Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature rose class, which was originated by my crossing as seed parent the floribunda rose known as "Orange Sensation" and the miniature rose known as "Zinger" as pollen parent.

Abstract: A new variety of a tropical apricot shrub, originating as a sport bud variation from Dovyalis abyssinica X hebecarpa, or D. hybrida is known under the common name of tropical apricot. This new variety is characterized by variegated, color leaves having three distinct colorations of dark green, pale green disposed substantially centrally, and yellow disposed marginally about the leaves in a random variegated pattern.

Abstract: A new variety of nectarine tree discovered as a seedling of an open pollenated Red Grand nectarine tree growing in Fresno County, located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The fruit of the new variety tends to ripen later than the Red Grand variety and is characterized by a strong red color over a moderate orange, the strong red coloring spreads from a substantially solid covering near the base of the fruit to blotches of strong red coloring near the apex.

Abstract: A new cultivar of kalanchoe characterized by its bright pink florets which range from 12 to 14 mm. in diameter, an extended blooming period due to continuous flower bud development over several weeks, a uniform 10-week flowering response for year around flowering with photoperiod control, and its medium plant height with medium sized glossy foliage.

Abstract: A new kalanchoe variety for greenhouse culture as a pot plant and suitable for year around flowering with a 10-week response under photoperiod control characterized by the orange-red color of its medium sized florets which bloom for an extended period due to a continuous flower bud development during the first several weeks of the blooming period, and by its upright growth with medium plant height, compact habit, and medium sized glossy foliage.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Saintpaulia ionantha distinguished by its continuous and profuse production of vivid and well defined bi-color flowers, borne upright above the foliage on erect and rigid peduncles and exhibiting clean white petals each narrowly bordered by a bright blue margin.

Abstract: A letter and number kit for use in preparing signs or names and addresses including street numbers. The kit consists of a packet of thin metal plates, each having upper and lower longitudinally and transversely extending score lines to provide segments having a blank on one or both faces or a letter, number, or punctuation mark on one or both faces of each segment. The number of letters in the kit may be varied. Primary letters of the alphabet which are used more frequently than other letters are present in the kit in a greater number than secondary letters which in turn are present in the kit in a greater number than tertiary letters. For instance, in comparatively large kits from approximately eight to eleven of each of the primary letters, from six to seven of each of the secondary letters and from approximately two to five of each of the tertiary letters may be present.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for forming the bottom part or cover part of a folded box by means of a plunger which presses a precut blank, the edge portions of which are coated with a liquid adhesive, into a female mold, and wherein means are provided for preventing the marginal strips of the blank which are coated with adhesive from coming in contact with the plunger when the blank is being pressed into and retracted from the mold.

Abstract: A panel hole closure is composed of a rigid plate having an integral array of resilient fingers projecting from one surface of the plate inboard of the plate rim. A integral stiffener is provided for each finger which stiffens the finger against inward deflection toward the axis of the plate so that once the closure is seated in a panel aperture, it is difficult to dislodge. A plastic sealing ring encircling the plate rim may be melted and flow to provide a fluid-tight seal between the closure plate and panel.

Abstract: Gas supply device employing a seal means which on activation of the device serves as a diffuser through which the gas passes from the source to the point of use.

Abstract: The apparatus has at least two containers for baths of treating liquid. Each container accommodates a plurality of guide rollers which guide the carrier in a loop-shaped path through the container, the path having a bight .[.,.]. and a deflecting roller which deflects the carrier in the bight. All of the rollers are at least partly immersed in the respective bath. A receptacle is provided for accommodating a body of fresh rinsing water, and a carrier transfer roller is at least partly immersed in the body of water in the receptacle and engages and transfers the carrier from one to the other of the containers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for protecting a dynamic compressor from surge. The method includes a first step for providing a simultaneous control of a smaller relief means and a main control member of a dynamic compressor or the driver thereof for changing the performance of the compressor. This combined action provides for the protection from surge and at the same time insures the invariability of the main control parameters of pressure, mass flow rate to the user, or the speed of rotation. The second step provides for controlling a larger relief means and provides for antisurge protection in those cases when the first step is not sufficient to protect the compressor from surge. Apparatus is also provided for automatically implementing the method.

Abstract: A process for purifying aluminum alloys comprises providing molten aluminum alloy in a container having a porous wall therein capable of containing molten aluminum in the container and being permeable by the molten electrolyte. Aluminum is electrolytically transported through the porous wall to a cathode thereby substantially separating the aluminum from alloying constituents.

Abstract: A data processing system in which the central processor unit operates asynchronously with one or more memory units independently of the operating speed of the memory units wherein the central processor timing signal and the memory timing signal have a predetermined phase relationship. The central processor unit is arranged to remain operative even when the memory unit is enabled unless it is disabled by a signal from the memory unit under preselected conditions. The central processor generates a plurality of operating instruction signals for transfer to the memory unit to permit the latter to perform its desired functions by enabling the memory unit, inhibiting the transfer of data from the memory unit to a data bus and permitting storage of data from the central processor unit when data is acceptable for such storage.

Abstract: A detachable visor for a cap that is detachably mountable on the bill of the cap. The visor has a face shield pivotally interconnected by hinge means to a pair of spaced apart clip means. The clip means detachably mount on the bill of the cap. In the first mounting condition, a face shield depends downwardly from the bill of the cap to guard the face of the wearer of the cap and is pivotally movable on the hinge means to a clear position where the face shield extends upwardly from the upper surface of the bill of the cap. The visor is also mountable in a second mounting condition wherein the face shield extends upwardly from the bill of the cap in a different orientation than in the clear position. Restraining means may be provided for restraining the face shield with respect to the cap in any of the desired positions thereof.

Abstract: The sanitary unit comprises at least one vessel such as a bowl, basin or a lavatory pan and is intended to be installed in particular in cabins of public or private places such as sanitary installations located in towns or areas in the country such as those provided alongside roads. In this unit the vessel is movable between a position of use and a cleaning position. The unit comprises means for cleaning the vessel when the latter is in its cleaning position and means for controlling the displacement of the vessel between the two positions and means for actuating the cleaning means.

Abstract: A hand-held ball washer having an enclosed chamber for holding the cleaning fluid and an adjacent ball cleaning chamber having brush bristles for cleaning the golf ball with means for applying the cleaning fluid onto the golf ball in the cleaning chamber and the cleaning chamber having an opening through which the ball can be held for cleaning and an opening through which the fluid and dirt drains out. A holder is also provided to move the golf ball up and down in the cleaning chamber while permitting it to rotate against the bristles for cleaning.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a flexible fluid line arrangement suited for connecting a hand held fluid-driven appliance to a source of motive fluid in a manner providing reliable, effective fluid supply, while permitting easy and facile manual manipulation of the appliance. The application specifically discloses a water driven power toothbrush adapted for connection to a household faucet. Concentrically arranged tubes connect the faucet with the hand held appliance, with the pressure side of the faucet connected to the innermost tube, while the exhaust or discharge side connects to the annular space between the inner and outer tubes. Novel, simplified swivel connections are provided between the appliance and the concentric tubes, and also between the tubes and the outlet fitting at the faucet.

Abstract: The device for removing incrustations from the inner wall of a cylindrical vessel comprises a driven shaft supported for rotation in the vessel about its central axis and for a vertical movement along this axis. Impact tools, preferably in the form of prismatic blocks defining a straight edge, are attached respectively to the shaft by a pair of chains in such a manner that the abrading edge of each tool extends parallel to the central axis when the chains are straightened by the centrifugal force.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning an adhesive applicator roll includes a plurality of air jets for directing an air stream against the roll to clean the same. A driven roller assembly rotates the roll as it is being cleaned by the jets.

Abstract: An improved self-propelled carpet cleaning machine comprises a body movably mounted by a drive wheel. The body is powered by a drive motor which may be selectively connectable either to an AC power source located separately from the body or to a DC power source contained in the body. In addition, the body includes a first storage chamber for receiving fresh cleaning solution therein and a second storage chamber for receiving spent cleaning solution therein. The first and second storage chambers are provided by a flexible membrane which divides an enclosed cavity into two parts. A scrubbing means is also carried by the body in back of the drive wheel on the body. The scrubbing means includes means for applying the fresh cleaning solution to the carpet, a brush roller for agitating the carpet fibers contacted by the cleaning solution to remove foreign material therefrom, and a vacuum shoe for removing the spent cleaning solution from the carpet and placing that solution in the second storage chamber.

Abstract: In a hinge latch mechanism for a cabinet door of the type including a strike and a keeper assembly mounted on a pair of door hinge parts and cooperating to releasably retain the door in closed position, the improvement featuring a novel keeper assembly and mode of mounting same on its associated hinge part.

Abstract: A hinge for cabinet doors or lids, especially for period furniture, having two visible sleeve-like hinge parts which can be fastened to the supporting wall of the cabinet and to the cabinet door or lid, respectively, and which are swingable relative to one another about the longitudinal axis of a pintle held in one of the hinge parts and engaging a complementary bore in the other hinge part. The pintle is made in one piece with a mounting pin added at approximately right angles to its end held in the hinge part and fastenable in a bore of the associated cabinet part. The visible, sleeve-like hinge part holding the pintle has on the side facing the associated cabinet part an aperture through which the pivot pin can be passed during assembly and from which the mounting pin protrudes. The pintle and the mounting pin are held in the position correctly aligned with the sleeve-like hinge part by a plug pushed onto the mounting pin and plugging up the aperture in the hinge part.

Abstract: Sausage casing is shirred into pleated compressed sticks by an annular shirring ring-disc disposed with its axial centerline displaced from the casing axial centerline and also tilted with respect to the casing axial centerline so as to effect a continuous ectating motion against the casing being shirred as the center of the ring-disc revolves around the casing axis.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing shrimp and like arthropoda, comprising a housing, positively driven transport means disposed within the housing and containing a plurality of peripherally extending needles for engaging and impaling deheaded shrimp in a predetermined attitude to sequentially advance them through a plurality of operating stations in a path, defined at least in part, by a selectively shaped tunnel within said housing. The entry to said tunnel is contoured to properly orient the shrimp and to facilitate its initial positioning and displacement relative to the transport means by pneumatic forces. At the first operating station, the relatively thin abdominal shell or membrane disposed on the ventral side of the first five shell segments is longitudinally severed and the interconnection between the swimmerettes and the shrimp body is disrupted.

Abstract: A resilient securing, fastening or gripping means for eyelets of shoes for men, women and children replacing ordinary shoe laces.

Abstract: A fishing apparatus for quickly and safely connecting and disconnecting the upper end of the leader to and from the fishing line, respectively, comprising a back plate to be attached to the fishing line, a semi-rigid front plate, means for releasably securing the front plate to the back plate, the lower end of the front plate extending below the lower end of the back plate to provide an area which can be grasped to attach or to remove the front plate to or from the back plate, respectively, and a hole provided through the lower end of the front plate to which lures, hook and bait can be directly attached or to which a section of line can be attached with the lures, hook and bait attached to the end of the line.

Abstract: The leg portions of a continuous molded coupling element are bonded together to reinforce the attachment of connecting threads embedded in the leg portions.

Abstract: A tilt release catch comprising a housing member having a dog supported in a housing and constantly pressing against an opposite wall, a male member adapted for insertion between the dog member and a wall, and having an aperture for receiving one end of the dog therein in a locking position therebetween, and a stud member provided between the male member and the dog for releasing the engagement of the male member therefrom.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for introducing a moving web to a stenter apparatus at the commencement of the stenter apparatus operation comprises gripping and transporting the web between at least two belt conveyors which are driven at a linear speed substantially equal to the linear speed of the edge grips of the stenter apparatus, transferring the moving web into the moving edge grips of the stenter apparatus, and disengaging the belt conveyors from gripping and transporting contact with the moving web when continuous web transportation through the stenter apparatus has been established. Useful in processes for the production of oriented and heat-set thermoplastics films such as polyethylene terephthalate films for feeding the film to the stenter apparatus at the beginning of the film production process or if a malfunction necessitating re-feeding occurs in the stenter apparatus. Preferably incorporates means for feeding the film to a dump until re-feeding can occur, then severing the film and re-feeding.

Abstract: In a method for making an indirectly-heated cathode assembly, the steps of spacing the heater from the cathode substrate with a temporary volatilizable spacer, fixing the positions of the heater and cathode with respect to one another with the spacer therebetween, and then volatilizing the spacer.

Abstract: For the manufacture of capacitor rolls for wound capacitors, the impregnation is performed by subjecting the dielectric foils on their stock rolls to an impregnating treatment in vacuum. The capacitors manufactured from the capacitor rolls thus obtained have a comparatively high breakdown voltage. The manufacture of the complete capacitor is no longer interrupted for an impregnation treatment.

Abstract: The apparatus of the invention comprises a gear puller assembly with removable jaws adapted to be extended around the teeth of the gear to be pulled from a shaft, and screw means capable of exerting pressure required to pull the gear.The method of the invention includes the steps of positioning a first puller jaw affixed to the gear puller assembly around a portion of a gear press-fitted onto a shaft, positioning a second puller jaw around a remaining portion of the gear and affixing the second puller jaw to the gear puller assembly, then applying the force necessary to pull the gear.

Abstract: The method of this invention involves abruptly applying a very high pressure pulse to the already pressurized annular space between a hydraulic expansion-swaging mandrel core and the tube being swaged to obtain a practically zero gap, after removal of the pressure, between the tube and the bore in which it is being swaged.

Abstract: A molded plastic bowling pin incorporating a core extending the length of the pin substantially from its base to its head and constituted of a plurality of plastic core elements of varying sizes and shapes such that the composite pin incorporating the same meets the weight distribution standards set by the American Bowling Congress, and a shell defining the external configuration of the pin, the shell having a substantially uniform thickness about the core elements and being integrally molded on and firmly bonded thereto. The pin is manufactured by assembly of the internal core from the individual plastic core elements having the predetermined, desired weight distribution, and thereafter injection molding the shell directly thereon to define the composite, integrally molded bowling pin.

Abstract: A field effect transistor is fabricated by forming a silicon dioxide film having a region where said silicon dioxide film becomes thinner at that area on one surface of a silicon semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type at which the field effect transistor is to be formed. On said silicon dioxide film there is deposited a polycrystalline silicon layer which has an impurity concentration higher than that of the silicon semiconductor substrate. The polycrystalline silicon layer is removed by selective etching so as to leave only a part which becomes a gate of the field effect transistor.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a lifting magnet includes welding dished shells in a nested relationship to form a dome-shaped case, cutting at least one radial slot in the case, welding a central core interiorly of the case, and placing a removable, internally coolable conducting coils on the core. A coolant is flowed through the coil.

Abstract: A method of constructing a burner for efficiently burning a wide variety of fuels without having to add auxiliary fuel to the system or provide special air handling equipment. In the main embodiment of the invention, two cylindrical burning sections are superimposed one over the other in a cross-like configuration. The lower cylinder serves as a primary burning chamber in the system while the upper cylinder serves as an afterburner. A conveyor transports raw fuel from the front of the primary chamber through an extended burning zone. The rear of the chamber remains open to the atmosphere so that air is drawn over the moving fuel bed in the burning zone in counterflow relationship therewith. An elongated duct is aligned within the primary chamber over the burning bed of fuel and is arranged to accelerate volatile gases generated in the primary chamber into the afterburner. The angular relationship between the two cylinders is adjusted so that the turbulent vortical flow is created in the afterburner.