Abstract: An incurved capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the non-commercial cultivar Arcade, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,659, granted Nov. 26, 1974, Starcade being distinguished from the parent cultivar by its taller height, larger flower size and slower flowering response.

Abstract: A new miniature rose of salmon coloring underlaid with light yellow but displays different color on aging depending on whether grown indoors or outdoors.

Abstract: A chrysanthemum plant with flat decorative capitulum which is a sport of the cultivar Firebrand (unpatented), being distiguished from the parent cultivar by its dark yellow ray floret color.

Abstract: A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Cambria and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; spider capitulum type; ivory white ray floret color, devoid of pink discoloration; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 175 to 225 mm. at maturity; uniform eight weak photoperiodic flowering response to short days; and tall plant height.

Abstract: A standard capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the non-commercial cultivar Arcade, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,659, granted Nov. 26, 1974; Brocade being distinguished from the parent cultivar by its medium to dark yellow ray floret color, taller plant height, larger flower size, and longer flowering response period.

Abstract: A control system for the hydraulically powered .Iadd.conveyor, such as an .Iaddend.auger.Iadd., .Iaddend.of a self-loading .[.auger.]. scraper that has an ejector operated by a hydraulic cylinder. One manual control valve starts and stops the auger in conjunction with loading. A second manual control valve powers the ejector cylinder and simultaneously operates a valve to start the auger independently of the first manual control valve.

Abstract: A control system for the hydraulically powered .Iadd.conveyor, such as an .Iaddend.auger, of a self-loading .[.auger.]. scraper that has a hydraulic cushion hitch which is locked out when the scraper is loading. A multi-position manually controlled pilot selector valve which is used to lock out the cushion hitch also initiates operation of the auger. The control system includes a pilot operated, normally open auger control valve through which flow of a signal line for a normally open unloading relief valve goes to drain. Moving the pilot selector valve from a first to a second position pressurizes the pilot line to close the auger control valve and thus isolate the signal line from drain, closing the unloading relief valve to isolate a pump for the auger motor from drain and cause it to power the motor.

Abstract: A lighter than air ship, with a bow plate on the bow, two cars suspended beneath the elongated bag, the cars having water ballast tanks, with scoops to take in water when the airship is landing on water and valves to let the water out when the airship is taking off, with a sea anchor and rode (rope) to the bow plate, a ground (bottom) anchor and rode (rope) to the bow plate, metal ribs attached to the bow plate and extending to a stern plate and connected to the bag both above and below the bag, with a vertical rudder for steering right and left, horizontal rudders for steering up and down and a ballonet inside the bag for keeping proper pressure, landing wheels for landing the airship on land, the cars being capable of landing the airship on water, the bag having an aerodynamic lifting shape so that the airship can take off and fly heavy and by dumping water can land safey and landing on water can take in water to be stable on the surface, can land on land with the wheels and be secured by the rodes.

Abstract: A clamp for holding together the portions of a mold used in molding solid objects from a reacting liquid such as polyurethane has a C-shaped frame which is pivotally mounted on a pedestal to swing through an arc. The C-shaped frame of the clamp consists of an integral structure having an upper jaw connected by a column to a lower jaw. The frame supports a bed, crown and platen. The bed and crown are each a plate-like member that is mounted to pivot relative to one of the jaws. The platen is mounted preferably on the bed or lower one of such members. The mold portions are mounted on the crown and platen with the parts being arranged to move so that the mold portion engage and disengage. The invention also includes a method of molding wherein the mold portions are engaged and disengaged by a process that involves pivoting at least one and preferably both of the portions relative to the C-shaped frame.

Abstract: Optical radiation generation and detection using metal-to-metal diode junctions. Coherent optical radiation is generated by using an antenna connected to a metal-to-metal diode junction with non-linear current-voltage characteristics and by coupling to the junction electromagnetic radiation energy to interact with the junction, causing emission from the antenna at optical frequency absent from the input. Optical diodes are shown in the forms of a mechanically contacted cat whisker system and as single and multiple microscopic solid portions in an integrated solid mass, defining both the antenna and the junction, preferably as a deposit of solid layers upon a substrate, preferably as overlapping printed circuit line structures. Arrays of such junctions provide enhanced effects; useful arrays include Franklin-Marconi geometries, fish-bone antennas and row and column arrays.

Abstract: A program control system is disclosed wherein the coordinates of a plurality of specified points of a prescribed path in the space to be traced by a manipulator assembly which are spaced apart from each other by a line segment of the same unit length are stored in a storage device in a teaching mode, and one set of coordinates of the adjacent specified points are simultaneously and sequentially read out from the storage device in a repeat mode so that the position command signals or coordinates of a plurality of interpolation points between the adjacent specified points are obtained by linear interpolation and are sequentially compared, at a predetermined time interval, with the actual or present positions of the manipulator assembly. The manipulator assembly is displaced at a velocity corresponding to the difference between the position command signal and the actual or present position signal so that the difference may become zero.

Abstract: Before mounting, coils heads comprising clearly defined faces and edges are formed on deflection coils by moulding. The sides of the flared portion of the coils are also clearly defined by the same operation. After mounting, the coil bears in the coil holder by way of the faces and edges formed.The sides of the flared portion abut against projections formed on the coil holder. The flared portion is completely clear from the coil holder.

Abstract: Motor protector apparatus for independently sensing the respective positive, negative, and zero sequence currents flowing in the supply lines to a three phase motor for interrupting power to the motor whenever such positive, negative, or zero sequence components reach levels indicative of abnormal operating conditions. The protector network includes bridge means for segregating the negative and positive sequence components, indicators for visually displaying the source of the abnormality, and means for restoring power to the motor after a defined time period.

Abstract: A garment is disclosed by which a person other than the wearer may firmly engage his hand with the garment. The garment is particularly useful for aiding handicapped persons in riding horses. During such use of the garment, an attendant's hand is engaged with the back side of the garment to support the rider. The snug hand engagement may be by way of a horizontal strap at the lower portion of the back side of the garment near the wearer's hip and lower back region, by way of a horizontal strap in the upper portion of the garment in the region of the wearer's shoulder blades, or by way of straps in both places. Also, vertical straps may be provided to effect handholds for gripping the garment. The garment has uses other than in handicapped horseback riding. For example, the garment is useful in providing a handhold for the rear person in tandem riding situations such as with motorcycles, bicycles, snowmobiles, sleds and the like.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an elastomer coated textile garment characterized by a textured or "wrinkle" finish. The disclosure is also of a method of manufacturing an elastomer coated textile garment with a "wrinkle" finish. In a preferred embodiment process, the method comprises forming a glove from a base fabric of a woven or knitted fabric having a fibrous, non-woven bat attached thereto and coating the glove with an elastomer in conventional manner.

Abstract: A protective helmet of the type which substantially completely surrounds the wearer's head to provide maximum protection from otherwise hazardous conditions encountered during sand blasting, steam or high pressure water jet cleaning, welding, and other operations requiring protection from dust, fumes, gases, and other dangerous environmental conditions is disclosed, wherein improved air distributing means is provided within the helmet to achieve improved air circulation at a reduced noise level which is not obnoxious or harmful to the wearer. In addition, the air supply hose is provided which enters the helmet from the downwardly facing open end thereof, so that the hose does not project from the sides or top of the helmet. The air supply hose is, further, conveniently anchored to a belt around the wearer's waist. An apron or skirt can be removably attached to the perimeter of the downwardly facing opening of the helmet to hang down from the helmet over the shoulders and upper torso of the wearer.

Abstract: This invention relates to improvements in a tri-cuspid tissue prosthetic heart valve having a valve body with sewing holes provided at each interval between the cusps of the valve, which improvements are realized by the formation of the tissue from three pieces joined together at seams disposed along the intervals between the cusps of the valve.

Abstract: A prosthesis for an artificial bicentric joint comprising a cup member encased in a metallic outer shell member, the cup member having an inner surface adapted for receiving the male prosthetic member of the articulating joint and an outer surface comprising a spherical zone terminating at its base in a right cylindrical zone, the altitude of the spherical zone being less than the spherical radius, and having an annular groove approximately at the junction of the spherical and cylindrical zones, the shell member having an outer surface adapted for implantation in a skeletal cavity and an inner surface, substantially congruent with the outer surface of the cup member, having detent means for engaging the annular groove of the cup member to permanently secure the cup member within the shell member.

Abstract: An artificial implant lens for the eye of a living being has a central lens body and front and rear annular discs surrounding the lens body. The annular discs overlap the iris and secure the lens to the iris.

Abstract: In a breast prosthesis comprising a one-piece flexible dished member which is free from air and has a shape simulating a female breast, said dished member comprises resiliently soft additive cross-linking two-component silicone rubber of an adhesive gelatinous consistency covered on each side by a plastics film, the plastics films being welded to each other along the rim of said dished member.

Abstract: A dual control for selectively releasing different amounts of water from a toilet flush tank, the device including a bifurcated activating handle and arm connected by a lever and chains to first and second stoppers that seat at different vertical positions on a hallow tower.

Abstract: A pouch zipper blanket for securely holding a baby therein. The pouch zipper blanket includes an outer blanket member which has the outward appearance of a conventional baby blanket but has provided on its inner face a zippered pouch portion which safely and securely holds a baby therein. After a baby is in position in the zippered pouch, the outer blanket member can then be wrapped around the baby in a conventional manner.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed which pertain to inflatable structures useful as air beds and the like. Shape and load control are facilitated by a plurality of bladders that are located within an inflatable chamber of the structure and are joined to opposed imperforate walls thereof. The bladders are provided with vents which lend to the interior of the chamber, and upon inflation of the structure and resultant separation of the opposed walls of the chamber, the bladders are caused to extend from a flattened state, become filled with the fluid used for inflating the structure, and assume a roughly cylindrical convoluted configuration. Being made of a flexible, substantially non-extensible material, such a vinyl plastics, there is a limit to which the bladders can extend, and further vertical separation or lateral shifting of the attached opposed walls is thereby restrained.

Abstract: A laundering machine for such laundering operations as washing and rinsing, having a tank with an inlet end and an outlet end, the goods being introduced into the apparatus and removed therefrom at the respective ends by suitable means such as conveyors. The apparatus includes two sets of grippers, alternately gripping the goods and positively moving them along in the tank. While each set grips and moves the goods along, the other set releases and gets a new grip, producing a continuous moving action. The grippers produce an agitating action on the goods, and they are adjustable as to the extent of movement toward and from each other in their gripping action, and in the extent of movement of the goods through the tank. Consequently, the grippers are adjustable as to speed of agitating action independently of the speed of movement of the goods through the tank.

Abstract: In electrographic apparatus having a cleaning station with a rotating cleaning brush which removes residual toner from a reusable imaging surface, a rotating comb has bristles in engagement with the brush. The bristles of the comb are arranged in two opposed helical segments for removing toner particles from the brush and for transporting such toner particles along a path to a collecting region to facilitate their effective removal by a vacuum system.

Abstract: The apparatus for filleting fish comprises guiding flaps arranged in succession and a system of knives. Said guiding flaps are adapted for feeding and orienting the fish which travels in the process of treatment. Said system of knives consists of circular knives and two filleting knives. Said circular knives adapted for cutting out a strip of flesh on the bottom of the fish belly are disposed behind the guiding flaps. Said two filleting knives are mounted one opposite the other. Disposed between the cutting edges of said filleting knives and the circular knives is a flattener. Said filleting knives have a ring form and are mounted on carrying rollers. Said cutting edges of the filleting knives are set in the direction facing the movement of the fish and coaxially with the side surfaces of said flattener. Said side surfaces of the flattener have a cylindrical form in the zone of said cutting edges.

Abstract: A hanger designed for supporting pork bellies during handling and processing into slabs of bacon which is characterized by a series of spaced prongs projecting in a common plane in generally right angled relation to an elongate cross frame formed by a pair of spaced cross bar members depending from a supporting hook formation and having a grip forming member adapted to be grasped while the prongs are inserted into the pork bellie and a further grip forming member extending in the direction opposite the direction of the prongs which is adapted to be grasped in removing the prongs from the bacon slab.

Abstract: A table utensil comprising handle and a rigid blade portion for use in breaking and opening objects such as the shells surrounding the meat of crab legs. The blade includes an open slot extending along its central axis from its terminal end for a distance of an inch or two. The slot preferably terminates at an opening in the blade portion of greater diameter than the width of the slot.

Abstract: For the manufacture of non-wovens, filaments are laid down on a moving surface. The filaments are deflected by means of a rotating deflector and a subsequent guide plate connected thereto. It is important that the rotating deflector deflects the filaments from the rotational axis and that the guide plate rotating synchronously with the deflector leads back at least part of the filaments in the direction of the intersection of the rotational axis and the deposition surface, this leading back being carried out advantageously to a different extent for different portions of the filament veil. This leading back being at least partial results in a considerably more uniform area weight distribution than hitherto obtained.

Abstract: A fastener of the type in which two arrays of spaced-apart coupling heads are juxtaposed and pressed together, either with or without a slider, so that the heads of one array or row are received in the inter-head spaces of the other row and vice versa, is provided with a pair of spaced apart connecting strands extending the full length of the respective row and integral (unitary) with the coupling heads or their connecting shanks. The strands, molded monolithically with the remainder of the unit, flexibly interconnect the coupling heads and serve as stops for relative lateral movement of the rows upon their interconnection.

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to the production of self-converged color CRT display systems, and in particular to a method of reducing the effects of off-axis deflection defocusing of electron beams in such systems. The disclosed method comprises installing in the neck of each color CRT bulb a three beam in-line-type electron gun whose mechanical and electrical design parameters are such that the beams in their free fall state have a selected nominal value of underconvergence at the screen which is such that substantially the entire population of production tubes is underconverged. On the neck of each tube is installed a self-converging yoke which establishes, in addition to main deflection magnetic field components, an astigmatic field component which self-converges said beams, but which undesirably introduces astigmatic deflection defocusing of the beams when deflected off the tube axis.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump of the type comprising a housing, a shaft rotatably mounted in said housing via a bearing, a wheel having a hub fixed to the shaft, a seal assembly comprising on the one hand a counter-ring and on the other a seal including a friction ring secured to a flexible member and resiliently urged against said counter-ring, the counter-ring and the flexible member being secured to respective connection members, of which the first one is drive-fitted in a recess in the housing and abuts against a shoulder of said recess and the second one is fixed to the wheel hub, wherein the wheel has a plurality of angularly distributed openings and said first connection member of the side remote from said shoulder has a radial thrust surface facing said openings, and a retainer, whose axial position relative to the shaft is fixed, is provided to keep the seal assembly assembled prior to its mounting in the housing.

Abstract: Lightweight, economical and highly effective solar energy collector panels are formed with a sheet of transparent plastic exposed to solar radiation and spaced by a rigid lightweight spacer frame above a sheet of metallic foil, which embraces in heat conducting relationship a spaced array of metal water-carrying tubes all supported by an underlying plastic foam slab, with the overall assembly being encircled by a channel section peripheral frame.By completing the panel assembly with foam material which substantially entirely encapsulates the panel components internally in an inexpensive, lightweight, and completely effective framed unit, a unique panel construction is achieved by a unique manufacturing process.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an annular seal for a heat recuperator tube end is disclosed as comprising loosely wrapping without appreciable tension at least one layer of a compressible and resilient blanket of unbonded ceramic fibers about an annular forming mandrel, stabilizing the inner area of the fiber layer, thereafter compressing the fibers to decrease their volume while not destroying the recuperative ability of the fibers to resiliently expand back to a volume substantially greater than their compressed volume when the compression is released by wrapping a retainer exteriorly of the fibers to compress them and to temporarily retain them in compressed condition, the retainer being destructable at operating temperatures of the tube ends of the recuperator in which the seal is to be used. A specific wrapping process utilizing overlapping sheets of heat destructable wrapping material is disclosed.

Abstract: A gasket installing device comprises a hollow frame and a guide roller rotatably mounted at a leading end of the hollow frame for rolling movement over a panel edge along which a gasket is to be installed. A presser wheel is rotatably disposed in the hollow frame and has means on its circumference for engaging and pressing the gasket against the panel edge at a position adjacent to an open side of the hollow frame. A gasket guide disposed in the hollow frame adjacent to the leading end has a passage for the gasket to pass therethrough, the passage extending at an angle to the open side. The passage has a discharge opening spaced from the above-mentioned position and from the open side. The hollow frame supports a correction roller assembly on its trailing end for correcting the installed gasket into proper disposition over the panel edge.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixed carrier type coil insert tool for installing a threaded insert into a threaded aperture of a workpiece. The insert tool is designed to provide means for externally adjusting the depth to which the coil insert is installed within the workpiece. This is accomplished by providing a carrier whose position relative to the mandrel can be adjusted so that the distance from the end of the mandrel to the workpiece is adjustable. Since the mandrel advances a fixed distance upon actuation of the power tool, the result is a change in the depth of penetration of the mandrel into the workpiece, and a corresponding adjustment in the depth to which the coil insert is installed into the aperture of the workpiece.

Abstract: The method of manufacture and use of a magnetic field sensitivity indicator apparatus for evaluating magnetic fields applied to ferromagnetic material parts during magnetic particle inspection utilizing known defect indicators to establish the strength and direction of magnetic fields in the parts under test.

Abstract: Attachment holes are formed in a first piece of furniture, and a dowel hole is formed in a second piece of furniture. A hinge unit includes a hinge arm having attached thereto a mounting plate, a cup-shaped dowel dimensioned to fit within the dowel hole, and a pair of toggle joints connecting the hinge arm and the cup-shaped dowel to form a quadrangular hinge linkage, with the mounting plate having extending therefrom rods dimensioned to fit in the attachment holes. First pins having first hook members are permanently mounted within and rotatably extended through the mounting plate at positions eccentric to the longitudinal axes of the rods. Second pins having second hook members are permanently mounted within and rotatably extended through the cup-shaped dowel at positions adjacent the edge thereof. The hinge unit is positioned in the closed position thereof, and the rods of the mounting plate are inserted into the attachment holes of the first piece of furniture.

Abstract: A hand tool for inserting a MOS integrated circuit into a socket is described. The tool is characterized by a handle having at one end gripping means operative with a collet-like action for receiving the MOS IC. A rotatable sleeve on the handle opens and closes the gripping means, and further means are provided on the handle to eject the IC. The tool is mainly of plastic, with a conductive surface, and means are provided for electrically grounding the tool to avoid damaging the IC.

Abstract: A method of joining two manganese zinc ferrite pole pieces, to form a product suitable for use in radio frequency recording apparatus, and especially for multi-core magnetic heads, is disclosed. Chromium layers are formed on each manganese zinc ferrite pole piece, on opposed faces thereof, and then the chromium layers are bonded together by means of a suitable adhesive, such as a high strength epoxy adhesive.