Abstract: An apple variety derived by hybridization from 27.times.Red Delicious.times.Anna F.sub.2 is distinguished by the fact that it can be grown successfully without the necessity for an extreme degree of cold in the winter season, and that it may be harvested earlier than the nearest comparable variety.

Abstract: An apple variety derived by hybridization from Red Delicious.times.Anna F.sub.2 is distinguished by the fact that it can be grown successfully without the necessity for an extreme degree of cold in the winter season.

Abstract: There is provided a composition especially useful to remove old wax, grease, oils, or fats easily. The composition is a water-in-oil emulsion of a terpene hydrocarbon and a coconut oil fatty acid alkanolamide in water characterized by stability and easy biodegradability.

Abstract: Vinyl ether terminated urethane resins may be prepared by reacting the product obtained by the addition of acetylene to an organic polyol with an isocyanate-containing compound at temperatures ranging from about ambient to about 125.degree. C. The thus prepared resin may then be cured by irradiation from an electron beam, thermally or by exposure to an ultraviolet light to cure the resin and form a coating material.

Abstract: Apparatus for service and recharge of refrigeration equipment, with particular application to automotive air conditioning equipment. A vacuum pump, and oil and refrigerant charge containers are housed within a portable enclosure and configured for selective connection by electrically operated solenoid valves to refrigeration equipment under service. The refrigerant and oil containers are carried by a scale which provides electrical outputs signals as a function of weight of refrigerant and oil remaining in the containers. A microprocessor-based controller receives the scale signals and control signals from an operator panel for automatically cycling through vacuum, oil charge and refrigerant charge stages in a programmed mode of operation. The microprocessor-based controller includes facility for operator programming of the vacuum time and oil and refrigerant charge quantities, and for self- or operator-implemented diagnostics. Operating conditions and stages are displayed at all times to the operator.

Abstract: A particle detector includes a laser, a beam shaping lens, and a pair of mirrors which reflect the shaped laser beam back and forth between the mirrors a selected number of times in order to create a sheet of light or light net between the mirrors. The path of the beam is terminated by a beam stop which contains a photodiode to monitor beam intensity and thereby system alignment. Light scattered by a particle falling through the sheet of light is gathered and transmitted to a photodiode. A peak detector provides a measure of the peak intensity of light scattered by such a particle to a microprocessor, which counts the number of particles falling through the light net in a selected time interval. The microprocessor also uses the peak intensity to estimate the size of the particle.

Abstract: A pair of rail adapters which replace visor rails used on the U.S. Army Ahe helmets, i.e. the AH-64 helmet. The rail adapters have a concave inner portion that is form fitted and attachable to the Apache helmet, with one rail adapter on each of the right and left upper front sides of the Apache helmet. The rail adapters have a convex outer portion that interface and is attachable with a visor guard Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System (ANVIS) goggle assembly and visor which are normally used with the U.S. Army ANVIS helmet, i.e. the SPH-4 helmet. Each of the rail adapters is made in one piece which has a thick upper portion with a half dovetailed open track in which the outer portion of the visor guard is attachable thereto. The rail adapters have a thin lower portion which provides clearance with the visor and the ANVIS goggle assembly when the visor and the assembly are in the line of sight position.

Abstract: An overall body garment for crawling and slithering in cramped, dirty, damp conditions is disclosed, incorporating durable, slippery fabric with smooth, abrasion resistant pads protecting the garment and the wearer at the chest, belly, arms and legs. Constrictive means are provided at the neck, wrists and ankles to lock out dirt, moisture and pests. A long, offset zipper, an elastic waist, shoulder pleats, wide leg tubes and extra length in the extremities are also included to enhance comfort while working on one's knees or belly.

Abstract: A firefighter's garment which includes a layer of protective material in which the layer of protective material is provided with a major portion which has a high degree of thermal protective properties. The layer of protective material also has sections which have a lesser degree of thermal protective properties. The protions of the layer of protective material which have a high degree of thermal protective properties are positioned at locations which require maximum thermal protection. The portions of the layer of protective material which have a lesser degree of thermal protective properties are located at positions which require less thermal protection. The portions of the layer of protective material which have a lesser degree of thermal protective properties also have greater flexibility and less bulk and less weight. Thus, the possibility of stress upon the firefighter is not effectively decreased when firefighter body posture during firefighting and the role of the protective equipment is considered.

Abstract: A decorative shirt collar support device preferably in combination with a decorative clip. The support device includes a support band adapted to be positioned under the collar. The decorative clip has a base and, integral therewith, opposing legs having upper free ends that are adapted to be disposed closely adjacent to each other forming a deflectable gap in which the shirt collar may be inserted. A sliding member is adapted for use with the clip and also has a leg adapted to be received by the clip and an inner leg that may preferably have a sticky back substance for attachment to the shirt.

Abstract: An elongate plate having prealigned holes for guiding a flexible conduit in both the horizontal and vertical directions in order to form a flexible drain trap for permanently retaining a proper quantity of water therein to prevent an intrusion by insects.

Abstract: A commode plunging shield apparatus is set forth including a convex shield formed with a planar lower rim in confronting relationship to a complementarily configured commode rim surface to position the shield in overlying relationship to the commode. A through-extending aperture directed through the crown of an uppermost surface of the commode in alignment with the commode drain pipe slidingly receives a commode plunger therethrough to align the plunger with the commode drain and directs splashing water interiorly of the concave interior surface of the shield to contain such water within the shield and the interior of the commode.

Abstract: An improved flushing means is disclosed for use in water tanks such as are for flushing toilets. The flushing means has a water inlet with an improved two-stage valve using inlet line pressure for operating the two stages. A float is movably mounted on the inlet for controlling the valve with a lever operatively coupling the float to the first stage of the valve. A cooperating vertical hollow and floating overflow tube including an adjustable bowl filling siphon controls the tank discharge to the bowl. These improvements to the tank discharge to the bowl are also to be incorporated into the commonly used flapper-type flush valve.

Abstract: The waste material holding tank located within a portable, outdoor toilet cabana is vented to atmosphere by a vent pipe extending upwardly from the tank to the roof of the toilet cabana. A small, electrical blower fan is mounted upon the upper, open end of the vent pipe for sucking air from the holding tank and blowing the air to outside atmosphere. A solar energy panel is mounted upon the roof of the cabana near the fan and is electrically connected to the fan. The panel generates electrical energy in response to a predetermined level of sunlight for electrically energizing the fan. Thus, the fan circulates air through the holding tank during the items that the sun is shining upon the cabana, to reduce the solar heat build-up in the holding tank for reducing the generation of noxious odors caused by heat induced reactions in the waste material in the tank.

Abstract: The present invention includes two frame members (10,12), each of which includes two elongated side legs (14,16) joined at the top by crossbars (20,21) and near the bottom by a cross piece (26). The two frame members (10,12) are rotatably connected to each other at approximately the center points of the side legs (14,16). A web-like support element (24) extends between the tops of the two frame members (10,12). Foot portions (E,E') are provided at the lower end of each side leg (14,16) and extend downwardly to a support surface. Suction cups (44) are positioned on the end of each side leg (14,16). The side legs (14,16) are configured and arranged such that the article angles forwardly when it is positioned on a horizontal surface, with the web-like support element (24) also being at an angle.

Abstract: A public sanitary cubicle comprises a sanitary room with a water closet accessible through an outer door and a cleaning room separated therefrom by a partition and which contains the means necessary for the supply, disposal and cleaning of the sanitary room, particularly a cleaning appliance which can be brought up to the water closet after moving away the partition or part thereof and a drain connected to the water closet. For improving and facilitating cleaning work, the water closet has a substantially flat base with a rear drainage edge and which is inclined from the sanitary room to the partition, as well as a rear wall formed by the partition or its movable part, the drain being located in the cleaning room in the vicinity of the partition below the drainage edge of the base of the water closet and is exposed by moving away the partition or its movable part.

Abstract: A portable assist to aid persons who have difficulty rising from a seated position including a platform having connected therewith two handles and an adjustable stabilizer which prevents the platform from pitching while the user pulls on the handles while in the act of getting up. The handles may be rotatably connected with respect to the platform. A section of the handles may be horizontally oriented so that the user may push downwardly thereupon in order to rise.

Abstract: A sofa which is selectively convertible into a double bed or a double bunk consists of a base (10) and a back (11) which constitutes the sofa back, part of the double bed and the upper bunk according to the mode of the sofa. The back (11) and base (10) are connected by a mechanism which includes front posts (5) and rear posts (6,9) which are collapsible and slidable with respect to the base (10). The front posts (5) are slidable with respect to the back (11) to achieve the double bunk mode.

Abstract: A rescue pouch for transporting human bodies including a flexible container for the body and a pair of longitudinally oriented foldable beam supports which facilitate handling of the pouch yet permit it to be rolled for convenient storage.

Abstract: A waterbed mattress has a baffle structure that comprises a horizontally extending pad of bouyant material with a plurality of chambers depending therefrom. The chambers can be hemi-spheroidal. The chamber walls having water metering holes therethrough.

Abstract: A therapeutic mattress comprises a soft, resilient bottom mattress section and a plurality of interconnected top mattress sections and peripherally interconnected. The top section includes top and bottom fabric covers peripherally interconnected. A plurality of parallel rows of stitching interconnect the top and bottom covers and with the peripherally stitching define a plurality of transverse rectangular tubes filled with a compacted resilient fibrous material. The bottom mattress section includes a bottom fabric cover spaced from the top section bottom cover and peripherally interconnected defining an elongated rectangular chamber underlying the top mattress sections. A loosely confined resilient fibrous material is enclosed and retained within the chamber yieldably underlying the top mattress sections.

Abstract: A composite bottom sheet or crib sheet comprises a first moisture proof panel overlying the mattress with a surface comfortable for a user and a second panel subjacent the first panel and extending under the mattress during use. Hook and loop fasteners intermesh on top of the mattress to connect the two panels and permit removal of the moisture proof panel when soiled.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the flow and the temperature of wash water when washing out contaminations from fabric webs in textile processing methods upon employing of an open-width washing machine, whereby replacement factors are calculated at different temperatures and the costs of the wash water flow and steam consumption are consequently calculated and the corresponding wash water flow and the corresponding steam delivery are set for minimizing these costs.

Abstract: A method for preshrinking tubular knit fabrics in which the fabric is treated as a continuous length in tubular form. The elongated tube is continuously fed lengthwise into a series of liquid baths which include a wetting agent, scouring and washing constituents and rinses and any finish is to be applied to the fabric. The fabric tube is caused to advance into and through the bath in a substantially tensionless state by pushing the fabric into the flow of liquid and through the bath to avoid applying substantial tension. From the washing and rinsing baths, the saturated fabric is flattened, again without application of substantial tension, and is fed through a two-stage dryer. In the initial stage, the fabric is air-dried to a moisture content of substantially less than 40%. Before introducing the fabric into the second stage of the dryer, the moisture content is raised, for example in a steam atmosphere, to substantially 40%.

Abstract: An improved dockboard mechanism for a mechanical dockboard. The dockboard includes a frame that is mounted on a loading dock and a ramp is hinged at its rear end to the frame and is movable between a generally horizontal cross traffic position and an upwardly inclined position. The ramp is biased to the upwardly inclined position by a counterbalancing spring. The holddown mechanism includes a cylinder connected to the ramp and a piston is slidable within the cylinder and carries a piston rod which is connected to the frame. The piston is provided with a longitudinal passage which is closed off by a valve member, and an actuating rod is connected to the valve member and extends outwardly of the cylinder. Movement of the rod will open the valve member to permit extension of the piston rod with respect to the cylinder to enable the ramp to pivot upwardly by the counterbalancing spring.

Abstract: A manually usable hand tool having, in preferred form, a frame of substantially rectangular closed loop configuration. Squeegee and ice scraper blades are fixed to one frame end, and a brush is fixed to an adjacent frame side. A handle is pivotally connected to the frame, and is movable between a storage position generally co-extensive with the other frame side and an extended position directed away from the closed loop frame and generally co-axial with the frame's longitudinal axis. The handle and the frame are grippable together by a user if desired upon use of the hand tool when the handle is in the storage position and, alternatively, the handle is grippable alone by a user if desired upon use of the hand tool when the handle is in the extended position.

Abstract: A vehicular windshield washer system in combination with a windshield wiper having a wiper arm. The washer system is comprised of a pair of washer nozzles mountd on the wiper arm and so directed to eject washer fluid to opposite sides of the wiper arm upon being supplied with washer fluid. The washer fluid from a washer fluid source is selectively supplied to the washer nozzles in accordance with movement of the wiper arm. The washer fluid is suppliable to one of the washer nozzles upon rotational movement of the wiper arm in one direction and to the other washer nozzle upon rotational movement of the wiper arm in the other direction. The rotational movements turn at a turning position of the wiper arm.

Abstract: A mobile vacuum loading machine has a swivel assembly permitting the boom to be rotated 360.degree. through the use of internal hydraulic and pneumatic passages in the swivel assembly. The hose reel is mounted on the rear of the machine and capable of being swung out outwardly a full 180.degree. and fixedly held at any position through the use of a linkage assembly attached to a hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: A drivable floor cleaning machine with integrated fresh liquid compartment (10) and dirty liquid compartment (11) and with a cleaning rotor (19) designed to be supplied with cleaning liquid from the fresh liquid compartment (10). Regulation of the liquid feed to the rotor, with constant observation of the available volume of the liquid for supply to the cleaning rotor (19) are provided. Liquid feed regulation is controlled by an alternating current oscillating piston pump (31) (FIG. 8).

Abstract: Bushings are embedded within a production drill plate to replicate the hole pattern of a master hole pattern plate. The exterior surface of each bushing is threaded, as is the wall of a receiving hole in the production drill plate. The pitch of the bushing and hole are the same but the pitch diameters are somewhat different so that the threads of the bushing are loosely engaged within the threads of the hole. When the bushing is potted in a properly aligned position, the containment potting material becomes compressed in the thread engagement area thereby resisting axial displacement of the bushing.

Abstract: A wheeled carriage has a chassis with a plurality of swivel casters, and a locking assembly actuated by a foot pedal located along the front of the carriage. Pushing down on the foot pedal rotates a cam that engages a cam follower on a "T" bar frame supporting two locking rings which respectively overlie two of the caster wheels to move the rings into a locking position in engagement with the wheels to lock the wheels and the casters in any position. The cam follower surface includes a ramp portion engageable by the cam for driving the rings to their locking position and a horizontal latch portion engageable by the cam in its "overcenter" position for holding the rings in their locking position. A lifter bar is engageable by the user's foot to rotate the cam back off the follower and permit the rings to resiliently return to their release position.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rotational gripping device in the form of a torque handle which overcomes the problem of frictional slippage and provides mechanical rotational leverage. The handle includes a body portion having radially projecting rib members angularly displaced 120 degress about an axis of rotation. A rotational force is applied through the rib members by the user's hand and fingers. The rib member provide a positive no-slip drive. The torque handle is suitable for application to hand tools such as screw drivers, chisels, clamps, brushes, shovels, sports equipment such as rackets, baseball bats, golf clubs, boat oars and other similar implements.

Abstract: A two-piece door handle for refrigerators and freezers is mounted on the edge of the doors by two fasteners. The handle includes a plastic molded part and a metal stamping. The plastic molded part provides a recess in which the entire metal stamping is positioned. Shoulders surrounding the recess engage all of the edges of the metal stamping, obscuring them from view and preventing user contact with such edges. The recessing of the metal stamping eliminates the need to provide a finish coating on the edges of the metal stamping. The molded plastic part provides a mounting flange portion positioned between a mounting flange portion on the metal stamping and the associated door. Therefore, metal-to-metal contact is prevented. The two pieces of the handle are easily snapped together as an assembly and are easily installed on the associated door.

Abstract: An extensible handle bar for tools has on its outer tube a sleeve-shaped body made of thermoplastic material and provided with an external thread. The body has an extension provided with longitudinally extending slots and an external taper. A sleeve-shaped threaded nut is guided on the external thread of the body and has an internal taper which cooperates with the external taper of the extension. For improving the clamping of the inner tube of the handle bar in the sleeve-shaped body, the angle of inclination of the internal taper of the sleeve-shaped threaded nut is smaller than the angle of inclination of the external taper of the extension of the body provided with an external thread.

Abstract: The present invention relates to shoe sole cleaner 1 comprising a power section 2 and a brush section 3. The brush section is essentially planelike and it includes brush rods. The power section and the brush section are placed at a distance from each other. The power section is provided with a fluid power supply. The brush section includes a vibrating member such as a piston in a piston and cylinder combination. The fluid power supply is connected to the vibrating member by a fluid transmission means such as a pipe 5. The vibrating member is in contact with the brush rods and by means of the vibrating member the brush rods are made to move in a desired back and forth motion. The shoe sole cleaner according to the invention is low in construction so that it fits in the place of ordinary doormats. The cleaner can be extended simply by connecting serveral similar brush sections together as a large shoe sole cleaner.

Abstract: A carding machine comprises a feed plate, a feed roll forming a nip with the feed plate, first drive means for rotating the feed roll, a takerin for taking fibre from the feed plate, a main carding cylinder, carding means cooperable with the main carding cylinder to effect a carding action, a doffer, and delivery means for taking carded fibre from the doffer and delivering it from the machine. In one form of the machine, means are associated with the feed roll for producing an output signal related to deviation in weight of material fed between the feed roll and the feed plate, the sensing means being means for monitoring a variable at the feed roll that is other than displacement relative to the feed plate, and means are responsive to the output signal to control the speed of the feed roll.

Abstract: A sliver guide conduit extending between the output and calendar rollers of a draw frame or like spinning preparation machine is of a bipartite construction having an upstream conduit section extending into the interior area of a downstream conduit section, with an air conduit opening tangentially into the interior of the downstream conduit section annularly about the upstream section for admitting an airstream to assist in drawing a sliver through the sliver guide conduit during machine start-up.

Abstract: A braided eyeglass retainer and wristband is disclosed characterized by a strap portion being formed from a plurality of interbraided elongate members adapted to moderately stretch upon encountering an axial tension force and provide an aesthetically pleasing external configuration.

Abstract: A device for use in reducing the effective length of an endless strap, such as on a pocketbook, consists of a body having a number of pairs of aligned stub elements along opposite sides of a cavity defined therewithin. The strap is inserted through slots formed in end portions of the body, to lie within channels extending therethrough, and is threaded about and affixed upon the crosspiece structures provided.

Abstract: An elongated flexible metal channel is adapted to surround a pair of engaging overlapped inner and outer cylindrical member with opposite ends of the channel overlapping one another to provide an adjustable clamp for the cylindrical members. Spaced opposed looped anchor strips overlay the respective ends and adjacent intermediate portions of the channel. Each anchor strip, which is secured to the adjacent intermediate portion, loosely engages one channel end. Adjustable fasteners interconnect the anchor strips to variably draw up the intermediate portions while extending the overlap of the channel ends.

Abstract: A slide fastener comprising a pair of stringer tapes which are separable into identical halves by means of a pin-and-box separator, a reinforcing strip attached to an end of each of the stringer tapes and an adhesive film fusible to bond the strip to the tape. Both of the stringer tape and the reinforcing strip are made of the same type of fibrous materials, while the adhesive film is a modified polyester or a copolymeric polyamide depending upon the type of materials chosen for the stringer tape and the strip.

Abstract: A light-reflective or luminous slide fastener is disclosed which is provided with a light-reflective strip including a multiplicity of glass beads and bonded to a row of coupling elements on each of a pair of fastener tapes. The strip extends longitudinally at least partially over the upper surfaces of the row of elements, or extends more extensively over the element surfaces so as to mask substantially the entire elements from view when the fastener is closed.

Abstract: A slide-type fastener which has mating halves of which one has an elongate, lengthwise-extending bead and the other has a laterally open elongate, lengythwise-extending recess is adapted to receive said bead, the fastener is capable of interengagement such that the bead is introduced laterally into and removed laterally from the recess and is adapted so that when the bead is in the recess, applying lateral tension between the said two halves applies no uncountered force which removes the bead from the recess.

Abstract: A fastener for entering holes in two adjacent bodies to hold them together and to be completely concealed therein including a flexible resilient tubular body having at least one locating tab centrally located thereon for determining the extent to which spaced portions of the tubular body on opposite sides of the locating tab may enter holes in the adjacent bodies, and resilient flexible locking tabs struck up from the spaced portions of the tubular body for retaining them within the adjacent bodies in which they are located.

Abstract: An interlocking closure fastening device comprising an omega-shaped closure element and a co-acting clamping closure element. The co-acting clamping closure element may have a profile portion comprising two generally parallel arm portions wherein one of the arm portions terminates in an inwardly curved hook portion, and the other arm portion curves slightly inward prior to terminating in an outwardly extending clamp portion; or the profile portion may comprise two outwardly curved arm portions wherein one of the arm portions terminates in an inwardly curved hook portion, and the other arm portion curves inwardly prior to terminating in a slightly outwardly curved hook portion; or the profile portion may comprise one inwardly curved arm portion terminating in an inwardly curved hook portion, and one generally straight arm portion.