Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Shoshoni, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Shoshoni is closest in characteristics to Red Magic, but is particularly characterized by its orange flowers; color breaks to a very light orange; a less succulent growth; and very floriferous as is Red Magic with a similar dark foliage.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Cheyenne, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Cheyenne isn't close to any of the varieties presently on the market. Cheyenne is particularly characterized by dark green foliage with a tint of red (adding to the darkness of the foliage); very floriferous; a medium bright red flower with a distinctive light eye; different color breaks (as many as 6) on the flowers with the three most common ones being rose-red, flecked red on white and orange; and an upright growth habit with moderate stem size.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Pawnee, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Pawnee is closest in characteristics to patented plant Azetc (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,193; a dark yet bright red flower with a white eye) except for color. Its best description would be to call it an orange flowering Aztec with distinctive yellow-green leaf variegation. The outstanding characteristics of Pawnee are its many orange flowers, its distinct yellow-green variegation, its spreading growth habit, and its excellent breaking action, making a good basket plant.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for treating wells to provide surface controlled subsurface safety systems in the wells, whether previously completed wells or newly completed wells. A method and apparatus is provided for installing receptacles in the well flow conductors below the surface for receiving surface controlled subsurface safety valves therein for controlling undesired flow from the well in the event of emergency, disaster or accident damaging the well surface flow controlling system or threatening the integrity thereof. Also, a method and apparatus is provided for installing a hanger for well flow conductors in the well casing below the surface for supporting the flow conductor or conductors in the well casing below the surface and then installing the receptacles in the well flow conductors below the surface for receiving surface controlled subsurface safety valves therein.

Abstract: An arrangement for the handling of drill string elements, such as tubes or rods, in drill rigs, comprising means for transferring the drill string elements between a magazine and the drill string axis, a drill string centralizer at the front end of an elongated support for guiding the drill string, a spinning device on said transferring means for gripping and rotating a drill string element, said means being adapted to axially displace the drill string element during rotation thereof, and a sleeve brake mounted on the drilling machine for nonrotatably holding a coupling sleeve when the adapter of the drilling machine is disconnected from the drill string.

Abstract: Restraining device intends to protect the workman from falling while working at higher environments. The device consists of a fixed cable stretched along the area of interest. A gripping clamp which slides along the cable is attached permanently to the workman's belt. Clamp consists of a pivotal arm which, when a downward load is applied at the point of attachment of the belt, exerts a frictional force on the cable, sufficient to immediately terminate workman's fall.

Abstract: A stunt kite comprising a first horizontal spar member, a second vertical spline member, third and fourth diagonal spar members, the members being formed into a fixed frame, a covering disposed on the frame and having a lateral dimension which is greater than its dimension corresponding to its longitudinal axis and being symmetrical in shape about the longitudinal axis, .[.a bow string forming the first member into a bowed shape such that the covering is bowed into a generally convex configuration,.].

Abstract: A circuit arrangement which is the combination of a switched supply circuit and a line deflection circuit, the supply transformer being replaced by a coil.

Abstract: A wall structure for use in forming part of an enclosure that is subject to high pressure differential between its external and internal environments comprises tubing that has been flattened over two diametrically opposed areas and helically wound so as to be contiguous along the flattened areas. The interior of the tubing is filled with a substantially incompressible flexible medium. Means are provided for pressurizing the flexible medium, at least during periods of operation when the enclosure is subjected to a substantial pressure difference between its external and internal environments, so as to balance some of the loads acting on the wall structure due to the pressure differential. The wall structure is particularly suitable for use in forming parts of a deep diving suit or other deep diving and submersible enclosures.

Abstract: A fingerless glove suitable for use in sport games particularly those in which rackets are used, e.g. tennis, squash, racket ball and so forth. The fingerless glove is characterized by comprising three gore tabs spaced from each other and projecting from the upper edge of the palm portion of the glove, the gore tabs being sewn to the back portion of the glove so as to define and form finger-insertion bores.

Abstract: An adjustable waist band for jeans and the like is disclosed in which conventional brass-like snaps are utilized to accomplish the adjusting feature. The employment of brass-like snaps which are viewable makes it appear that the snaps are part of a normal, non-functional, ornamental design so that the adjustability of the waist band is achieved without detracting from the appearance of the jeans. Further, by employing brass-like snaps, the appearance of the jeans is even further enhanced.

Abstract: Artificial vascular and patch grafts comprising a flexible elastic fabric substrate of predetermined shape fabricated from small diameter fiber having a tensile modulus of at least about 2.times.10.sup.6 psi, and a thin, smooth, adherent, isotropic carbon coating on the substrate fiber having particular properties including a tensile fracture strain of at least about 5%.

Abstract: An improved valve prosthesis for mitral and tricuspid heart valves, the valve prosthesis being configurated as an open ring and covered with a double velour fabric having a laterally projecting fabric appendage for simultaneously facilitating suturing the prosthesis in place and improving tissue infiltration.

Abstract: A cover for the swimming pool of a multipurpose gymnasium formed of one or more sections of metal, having an undulating bend with the cavities between the bends filled with a plastic foam material to increase its strength and to act as a sound and vibration damping material. The cover is suspended from the ceiling of the gymnasium by cables and lowered into place to cover the open area of the pool. Ultraviolet lamps are also mounted on the bottom of the cover and these lamps extend partway into the pool water when the cover is in place on the pool.

Abstract: A drain trap pipe with an access port and filtration member including a pipe having a straight portion terminating in a curved portion overlying the straight portion. A tubular extension is connected to and communicating with the pipe substantially at the juncture of said straight portion and said curved portion. The extension portion has formed on the inner surface thereof opposed channel formations into which the edges of a filtration member are inserted. The filtration member extends the length of the extension and the diameter of the pipe with a transparent cap on the outer end of the extension.

Abstract: A vacuum-type water removal system for buildings, factories, ships and the like is provided wherein waste water collection devices, such as sanitary facilities (e.g., toilets) and other waste producing/or collecting devices, are connected through a cut-off valve to a vacuum conduit for removal of the waste water. The invention concerns the provision of a supplemental arrangement including an overflow opening for the collection devices which is connected to a gravity feed line that feeds a collection chamber connected through a check valve to the vacuum line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a textile treatment process wherein a substrate is supported on one or more arms above a treatment liquor and is passed repeatedly through such liquor, characterised in that at least a part of that part of the substrate supported on the arm or arms and out of contact with the treatment liquor at any given time is heated employing heated air or steam, and that the liquor to goods ratio is in the range of from 5:1 to 15:1, and an apparatus suitable for performing such process.

Abstract: A method for continuously dyeing a thick textile material such as a blanket or carpet material or the like. The thick textile material is arranged to be continuously pulled upward and guided over a slanting plate from a lower position to a higher position. A nozzle tube is arranged to spray a dye solution at the thick textile material in an atomized state while the textile material is on the move being guided upward along the slanting plate. The spraying quantity of the dye solution discharged out of the nozzle tube is set to have all of the sprayed quantity of the dye solution absorbed by the thick textile material without having any superfluous portion of the solution flowing down and yet to ensure sufficient impregnation of the textile material with the dye solution. The textile material impregnated with the dye solution is further continuously fowarded and passed through a hygro-thermic treatment chamber and a water washing device.

Abstract: A self-propelled apparatus for cleaning beets comprises a longitudinally extending frame carrying a hopper for receiving beets to be cleaned which is mounted on a raised platform on the frame and is provided with a conveyor for delivering beets to a screen for scraping away the dirt from the beets, said screen extending longitudinally relative to the frame, and a conveyor for discharging the dirt scraped away from the beets which extends longitudinally beneath the screen and the hopper, the arrangement being such that, in use, the cleaned beets and the dirt are discharged at opposite ends of the frame.

Abstract: A vehicle washing apparatus, particularly effective for scrubbing the upper portions of a vehicle as it moves along a predetermined path through a wash bay or the like, including an overhead carriage extending transversely of the vehicle path and a plurality of curtain or sheets of flexible, felt-like material extending in facing relation below the upper portions of the vehicle. The lower portions of the sheet include a plurality of vertical slits forming a plurality of narrow ribbons or strips. The carriage is reciprocated or oscillated through an arcuate path about a horizontal axis extending transversely of the vehicle. This oscillatory movement of the carriage imparts both a fore and aft and up and down movement on the strips with respect to the vehicle, providing a circulatory-like scrubbing action on the upper portions of the vehicle.

Abstract: A device for cleaning automotive dipsticks having a base for attachment of the device under a vehicle hood adhesively or magnetically provided with a block of porous absorbent material having a diagonally cut upwardly tapered surface. Means are optionally provided for compression of the block when the dipstick is inserted therein.

Abstract: Suction and germicidal spray producing apparatus effects rapid removal of soils and bacteria from hard surface floors in both dry and wet states, the removed dry and wet soils and bacteria being isolated and confined; the apparatus includes a head assembly carrying longitudinally spaced, resiliently flexible strips extending in parallel relation to engage the floor surface, the head assembly including support means to engage the floor surface; means is provided for applying suction to the space between the strips; and means is provided for applying cleaning liquid to the floor surface to wet that surface visibly and openly outside the space between the strips, so that the user moving the head assembly back and forth can controllably move the head and strips over the surface to assure suction removal of liquid, soils and bacteria on the floor surface, to be conducted away from the head assembly.

Abstract: A machine for holding the legs of animal carcasses to support a carcass during an up-pull skinning operation is provided with a jaw means for gripping a pair of legs of the carcass individually and holding the gripped legs in a side-by-side relation, means for moving the jaw means between open and closed positions and means for moving the jaw means to a desired elevated position.

Abstract: An improved sizing control technique utilizes a pressure ring bearing slidably on the outer periphery of a food casing being stuffed, the casing being provided with a convoluting element working conjunctively with a sizing disc inside the casing to provide a wider than previously attainable range of holdback force on the casing, including a maximum holdback force whereat the casing is turned back on its normal direction of progression.

Abstract: A decorative ring-like structure includes a generally longitudinally split cylindrical sleeve having a fabric tube snuggly received thereover. The fabric tube has a length substantially greater than the circumference of the sleeve to provide a decorative pleated arrangement.

Abstract: A focusing shadow mask incorporating an electrostatic lens at each mask aperture is produced by creating an electrode comprising a set of parallel conductors on one surface of an insulator sheet and a second electrode on the other surface. The second electrode has apertures defined either by a second set of parallel conductors that are perpendicular to the first set or by a conductive grid that includes conductors parallel to the first set and other conductors perpendicular to the first set. Additional metal can be built up on either electrode to strengthen the combined structure. After formation of both electrodes, the areas of the insulating material are selectively etched away to form apertures for beams to pass through.

Abstract: An apparatus for assembling a shadow mask and panel of a picture tube of a television receiver, said mask and panel being provided with fixing members engaging each other in a fixed relative position of the mask and panel. The apparatus is provided with separate supports for the mask and panel, one of said supports being made as a floating plate movable relative to the other fixed support parallel to its plane and also perpendicularly to said plane and, in addition, rotatable around an axis perpendicular to said plane. The floating plate is connected to mechanical means for moving the plate relative to the fixed support. In this way, the mask and panel may be positioned only roughly in register on the apparatus, whereby mechanical moving of the floating plate brings the mask and panel in such a relative position that their fixing members automatically engage each other.

Abstract: A method of making rotor blades of radial-axial hydraulic machines, wherein a plain blade blank is obtained by welding together at least two sheet pieces that compose the blank in the direction of principal variation of the cross-sectional thickness thereof. The thickness of each of said sheet pieces is selected to be not less than a maximum cross-sectional thickness of the blank at its portion defined by said sheet piece. Then the blank is machined until the required blade outline is obtained, after which the blade blank bent to obtain the desired blade shape.

Abstract: In both the socket linkage and the ball bearing assembly the formed metal engages the curvature of the ball more than 90.degree. which retains the parts in assembled relationship. The forming is accomplished by cupping metal into a die with clearance between the die and the punch less than the metal thickness to cold extrude the metal past the minimum clearance. In the case of the socket linkage the ball is used as the punch and the forming operation completes the assembly of the ball to the socket. Each race of the bal bearing assembly must be stripped from the curved forming part (die or punch) before final assembly with the balls. If the stripping operation deforms the metal past its elastic limit, the desired shape can be restored by use of a straight walled forming part before or after the races have been assembled with the balls between the races.

Abstract: A process of making a locking collar for retaining bearings on a shaft by first compacting and sintering powdered metal to form a collar having an eccentric counterbore with a relative precise chamfered surface on the collar end around the counterbore. The collar end is then swaged forming a back taper on the counterbore inner peripheral surface while providing a predetermined counterbore inner diameter.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading solder preforms on to the pins of a multiple pin connector. A positioning plate has open sockets in the pattern of the pins of the connector to be loaded, the sockets being sized to receive a single solder preform in each one. A slidable retainer fits into a channel below the positioning plate to partially close the sockets and retain preforms therein. Loose preforms are contained in a dam attached to the top of the positioning plate and are shaken into the sockets on a vibrator table. The dam and excess preforms are removed and the positioning plate is covered by a cover plate to hold the preforms in place. The connector pins are then inserted through slots in the retainer, through the preforms and through holes in the cover plate. The retainer is removed, allowing the preforms to drop on the pins and the loaded connector is removed from the apparatus.

Abstract: A terminal crimping machine which, after crimping a terminal onto a wire lead, inserts the terminated wire lead into a terminal receiving recess of connector housing. The machine generally includes a press and die assembly mounted on the press. The die assembly includes a crimp station whereat terminal is crimped onto a wire lead, and insertion station whereat a terminated wire lead is presented, and a housing indexing assembly for supporting a plurality of connector housings and indexing a terminal receiving recess thereof at the insertion station. An insertion assembly is provided for inserting the terminated wire lead into a terminal receiving recess at the insertion station. The improvement in the insertion assembly includes a push member for engaging a terminal crimped on the end of a wire lead and inserting the terminal into the terminal receiving recess and providing guide means mounted on the punch holder above the insertion station for guiding a terminal into a terminal receiving recess.

Abstract: A method of forming capacitor anodes is described wherein leads of film forming metal, preferably headed are subjected to plasma spray deposition of film forming metal, preferably at a flame temperature of about 10,000.degree. to 20,000.degree. C. to form capacitor anodes.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a resistor element for fixed or variable resistors. The element comprises an insulating substrate injection molded from ceramic-glass frit material and organic binder and lubricating material and layers of resistive material and conducting termination material deposited on the unfired substrate. The organic materials in the substrate and its termination and resistive layers are substantially "burned out" prior to simultaneously co-firing the substrate and the deposited resistive and termination layers.The fixed resistor element may be molded as a half-shell arranged to receive leads extending from opposite ends thereof and attached by soldering to the termination areas. A substantially identical cover member molded and fired from the same material as the substrate is adhesively attached to the substrate to complete the resistor.

Abstract: A novel multicell electrochemical device having a plurality of bipolar carbon-plastic electrode structures and a novel method of making the device are described. A plurality of bipolar carbon-plastic electrode structures are formed by first molding thin conductive carbon-plastic sheets from heated mixtures of specified carbon and plastic, and then establishing frames of dielectric plastic material around the sheets and sealing the frames to the sheets so as to render the resulting structures liquid impermeable. A plurality of electrochemical cell elements in addition to the electrode structures, e.g. separators, spacers and the like, are also formed with dielectric plastic frames. The frames of both the electrode structures and the additional elements have projections on at least one surface. The electrode structures and the additional elements are stacked to form a group of items in an electrochemically functional arrangement.

Abstract: A method of preparing an electrochemical cell including a metal sulfide as the positive electrode reactant and lithium alloy as the negative electrochemical reactant with an alkali metal, molten salt electrolyte is disclosed which permits the assembly to be accomplished in air. The electrode reactants are introduced in the most part as a sulfide of lithium and the positive electrode metal in a single-phase compound. For instance, Li.sub.2 FeS.sub.2 is a single-phase compound that is produced by the reaction of Li.sub.2 S and FeS. This compound is an intermediate in the positive electrode cycle from FeS.sub.2 to Fe and Li.sub.2 S. Its use minimizes volumetric changes from the assembled to the charged and discharged conditions of the electrode and minimizes electrode material interaction with air and moisture during assembly.

Abstract: A lithium-bromine cell comprising a casing which can be of electrically conducting material and containing a lithium anode element from which a sealed conductor extends through the casing. A filling element which can be of electrically conducting material and which has a passage therethrough is fixed to the sealed casing with one end of the passage in communication with the interior of the casing and the other end externally exposed. Bromine is introduced through the passage to the interior of the casing into operative relationship with the lithium anode whereupon the passage is closed to complete the cell. The electrically conducting casing serves as a cathode current collector in operative contact with the bromine cathode, and after closing of the passage the electrically conducting filling element serves as an electrical terminal for the cell. An electrical potential difference exists between the terminal and the anode conductor during operation of the cell.

Abstract: A circuit board having a die stamped conductive pattern is produced having terminals which are integral with the conductive pattern on the board. A first embodiment is produced by folding the conductive material over a designated terminal edge of the board to obtain commonly connected terminals on opposite sides of the board. The second embodiment is produced by extending the conductive material past the terminal edge of the board and folding the material 180.degree. to obtain an integral blade terminal extending from the board.

Abstract: An automatic piercing or clinch nut assembling arrangement which includes a punch member slidably supported in a punch holder connected to a press ram for pressing a piercing or clinch nut into a metal panel with a swaging die arranged opposite the punch member and cooperating therewith for swaging metal from the metal panel inwardly of the piercing nut to anchor the same in the metal panel. A nut holding arrangement is interposed between the punch member and the swaging die for holding a piercing nut in a punching path of the punch member. A monitoring arrangement is provided for electrically ascertaining the presence or absence of a piercing or clinch nut in the punch feed path.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding and bending lug strips which are to be attached to seed plates in electrolytic refining plants includes a tool structure capable of bending an initially flat lug strip around a supporting rod in preparation for fixing free ends of the bent lug strip to an edge region of a seed plate. This tool structure is carried by an operating structure which operates the tool structure so as to move it between an initial starting position where the lug strip is in a flat condition and an end position where the lug strip is bent into a substantially U-shaped configuration, the tool structure bending the lug strip during movement between the starting and end positions thereof. In addition a suitable structure is provided for moving the tool structure between a working station where the above operations take place and a receiving station where a flat lug strip is received from a suitable supply.