Abstract: A new miniature rose created by crossing two unnamed varieties is characterized by its red and white bicolor flowers, its healthy, dark green, glossy and disease-resistant foliage, its abundance of flowers, its seven-leaflet leaves and its pleasant, light fragrance.

Abstract: A new miniature rose with red and white bicolor flowers of good form.

Abstract: A miniature rose having bright, glossy green, disease-resistant foliage; bright red, semi-double flowers; ease of production using softwood cuttings; and vigorous, compact, well-branched habit of growth.

Abstract: A new rose variety is disclosed having an unusual yellow-orange flower color; vigorous, upright growth; abundant glands on upper rachises, stipules, axils, and peduncles; very large, long-lasting blooms; and moderate bloom fragrance. Each bloom, borne singly, has about thirty broad petals. The new variety was created by crossing the medium-red variety AROheddo with an unnamed deep yellow seedling.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Regal Desiree particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 25 to 29 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 42 to 47 days; plant height with 14 to 15 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 0 to 1 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 18 to 23 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; very floriferous, with an excellent display of many small flowers; and excellent tolerance to high temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Barbara particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 31 to 41 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 8 to 10 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and 4 to 5 breaks when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of August 18 to 26 when planting rooted cuttings on June 21 to 25 in Salinas, Calif., and September 28 to 30 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to June 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 49 to 56 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas, Calif.; plant height of 33 to 41 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and 15 to 18 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no growth regulator applications; and durable, uniform performance.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Teide particularly characterized by its classic decorative form, incurving type, pure white ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum of 69 to 79 mm when fully opened and when grown as a single stem spray cut mum, flowering response under normal temperatures of 63 to 67 days after start of short days, plant height of 91 to 102 cm when grown with 14 long days prior to start of short days, peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud and without growth regulator applications, of 8 to 13 cm, peduncle length of the fourth lateral at flowering of 15 to 20 cm, and its terminal spray formation.

Abstract: Chrysanthemum plant named Tracy particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; duplex daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 54 to 70 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 7 to 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and with 5 to 7 breaks after pinch in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of Aug. 27 to 29 when planting rooted cuttings on Jun. 21 to 23 in Salinas, Calif., and Sep. 23 to 28 when planting rooted cuttings Jun. 15 to Jun. 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 48 to 56 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas, Calif.; plant height of 20 to 33 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and 13 to 18 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with 0 to 2 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP; and durable, uniform performance.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Yellow Chantal particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 25 to 28 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 46 to 49 days; plant height, with 14 to 15 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 0 to 1 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 18 to 20 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; very floriferous, with an excellent display of many small flowers; and excellent tolerance to high temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Cream Chantal particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; cream-yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 25 to 27 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 44 to 48 days; plant height, with 14 to 15 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 0 to 1 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 18 to 20 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; very floriferous, with an excellent display of many small flowers; and excellent tolerance to high temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.

Abstract: An Anthurium plant named Lollipop having abundant red-pink flowers held above the foliage with a contrasting cream yellow spadix, a rounded symmetrical compact habit, very abundant branching, durable dark green shiny leaves, and tolerance to heat and the common disease Xanthomonas.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Guzmania, named "Red Star", characterized as to novelty by a unique combination of broad leaves; compact foliage; and large, stout and intensely colored, red inflorescence having remarkably wide bracts.

Abstract: An air conditioning system has a negative ion-filtering device in union for purifying function which comprises a PC board to produce negative ions, a high voltage lead, high voltage electric sheets, and a dust mesh, being positioned in the air blow direction path of the air conditioner for use after the temperature adjustment is made. Electric sheets which produce negative ions make the passing dust particles of the air carry negative charges and be sucked attached to the dust mesh producing positive ions, this way achieving purification of the air passing there-through.

Abstract: An improved manhole cover support adjustable in perimeter and adapted to raise the effective grade of an existing manhole cover receiving structure such as a manhole frame is shown. Integral and substantially coextensive with the upper part of its thin-walled lateral cover keeper portion is a reinforcing wale. The cover support can be in the form of a split ring or a plurality of joined segments. Advantageously, it can have bridged joints and a flexible, compressible retention member on at least a portion of its expanding outer wall member.

Abstract: A ducted fan including a funnel-shaped duct positioned upstream of the impeller and connected to a base, an outer cowling concentrically positioned downstream and attached to said duct through a series of ribs, an inner cowling positioned inside the outer cowling and surrounding the impeller and a circular grill attached to the discharge end of the inner cowling. The grill including a center hub and a series of arcuate-shaped ribs extending outwardly from the hub and having a constant curvature of less diameter than the outside radius of the grill whereby the maximum lateral spacing between the ribs is at a radius inboard from the outside radius of the grill.

Abstract: A plastic preform from which a plastic container is blow molded. The preform replaces a three layer preform by providing a preform which is of a five layer construction in the base forming portion thereof and wherein a secondary material which forms the core layer of the three layer preform construction is divided into an inner intermediate layer and an outer intermediate layer by a third injection of material. The third injected material is preferably the same material as the primary material which is first injected. This results in the reduction of the cost of the preform and also provides remaining in the injection nozzle a quantity of the last injected material which is the same as the first injected material for the following preform in the same preform injection mold cavity.

Abstract: A fabric-covered foam rubber pad that is in a semicircular shape with a small slot gap in the center of the foam rubber pad that provides a hinge to allow it to easily fold in half and provide room for the sizing strap of a baseball-style cap. Hooh-and-loop fasteners are attached to one side of the structure so that when placed up, under, and over a baseball-style cap's sizing strap it can be folded in half and secured in place.

Abstract: Hair and garment protector apparatus includes four panels appropriately secured together to define a generally cylindrical protector with a dome shaped top that sits on the top of a user's head and extends downwardly to about the upper portion of the user's chest and downwardly about to the level of the user's neck and upper back to protect garments being changed from makeup on the user. The protector apparatus is placed on the user's head after makeup is applied and prior to putting on clothing, and the apparatus is similarly used prior to removing the clothing to protect the clothing from makeup, and vice versa.

Abstract: A fabric hat which is usable as such by a child and is also convertible into a flying play object that can be thrown and caught in the manner of a Frisbee. The fabric hat is formed by a pair of dome-shaped sections, one nested within the other to define the crown of the hat, the circular rims of the sections being joined to an annular disc defining the brim of the hat. To convert the hat into a flying object, a toy balloon in its collapsed state is inserted through a port in one of the sections into a space between the sections. The balloon is then inflated to transform the crown into a ball encircled at its equator by the annular disc, whereby the resultant flying object can then be thrown and caught. The hat is packaged in a two-ply display card whose front ply has a circular opening therein through which the crown projects, the shorter rear ply having an arcuate indentation that matches a corresponding portion of the opening.

Abstract: A helmet has attached to its lower rim an inflatable bag which normally is folded so as not to restrict normal head and neck movements of the wearer but on inflation will fill the gap between the helmet rim and shoulders of a wearer. Carried by the helmet and preferably packed with the bag is a package including a conventional gas generator, igniter and battery. A switch to operate the igniter is located in the crown area of the helmet and is closable on an impact with a predetermined force on the crown of the helmet. When closed the bag is almost instantaneously inflated and fills the gap to transfer most if not all of the impact force to the shoulders and relieve the cervical spine of a damaging axial compressive force. In another version, the attachment is a rigid padded ring conforming to the contour of the lower rim or base of the helmet and the lower part of the face guard, if any.

Abstract: A hygienic urinal for installation in restrooms is disclosed. The hygienic urinal consists of an outer body and an inner body. The outer body comprises a pair of sidewalls connected at the rear edges to a rear wall, and a horizontally oriented top connected to both sidewalls and the rear wall resulting in a boxlike structure open at the front. The rear wall of the outer body is adjacent to and flush with a vertical wall of the restroom. The urinal bottom is recessed in the restroom floor and gradually sloped toward a centrally positioned drain. The inner body of the urinal consists of two inner sidewalls connected along their front edge to the outer body sidewalls and along their rear edge to an inner rear wall parallel to the outer rear wall.

Abstract: A multi-purpose water pressure plunger employs a source of pressurized water to dislodge clogs in bathroom drainage pipes and the like. The plunger is fashioned of a resilient cone-shaped cup, a rigid handle, an adjustable valve, and a means of connection to a pressurized source of water. Sealing against and partially extending into a drain opening, the cup permits full thrust of pressurized water into a drainage pipe without a backflow of water. The cup consists of an upper, deformable portion, and a solid, occlusive bottom portion defining a nipple-shaped end. A flow of pressurized water is supplied to the cup through an elongated and ridged handle with a lengthwise aperture therethrough. An adjustable valve including a ball component and a regulating lever controls the flow of water into the handle, and thus, to the clogged drain.

Abstract: A simple yet inexpensive device is presented which is used to divide the water normally supplied to the spill tube and gooseneck reservoir of a commode. Dividing the water supplied to the spill tube and diverting a substantial portion of that water to a holding tank of a commode saves water that is normally unnecessarily fed directly down the drain in the refilling process. The device is a small plastic insert that has a generally rectangular main body. At one end of this main body is a horizontal inlet tube. At the bottom of the main body are a number of lower vertical outlet tubes. In order to evenly disperse the inlet water among the vertical outlet tubes, the upper mouth of the vertical outlet tubes is constricted by narrowing the diameter of the mouth with respect to the inner diameter of the inlet tube. Water is thus distributed evenly among the lower outlet tubes.

Abstract: A sanitary bidet conversion kit for conventional water closet flush toilets is disclosed. The kit includes a T-shaped pipe to be connected the toilet tank water supply, a nozzle mounted in an upward direction within the toilet bowl and a hose including a flow control valve connected between the T-shaped pipe and nozzle. The nozzle includes a cover pivotally mounted thereto which moves under the influence of gravity to cover the nozzle outlet when water flow through the nozzle is stopped.

Abstract: A time shared arrangement for delivering spa water and pool water to a water heater is disclosed in which check valves respond to the presence of spa water and pool water pressure. Water drawn from the pool is diverted into two streams, one passes through a check valve to a water heater and the other passes through a check valve to a return line. The flow of pool water to the heater is isolated by a further check valve forced to a close position by the pressure of the pool water. Water drawn from the spa is diverted into two streams, one passes through a check valve to a water heater and the other passes through a check valve to a return line. The flow of spa water to the heater is isolated by a check valve forced is closed by the pressure of spa water.