Abstract: The subject apple variety comprises a new Red Delicious sport mutation (Ace strain) originating as a limb sport on a spur variety Red Delicious apple tree. The new variety is also of the spur type. It is unique in the following characteristics: Its leaves are significantly larger than the leaves of the parent tree and other spur Red Delicious apple tree varieties; its fruit possesses superior color characteristics and a very high degree of color consistency; its fruit is significantly larger than the fruit of the Bisbee strain Red Delicious apple tree; and the flesh and under layer of the epidermis of its fruit lose their green chlorophyll coloration in high degree at an early date. Accordingly, the fruit is characterized by an unusually white flesh color.

Abstract: A variable speed transmission comprising outer and inner rotatable members mounted for rotation about first and second rotational axes, respectively, at least first and second one-way clutches mounted on the inner rotatable member, and first and second drive elements attached to the first and second clutches, respectively, and to the outer member so that rotation of one of the rotatable members about its rotational axis causes the drive elements to rotate the other of the rotatable members about its rotational axis. The radial spacing between the rotational axes can be adjusted to vary the drive ratio.

Abstract: A catheter formed of an elongated, hollow tube having a sealed, separate air passageway formed integrally of the tube and extending from a point near the forward end of the tube to an integral air inlet nozzle located near the rear end of the tube and extending outwardly therefrom. An inflatable barrel shaped cuff is mounted upon and encircles the tube near its forward end, there being an opening in the tube wall communicating the interior of the cuff with the air passageway for inflating and deflating the cuff. A cup shaped seal is also mounted upon the tube and is frictionally secured thereto by integral springy flanges which permit forwardly sliding the seal upon the tube but which resists rearward sliding of the seal.

Abstract: A stimulator device for insertion in a living body and having particular advantage for intra-cardiac use comprising a structure having a body form of a size and configuration to enable its transvenous or transarterial insertion, the surface of said body form providing electrode means for contact with a portion of the living body to be stimulated by said electrode means, and means mounted to project outwardly of and peripherally of said body form including anchor portions locating in a position displaced from said electrode means and providing means for engaging in portions of said living body to establish said electrode means in a required position of use, said electrode means having in connection therewith means to energize the same once said body form is located in its required position of use.

Abstract: A self-contained, readily-attached electrical connector unit for fluorescent light fixtures is disclosed which hangs from and attaches to the separate prongs of a pair of single or double pronged fluorescent bulbs. The device provides a convenient means for providing auxillary power e.g., connecting extra lighting or a motor for lighted or animated displays to ceiling fixtures and eliminates extraneous wiring and brackets normally used for these purposes, and further eliminates the use of battery-powered motors with these inherent shortcomings and expense.In one embodiment a housing unit for an outlet plug and motor drive is disclosed having a pair or receptacle cups engageable over the ends of a pair of fluorescent tubes for making electrical connection to said outlet and/or motor. In another embodiment the receptacle cups are flexibly attached to the housing so as to be engageable with the prongs of variously spaced tubes.

Abstract: This invention comprises a gas-permeable contact lens consisting essentially of a plasticized cellulose resin selected from a partially esterified or partially etherified cellulose polymer plasticized with a compatible plasticizer in an amount sufficient to increase the gas permeability of the cellulose resin.

Abstract: Pipe wrapping apparatus, having one or more pipe wrapping tape spindles with each of which is associated a take up spindle onto which tape backing is wound after the backing has been stripped from the tape as the tape is wound onto the pipe.

Abstract: Processes for imparting flavors and aromas to consumable materials, for example vegetable flavors to foodstuffs or perique flavors to tobacco, by adding to such materials a small amount of at least one thioester according to the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, cycloalkyl, or alkenyl and R.sub.2 is alkyl, alkylthioalkyl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or aryl, R.sub.1 containing at least two carbon atoms when R.sub.2 is an alkyl group containing three or four carbon atoms, effective to alter the flavor and/or aroma of such materials, together with compositions containing such thioesters and adapted to alter the flavor and/or aroma of such materials, novel cycloalkyl and alkenyl thiopropionates useful for such purposes, and processes for producing such novel thiopropionates.

Abstract: A catalyzed process for the preparation of monomeric and/or polymeric compounds such as esters, polyesters, ester-amides, and polyester-polyamides which result from the reaction of an imide and an alcohol in the presence of a Group IA, IIA, IIB and/or IIIA metal or metal compound, imide-alcohol condensation catalyst.

Abstract: A device which is designed for use by athletes to protect against and prevent injury to the knees, lower extremities, ankles and feet, without restricting mobility or efficiency. The apparatus includes a dynamic system of components which are worn by the athlete during the athletic event and, in a preferred embodiment, includes elastic, corset-like tights or leggings which have secured thereto at least one pair of cable assemblies, one for each leg, which extend from the hip area to the foot area. Each cable assembly includes a flexible, non-elastic cable which is wrapped about the leg at least one full turn between the hip and the foot. Means are provided for securing the lower end of the cable to the athletic shoe of the wearer, and means are also provided for tensioning the cable to any desired degree. The tensioned cable assemblies protect the limb complex unit from angular and torsional stresses incurred during the athletic event.

Abstract: A long-term endoprosthesis in which a relatively large part of the surface, which in the implanted condition makes contact with the bone of the wearer of the implant, is provided with electrodes. These electrodes are connected with a source of a low frequency electrical voltage and are so arranged that they alternate with relatively short spacings in the contact zone. The electrode spacing preferably decreases in size in accordance with the size of the mechanical area loading on the corresponding part of the contact area, that is to say, the greater the loading, the smaller the spacing.

Abstract: A three piece prosthetic knee joint comprised of a femoral component in the form of a shell member having convex condylar portions with an insert having a top surface with concave portions which receive said condylar portions of the femoral component and a bottom surface that rotatably engages a platform load bearing tibial component. The device may also include a cam mechanism between the insert and the tibial component so that lateral motion therebetween lifts the tibia thereby more nearly simulating natural knee joint action than can be obtained by existing two component prosthetic knee joints.The present design is also adapted to provide a total knee joint replacement system whereby a single surgical technique may be employed, and then the correct components may be inserted according to the observed condition of the knee.

Abstract: A hip joint mechanism for adapting a leg prosthesis to a body adapter is disclosed which includes a hip hinge assembly having a hinge base and a hinge gate which pivot to accommodate pivoting of the leg prosthesis during sitting and a swivel assembly having a lock coupling providing locked and free rotational and longitudinal movement of the leg prosthesis. Means are provided for adjusting the hip joint mechanism to place the leg prosthesis in proper body and weight support alignment.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved shampoo tray device of the type having a tray with neck receiving aperture and side ridges which tray affixes to the individual being shampooed. The tray includes a first and second side channel formed within the tray extending along the sides of the neck of the user. Seal means are provided for water-tight contact of the tray to the individual's neck as well as a first and second retention strap affixed to the first and second side channels, respectively. The retention straps have a plurality of retention means such as Velcro strips along the length thereof. At least one spray head retention aperture can be defined in a side ridge of the tray adapted for holding a water spay device.

Abstract: An infant bathing device having the undersurface thereof contoured for being removably received in resting position on a double sink, the device having a first trough portion configured and contoured for receiving the body of the infant, the first trough portion adjacent one end of the device having an upwardly extending back and head supporting portion extending above the highest point of the first trough portion. The device includes a second shallower trough portion adjacent the other end thereof for receiving bathing articles such as soap and the like. Intermediate the two trough portions is an overflow divider spaced below the upper periphery of the main body of the device, the divider having the undersurface thereof configured for resting on the divider of a double kitchen sink with the back and head supporting portion abutting one end of the sink. The back supporting portion may optionally be provided with handle means with the entire device being formed in an integral unit.

Abstract: A toilet provided with a flushing device for flushing the toilet bowl, which is equipped with a spraying device at the bottom side of the toilet lid for spray-flushing the toilet bowl after the bowl has been flushed by its normal flushing device. The spraying device has its outlets in a rotatable section preferably rotatable by recoil action exerted by the spray water. A valve is associated with the supply of spray water for turning off the supply of spray water in response to the toilet lid being lifted off the toilet seat. The spraying device has associated therewith a timed valve system which limits each spraying cycle to a set time.

Abstract: A system to protect piping and containers from damage by freezing of contained aqueous liquid includes a temperature-actuated SPDT switch connected at its movable contact to a rechargable battery. The fixed contacts of the switch are connected to two input terminals of a DC motor of a motor-actuated valve having its valve opened or closed depending upon the operation of the switch. The movable contact normally engages the fixed contact that provides voltage to close the valve, if open, as the sensed temperature is above about 35.degree. F., but moves to the other fixed contact when the temperature drops to 35.degree. F. to open automatically the valve. A relay having a coil energized by AC power has a normally open contact coupling the motor and the fixed contact used to close the valve so that closing is inhibited, if the AC power is off, until power is on.

Abstract: A dual flush system tank adapted to provide either a full flush or a partial flush at the option of the user. The control handle is actuated normally to produce a full flush. If a partial flush is desired, the control handle is held in its depressed condition for two or three seconds after which it is released. This produces a partial flush. A partial flush is produced by a buoyant reseating weight which will float down with the falling level of liquid in the tank to depress the flush ball and prematurely reseat it in its outlet seat when only part of the liquid has been discharged from the tank. The reseating weight is provided with a latch actuated by the flush handle. For a full flush, the latch is released but is immediately re-engaged before the reseating weight moves downwardly in the tank and is hence latched against premature seating of the flush bal.

Abstract: An extrication splint for injury victims is provided which is assembled beneath the victim at the accident site and assumes the contour of the victim so that he need not be extended into lying position in order to fit on a conventional gurny. The structure consists of a plurality of cross-bars which are slid beneath the victim who may be, for example, in an automobile seat, and a pair of parallel siderails having several jointed segments to accommodate natural bends in the body are assembled to the cross-bars on each side of the victim subsequent to which the rail joints are tightened and the victim is removed on a rigid structure.

Abstract: A honeycomb frame for a beehive is formed of a plurality of sectional members injection molded of a plastics material. Each sectional member consists of an elongated flat bar integrally secured to a right-angled corner part. One part of the corner part is aligned with a flat bar and the other part extends perpendicularly to the flat bar. The other part of the corner part includes a sleeve portion into which the end of another flat bar is inserted.

Abstract: This adapter consists primarily of a main body with an insert, which connects to the deck fitting of a boat, so as to enable a constant flow of water to be supplied, by a garden hose, to the boat's holding tanks, when the boat is at dock-side. The adapter includes a screw cap, so as to enable the tanks to be filled by bucket, or other methods when desired, and it further includes an inspection window, and a strainer.

Abstract: A life raft, having a floor joined at its periphery to a flotation member, is formed with a flexibly-walled, depending, correspondingly water ballast chamber generally parallel and contiguous to the flotation member. The chamber may be compartmented for retention of the water ballast as a distributed stabilizing mass, and extends about a wholly open center area that underlies all or the greatest part of the floor, thus to concentrate the ballast below the peripheral flotation member as a further aid to stability.Ports are provided in the walls of the chamber, the openings of at least the outer wall being continuously open to the flow of water therethrough. In one form of the invention the openings of the inner side wall are check-valved to exhaust air from the center space, creating a partial vacuum that increases the stability of the raft.

Abstract: An apparatus for deburring workpieces such as profiles, tubes, metal sheets or the like, is provided which includes a housing and a deburring tool rotatably mounted within the housing about a horizontal axis such that the tool partially projects from the housing. A workpiece holder is located in front of the housing for holding the workpiece to be deburred level with and in abutment with the rotatable tool. The holder has a block portion, which is a workpiece retaining device. The block portion and the workpiece receiving device are displaceable into the housing in a direction towards the tool.

Abstract: A machine operated implement for cleaning box culverts and other drains and waterways which are generally rectangular in cross section has an elongated body with a plow means at a forward end and a plunger means at a rearward end together with means for wetting dirt in the culvert in advance of said plow means and further means for wetting the dirt in advance of said plunger means.

Abstract: A sponge mop refill comprises a cellular foam body to which is affixed a thin, stiff, hard, planar backing strip. The backing strip is centrally cut out to provide needed flexibility as the refill is medially bent during the water extracting procedure. A pair of spaced, plastic, accordion rivets have their heads interposed between a surface of the foam body and a surface of the backing strip and are installed with the rivet shank extending outwardly through the backing member to facilitate easy application to and removal from a sponge mop.

Abstract: A base unit having a vacuum hose and vacuum head attachable thereto includes means for developing a source of low pressure. A detachably attachable housing supporting a conventional vacuum bag is mountable upon the base unit in fluid communication with the low pressure source to form, with the base unit, a dry or vacuum carpet cleaner. The housing is readily replaceable with a first container for ejecting a cleaning solution through jets in the vacuum head into the carpet being cleaned and with a second container in fluid communication with the low pressure source to draw and collect the cleaning solution and the debris from the carpet through the vacuum hose to form, in combination with the base unit, a wet carpet cleaner.

Abstract: A drapery hanger having a support with a channel shaped track and a flexible tape secured to the upper margin of a drape and characterized by integral longitudinally spaced track-engaging parts each terminating in a V-shaped flange adapted for snap interlock with said track and slidable engagement in said track while supporting the weight of the drape.

Abstract: A machine for automatically stripping the meat from a turkey leg or the like, has retaining means for gripping the leg and leg tendons adjacent the hocks and radially disposed stripping knives are driven longitudinally of the leg while being radially adjusted for following the bone contour to strip the meat from the bone and tendons.

Abstract: An apparatus for tenderizing a comestible product, such as meat, comprising an intermittently advanced horizontal conveyor for conveying a product to be processed underneath a set of knives in a knife carriage supported for vertical reciprocation toward and away from the conveyor. The knife carriage has a plurality horizontal plate-like members fixed in vertical spaced relative to one another and discrete knife assemblies each comprising a rod-like member slidable in closely spaced vertically aligned apertures of upper plate-like members and extending to opposite sides thereof. The rod-like members each have a flange at the upper side of an intermediate plate-like member normally engaging the same. A discrete compression spring surrounding each of the rod-like members is interposed between the flange thereon and the under side of an upper plate-like member which is adjustable towards and from the intermediate plate-like member.

Abstract: A fastener for connecting two parts of a flexible ornamental article comprises a sleeve, which is open at both ends and provided with first bayonet joint means adjacent to each end thereof, two plugs, each of which is provided with second bayonet joint means which are contained in said sleeve and interengage with said first bayonet joint means, and a helical compression spring contained in said sleeve between said plugs and urging said plugs axially apart. Each of said plugs is rotatable in said sleeve to disengage said second bayonet joint means of said plug from the first bayonet joint means and is subsequently axially movable out of said sleeve. The fastener can be used to connect two parts of a flexible ornamental article if each of said parts is provided with one of said plugs.

Abstract: A device for holding fencing or similar wire (single-strand or double-strand) to a structure such as a fence post, comprises a body having a first passage through which the wire passes. A second intersecting passage carries a ball or disc which is spring-biased towards the intersection but rolls in the second passage into a position in which it locks the wire under tension. A stop surface at the end of the second passage limits the penetration of the ball or disc into the wire under severe tension.

Abstract: A method for inserting a tube through a tubesheet aperture and expanding it into contact with the aperture's wall. A tube guide-expander device is assembled in an open end of a tube with a portion of the device protruding from the tube. The guide-expander includes a distally protruding tip portion tapered to diverge in a direction toward the tube so as to facilitate insertion of the guide-expander and engaged tube through apertures in spatially separated tube supports and tubesheet. The guide-expander and tube engaged therewith are axially displaced relative to the tubesheet until the desired relative configuration is obtained. Expansion of the tube results from expanding the assembled tube guide-expander and driving the housing tube in the radial direction against the tubesheet aperture's wall. Such guide-expander expansion obtains from relatively axially displacing two structural components and compressing an interposed, radially expansible structure.

Abstract: A piston and cylinder motion dampening device having a spiral groove metering, an orificed two-way pressure relief valve or a screw-on spring or an over-extension limiting seal retainer.A push-together method of assembling a piston and cylinder motion dampening device.A motion dampening device with a baffle chamber.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for fabricating dynamoelectric machine stator assemblies in which end turns of the different windings are separated by winding end turn insulation. In one disclosed method, a plurality of phase insulators are deformed and constrained in a substantially cylindrical configuration and moved axially into a stator core bore. The phase insulators are moved radially outward of the substantially cylindrical configuration with connectors of the insulators moving into predetermined slots of the core. In one disclosed apparatus, a substantially cylindrical arbor is provided with longitudinally extending grooves therein for positioning and accommodating connectors of the phase insulators. The phase insulators are deformed about a peripheral surface of the arbor and then retained adjacent thereto during insertion of the arbor into the bore of a core. The connectors are aligned and moved from the arbor grooves into predetermined core slots.

Abstract: A replaceable gang head machine tool unit having a driving motor, the unit being mounted on a slide table arranged to be driven and advance in a given direction wherein: there is provided an annular rail comprising a rear stationary rail and a front movable rail disposed on a machine base, a plurality of gang heads disposed around the annular rail and supported thereon, the plurality of gang heads being arranged to be rotated on the annular rail by an index table to permit any desired gang head to be selected therefrom on the movable rail. When the working unit is in a retreated position in the machine base, the selected head on the movable rail may be joined to the unit for travel therewith together with the movable rail.

Abstract: A three mask method is provided for making a field effect transistor which includes the use of a first mask for defining first and second spaced apart diffusion regions, each having first and second ends, a second mask for defining a contact region at the first end of the first and second diffusion regions and for defining a protected region at the gate region and source and drain electrodes of the transistor, the protected region extending between the second ends of the first and second diffusion regions, and a third mask for forming a gate electrode within the protected region and contact electrodes in the contact region. The source and drain electrodes are formed between the gate electrode and the first and second diffusion regions by ion implantation techniques.

Abstract: A two-phase buried-channel charge coupled device wherein a doped layer of first type conductivity is formed with a predetermined doping concentration under a surface of a semiconductor body of second type conductivity. A first plurality of electrodes is formed in spaced relationship on the surface over the doped layer. Particles generating the first type conductivity are ion implanted into regions of the doped layer between the first plurality of electrodes, increasing the doping concentration of the portion of the doped layer disposed beneath such spaced regions. A second plurality of electrodes is formed over the increased concentration portions of the doped layer. The first plurality of electrodes provides the transfer gates of the device and the second plurality of electrodes provides the storage gates for the device.

Abstract: A method of reforming the fins of a finned tube is disclosed. The method comprises forming a tube having a plurality of internal longitudinal fins with a V-notch at the tip of the fins, and reforming the fins of the tube over a shaped plug, in long lengths, to spread the tips of the V-notch so that the tips of the fins are wider than the fin thickness.