Abstract: A new plant variety of Chrysanthemum producing dark lavender to red-purple flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which has a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 250 chill units (cu). The tree is of large size, is highly vigorous spreading growth habit and has nonshowy pink flowers. Glands are small and reniform in shape and isolated to the basal portions of leaves. This tree, which has been denominated `UFQueen` is a regular bearer of heavy crops of early maturing, large for early ripening season, with very firm non-melting flesh, clingstone fruit having yellow flesh color. Fruit is uniform, attractive, substantially symmetrical shape, and has an attractive normally 90 to 100% solid red skin. The fruit ripens substantially with that of `Sunraycer` in early to mid-May at Gainesville, Fla.

Abstract: A new plant variety of chrysanthemum producing large, yellow daisy-type flowers having a yellow-green center.

Abstract: A new variety of chrysanthemum producing golden orange flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant, and named `Didi Orare` is provided. `Didi Orare` is distinct in its orange colored fully double flowers, its early and free flowering, and its basal branched, compact growth habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree, designated `R1-T2`, originated as a seedling in a block of `John Boy`. It is a midseason variety maturing 5 to 7 days after `John Boy` and 5 to 7 days before `Loring`. The fruit is yellow-fleshed, freestone, large sized, and flavorful. The surface of the fruit is 70 to 80% attractive orange-red over a yellow-orange background.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant (Fragaria.times.ananassa) named `NJ8607-2`, which is a short day cultivar similar to `Earliglow`, but which is exceptional for its early season harvest of very attractive large fruit, good shelf-life, and high productivity, combined with good horticultural qualities and good disease resistance. The plant is well adapted to matted-row, ribbon-row, and high density planting systems, and performs consistently in diverse environments. The fruit size is larger than that of `Earliglow`, the major cultivar in its season.

Abstract: `Fiscor Candy` is characterized by light-salmon main bract color, which is slightly freckled with pink, with the intensity of color increasing from the lower to upper bracts; ovate shaped and only weakly lobed bracts which are in an overlapping arrangement and form a flat inflorescence with hardly any gaps between the bracts; dark-green foliage with weak to distinctly lobed leaves; compact to medium-tall and relatively broad and bushy plant habit; and good keeping quality of bracts as well as foliage.

Abstract: A new miniature pot rose plant which has abundant, durable, salmon pink-colored flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glasshouses. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Weswei`, characterized by its dark green leaves; numerous pure white flowers; cascading and freely branching growth habit; early flowering; and good weather tolerance, particularly tolerant to rain, wind and low temperatures.

Abstract: A new and distinct regal geranium plant with deep purple petals having white edges above a medium green foliage. The new variety has a larger growth habit with more vegetative shoots than `Baron`.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named `Duepetpinkeye`, characterized by its rounded flowers that are white with a dark red "eye" zone; freely flowering; freely branching plant habit; and leaves that have dark green upper surfaces, dark wine red lower surfaces, and dark wine red venation.

Abstract: A new compact floribunda rose plant which has abundant flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glasshouses. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named `Arizona`, characterized by its numerous double inflorescences that are about 6.1 cm in diameter; reddish orange ray florets; compact, uniform and mounded growth habit; small glossy dark green leaves; and strong peduncles that hold inflorescences just above the foliage.

Abstract: The new variety of ivy geranium produces velvety flowers having a range of dark pink to bright ruby red to burgundy. The plant has high cutting yield, improved rooting time, controlled plant habit, but also has a neater floret presentation, improved heat tolerance and is less prone to oedema than other varieties in this market class.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of apple tree named `Pinova` is provided. `Pinova` is a dwarf apple variety that withstands both winter and spring frosts (i.e., a winter cultivar), with fruit of dessert quality with a smooth skin finish (little or no russeting), displays higher productivity on average than `Golden Delicious` and no alternate bearing, and has less storage loss than `Golden Delicious`. `Pinova` is a high-quality cultivar that complements `Golden Delicious` in the market until June.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named `Maryland`, characterized by its large and numerous double inflorescences that are about 8.1 cm in diameter; dark reddish purple ray florets; mostly upright; mounded and uniform growth habit; very dark green shiny leaves; and strong peduncles that hold inflorescences above the foliage.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named `Tattoo`, characterized by its small, rounded golden green leaves with a distinct darker green maple leaf-shaped outline or "tattoo" in the center of the leaf; relatively compact plant habit; and light lavender flowers that are positioned above the foliage on strong and erect peduncles.

Abstract: A used lubricant oil recycling process is disclosed in which a used lubricating oil is injected to a delayed coker downstream of the coker furnace whereby the used oil is thermally cracked into hydrocarbon fuel products which are low in metal contaminants, sulfur and nitrogen. The used lubricant can be preheated in an independent heater to avoid a quenching effect of the process stream when added in an amount greater than about 3% by volume based on the entire volume of the feed.

Abstract: A sheet stapling apparatus including a stapling device for stapling a set of sheets, a load detecting device for detecting a level of a load of the stapling device during a stapling operation, and a signal generating device for generating a signal when the load detected by the load detecting device is outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: A dental bib to be adhesively attached to a patient having desirable nominally-sized areas of adhesive deposits which nevertheless adhere as firmly as currently used large-sized deposits as a result of using recesses in an embossed pattern on the dental bib for making available increased amounts of adhesive, wherein the area over which the adhesive is spread and now also the depth of the adhesive contributes to achieving the attachment function.

Abstract: An integrated assembly formed by a backpack that includes a bag having a front section to which shoulder straps are attached to form loops adapted to receive the arms of a wearer, and a raincoat having a rear panel whose upper section is joined to the front section of the bag, a separable front panel to permit the wearer to don the raincoat, and a pair of sleeves. In the passive mode of the assembly, the raincoat is folded to form a flat compact that lies against the front section of the bag and is joined thereto, the compact then being adjacent the back of the wearer of the backpack. In the active mode of the assembly, the compact is unfolded so that the raincoat then depends from the front section of the bag, the sleeves of the compact then being extended through the loops whereby when the wearer dons the raincoat and inserts his arms through the sleeves, the backpack is then carried over the raincoat.

Abstract: A garment, such as a coat, shirt, or jacket, for a firefighter, a rescue worker, a forestry worker, or another worker having to carry a rope has a back portion and two front portions, each front portion extending from the back portion at one side of the garment. A back pocket extending at least substantially across the backs portion, between the sides of the garment, is adapted to carry a rope placed in a zigzag pattern. A front pocket extending at least partially across one of the front portions of the garment communicates with the back pocket, through a slit in the garment, so that a rope carried within the back pocket is removable through the slit and through the front pocket. A front flap overlies the front pocket and the slit. The back pocket is accessible from the interior of the garment and the front pocket is accessible from the exterior of the garment. A strip coacting with the back portion to define the back pocket has an upper edge and a lower edge.

Abstract: An enhanced personal cooling garment has an inner layer and outer layer that define a confined space or bladder therebetween for containing liquid water. The inner and outer layer are thin materials that are impermeable to both air and liquid water yet permeable to water vapour. The garment is worn in a manner such that the innermost layer is in direct contact with the wearer's skin. The liquid water between the layers diffuses as vapour through the outer layer; it removes latent heat required for evaporation hence provides cooling to the human body. As both layers of the garment are permeable to water vapour, sweat produced by the wearer can diffuse through the innermost layer, where it will then condense into liquid. When worn beneath an air-cooling garment that distributes cool; dry air over the body, the rate of evaporation increases, resulting in even greater enhancement of cooling of the wearer.

Abstract: A medical patient gown formed from a single section of a soft fabric material that is suitable for patient wear in a doctor's office or hospital to cover over a patient's body and is selected to have a pleasing pattern and/or print to be aesthetically pleasing to the patient wearing the garment. The gown can be worn forward or backward, includes wide sleeves, is of a size to be wrapped around the patient's body and closed, and includes easily and conveniently releasable fasteners to secure the wrap around the patient's body that are easily opened to allow access by medical personnel performing a procedure on a section of the patient's body.

Abstract: A smoke mask including a hood adapted to fit over a user's head, the hood having a front section adapted to be placed in front of a user's face; and a filter extending through the hood. The filter having support frame having a filter cartridge receiving opening, a replaceable cartridge containing at least one filtration medium positioned within the opening, and at least one releasable connector securing the cartridge to the frame.

Abstract: For a firefighter, rescue worker, or chemical worker or for a person engaged in an outdoor activity, a protective garment wearable as an outer garment or as a lining system under an outer shell and with a pair of boots having leg-encasing portions, comprises a pair of pants including a pair of leg portions. Fitting into an associated one of the pair of boots when the garment and boots are worn together, each leg portion has an outer layer being a moisture barrier and terminating in an outer sock and has an inner layer being a thermal liner and terminating in an inner sock or in a stirrup. The garment further comprises a pair of cuffs, each cuff being attached to and around the outer layer of an associated one of the leg portions so extend downwardly, over and around an upper area on the leg-encasing portion of the associated one of the boots when the garment and boots are worn.

Abstract: Articles of clothing adapted to be worn by and to substantially surround at least a portion of a person. The articles of clothing absorb odors emanating from that portion of the person which is substantially surrounded by the clothing preventing odors from escaping to the atmosphere.

Abstract: A helmet windshield is provided with sunshade device on the top. The sunshade device includes a supporting slice, a pushing block, a slider, a pivotal block and a sunshade slice. The protrusive member of the pushing block is inserted in the opening in the center of the supporting slice and then attached to by the slider. The left and right sides of the slider are inlaid in the sliding groove provided in the inner surface of the supporting slice and surrounding the opening so that the slider can slide upward and downward in the sliding groove. The -shape protrusion of the pivotal block is inserted through the -shape hole of the supporting slice, and the post of the slider is inserted in the hole of the pivotal block. At last, the sunshade slice is combined with the pivotal block by a rivet so that the sunshade slice can move upward or downward according to the movement of the pushing block.

Abstract: An athletic body protective product such as a shin guard with enhanced protection against direct impact to bone structure shin. The guard includes a storage package formed of moisture-impervious material and sealable to prevent entry of moisture, a flexible protective guard positioned in the storage package and sealed therein against entry of moisture for being custom-formed to the shape of the shin while flexible and upon hardening providing a rigid, supporting custom fit. The guard includes a reactive system impregnated into or coated onto a substrate, the system remaining stable when maintained in substantially moisture-free conditions and hardening upon exposure to sufficient moisture to form a rigid, self supporting structure. A flexible pad is positioned on one side of the substrate along its length to provide a cushioning barrier between the hardened substrate and the protected bone of the athlete when the protective guard is in use.

Abstract: A spout which can effect a waterfall in the form of a sheet of water in conjunction with the recirculation of bathing water is described. An accumulator with a baffle structure receives the recirculating bathing water to place it in a quiescent state before passage from the spout. In a preferred embodiment, there is a whirlpool basin which receives bathing water from the spout as well as body spray nozzles which also receive recirculating water from the basin.