Abstract: Rose plant of shrub class that roots readily as softwood or hardwood cuttings; is compatible with various scionwood as rootstock; and has a vigorous and healthy growth, with large, arching canes that are excellent sources of rootstock cuttings.

Abstract: Rose plant of the shrub class having bright red flowers; disease-resistant foliage; low-growing, spreading habit of growth; glossy, dark green foliage; and repeat flowering.

Abstract: A hybrid tea rose plant having a distinctive and novel flower color; excellent production; long vase life; thick, leathery petals, attractive, high-centered flower form, and few thorns.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dipladenia plant named Helle, characterized by its distinctive white flower color.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dipladenia plant named Cerise, characterized by its distinctive deep red flower color and dark green foliage and stems.

Abstract: A new and distinct Lavandula plant named `Blue Cushion`, characterized by its dwarf compact habit, profuse blooming in early June continuous into late summer, upstanding flower spikes appearing well above the foliage, and its deep blue flowers which fade first to pale blue and then to grey, giving a distinctive bicolor effect.

Abstract: A new variety of Limonium is tall with good branching. The petal color is a greenish-yellow. The calyx color is pale purplish-pink. The flowers are long-lasting and the plant is easy to grow. Up to 8 stems flowers can be cut in each year.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a decumbent type verbena plant having long stems. The plant has abundant branching wherein each node of the branches the contacts the ground commonly forming deep-spreading roots. The plant forms numerous flowers that appear as ascending spikes in a great profusion of blooms. The flowers exhibit petals having a strong purple color, with a small very pale purple eye. The plant is highly resistant to heat, cold, diseases, and pests.

Abstract: In a keyboard musical instrument employing waveform memory, a user may program the number and order of waveforms to be sequentially read out from a waveform memory containing a plurality of different waveforms.

Abstract: A lubricant oil for refrigerators, industrial gears, automotive engines, automotive gear oil, fibers and as a rolling lubricant oil, comprising a glycol ether carbonate represented by the general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently an aliphatic group, an alicyclic group, an aromatic group and an aromatic-substituted aliphatic group each having not greater than 20 carbon atoms. R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently an ethylene group or an isopropylene group, and m and n are each independently an integer of 2 to 100, and optionally containing ozone layer-nondestructive Freon such as Freon R-134a.

Abstract: Cents-off merchandise coupons are distributed and redeemed immediately and electronically. An electronic display of coupons valid for use in a particular store is presented to customers in that store. When a customer makes a selection of coupons from the display, the selection is recorded. The customer is subsequently identified at a store checkout station as the one who made the selection. In a preferred embodiment, the identification is made by scanning a special card adapted for use with the system. The items purchased in the store by the customer are recorded, and any matches between the coupons selected and the items purchased are determined electronically. The customer is immediately credited in accordance with the terms of the matched coupons. Redeemed coupons are periodically cleared electronically.

Abstract: A test configuration register (80) associated with a programmable memory device (88), wherein the signals at the outputs of the test configuration register force elements of the memory device into certain logic states to enable the device to be tested without programming the device's logic array (22).

Abstract: A device for simultaneously or sequentially edge binding a sheaf of papers and separately laminating single sheets. A heat applying assembly includes a body of heat conducting material having a generally horizontal elongated slot extending through the body and two pairs of rollers, one at an input end of the slot and the other at an output end thereof for feeding a document between two thermoplastic sheets through the slot. Upper and lower imbedded heating coils apply heat above and below the slot for fusing the thermoplastic sheets to effect lamination of the document. The body of heat conducting material provides an upper surface slanted at an acute angle with respect to the horizontal. A rigid guide surface oriented by an equal angle with respect to the vertical provides for gravity retention of a sheaf of paper to be edge bound against the aforementioned upper surface, a heat setting adhesive being introduced along the common end of .[.tyhe.]. .Iadd.the .Iaddend.

Abstract: An azaazulene derivative having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or isopropyl group; the bond C N between C at the 2-position and N at the 1-position is single bond or double bond; when the bond C N is single bond, R.sup.2 is 5-tetrazolyl group, R.sup.3 is taken together with carbon atom to form carbonyl group at the 2-position, and R.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a lower alkenyl group, a lower alkyl group having oxygen atom or sulfur atom in carbon chain, a lower alkyl group having a halogen atom or cyano group, a lower alkyl group having heteroaromatic ring, a diphenyl lower alkyl group, or a lower alkyl group having hydrocarbon-aromatic ring with the general formula: ##STR2## in which W is single bond or carbonyl group, oxygen atom, sulfur atom or --CH.dbd.CH--, n is an integer of 1 to 6, and R.sup.1', R.sup.2' and R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a number of innovative electrophilic substitution reactions involving 2,5-dithienylpyrrole (2,5-DTP). More specifically, these reactions are used in the synthesis of monomers for preparing functionalized conducting organic polymers.The electrophilic substitution reactions in this invention are accomplished under conditions not requiring the use of N-1 pyrrole blocking groups to direction reaction at the pyrrole C-3 position. This is because the steric bulk of the 2,5-dithienyl groups prevent N-acylation and therefore direct reactions with electrophiles at the pyrrole C-3 position.The reaction conditions chosen have also demonstrated a greater regioselectively towards functionalization at the pyrrole 3-position than the basic reaction conditions suggested in the prior art. This result may be explained by an activation of the pyrrole 3-position towards electrophilic substitution. This is attributed to an electron donating resonance contribution of the 2,5 thienyl groups.

Abstract: A disposable absorbent article for absorbing liquids, particularly body fluids such as urine. An absorbent core is encased in an outer covering layer to which flaps are connected long the longitudinal sides at a proximal edge. The flaps also have a distal edge which is displaced from the absorbent core means. The flaps are elasticized to render the distal edge elastically contractible so that the flap is gathered.

Abstract: An inner lining fabric of reduced thickness and having a down-fill composition for use as an inner lining in an article of apparel and a method of making the inner lining fabric is disclosed. A patterned envelope is formed and defines a pouch in which down or a down composition is inserted and distributed substantially evenly within the envelope. The envelope is then compressed in portions thereof and stitch seams are formed to define a quilt pattern of closely spaced stitch lines to reduce the loft of the down-fill composition by at least twice the normal loft thereof. This procedure is repeated over the entire envelope whereby the inner lining fabric has at least half the thickness of the normal loft of the down-fill composition. The inner lining fabric may have portions thereof with quilting defining surface areas of different portions to vary the thermal insulating value of different portions of the inner lining.

Abstract: A safety-and-arming mechanism for explosive device having a body including a slider, at least one latch adapted to translate between first and second positions to block the slider and allow translation of the slider, respectively, and a biasing device for applying a constant force to the latch to urge the latch in the locking position. The biasing mechanism includes a blade disposed at an end of the latch, and the blade is adapted to provide the constant force due to pressing contact against an inside surface of a launcher tube for launching the explosive device. The blade is adapted to apply a substantially constant force to the latch despite changes in dimensional tolerances between the interior surface of the launcher tube and the explosive device.

Abstract: An improved pair of swimming goggles has a frame unit, two lens units formed integrally with the frame unit, a gasket unit including two gaskets, a head strap unit and an adjusting member. The frame unit has a rear portion and two opposite sides. Each of the two opposite sides of the frame unit is formed with a strap hole. The gaskets are mounted separately on the rear portion of the frame unit. The strap unit includes upper and lower straps. Each of the upper and lower straps has a first end secured removably to one of the opposite sides of the frame unit and a second end. The adjusting member is formed with two pairs of aligned adjusting holes. The second end of each of the upper and lower straps extends through the strap hole on the other one of the opposite sides of the frame unit and through a corresponding pair of the aligned adjusting holes of the adjusting member.

Abstract: A disposable device for assisting a female in urinating from a standing position and for directing the urine a suitable distance away from the female, the device including a first end having a contoured opening for receiving urine from a female, a second end having an opening for discharging the urine from the device and first and second longitudinal creases extending from the first end to the second end and defining first and second walls.

Abstract: A vacuum tank assembly has a low volume configuration so that it can be used in boats and recreational vehicles where space is at a premium. A stack of components, with a waste tank at the bottom, then a vacuum tank with directly connected vacuum pump, and one or more fresh water tanks, is located remote from a vacuum toilet, with a discharge from the toilet (below a vacuum-tight ball valve) connected to the vacuum tank, which is in turn connected to the vacuum pump, in turn connected to the waste tank. A submersible centrifugal pump may be provided mounted to a cap of the water tank, with an anti-siphon device associated with it. The vacuum tank is of high density polypropylene having flat walls, with no continuous flat surface more than 80 square inches. Lipless duckbill check valves are provided on opposite sides of the vacuum pump, the valves of elastomeric material having a ratio of the wall thickness to thickness of the sealing edges of about 1:1.

Abstract: A toilet water reservoir inlet and outlet control valve utilizing a float and hydraulic activator. Both function simultaneously. Whenever the user flushes the toilet he will activate such valve, which will open to fill the reservoir with water, and the hydraulic activator will close the water inlet after a preset amount of time whether or not the reservoir is full of water. Such a valve will cut the water supply to the reservoir either by the float or by the hydraulic activator and such a valve includes a control to disable it partially in case of a bad part within it. Such a valve will enable the control the pressure to itself in order to prolong its life, and such a valve includes an adjustment that will control the cycle of closing such valve.

Abstract: A fitting assembly for use in swimming pools, spas, and the like with vinyl liners, comprises a fitting member which is mounted in an opening in the wall of the pool, either flush with the pool wall or with a flange extending over the interior of the pool wall near the opening. The fitting member has a recess in it about its periphery. The vinyl liner then is placed over the fitting member; and a clamp member, which has a predetermined thickness not greater than the depth of the recess, is secured in the recess of the fitting member over the vinyl liner to clamp the vinyl liner between the clamp and the recess of the fitting member. This provides a flush mount or nearly flush mount of the fitting member with the vinyl liner of the pool.