Abstract: A new rose variety of the hybrid tea class characterized by having large, well formed and very fragrant light lavender flowers.

Abstract: A new and unique apple rootstock `Geneva 65` that is very dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight. The tree is also useful as a small ornamental flowering crab.

Abstract: This variety is distinguished from other apple tree varieties by the following principal features:1. A dwarf habit of growth with lateral branches conducive to trellising and greater tree densities per acre.2. A spreading spur type fruiting which enables easier picking and a large quantity per tree.3. A larger fruit of fairly uniform size averaging 3" in diameter, that is exceptionally sweet for dessert eating or cooking.4. This variety of "Eve's Apple" is a basically green apple with a slight blush and averaging a weight of 9 oz.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree which bears medium to large, dark red, mahogany colored, firm fruits is described. Its broadly cordate shaped, attractive fruits ripen 14 days ahead of the commercially grown Bing variety which it is compared to herein.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree (Plum.times.(Plum.times.Plum Cot)) which has the unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety.1. Heavy and regular production of large fruit.2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality.3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality.4. Large tree size with vigorous upright growth.5. Fruit ripening in the late maturity season.6. Fruit holding firm on the tree 15 to 20 days after shipping ripe.7. Fruit with high soluble solids (brix) averaging approximately 20 degrees with the refractometer.8. Fruit with an attractive dark violet to blackish blue skin color.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of grapevine substantially as illustrated and described and which is distinguished principally as to novelty by producing intensely pink-red seedless berries with very good flavor and size forming loose bunches in which the berries are firmly attached to their capstems and being mature for harvesting and shipment approximately September 1 through September 15 in Delano in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

Abstract: A new standard carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by the Empire ose colored flower petals. These flowers are of medium size and are borne singly on long, strong stems and bloom profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of Spring and Fall. This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit and abundant foliage.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Cherry Papillon particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; greyed-red ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 35 to 37 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 47 to 57 days; plant height, with 14 to 15 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 0 to 2 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 20 to 25 cm when grown as a pinched pot mum with 4 cuttings in a 15 cm pot; small dark green foliage; branching pattern is spreading and very prolific, each plant having 6 to 8 laterals after pinch; and very floriferous, with an excellent display of many small flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct lily plant named Ventoux, characterized by its large flowers, bicolored petals having a white main color and an intense red-purple base color which is more heavily infused in the three outer petals, long stems, vigorous growth habit, petal tips which bend downward, and its floriferous habit.

Abstract: A new and distinctive Geranium cultivar particularly distinguished by its dark green leaves with light zonation and bicrenate border which provide a contrast to its dark red colored semidouble flowers is provided. In this Geranium a large umbel of flowers stands on strong stems of between 290 to 300 mm high, whose foliage is Botrytis resistant.

Abstract: Geranium Designer Series.TM. Light Pink (BFP-174) is a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium.times.hortorum Bailey, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Designer Light Pink. Designer Light Pink was selected from among the progeny of a cross between female parent Romance and PAS-W. The new cultivar is distinguishable from other geraniums and from both parents in not requiring a growth regulator for self-branching.

Abstract: I disclose that my herein invention of a new variety of Zoysia grass plant was discovered by me as a found seedling in a pot of sterile medium on my farm in Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaii. This new discovered Zoysia grass plant is a perennial, which exhibits an attractive deep green color, color Green number 141 A, as defined by The Royal Horticultural Society of London Colour Chart, of a low decumbent dense growth habit, that produces outstanding vigorous growth and a prolific rhizome system. The anthers are dark purplish-red color, color Red-Purple 61 B; the stigmas are pale yellow-green, color Yellow-Green 150 D. The entire plant of the new claimed variety of Zoysia grass plant, is glabrous except for several short hairs at the top of the leaf sheath at the sides of the ligule.

Abstract: In the case of a bearing for spindles of spinning or twisting machines, which contains a spindle bearing housing, a bolster, a centering tube, a pivot bearing and a step bearing sleeve, it is provided that a predetermined bearing play of the step bearing sleeve is adjusted to a desired dimension by maching the radial interior surface of the step bearing sleeve while the sleeve is already mounted in the centering tube.

Abstract: A pressure sensor having the structure wherein an amorphous magnetic alloy member or members are secured to both of a deforming part which is distorted by a pressure and a non-deforming part which is not distorted by a pressure and elements for detecting the change of a permeability of the amorphous magnetic alloy are respectively disposed at each of the amorphous magnetic alloy members, can measure the magnitude of an applied pressure with high accuracy while suppressing a drift of the output accompanied with the change of a temperature.

Abstract: An apparatus employing radiation for measuring bone density in which the bone can be scanned from different angles. The multidirectional scanning is accomplished by rotating the radiation source and detector about the stationary object being irradiated.

Abstract: A surgical ophthalmic drape which is a complete draping system and provides a sterile field and fluid control. The ophthalmic drape includes a main sheet and a fluid pouch. The fluid pouch has a fenestration which is smaller than the main sheet fenestration. The adhesive layer on the bottom of the fluid pouch both secures the pouch to the main sheet and also secures the drape assembly to the patient. The pouch is a folded piece of fluid impervious material with a sealed edge on three sides.

Abstract: An ultraviolet liquid purification system includes a purification chamber having banks of ultraviolet lamps distributed therein for applying germicidal ultraviolet radiation to the liquid flowing through in said chamber. Ultraviolet photocell detectors are located in said chamber to detect the level of ultraviolet radiation transmitted through the quartz jacket housing the ultraviolet lamps and through the liquid being purified. Indicator means produce an alarm signal when the total ultraviolet radiation transmitted through the liquid drops below a preselected level. In addition, a light conducting fiber is provided for each ultraviolet lamp having its input endface located at the ultraviolet lamp and its output endface at a display panel whereby identification of a particular ultraviolet lamp that has failed may be easily detected. Photocell detector means are provided to detect the light output at the output endface of the light conductor fiber and to produce an alarm signal when said light output fails.

Abstract: A composition comprising (a) at least one oxidized polycationic polyheteroaromatic compound and (b) at least one polyanion of a film-forming thermoplastic polymer containing sulfated alcohol groups ##STR1## in repeating structural units. The composition has high electrical conductivity and good mechanical properties, especially after drawing at temperatures below the melt/decomposition temperature. The material may be used as electrodes, electrically conductive filaments or components for electromagnetic screening.

Abstract: An improved steam sterilization indicator is provided. The indicator includes a fusible material in tablet form, deposited in an embossment in one end of a thin aluminum backing. A wicking strip is attached to the backing with one end of the strip being in close proximity to the fusible tablet. A clear plastic material covers the tablet and the strip and is adhered to the backing. The melting point of the fusible tablet is depressed in the presence of saturated steam. Upon melt, the material in the tablet is absorbed by the wicking strip, producing a color front to provide an indication of the integration of time and temperature in the presence of steam. Various amounts of a binder are used in the tablet to provide a device which may be adjusted to reflect the thermal death curves of various types of microorganisms. The cover and the wick are bonded to the backing by an acyclic adhesive which also affects the rate of the indicator.

Abstract: An aerial optical fiber cable comprises a glass-fibre-reinforced plastics core member (1) having a slot (2) with a zero lay angle accommodating loose-tubed optical fibres (3, 3A) and sheathed with a longitudinal tape (13) bound with a binder (915) and over-sheathed with a plastics extrusion (14). The cable is self-supporting and completely non-metallic and ia suitable for telecommunications and data transmission services alongside overhead power transmission systems. An alternative embodiment (FIG. 2 ) is not self-supporting but is similar in design and adapted for support from a support wire, and another embodiment has a rectangular slot housing one or more ribbon elements. The cable is simple and cheap to make.

Abstract: A garment in the form of a vest of jacket comprises a pair of front panels attached to either side of a back portion. The panels define a pair of opposed front edges, each of which is contiguous with one of two bottom edge segments. A vertical bifurcation is formed in the lower part of the back section, defined between a pair of bifurcation edges, each of which is contiguous with one of the bottom edge segments. A first zipper is provided, which, when closed, joins the front panel edges to each other, the bottom edge segments to each other, and the bifurcation edges to each other. When the first zipper is so closed, and the garment is turned inside-out, a bag is formed, with the closed zipper defining a closed bag bottom and closed bag ends, the bag having a top opening defined between a pair of opposed top edges.

Abstract: An improved combined ear and eye protector is disclosed which provides optimum flexibility by permitting the use of both eye and ear protection, or alternatively eye protection only or ear protection only. Maximum flexibility is achieved by providing an ear protection system which includes a head support independent of the eye protector.

Abstract: An automatic toilet seat lowering hinge assembly for automatically lowering a toilet seat from a raised position to a lower position above the toilet seat includes a housing having a chamber through which a shaft is disposed therein. The shaft is releasibly attached to the toilet seat. The housing has a baffle extending from the inner surface of the housing to the surface of the shaft and a descent paddle extends from the shaft outwardly toward the inner surface of the housing to partition the chamber into two compartments. A vent controls the transfer of fluid between the partitioned chamber compartments so that the toilet seat pivots from the raised position to the lower position in a predetermined amount of time.

Abstract: A toilet seat bidet assembly, for use on a toilet bowl, the assembly including a toilet seat, which includes an upper molded seat portion, a flat base portion structured and disposed for supported positioning atop a rim portion of the toilet bowl, and a central opening, pivotally mounted atop the toilet bowl, and having a hollow channel formed between the upper seat portion and base portion of the toilet seat wherein a pair of flow actuated, pop out cleansing spouts are mounted in spaced apart relation from one another. The spouts are caused to protrude through a side of the upper portion of the toilet seat into the center opening in the toilet seat in response to water pressure so as to disperse water for cleansing a user's intimate parts. The spouts retract and remain protectively concealed within the hollow channel when water flow is stopped so as to shield them from potential contamination.

Abstract: An inlaid tile gutter system for use in swimming pools contains a channel, braces mounted atop the primary gravity flow channel and stiffeners mounted on the poolside of the channel provide a relatively stiff gutter system capable of withstanding deformations due to excessive loadings and impact. Ferro concrete material may be placed within channels formed by the vertical stiffeners to provide a support and a base upon which to set tile.