Abstract: A load retraction preventing finger array for a unitary heavy-duty refuse compactor which includes a hopper from which pre-deposited refuse is forcefully thrust by a power-advanced packing blade through an intermediate throat and into a large, normally closed, box-like container which provides a packing chamber in which the load--as it progressively increases in volume upon recurrent operation of the packing blade--is thereby placed under compression; the load retraction preventing finger array embodying a plurality of initially depending, pivoted, dual finger units mounted in a horizontal transverse row extending across the top of such throat and operative in certain positions of engagement with the load of compressed refuse to substantially preclude such load from falling back (by reason of its tendency to expand) through the throat and into the hopper upon retraction of the packing blade.

Abstract: A speed governor for a disposable spring motor driven data recorder of the type which is used, for example, in a railroad car to graphically record, on a traveling tape, the temperature in the car at all times during a transit period of several days; the speed governor comprising a mechanical-hydraulic mechanism associated with the spring motor and operative to control--to a constant but extremely slow rate--the speed of travel of the tape.

Abstract: The hook unit of the present invention is adapted to receive truck tire chains when not in use, but which at times must be carried on the truck so as to be available in case of need therefor. The hook units are preferably employed in a pair and mounted in adjacent but laterally spaced relation on the truck; the truck tire chains, when out of use, being engaged with, spanning between, and depending from such pair of hook units. Each hook unit includes a bracket affixed to the truck, and an upwardly opening hook having an extension leg detachably engaged with the bracket whereby the hook may be detached and stored in those seasons or under road conditions when trucks do not need or carry tire chains.In a modification of the hook unit and to prevent theft of the tire chains when hook-engaged, the extension leg of the hook is padlock-secured in the bracket, and a padlock-secured anti-theft bar spans the throat of the hook.

Abstract: Improvements in a quick-break attachment, for a pole-top air-break switch, wherein said attachment is of the type including a whip engaged in a catch to maintain a protective, anti-arcing shunt across the switch until the latter opens, whereupon the whip disengages and quick-breaks from the catch; the improvements consisting of instrumentalities which, firstly, assure of substantial acceleration in speed of the whip after its disengagement but before actual electrical separation occurs, and, secondly, prevent rebound of the disengaged whip into arcing contact with the catch.

Abstract: A compensating hitch adapted to be coupled between a three-point draft system at the rear end of a wheeled tractor and the front end of a trailing earthworking implement which is wheel supported rearwardly of an earthworking blade thereof; the hitch including a link and lever array which functions to maintain the implement and its earthworking blade in a constant pre-set working position when the tractor traverses uneven ground, and which--with a conventional hitch--would cause the trailing implement and its blade to undesirably vary up and down from such constant pre-set working position.

Abstract: A C-clamp arranged for operation by one hand, from a depending hand grip unit, to cause actuation of a ratchet assembly which quick-sets or closes the C-clamp on a work piece; the arrangement permitting of ready manual release of the C-clamp from the work piece.

Abstract: A seaming mechanism for a machine of the type employed to secure a metallic head on a metallic drum by deforming and folding together adjacent, initially lapped, peripheral portions of the head and drum end; such mechanism embodying a pair of seaming rolls positioned for sequential movement into working engagement with such peripheral portions of the head and drum end, and corresponding seaming roll supporting arm units--actuated from a single, driven cam--operative to impart such sequential movement to said seaming rolls.

Abstract: A double-ended, drum seaming machine--which includes spaced, bed-supported columns carrying drum-engaging rotary chucks and drum seaming units--embodying a structural arrangement, in association with included stripper rods, which provides for pre-adjustment of the relative positions of the columns on the bed (according to drum length), and for predetermination of the limited-travel, working stroke of the individual columns between a retracted clearance position and an advanced position with the corresponding rotary chuck in drum head engagement.

Abstract: The waterbed filling unit, embodies a tapered, water-delivery tube adapted for insertion into the male-threaded filler neck of a waterbed in jam relation, the then outer end of the tube having a fixed, female-threaded fitting thereon adapted for coupling with the male-threaded fitting of a garden hose, and a female-threaded, nut-type fitting rotatably surrounding the tube intermediate its ends and adapted for coupling with said male-threaded filler neck; there being an annular, external, stop flange on the tube within the confines of said rotatable fitting, and the latter clamping said stop flange against the upper end of the filler neck whereby to maintain such jam relation and prevent separation of the tube from the filler neck.

Abstract: A peach tree which is of medium size, medium vigor, spreading, dense, vase-formed, hardy, foliated with medium size, oval-lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves, blooms with large, pink flowers, and is a regular and very productive bearer of medium-large size, globose, freestone fruit having apricot skin substantially overspread with dark red, and yellow flesh with red streaked and mottled into the flesh from the pit cavity.

Abstract: An almond tree which is dense, medium size, vigorous, stocky of trunk and branches, both with medium texture, spreading, abundantly foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a finely serrate margin and green, globose, opposite-alternate glands, blooms heavily with pink flowers, and is a regular and very heavy bearer of small, ovate, well-sealed, well-distributed nuts.

Abstract: A peach tree which is large, vigorous, spreading, foliated with large, oval-lanceolate leaves having a coarsely serrate margin, medium length petiole, and medium size, uniform glands positioned in opposition, blooms from large, obtuse to conic, plump, pubescent flower buds, the flowers being pink and of medium size, and a regular and productive bearer of uniform, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin blushed and mottled with red, yellow flesh, and a medium size, beige stone.

Abstract: An almond tree which is open, medium size, vigorous, stocky of trunk and branches, both with smooth texture, upright with diverging branches, foliated with medium size, acuminate, acutely pointed, thin, smooth-textured leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin and small, alternate, green, globose glands, blooms heavily with pink flowers, and is a regular and heavy bearer of large, well-sealed, well-distributed nuts having large kernels.