Abstract: A new and distinct everbearing strawberry plant particularly characterized by presenting occasional basal foliar bracts, having high vigor and heavy bearing when chilled and having darker foliage and greater strength than normal for an everbearer. Compared to that of Driscoll, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,529, fruit of the instant plant is generally wider than long, firmer, darker on the outside and whiter on the inside.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fluid-distribution apparatus in which one main fluid inlet flow is divided substantially equally between a number of outlets for example as the feeding of a plurality of burners on a gas turbine engine from a single fuel supply. At low total flow rates the difference in height of the various outlets can adversely effect the equality of distribution of liquid between the outlets and it is known to provide a restrictor in series with each outlet to improve the flow division between the outlets. However, where there is a large range of flow rates, the simple restrictors which are effective at low flow rates will cause a very substantial pressure loss at high flow rates. Further a simple restrictor essentially involves a passage of small cross-section which can become blocked by solid particles within the liquid.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for the separation of sand and botanical materials, particularly tobacco, the apparatus including a fluidized bed and a porous support for the mixture of sand and botanical materials. The method incorporates the apparatus and aids in the separation, the method potentially including a pulsed fluid flow superimposed on a steady fluid flow in the system.

Abstract: A progressing cavity, positive displacement rotary pump assembly for fluid or semi-fluid material. The assembly includes a rotary shaft with an associated drive motor and pump components including a tubular stator with an interior helical surface and an orbital rotor within the stator operably connected to the shaft and having an exterior helical surface. The helical rotor surface has one more thread than the helical stator surface which it engages, to define sealed pumping cavities that advance axially as the rotor rotates and orbits within the stator. The rotor is coupled to the shaft by a flexible torque tube with one end connected to the shaft and the other connected to an end of the rotor to transmit driving torque to the rotor and to flex sufficiently to accommodate orbital movement of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary compressor having mating rotary impellers defined by lobes and well spaces therebetween, a discharge port sealed by the peripheral surface of one of the lobes and passages for communicating one impeller well space with a well space of the other impeller as the discharge port is sealed by the one impeller peripheral surface. According to one form, the passages are defined by conduits in the compressor housing; whereas according to a second form the passages are defined by a recess in one impeller and the interior of the compressor housing.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acyl,R.sub.2 is hydrogen, chlorine or bromine,R.sub.3 is fluorine, alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, trifluoromethyl, cyano, carbamoyl, carboxyl, carbalkoxy, alkoxy, acetyl, 1-hydroxyethyl or ##STR2## where R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are each alkyl, cycloalkyl, hydroxy-cycloalkyl or, together with each other and the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, pyrrolidino, piperidino or morpholino, andR.sub.4 and R.sub.

Abstract: The display panel includes a base plate which carries a plurality of pairs of scanning cathodes and display cathodes, oriented in columns, and insulating spacers which, in each pair, separate the scanning and display cathodes into operative pairs, with the pairs being arrayed in rows and columns. The panel also includes a face plate which carries a plurality of anode strips, oriented in rows, each strip overlaying and having a portion in operative relation with a row of scanning and display cathode pairs. In each pair of cathodes, only the display cathode is visible to a viewer. The face plate and base plate are sealed together to form an envelope which is filled with a gas suitable for supporting cathode glow.

Abstract: A vest is provided which patients undergoing intravenous hyperalimentation (total parenteral nutrition) treatment may wear, permitting the patients/recipients to move about and continue to receive intravenous nourishment. The vest is provided with pouches to receive bags of the hyperalimentation solution, a pocket to receive a pump to transfer the solution to the recipient's body and a pocket for a power supply for the pump. The vest permits hyperalimentation recipients who would otherwise be bed-ridden to lead a more normal and active life.

Abstract: A diving mask comprises a rigid front sight piece, transparent at least for its major portion and a flexible anatomically shaped body, which is molded in a suitable mold inside which the front piece has been arranged previously. The front piece is provided, along its whole edge portion, with a plurality of through bores, inside which bores, upon molding of said shaped body, the material forming the said body penetrates so as to realize a watertight connection of the front piece and of the body.

Abstract: An intraocular lens for implantation in the anterior chamber of the human eye is provided. The lens is convexo-planar with the planar surface facing the cornea.

Abstract: An ophthalmic prosthesis implant to be used as a replacement and cosmetic correction for the loss of an eye due to injury or illness and to fill the orbital cavity formally occupied by the natural eye. The implant includes a generally hemispherical cartridge member having pins protruding therefrom for affixing and permanently attaching the member to the skeletal skull, and an eye prosthesis removably secured to the cartridge member.A pliers like instrument is disclosed for applying the cartridge member, along with an eye prosthesis applier and a periorbital retractor.

Abstract: The present apparatus for a toilet has the following features:(1) a spray conduit in a recess in the bottom of the toilet seat at the back;(2) a fluid-tight, rotatable water supply fitting aligned with the hinge axis of the toilet seat and connecting the spray conduit in the seat to an external water pipe;(3) a switch-operated valving arrangement for purging the spray conduit in the seat of standing water and filling it with hot water, and then causing the spraying operation to take place;(4) a switch-operated mechanism for flushing the toilet;(5) a pressure switch in the toilet seat to prevent spraying or flushing except when the seat is down and a person is seated on it; and(6) wiring extending through a tubular safety frame for the toilet to switches at the front for the valving arrangement and the toilet flushing mechanism.

Abstract: A lavatory bench, or toilet, in which solid wastes are collected and biologically decomposed. The bench comprises a container beneath the seat and near the top of the container is a rotary member to which material is supplied and which, while rotating, distributes the material within the container. The container is advantageously heated. A casing is provided which supports the seat and which surrounds the container and from which there leads a lead stack, or outlet pipe. The rotation of the aforesaid member causes air circulation within the device and promotes the movement of air out through the outlet pipe. The rotatable member near the top of the container also serves the function of shutting off the inside of the container from view.

Abstract: A pool assembly designed to be supported in a natural body of water such as a lake, river, canal, etc., and including a flexible, waterproof liner structure secured about its peripheral edge to a floatation device in the form of a buoyant rim portion disposed in supporting relation to the liner and maintained in floating relation to the surface of the body of water. A floating deck comprising, in part, a hollow portion for storage of the liner when not in use and a filtering assembly, is removably attached to the rim portion by a correspondingly configured channel structure formed in the housing of the deck, wherein the deck itself is buoyant and is disposed in interconnecting relation between the liner and the shore or equivalent permanent installation leading to the liner.

Abstract: A ventilated toilet has a toilet bowl and a toilet seat hingedly mounted on the toilet bowl. A blower is mounted in a casing and includes a blower housing which has inlet and outlet ports at the inlet and outlet sides of the blower. The blower is mounted in the casing for pivoting between two positions in one of which a channel which extends between the blower housing and the internal space of the toilet bowl communicates with the inlet port so that the blower withdraws air from the internal space, and another position in which the channel communicates with the outlet port so that the blower forces air, which may be heated during its passage through the channel, into the internal space of the toilet bowl. The port which does not communicate with the channel simultaneously communicates with the ambient atmosphere.