Abstract: An improvement in a microprocessor permitting the selection of write-back, write-through or write-once protocols is disclosed. A pin is connected to either ground or Vcc potential to select either the write-through or write-back protocols. When this pin is connected to the read/write line, the write-once protocol is selected. Interconnection between two processors is described which permits the processors to operate in a write-once protocol with a minimum of glue logic.

Abstract: For use to support a receptacle, planter or other item having an upper rim and bottom; means for supporting the receptacle, planter or other item are provided comprising a base, a plurality of strands of material, each strand passing through at least two apertures in the base at least one end of which extends to a support, each strand carrying a hook or other inert or non-effacing connector for seating over the rim of the receptacle.

Abstract: A display receptacle having locking means formed on its rim to hold in sockets therein the upsets of filament strands that pass in cradle fashion around a flanged groove in the locking means to reduce the tensile stress on the upsets. The strands are passed together through an aperture in a hanger ring and melded together to rest on the rim of the aperture on the ring. The strands can be equally adjusted for length from the rim of the receptacle by knotting them together at any desired position above the aperture in the ring.

Abstract: A display receptacle having a rim and an outer surface and carrying a plurality of tabulate bodies or relatively thin protrusions, each tabulate body or relatively thin protrusion presenting a face on the side of the body remote the surface of the receptacle, proximate its rim, carrying a socket and vertically extending slot, both opening through the face, a wall restricting the opening of the socket and slot through the face to less than their widths, the slot extending to a groove around the body having restricted groove portions so that a filament strand with an enlarged end secured in the socket and passing down the slot and around the tabulate body in the groove is secured to the tabulate body or protrusion in cradle fashion to reduce the tensile stress on the enlarged end. The strands from each body are passed together through an aperture in a hanger ring and melded together to rest on the rim of the aperture on the ring.

Abstract: A "hanger support" suitable for use or reuse in hanging a receptacle or planter, the support comprising: a hanger from which the "hanger support" may be secured, the hanger having a plane or zone disposed or oriented in the vertical direction; a take-up reel having an endless channel defined between a pair of walls extending from either end of the reel, said reel secured to the hanger for accumulating material supporting the planter or other item, and said reel incorporating a plane or zone disposed in the vertical direction when the hanger support is secured for use; a lock vertically below the reel and hanger offset to the plane or zone of the take-up reel but in vertical alignment with the plane or zone of the hanger.

Abstract: A wick heater comprises a housing the top and front panel of which are so constructed and interrelated with each other and the remainder of the housing to provide for their relative expansion and contraction in a manner to avoid warping, buckling or distortion or any undue stress on the housing or its component parts during operation of the heater. The top of the housing comprises a frame and inserts, a principal insert being interconnected with and for expansion and contraction relative to the frame and to position directly above the chimney of the heater and the area encompassed by its backing heat reflecting surface. This principal insert has a unique pattern of slots the bounding edges of which are flanged and a portion of which are oriented in directions at right angles to other of said slots to lend both strength and stress accommodation to the top of the housing.

Abstract: A heater including a generally cylindrical shell defining its housing arranged in a very closely spaced relation to the outer periphery of its combustion chamber assembly and its fan device as it bounds a plenum chamber therebetween. The combustion chamber assembly has its discharge end adjacent the discharge end of the shell. The relative configuration of the outer peripheral surface of the combustion chamber assembly and that of the discharge end portion of the shell creates therebetween a passage through which the fan device, on energization thereof, produces a very high velocity flow of a thin layer of air which, on discharge, is throttled and abruptly and sharply driven into the center of the flow from the assembly. The effect of this is to moderate and influence a relative uniformity of the temperature of the discharge and rapidly project it outwardly of and considerably beyond the heater.