Abstract: A new pink miniature rose which lightens upon aging.

Abstract: A hybrid tea rose variety having red flowers borne on long length stems of a very vigorous plant, open flowers having a very slight fragrance.

Abstract: A hybrid tea variety having red flowers, on long to medium stems, very mildew resistant foliage and very little fragrance.

Abstract: An almond tree which is of medium size, open, upright and sturdy, and vigorous; abundantly foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin and small, alternate, globose glands; blooms heavily with white flowers; and is a regular, mid-season, and very heavy producer of large, well-distributed, light-colored nuts having a relatively thin shell and a medium size, sweet-flavored kernel of good quality.

Abstract: A manually operable tube flaring tool for providing a partial flare in the end of a deformable tube. The tool includes a flaring head defining an annular flaring surface and a cylindrical pilot portion projecting axially from the flaring surface to be received in the tube end for guiding the flaring surface axially against the distal end of the tube during the flaring operation. The tool further includes a support for fixedly positioning the tube end coaxially adjacent the flaring surface of the flaring head. The support defines an improved recess configuration providing a controlled buckling of the tube end by the forceful engagement therewith of the flaring surface wherein the buckled tube end defines preselected frustoconical inner and outer portions. The support may further define a conventional single flare recess opposite the partial flare recess whereby the tube may be used selectively to provide either of the partial or single flare flaring operations.

Abstract: A rail connector and improvement in seat base support assembly. The connector takes two basic forms. In the first a pre-stressed, close wound coil, disposed either transversely or longitudinally of the connector, is effective to continuously bias the seat base support means upwardly. In the second a cantilevered, curved spring arm serves the same purpose. The connector may be configured to reach into the body of a sinuous spring band, for example, and define a torque arm in the band, at the back rail. All forms are applicable to wire mesh, chord rubber webbing, flat steel bands and sinuous, both arced and dearced.

Abstract: A printer is disclosed that utilizes a single font of somewhat cylindrical configuration, bearing type for various symbols upon its peripheral surface. The font is movably mounted to accommodate rotation and axial displacement, to set a desired symbol in printing position. The type font is controlled in movement by shift registers operating in combination with a source of pulses bi-directional stepping motors and reset apparatus. The printer is responsive to various codes which are registered by components in the shift registers which are then cleared by pulses that step the stepping motors to position the type font by driving the stepping motors in a forward direction to accomplish the desired position in components. Thereafter, the type font is actuated to print the desired symbol. Structure is disclosed for returning the type font to a home position by reverse stepping the stepping motors.

Abstract: A mixture consisting essentially of fly ash and cement kiln dust which reacts at ambient temperature with water to produce a durable mass.

Abstract: A deep tank reactor is utilized for fermentation of waste liquid or other liquid in a biological reaction resulting in a solid cellular material. The resulting solid material, which is in suspension, is initially separated from the bulk of the liquid by a gaseous flotation process, using the dissolved gas in the liquid as the source of gaseous bubbles for flotation purposes.

Abstract: Process for continuous production of propylene oxide (FIG. 1) from propylene and aqueous hydrogen peroxide. The aqueous hydrogen peroxide is first reacted with propionic acid in the presence of acid catalyst to form perpropionic acid (1). The perpropionic acid is taken up by extraction in benzene (5, 12), and following drying of the benzene solution (16), the perpropionic acid in the solution is reacted with propylene (18) for oxidation of the propylene to propylene oxide and conversion of the perpropionic acid back to propionic acid. The reaction mixture is worked up to separate propylene oxide, propionic acid and benzene (25, 27, 31, 33), and the latter two are recycled. In the benzene extraction (5, 12), an aqueous raffinate (7) is formed containing hydrogen peroxide and acid catalyst. Water is removed from the aqueous raffinate (8) and the concentrate is recycled to the propionic acid reactor. Make-up hydrogen peroxide can be added to the aqueous raffinate before the removal of water.

Abstract: Flame retardant polyolefin compositions containing polymeric pentaerythrityl phosphonates and ammonium polyphosphate.

Abstract: A fan-shaped beam of penetrating radiation, such as X-ray or .gamma.-ray radiation, is directed through a slice of the body to be analyzed to a position sensitive detector for deriving a shadowgraph of transmission or absorption of the penetrating radiation by the body. A number of such shadowgraphs are obtained for different angles of rotation of the fan-shaped beam relative to the center of the slice being analyzed. The detected fan beam shadowgraph data is reordered into shadowgraph data corresponding to sets of parallel paths of radiation through the body. The reordered parallel path shadowgraph data is then convoluted in accordance with a 3-D reconstruction method by convolution in a computer to derive a 3-D reconstructed tomograph of the body under analysis. In a preferred embodiment, the position sensitive detector comprises a multiwire detector wherein the wires are arrayed parallel to the direction of the divergent penetrating rays to be detected.

Abstract: A dynamic current supply is connected between the emitter electrode of an output transistor and a point of reference potential, to progressively increase the magnitude of the flow of current therebetween, as the output signal at the emitter electrode approaches the point of reference potential. The dynamic current supply includes a current mirror, the output of which is in the path of and controls the flow of current. An MOS transistor, the conductivity of which is a function of the difference in potential between the operating voltage supplied to the output transistor and the output signal, supplies the input or control current to the current mirror.

Abstract: A digital frequency display device for digitally displaying the operating frequency of a communication apparatus comprising a reference frequency oscillator, a first frequency mixer for mixing the output frequencies of a first oscillator of the communication apparatus and of the reference frequency oscillator, a second frequency mixer for mixing the output frequency of a second oscillator of the communication apparatus and the resultant frequency provided from the first frequency mixer to produce the display frequency shifted by the reference frequency, and a frequency counter for counting the output frequency from the second frequency mixer and for correcting the shifted frequency component to display the correct frequency.

Abstract: A pair of long-sleeved gloves designed particularly to hold an infant during a bath; the gloves being made of a terry cloth material so as to provide increased frictional grasp, each glove being of a length so as to extend above the elbow and on to the forearm, and a VELCRO band around the glove end for binding the glove securely around the arm.

Abstract: A disposable bib, napkin or apron of flexible sheet material having a neck cutout in its upper edge portion and two shoulder pieces adjacent the cutout. The upper edge portion carries a pressure-sensitive adhesive capable of releasably adhering to the clothing or body of a user. The garment is folded upon itself prior to use about a fold line approximately midway between and generally parallel to the side edges of the garment, the adhesive releasably securing the garment in folded condition and all of the adhesive being covered by the folded garment itself. The pressure-sensitive adhesive is arranged in discontinuous areas on opposite sides of the fold line with the adhesive areas offset to be out of contact with one another when the garment is folded upon itself. To prepare the garment for use, adhesive-free edge portions are pulled apart to open the garment and expose the adhesive for placement against the clothing or body of a user.

Abstract: A sleeping and meditation bag has a first position to accomodate the user in a sitting, cross-legged posture and a second position to accomodate the user in a reclining posture. The bag comprises a first portion to accomodate the shoulders and extended elbows of the user in the first position. A second portion of the bag accomodates the trunk of the user and is joined to the first portion. This second portion has a width substantially coincident to the greatest width of the first portion. A third portion has one end adjacent the second portion and is substantially the same width as the second portion to accomodate the extended knees of the user in the first position. The third portion is tapered towards an end surface of the bag to accomodate the feet of the user in the second position.

Abstract: In a garment, and in particular especially in a bodice or swimsuit, eyelets (2), especially adjuster slides, are used for joining parts (1) of the garment to a tape or band (9), at least one portion (5) of the eyelets (2) being sewn in each case into a loop of the part of cloth (1) or of the tape or band (9). To increase the stability of the shape of the loop enclosing the eyelets-portion (5), a fixing tab (7) is joined to the portion (5) and sewn into the loop.

Abstract: In an element for implantation in body tissue, particularly bone tissue, consisting of a biologically flawless material with a micro-pitted surface, the pores in the surface have a diameter many times smaller than has been previously known in order to permit the occurrence of such a tight and extensive boundary zone around the implanted element that this achieves reinforced and inextricable anchoring in the tissue. The pore diameter may be as little as about 10 nm and as large as a few multiples of the normal diameter of the cells in the tissue, preferably no larger than the cell diameter, i.e. about 1000 nm. Optimal results are obtained with pore diameters equal to or smaller than about 300 nm and a finely pored rutile layer has been found to give a particularly strong and durable joint with the growing tissue. Preferably at least one deposit of an agent facilitating and/or accelerating the growing-together process is arranged on or in the element.

Abstract: A mattress (futon or thick bedquilt) and bedclothes, or a pillow which comprises fillings, a plurality of permanent magnet pieces provided on a mounting means, and a covering cloth for covering the above-mentioned components. These magnet pieces generate lines of magnetic force and which are projected on a user's head or other portions of his body thereby to improve the user's health. On the other hand, these magnet pieces abut on the user's body through its covering cloth at the time of applying these mattress and bedclothes as well as pillow, thereby effecting functions of finger-pressure. Further since the pillow contains a heat-absorptive material such as adzuki beans as the fillings, such pillow functions to keep a user's head cool and his feet warm.

Abstract: A water bed employing a mattress in the form of a water-tight bag of flexible sheet material and having means for restricting swelling deformations in the peripheral portion of the top sheet of the bag.

Abstract: A finger or thumb worn thimble provided at one end thereof with a blade which can be used to puncture the end of a metal container and which is also provided with a cutting edge adjacent the aforesaid blade which can be used for cutting twine, rope, etc.

Abstract: A stabilizer or drogue, packageable in a minimal volume, which can be auttically deployed to dampen horizontal, vertical and rotational motion of a device, such as a hydrophone, operating in a relatively viscous fluid. The stabilizer is disposed on a line or cable connected between the device and a surface float, and includes a horizontally oriented fabric fin extended and supported by a plurality of rigid arms, and a plurality of vertically oriented perpendicular fabric fins connected to, extended and supported by the arms and by a rigid vertical tube slidably disposed on the line. The arms are adjacently pivotably connected to a rigid body loaded by the device. Before deployment, the fabric is wrapped around the tube, and the arms are in a raised position substantially adjacent and parallel to the line and the tube, all stowed within a cylindrical container having an open end. The closed end of the container is fixedly connected to the line.

Abstract: This invention relates to toothbrushes of the kind in which a head having bristles projecting from at least one side thereof is articulated to an adjacent end of a handle for adjustment of the head with respect to the handle.The articulating means of the invention include a pair of projections integral with either the head or the handle and journalled in cooperating sockets in the other part, and means are provided for resisting relative turning movement between the head and handle, whereby the head and handle are adapted to be set in a desired position relatively to one another without being locked in said position.

Abstract: A machine for cleaning, polishing and otherwise finishing floors includes a friction-type mechanism for holding the handle of the machine in a preselected position, a dead-man switch control lever arranged for pivotal movement toward and away from the switch it controls, and an effective splash guard. Also disclosed is a helical gear transmission for driving the finishing pads, and a handle that has surfaces particularly adapting it for comfortable gripping by the operator's hands and for non-injurious contact by other parts of the operator's body.