Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant, known by the cultivar name SENECA, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. SENECA is closest in characteristics to U.S.D.A. ARABESQUE but is particularly characterized by its spreading, yet stiff growth; more open growth habit; its dark variegated foliage; its smaller, yet darker candy-striping on white flowers; and its greater flower numbers.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of orchid plant of the Brassolaeliocattleya group distinguished by an overall green coloration of a large flower which has exceptional texture and substance, a robust plant growth habit, an abundant flower production, and citron scented flower smell.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the yellow color of buds and flowers and further identified by the unique "moss" on the buds, said moss being soft to the touch and fragrant (lemon).

Abstract: A compact dial indicator arrangement is provided for a UHF tuner of the type having a continuously variable main tuning shaft and a station selector shaft provided with detent means for establishing a separate detent position for each of the 70 television stations in the UHF band. An elongated strip of material bearing numbers corresponding to each one of the 70 UHF television stations is moved past a viewing position at which the selected channel numbers may be viewed by means interconnected with the detented selector shaft so that the number on the elongated strip corresponding to each stop position of the continuously variable main tuning shaft is automatically viewable at the viewing position in response to rotation of the selector shaft to each detented position thereof.

Abstract: A high pressure safety valve which automatically closes when high pressure conditions exist. The high pressure valve includes a diaphragm valve and a snap acting assembly connected to the diaphragm valve which acts to snap it closed when a high pressure condition is detected. The safety valve of the present invention may also include a relief valve which opens when the diaphragm valve closes to relieve pressure at the outlet of the safety valve. In addition, the safety valve of the present invention can be manually reset only after the high pressure condition has been corrected.

Abstract: A process for color photographic processing, which comprises subjecting an exposed silver halide color light-sensitive material to a color development using a color developer containing(1) an aromatic primary amine developing agent and(2) at least one organic compound having at least one phosphono group and at least one carboxy group in the molecule.

Abstract: .Iadd.A nuclear reactor with control rods in channels between fuel assemblies wherein the fuel assemblies incorporate guide rods which protrude outwardly into the control rod channels to prevent the control rods from engaging the fuel elements. The guide rods also extend back into the fuel assembly such that they are relatively rigid members. The guide rods are tied to the fuel assembly end or support plates and serve as structural members which are supported independently of the fuel element. Fuel element spacing and support means may be attached to the guide rods..Iaddend.

Abstract: Removal of chromate ions from water containing a large amount of total dissolved solids by contacting the water with an acidified weakly basic anion exchange resin, preferably in .[.microporous.]. .Iadd.macroporous .Iaddend.form, to selectively remove chromates from the water.

Abstract: Novel iminoimidazolidinedione polymers containing imide groups (hereinafter PIPA-IM) are prepared from mixtures of dianhydrides, hydrogen cyanide and diisocyanates in an appropriate solvent and with an appropriate catalyst. The cyanide ion is an effective catalyst for all of the reactions involved. Hydrolysis of these polymers produces novel parabanic acid polymers containing imide groups (hereinafter PPA-IM).

Abstract: An electrical apparatus producing pulsating high torque rotational vibration movement combined with a slow superimposed unidirectional rotary motion is disclosed. The apparatus includes an alternating current motor combined in a mechanically resonatable system with electrical apparatus producing a non-alterating component of magnetic flux in the motor structure. The torque generating ability of the motor is increased approximately five-fold even though the motor is operated from the same supply voltage. The disclosed apparatus is illustrated connected to a waste disposer device.

Abstract: A method and system for obtaining and displaying distance information to multiple DME ground stations using a single airborne transmitter-receiver and for displaying groundspeed to one of the stations. A DME is time multiplexed between two channels and display-memory means, the distance value being held in the display corresponding to each channel until that channel and the display corresponding thereto is updated or until a predetermined period of time has elapsed. Further, a DME which provides a distance data output in both search and track modes is multiplexed between primary and secondary channels and display-memory means, and is permitted to go into track on the primary channel but only into search on the secondary channel. When the system is on the secondary channel appropriate information is stored and the DME is returned to primary channel operation in the track mode.

Abstract: water-impregnated textiles, especially of cellulose or wool, or mixtures of cellulose and wool with synthetic fibers and synthetic textiles, such as nylon and acrylics, particularly as assembled garments, are wet-transfer printed with a transferable printing design comprising a dyestuff which is reactive with the textile by heating the impregnated textile in contact with the design while maintained in a water-impervious enclosure comprising a polyester film or sheet, such as poly(ethylene terephthalate). The design is preferably applied to the polyester film or sheet which may be pretreated to facilitate coating with the transferable design. The pretreatment may comprise a wettable resin coating such as a cross-linked copolymer of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or their glycidyl or lower alkyl esters.

Abstract: a seat belt retractor comprising a generally U-shaped frame comprising a central base portion and two upstanding flange portions attached to the sides of the base portion, each of the flange portions including an upper surface connecting two side surfaces, the upper surface being substantially flat; a shaft journalled for rotation in the flange portions; at least one ratchet wheel mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith and having a plurality of ratchet teeth along its outer circumference, the ratchet wheel being located adjacent to one of the flange portions and being positioned such that its outer circumference is above the height of the upper surface of the one flange portion, and cover means forming a protective cover at least around the upstanding flanges of the frame, the cover having inner and outer surfaces, the inner surfaces being provided with spacing means in contact with a portion of at least the upper surface of the one flange portion for spacing the inner surface of the cover from the outer

Abstract: tin salts formed by the reaction of di lower alkyl or aryl tin oxides and dimercapto ethyl formal and similar dimercapto compounds of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R is --(CH.sub.2).sub.m (OCH.sub.2).sub.s --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.m --(OCH.sub.2).sub.p --O--.sub.n (CH.sub.2).sub.m -- wherein p is 0 or 1, m is 2 to about 6 and n is 0 to about 6 and R' is lower alkyl of up to about 10 carbon atoms, or carbocyclic aryl containing one or two aromatic rings when combined with conventional tin based stabilizers show a synergistic light and heat stabilizing effect in poly(vinyl chloride) polymers.

Abstract: polyolefins are stabilized against the degradative effects of ultraviolet light using mixtures of alkylene polysulfide polymers and conventional stabilizers such as hydroxy benzophenones, thiodipropionates and phenolic antioxidants.

Abstract: a dual-mode encoding and decoding procedure enables image data to be compressed optionally in one-dimensional (1D) mode or two-dimensional (2D) mode. In 1D mode, color transitions in the image are encoded as run length features only. In 2D mode, the transitions are encoded as vertical correlation features wherever possible, and where this is not possible, the transitions are encoded as run length features. The compression achieved by run length encoding in 2D mode may be enhanced in those instances where the "history line" which precedes the current scan line contains a transition located between points that are vertically aligned with the beginning and end points of the run currently being encoded. Run length counting is suspended for those pels in the current run that could have been referenced to the history transition if the run had ended with any of these pels, thereby enabling the run to be encoded as though it contained fewer pels than its actual length.

Abstract: apparatus for pivotally connecting two relatively movable members has a pin having one end connectable with a retainer plate. Flat surfaces and shoulders formed on the one pin end respectively engage the plate and an aperture therein and with an end connected bolt and washer universally maintains the pin.

Abstract: A prosthesis for the primary replacement of intertrochanteric fracture fragments to prevent the multitude of complications resulting from open reduction and nailing of intertrochanteric fractures. The prosthesis replaces the femoral head, neck and comminuted trochanteric portion including the lesser trochanter. The shaft of the femur is cut to form a square notch for prosthetic insertion and seating with the base of this notch approximately at the level of the inferior border of the lesser trochanter. When a proper fit has been accomplished the prosthesis is cemented into the femoral shaft and is then reduced into the acetabulum. When the greater trochanteric fragment is fractured transversely, it can be repositioned and held with wire secured through the holes in the prosthesis. The treatment is particularly useful with elderly patients since weight bearing can take place almost immediately followed by early ambulation.

Abstract: In a water-flushed toilet having a cistern, a fraction of the water inflowing to the cistern is bypassed to a basin, from which it is drained away through a vent. The basin is provided in the lid of a low-level cistern, or in a shelf in the case of a high-level cistern. The bypass consists of a pipe in the inlet to the cistern, feeding through a gooseneck pipe into the basin.

Abstract: A toilet facility that is completely independent of water supply and sewer lines includes a house having a waste-receiving tank within it and another tank located outside the house. The two tanks are connected by a transfer pipe provided with a pump for pumping the waste from the inside tank to the outside tank. The outside tank is provided with a discharge pipe leading from it, and this pipe likewise has a pump for removing waste from the outside tank. The discharge pipe for the outside tank easily connects with a collection receptacle that can be detached and disposed of. Each tank contains an aeration pipe to which an air compressor is connected, thus enabling pressurized air to bubble through the waste in the two tanks and to activate aerobic bacteria in the waste. Each tank also contains a heating element which normally maintains the waste in the tank at about 97.degree. F.

Abstract: A swimming pool cover has a central arm and support arms pivotally attached to the central arm for movement generally in one plane. A sheet of flexible, waterproof material is attached to each of the arms and extends between the arms. The central arm is pivoted to move in a vertical plane, and is raised and lowered by means of a manually operated rack and pinion gear located in a post. The post is supported by a swivel mount set in the pool surrounds so that the central arm may be rotated from a position over the pool to one over the pool surrounds. A manually operated endless chain within the central arm carries a plate pivotally attached to retracting arms which are in turn pivotally attached to the outermost support arms. Movement of the endless chain and hence the plate serves to open and close the arms and hence the cover.

Abstract: A box spring assembly having a rectangular horizontal frame, a wire grid displaced vertically above the frame and yieldably supported thereon, transverse cross rails secured to the frame and foam bodies on the cross rails and supporting the wire grid for providing yieldable resistance to downwardly directed loads placed on the grid. Each cross rail has a pair of horizontal end portions, a vertically displaced horizontal support portion and connecting portions extending between the end and horizontal support portions. The cross rails have generally inverted U-shaped cross sections and at least the horizontal support portions of the rails are embedded in the undersides of the foam bodies. The wire grid includes a network of criss-cross wires with torsion bar spring end and edge portions supporting the grid on the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mattress comprising a plurality of smal pillow-like elements each of which consists of an envelope formed by a flexible membrane largely filled with a suitable fluid or grain-like material, and means for securing said elements side-by-side transversely of a bed.The mattress when appropriately assembled is capable in use of greatly reducing the incidence of decubitus ulcers (bed sores) in patients and others who must spend a long period in bed.The preferred embodiment disclosed consists of a sheet capable of being attached over a conventional mattress, and pillow-like elements measuring (unfilled) 30 cm by 90 cm, and filled to about 70% total capacity with spherical partly-expanded polystyrene beads of about 1.5 mm diameter. About twelve of these elements are secured to the sheet by touch-and-close material for use in a standard length bed.

Abstract: Methods of and apparatus for cold dyeing pile fabrics, particularly carpets, wherein dye liquor is first applied to the pile side of the fabric in an amount between 150% and 300% of the material weight, the dye impregnated fabric then being coiled, under tension, into a roll and the roll allowed to stand, all at room temperature. The magnitude of the tensile force applied to the fabric is greater than about 90% of that required to cause dye liquor to emerge from the roll, but is not more than that which enables 5%, at the most, of the liquor to emerge from the roll.

Abstract: A portable golf ball washer including a cylindrical housing defining a washing chamber, the housing having an opening in a peripheral wall thereof permitting a conventional golf ball to be inserted into the washing chamber, ball scrubbing means disposed in the washing chamber, manually actuatable means rotatable in one direction about the longitudinal axis of said cylindrical housing for impelling a golf ball in a substantially circular path over the scrubbing means and simultaneously rotating the ball about various axes, the manually actuatable means being rotatable in the opposite direction about said axis for ejecting the ball through said opening, and means for releasably securing the housing to a support such as a golf cart or a golf bag.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush consisting of an elongated body member having a cylindrical brush mounted coaxially therewith at one end thereof, and driven rotatably by a reversible electric motor carried in the handle, and having an automatic reversing switch responsive to the position in which the handle is held to cause rotation of the brush such that its bristles move in a direction from the gum line toward the crowns of the teeth.

Abstract: Cleaning apparatus usable to clean those portions of a tunnel wall or the like which are located behind railing means typically placed along a walkway beside the wall, such as in a freeway tunnel. A guidance carriage engages the railing and is movable therealong. A support carriage, which can be moved along the walkway, carries a plurality of motor driven circular brushes for cleaning these wall portions. Between the guidance carriage and the support carriage are located linear fluid motors urging the carriages in laterally opposite directions, the support carriage in turn urging the brushes into contact with the wall, and the guidance carriage being urged by said motors against the railing which provides horizontal support for the guidance carriage. The railing also provides vertical support for the guidance carriage while the walkway provides vertical support for the support carriage.

Abstract: A hydraulically controlled telescopic boom is mounted on a wheeled powered vehicle. A hydraulic system controls the length of the boom and its direction to the right and left of the vehicle. An electric motor is mounted on the boom at the free end thereof. A cleaning brush is coupled to and driven by the motor for rotatably brushing the surface of a wall. A chemical cleanser and water system are coupled to the brush to supply chemical cleanser and water to wash and rinse a wall via the brush.

Abstract: A novel hinge of flexible material is provided which comprises a pair of end sections and an intermediate connecting section. The end sections are securable through various means including hook and loop filament material to one face of a structural element and to an oppositely-facing surface of a second structural element to permit movement of the two elements through approximately 360.degree. relative to each other.

Abstract: The needles or teeth are rigidly fixed on longitudinal bars mounted on the cylinder body in such a manner as to be capable of pivotal displacement on the cylinder body about axes parallel to the axis of the cylinder. Locking means carried by the cylinder body cooperate with corresponding angular positioning means carried by each needle bar in order to lock all the bars in any predetermined common angular position, thereby setting the needles or teeth at the required angle of inclination.

Abstract: Non woven webs are produced from filaments by laying down the said filaments in the form of cone sections on a moving surface with simultaneous spreading out to a filament veil with the use of rotating deflectors coming into contact with the filaments on one side only. The deflecting area of the deflectors has a plane shape. The filaments used are drawn, partially drawn or undrawn. A non woven web with particularly good properties is obtained when the axis of the bundle of filaments and the deflecting surface of the deflector form an angle of from 10.degree. to 80.degree.. To produce the web a simple and reliable device is used.

Abstract: An improved outlet apparatus for a bounce crimper is disclosed which includes a restrictor assembly provided with a bore and an internally mounted flat leaf spring. Extending beneath the leaf spring, a longitudinal slot may be provided through which a texturized multi-filament yarn of synthetic resinous material may be drawn in a reverse direction back into the restrictor assembly without entanglement and deformation of the flat leaf spring when the feed yarn is tangled.

Abstract: The wires or strips (corona-discharge electrode elements) of a corona-discharge electrode are tensioned in the support frame thereof by anchoring one end of each element to a bar of the frame, drawing the other element with a predetermined tension by fluid pressure toward an opposite bar of the frame, and anchoring the latter end to this bar. The tool for tensioning the element comprises a caliper or C-shaped member, one arm of which is provided with a fluid cylinder whose piston bears against the latter bar, and means on at least one arm of the caliber engaging the electrode wire or strip. Preferably the arm opposite that on which the cylinder is provided has means for engaging or guiding the electrode element.

Abstract: A deflection yoke assembly positioning device which grasps the opening portion of flared portion of a deflection yoke assembly mounted on the funnel yoke portion of a color cathode-ray tube of a color television receiver in the steps of correction of inclination of the display screen, purity adjustment and convergence alignment. The device positions the deflection yoke assembly in the most desired position on the funnel yoke portion of the cathode-ray tube by causing rotating movement of the deflection yoke assembly around its axis, sliding movement of the deflection yoke assembly in the axial direction of the neck portion of the cathode-ray tube, and vertical and horizontal oscillating movement of the opening portion of the deflection yoke assembly relative to the axis of the neck portion of the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: The mounting locations for separable components on a printed circuit board are indicated by a projected luminous spot which is moved sequentially and repeatedly between the several mounting spots for each component. The direction of movement of the luminous dot is changed in each mounting spot. The spot travels over the board in response to an element of the optical system in the projector being moved in a plane parallel to the board surface under control of a programmed unit.

Abstract: A tightening and control system is disclosed for automatically tightening a fastener to a predetermined tightened condition in a workpiece, where the fastener is of the type which exhibits more than one installation region on a graph of two tightening characteristics during a complete tightening cycle. Typical of such fasteners are thread tapping fasteners, such as thread-cutting or thread forming types, which first generate a mating thread in a workpiece material and thereafter are tightened in the workpiece to a predetermined load condition. Such fasteners typically exhibit a curve of two related input tightening characteristics, such as torque and rotation, having a thread forming region characterized by a generally linear portion followed by a marked drop off in the slope, an intermediate region having several possible characteristic shapes, and a tightening region having a somewhat similar shape to the thread forming region.

Abstract: A tightening and control system is disclosed for automatically tightening a blind fastener assembly to a desired tightened condition in a workpiece, where the assembly is of the type which exhibits more than one installation region on a graph of two tightening characteristics during a complete tightening cycle. Typical of such assemblies are the types which first form an outwardly flared bulb adjacent the blindside surface of a workpiece and thereafter are tightened against the blindside surface to a predetermined clamp load condition. Such fasteners typically exhibit a curve of two related input tightening characteristics, such as torque and rotation, torque and time, or force and stroke. Each curve has a bulb forming region characterized by a generally linear portion followed by a marked drop off in the slope, an intermediate region, and a tightening region having a somewhat similar shape to the bulb forming region.

Abstract: Metal melted and poured into molds, mounted on a conveyor, at a first station. Metal cools to rolling temperature during conveyance to second station where hydraulic ram ejects ingots from molds. Ingots are immediately fed to rolling mill. Molds have interior refractory linings. Embedded in linings are electrical resistance heating elements that heat exterior side surfaces of ingots, between first and second stations, to prevent those surfaces from reducing below rolling temperatures while interior temperatures of ingots reduce to levels suitable for rolling.

Abstract: A transfer machine composing of a rotary indexing table with a positioning device for transferring plural jig plates holding workpieces to be machined thereon and which are intermittently indexed and working units being arranged near the circumference of the indexing table. Every working unit having a cutting infeed device to make its cutter head step forward or backward in a working direction and multi-axes sliding devices for changing & adjusting the relative position between the cutter head and the jig plate, and these sliding devices being controlled by feed-volume setting devices corresponded with setting volumes selected therein and with the result that the said relative position being decided and set.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay comprises a coil bobbin of plastic material defining a protective tube, a contact chamber and a magnet chamber which together form a space that extends the entire length of the bobbin and is initially open at both ends. A permanent magnet is disposed in the magnet chamber, serving to seal one end of the space. This magnet has a surface exposed to the contact chamber and is made of a material activatable as a getter. A contact actuator is mounted to extend along the protective tube with a free end extending into the contact chamber. A pair of pole shoes each have a first end in proximity to the permanent magnet and a second end extending into the contact chamber. These second ends form fixed contacts for cooperating with the free end of the contact actuator. After assembly of these parts the space is subjected to a vacuum and an elevated temperature to drive off moisture and activate the getter.