Abstract: A chrysanthemum cultivar named Charlie having flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; medium yellow ray floret color with minimum color oxidation; yellow-green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; medium peduncle length; and minimum pollen production.

Abstract: A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Luv and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; lavender pink ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 105 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched disbud pot; and semi-spreading branching pattern.

Abstract: A tone production assignment circuit produces control information representing assigned key code, key-on etc. Such information has a large number of bits with respect to each channel. A multiplexing circuit has output lines the number of which is smaller than the bit number of the information and divides the information with a plurality of time slots with respect to one channel. The multiplexing circuit is controlled by a signal from a timing signal generation circuit. The multiplexing circuit is capable of rearranging information for transmitting information required for the respective individual channels and also capable of inserting a timing data in an available time slot. A multiple data analysis circuit decodes the information provided by the multiplexing circuit. Tone generators are provided for the respective channels and each one of them functions to latch only corresponding information among the decoded information by a latch circuit.

Abstract: An orthopedic reclining chair is reclinable to a position in which the body of the occupant is substantially inverted, the occupant being retained in the chair by means of a lap belt engaging the upper surface of the thighs whereby to support the weight of the head and torso through the hip joints so as to apply traction to the spine of the occupant. Preferably the heating unit comprises an integral backrest and seat, together with a support for the lower portions of the legs, the seating unit being rockably suspended from a frame relative to which it may be pulled rearwardly from an equilibrium semi-reclining position to its substantially inverted position.

Abstract: A process for improvement of wood-base active carbon made in the presence of phosphoric acid is disclosed herein. The improvement comprises controlling the amount of dissolved salts of the group sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium in the process acid to provide a metal ion concentration from 0.5% to 2.0% by weight. The controlled addition of these metal salts improves the adsorptivity for fuel vapors and the decolorizing activity of the carbon.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling heating time for food placed in a cooking apparatus such as a microwave oven in which heating time required for the humidity of the food which varies with the heating of the food to reach a representative humidity value after abrupt change with a positive gradient is measured, and the product of the measured heating time multiplied by a predetermined heating time coefficient which is inherent in the particular food is added to the measured heating time so that the sum represents the total required heating time for the food.

Abstract: Flexible headband is connected to one side of a flashlight in a manner such that the headband may be wrapped around the body of the flashlight with the terminal wrap being secured to the flashlight when the headband is not in use.

Abstract: A prosthetic ankle for use between the ankle block forming the bottom end of a prosthetic lower leg, and a prosthetic foot, comprising a securing bolt extending upwardly through a hole in the foot and screwed into a nut in the ankle block. Under the head of the bolt are two cupped washers that provide a ball-and-socket connection which allows angular movement of the ankle block in all directions with respect to the foot, as well as rotational movement. A pad of elastomeric material is interposed between the top surface of the foot and the bottom surface of the ankle block, and is cemented to the top surface of the foot. The pad is of a thickness and hardness such that when the ankle block is leaned in any direction, the elastomeric material on the inside of the lean is compressed. Pins project downwardly from the bottom surface of the ankle block and are received in cavities in the elastomer. When a torsional stress is exerted on the ankle block, the pins exert a torsional in the elastomer.

Abstract: A disposable urination bag having a liquid impermeable exterior having a slit which is above the tangent line of two rolls of absorbant material, thus forming a cavity to accept the male genital organ.

Abstract: A urine suction and collection device for a vacuum suction type urinating aid which contains a urine receiver provided with a urine suction opening to be applied to a urinating region includes, a urine transport tube connected, at one end, with the urine receiver and connected, at the other end, with a urine tank, and a vacuum suction tube communicating with a vacuum suction device and, connected to the top of the urine tank. The vacuum comprising: said vacuum suction device positioned in a housing at the one side thereof. A cover fastened to the top of the housing at the other side thereof freely pivots around an axis at one end of the cover. Urine feed ports and air suction ports respectively are provided at the top of the urine tank put in the housing and at the bottom of the cover, and the urine feed port and the air suction port of the cover respectively are connected to the urine transport tube and the vacuum suction tube through passages in the cover.

Abstract: A sanitary device of the type associated with a toilet bowl and having an extendable and retractable spray arm is provided with a hot water supply tank having a heating element therein. The pressure of the cold water supply forces the heated water through the spray nozzle and a partition is provided within the tank between the cold water inlet and the hot water outlet to prevent cold from being inadvertently forced through the hot water outlet.

Abstract: An upwardly opening receptacle is provided including a bottom and upstanding wall portions projecting upwardly from the bottom and extending peripherally thereabout. One of the wall portions has a door opening formed therein and a horizontally swingable and inwardly opening door is hingedly supported from the one wall portion for movement between a closed position closing the opening and an open position adjacent and opposing the inner surface of a second wall portion of the tub. The tub includes structure defining a seat therein facing the aforementioned second wall portion and disposed to the side of the opening remote from the second wall portion. The one wall portion and the door include peripheral portions disposed about the opening and the door defining abuttingly engageable stop surfaces for limiting movement of the door toward the closed position.

Abstract: A pivoting bed having at least one individual bed that is independently rotatable about a vertical support column. A support arm protrudes out from the vertical support column. At the end of this support arm, a single mounting point is provided to which a rectangular bed frame may be horizontally mounted. The bed frame, while remaining in its horizontal position, may pivot about the single mounting pivot of the support arm; and the support arm may, in turn, be pivoted about the vertical support column. The vertical support column is typically round, and the support arms are typically "L" shaped, including a vertical tube portion adapted to fit over the vertical support column and a horizontal arm portion adapted to transversly protrude away from the vertical tube portion. The single mounting point of the support arm is adapted to mate with a centrally located hub of the horizontal bed frame.

Abstract: For use in textile processing, equipment such as jet dyeing machines, a fixed cloth tube for transporting cloth from the jet to the cloth storage compartment, such cloth tube having an exit end portion which is substantially greater in cross-sectional area than the portion extending from the jet, whereby the cloth leaving the cloth tube is permitted to assume a more open condition and whereby the velocity of the liquid flowing with the cloth is reduced as it leaves the cloth tube. A pair of cloth directing liquid jets are disposed oppositely in the exit end of the cloth tube, and a control system is provided for alternately admitting fluid to such cloth directing jets at predetermined time intervals to impose a sinuous path of movement on the cloth as it leaves the cloth tube and thereby provide an orderly and even distribution of the cloth within the cloth storage compartment.

Abstract: In tack seat lasting machines, variation of the tack (nail) pattern is achieved by varying the wiper inwiping movement, itself dependent upon their lengthwise movement. Such variation also alters the "back tack" position (i.e. relationship between the heel band backseam region and corresponding region of the wipers). In accordance with the invention, the nail pattern is varied by an operator-set reference potentiometer (198) by matching with its signal that of a linear potentiometer (190) which controls operation of wiper-operating motor (72, 74). The back tack position is controlled by a motor (105) according to an operator setting of a reference potentiometer (208). The combined signal from the reference potentiometers (198, 208) is compared with a control signal of a linear potentiometer (202) associated with the heel band, the motor (105) being operated until the compared signals match.

Abstract: A floor care device has a rotary tool rotatable about an axis of rotation, a motor arranged to drive the rotary tool in rotation through a power transmission, and a supporting element formed as an angle lever which supports the tool, the motor and the power transmission and freely turns about a pivot axis which is offset relative to the axis of rotation of the tool in a substantially upright direction.

Abstract: A corner brush assembly for cleaning corners including a flat brush head having a substantially rectangular body section integral with a horizontally tapered nose portion extending forwardly away from the body section. A handle is fastened in a predetermined angular relationship to the rear portion of the rectangular body section of the brush head. An appropriate number of bristles composed of a material suitable for a particular range of uses are imbedded in the body section so as to extend perpendicularly to the body. An appropriate number of bristles are embedded in the nose portion of the brush head at forwardly extending positions so that the forward angles relative to the brush head gradually decrease toward the forward nose and causing the bristles to extend further forward of the head as they are embedded toward the nose end. These bristles increase in length as the forward installation toward the nose end progresses.

Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for preventing freezing of the wiper blades, and blade supporting frames, of a vehicle, during a sleet storm, the blade and frame being enclosed in a weather protective hood. A first pair of electric conductors are each affixed along the outer wall of the hood and a second pair thereof are each affixed along the inner wall of the hood. The conductors heat the hood and frame, to prevent accumulation of ice, when selectively energized by a cable through the wiper slot to the vehicle battery, or, preferably, by a separate battery attached on the vehicle cowl, and independent of the vehicle electric system.

Abstract: A windshield wiper construction having an armature comprising a main support element adapted to be an actuator arm, the main support element carrying a pair of rocker elements which mount a lodging element for a flexible wiper blade, the principal feature of the construction comprising the use of first coupling means for detachably connecting the rocker elements to the opposite ends of the main support element for rotational movement relative thereto, the first coupling means permitting the rocker elements to be disengaged only when they are rotated to a predetermined position relative to their normal position of use, and second coupling means for connecting the lodging element to each of the rocker arms for both limited axial and transverse movement of the lodging element relative to the rocker elements, the arrangement permitting limited rotational movement of the rocker arms relative to the main support element during normal use preventing their movement to a position in which they may be disengaged from t

Abstract: A retention clip to secure a windscreen wiper rubber and an associated backing strip to a windscreen wiper blade superstructure comprises spaced, substantially parallel first and second parts integral with an interconnecting third part. The first part has a pair of spaced, co-planar prongs with a recess formed in the outer-most side edge of each prong, the recess being of a shape and dimension to releasably engage a cooperating part of the superstructure. The integral second part has a tongue which engages in one end of a longitudinal slot in the backing strip in which is engaged a head portion of the wiper rubber. The tongue has a downwardly turned end portion to deform the wiper rubber and wedge the tongue, rubber and backing strip together.

Abstract: A toner transporting device for an electrophotographic copying apparatus includes a transporter for carrying toner to and into a chamber through a first opening therein, a second opening in the chamber through which toner in the chamber is moved out of the same in a different direction, and an elastic plate mounted at one of its ends for rotation within the chamber such that its opposite tip end is maintained in contact with the interior wall of the chamber except at the second chamber opening so as to move toner from the first to and through the second chamber opening.

Abstract: Roller supporting means for the lance tube of a long travel retracting soot blower includes a pair of castering-type roller assemblies having their castering axes non-vertical. Each roller assembly is counterweighted to such extent as to substantially statically balance the assembly about its castering axis.