Abstract: A new distinct winter planted spring bearing variety of strawberry plant, characterized by its large fruit produced both during the crown crop and subsequent crops. The primary berries have distinct longitudinal furrows. The fruit is produced on long thick pedicels. The hair on pedicels is perpendicular to the pedicel. The berries are considered firm giving the fruit a long shelf life for strawberries. The plant is considered low growing and open, allowing good exposure to its fruit. The leaflets are large, dark rugose. The inflorescences are mostly long which also helps expose its fruit.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of the Lagerstroemia indica characterized as to novelty by a dwarfness in size, lack of continual vertical growth after maturity and a weeping growth habit at full maturity.

Abstract: A miniature carnation with blossoms having white petals finely striped purple.

Abstract: A miniature carnation characterized by its rapid growth and white blossoms born on well branched stems.

Abstract: A miniature carnation having blossoms of pale lilac with darker lilac stripes and blotches.

Abstract: The advance and retard of the spark ignition in an ignition system of an internal combustion engine is achieved electronically by generating two series of pulses in synchronism with the engine using one series as a reference for maximum advance and the other series to operate a counter to count down the requisite number of pulses beyond the maximum advance point before the spark is initiated, the count of the counter being varied from a computer in accordance with speed and/or load on the engine.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling signatures such as magazines or the like which includes the on-line printing of personalized information onto materials to be inserted within a finished magazine. The system also provides on-line printing of personalized information onto materials adhered to the magazine cover, such as the address label. The on-line printed materials and the magazine or other signature are combined after the on-line printing is completed. The system operates under control of a process computer which includes means for storing the personalized information.

Abstract: A variable display hydraulic pump having at least one pilot plunger, an operating plunger for adjusting the displacement of variable control element, and a first and a second spool for controlling travels of the plungers towards the variable control element side so that a single pumping element may precisely, stably carry out the two pressure-two volume control of the pump.

Abstract: A multiple-layer process for applying, in alternate, successive layers, the protein, avidin, and a biotin-containing extender material to a solid surface to modify the properties of the surface and to the multiple-layer product so prepared.

Abstract: A rear seam of each finger sheath of a baseball glove is formed by securing a reinforcing strip onto two of three sheath members along their adjacent edges to provide an elasticity of the finger sheath and facilitate its bending toward the palm of the glove.

Abstract: An elastic band with an embedded nonelastic pull cord. When used as a waistband for clothing, it provides both an elastic and drawstring function. The cord's extra length results in a string pulled by the wearer to tighten the article. For an elastic band in the form of cloth, the cord may constitute one of the intertwined threads. Woven, knitted or braided elastic may include the cord as part of its fabric. The band with the cord may find use in swimsuits, pants, shirts, and sportswear.

Abstract: An ice-hockey helmet includes a front part and a back part which are hinged together and which, to enable the size of the helmet to be altered, are arranged to be swung to and locked in different positions relative to one another. The front part forms the major part of the helmet and is provided with ear guards having chin strap attaching means, while the back part has the form of a basin-shaped neck guard. The neck guard can be swung as a flap, relative to the front part of the helmet, about a substantially horizontal hinge means. To enable the helmet to be altered precisely to selected sizes, the front and back parts of the helmet are provided with mutually co-acting portions which when the back part of the helmet is swung relative to the front part thereof, so as to shorten the helmet, cause the helmet to be drawn together, so as to reduce the width thereof.

Abstract: A low profile natural tissue heart valve with a one-piece fabric covering is applied to a stent in a minimum number of steps so that virtually no seams are exposed. The one-piece covering serves also to enclose and mount the sewing ring to avoid separation from the stent. The procedure employed enables use of bovine pericardium united as a single piece to the exterior of the stent and fixed in position in such a way as to avoid prolapsing in use.

Abstract: An intraocular posterior chamber lens which has two resilient support portions with protruding contact points for seating the lens in the lower groove portion formed by the anterior and posterior capsules of the eye. The lens also includes an upwardly extending stabilizing portion adapted to be positioned posteriorly of the iris of the eye without being seated in the upper groove portion of the eye. The stabilizing portion provides vertical stabilization of the lens in the eye. The lens can be easily implanted in the posterior chamber of the eye and can be easily removed by a surgeon at a later date, if necessary, without substantial damage to the eye.

Abstract: A raised toilet seal is superimposed upon the bowl of a conventional toilet. A clamp has a section which fits into a space provided when the lid and the seat of the conventional toilet are lifted and has another section which engages the back of the raised superimposed toilet seat, whereby the raised superimposed toilet seat is secured to the conventional toilet.

Abstract: A coil spring device for mounting on a water tank of a toilet for ensuring that a toilet seat remains closed when not in use.

Abstract: A shipboard bathroom module comprises a prefabricated base pan in which a floor drain and a shower drain are located adjacent to each other but on opposite sides of a shower stall curb. Both drains communicate with a common receptacle molded into the base. Water from a wash basin at a remote location within the module is conducted to the receptacle through the shower stall curb, which is hollow. A trap, which serves both drains as well as the wash basin, is located in a box which provides a recess in the deck. In one version of the invention the receptacle built into the bathroom base sits on top of the trap, and the trap is accessible through one of the drain openings in the floor of the module. In another version, wastewater is conducted out of the receptacle through a laterally extending conduit to a trap which serves two adjacent bathroom modules. In either case, the box in which the trap is located is prefabricated with various water supply and drain pipes already welded to its floor.

Abstract: A mattress support system including a support frame, tubular air springs and mattress support slats extending between pockets formed at a top surface of sleeves surrounding bladders of the tubular support springs.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multipurpose bicycle tool which provides a wrench for adjustment of brakes, spokes and hardware attachments of a bicycle frame, a tire iron for dislodging a tire from the rim of a wheel, and a screwdriver. The bicycle tool includes an elongated handle member configured for employment as a tire iron, and a wrench oriented in a plane angularly offset from the plane of the handle. The tool also includes a pair of perpendicularly oriented screwdriving blades which extend from the wrench. In applications of the bicycle tool as a wrench for adjustment of hardware components of the bicycle, and as a spoke wrench, the angular offset arrangement of the handle member and wrench permit unobstructed movement of the handle member relative to the bicycle frame and spokes for continuous rotation.

Abstract: A combined wrench, locking pliers and chain clamp using a toggle for the gripping and clamping functions.

Abstract: A method of producing a cleaning cloth having abrasive properties is disclosed. The method comprises passing a composite material consisting of a needle bonded fabric, a woven or knitted fabric and a layer of foamed synthetic plastics material past a heat source which is preferably a gas flame. The gas flame is directed at the stitches of the exposed face of the needle bonded fabric and the layer of knitted or woven fabric is sandwiched between the needle bonded fabric and the layer of foamed material. The stitches of the fabric form hard, abrasive nodules the arrangement of which varies with the stitch pattern.

Abstract: A portable removable sludge cleaner for tanks is provided in two sections, one of which rests on top of the tank and has a travelling bridge from which is suspended the second section. This second section is a suction head carrying frame unit deposited into one end of the tank with the aid of a crane or overhead pulley. The travelling bridge section is then deposited on top of the tank by the crane or pulley. The bridge is centered for balance during the mounting operation and after depositing on the tank, the bridge is moved over the suction head unit previously deposited in the end of the tank. Ramp hitches on the bridge then engage support pins on the head unit lifting its front end off of the bottom of the tank. Pipe couplings on the rear end of the unit are then connected to counterparts depending from the bridge to lift the rear end of the unit off of the tank bottom. The bridge travels on tracks provided by the frame and is propelled by a drive screw to traverse the length of the tank.

Abstract: A windshield wiper arm assembly is provided and has a mounting head connected to an oscillatably driven pivot shaft. The assembly has an outer arm section pivotally connected to the head, the outer arm section being adapted to support a wiper blade. A link is pivotally supported at one end to the mounting head. A tension spring is connected at one end to the arm section. A lever is pivotally supported on the outer arm section and defines a pivot which is connected to the other end of both the link and the spring. The lever is H-shaped with a pair of spaced legs and an interconnecting support, one end of the legs being pivotally supported to the outer arm section and the other end having a pin which defines the pivot.

Abstract: A lower edge wall of a luggage case part has camming teeth with intervening grooves. The other case part has a set of spaced apart teeth for consecutive meshing with those of the first case part. One or more leaf springs are received across the meshed teeth of the case parts. The dimensions and geometry of the spring are such that when the case parts reach a predetermined maximum opening angle, the central spring portions contact opposing portions of the two case parts forming a limit stop to further opening of the case.

Abstract: A poultry breast de-boning machine adapted to insertably receive and radially transport in securely supportable positioning retention respectively upon one of an arcuately spaced plurality of mechanically identical truncated conical mandrel stations thereof a succession of forward bilateral poultry carcass sections for subsequent concurrently accomplished sequentially combined step-wise manual and automated mechanical removal of breast fillets therefrom by a method embodying first a mechanical clamping of the respective wings in a carcass section torso-lateral distended disposition preparatory to completion of sequential manually incised cuts made to the respective wing-to-torso shoulder joint connecting points to thereby facilitate initiation and completion of automated mechanical wing-clamped downward pull-peel separation of the wings and interconnected breast fillets therewith in delivery from such carcass sections a separated and substantially bone-fragment free set of joined breast fillets with wings the

Abstract: A bivalve shell opening blade is fixed by an end to a handle and has a pointed, oppositely disposed free end extending forwardly therefrom. The blade is angularly disposed to the handle so as to fall in aligned continuation of the user's forearm when grasping the handle with free pointed end forward. The blade is offset from the handle for increasing hand leverage in opening the bivalve shells, and the angular disposition of the blade in alignment with the forearm maximizes blade point insertion force between shells and minimizes hand to handle friction and reduce muscular fatigue and blisters in use.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for opening fiber bales including a fiber removal element, compression means disposed upstream of said fiber removal element and advancing means near said compression means to advance the surface layer fiber material of a bale toward said fiber removal element.

Abstract: Slubbing, which is to be drawn, is pulled from cans (25), which are mounted behind a drawing frame. The frame comprises a double draw head section with devices for filling two cans (7 and 8), which are situated at respective filling stations. The filled cans (7 and 8) are then automatically replaced by empty cans (2): A slide (15 and 16) moves two empty cans (2) rectilinearly, counter to the working direction of the draw heads, into the filling stations and simultaneously moves the filled cans (7 and 8) rectilinearly in the same direction into two removal stations (13 and 14). Thus, the replacement of the cans (7 and 8) proceeds very rapidly and with a minimal gap between the filled cans (7 and 8) and the empty cans (2), which avoids the need for the frame to be stopped. A device (M and H) for controlling and driving the frame is accommodated in a rear part (6) of the frame housing which is situated on the side of the removal stations (13 and 14) facing the filling stations (7 and 8).

Abstract: A device for fixing a flower or a bundle of flowers to a dress or similar clothing comprises a body means including a head portion, equipped with a safety pin, and an elongate shaft portion rigidly connected to the head portion. The flowers to be connected to the device are aligned with their stem to the shaft portion and an adhesive tape is wrapped around the shaft portion and the stems. The device is then fixed to the dress by means of the safety pin like a badge.

Abstract: A fastener for releasably securing the ends of a drawstring. The fastener has two parts, one for each end of the drawstring. The parts are held together by a dovetail connection which is separated by excessive tension in the drawstring. At least one of the parts is connected to the associated end of the drawstring by a connection which resists movements of the drawstring in the direction to enlarge or loosen the string, but is easily released to permit intentional loosening of the string.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a device for holding a cable suspended from a support, the cable having an aerial support wire connected therealong for supporting same with an end portion thereof securely held by the device. The device of the invention comprises an open-ended tubular member having an inlet end and an outlet end for receiving the cable and support wire therethrough with the end portion of the support wire extending beyond the outlet end and separated from the cable, wire retention means integral with the tubular member for securing the wire end portion to the tubular member and means for connecting the tubular member to the support such that the tubular member lies at a predetermined distance from the support.

Abstract: A belt buckle for use with a belt strap having a first end and a second end with the first end having at least one opening extending therethrough and the second end having a plurality of longitudinally spaced holes extending therethrough. The buckle is of two-piece construction including a base member and a top member, both of which have no undercut portions and thus can be simply formed by conventional die casting techniques. The base member forms a seat for the first strap end and the second strap end is adapted to extend therebeneath such that a pin downwardly extending from the top member is adapted to extend through the aligned strap holes (a slot in the seat portion of the base member is provided for this purpose) and thus serve to connect the buckle and belt straps in the desired fashion. The top member hingedly connects to a portion of an end wall upstanding from the base member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a closure having an aperture at one end and projections on its edges that is improved by the use of slits, either extending from the aperture or extending from the abutment edges of the projections, which provide a locking action that prevents release of the closure when under elongation load through curling and deformation of the strip.

Abstract: Apparatus for spinning viscose rayon comprising an acid bath having an enclosure arranged for substantially completely trapping and collecting any gases emanating from said bath, a plurality of fiber-forming jets disposed substantially along beneath the surface of said acid bath, means for forcing aqueous xanthated alkali cellulose in liquid form into said jets and through said jets upwardly into said bath, and take-up means located within said enclosure above said bath for taking up the resulting fibers in an upward direction within said enclosure, and thence through an enclosed secondary hot bath for the purpose of stretching the cellulose-xanthate, regenerating it to cellulose, and for trapping and collecting gases and other chemicals.

Abstract: An improved crystal is provided with an aluminum baseplate, a nickel plating on the aluminum baseplate, and a silver plating on the nickel plating. The nickel is plated on the aluminum baseplate before the aluminum has oxidized to provide high yields of stable crystals.

Abstract: Electrical terminals for a wound capacitor section and a method of attaching the electrical terminals to the section are disclosed. Adjacent convolutions of a wound capacitor section are electrically connected to one another through conventional metal spraying techniques. Flat copper tabs having the surfaces thereof tinned, as with a thin layer of solder, provide the terminal connection leads for use of the capacitor in an electrical circuit. The tinned copper tabs are secured to either end of the capacitor section by tack welding the tab to the sprayed metal end of the winding. Tack welding of the tab to the metal coating insures electrical connection but provides little strength in mechanical connection. Each end of the capacitor section is then again provided with a sprayed metal coating over both the first coating and the tinned tabs.

Abstract: A pressure roller (1) with longitudinal axis of variable shape, in which an outer jacket (2) is supported in central position by an inner shaft (3) running essentially coaxially to the said jacket (2) in effective contact with ball bearings (5) carried in turn by the said shaft (3), whose end bushings 8 support the said jacket (2) by means of further ball bushings (10), one at each end; each round bushing (8) being so arranged that they are adjustable with respect to an eccentric journal (6) fixed to the corresponding end of the inner shaft (3) and eccentric to the said shaft.

Abstract: The method of forming a lining in the cavities of a body by application of powdered metal consolidated and bonded thereon by a hot isostatic pressing process. A space lining the cavities in the body is provided by tubular members, one intersecting with the other or in close spaced relation thereto, powdered metal fills the space, a vacuum is drawn on the space, the body is subjected to forming conditions and then the body cavities are machined to their final shape with such machining generally removing the tubular members.

Abstract: Piston-removing apparatus including a frame portion, a piston-supporting portion, and an actuating portion; the frame portion including an elongated base section, an end member extending from the base section substantially perpendicular thereto; the piston-supporting portion including an upstanding member disposed along the length of the base section intermediate the ends thereof, the upstanding member extending substantially perpendicular to the base section and being disposed substantially parallel to the end member, the upstanding section including a central opening therethrough, a channel connecting the central opening with the periphery of the upstanding member at a point remote from the base section, a piston-aligning member removably engageable with the central opening in the upstanding member, the piston-aligning member including a sleeve section and a flange section, the sleeve section having an outside diameter slightly smaller than the central opening for insertion therein, the flange section being

Abstract: A method to remove and replace individual loopers in a cast module encompassing a plurality of loopers. The cast module is drilled to release the individual loopers and when replaced in the module a special fastener is located in the drilled area to hold the replaced loopers in place.

Abstract: A method of fabricating multishell fuel targets for inertial confinement fusion usage. Sacrificial hemispherical molds encapsulate a concentric fuel pellet which is positioned by fiber nets stretched tautly across each hemispherical mold section. The fiber ends of the net protrude outwardly beyond the mold surfaces. The joint between the sacrificial hemispheres is smoothed. A ceramic or glass cover is then deposited about the finished mold surfaces to produce an inner spherical surface having continuously smooth surface configuration. The sacrificial mold is removed by gaseous reaction accomplished through the porous ceramic cover prior to enclosing of the outer sphere by addition of an outer coating. The multishell target comprises the inner fuel pellet concentrically arranged within a surrounding coated cover or shell by fiber nets imbedded within the cover material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a shackled conveyor belt from prepared helical elements having alternately a left handed thread and a right handed thread in a movable helical element connector which feeds individual helical elements towards the end helical element of the assembled portion of the conveyor by means of a feeding air flow.Two each individual helical elements during the feeding movement are pushed towards each other in their longitudinal direction at an angle by means of the feeding air flow, then the two helical elements are parallelly deflected in the area of their joining with alternating interlacing of their spires. The front end in the feeding direction of the joined pair of helical elements is engaged by means of a feeding air flow at an acute angle to the associated end section of the end positioned helical element of the assembled portion of the shackle conveyor belt.

Abstract: A lawn and garden feeding apparatus includes a container made of transparent plastic, having inlet and outlet hose connections and a disposable cartridge which is inserted into the container. The cartridge comprises a gel with plant nutriment and a water soluble dye suspended therein with the cartridge fitting the inside of the container and having a bore communicating with the inlet and outlet connections. The container inlet is connected by a garden hose to a source of water and the outlet is connected by a hose to a conventional sprinkler or nozzle so that in use of apparatus, water flows through the cartridge bore drawing nutriment and dye from the gel in micro-feeding amounts, and is discharged through the sprinkler or nozzle. Extraction of dye from the gel, after a selected period of time, results in a perceptible change in gel color, indicating that the cartridge requires replacement.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a measuring capillary, wherein in each of a number of substantially plate-shaped parts 1, a recess 2, 3 is formed. The shape of the recesses 2, 3 is such that when said plate-shaped parts 1 are superposed with the recesses 2,3 facing each other, said recesses 2,3 define the capillary. The walls of the recesses 2, 3 and at least the plate surface portions directly adjacent thereto are coated by a substance. The plate-shaped parts 1 are superposed such that the recesses 2, 3 formed therein together define a capillary and the plate-shaped parts 1 are secured to each other.

Abstract: A process for producing VLSI (very large scale integrated) circuits employs techniques of self-aligned gates and contacts for FET devices. The use of materials in successive layers having different etch characteristics permits selective oxidation of desired portions only of the structure without need for masking and removal of selected material from desired locations by batch removal processes again without use of masking. There results VLSI circuits having increased density and reliability.

Abstract: Semiconductor electrode structure with low parasitic capacitance and method for forming low capacitance first and second electrodes in a semiconductor device, such as a static induction transistor, while avoiding the requirement for precision mask alignment and mask to mask registration. During formation of electrode contacts, the first electrodes are protected by silicon nitride and a low resistivity silicon layer is grown over the semiconductor wafer, forming epitaxial regions over the second electrodes of a polycrystalline region over protected portions of the wafer. The silicon layer is selectively etched by a mixture which removes the polycrystalline region but does not appreciably affect the epitaxial regions. Second electrode metallic contacts are made in enlarged regions of the second electrodes where mask alignment is not critical. The reduction in contact window overlap by metallic contacts reduces parasitic capacitance.

Abstract: Photodiodes (10) are fabricated in a single step diffusion process which exploits the characteristic of certain acceptors to form an anomalous diffusion profile (VI) including shallow and deep fronts (VIa and b) joined by an upwardly concave segment (VIc). By performing this type of diffusion into a low-doped n.sup.- -type body (12) with a carrier concentration (VII) below that of the concave segment, a p.sup.+ --p.sup.- junction (15) is formed at the depth of the concave segment and a p.sup.- --n.sup.- junction (17) is formed at a greater depth. The zone (16) between the junctions is at least partially depleted and forms the active region of a p.sup.+ --p.sup.- --n.sup.- photodiode. Specifically described are InP:Cd photodiodes.

Abstract: The invention proposes a process for manufacturing a monolithic integrated circuit comprising at least one bipolar transistor in which the dopings of the regions are inserted into the substrate (2) exclusively by way of ion implantations. The invention deals with the problem of the current gain value variations during mass-production. This problem is solved in that during the implantation of the base dopings, in which the base area (32) is defined by means of a photoresist mask (5), the emitter area (11) is covered with an oxidation masking layer portion (71), with the ions of the base region (3) being implanted into the substrate surface once at a low accelerating energy and a great dose, with the oxidation masking layer portion (71) serving as the mask and, the next time, at a high accelerating energy and a relatively small dose, in the course of which the oxidation masking layer portion (1) is penetrated.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for winding and inserting coils in slots of a stator or rotor lamination assembly, the coils being produceable on a former, said apparatus and method comprising a transfer tool for transferring said coils from said former onto an insertion tool, said transfer tool comprising annularly arranged parallel bars; and said insertion tool, comprising correspondingly annularly arranged parallel insertion blades, cover strip blades, and an axially mobile insertion ram, said insertion tool being able to introduce said coils into said slots, wherein in said apparatus, said bars are adapted to abut onto the radially internal side of said insertion blades still during at least a part of the insertion operation, and are movable together with said ram.

Abstract: A conductor of a rectangular cross-section is overlapped with an insulator having a greater width than the width of the conductor and wound to form a coil assembly. The oversized portions of the insulator are folded and cemented together. The coil assembly is mounted on a stator pole core so that the folded insulator portions are respectively adjacent to the pole piece of the core and to the inner wall of a cylindrical yoke when the pole core is secured to the yoke. The folded portions of the insulator are depressed by an amount sufficient to allow the coil assembly to be firmly clamped in position.