Abstract: A new carnation plant particularly distinguished by its general tangerine-orange coloration with cherry colored streaks in a generally dome-shaped form of medium size, the blooms being produced profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of this plant and borne singly on straight stems of medium length. This plant has a tall, vigorous and upright growth habit with an abundant quantity of foliage and an apparent resistance to Fusarium Oxysporum.

Abstract: A new spray carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by the very light yellow color of its blossoms which are spotted near the tips of its petals with a rather deep red color, the flowers being borne on straight, rather rigid peduncles branching from a srong, upright stem having rather abundant foliage and a tall, vigorous and upright growth habit and a profuse production of blooms during its Spring and Fall blooming seasons.

Abstract: A distinctive carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its medium sized flowers of phlox pink coloration, which are borne on long, erect and rigid stems and which bloom profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of Spring and Fall. This plant has a vigorous, upright growth habit with moderately abundant foliage and a height averaging about 120 cm. at eight months.

Abstract: A new red carnation variety of the tall, many stemmed type, in which the blooms are borne singly on long, strong stems, the plant having a vigorous growth habit blooming recurrently in the midseason of Spring and Fall with a profuse production of flowers of medium size and a middle red coloration.

Abstract: A new variety of spray carnation having relatively small, bright red blooms which are produced continuously and profusely on sturdy, upright flower stems, the flowers being distinguished by their folded petals which are deeply and more serrated than usual, the plant itself having a vigorous and rapid growth rate reaching a height of about one meter.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for pressing and binding voluminous material into bales, in which material in the form of several layers is supplied through a closable opening into a pressing chamber where compression takes place of each supplied layer. Final pressing is carried out at high pressure after a desired number of layers have been supplied into the pressing chamber, whereafter the pressing effect is lowered to a substantially lower pressure, so that the material compressed into a bale is permitted to expand, and the bale thereafter is discharged from said pressing chamber through a closable opening and bound while said substantially lower pressure is being maintained.

Abstract: Conveyor apparatus comprises an endless conveyor operative to convey workpieces past a number of processing stations. The workpieces are conveyed in seats of the conveyor, each of the seats being designated to receive a workpiece which is at a predetermined stage in the process. Means are provided to sense the presence of filled and empty seats and to control workpiece removal and depositing means associated with the processing stations so that workpieces are only removed from, and deposited in, the appropriate designated seats.

Abstract: Waterglass solutions are mixed with polyisocyanates and these emulsions are then left to harden in the formations. Introduction of the mixture into the formations which are required to be consolidated, e.g. deposits of coal, is mainly carried out by forcing the mixture under pressure into bore-holes in the formations. According to one variation of the process, the components of the mixture are introduced into the multi-chamber cartridges which are introduced into the bore-holes and then destroyed as the components are mixed. Certain additives such as accelerators, blowing agents, polyols, stabilizers and/or thixotropic agents are advantageous for the quality of the composite masses formed by hardening of the mixture.

Abstract: A pump such as a vehicle air conditioner compressor has a compressor shaft, a continuously engine-driven flywheel and means such as an electromagnetic clutch for selectively coupling the flywheel to the shaft to operate the pump. The flywheel also provides a permanent magnet field which field rotates with the flywheel and induces in the windings of a relatively stationary annular stator assembly an electric voltage in response to the rotating magnetic field. The pump shaft, annular clutch actuating coil, annular stator assembly, and permanent magnet flywheel are all generally concentrically disposed and in the order stated. The flywheel is driven any time that the engine is running thereby inducing a voltage in the stator windings and that flywheel also drives the exemplary compressor when the clutch is actuated.

Abstract: An improved unitary bulk restoring dental post having a stem of substantially parallel threaded sides divided along its length into separate legs for threaded insertion into a tooth root canal by a wrench that applies a predetermined torque to the dental post to thread it into the tooth root for crown restoration.

Abstract: A gas-insulated transmission line includes a cylindrical outer sheath, an inner conductor within the outer sheath, an insulating gas, and support insulators for insulatably supporting the inner conductor within the outer sheath. The support insulators have a pair of circumferentially spaced apart openings therein, and a wheel assembly is disposed within each of the support insulator openings. Each wheel assembly includes a rotatable wheel which extends outwardly of the support insulator opening and contacts the outer sheath. With such an arrangement, insertion or movement of the inner conductor within the outer sheath is done on wheels instead of with a sliding motion to thereby minimize the generation of conducting contamination particles.

Abstract: A rotor for an electrical alternator or motor is described. The rotor has a number of disc shaped, axially magnetized, permanent magnets separated by steel discs, and elongated pole shoes parallel to the rotor axis making up the rotor periphery. The pole shoes are fixed to appropriate steel discs to give pole-shoe polarities which alternate around the rotor periphery. In order to .[.allow starting as a motor.]. .Iadd.stabilize the machine.Iaddend., alternate pole shoes are divided near one end and fixed to the same steel discs as transversely adjacent pole shoes .[.to give a solid metal rotor section which gives starting by induction motor action, and forms a toothed wheel which runs at synchronous speed by reluctance motor action.]..

Abstract: A method .[.for.]. independently electronically .[.collecting.]. .Iadd.collects .Iaddend.related market survey data from a plurality of diverse locations (6,6') for temporary storage at each of the independent diverse locations (6,6') where the data is collected for subsequent transmission thereof from these locations (6,6') over a telephone type link (30,36,42) for accumulative processing thereof at a remote central electronic data processor. An interactive interchangeable prompt message display is displayed on a visual display device (32) indicating one of a plurality of market survey categories in a predefined sequence. An actual data input signal may be provided via a keyboard (70) or barboard (29) and/or wand (18,28) in response to the prompt message display with this input being stored in a memory (16) for subsequent transmission.

Abstract: Improved clothing to be worn by a woman for breast feeding a baby which includes an upper member having a lower edge and a lower member having an upper edge. The upper edge of the lower member is made of such a resilient material that the upper edge tends to assume a nonaccess position, covering the breasts, but which can be pulled down to an access position under the breast to make it accessible to the baby. The upper and lower members are so positioned relative to each other when worn by a woman that at least a portion of the upper member overlaps the lower member. The lower edge of the upper member is suspended to an area below the breast to permit the upper member to shield the breast when the upper edge of the lower member is in either the access or nonaccess positions.

Abstract: In combination, a support belt and a buckle having a frame with a pair of opposed forward and rearward transverse members, the latter being secured to one end of the belt. The other end of the belt is adapted to pass through the frame and has means thereon for engagement with the outside of the belt after such passage. The frame has a slidably, rotatable tubular member movable towards and away from the forward transverse member and the tubular member has a pair of opposed planar faces joined by a pair of opposed curved faces, said faces providing a pair of opposed, relatively sharp edges.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing a removable surface for protecting the lens of a viewing device such as a goggle. The apparatus includes a supply magazine for holding a protective film and a take-up magazine for receiving and holding spent film. The magazines are mounted oppositely and in spaced relation adjacent the lens to be protected. A film advance mechanism is provided for advancing the film from the supply magazine across the lens to a take-up magazine and a manual actuator is provided for the advancing mechanism.

Abstract: The conical pin end of the male endoprosthesis part is provided with a deformable surface while the conically recessed articular ball is provided with inwardly directed lugs for penetrating into the deformable surface during mounting on the pin end. The lugs have a maximum height of 0.5 millimeters and a maximum width of three millimeters. The deformable pin surface may be formed by a screw thread, a plurality of circumferential grooves of wavy configuration or a plurality of circumferential ribs.

Abstract: A portable urinal for women comprises: a rigid cup-shaped member for receiving urine, having an upward projection at one end and a spout extending from the opposite end for discharging urine in a directable stream, side walls therebetween having recessed portions; a flexible membrane covering the recessed portions of the side walls and having an upper body-sealing rim; and, at least two braces spaced from one another and extending between upper rims of the rigid recessed side walls. The projection is effective for positioning the urinal and enabling urine to enter the cup-shaped member without body obstruction. The flexible membrane is effective for preventing leakage during use and for wiping urine traces from the body after use. The braces are effective for preventing body contact with urine in the cup-shaped member during use. The portable urinal has a particularly flat, slim profile enabling use while standing and while substantially clothed.

Abstract: An air pallet type patient mover is formed by top, intermediate and bottom thin flexible sheets of electrically conductive sheet material stitched along given lines by conductive thread to define at least a plenum chamber between the intermediate thin flexible sheet and the bottom thin flexible sheet and a semi-rigid backing member defined by the top and intermediate thin flexible sheets. Completely sealed high pressure tubes formed by the top and intermediate thin flexible sheets pressurized at relatively high air pressure may constitute the backing member for the patient mover. Alternatively, the tubes may receive low pressure low air flow prior to that air flow passing to the plenum chamber and discharging through a plurality of closely spaced small diameter pinhole type perforations opening directly into the plenum chamber and outwardly onto an underlying fixed support surface. Preferably, the perforations form a diamond shaped pattern beneath the imprint of the load.

Abstract: A composite pillow made up of a sheet of foamed material shaped into sleeve-like form with limited-area portions contacting and adhered to each other to give the pillow a shape somewhat of a pear lying on its side; i.e., with the lengthwise axis of the pear being horizontal. The sleeve-like sheet provides a peripheral wall within which a fairly large cavity exists to one side of the junction between the joined areas, and this cavity contains an air bag or the like which may be selectively inflated to provide support for the user's neck while the user's head rests on the small part of the "pear".

Abstract: A mattress comprises a body portion and a head portion longitudinally spaced from the body portion. The head portion is longitudinally bifurcated to provide relatively movable, upper and lower sections. The upper section is hingedly coupled to the body portion along a hinge axis substantially coplanar with the planar top surface of the body portion. The upper portion can be rotated through an angle of approximately 180.degree. about the hinge axis from a first portion overlying the lower section to a second position overlying the body portion top surface. Additionally, the upper section may be located in any desired angle between the first and second positions. In this manner, the mattress has a wide variety of functions.

Abstract: A combination scissors and paper knife comprises a pair of scissors members each having a blade and a handle formed integrally with each other through a pivotal portion having a pivotal hole bored therein and a clasp inserted into the pivotal holes in the pivotal portions for pivotally attaching the pair of scissors members to each other, at least one of the backs of the blades having a paper knife edge put thereon. The pivotal portions are provided one each with control portions for regulating the rotation of the blades and also provided on the end faces thereof unconnected relative to the handles one each with segmental surfaces of circles with the pivotal holes as their respective centers adapted to draw a continuous arc when the blades are opened. It is safely used as scissors without pinching fingers etc. between the ricassos and, in its closed state, advantageously used as a paper knife.

Abstract: A method for continuous wet-heat treatment of a cloth comprising transporting a cloth continuously through a wet-heat treatment chamber under the ordinary pressure heating the cloth with the use of a heating fluid passing through a plurality of heating pipes provided closely along the cloth passage while applying to the cloth a high temperature treating liquid oozed or squeezed out of a plurality of liquid apply pipes in contact with the cloth; and an apparatus therefor.

Abstract: An automatic temperature control for automatic washers is provided which minimizes the cycling of the water inlet valves to a maximum of two cycles each during the fill process. A predetermined volume of water from a first inlet line is admitted for measuring the temperature and flow rate and then that flow is terminated while a second predetermined volume of water from a second inlet line is admitted for measuring that temperature and flow rate. Then the amount of each of the two inlet streams is calculated so that a final preselected water level will be attained at a preselected temperature.

Abstract: A method of sequentially manufacturing a plurality of reinforced substrates such as shoe uppers, by applying a powder through a stencil by automatic means in a rotary machine, where the powder is first applied in a three-dimensional configuration to an annular surface, which is rotated to an arcuate heating station, then to a join and cool station after the powder has fused. The fused powder has a shoe upper pressed thereagainst by a rotary transfer cube which successively applies the uppers seriatum to the fused configuration of powder as they are presented therebeneath.

Abstract: A lightweight portable wheel chair ramp comprising a pair of ramps detachably secured to one another in a compact, portable configuration. Each ramp is telescopically extensible with oppositely disposed non-slip surface engaging flanges and can be adjustably locked to the length required. A pair of alignment and spacer brackets secure the ramps together in spaced parallel relation during operation. The ramps can be detached from one another, collapsed and secured together for ease of transport.

Abstract: A painting apparatus including a handle having supported therefrom, a paint roller and means for commonly supporting with the paint roller, a paint pad, whereby both the roller and pad can be operated and maneuvered from the paint apparatus handle. In one embodiment, the paint pad is fixed in position relative to the roller while in other embodiments described herein, the paint pad is movable relative to the roller; and one embodiment actually picking paint up from the roller.

Abstract: A broom cap of rigid polymeric material comprising a skirt portion adapted to cover the upper portion of a bundle of flexible filaments bound to a handle to shape, and facilitate maintaining the shape, of the bundle of filaments; a shoulder portion closing and joined to the upper end of the skirt portion; a collar portion, having walls extending upwardly from the shoulder portion, with a hole at the top for receiving the handle; and a plurality of vertically and radially positioned ribs extending inwardly from the collar portion walls and adapted to hold the cap stationary against vertical displacement and lateral swinging movement after it is inserted on the handle and the cap is positioned to cover the upper portion of the bundle of filaments.

Abstract: A manual, angularly adjustable paint roller wherein the roller frame can be disposed at an angle of choice as opposed to the standard 90.degree. angle relative to the handle.

Abstract: A roll formed wiper blade backing strip is disclosed having a base member with two longitudinal parallel edges. Each longitudinal edge has a roll formed reinforcing edge integral with the base member. The rolled reinforced edge members are connected to and integrally formed with reinforcing members overlying the base member and extending inwardly from each longitudinal edge toward the center line of the base member. Claws are integrally formed with and extend from the reinforcing members to hold the wiper blade. The claws have directly opposed surfaces. The base member, rolled reinforcing edges, reinforcing members and claws are roll formed into an integral unit from a single sheet of deformable material, such as metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for use in cleaning scraps of metal and other materials from rollers used in the rolling of sheet stock. The apparatus is characterized by a knife-edge blade which is positioned to contact the surface of such rollers. The blade is attached to a support structure adapted for ready positioning of the blade against the roller.

Abstract: A flat press for squeezing fluid out of a moist element which is attached to a support has a base provided with a plurality of throughholes for allowing discharge of the fluid and a cover movable towards the base so as to be pressed thereagainst. For squeezing or pressing out, the elements are introduced between the base and the cover together with the support. In order to provide a higher degree of dryness during the pressing, the base and if necessary the cover are provided with a lining of elastic material, for example of foam rubber.

Abstract: A door hinge assembly which facilitates fitting and aligning of a door particularly in motor vehicles including a first and a second hinge member each having, respectively, a first and a second eye with a hinge pin being engaged within the eyes of the hinge members to operatively mount the hinge members together. The hinge pin is mounted so as to be freely rotatable relative to the first eye but secured against axial movement relative thereto. The hinge pin and the second eye are formed with axially extending splines engaged therebetween, the splines forming an addendum circle diameter. Axially adjacent the splines, the hinge pin is formed with a cylindrical section which engages within a complementary cylindrical recess in the second eye, the cylindrical section having a diameter which is slightly greater than the addendum circle diameter of the splines.

Abstract: An expandable casing sizing means including a pair of elements which can be implanted within an unstretched portion of the casing. The elements are arranged for manipulation through the wall of the casing for expanding the effective diameter of the sizing means to a size greater than the diameter of the unstretched portion of casing.

Abstract: A squid processing method and apparatus includes means for sectionizing squid while they are on a feed conveyor, and then transferring selected sections to a processing conveyor on which each section is skinned and its internal organs separated from the edible portion of the section and flushed away.

Abstract: A transport system for transporting laps wound on tubes in spinning preparation. The laps are transported above head height by carriers or supports movable along transport rails and are raised and lowered by means of carrier rails. The transport rails and the carrier rails are components or parts of a closed, endless circulation path or track. Each carrier has a holder for the lap and a holder for the empty tube. The invention provides the advantages that no special transport system is required for return of the tubes. Moreover, transport of individual laps or of a group of such laps is possible and an ordered and simple circulation path is provided during transport of these elements or parts. Furthermore, the system can readily be automated.

Abstract: In a card, to avoid passage of fibers or fiber flocks over the edge of clothing into a gap, a covering band is pressed against an internal surface of the fiber-guiding roll or cylinder and a surface lying opposite the fiber-guiding roll. The covering band covers the gap between the fiber-guiding roll and a side wall portion. Two forwarding grooves, lying opposite one another in the gap and having transport surfaces lying opposite one another in crossed fashion, return fiber flocks which may possibly pass into the gap to the upper surface. A forwarding pin is set into the roll surface 7 of the fiber-guiding roll outside the edge of the clothing at such a inclination that fibers or fiber flocks which can pass into this region are transported by such pin towards pointed clothing of card flats.

Abstract: A feeding device for flocculent fiber material, e.g., cotton, synthetic fibers, etc., to processing machines, such as carding engines, etc., including an inlet which feeds fiber material through an intake roller and an opening roller into an inlet end portion of a duct, the duct having an outlet end portion at which are located take-off rollers for feeding the fiber material from the duct, the opening roller having a width corresponding to the predetermined width of the duct inlet end portion, and a transverse air current blower extending the predetermined width of the duct inlet end portion and the opening roller, the transverse air current blower being positioned above the duct inlet end portion and having an outlet directed downwardly into the duct inlet portion, and the transverse air current blower being operative at low air pressures and high air throughput.

Abstract: The wire sections forming the wire package are arranged on a profile. The individual wire sections are interconnected by means of an adhesive tape adhered to their feet. A T-slot is located in the profile. Accordingly, the adhesive tape contacts at no place the profile. A locking member is located at one end of the profile. This locking member engages by means of protrusions into the slot. The profile comprises an arresting member. The locking member is clamped onto the arresting member. A recess at the end of the locking member facing the wire package allows an impeccable abutting of the locking member on the wires. The wires comprise smooth, toothless end sections having surface areas extending obliquely inwards. This allows the clips, by means of which the card clothing is clamped onto the flats, to safely grip around the ends of the wires and the locking member to hold them clampingly against the profile.

Abstract: A cotton gin lint cleaner includes a rotating saw cylinder. A continuous layer of lint cotton is fed along the cylinder by feed works. The layer is seated in and moved downstream by saw teeth on the cylinder. Foreign matter is loosened from the layer as it is moved beneath grid bars spaced along the cylinder surface. A combing bar downstream of the grid bars with teeth opposed and proximate the saw teeth further cleans the cotton layer.

Abstract: A cuff link removably attachable to a shirt cuff which has one buttonhole only comprises a link member detachably mountable on one cuff end in resiliently clamping relationship and a decorative member removably attachable to the link member on the other cuff. The link member includes a link post having a semispherical head insertable through the buttonhole in the other cuff into a circular hole in the decorative member and retainable therein by a spring fitted in grooves in the head. The decorative member can be attached to the link member simply by pushing them together until the spring is fitted in the grooves. For detaching the decorative member from the link member, they are relatively turned until the spring is displaced out of the grooves, whereupon the head can be pushed out of the circular hole under the resiliency of the spring.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus for releasably clamping a cable or line (6), comprising a housing (1), a clamping lever (3) which is mounted rotatably thereon (at 7) and two clamping surfaces (2, 8) of which the first is arranged on the housing (1) and the second is arranged on the clamping lever (3) and between which the cable or line (6) passes. The cable is also passed around at least one direction-changing means (8-10), the clamping lever (3) being designed for a lever ratio b/a such that at most the coefficient of friction .mu. is attained at the frictional location.

Abstract: A latching and locking snap hook utilizing a conventionly shaped snap hook body having a normally open hook end portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a connector, line or other fixture by movement of a spring biased latch member pivotally connected to the snap hook body at a position remote from the open hook portion, the spring biased latch member extending beyond the body of the snap hook on the side opposite to the open hook end and capable of being moved in a direction away from the hook end portion about the pivot to open the snap hook end portion when a locking member received between the snap hook body and the spring biased latch is moved from a position where it interferes with the movement of the latch to a position where it does not interfere with that movement.

Abstract: A locking and latching snap hook, including an open hook body portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a to-be-connected item by movement of a normally closed, resiliently biased, latch member pivotally connected to the body. The hook body and latch member each generally carry a portion of one or more locking mechanisms which allows them to be releasably locked together to provide, along with the resilient bias latching, a locking capability to avoid inadvertent disengagement of the latch member from the hook body. The resiliently biased latch member extends beyond the body of the hook on the side opposite to the open hook end, and is capable of being selectively moved in a direction away from the hook end portion about the pivot to open the hook end portion of the body, when the locking mechanism is unlocked, and while simultaneously exerting pivoting force on the resiliently biased normally closed latch member.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hose clamp comprising a band, a housing having a pair of juxtaposed legs having tabs engaged in load transfer relationship in an aperture in one end of said clamp band, and a screw journaled in said housing engageable with the other end of said band. A relieved area is provided between the legs of the clamp housing which permits the legs to rotate relative to one another about a point intermediate the width thereof to minimize spreading of the tabs and thereby to preclude rupture of the band at the aperture therein.