Abstract: A new variety of chrysanthemum plant characterized by its single flower form having intense yellow ray florets, of which there are several rows, possessing good substance and long life. This new plant is not temperature sensitive and can be flowered the year around on medium treatment producing abundant blooms of medium size with minimal pollen production when grown as a spray pot plant.

Abstract: A new cultivar of pot chrysanthemum characterized by its single flower form with several rows of medium pink ray florets which have very good substance and long life, its abundant production of blooms when grown as a spray pot, its minimal pollen production, and its ability for year around flowering on tall treatment.

Abstract: A valve having a valve body, a valve cavity, a first opening and a second opening with a valve member rotatably positioned within the valve cavity. The valve member may have a generally cylindrical hollow configuration with an end opening in alignment with the first opening, and a side opening with the valve member positioned for rotation to bring the side opening into or out of alignment with the second opening. A seal means is supported by the valve member in slidable contact with the valve cavity with the seal means enclosing the end opening and side opening of the valve member.The valve body may also include a valve member opening in alignment with the valve member. A removable closure member is positioned over the valve member opening. On removal of the closure member, the valve member may be removed from the valve cavity by withdrawing the valve member through the valve member opening.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for cyclically metering charges of a granulated wax-like or resinous material from a bulk supply and feeding such metered charges into a heated, pressurized reservoir. Each charge of the granulated material is fluidized with a stream of air under pressure to insure flow of the granules. The stream of air also serves to pressurize the reservoir and prevent the escape of hot air therefrom. Cooling of the reservoir inlet to prevent agglutination of the granules also is contemplated.

Abstract: A torque limiting control for a pair of variable displacement hydraulic pumps having displacement varying means and servo means including springs urging each of the displacement varying means to a position for maximum pump displacement and fluid operated means acting in opposition to the springs to shift said displacement varying means for reduction in pump displacement, said control including means for summing the fluid pressures generated by both pumps and controlling the servo means for the two pumps to progressively move the displacement varying means for reduction of pump displacement as the sum of the fluid pressures rises above a predetermined value at a certain pump displacement and thereby limit the sum of the torques required by said pumps.

Abstract: Agent for the preparation of the baths for brightening the color of and removing the greyness from white and pastel colored textiles which are made from synthetic fibers or which are provided with an easy-care finish and are made from cotton or blends thereof with synthetic fibers, which consists essentially of an organic polymer which is soluble or emulsifiable in water and is a homopolymer of acrylic or methacrylic acid or an ester or amide thereof, a copolymer of acrylic or methacrylic acid or an ester of amide thereof with acrylic or methacrylic acid alkylpolyalkylene glycol ester, a polyvinyl acetate or a water-soluble starch derivative, and a mixture thereof, and a fluorescent brightener which is soluble or dispersible in water.

Abstract: This electrostatic shielding tape is a metal strip of low resistance and low reactance folded longitudinally over the length of an insulated power cable having a semi-conducting insulation shield surrounding its insulation. The longitudinally folded metallic tape has its edges free to permit expansion of the insulation and insulation shield, located directly under it, without significant deformation of the insulation and the insulation shield. When the tape is of a metal requiring a thin corrosion-protective coating, the coating on the side adjacent to the insulation shield is preferably semi-conducting to accept charging current from the insulation shield. It is a feature that the metal of the electrostatic shield is in electrical communication with the insulation shield. .Iadd.

Abstract: Modular operating centers for use in electric power generating plants and other industrial and commercial plants, processes and systems are constructed by using a novel prefabricated modular technique. This technique includes loading a plurality of transportable room-size building modules with control system equipment at a factory site. Typically, the control system equipment includes sophisticated and complex electrical and electronics data processing and control equipment. The control system equipment is installed and bolted down in the different building modules and the equipment in each module is inter-wired at the factory site. Temporary inter-module connections are established between the control system equipment in different ones of the building modules and such equipment, as a whole, is then thoroughly tested and adjusted under simulated use conditions. Thereafter, the loaded and tested building modules are separated and separately transported to the industrial or commercial installation site.

Abstract: Headgear comprising a head-encircling band of extruded or molded thermoplastic having a channel formed along one edge and a transparent crescent-shaped plastic visor attached at its concave edge to the band within the channel so that said edge is concealed within the channel and said transparent visor, embodying within its diameter a pocket provided by a layer of plastic welded thereto within which is sealed a logo or emblem.

Abstract: A baseball glove having a thumb and finger stalls, a crotch portion between the base of the thumb stall and the base of the next adjacent finger stall, and a web extending between and being secured to the thumb and next adjaent finger stall and to the crotch portion. The web has a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels at its margin, and the inner margins of the thumb and next adjacent finger stalls and the margin of the crotch portion also have a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels alternating with and being generally in line with the web tunnels so that a lace may be passed through the tunnels for securing the web to the glove.

Abstract: An improvement in a mini-sock comprising an abbreviated ankle portion defining a flap designed to overhang a shoe in the heel portion thereof.

Abstract: A prosthesis for an inadequate or diseased heart valve, the prosthesis being formed of a porous fabric comprising multifilament synthetic yarns supported on a plural-lobed frame. The frame has generally parallel legs each comprising a pair of rod portions. The fabric is inserted between the rod portions of the legs to form flexible leaflets. Each leaflet consists essentially of a textile of filaments having a substantial number of open interstitial spaces in the range of 20 to 40 microns evenly distributed throughout the fabric. The resulting composite structures are free of thrombogenic complications.

Abstract: Bone replacement or prosthesis anchoring material on the basis of sintered calcium phosphates which consists of a mixture of calcium phosphates with low or high-molecular-weight organic substances. More specifically, the anchoring material consists of a mixture of calcium phosphates composed of CaO and P.sub.2 O.sub.5 in a quantitative ratio of 2:1 to 4:1 with biodegradable polymers in a ratio of 10:1 to 1:1 of phosphate to polymer and is implantable as a solid body. A method for the production of the material wherein calcium phosphate with a porosity of 15 to 30 volume percent is used and its pores are filled by impregnation with polymer material.

Abstract: An artificial intraocular lens designed for mounting within the anterior chamber of a patient's eye is disclosed. A substantially circularly shaped lens body which is refractive to light is provided with a pair of loops and a stave. The stave which is made of an elastic material such as polypropylene is fixedly mounted into an aperture in the lens body. The stave is provided with a keeper member on one side of a free end, the keeper member pointing away from an adjacent loop which is mounted to the same hemicircular segment of the lens as the stave. The opposite side of the stave provides a continuous substantially planar surface from the lens body to the free end of the stave. The loops are inserted behind the iris of the eye, and a surgical incision is made in the iris to permit the stave to be lead therethrough. The stave is capable of being bent until its free end traverses the loop, and as the bending force is released the keeper member engages the loop thereby fixedly positioning the lens in the eye.

Abstract: The invention provide a water washing bidet-like apparatus for use with a normal water flushing toilet and comprises a nozzle (27) which can be normally located directly underneath the flushing rim of the toilet pan and moved by the user to an operative position, combined with electrical heater (41) for heating the water before supply to the nozzle, a thermostat (47) for switching off the electrical supply to the heater when the temperature of the water reaches a predetermined degree, and a pump (18) brought into use by the user for pumping water to the nozzle.

Abstract: This invention relates to a lounge to be used specifically in connection with a hot water spa, in which the lounge is constructed of water resistant materials and is constructed out of strips of material leaving large spaces in between the strips for the bubbling and circulating hot water to reach the individual who is lying in the lounge. The lounge is attached to the spa by a strap fixed to the lounge, the strap having eyelets, and the other end of the strap fixed to a bolt which is slidably received in a sleeve located vertically in the ground adjacent opposite ends of the spa.

Abstract: A thermal blanket or cover for a swimming pool. The blanket consists of a covering of flexible plastic sheet material to which are secured strips of foam-backed plastic sheet material to provide flotation and reinforcement.

Abstract: A pop-up drain valve assembly for a sink includes a drain plug and control means for raising and lowering the plug to open and close the drain. The control means includes a manually operable plunger rod and a unitary, one piece, plastic ball lever that pivots to translate the downward force applied to the plunger rod into an upward force for lifting the drain plug to open the drain. The inner end of the ball lever is positioned beneath the drain plug and the outer end extends through and is retained in an opening in the plunger rod. The ball lever also includes an integral stop which prevents the rod from riding up and binding on the lever and retaining means which prevents the outer end of the lever from sliding out of the opening in the rod.

Abstract: A portable toilet is provided with a bowl having an outlet port in its bottom, this being closed by a yoke shaped, pivotal valve member movable between a first position in which it closes the outlet port and a second position in which it uncovers the port. An actuation member moves relative to the valve member and cooperating cam surfaces on the valve member and actuation member urge the valve member upwardly to seal the outlet port upon such relative movement.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention there is provided a bed frame with end rails of adjustable length, each of the end rails including an inner rail member having horizontal and vertical flanges in nested relationship with an outer rail member having horizontal and vertical flanges, the vertical flange of the inner rail member having a plurality of spaced openings arranged in a line longitudinally of the inner rail member and the vertical flange of the outer rail member having a projection adapted to fit into any one of said openings, the outer rail member also having secured thereto a lock member pivotable to a lock position or to an unlock position, the lock member having a U-shaped portion adapted to straddle and hold together the vertical flanges of the inner and outer rail members when the projection is in one of said openings and the lock member is in its lock position, the lock member also including a portion for preventing accidental movement of the lock member from its lock position to its unlock positi

Abstract: Disclosed are plural segments cushiony pillows, preferably in the form of three hingedly connected independent cushiony segments, to comfortably nestle, and yet firmly support, the head and the neck of hemiside reclining persons. With the preferred three pillow segments being employed, the medially positioned primary segment is larger than the flanking secondary and tertiary segments, the secondary segment being larger than the tertiary segment. The plural segments head and neck cushiony supportive device has numerous utilitarian advantages including: for geriatric care, for the prevention of snoring, and generally speaking for the promotion of good hemiside reclining posture thus enhancing comfortable sleeping and resting.

Abstract: Camping accessory consisting of inner and outer baglike envelopes formed with corrugations and sealed together for forming an air-tight enclosure adapted to be filled with air under slight pressure.

Abstract: A waterbed mattress construction includes baffle means for dampening water wave action. The dampening means comprises one or more flexible plastic strips welded to the interior bottom surface of the mattress and flotation means welded to the other end of the strips. The flexible strips may be in the form of an open box with approximately the same configuration as the waterbed mattress. The flotation means is a single piece of foam or other material which causes the plastic strips to float to the top of the water in the mattress.

Abstract: A contour bedding sheet for use with a convertible sofa bed mattress that prevents tearing, ripping or engagement of the sheet with the sofa bed frame members. The sheet includes a fabric area for covering the top of the mattress, first, second, and third side overlap panels which overlap the sides of the mattress on each side, the panels being spaced apart to allow for the folding in the mattress, the panel ends being joined by elastic members disposed at particular locations to insure tautness of the sheet relative to the mattress surface regardless of the angular position of sections of the mattress relative to each other.

Abstract: A control system for a shoe upper conforming machine, more especially a pulling over and toe lasting machine, includes a computer control which supplies control signals sequentially, according to a programmed instruction, to actuating means for the various operating elements of the machine. In particular, the release of the grippers is controlled in relation to the movement of the wiper means.Furthermore, the power supply to the actuating means for effecting gripping and pulling is independent of that for the actuating means for wiping over and securing the lasting margin to the insole, the arrangement being such that the power supply to the latter is operatively connected only after the operation of the former is completed.

Abstract: A bowling ball cleaner having pneumatic movement of the ball lift and a cotton strand brush, and atomized deposit of cleaning compound to the brush.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in personal dental hygiene care comprising an elongated member formed at least in part of a piezoelectric member with a pair of contacting surfaces intermediate the respective ends thereof with a brush member adapted to be received within the human mouth and moved across tooth and gingival surfaces and extending from one end of the elongated member. A casing adapted to be held in the hand is provided and is of a length at least equal to the piezoelectric member and having an elongated bore adapted to receive the piezoelectric member of the elongated member therein. Sealing means in the bore to engage the elongated member in readily releasable and in a fluid-tight fashion is used.

Abstract: An arrangement for processing surfaces of bodies having irregular contours, in which a rotating body driven by a shaft guided in it, is held against the surface to be processed. A plurality of sections are held against the body, and the shell surface of the rotating body is the carrier for the means for processing the surface. The sections of the rotating body are eccentrically penetrated by a drive shaft on which drive wheels acting from the inside on one section apiece are arranged. At least one guide is easily tilted relative to the drive shaft and the section supported by it. The rotating body sections are rigid hollow cylinder sections, and the drive wheels are the friction wheels contacting the hollow cylinder sections. The drive wheels, furthermore, are guided in a recess on the inside of the hollow cylinder sections. The drive wheels may be pinions engaging internal gear rings associated with the hollow cylinder sections.

Abstract: A portal frame of a vehicle-washing station, carrying cylindrical brushes for scrubbing the body of a vehicle moving relatively to that frame, supports a pair of oppositely disposed wheel-cleaning units with respective rotary brushes confronting the sides of the vehicle at the level of its wheels. Each wheel-cleaning unit comprises a feeler, normally retracted, which at the beginning of a traverse is extended into the path of the proximal wheel pair to sense the arrival of the leading wheel in a scrubbing position. The feeler then causes the arrest of the main drive and the advancement of the associated wheel-scrubbing brush into contact with the vehicle wheel so positioned; the same happens with the wheel-cleaning unit at the opposite side. During this operation the feeler is again retracted; when relative motion of the vehicle and the portal frame resumes, the feeler is again extended to repeat the aforedescribed procedure with the trailing vehicle wheel.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning and/or coating generally smooth surfaces and the like comprising a generally elongated unitary movable member including a pair of spaced apart and generally parallel blade projections, each extending from and along one surface of the unitary member and being adapted to contact the surface such that whenever said unitary member moves in one direction, one of the projections serves as a leading blade for removing surface dirt from the surface, and the other of the projections serves as a trailing blade which functions to evenly wipe the surface. The other projection also serves as a leading blade which removes the dirt from the surface and the one projection serves as a trailing blade for evenly wiping the surface in response to movement of the wiper member in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A door guide for a rear door or tailgate of a station wagon with the guide including a first member, fixed to a body portion of the station wagon, having at least one wedge-shaped recess which is adapted to receive a projection of a second fitting member, fixed to the door or tailgate, when the door or tailgate is closed. The second member includes a metallic base body with the projections thereof having, in run-in zones, two opposed recesses. An elastic abrasion-resistant material is applied by an extrusion coating on the base body with a projecting bead-like elevation of material being provided at the projections. The bead-like material is adapted to be at least partly forced into extrusion-coated recesses in the process of closing the door or tailgate.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting open and cleaning the stomachs of small animals such as poultry comprises a conveying wheel, which has around its periphery chambers for holding said stomachs, means for feeding said stomachs to said chambers, a knife which extends into the path of movement of said chambers for cutting open said stomachs and a device for cleaning said stomachs after they have been cut open. Said wheel includes means for decreasing and increasing the sizes of said chambers as the wheel rotates, said chambers decreasing in size as they move away from said feeding means towards said knife whereby said stomachs are compressed in said chambers as they reach said knife. Divider means is provided downstream of said knife in the direction of movement of said chambers for prizing open said stomachs and removing hard skin from within said stomachs.

Abstract: A method for converting a multifilament bundle of a synthetic material into a sliver and an apparatus for effecting the method. The apparatus comprises: a feed roller device for feeding the bundle; a draft roller device consisting of a pair of draft rollers, the peripheral speed of which draft roller device is higher than that of the feed roller device, for stretch breaking the filaments in the bundle between the feed roller device and the draft roller device; and an apron belt, belted between one roller of the draft roller device and the intermediate portion of the feed roller device and the draft roller device, which is wound around the other draft roller. The broken filaments are smoothed between the apron belt and the other draft roller so that the evenness of the sliver thickness is improved and the uniformity in quality of the spun yarn obtained from the sliver is also improved.

Abstract: An apparatus for breaking textile fiber bales includes at least two spiked breaker members rotated in the working direction for opening the bales at their underside; a stationary support rack for receiving thereon a plurality of bales juxtapositioned in the working direction; and an arrangement for moving the breaker members as a unit back and forth in the working direction underneath the support rack for opening the underside of the bales juxtapositioned on the support rack. The latter has a plurality of parallel-spaced support rods extending in the working direction above the breaker members.

Abstract: A closure seal for use in securing overlapped bands wrapping a package as disclosed in which the closure seal has a floor portion, a flange extending from one side thereof and a flap having two flap portions extending from the other side thereof. Apparatus for use with the closure seal is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector for detachable connection to an article to enable a cord, chain or the like to be attached to the article. There is disclosed a connector attached to a ball to provide a captive ball for playing games. The connector has a generally elongated body portion and is split longitudinally into two halves from one end to a position part the way along the connector. The one end is enlarged with respect to the body portion immediately adjacent thereto and a screw is adapted to cause expansion of the enlarged head in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the connector when the head of the screw is pulled between the two halves by a cylindrical nut arranged on the screw in a cut-out in the body. The cut-out prevents longitudinal movement of the nut. Expansion of the end enables it to be retained in any suitable cavity accessible through a restricted neck portion. The other end of the connector has an enclosed loop for receiving a cord, chain or the like.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to apparatus for processing of tubular knitted fabric, including an internal flat spreader and width-adjustable edge drives, typically used in connection with other processing apparatus, such as calenders, padding equipment, compressive shrinking stations, etc. The apparatus utilizes a pre-loaded, resiliently biased spreader frame which, within its operating limits, presses outwardly against adjustably movable, opposed edge drive rolls. The spreader frame, which is positioned internally of the moving fabric tube during processing operations, is capable of in-process width adjustments, without either stopping the processing line or damaging the fabric. Width adjustment of the internal spreader frame may be accomplished from a remote operator station. Moreover, the apparatus may incorporate edge-sensing means operative automatically to adjust the width of the spreader to maintain uniformity of width in the processed fabric.

Abstract: A locking apparatus for weaving by means of small bores, consisting of a lower block and an upper block, one surface of a block is provided with centering ribs forming channels. The bars are accommodated in the channels and maintained by pressing the upper block towards the lower block.

Abstract: A method of producing commercially usable textured synthetic multifilament yarn from commercially produced undrawn multifilament synthetic yarn of a type which has normally a limited operational life and which has exceeded the normal operational life for undrawn yarn in which the overage undrawn yarn is fed continuously without pause through two discrete successive treatments with hot fluid at a temperature high enough to plasticize the yarn. The yarn is drawn to a chosen ratio of extension while it is passing through the first treatment with hot fluid. Next the yarn is jet textured while it is passing through the second treatment with hot fluid. The yarn may be subjected to a cooling action between the two successive treatments with hot fluid.

Abstract: A textile product formed of at least one thermoplastic yarn is texturized by subjecting the yarn simultaneously to a mechanical traction force and a high frequency electrical field applied at local points on the yarn. In order to increase the efficiency of texturizing, the yarn is moistened before it is subjected to the electrical field.