Abstract: An adjustable adapter bracket is provided for use with an apertured support member. The bracket provides support at a selected elevation on the support member for shelving, display components, and the like. The adapter bracket includes a body that defines a load bearing region on which a portion of the shelf or display component rests. A hook element is carried by the body and is movable relative to the body to project beyond the body for entering into one of the apertures and engaging the support member. A nut is provided for cooperating with the body and hook element for adjusting the orientation and amount of projection of the hook element relative to the body.

Abstract: A cradle for an infant is convertible between a seat and a bed. The cradle has a stationary structure and a pivotable structure mounted to the stationary structure for pivotal movement about a transverse axis between a seat position and a bed position. A cover attached to a back portion of an upper section of the stationary structure and to a back portion of the pivotable structure and collapsible when the pivotable structure is pivoted to the seat position provides a barrier against drafts in the bed position of the pivotable structure. A pair of foldable braces and a pair of hooks are provided for securing the pivotable structure releasably in the bed and seat positions respectively. The hooks coact with pins used to mount the braces.

Abstract: An easy-open container includes guide strips to limit tearing to areas adjacent to the intended line of tearing with a tear strip. The guide strips protect zipper elements and bag walls from distortion or tearing due to deviating tear lines. In a second embodiment, the guide strips are included with one or more tear strips on a membrane which may be attached to a container.

Abstract: An antibody molecule or molecule containing antibody combining site portions (catalytic molecule) that catalytically hydrolyzes a preselected carboxylic acid amide or ester bond of a reactant ligand, methods of making and using the catalytic molecule, and cells that produce those molecules are disclosed. The catalytic molecules bind to a reactant ligand containing the bond to be hydrolyzed and also to a haptenic ligand. The haptenic ligand is structurally analogous to the reactant ligand and contains a tetrahedral carbon atom that is bonded to a hydroxyl group and to a saturated carbon atom at a position in the haptenic ligand that corresponds to position of the carbonyl group and its bonded heteroatom of the reactant ligand. The haptenic ligand also contains a group that bears an ionic charge in aqueous solution at physiological pH values that is not present at a corresponding position of the reactant ligand. The ionic charge-bearing group is located in the hapten within 7 .ANG.

Abstract: A plow assembly adapted for connection to a tractor and including a plurality of plow units commonly connected to a beam which is inclined relative to the direction of travel of the plow assembly. A ground engaging steering wheel supporting a rear end of the beam. A steering system is provided for holding the steering wheel generally parallel to rear wheels on the tractor and for turning the steering wheel through an angle and opposite to a steering angle of the tractor to bring the plow assembly behind the tractor during turns. The steering system includes a linkage mechanism for proportionately reducing the turning angle of the steering wheel relative to the steering angle of the tractor thereby allowing tractor turns to exceed 35.degree. to either side of the direction of travel of the plow assembly. The plow assembly further includes a mechanism for quickly and easily changing the spacing between adjacent plow units as the plow assembly is pulled through the field and with minimal operator involvement.

Abstract: A stone trap assembly for inhibiting stones, rocks, and the like from passing into a combine threshing area from a feeder mechanism adapted to advance crop material through a housing. The stone trap assembly includes a stone receiving trough and a rotatable beater mechanism arranged in combination relative to each other. The stone trough and beater mechanism conjunctively extend laterally across the width of the feeder mechanism. The feeder mechanism includes a series of spiral flight sections, with each flight section having a helix configuration between opposite ends thereof to enhance performance of the feeder mechanism by lessening cyclic contact of the beater mechanism with the crop material passing therethrough and providing a generally uniform flow of crop material to the threshing area of the combine.

Abstract: A machine and related method for clipping a succession of generally planar sheets according to U.S. Pat. No. 4,974,726 onto a succession of rectangular arrays of cans of a type having an end with a chime. Each sheet has two lines of can-stabilizing strips defined by generally parallel slits and two longitudinal edge portions defined thereby. Successive arrays of cans are registered in such manner that successive cans are spaced regularly and are conveyed with one such sheet overlying the cans of each array. After transversely spaced wheels engage successive edge portions of successive sheets to clip such edge portions beneath the chimes of adjacent cans being conveyed, successive lobes of transversely spaced, lobar wheels engage of successive strips of successive sheets as successive arrays are conveyed. The arrays of cans are registered relative to the lobes of the lobar wheels.

Abstract: A dispenser for a container of pipe sealant and the like comprising a dispensing closure for preventing the lateral spread of a compound contained by the container as it is dispensed and having a bristle assembly which prevents removal of the compound after it has been deposited and spread between the threads of a pipe.

Abstract: A modular hearing aid system has an exterior shell and a removable interior housing. The shell can be customized for a user's right or left ear. The housing has a standard, bilateral shape useable with either ear. The housing can be removably locked to the shell. A vent channel is molded into the shell adjacent a region of the housing.

Abstract: Macrocyclic enediynediols and enediynediones having a ten carbon ring and open chain enediyne dihydroperoxides having eight carbons between the hydroperoxide groups that cleave DNA are disclosed, as are methods of making and using the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds derived from benzimidazole, characterized in that they correspond to the formula I, or their therapeutically acceptable salts, ##STR1## in which: R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, equal or different, represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen, a lower alkyl radical, a hydroxy radical, an alkoxy radical, an alkyl carboxylate radical, an aryl or substituted aryl radical,n may have the values 0 or 1,m may have the values 2 to 4,X, Y, Z and W, equal or different, represents a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom, a halogen or another alkyl, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxy, hydroxyl, sulfonic and alkylsulfonic radical. The present invention relates also to the treatment of various allergic disorders caused by histamine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of the derivatives of general formula I ##STR1## in which: n can have values 1 to 6, andR represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 lower alkyl radical, a heteroaryl radical, a sulpho radical, an N-substituted or N,N-disubstituted sulphamoyl radical, a nitro radical, a hydroxyl radical, an oxo radical, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 lower alkoxy radical, a cyano radical, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 lower alkylcarboxylate radical, an aryl or substituted aryl radical, or an amino or substituted amino radical of formula ##STR2## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: A probe for electrocardial stimulation includes a catheter-like conduit for insertion into a patient's esophagus. The conduit has openings which are spaced apart at two longitudinal locations which are closely adjacent to the patient's heart when the probe is positioned in the esophagus. The openings pick up heart sounds and transmit them to the interior of the conduit for communication to the proximal end of the probe, where they can be monitored by attending personnel. Two electrodes are spaced apart longitudinally between and in fixed relation to the openings, so as to position the electrodes accurately relative to the heart based upon heart sounds transmitted through the openings. Other functions, such as a temperature sensor or stomach feeding or pumping capability may also be provided inside the conduit.

Abstract: A coupling system for coupling a beam of radiant energy from a laser to a fiber optic cable includes a secondary transmission path which surrounds the input end of the fiber optic cable and provides an optical path for energy which is not transmitted by the fiber optic core but is lost. Displaced from an output end of the secondary transmission path is a multi-faceted reflector. The reflector is displaced sufficiently from the output end of the secondary transmission path so that the power density of the radiation incident thereon is reduced sufficiently so as to not damage the facets thereof. The coupling system is contained within a heat sink which receives the reflected and lost radiant energy harmlessly converting same to heat.

Abstract: A randomly varying modulated current is generated and used to drive a magnetic write head in an apparatus for enhancing a randomly varying magnetic security characteristic of a medium. The write head can be positioned adjacent a fluid magnetic slurry for the purpose of altering the location of the various magnetic particles therein in a random fashion. The slurry can then be hardened thermally or using ultraviolet dryers. A circuit which can generate the randomly variable current for the read head includes a modulator which receives a first randomly variable signal and a second, different randomly varying signal which modulates the first signal.

Abstract: A two-piece bracket assembly for mounting an appliance on a flat surface. One of the pieces is J-shaped, with the large wall portion to be secured to a flat surface. A T-shaped member secured to an appliance connects with the bracket to hold the appliance in place.

Abstract: A douche or enema dispenser is provided as a unitary hermetically sealed container and a cooperating overcap. The container has a cap structure which is removable by torsion applied through the overcap positioned over the cap structure, engageable with the adjacent container neck portion, and simultaneously rotatable as well as axially movable relative thereto. As the overcap is rotated relative to the neck portion, ribs in the overcap engage tip portions of a wing member associated with the cap structure. Since the cap structure is mounted over and sealed about a frangible web located around the container mouth that is located at the distal end of the neck portion, when sufficient torsion develops, the web is fractured, the cap is removed, and the container is opened. In opening the container, force upon walls of the liquid-filled body portion of the container is minimized.

Abstract: A backhoe apparatus with a boom structure which is movable overcenter in a fore-and-aft direction and a boom actuator arranged in fore-and-aft alignment with and protected by lateral sides of the boom structure. A swing tower is connected about a lower pivot axis to a lower end of the boom and allows for lateral swinging movement of the boom. The swing tower allows for overcenter movement of the boom to opposite sides of an upper pivot axis on the swing tower whereat one end of the boom actuator is secured. The boom structure has a curved configuration at its lower end to accommodate nesting of the boom actuator while maintaining torsional rigidity for the boom.

Abstract: A combine cleaning system including a fan and a cleaning sieve which coact with each other to separate chaff and unthreshed tailings from grain. The sieve defines a grain cleaning area comprised of an air foil section extending rearwardly from a forward edge of the sieve and a slat or louvered section downstream of the air foil section. The air foil section provides a first level of cleaning to the threshed materials deposited on the grain cleaning area while the slat section provides a second level of cleaning to the material received thereon. Preferably, the air foil section comprises about 60% to about 85% of the grain cleaning area.