Abstract: A climbing rose plant of the hybrid tea class combining red, cerise, and yellow petal colors, originating as a sport of Patchwork.The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the climbing hybrid tea class, which originated as a sport of the variety, "Patchwork" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,012).The new variety was discovered by me at my nursery in McFarland, Calif., in a cultivated area. My attention was drawn to a plant that was presumed to be the variety, Patchwork, but which exhibited definite climbing characteristics in that it produced canes which were 8 to 10 feet in length. This new variety has been asexually reproduced by budding, under my supervision, at McFarland, Calif. Observations of the above asexual reproductions of the new variety have shown that the climbing habit comes true to form and is transmissible through succeeding asexual propagations.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved fuchsia plant, the principal new and different characteristic of which is the combination of the rose red sepals with the lavender corolla.

Abstract: A new variety of African violet plant distinguished by the medium violet-blue color of its flowers when compared with those of its parent variety, Eva (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,611), of which the new plant originated as a sport.

Abstract: The power transfer of the present invention employs a driver having a medial section which includes a plurality of continuous, helical grooves and a plurality of axially aligned transfer material return flow paths. The medial section terminates at each end in a generally cylindrical head, each of which is provided with grooves which communicate with the medial section grooves. The head grooves conduct the power transfer material to the axial paths for axial flow through the driver. The power transfer material flows through the helical grooves, through the head openings, .[.if so embodied or if used,.]. through the head cooperating grooves and the axially aligned paths to travel a complete, circuitous route about and through the driver.

Abstract: A dispensing nozzle assembly having a system for receiving the vapors displaced from a motor vehicle gasoline tank when it is being filled and an interlock system located in conjunction with the latching collar on the discharge spout of the nozzle, for preventing the dispensing of gasoline until the discharge spout is inserted into the vehicle fillpipe. The interlock system includes a valve mounted in the discharge spout in such a manner that it is actuated by the weight of the nozzle resting upon the fillpipe inlet. The valve is interconnected with the automatic shut-off system of the nozzle so that when the valve is in its open position, signifying that the nozzle is properly inserted in the fillpipe, dispensing of gasoline is permitted.

Abstract: An atomic absorption spectrophotometer incorporating discrimination against "background" absorption, i.e., absorption not caused by the resonant line absorption by the element being measured. The device includes a resonant line emitting source (e.g., a hollow cathode lamp) and a continuous spectrum light source (e.g., a deuterium lamp), a monochromator and a detector system. The improvement comprises a specific chopper arrangement which sequentially causes: (a) the resonant line light from the hollow cathode lamp to go to the sample path, (b) this light to go to the reference path, (c) the continuous spectrum light from the deuterium lamp to go to the reference path, and finally (d) the continuous spectrum light to go to the sample path. By comparing the light intensities during intervals (c) and (d) the effect of the background absorption can be determined and compensated for so as to determine the relationship between (a) and (b) free of the effect of such background absorption.

Abstract: A material for use in making electrical contacts is produced in a powder form suitable for later processing into electrical contacts by standard metallurgical techniques. The material consists of a first metal, such as silver, and the oxide of a second metal, such as cadmium, added to the first metal in a proportion up to the limits of solubility of the second metal in the first metal. An oxide of a third metal having a low electronic work function level, such as lithium oxide, is added and uniformly distributed on the surfaces of the powder particles by precipitation. A fourth metal, such as tellurium, that is insoluble in the first metal is also added to provide selected characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel 1,9 lactones of prostaglandin-type free acids and a process for their preparation. These lactones are useful for the same pharmacological purposes as the corresponding prostaglandin-type free acids.

Abstract: For simultaneous correction of all function adjustments of, for example, a television receiver, adjustable correcting information is stored by means of a normal function control members in a memory which is read out on operation of a function correction member.

Abstract: In the representative embodiments of the present invention described herein, a drilling mud is circulated through a drill string at a sufficient rate to effectively operate an impeller-driven electrical generator arranged on a tool coupled in the drill string for supplying power to downhole electrical circuits and one or more downhole condition-measuring devices on the tool. By selectively controlling the flow of drilling mud past the impeller in accordance with the conditions being monitored by the condition-measuring devices, data-encoded acoustic signals are produced in the circulating fluid and transmitted to the surface for detecting and decoding as power is simultaneously supplied to the downhole system by the generator.

Abstract: Disclosed is a portable waste disposal system that is designed primarily for use in marine craft, mobile homes, campers or the like. The system comprises a macerator unit for converting excrement to a liquified effluent, and an incinerator unit for incinerating the effluent. The macerator unit comprises a holding tank which receives the waste material from a toilet. When the level of the excrement within the holding tank reaches a predetermined level, and maintains that level for a predetermined period of time, the system is activated and the excrement from the holding tank is macerated by a macerator and provided to a feed compartment. A circulation pump then pumps the macerated effluent from the feed compartment through a circulation line to the incineration unit.

Abstract: A stool that includes an upwardly tapered hollow body, a top wall of the body having a central opening so as to serve as a toilet, a removable pot being supported to the underside of the top wall, a pair of opposite handles for pulling or lifting the stool, a removable disc serving to close the top wall opening in order to support a removable cushion thereupon, the cushion being integral with a drape, colorfully decorated, hanging around the side of the stool, doors on a side of the stool providing access to the pot, and also to a compartment for storage of various items, as well as a roll of toilet paper, the stool having retractable casters on its bottom, so that when weighed down by a person, the stool rests upon a rubber rim around its lower edge so as to prevent skidding, and the toilet paper being automatically fed outwardly for use when a person sits upon the stool, so as to be readily available.

Abstract: Inflatable resting cushion, the supporting part of which is made of two sheets of a flexible material, which sheets are joined together along defining lines. Said lines define the shape of the cushion and divide the same into two inflatable air compartments between which the air communication is kept interrupted. The one of said defining lines, which defines the limits of separation of the two inflatable compartments from each other, exhibits a curved shape.

Abstract: A portable landing ramp for boats which can be positioned manually has a walking plank having a first end secured to the boat by chains which support that end beneath the boat deck and thus reduce the angle of plank inclination, while a second plank end has foldable legs which are unfolded to extend to land to support the second end above the water, reduce the angle of inclination of the ramp, and add lateral stability to the ramp. A folding parallelogram hand rail assembly has braces in the upright position which support a pair of hand rails parallel with the plank to provide guidance while walking on the plank. The rear braces of the assembly are offset to position the first plank end away from the boat, and the chains extend around the outside of the rear braces to engage them and thereby reduce lateral movement of the plank. The chains and the assembly can be folded into channels in the plank and latched so that either hand rail can serve as a carrying handle for the ramp.

Abstract: A sailboat hull comprised of a monolithic structure fabricated of low-density polymer foam and having integrally formed therewith an internal H-shaped structure. The H-shaped structure serves to reinforce the hull and provides buoyancy chambers extending along either side of the hull and a centerboard trunk medially of the hull. The chambers define leg space therebetween and are so proportioned that said leg space is buoyantly supported above the surface of the water when the hull is in a tipped vertically disposed position. The hull is provided with a rudder comprised of a pair of separate cheek plates vertically disposed in spaced parallel relationship to one another and held in this position by extruded aluminum pintle blocks secured between the plates. The pintle blocks extend forwardly of the plates and carry aligned pintle pins. A tiller is fixedly attached between the upper edges of the plates and the rudder is pivotally secured between the plates beneath the tiller.

Abstract: A detonator assembly for mating a gas cartridge to an expandable chamber, such as a life vest, the cartridge having a sealing diaphragm across one end thereof and the chamber having a wall, comprising a body having a threaded collar on one side thereof which is adapted to extend through a hole in the chamber wall, the body having first and second intersecting passageways therein, the first passageway extending through the collar, one end of the second passageway being threaded to receive the one end of the cartridge; a nut positionable in the chamber for engaging the collar and connecting the body to the chamber wall with the first passageway providing a flow path into the chamber; a firing pin positioned for axial movement in the second passageway and having a diaphragm puncturing element at one end thereof positioned in facing relationship with the one end of the cartridge; a spring positioned within the body and surrounding the firing pin for biasing the firing pin with the diaphragm puncturing element spa

Abstract: A fine angular adjustment is provided between a windshield wiper arm and a windshield wiper drive shaft without changing the standard drumhead or drive burr carried by said drive shaft. Provision is made for fine adjusting the angular orientation of the arm by increments of one degree. In two embodiments, the mounting head of the arm is in two parts with the first part fixed to the drumhead of the drive shaft and the second part having incremental teeth being spring urged into contact with mating incremental teeth on the first part, such that actuating the spring separates said incremental teeth of the two parts making it possible to rotate the second part relative to the first part in approximately one degree increments.

Abstract: A mop cleaning device for use in mopping floors includes a container having a special partition which divides the interior of the container into first and second side-by-side compartmments which are in communication with each other in a manner such that water wrung from a wet mop into the first compartment displaces an equal amount of relatively solids-free liquid from the first compartment into the second compartment for re-use.

Abstract: At the outlet of the finishing stand of a rolling mill, a cooling apparatus is arranged to surface quench only the outer layer of the flat face of a steel section by a cooling fluid. The cooling conditions are adjusted so that, at the outlet of the cooling zone, the unquenched parts of the section are at a temperature still sufficiently high to temper the quenched face, and so that the austenite is transformed into ferrite and carbides in the unquenched parts of the section.

Abstract: An apparatus for stripping fluids from the surface of an object including a flexible, inflatable bag of generally rectangular transverse cross section including an inlet for introducing air under pressure into the bag and an elongated opening at one end of the bag defining a nozzle for emitting a stream of air and an air distributor for supplying air to the bag and for supporting the bag so that it extends toward the object wherein the nozzle end of said bag lies in the path of motion of the object to cause physical engagement between the nozzle end of the bag and the object to bring the stream of air emitted from the nozzle opening into close spacial relationship with the surface of the object.

Abstract: The hand-held tool head assembly comprises a housing connected to a flexible vacuum hose to a source. The housing has an elongated front wall with a plurality of openings defining a suction surface. An intermediate portion of this wall is cut-out and formed with a receiving structure for receiving inserts. A first insert has a front wall portion with openings so that when it is received in the cut-out portion it is flush with the surface openings on either side of the cut-out to provide a continuous elongated cleaning surface. A second insert is arranged to be substituted for the first insert and has a front undulating suction surface defined by transverse fins with channels therebetween, the side walls of the fins, the front tips of the fins and the floors of the channels all having openings communicating with the interior of the tool head to provide suction surfaces for drapery pleats received within the channels.

Abstract: A caster including a pair of diametrically opposed rollers having axes of rotation which are angled with respect to the supporting surface on which the caster travels. During movement of the caster, the rollers exert opposing transversely-directed forces on the caster thereby enabling the caster to be moved in its directed path without the creation of forces on the caster by the rollers which would tend to deflect the caster from its path.

Abstract: A door control comprising a heat-actuated door latch and a combination door-closing-arm holder and release. An optional smoke detector is located within a holder-release housing. During normal conditions, the door-closing arm is set at a hold-open angle free of the door to permit an easy door swing. In response to an emergency or smoke condition, the closing arm is released to pick up and close the door. In the event of excessive heat, the door is latched in response to the separation of fusible link segments. Heat from the side of the door opposite the latch housing is conducted through the door by a heat conducting rod.

Abstract: Fibers are carded to produce a web on a carding machine on which at least one gaseous barrier is produced near at least one end of the main cylinder roll of the carding machine so that the edge of the web of fibers on the main cylinder roll is maintained a distance from the end of the main cylinder roll.

Abstract: A class of snap fasteners is described each of which includes at least one male and at least one female member. The female members have at least one socket portion which may be in the nature of a cavity in a hollow housing accessible by a fenestration in a face wall which is normally exposed or accessible, or may be in the nature of a through-hole in a substantially solid elongate bar member. The male members have at least one insert portion configurated and dimensioned to be receivable within an associated socket portion with relatively little clearance. Retainers are provided which limit free movement of the insert portions into and out of the socket portions. In the preferred embodiment, the retainers are in the nature of at least one protuberance or nipple at the fenestration or access opening to the socket portion which forms a local constriction of the fenestration area to provide an interference fit when the insert portion passes through the fenestration.

Abstract: Two members are locked together by forcing wedge means between mutually facing and converging surfaces of the members, the wedge means causing gripping means to engage one of the members to lock the members together. A fluid pressure is established between the wedge means and at least one surface of one of the members while forcing the wedge means into wedging position between the members to minimize friction between the wedge means and the elements with which they are in contact during movement. When the wedge means is in position, the fluid is terminated to complete the lock.

Abstract: A machine for longitudinally cutting and/or grooving continuous sheet material comprises first and second stations each of which has means for cutting and/or grooving the sheet material, the stations being spaced apart longitudinally in a direction along which the sheet material is fed through the machine, the sheet material first passing the first station and then the second station. The stations are upwardly and downwardly movable between working and inoperative positions, and a device for cutting the continuous sheet material transversely into sections is also provided. The working positions of the two stations are in a common plane along which, in operation, the sheet material is fed and each of the stations has a first guide device for guiding the sheet material, the first guide device of each station being disposed on one side of the common plane when the station is in its working position.

Abstract: A method of making a solar absorber panel is disclosed in which mild steel sheets are provided with a pattern of recesses such that when the sheets are superimposed, an internal hollow fluid heat transfer passage system is formed thereby including inlet and outlet manifolds joined by connecting passages. A metallic sealing material having a lower melting point than the sheets is placed in the recesses, the sheets are superimposed and the structure is peripherally welded to form a gas-tight envelope. The envelope is purged of air, partially internally evacuated and the edges of the internal passages sealed by heating the assembly above the melting point of the sealant material. The vacuum drawn on the envelope insures a tight seal between all passages as it allows external ambient air pressure to force the sheets together.

Abstract: An elongated tubular member is withdrawn from a bore in a support member by ixing at a leading end of the tubular member a hollow adapter, inserting through the tubular member and the hollow adapter a rod having an overall length greater than the combined length of the tubular member and the adapter, securing said rod to the adapter at one end of the tubular member, securing a broach to the rod at the other end, pulling the tubular member by suitable gripping means to withdraw it from the bore and thereby drawing the broach through the bore to re-shape it.A suitable form of gripping means is also disclosed in the form of a hydraulically operated chuck.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of reinforced, spirally wound pipe having a generally smooth inner wall produced from an elongated flat sheet of ductile material, such as galvanized steel, and one or more narrow strips of ductile material. The sheet and strips are situated in rolls located at the entry end of a rolling apparatus which is constructed to form one longitudinal, generally trapezoidal reinforced impression in the sheet corresponding to each of the narrow strips. In the process of forming the impressions, rolling stands in the rolling apparatus first fashion a longitudinal, generally rectangular channel in the sheet corresponding to each strip as the sheet progresses through the rolling apparatus. At the same time, the strips are shaped into reinforcement elements having an extended, continuous portion and splayed legs extending outwardly from the edges of the continuous portion.

Abstract: The disclosure describes flexible motor mounting members particularly adapted for vibration induced flexing movement. In illustrated forms, leaf spring mounting arms have low torsional spring constants and yet have sufficient strength to withstand shipping and handling loads for motor-blower assemblies and to permit all angle motor mounting. The free end of the lug is specifically configured to prevent deformation and tearing, and the lugs are extremely easy to mount to a blower housing simply by deflecting the mounting arms (when necessary) with finger pressure so as to align holes in the mounting arms with previously provided holes in the blower housing.

Abstract: A pin is connected between the two legs of the game racket frame in the handle portion near the end. This assembly is placed in a mold with an insert between the legs abutting the pin and initially effectively blocking any string from being looped around the pin and emerging through the bottom of the handle portion. Handle molding material is introduced into the mold to form the handle. The material around the pin is then routed out forming a channel open at the bottom of the handle portion for receiving the handle string that may be readily looped about the pin.

Abstract: Disclosed are multi-layer thin-film devices having adjacent insulator-semiconductor layers employing n-or-p-type semiconductors wherein a charge maintained at the insulator-semiconductor interface creates a depletion region that substantially suppresses tunneling of majority carriers while enhancing tunneling of minority carriers. When employed in a metal-insulator semiconductor (MIS) device wherein the semiconductor is a compound such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) or Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) such minority carrier injection substantially increases the luminescence efficiency.

Abstract: A laminar battery comprising subassemblies made by laminating cellophane to a sheet of conductive plastic on which a series of metallic electrodes have been formed in a series of regions within the confines of the sheet, in which the cellophane is caused to adhere to the plastic and to the electrode patches by feeding the cellophane and the conductive plastic between nip rolls under pressure and supplying a small amount of an aqueous bonding composition containing a small amount of a water soluble bonding agent between the layers ahead of the nip in the rolls. The laminate so made is dried in air and may be rolled for storage and later assembly into batteries. Electrical cells and batteries made with the process just outlined.

Abstract: A plurality of contact pins project from a flat header of a miniature relay for connection to a corresponding number of coaxial cables. A separate radio frequency adaptor is provided having a plurality of hollow cable connector receiving shells and a planar supporting base interconnecting the shells with the shells serving as RF shields for the header pins.The process of making the RF relay assembly includes mounting the header pins in a predetermined layout on the relay header, forming a one-piece adaptor by interconnecting the tubular shells in a pattern corresponding to the header pin layout and then securing the one-piece RF adaptor to the relay header with each header pin in a complementary shell and with each shell made common with electrical ground.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device mounting element embodying a wire fan-out wherein the ends of a plurality of insulated wires are supported in a spatial parallel arrangement of columns and rows between two spaced apertured die elements, the spacing of the wires is reduced at a first location between the die elements while maintaining the spatial arrangement of columns and rows, forming an enclosure about the wire portions positioned adjacent one of the die elements and the location where the spacing of the wires is reduced, injecting an organic hardenable resin material into the enclosure thereby encapsulating the wires positioned within, severing the wires, and removing the die.

Abstract: A folding pocket knife which can be readily disassembled for cleaning and blade replacement. The pocket knife comprises a case having first and further cooperating case members. A blade is pivotally mounted at one end portion of the case on a pivot pin which assists in securing the case members together. A spring assembly serves to secure the portions of the case members opposite the case end carrying the blade and applies biasing forces to the blade tang which assists in maintaining the blade in its opened or closed position after being moved to one of such positions by an operator.

Abstract: A hand-operated tool for cutting sheet glass; the tool including a flat plate which near one end supports a rotatable circular cutter blade for scribbing a scored line on a glass surface, a spherical knob at an opposite end of the plate serving as a hammerhead to strike at the glass on an opposite side of the scored line so to deepen the cut of the score, and the plate having a series of different width notches along one side edge for grasping one end of the glass and breaking it off about the scored line; the plate additionally including a storage compartment inside for storing extra circular cutter blades.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting vegetation with a rotating head carrying cutting line extended into a cutting plane. Additional line is extended into the cutting plane by pushing a ball member against the ground while rotating the head. The ball member moves inwardly for releasing a spool carrying coiled cutting line to rotate a predetermined angular displacement in the head. After the cutting line length is extended, the spool is secured automatically against further rotation within the head.A cover is releasably secured to the head by a twist-lock connection to allow the ball member and spool to be removed from the head for rewinding, etc. The ball member and spool are journaled within the head and cover for rotation about a common rotational axis with the head and each other. As a result, head balance and smooth rotation are maintained during repeated extensions of cutting line.

Abstract: A scribing tool for marking wall panels for cutting them to fit the contour of a wall corner. The tool body has either a flat face or a rotating roller for engaging the corner wall surface that is perpendicular to the wall being paneled. The tool body carries a scribing element or pencil. In one species the scribing element is axially adjustable in a selected one of intersecting V-grooves in the top surface of the tool body, and a flat face is perpendicularly movable relatively to the tool body by being on the vertical face of an L-shaped strap whose medially slotted lower reach underlies the tool body. In a second species the scribing tool is axially adjustable in a V-groove in the upper surface of a disc rotatably mounted on the top surface of the tool body. In both flat-faced species, a rod passing vertically through the tool body clamps the scribing element and the adjustable body part in their adjusted positions by means of a nut on its threaded lower end.