide rail is affixed to the frame of a door. The housing contains a shaft which is rigidly connected with one end of an arm the other end of which is slidably guided by the rail. The shaft carries a disc cam having two asymmetric sections one of which is tracked by a spring-biased follower surrounding an antifriction bearing and tending to return the panel to its closed position and the other of which is tracked by a roller on the piston of a damper which yieldably opposes the movement of the panel back to its closed position. The configuration of the two cam sections is selected with a view to allow for a reduction of the resistance which the follower offers to opening of the door shortly after the panel leaves its closed position as well as to ensure that the damper can operate independently of the follower and vice versa.

Abstract: Trailer doorposts are provided with removable tracks for rollers of vertically sliding doors. The tracks are provided with removable plastic inserts upon which the rollers travel. Weather stripping on the inside faces of the outer end wall of the tracks provide a seal between the doors slidable in the tracks.

Abstract: Hand grips for applying to motorcycles, bicycles, tools, golf clubs, fishing rods, guns, crutches and the like can be custom molded to fit exactly to the contours of the user's hand. The grip is put in place and then heated with a hair dryer. The user grasps the hot grip and then releases it. The hot grip conforms or molds to the shape of the user's hand and retains that conformation upon cooling. The grip may incorporate special surface properties for comfort and adhesive and resilient inner layers for enhanced function.

Abstract: A hingeable plate assembly includes first and second substantially flat glass plates and first and second displaceable hinges for hingeably connecting the plates so that the second plate is outwardly displaceable with respect to the first plate in substantially parallel aligned relation thereto. The hinges each include first and second hinge pieces which are attached to the first and second plates, respectively, and pivot elements which are captured between the respective first and second hinge pieces thereof. The pivot elements are preferably formed as spherical balls which are received in elongated slots in the respective first hinge pieces thereof and sockets in the respective second hinge pieces thereof. The ball elements can rotate in the respective slots and/or sockets thereof to enable the second plate to be hinged relative to the first plate, and they can travel in the respective slots thereof to enable the second plate to be displaced outwardly from the first plate.

Abstract: A baseplate assembly for mounting a hinge bracket of a furniture hinge has a base plate, which is to be secured to a carrying wall or the like by fixing screws, and a cover plate, which covers or partly overlaps the base plate and is guided on the base plate transversely to the hinge bracket. The hinge bracket, which is connected to the base plate by a retaining screw or rivet and by a headed clamp screw, which is screwed into a tapped bore in the base plate and extends through a slot that is formed in the cover plate and is parallel to the direction in which the cover plate is guided on the base plate.

Abstract: A universal hinge structure includes a hinge part attachable to a frame and another hinge part attachable to a pivotable closure which is to be mounted in the frame. At least one of the hinge parts includes a cylindrical body having an adjustment screw extending therethrough and protruding into either the frame or the closure member. The adjustment screw is restrained by a locking pin so that it can not move axially relative to the body. The adjustment screws is threaded so that rotation of the screw in the frame or movable member adjusts the pivot axis of the hinge structure relative to the frame. Embodiments for various frame and closure member materials are disclosed.

Abstract: A so-called shoe for a glass door embodying a mechanism for making adjustments in the position of pivotal traverse of the door relative to the door opening and also in the lateral position thereof, said pivotal traverse position components of said mechanism including a cam means to selectively load and unload a spring to allow said spring to correspondingly urge said door in opposite directions of pivotal traverse for providing said door with an adjusted position in said door opening.

Abstract: A hinge assembly is disclosed for application in pivotable or rotatable vehicle accessories, such as visors, vanity covers, storage covers, or other vehicular or non-vehicular applications. A preferred, one-piece resilient sleeve member frictionally engages a preferably compact pivot rod and retains the rotated member in any of a number of pre-adjusted pivoted positions, while still providing for one or more positive, predetermined detent positions.

Abstract: In a casing pivoting mechanism for a copying machine according to the present invention, the pivotal point of a casing is situated away from the position at which a torsion bar passes through the casing. By doing this, a greater urging force can be obtained with use of the same torsion bar as is used in a conventional mechanism. Also, the space within the casing can be widened for more effective utilization.

Abstract: An automated, self-contained apparatus for extracting meat from the appendages of crustaceans, such as crabs, the appendages having been severed from the body and cooked. The device includes a plurality of stations which recover and collect the meat in the appendages as well as dispose of the empty shell. The appendages are placed in radially extending recesses of a circular motor driven platter, the platter being used to transport the appendages from station to station. The appendages pass through a cutting station which removes the end of each appendage so that there is an opening large enough to allow the meat to be expelled and recovered when pressurized air is injected into the appendage at the third station, the meat extracting station. Pressurized air is also utilized at a second station to blow the appendage into its preferred position in its recess, and at the fourth station, the shell ejectment station, to remove the empty shells from the platter.

Abstract: A device for peeling shrimps, of any reasonable size, that comprises a reservoir and a cover with one or more openings where tubular knife assemblies are positioned. Cooperating opening in the cover align with the tubular knife assemblies and allow the peeled shrimp through. A knife element is mounted on the inner surface of the tubular knife assemblies to remove the visceral parts of the shrimp.

Abstract: A fiber bale opener includes a downwardly open housing which is adapted to be supported above fiber bales to be opened and which accommodates an opening roller having an axis and being arranged for detaching fiber tufts from upper bale surfaces. In the housing there is further arranged a suction duct through which fiber tufts detached by the opening roller are adapted to be removed by a suction air stream flowing therethrough. The suction duct has two lateral walls which are facing one another and which are spaced from one another in a direction parallel to the roller axis. One lateral wall has an upwardly extending first oblique air guiding face and the other lateral wall has an upwardly extending second oblique air guiding face.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a licker-in and a main carding cylinder cooperating therewith; a feed roller arranged immediately upstream of the licker-in as viewed in a direction of material feed into the carding machine; and a feed table cooperating with the feed roller for advancing fiber material to the licker-in. The feed table is arranged for executing excursions towards and away from the feed roller as a function of the material quantity passing between the feed roller and the feed table and a measuring device operatively connected with the feed table for generating signals representing the excursions. There is provided a motor connected to the feed roller for rotating the same. The motor receives setting signals as a function of the excursions. The feed table has a movable first part operatively connected with the measuring device and a second part situated between the movable first part and the licker-in.