Abstract: A hardy rose plant of the hybrid miniature class, having a vigorous growth habit, and having slightly better than average resistance to mildew, said plant producing, throughout the growing season, a profusion of well-formed buds and flowers, these latter being from about 1 inch to 11/4 inches in size and having from 22 to 28 petals plus 2 to 6 petaloids. The overall color effect of the flowers is rather uniformly coral and pink. The flowers are sterile, and do not generally set hips.

Abstract: A new and distinct ever-bearing variety of strawberry plant characterized by its vigorous plant growth and heavy crops when planted in December. The variety is a prolific runner and is further characterized by its showy long, abundant inflorescence and large amount of pollen, and its reddish-brown pedicels. The fruit is smooth and firm with exerted seeds and rounded at the apex, and has a mild, pleasant aroma and high dessert quality.

Abstract: A fireplace grate comprising a support for holding burning logs and the accompanying hot embers and ashes and including heat transfer structure for transferring heat generated by the logs and embers to the area immediately therebelow. The grate further includes air passageways located in the area below the support. The passageways having air outlets at the front of the grate for directing air into the room in which the fireplace is located and air inlets disposed at location remote from the air outlets for receiving air for passage through the passageways.

Abstract: Certain blends or mixtures of polyethylene and ionomer resins are blow extruded to make a film having excellent linear tear properties in the direction of extrusion, which property is not found in films of either of the resins alone.

Abstract: A cable dispenser including a fixed stand with a rotatable cable turntable mounted concentrically within a rotatable pan which has a payout slot formed therethrough. Cable may be pulled from the dispenser at any angle and the structure provides an inherent braking action when pulling on the cable ceases.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a telephoto lens. The telephoto lens comprises a positive front lens group which remains stationary during focusing and a negative rear lens group having a stationary sub-group and at least one movable sub-group. The movable sub-group has a positive refracting power with its front surface being convex toward the object. The stationary sub-group has a negative refracting power with its rear surface being concave toward the image. The movable sub-group is moved on the optical axis toward an object so as to cause said telephoto lens to focus an object at near distance from its focusing on an object at far distance.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for removing floating material from the surface of a body of liquid and for collecting the material has an endless belt-type materials transport mounted, as by rollers with vertically-separated horizontal rotation axes, to dispose the transport with a lower flight inclined downwardly from above the liquid surface at a frontal location to below the surface at a rearward location. A collection well is contiguously behind the rearward location. The transport is driven to advance the lower flight in the direction from the frontal location to the rearward location. This motion carries floating material from the liquid surface downward and rearward under the lower flight of the transport and releases it at the rearward location to float upward into the collection well. A method for floatage collection by steps that the foregoing apparatus performs is also disclosed.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a turntable carrying, in a circular array centered on a central rotational axis of the turntable, a plurality of vials extending below the underside of the turntable. A stepper motor imparts stepwise rotational motion to the turntable so that during dwell periods of the turntable, specimens in the vials can be investigated optically.Air in a space below the turntable and bounded laterally and at the bottom by an enclosure is circulated by a rotating vane, and a thermistor, responsive to the temperature in the region of the vials, controls a heater in the space below the turntable so as to maintain the temperature of the vials substantially at a predetermined value.

Abstract: Compounds corresponding in structure to enkephalin or polypeptide analogues thereof, wherein one or more peptide links of the enkephalin or analogue is represented by a group or groups the same or different selected from dimethylene, methylene-imino and keto-methylene groups.

Abstract: A magnetic bubble domain chip layout or organization which achieves consecutive bit access is provided by arranging the device in two substantially identical halves or parts. Each half contains half of the total number of storage loops, a separate access loop with its own generator, switches between the storage loop and an access loop, and a separate detector. The separate detectors are connected together to form two arms of a single bridge wherein consecutive bit output is achieved. The generators in each half of the device are located at different distances from the switches between the loops in one half of the device and the associated access loop. In addition, each of the detectors is located a different distance from the switches in the respective halves or parts of the device.

Abstract: The design relates to an electronic distance measuring instrument substantially as shown.

Abstract: A hand tool for inserting and removing electrical contacts from shaped axial bores formed in coupling-type elastic connector housings has coacting members that allow removal, ready reception and accurate placement of the contacts within the axial housing bores.

Abstract: A method for prophylaxis against human cancer which comprises the administration of chelating or complexing agents capable of removing from the human body the various isotopic forms of lead and their radioactive precursors.

Abstract: Novel 5-pyrazolone magenta dye-forming couplers are blocked with a coupler moiety which yields an alkali-soluble or colorless reaction product. The coupler moiety is joined via its coupling position to the enol oxygen of the 5-pyrazolone and is displaced therefrom during processing as a result of reaction by means of oxidized color developing agent to thereby activate the 5-pyrazolone coupler. These couplers have good reactivity and good resistance to aerial contaminants, such as formaldehyde, and can be incorporated in photographic emulsions and elements.

Abstract: A shape retaining collar device for use with garments of wearing apparel as for example, a shirt having a torso covering segment. The shape retaining collar device in the garment construction includes a first fabric portion which is attachable to the torso covering segment and which is generally non-exposed to a viewer. This first fabric portion may be in the form of a band for attachment to the garment and extending outwardly from the first fabric portion is a second fabric portion in the form of a collar which essentially forms a neckline for the garment. Moreover, the second fabric portion terminates in a pair of edges which are forwardly presented to a viewer of the collar. A channel is formed within the second fabric portion for receiving a collar stay and a channel is also formed in the first fabric portion for receiving an integrally formed tab on this collar stay.

Abstract: An adjustable paper cap is provided as an article of protective head gear particularly adapted for use in food serving and processing facilities as well as in various other types of factories or manufacturing facilities. The cap includes two elongated side panels, one of which has two sections that are telescopically adjustable in a longitudinal direction for accommodating size adjustment. A crown fabricated from a relatively thin and flexible sheet material formed with a multiplicity of pleats to permit substantial lateral expansion and is secured between the side panels. Each side panel is formed with relatively narrow, single-folded, longitudinally extending, upper and lower marginal edge portions which enable the two sections of the one panel to telescopically interfit in securely retained relationship. The crown is attached to the side panels through adhesive bonding of the outermost panel of the pleated crown to a marginal edge portion of the respective side panel.

Abstract: Safety headgear includes an impact attenuating suspension system having a cradle of webbing and a non-resilient foam liner.

Abstract: An eyepiece has an upper edge fittable into the upper portion of the eye socket to deter displacement by water force and a lower portion overlying and generally conforming to the cheekbone to absorb diving shock and to limit inward movement. A cushion seal wider than the upper edge and partially bonded to it cushions the eyepiece fit. A head strap lug projects upwardly and rearwardly from the eyepiece so that the head strap connected to it urges the eyepiece upper edge up under the upper portion of the eye socket. The transversely curved front lens is inclined forwardly and downwardly to promote forward visibility during swimming and the side lens is substantially flat to improve peripheral vision and is faired into the curved front lens.

Abstract: A vascular prosthesis and its method of fabrication. The prosthesis takes the form of a flexible and conformable support tube having a luminal surface formed of a smooth, homogenous, and substantially non-thrombogenic hydrogel having relatively small pores or microvoids suitable for tissue ingrowth but resistant to thrombus formation, and having an outer surface formed of essentially the same hydrogel having a heterogenous microstructure which includes relatively large pores or macrovoids especially suitable for cellular ingrowth from perigraft sources and attachment sites. In one embodiment, the tubular substrate is foraminous and the inner and outer hydrogel layers merge through the interstices of the substrate to provide a unified ground substance characterized by strata having selectively different pore characteristics for promoting effective endothelialization and for reducing possibilities of thrombotic occlusion.

Abstract: A toilet installation is disclosed which is especially suited for pleasure boats. A discharge tank is disposed under a toilet fixture and connected with it through an inlet orifice. A flexible obturating member comprising a flexible flap member and a downwardly opening cup-shaped float member is fixed at one side of the inlet orifice so that the flexible obturating member hangs in the discharge tank when the latter is not pressurized. Compressed air from an air compressor is carried through a conduit for pressurizing the discharge tank and expelling the effluent from the discharge tank through a drain orifice, the outlet end of the conduit is aimed at the underside of the float member so that compressed air issuing from the conduit thrusts the obturating member against the inlet orifice thereby sealing off the discharge tank from the tiolet fixture.

Abstract: A partition-wall arrangement comprises a hollow post which is stationary mountable on that corner of a bath or shower tub which is diagonally opposed to a room corner in which the tub is installed. The hollow post is mounted by clamping it between the tub and the room ceiling. The hollow post contains one or a pair of winding shafts at which a pair of flexible partition-walls is wound up, which can be extracted against the effect of a return spring respectively through a vertical slit or a pair of slits into directions which form a right angle with one another and can be connected in the extracted positions at opposed room walls.

Abstract: A mattress includes a pair of ridges made of elastomeric material and disposed respectively on both sides of an elastomeric layer which is laid on the top of a spring unit and covered with an outer covering, the ridges protruding from the elastomeric layer. Each ridge partially or fully extends in the longitudinal direction of the elastomeric layer. A user lying on the mattress is prevented from falling from the mattress by the ridges.

Abstract: Rectangular panel pieces are sewn together by sewing the panel ends to an adjacent panel side so that the side edge of first panel is in alignment with the end of the second panel. Four panel pieces are assembled together in this manner. The free panel edges are then folded over and sewn first to the unattached portion of the adjacent panel edge and the balance further folded and sewn to the adjacent panels free end.

Abstract: Boat slipway for fixed or mobile set-up, comprising a framework, which can hinge around a horizontal shaft at a right angle to the longitudinal direction of the framework, which shaft is supported by mobile or fixed means, the framework having at least one longitudinally telescopic part, which near its end projecting from the framework is provided with apparatus for connecting the framework with at least one floating body which can keep the framework floating on the water and with which the buoyancy can be adjusted to bring the end of the framework under the surface of the water when a boat is launched or taken out of the water.

Abstract: A double acting turbine for converting water wave energy to electrical power in a marine buoy or platform. A tubular body is provided one end of which is adapted to be inserted into the water wave and the second end is adapted to extend out of the water whereby the rise and fall of water in the body creates a flow of air in alternate directions through the body. A turbine having a plurality of outwardly extending blades is positioned in the body above the water level and exposed to and rotated by the flow of air and is connected to an electrical generator for generating electricity in response to the rotation of the wheel. The turbine is designed to operate with air flowing in either direction through the turbine so that power is generated as the water both rises and falls in the tubular body. The turbine blades include a concave surface on one side and a convex surface on the opposite side.