Abstract: A heavily branched, bushy rose plant of the miniature class, characterized particularly by its abundance and continuity of blooms, leaflets of a long oval shape, its strong resistance to rose powdery mildew, with little or no fragrance.

Abstract: A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Moonwind and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; spooned daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color, devoid of pink discoloration; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 65 to 75 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot; semi-spreading branching pattern, and minimum pollen production.

Abstract: A system for varying valve timing; i.e. the rotational angle of the crankshaft during which an intake or an exhaust valve of a cylinder of a reciprocating internal combustion engine is open which results in varying valve overlap, and for varying valve lift of such intake and exhaust valves. A desmodromic cam and cam follower convert rotation of a cam shaft to reciprocating rotation, or oscillation, of the cam follower. The reciprocating rotation of the cam follower is converted by the interaction of a secondary cylindrical cam, a cylindrical control ring, and a reciprocating member to linear motion of the reciprocating member which reciprocating member is operatively connected to a poppet valve. Timing and lift of the reciprocating member and valve are variable over predetermined limits as a function of engine rpm and load by rotation of the cylindrical control ring. Each valve train positively closes as well as opens its associated valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for a diesel engine. An injection rate control device, such as an auxiliary spring, is connected in line with the conventional injection train which operates the injector plunger in synchronism with the rotation of the camshaft. When an auxiliary spring is used as the injection rate control device, the auxiliary spring has a lower spring rate than that of the injection train so that the injector plunger is advanced at a different rate when it is under the control of the auxiliary spring. Means are included for rendering the auxiliary spring ineffective during a portion of the plunger advancement so that the rate of plunger advancement is controlled by the auxiliary spring during the initial part of the advancing stroke, and by the conventional part of the injection train during the balance of the advancing stroke. The auxiliary spring automatically varies ignition timing and injection rate as a function of engine speed and/or load.

Abstract: A surgical cutting instrument includes an electrically heated cutting edge and an automatic control system for maintaining the cutting edge at a constant high temperature for sterilizing the blade, cutting tissue, and cauterizing the incised tissue to reduce hemorrhage from the cut surfaces of the tissues (hemostasis).

Abstract: A loading container means comprising a body having horizontal top and bottom walls and vertical side walls providing a storage chamber therein, at least one of said walls providing an opening to said chamber of the body which is enclosed by a door, at least one of the walls is movable for controllably reducing the size of the chamber of the body to confine the material stored therein, and a plurality of wheel units movable between a retracted position and an extended position for movably supporting the body over a supporting surface when in their extended position. The body is of elongated configuration with first and second ends which are respectively provided with wheel units which are selectively actuatable allowing controlled elevating, lowering and leveling of the body.

Abstract: Attempts have been made by the prior art to oscillate a veil of air entrained centrifugally spun fibers back and forth across a moving collecting surface to build a layer of fibers having uniform thickness and density. The present invention accomplishes this objective by oscillating a fiberizing rotor, preferably about an axis that runs through the bottom wall of the spinner.

Abstract: A fire retardant agent comprising calcium or magnesium mineral borates or calcium or magnesium meta borate and a halogen source; a method of rendering organic materials generally of a hydrocarbon nature, such as plastic and rubber polymers, cellulosics, resins and oils, etc., fire retardant by introducing into said organic materials calcium or magnesium mineral borates or calcium or magnesium meta borate and a halide; articles, laminates, coatings, foams, papers, fabrics, etc. containing calcium or magnesium mineral borates or calcium or magnesium meta borate and a halide of atomic weight greater than 19.

Abstract: A high frequency coaxial cable exhibiting a low insertion loss and a low reflection coefficient, and incorporating an improved construction providing for convenient adjustment of impedance.

Abstract: An evacuated envelope has a rectangular display section and a gun section at one edge of the display section. The display section includes front and back walls which are generally rectangular, in closely spaced, parallel relation, and a plurality of spaced, parallel support walls between the front and back walls forming a plurality of parallel channels. The gun section extends across one end of the channels and includes therein gun structure which will direct electrons into the channels. In each of the channels is a beam guide which confines the electrons in a beam and guides the beam along the length of the channel. The beam guide also includes means for selectively deflecting the electron beam out of the guide at selective points along the guide so that beam will impinge upon a phosphor screen along the inner surface of the front wall.

Abstract: A contoured, all-fabric, lightweight, body armor garment for the protection f the torso of a woman against small arms missiles and spall comprises a contoured front protective armor panel composed of a plurality of superposed layers of ballistically protective plies of fabric made of aramid polymer yarns, the front protective armor panel being contoured by providing overlapping seams joining two side sections to a central section of the panel so as to cause the front protective armor panel to be contoured to the curvature of the bust of a female wearer of the body armor garment to impart good ballistic protection and comfort to the wearer.

Abstract: A first rigid elongated plate has first and second ends, a first end being hingedly attached to a first end of a rigid link to swing freely towards and away from one side of the link within a predetermined included first arc. A second rigid elongated plate, having first and second ends, is hingedly attached to the other end of the link to swing freely towards and away from the one link side within a predetermined included second arc. A flexible envelope encloses the first and second plates and the link to retain the plates and link in end to end hinged relation. Strap members transversely extend from the envelope and are wrappable around the user's hand, wrist, and forearm to hold the envelope, plates, and link in supporting relation thereto.

Abstract: A knee protection device for use by athletes, particularly football players, consisting of a jointed rigid reinforcing bar adapted to be worn at the inside of the knee, with its pivot coaxial to the transverse axis of the knee joint, and extending above and below the joint, the surface of the bar next to the leg being specially conformed to the leg whereby to be firmly positioned when pressed firmly against the leg, a pair of straps encircling the leg and reinforcing bar respectively above and below the knee joint, and pressing the bar firmly against the leg, and an impact-operated strap tightening device interposed in each strap and operable to tighten the strap further whenever the knee receives a blow at its outer side.

Abstract: Glove is open on one end and is provided in its other end and in one side with first and second apertures through which to project the fingers and the thumb, respectively, of a hand in slipping the glove onto the hand, with the glove also having a friction patch in cover relation with the palm of the wearer's hand.

Abstract: A replaceable visor which is particularly usable with the headgear of a protective garment which includes a transparent member held in place by the protective garment in front of the eyes of the wearer, the transparent member including an inner and outer frame member secured to the inner and outer side of the peripheral edge thereof to define therebetween a retaining channel to receive a bead which is fixedly secured to the hole in the garment designed to receive the visor, the bead may be formed by a cord which is secured to the periphery of the hole in the garment headgear and as such provides the bead which the retaining channel may grip to hold the replaceable visor in position, the bead may be attached to the protective material by a beading pocket formed by sewing of opposite width-wise edges of a binding tape to the edge of the protective material and holding the beading cord therein, holding of the beading within the retaining channel may be facilitated by including a retaining clip which biases the b

Abstract: The invention provides a prosthetic device for introduction into a duct and for lining an interior wall portion of the duct. The device comprises a generally toroidal, hollow, inflatable sleeve and means for introducing a pressurized fluid into the sleeve. The sleeve is made of a material that is impermeable to the pressurized fluid. At least the outer portion of the sleeve is made of a flexible material capable of deforming to conform to the shape of said interior wall portion of the duct. The device can be introduced into the duct and correctly positioned when it is in a deflated state. Subsequently, it is inflated by introducing the pressurized fluid. This causes the outer portion of the sleeve to expand and grip said interior wall portion of the duct, while leaving a central channel for the passage of the liquid in the duct. The device may also comprise a plurality of such sleeves connected together in a side-by-side relationship.

Abstract: A heart valve including a generally annular body and a disc within the body. A ring-like protuberance projects from one face of the disc, and a fulcrum member projecting into the central opening of the valve body engages the inner surface of the protuberance. The disc pivots about the fulcrum member, to open and close the valve, and fits loosely between the fulcrum member and retaining elements so that the disc can rotate in its own plane. The rig-like protuberance defines an abutment responsive to fluid flowing in the no-flow direction of the valve for aiding pivotal movement of the disc to close the valve. An upstanding continuous wall on the face of the disc opposite the protuberance responds to fluid flow in the flow direction of the valve for aiding the pivotal movement of the disc to open the valve. The fulcrum member carries a guide plate which cooperates with the free end of the fulcrum means for preventing movement of the disc in its own plane when the valve is closed.

Abstract: The joint implant utilizes a pin and socket arrangement wherein the pin and socket are of non-circular cross-sectional shapes. In addition, the socket has a shaped aperture which permits the pin to tilt or rock in the socket without twisting about the longitudinal axis of the pin. The socket has a reduced cross-sectional portion within which the pin is guided as well as widening portions within which the pin may tilt.

Abstract: A self-cleaning toilet which embodies the combination of an open top toilet bowl and elevated reservoir tank mounted above said bowl, the reservoir tank including a water supply inlet for supplying water to said reservoir tank for discharge to said toilet bowl, and a separate compartment within which a biodegradable chemical or biological substance can be stored, removed therefrom and admixed with water, and the liquid supplied to the toilet bowl to clean, disinfect and deodorize said toilet bowl.

Abstract: Apparatus supports a chair at the side of a pool in position to receive handicapped person. Chair is rotated out over the water and then lowered into the water where the occupant glides or pushes off for a swimming or therapy session. The chair is adapted to receive the person after the session and then is raised out of the water and rotated back to the poolside position so the person can leave the chair.

Abstract: A simplified low-cost water conservation valving device comprising a novel improved combination of three easily assembled components which provides an effective means for flushing a toilet. Selectively operative to release, as desired, a predetermined minimum amount of water, a gradually increasing amount, or the full volume of water from a ball-valve type of storage tank to flush the toilet. Easily installed as a water saving replacement for the original ball-valve and stem without use of tools.

Abstract: A water reservoir tank storing a primary body of water for release to a toilet bowl for flushing is associated with a pressure tank that stores a minor amount of water at a pressure considerably higher than that of the primary body and is discharged during flushing to join the water released from the reservoir tank and impart increased overall energy to the water in the bowl. A predetermined time delay is introduced between start of the flushing action and discharge of water from the pressure tank. The pressure tank is automatically discharged and recharged during each flushing cycle.

Abstract: A bed for use in hospitals, and the like, wherein a patient may be moved to a sitting position, with the head portion of the bed raised and the foot portion of the bed lowered, the bed being in three sections and pivotal to permit the foot section to be swung outwardly so that the feet of the patient may be lowered to a natural sitting position.

Abstract: A casualty transport system which provides substantially complete splinting, thermal protection and buoyancy for a patient transported by land, sea or air. The system is particularly suited for ship-to-shore, ship-to-ship or ship-to-helicopter transfers and for mountain rescue. The patient is placed in a glass reinforced plastic body shell having a removable lid which covers all but the head. The body shell is provided with a foam plastic lining premoulded to a 75 percentile man and close splinting, if required, can be achieved by a cast-in-place technique. Lifting handles and lugs and towing eyes are provided on the exterior of the body shell to facilitate lifting and handling.

Abstract: This invention provides a sleeping bag construction which may be used for sleeping either one person or two persons. Basically this is accomplished by providing a pair of pockets on the outside of a single sleeping bag with a module removably attached to the bag inside each pocket, which is open at the head so that each module can fold outwardly to form a pillow at the head of the bag. For a single bag only the bottom module need be folded out. The single bag is so constructed that it can be opened out and used as the bottom panel of a double sleeping and a similar panel with or without pockets and modules but with matching edge fasteners can be used as the top panel. In this way the modules of the bottom panel can be folded out to form two pillows side by side.

Abstract: A device for scrubbing carpet having a brush which rotates about a point which is eccentrically driven in a small circle. The bristled area of the brush has a number of protruding areas around its periphery. When the scrubber is used with powdered cleaning composition, the bristles in these protruding areas press the powder down into the pile of the carpet and so tend to minimize redistribution of the powder by the brush as it rotates. A press bar may be located at the front of the machine to press powder down into the pile of the carpet. Means may also be included for dispensing powder in front of the press bar.

Abstract: An improved rotary scraper having a central rotatable hub and a plurality of scraper members pivotally attached to said hub and extending outwardly therefrom for sliding engagement with and at an angle to a work surface is provided. The scraper members each comprise a coil spring disposed about a rod formed in the hub and a pair of generally parallel equal length spring fingers extending from the ends of said coil. During rotation, the scraper members are restrained in a position at an angle to the work surface by means of one finger of each pair bearing against the spring coil on an adjacent rod disposed in the hub. The finger which is restrained by the adjacent rod is stiffer than the other finger of the pair, which is restrained only by the coil, so that the degree of scraping action can be controlled by the pressure exerted upon the hub to bring the less stiff finger or both fingers into contact with the work surface.

Abstract: A window wiper mechanism for an opening rear window of a motor vehicle comprises a motor unit mounted on a fixed part of a vehicle body a flexible output drive extending to a guide adjacent the window and then along the inner side of the window adjacent and parallel to the hinge axis of the window to a drive unit mounted on the inner side of the window. The drive unit has an output shaft extending through the window to which a window wiper is connected.

Abstract: A can washer for washing newly formed cans. The washing components are mounted within a housing, and following each wash or rinse stage there is a blow-off stage wherein air is directed against the wet can to dry the same. Air for the blow-off stages is withdrawn from within the interior of the can washer and in order to prevent the drawing in of air from the wash stage special baffling and ducting is provided so that in each instance air is drawn in for the blow-off stage from the clean water area of an adjacent rinse stage.

Abstract: There is disclosed a wet-dry vacuum sweeper including a waste receptacle mounting a separator for receipt of air and entrained solids from a sweeper head for separation of the larger solids by centrifugal separation and passage of the exhaust flow directly to atmosphere or, at the selection of the operator, through a filtration system including upstanding tubular filters for further filtration of smaller particles from the flow stream.

Abstract: An apparatus for splitting, cleaning and skinning poultry gizzards having a transport chain which takes the gizzards past a rotating knife for cutting open the gizzards, a spreading bar for folding open the split gizzards and a rotating brush for removing the contents of the split and spread gizzards, to a set of peeling rolls for removing the lining from the split, spread and cleaned gizzards. The apparatus has two positioning rolls which bring the gizzards, which previously have been separated from the remaining entrails including the stomach, into the right position for receipt by the transport chain, and two pressure discs, rotating in synchronization with the transport chain about a horizontal shaft, which lift the split, spread and cleaned gizzards from the transport chain and press them briefly onto the peeling rolls.

Abstract: Birds are conveyed in a suspended series through a poultry processing plant in a legs and tail up attitude, and a series of bird support brackets are moved down an incline from above the path of the birds in timed relationship with the movement of the birds and the birds are guided to the bird support brackets until the bird support brackets at least partially support and guide the birds. Each bird support bracket comprises an upper and lower horizontal plate and a vertical plate joining the two horizontal plates giving the bracket an approximately Z-shape, and a pair of downwardly extending side leg members are mounted to the support bracket on opposite sides of the lower plate at the intersection of the lower plate and the vertical plate. As the birds and support brackets continue their movement, a rotatable cutting disc which defines a series of peripheral notches engages and severs the oil bag tissue from the birds.

Abstract: A harnessing device formed by a locking head and an attached serrated strap with gripper rails. The head contains a guide channel for receiving the strap after encirclement of the items to be harnessed, and an internal locking tang. The serrated strap has side rails which are proportioned to grip the encircled items. The desired gripping action is facilitated by the inclusion of serrations on the rails.

Abstract: Encircling clamps of a flexible elongated body fitted at a first end with a pair of parallel arms encircling a bay open at their extremities, and at the other end with a tongue that is insertable into the bay. One arm of the bay is a spring having restoring force when flexed away from the other arm, and ratchet teeth on its inner surface extending only part way from the opening to the interior of the bay. The tongue has mating ratchet teeth extending a longer distance so that when the tongue is inserted into the bay it can be adjustably positioned therein while engaging all the ratchet teeth of the spring arm. The closed device can be opened by lifting the spring arm away from the tongue. Means are provided to pull the tongue into the bay.

Abstract: An improved separable fastener composed of two opposed, mating elongated strips with a series of flexible interengaging tongues offset from and in parallel alignment with one of the axes of the strips, and partially overlapping openings in the strips. By placing the strips in opposed abutment and then applying a compressive force, the ends of the opposing mating tongues partially displace each other and then snap into engagement with each tongue being received in the corresponding opening of the opposed strip.

Abstract: A saddle for a U-bolt clamp assembly is disclosed. The saddle is comprised of a single sheet metal member. The member is folded along a line to form a two-layer web portion and a pair of tubular portions. Each of the tubular portions receives a leg of a U-shaped bolt. Each tubular portion is formed of an inner layer of sheet metal which has substantially a 360.degree. circumferential extent and an outer layer bent around the inner layer and which extends around at least a 180.degree. circumferential extent. The outer layer thus serves to hold the saddle in a folded condition without the use of welds.

Abstract: Disclosed is a yarn texturing apparatus for producing a multifilament yarn containing complex interfilament entanglement, comprising a housing having inlet and outlet ends connected by a yarn passage, a turbulence section in the yarn passage, an exit orifice constituting the yarn outlet and communicating with the turbulence section and means for introducing pressurized gas into the yarn passage, which is improved by providing a yarn guide for separating a multifilament yarn blown out of the exit orifice from blown gas while guiding the yarn along a guide surface of the yarn guide. The yarn guide is provided outside of the housing and in the proximity of the exit end of the orifice, in a condition such that the yarn guide does not cross the center-line of the exit orifice and the guide surface of the yarn guide faces the yarn outlet end surface of the housing.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for fabricating spiral wrapped cartridge cases or the like, in which an expandable bladder positioned within the interior of the cartridge case is initially expanded by application of hydraulic fluid at relatively low hydraulic pressure levels and at relatively high flow rates until the bladder substantially fills the cartridge case and then is pressurized at relatively high hydraulic pressure levels to form the cartridge case within a die cavity. Hydraulic pressure is applied to the bladder by a hydraulic pressure generator which is powered solely by the closure of the platens of a conventional industrial press between which the die and the pressure generator are mounted. The pressure generator shifts automatically from its low pressure to its high pressure mode of operation as the press platens close.

Abstract: This disclosure depicts a method of making an extended-area cellular spacer-support for separating electrodes in a luminescent display panel and/or for providing support against atmospheric pressure on the panel. The method comprises forming a stack of mutually registered open lattices of highly flexible insulative filaments, including tensing the filaments while spacing them such that the stack of filaments defines an array of narrow transverse openings therethrough which serve in the panel as image-element-associated radiation or particle passageways in the stack. The lattices of filaments are then mutually bonded to form a unitary cellular latticework.

Abstract: A quartz oscillator comprises a quartz blank having electrode films deposited on opposite parallel faces thereof. Holding wires which are parallel to the quartz blank extend along and spaced slightly from the opposite faces of the blank and are locally soldered to the quartz blank. The holding wires extend beyond the edge of the quartz blank and are secured to a holding substrate provided with electrical connections. The quartz oscillator is prepared by positioning a quartz blank and a holding substrate in a supporting frame, opposite faces of the quartz blank and holding substrate being provided at selected positions with solder parts. The holding wires are then positioned along opposite faces of the quartz blank and holding substrate and the solder parts are temporarily fused by radiant heat to bond the holding wires to the quartz blank and the holding substrate.