Abstract: A load management system which includes a central message generator and a plurality of addressable remote load controllers which selectively connect and disconnect high power deferrable loads to and from a power source in response to transmitted messages. The load controllers include means for translating coded tone pair inputs into digital data. Tones selected from three such tone pairs are used in one scheme, where a tone selected from the first tone pair is used for the initial bit of a message, and subsequent tones are alternately selected from the remaining two tone pairs or the remaining bits. One of the tones of the first tone pair is utilized as a test tone which initiates a test routine sequence. The test tone can be transmitted by a portable, low power transmitter to test the functioning of the remote units. A message format includes two code sets, a zone code set and a command/address code set.

Abstract: A load management system which includes a central message generator and a plurality of addressable remote load controllers which selectively connect and disconnect high power deferrable loads to and from a power source in response to transmitted messages. The load controllers include means for translating coded tone pair inputs into digital data. Tones selected from three such tone pairs are used in one scheme, where a tone selected from the first tone pair is used for the initial bit of a message, and subsequent tones are alternately selected from the remaining two tone pairs or the remaining bits. One of the tones of the first tone pair is utilized as a test tone which initiates a test routine sequence. The test tone can be transmitted by a portable, low power transmitter to test the functioning of the remote units. A message format includes two code sets, a zone code set and a command/address code set.

Abstract: A device adapted for storing items, in particular, magnetic information media, said device including a hollow exterior rectangular box having depressions and ridges such that the box may be stacked efficiently with other identical boxes to have lateral interlocks both on the vertical and horizontal surfaces and including in the interior thereof guide rails for receiving a drawer. The drawer is designed to be usable in either of two orientations, the second orientation being a 90.degree. rotation from the first, the drawer further including walls for enclosing the media and a hinged gate for allowing the media to tilt forward for ready access while restraining the media within the drawer.

Abstract: A load management system which includes a central message generator and a plurality of addressable remote load controllers which selectively connect and disconnect high power deferrable loads to and from a power source in response to transmitted messages. The load controllers include means for translating coded tone pair inputs into digital data. Tones selected from three such tone pairs are used in one scheme, where a tone selected from the first tone pair is used for the initial bit of a message, and subsequent tones are alternately selected from the remaining two tone pairs or the remaining bits. One of the tones of the first tone pair is utilized as a test tone which initiates a test routine sequence. The test tone can be transmitted by a portable, low power transmitter to test the functioning of the remote units. A message format includes two code sets, a zone code set and a command/address code set.

Abstract: A multi-band radio receiver is disclosed for automatically and sequentially tuning to a plurality of discreet, separate preselected frequencies. The receiver incorporates a phase locked loop frequency synthesizer which includes two separate voltage tuned oscillators alternately operative according to the band of operation of the receiver. Channels are selected by inserting metal combs having teeth removed to form a binary coded memory into corresponding sockets in the receiver. One comb is used for each of the channels to which the receiver can tune. By replacing a specific comb with an alternate comb, the channel to which the receiver tunes can be correspondingly changed. The combs are made of relatively brittle aluminum in order that they may be readily programmed to the appropriate binary coded decimal arrangement of pins.

Abstract: Novel (heterocyclicthio)phenyl N-alkylcarbamates, (heterocyclicthio)phenyl N-acyl-N-alkylcarbamates and their thionocarbamate analogs. The compounds are pesticidal agents, which are particularly suitable as ectoparasiticidal agents for use in sheep, cattle, horses, swine and the like.

Abstract: A method of treatment or control of diseases of rice plants comprising contacting the plants, and the seeds thereof with an effective amount of a compound of the formula: ##STR1## or a non-phytotoxic acid addition salt thereof, wherein each of X and Y completes a saturated or unsaturated pyrrolo- or pyrido-ring;X and Y may each be substituted with up to two substituents selected from halo, lower alkyl, phenyl, oxo or thio;And R is hydrogen, lower akyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkanoyl, benzoyl, hydroxy, lower alkanoyloxy, cyano, or halo; andZ is hydrogen or halo.Certain of these compounds are novel compounds and are claimed as such. Compositions for the treatment of plant diseases are also claimed.

Abstract: A signal-seeking radio receiver is disclosed which has two different types of local oscillator circuits. One type of local oscillator includes two transistors, the emitter of the first connecting to the base of the second and having a capacitor connecting between the emitter of the second and the base of the first. A large number of diode switched crystals can be connected to the base of the first transistor of the local oscillator without introducing an instability in the oscillator circuit. The second type of local oscillator is of the same general design as the first type except that it additionally includes a third transistor connected to the second transistor in a fashion similar to the first transistor. In this second oscillator configuration, the circuitry used to step among the channels also is used to alternately make either the first or third transistor operative in the local oscillator circuit.

Abstract: Intermediates for preparing benzylthio-, benzylsulfinyl-, and benzylsylfonyl-benzoic acids, and method of lowering the blood lipid level in mammals employing said acids.