Abstract: The method including the steps of growing plants supported on a structure with pendant portions of the plants extending downwardly therefrom and moving the pendant portions of the plants upwardly over the plants prior to harvest. The apparatus having a conveyor with a grasping section operable to introduce the pendant portions to the conveyor for transport therealong and a releasing section operable to release the pendant portions from the conveyor and a mount borne by the conveyor for securing the conveyor on a vehicle for transport along the plants with the grasping section deployed for contact with the pendant portions and the releasing section disposed above the plants for releasing the pendant portions on to the plants.

Abstract: A pool skimmer having an elongated, floating barrier constructed of a plurality of rigid, elongated floats disposed in end-to-end relation and covered by flexible netting, one end of the barrier having a member for anchoring the one end in engagement with the wall of a swimming pool and the other end of the barrier having manually graspable members for engaging the other end with the wall and for traversing the other end around the wall so that the barrier sweeps the pool surface and collects floating material, such as oil. The barrier has a pleated configuration for expansion and contraction to accommodate varying distances between its ends as the barrier sweeps the pool so as to circumscribe the material and, finally, to assume a fully contracted configuration. The skimmer includes a case which is upwardly open and is downwardly perforated, the case being submerged beneath the barrier and then raised to receive the barrier and lift it and the collected material from the pool.

Abstract: A machine for installing drip irrigation conduit consisting of a horizontally extended hose and upright risers spaced along the hose, the machine being adapted to move along a predetermined track of conduit installation; the machine having a pair of coulters and a moldboard disposed to generate a furrow having a vertical wall and an opposite wall at an acute angle to the vertical; a reel for transporting preprepared conduit which is drawn from the reel by previously buried conduit as the machine moves along the track; a pair of downwardly convergent, planar guards extended along the furrow and individually upwardly along respective walls; a wheel disposed between the guards for rotation in a plane parallel to such opposite wall, the wheel having fingers spaced about it circumferentially and extended toward the guard along the vertical wall; elements for guiding the hose from the reel for engagement by the fingers at the lower sector of the wheel to lay the conduit in the bottom of the furrow; elements for gui

Abstract: An improved carburetor having a mixing passage adapted for connection to an internal combustion engine, a pair of venturi plates pivotally mounted in the passage positioned in response to vacuum generated by the engine, a fuel spray bar extended across the passage, a primary fuel system for supplying a primary fuel to the bar automatically controlled in response to the positions of the plates, and an enrichment fuel system for supplying an enrichment fuel to the bar automatically controlled in response to the positions of the plates independently of the primary fuel system.

Abstract: A package dispensing mechanism for a vending machine, the mechanism being particularly adapted for dispensing cylindrical packages in a single column, of a single or a multiple depth stack. The mechanism has a cylindrical bucket open at one side and mounted for oscillation substantially about its axis, the bucket having one axially extending edge which simultaneously releases all of the packages in the lowermost tier of such a stack into the bucket and another such edge which sequentially vends the packages so received, and the mechanism has a pivoting gate disposable to support the next tier above such lowermost tier so that such one edge does not engage the such next tier, avoiding lifting of the entire stack even though the bucket and package have substantially different diameters, minimizing the power required to drive the bucket, and avoiding damage to such next tier.

Abstract: A composition for repelling birds, the composition having as active ingredients finely divided dried pepper from pungent fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum and finely divided dried garlic and typically being diluted by inert, finely divided mineral material or water for application to the earth surface or to growing plants to repel birds given to eating seeds, plants, vegetables, and fruits.

Abstract: A plant growth regulator having a composition including poly[oxyethylene(dimethyliminio)ethylene(dimethyliminio) ethylene dichloride]N,N-dimethylpiperidinium chloride and method for the application thereof.

Abstract: An assembly for mounting a work object on a vehicle or the like in a predetermined position relative to a pair of members borne by the venicle, the assembly having a first component mountable on one of the members adjacent to the predetermined position and a second component having a work object mount and adapted for releasable attachment to the first component and for slidable attachment to the other of the members to support the work object mount in the predetermined position.

Abstract: A box-erecting machine characterized by a squaring mechanism for squaring and delivering box blanks to a receiving station, said blanks being characterized by depending leading and trailing minor flaps, a driven reciprocating carriage supported for rectilinear travel including a trailing pusher assembly mounted on the carriage for sequentially engaging each squared box blank and for advancing the blank toward a glue applicator, a major flap folding and compression station, and minor flap folding assembly including pivotal fingers for forwardly infolding the trailing minor flap as it is engaged by the pusher and a rigid tongue mounted in the path of the blank for rearwardly folding the leading minor flap as the blanks are advanced from the box blank receiving station.

Abstract: A suspended cycle riding device having an upright column; an arm extended across and rotationally mounted on the upper end of the column; a pair of cycle frames individually suspended at their upper portions from the opposite ends of the arm by a pivot for centrifugally urged movement of the frame outwardly of the column as the arms and the frames rotate about the column; elements for limiting such pivotal movement and for supporting the frame on the arm in the event of failure of the pivot; a seat and a set of pedals on each frame for an operator; a hydraulic drive from the pedals for rotationally driving the arm and frames about the column, the drive substantially preventing rotation of each pedal set when it is not being pedaled.

Abstract: A device which is for handling refuse or the like material; which has a container having a bottom surface provided with a pair of intersecting and downwardly open grooves, a pair of wheel recesses disposed at the opposite ends of one groove, and a mounting recess and a latch recess disposed at the opposite ends of the other groove; and which has a dolly having an arm extended through the one groove, elements in the mounting recess mounting the arm on the container for movement of the arm between an upper position and a lower position, an axle mounted on the arm and extended between the wheel recesses, a wheel mounted on the axle at each wheel recess, and a latch mounted on the arm at the latching recess and adapted to latch the arm in the lower position, the wheels being within the wheel recesses when the arm is in the upper position and being extended therefrom for rolling support of the device when the arm is in the lower position and the mounting elements serving resiliently to urge the arm toward the uppe

Abstract: A portable bead breaking tool for use with a large tire mounted in an operating position on a wheel rim, the tool having a frame which spans the tire and is adjustable for wheel rims of different widths, a pair of shoes mounted on the frame for individual engagement with the flanges of the rim; a clamp detachably mounted on either shoe to clamp the shoe to an engaged flange; a pusher assembly detachably mounted in either shoe having a blade which engages the bead of the tire adjacent to such flange; and a jack assembly detachably mounted on either shoe to urge the blade in a direction to break the bead from the flange.

Abstract: A plum tree bearing very late ripening fruit which ripens about two weeks later than fruit of the Roysum variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) and which has yellowish-amber flesh diffused and mottled with red toward the skin and has a deep and extensive red to purplish-red skin coloration.

Abstract: A plum tree generally similar to the Simka variety of plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,882) but distinguished by bearing fruit which ripens about ten days earlier and which has a 90 to 100 percent red-purple skin coloration.

Abstract: A nectarine tree generally similar to the May Grand Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794) and bearing yellow fleshed, semi-freestone fruit which ripens about eight days earlier than the fruit of the May Grand, which has a substantially fully red coloration and is even ripening, and which is of uniform, symmetrical, and substantially spherical form.

Abstract: A peach tree particularly characterized by its fruit, when fully ripe, having very firm, non-melting flesh which, in most fruit, is completely free of color, the free being further characterized by having large showy blossoms and by bearing clingstone fruit which has superior shipping and keeping qualities, which ripens approximately 20 days earlier than fruit of the Nectar Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 86), and which has an attractive skin coloration.

Abstract: A plum tree generally similar to the Roysum plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) which it most nearly resembles and approximately with which it ripens, bearing symmetrical, medium-sized fruit having dark red to dark purplish-red skin, yellowish-amber, semi-freestone flesh, and of superior flavor.

Abstract: A peach tree, denominated "Berenda Sun", producing freestone fruit having a dark red color with bright yellow, very crisp and firm flesh and a skin which is tenacious to the flesh ripening July 22 to July 24 in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

Abstract: A new variety of plum tree bearing clingstone fruit having a reddish purple skin and ripening approximately with the Santa Rosa variety (unpatented), plums of the new variety having superior shipping and keeping qualities, having flesh which is less acid than that of the Santa Rosa variety and which attains a more fully reddish coloration when relatively immature, and having a somewhat longer ripening period than plums of the Santa Rosa variety.