Abstract: A chrysanthemum cultivar which is a sport of the cultivar Patriot, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,897, Compatriot being distinguished from Patriot by its medium yellow ray floret color.

Abstract: A new variety of streptocarpus plant is characterized by its amethyst flower having a yellow throat. It has large flowers, long permanence and is generally nonfertile.

Abstract: A new variety of Streptocarpus plant is characterized by its beet purple flower having a yellow throat. It has large flowers, long permanence and is generally nonfertile.

Abstract: A daisy capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the cultivar Superstar, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,299, granted Sept. 12, 1978. Yellow Superstar is distinguished from the parent cultivar by its medium yellow ray floret color.

Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the invention disclosed herein includes a main check valve responsive to the rate of flow of fluid to a demand system and a bypass valve metering the flow of fluid to a bypass system. In the closed position of the main check valve, the bypass valve is in a fully open position whereby a predetermined minimum flow from a pressure source is maintained; in an intermediate position of the main check valve responsive to the predetermined minimum rate of flow thereacross, the bypass valve is closed and remains closed from the intermediate position of the main check valve to the fully open position. Operation of the bypass valve is controlled by fluid pressure from the inlet side of the main check valve which acts on a piston associated with the bypass valve and the buildup of pressure is controlled by a pilot valve.

Abstract: A compressive load carrying laminated bearing comprising alternating bonded layers of a resilient material and a non-extensible material generally concentrically disposed about a common center with successive layers being disposed at successively increasing radii. The fatigue life thereof, when subjected to cylic rotational or torsional motion about the common center, is substantially enhanced by progressively increasing the thickness of the layers of resilient material with increasing radii while simultaneously progressively decreasing the modulus of elasticity of the layers of resilient material with increasing radii. .Iadd.

Abstract: A catch mechanism for installation in a door frame to cooperate with a door lock on a fire door. The mechanism includes a catch member pivotable between an operative position in which to serve as a door catch and an inoperative position to enable release of the door no matter what the condition of the door lock. The mechanism includes a heat responsive locking device which locks the catch member in its catch position in the event of a fire generating high temperatures. The locking device may comprise a biased locking plunger mounted in a cavity within the catch member and normally held in a retracted position by a heat fusible metal plug but extendible on melting of the plug to engage the catch body and so lock the catch member.

Abstract: Polymeric products comprising the acidified reaction product of an organic polyepoxide and a polyamine containing at least two tertiary amine groups are disclosed. The polyamine and the organic polyepoxide are reacted with one another under conditions to form an internally ionized, quaternary ammonium salt group-containing polymer which has a high molecular weight, but relatively low equivalent weight. The polyamine is formed by reacting an organic polyisocyanate .[.or organic polycarboxylic acid.]. with an active hydrogen-containing tertiary amine. The reaction product is acidified to form the quaternary ammonium salt groups. Preparing the polyamine in this manner gives one wide latitude in determining the final structure of the polyamine. In effect, one can "tailor make" the polyamine by appropriate selection of reactants and exert a great measure of control over the properties of the final polymeric product.

Abstract: A unique female garment is provided which comprises a first and a second garment member. Each garment member is planar and substantially triangular in shape and is fashioned from stretchable material which is relatively non-stretchable along a front edge. At least one corner of one garment member is connected to one corner of the other garment member by a control knot which regulates the size of the garment and the position of the garment on the body. The control knot is positioned adjacent the back and shoulders of the user and the remaining portion of the garment is wrapped around the body whereupon the remaining corners of the garment members are tied together to thereby secure the garment in place. The garment can be wrapped around the body of the user in any of a plurality of fashions, each fashion having a different appearance.

Abstract: The mounting for a visor of a helmet comprises an arcuate track located at the side of the rigid headshell and centered on the visor axis, a shoe connected with the visor and movable along the track, a control element for moving the shoe and hence the visor and means for clamping the shoe to the track. Initial movement of the control element relative to the shoe serves to release the clamping means which may comprise rollers wedging between inclined surfaces of the shoe and the opposing track surface. The visor can be replaced by other helmet borne equipment.

Abstract: The intramedullary stem is provided with a plurality of recesses in the wide sides which are disposed in herring bone fashion. These recesses communicate with a longitudinal groove so that bone tissue material may move into the recesses and grooves during implantation. Apertures may also be provided through the stem so as to provide spaces for the tissue material to collect in a packed manner. Each recess also has a domed shaped pocket on the upper side to receive the material during implantation.

Abstract: A breast prosthesis is formed in a mold cavity from a soft silicone rubber cross-linked with hardeners. The prosthesis has a convex outwardly facing surface and a concave cup-shaped inwardly facing surface. The outer surface has a nipple and an areola with a passage formed through the nipple between the inwardly facing and outwardly facing surfaces. The prosthesis can be sized to fit into standard brassieres with its edge located inwardly of the adjacent edge of the brassiere. Extending laterally from one side of the prosthesis is a unitary flap for covering the axillary lymph-gland area. Additional flaps may be molded and glued to the base portion of the prosthesis to cover scar areas not covered by the base part.

Abstract: A portable toilet combination, particularly suitable for children, but also useable by adults, comprising an openably closed carrying case with exteriorly accessible first, second, third and fourth compartments; the first compartment for containing a disposable waste receptacle; the second compartment for temporarily containing soiled waste receptacles; the third compartment for containing cleaning tissues; and the fourth compartment for containing new unused waste receptacles.

Abstract: U-shaped drain traps are provided wherein strainer means are disposed within the trap for entrapping various size particles and valuable articles which have accidentally entered the drain. The trap is provided with access means for permitting the strainer means to be placed within or withdrawn from a vertical or horizontal section of the trap. The strainer means are novel construction for the purpose of entrapping particles and for ease of handling.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a vacuum toilet apparatus for mobile units, for example trains or buses, having at least one toilet stool from which faeces etc. are conveyed by means of a vacuum to a storage container by the intermediary of a conduit system. A pneumatic ejector is provided for producing the requisite vacuum. The ejector is supplied with compressed air from a compressed air reservoir. The air which is used for producing the vacuum is conveyed further to the storage container for the purposes of oxygenating the liquid in the container. The storage container is under atmospheric pressure and the conduit is connected to the container via a sluice which has a discharge valve in the form of a mechanically balanced flap valve which is opened by the weight of the contents of the sluice.

Abstract: A nursing system enables a bedridden patient or handicapped person to move unattended from his bed or wheelchair to a toilet, bathtub, or other nursing aid, and vice versa, with ease of shifting.

Abstract: A holding appliance for use in a blanket or a coverlet and the like according to the present invention includes a band for fixing the blanket or the coverlet to a bed in such a manner that the blanket or the coverlet can be freely movable to some extent relative to the bed, thereby to prevent a wakeful condition which may occur due to a pressure on a body by the blanket or the coverlet.

Abstract: A mattress securing apparatus utilizes four right angle corner guards disposed at the corners of a mattress resting on a device having a mattress supporting surface therein such as a box spring to prevent lateral displacement of the mattress relative to the supporting surface. A plate, affixed to each corner guard and perpendicular to the right angle leg portions thereof is located between the supporting surface and the lowermost surface of the mattress. A harness, including an elastic member is located in criss cross fashion, connecting the four corner guards together, urging the corner guards in touching engagement with the corners of the mattress and mattress supporting device. A pair of cords flexibly connect adjacent pairs of corner guards together preventing the corner guards from accidental dislodgement when one corner of the mattress is lifted.

Abstract: The preparation of beehives from a synthetic resinous material which is acceptable to the bees, which is not attacked by vermin, and which exhibits the requisite physical properties to provide a desirable beehive is accomplished by assembling the hives from molded urethane foam panels, the urethane foam being formulated so as to produce a product which is not rejected by the bees and which does not make the bees nervous or otherwise interfere with their normal habits in secreting honey in said beehive.

Abstract: A carton opening device is provided for opening diverse types of cartons, for example, cartons held together by retaining straps, retaining wires and/or nails. The device comprises an L-shaped handle having a first and second leg. A crowbar claw is formed at the free end of the first handle leg while a diametric channel is formed across the free end of the handle second leg for engaging and breaking retaining wires on cartons. A substantially axial slot extends from the corner of the handle and terminates short of the free end of the handle second leg for engaging and breaking retaining straps on cartons.

Abstract: Similar transfer units are disclosed for launching pig balls into a pipeline and for receiving the pig balls from a downstream portion of the pipeline, each of the transfer units including a hollow housing providing an axially aligned manually or hydraulically operable valve member and valve seat for closing off a magazine which is inclined from horizontal to permit gravity transfer of the pig balls, the hollow housing being otherwise shaped to facilitate transfer of the pig balls. With a pair of the transfer units being connected with a pipeline, the launching unit includes controlled plungers for regulating passage of individual pig balls into the pipeline while the receiving unit at the downstream portion of the pipeline is arranged for directing the pig balls into the receiving unit. A magazine housing for each unit is separable from the hollow housing to facilitate replacement of the valve seat.

Abstract: A scouring pad in the shape of a ball comprises a plurality of radially slit, regular-shaped, planar segments of conformable, lofty, low-density nonwoven abrasive product fastened together under compression at their centers with fastening means. The segments are slit from the outer edge toward the center to provide radially disposed, equally spaced slits which define radially aligned lobes, the total array of which defines the ball shape.

Abstract: A paint pan including a shallow pan portion terminating in a reservoir, the reservoir having a common wall with the pan portion, the common wall sloping such that the bottom of the reservoir is narrower than the top, and the sloping wall including a passageway for paint to flow from the reservoir onto the deck of the pan with a hinged valve element in the reservoir which swings from an open position in the reservoir to a closed position covering the passageway and having an actuating element extending through the passageway to a position above the deck of the paint pan.

Abstract: A sewer cleaning unit is disclosed which comprises a single tank assembly mounted on a wheeled vehicle. The single tank assembly has a substantially horizontal fixed divider forming a first tank portion adapted to carry and discharge a supply of water, and a second tank portion adapted to receive and hold debris, thus obviating the disadvantages of tank designs of the prior art. The unit may also be provided with hand-operated control means near the intake end of the conduit connected to the second tank portion and a control means connected to the reel for the hose from which water is discharged from the first tank portion, the reel control means and the hand-operated control means capable of being operated simultaneously by a single operator.

Abstract: An indicating device for a vacuum cleaner having means which operates as a result of the pressure difference between the inside of a filter dust container and the outside thereof and is provided with means for communicating the degree of clogging of the dust container through a signalling device in the form of a light source or light sources that gives a visual indication of the amount of clogging of the paper dust container.

Abstract: A suction cleaner power nozzle has auxiliary, main and bottom plate members releaseably assembled to form a nozzle housing having separated upper and lower compartments. The lower compartment includes a nozzle mouth in which a rotary brush is located. Support wheels and wheel height adjusting mechanism also are located in the lower compartment. Brush drive motor means are located in the upper compartment, and the auxiliary housing member is replaceable without disassembly of the remainder of the nozzle or its components.

Abstract: The section modulus of elasticity of the body portions of the scraper blades in a meat scraping machine decrease substantially uniformly outwardly along each blade. The blades have flat, transversely flexible scraping edges on the ends opposite a common series of circular hubs. Each hub is slightly rotated with respect to the adjacent hub to provide a series of spiraling blade-like edges for engaging and scraping accumulated residues from the sawed surface of a piece of meat. An adjustable doctor blade removes the residue from the scraper blades. The uniformly decreasing section modulus of elasticity of each blade encourages uniform flexing along the length of each blade to distribute stresses and fatigue uniformly throughout the blade material. The blades are pre-flexed on the hubs to reduce the effective diameter of the blade structure and to reduce the flexing of the blades when encountering the meat and the doctor blade.

Abstract: A hand meat tenderizer which allows a plurality of incisions to be made simultaneously in a meat cut and which comprises a plurality of penetrating or piercing elements held by a handle and a stripping plate tending to retract said elements.

Abstract: A device for removing feathers from a fowl utilizing a rotating drum having radially extending flailing members, enclosed within a venturi-shaped housing having a fan for creating a flow of air to collect and exhaust the removed feathers out the smaller end thereof. The device permits the operator to manually position the fowl against the feather removing means from outside the device, thereby precluding removed feathers, and the odor therefrom, from permeating the air about the operator.

Abstract: In the production of a card sliver in a textile fiber carding machine, the rate at which fibers are fed to the machine is continuously measured and deviations in the measured rate from a desired value are utilized to vary the rate at which fibers are being supplied to the machine.

Abstract: The draft imparted to sliver during regular operation of a sliver drafting apparatus is correctively varied in proportion to uniformity variations then detected in the sliver. During at least part of each period of start-up of the apparatus, the sliver is subjected to a prescribed correction draft approximately equal to an average of the draft corrections applied to the sliver over a relatively long time interval during the last-ensuing regular operation of the apparatus. During that initial part of each start-up period required for the apparatus to accelerate to substantially full operating speed, the prescribed correction draft is either not applied or, alternatively, is scaled in proportion to the speed of the apparatus.

Abstract: A flexible reopenable slide closure structure having first and second flexible plastic continuous fastener strips each having at least three continuous coactingly shaped interlocking releasable rib and groove elements extending along the strip with a closure slider positioned on the strips and guided to move therealong in a closing direction with the slider having opposing faces for pressing the strips together, one of the faces having a raised ridge extending laterally across the strip and extending at an angle to the direction of the strips so that the strips are pressed together in such a way that the ribs and grooves at one side are interlocked first with the ribs and grooves at the center second and the ribs and grooves at the other side last so that the ribs and grooves do not laterally fight each other while moving to closing relationship.

Abstract: An end stopper for use with a concealed slide fastener in the fastened condition and devoid of the associated slider, is disclosed. The end stopper comprises a base portion and a pair of spaced clipping portions projected from the base portion. The plane containing the two clipping portions, which in combination can resiliently clip the abutting tape portion of the fastener, crosses the plane containing the base portion substantially at a right angle. The base portion is formed with an open space which is enough wide to compressively receive the element carrying portion of the fastener or the fastener edge portion devoid of the coupling elements and is spaceous enough to let pass through the element carrying portion of the fastener.

Abstract: A well riser support for supporting and guiding an assembly of well riser pipe through a rotary table to facilitate coupling or uncoupling joints of riser pipe to the riser assembly. The support includes a spider assembly containing a plurality of hydraulically actuated dogs for supporting the riser and a plurality of resilient bearings supporting the spider assembly. Each bearing is configured to absorb and distribute loads applied parallel to and transversely of the riser axis, and comprises alternating layers of elastomeric and non-elastomeric materials with the compression axis of the bearing being inclined with respect to the riser axis.

Abstract: A burial urn for storing the cremated remains of a deceased person and for displaying a memorial. The urn is constructed in the general shape of a book preferably from cast metal parts. A cast main body has an interior chamber with a single inlet opening closed by a removable closure plate for storing the remains. A cast frame is removably attached to the main body to provide a framed area on the front cover of the book shape for retaining and displaying a memorial. The urn may be slidably mounted on pairs of pivot pins to channel-like guide tracks on a support frame or the like. This mounting arrangement permits the urn to be pulled out of the support frame and pivoted for viewing the memorial, but prevents removal of the urn from the support frame without a special tool.

Abstract: Method and machine for manufacturing grids from lead-based metal for use in storage batteries of the type wherein a casting is first performed of grid blanks the periphery of which is irregular and the size greater than that of the grid to be obtained, these blanks being thereafter cut out in an automatic press. In view to increase the rate of output of the press and to improve the quality of the grids, the press is supplied sequentially from a continuous grid-blank feeding conveyor and at least one final lateral centering of the grid blank is performed in the press by the combined action of two pusher members tapping on each side of the grid blank in a transverse direction passing substantially from the center of mass of the grid blank.

Abstract: The method of producing a cage unit for mounting a metal diaphragm in a hermetically sealed diaphragm globe valve having a valve body and bonnet of forged austenitic stainless steel in which the diaphragm unit consists of 8 to 12 very thin (0.006"-0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a plastic sleeve to a rigid base article, such as a glass bottle. A blank of plastic is wrapped around a mandrel and seamed to form a plastic sleeve. The bottle to which the sleeve is to be applied is preheated and longitudinally aligned over the mandrel. A pressurized fluid is introduced between the plastic sleeve and the mandrel to form a fluid cushion upon which the plastic sleeve can slide without binding or wrinkling. As the pressurized fluid is introduced, a stripper sleeve is actuated to engage the lower edge of the plastic sleeve and block the passage of the pressurized fluid therefrom. Thus, the plastic sleeve is inflated slightly about the mandrel. Then the stripper sleeve is moved upwardly to telescope the plastic sleeve onto the aligned bottle. A gasket is secured to the upper base of the mandrel, upon which the bottle rests during the transfer operation.

Abstract: A semi-automatic windshield remover capable of removing automobile windshields is presented. The remover comprises an airtool and an attachment capable of being coupled to the airtool and powered by the airtool. The attachment comprises an longitudinal base having a first end capable of coupling to the airtool and a second end which is applied to the windshield. The second end includes blade means capable of being inserted between the edge of the windshield and the frame coupling the windshield to the automobile and roller means with the circumference of the roller means disposed about one quarter inch from the end of the blade, the end of the blade being parallel to the axis of the roller means but disposed about an inch from the axis of the roller means. The blade comprises and L-shape member having generally triangular shoulders perpendicular to the L. The shoulders maintain the blade in the proper position during the cutting which removes the windshield from the automobile frame.

Abstract: A C-shaped open base element of sheet metal is used to form a protective sleeve about a pipe mounted in a mounting. The element is bent about the pipe and welded together to form the sleeve. Wedges are used to secure the formed sleeve to the pipe. Shoulders are provided on the sleeve to stiffen the sleeve in the unbent regions and to prevent axial displacement of the sleeve in the mounting.