Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms attractive very double bicolored blossoms that are variegated orange on the upper surface and yellow on the under surface. The plant exhibits an erect growth habit, very rigid stems, dense semi-glossy decorative dark green foliage, and good resistance to Powdery Mildew and Botrytis. The attractive dark green foliage contrasts nicely with the blossom coloration. The new variety is particularly well suited for cut flower production under standard greenhouse growing conditions.

Abstract: A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant variety characterized by a daisy type inflorescence with many tightly held ray florets, consistent flowering response to short days, blooming consistently after 49 days of short day length, compact growth habit, and consistent natural season flowering habit during mid September.

Abstract: A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant variety characterized by a decorative type inflorescence, consistent flowering response to short days, blooming consistently after 49 days of short day length, vigorous growth habit, and consistent natural season flowering habit during late September.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘RESOLUTE’ characterized by its large sized blooms with white ray-florets and green disc florets.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat similar to the ‘Island King’ peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,199) from it is a sport bud from which it is distinguished by producing a later ripening fruit approximately six to eight days after the fruit produced by the ‘Island King’ peach tree.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the dwarf Miniature Class is provided which abundantly forms attractive double blossoms that are a blend of pale orange on the upper surface and pale pink on the undersurface. The growth habit is bushy, low and compact. Very dense medium green semi-glossy foliage is formed that contrasts nicely with the blossom coloration. The new variety is well suited for pot forcing under greenhouse growing conditions to form a distinctive gift plant. There is no particular sensitivity to diseases.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘KLEC01064’, characterized by its cascading plant habit; freely branching habit; early flowering habit; white and red purple bi-colored flowers; and good weather tolerance.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘KLEC01062’, characterized by its cascading plant habit; freely braching habit; early flowering habit; pink-colored flowers; and good weather tolerance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘FN White Eye’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and mounded growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant habit; freely flowering habit; white and red purple bi-colored flowers; and no requirement for vernalization.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Claudine’, characterized by its rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; uniform and freely flowering habit; decorative-type inflorescences; red purple and light red purple bi-colored ray florets; natural season flowering in early to mid-September in the Northern Hemisphere; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct gladiolus variety, designated ‘Festiva’, is shown and described. Compared to the ‘Jennie Lee’ parent variety, ‘Festiva’ has a similar bloom diameter, produces stems having the same length, but produces one to two less florets per stem.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named ‘Staprioxa’, characterized by its compact and uniform plant growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and red purple and yellow-colored flowers with dark purple-colored spots and stripes.

Abstract: A verbena cultivar particularly distinguished by purple colored flowers, vigorous growth and low trailing habit.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Heliotrope plant named ‘Nagano’, characterized by its compact and mounded plant habit; freely branching, dense and bushy growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; and dark purple-colored fragrant flowers.

Abstract: A new Kalanchoe cultivar named ‘Forever Maxi Sunray Yellow’ characterized by the combined features of yellow colored flowers and excellent lateral and basal branching.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Zonal Geranium plant named ‘Duevicher’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and red-colored flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named ‘Staprisara’, characterized by its compact and uniform plant growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and yellow and red purple bi-colored flowers with dark purple-colored spots and stripes.

Abstract: A new and distinct gladiolus variety, designated ‘Prissy's Purple’, is shown and described. The variety is characterized by having a heavy stem that is about 128 cm in length and containing 20-22 florets when grown from Jumbo size corms in Ecuador. One arrangement of the variety consists of six petals, namely three large petals, two medium petals, and one small petal. In another arrangement, the bloom consists of two large petals, three medium petals, and one small petal. The corolla bloom is characterized by having purple specks (Purple Group N78A) deep within the throat. The color of the bloom tight is Red Purple Group 72B, and the color of the bloom in open perfect condition is Purple Group N78C.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of geranium plant named ‘Fip 336’, characterized by the combined features of light-pink semi-double flowers with rose-red eyes, large umbels high above the foliage, deep green foliage without or with only weak zonation, moderately vigorous growth, bushy, round plant habit and medium to late spring flowering response.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of geranium plant named ‘Fip 765’, characterized by the combined features of lavender colored flowers with white eyes, floriferous with medium sized umbels on brown-red peduncles, dark-green foliage with weak zonation, moderately compact, low, rounded plant habit, and medium to early spring flowering response.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of geranium plant named ‘Fip 749’ characterized by the combined features of lavender-rose, semi-double flowers, numerous, medium sized umbels, dark-red peduncles, dark-green foliage mostly without zonation, compact and tight, well-branched plant habit, and relatively early flowering.

Abstract: A new and distinct very free flowering ivy geranium plant with distinctive soft pink colored flowers above medium green foliage and having very good heat tolerance.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Pulmonaria plant characterized by silvered foliage and rose pink flowers that stay rose pink rather that fading to violet and mildew resistance.

Abstract: A new variety of Tiarella cordifolia var. collina plant is provided that is well suited for growing as a distinctive ground cover. The new variety exhibits a compact mounding clump growth habit with the substantial absence of runners. Attractive white flowers are formed on unbranched flower stalks. The lobed leaves are ovate in configuration and possess a matte finish. During the summer the leaves are green and bear somewhat maroon centers. During the fall, the leaves assume a red coloration of variable intensity. The available choices of ornamental ground covers are expanded.

Abstract: A tubular skylight having an improved dome improving the efficiency of the skylight. The dome includes an integral prism in a portion of its outer surface to reflect light downwardly through the skylight. The dome is hemispherical, and the prism includes a plurality of grooves extending along great circles that pass through the apex of the dome. The prism covers only an angular segment of the hemispherical dome; and the grooves stop short of the apex of the dome.

Abstract: The plant comprises, on site, a compressed-air provision and distribution system (LA) with at least one dedicated air compressor (CO2, CO3), an air-gas production and provision system (LG) comprising an air treatment unit (S), with a reservoir R of the said air gas and normally fed by a compressor (CO1). In temporary operating mode, with one air compressor (CO2) off-line, the compressed air from the compressor (CO1) of the air gas provision system (S) is at least in part diverted (C), typically with pressure reduction (D), to sustain the production of the compressed air system (LA), the air gas then being at least in part provided by the reservoir (R).

Abstract: A mold-pressing device including a seat body formed with a horizontal fissure at one end and a vertical chamber communicated with the fissure. A mold block is disposed in the chamber. One face of the mold block is disposed with a solid die, while the other face of the mold block is disposed with a channel passing through the mold block. A pressing lever is pivotally disposed in the channel of the mold block. A housing covers the seat body and is formed with a window for a pressing section of the pressing lever to extend therethrough. In use, a paper or a sheet is pushed into the fissure of the seat body and then the pressing section of the pressing lever is depressed, whereby a protuberance of the pressing lever is moved downward to force the mold block downward with the die punching the paper or the sheet placed in the fissure. Therefore, a product with a shape as that of the die is formed.

Abstract: An earthquake actuated automatic gas shutoff valve having a valve bottom portion with a generally horizontal floor having a ball seat and a valve seat surrounding a gas outlet passageway. A ball having an elastomeric outer surface is held in the ball seat and in the event of an earthquake, the ball is shaken out of the ball seat and rolls into the valve seat to stop the flow of gas. The ball can either be a solid elastomeric ball or a metal ball with an elastomeric outer coating.

Abstract: A container for creating a microenvironment is disclosed. The container includes a shell, a door and a plurality of supports having a unique design which are used to securely retain items, such as silicon wafers, in a spaced apart parallel relationship. The supports are removable. An electrical path is provided to ground the supports. Kinematic coupling structures are also provided for positioning the container on a surface so as to, for example, properly align the door with the port of a wafer processing tool.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit connected to an integrated circuit pad for protecting an internal circuit from ESD damage. The ESD protection circuit includes an NMOS/PMOS transistor, a capacitor, and a load The NMOS/PMOS is configured with a drain connected to the IC pad and a source for connection to the circuit VSS/VDD. Agate of the NMOS/PMOS transistor is tied to the source. The capacitor is connected between the IC pad and the bulk of the NMOS/PMOS transistor The load, which is either another NMOS/PMOS transistor or a resistor, is to be connected between the VSS/VDD and the bulk of the NMOS/PMOS transistor. In accordance with the invention, the NMOS/PMOS transistor is fabricated in a P-well/N-well region of a semiconductor substrate. The capacitor includes an IC pad and a polysilicon layer therebelow, with an intervening dielectric layer.

Abstract: A field emission cathode device consisting of an electrically conducting material and with a narrow, rod-shaped geometry or a knife edge, to achieve a high amplification of the electric field strength is characterized in that the electron-emitting part of the field emission cathode at least partly has preferred cylindrical host molecules and/or compounds with host compounds and/or cylindrical atomic networks, possibly with end caps with diameters measuring in the nanometer range.

Abstract: Binoculars which are flat in the direction of view include two powerful Keplerian telescopes placed in two flat containers covering each eye and held by an eyeglass frame resting on the nose and ears; the binoculars can be easily converted into magnifying reading eyeglasses by touching a knob on the temple side of each telescope.

Abstract: An apparatus which makes dark lines due to a central axis of a cross dichroic prism sufficiently inconspicuous. In a second lens array, minute lenses arranged on the same column include three different types of minute lenses having optical axes at different positions. Each row of the minute lenses consists of one of the three types of minute lenses. Partial light fluxes respectively passing through the minute lenses have optical axes at different positions relative to a center of a lighting area of a liquid-crystal light bulb, so as to illuminate different illumination areas.

Abstract: An optical disk driver using a top-loading mechanism is coupled to an operational processor, such as a personal computer. The term “a top-loading mechanism” means a mechanism for inserting and/or ejecting an optical disk via a top surface of the optical disk driver. Additionally, a display unit used for the operational processor can be located on an operational processing apparatus comprising such an optical disk driver and an operational processor.

Abstract: A variable transfer rate control coding apparatus which can distribute codes of an amount most suitable to the contents of a moving picture to be recorded and to a recording medium, on which information is recorded by this transfer rate coding apparatus, by obtaining an amount of codes to be temporarily generated in each unit period of time by a temporary or tentative coding, and then storing a temporary transfer rate (namely, a value of the temporary amount of codes to be generated in each unit period of time), and setting a target transfer rate (namely, a target value of an amount) of codes to be sent in each unit period of time from a total of the temporary transfer rates and the recordable capacity of the recording medium and next performing an actual or real coding according to the target transfer rates.

Abstract: A turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted thereon and a top ring positioned above the turntable are independently rotatably provided. The top ring holds a workpiece to be polished and presses the workpiece against the abrasive cloth. The turntable and the top ring are rotated to polish the surface of the workpiece to a flat mirror finish on the abrasive cloth. A rotatable brush pressed against the abrasive cloth is rotated about an axis substantially perpendicularly to the plane of the abrasive cloth, and oscillated substantially radially between radially inner and outer positions over the abrasive cloth. A cleaning solution is sprayed from a nozzle onto the abrasive cloth. The turntable has a bank along an outer circumferential edge thereto for preventing a protective solution, which is supplied to the abrasive cloth to keep the abrasive cloth wet and prevent it, from flowing off the turntable when the turntable is stationary.

Abstract: A method, a map and an article of manufacture for the exploration of hydrocarbons. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the steps of: accessing 3D seismic data; dividing the data into an array of relatively small three-dimensional cells; determining in each cell the semblance/similarity, the dip and dip azimuth of the seismic traces contained therein; and displaying dip, dip azimuth and the semblance/similarity of each cell in the form a two-dimensional map. In one embodiment, semblance/similarity is a function of time, the number of seismic traces within the cell, and the apparent dip and apparent dip azimuth of the traces within the cell; the semblance/similarity of a cell is determined by making a plurality of measurements of the semblance/similarity of the traces within the cell and selecting the largest of the measurements.

Abstract: A protective garment of the type typically worn by fire fighters with improved water resistance is disclosed. In particular, the present invention is directed to an outer shell material for protective garments that is made from a fire resistant material coated with a durable water resistant coating. The durable water resistant coating is applied to the outer shell in a manner so that the coating will not degrade when exposed to normal wear and tear and even after the garment has been laundered repeatedly. Protective garments constructed in the past typically lost most of their water repellency after being laundered as little as five cycles. It has been discovered that water resistant coatings applied according to the process of the present invention, on the other hand, can survive at least 30 laundry cycles, and in many applications at least 50 laundry cycles without significantly degrading.

Abstract: A sock system for assisting people who have problems with their feet sweating or that are diabetic. The inventive device includes a sock device having a top portion attached to a bottom portion by a connection means. The top portion may be comprised of any fabric or color desired by the user providing a pleasing visual appearance to the user. The bottom portion is comprised of a fluid absorbing material which is not colored such as terry cloth. The bottom portion is comprised of a bottom surface, a heel and a front upper portion. The front upper portion of the bottom portion preferably surrounds the entire portion of the toes of a user. The top portion is comprised of an upper end having an opening, a middle portion and a lower end wherein the lower end is attached to the bottom portion. The connection means is comprised of any connection structure commonly utilized to secure two pieces of fabric such as but not limited to glue or thread.

Abstract: A breathing mask is provided for a helmet which reduces the formation of water on the lens of the eyeglasses of the wearer or on the shield of the helmet. The helmet comprises a head portion, a shield portion, and a breathing mask is hermetically adapted to the face of the wearer to evacuate the wear's breath outside the helmet through breathing channels. The jaw shield can be pivotally opened or closed and is locked to the head portion and includes a see-through shield and a tinted shield. The tinted shield can be lowered inside the helmet to protect the wearer from sun rays and reflexions.

Abstract: An above-ground pool (1) having a protruding edge (3) and which can be covered with a cover (6): the folded cover, possibly enclosed in a bag (7) is anchored to a first location (P1); next, it is unfolded and drawn over the pool successively on either side thereof and it is successively anchored at two points (P2, P3) such that a line joining these two points is located at arm's length from a fourth point (P4) on the opposite side from the first point (P1); finally, it is drawn from the point (P4) where the lacing means (12) passing peripherally under the edge (3) are tied.

Abstract: A waste and overflow system for a bathtub includes an overflow conduit having a threaded end and an overflow cap threaded at one end extending through the overflow opening in the bathtub into threaded engagement with the threaded end of the conduit. The other end of the overflow cap has a test cap portion removably connected thereto for closing off an overflow passage through the overflow cap during pressure testing of the system. The test cap portion is removable from the other end of the overflow cap upon completion of the system pressure test to open up the overflow passage through the overflow cap.

Abstract: A first conformable material having a three-dimensional shape and a first hypothermia and/or hyperthermia device, used as a pad for sleeping, lying down, or sitting, to maintain a desired temperature to the contacting surface of a body to the pad.

Abstract: A toothbrush is provided having a light source for signaling when a recommended brushing time interval has started and ended. In particular, the toothbrush includes a handle portion having a translucent portion configured to allow the transmission of light therefrom around substantially the entire circumference of the toothbrush. The toothbrush further includes a tip portion attached to the handle portion having a plurality of bristles extending therefrom. The tip portion is detachable from the handle portion. The toothbrush further includes a light emitting diode disposed within the handle portion proximate to the translucent portion. Finally, the toothbrush includes a control circuit disposed within the handle portion electrically connected to the light emitting diode.

Abstract: A broom for cleaning surfaces or floors is designed with a device having a plurality of narrow slots through which the bristles of the broom are threaded. The device is able to slide along the handle of the broom such that the span of the bristles projected from the slots of the device can increase or decrease. When the span of the bristles increases, the bristles are less stiff and the broom is suitable for gentle brushing action. As the span of the bristles decreases, the bristles stiffen, allowing the broom to be used for heavier brushing action. The device can also be set in a position such that the working ends or free ends of the bristles are completely sunk inside the slots. At this position, any dirt and dust that is trapped between the bristles will be pushed away from the bristles.

Abstract: A dust mop comprises a handle connected to a flexible base member of unibody configuration. The base member has a flexibly resilient top wall and flexibly resilient side and end walls. Cleaning strands of cloth or like material are attached to and extend from the base member. The top wall of the base member comprises an integrally molded spring which maintains the base member in a flat configuration. The cloth strands can be used for cleaning dust or other accumulated dirt or a disposable cleaning sheet can be wrapped around the cleaning strands and retained in position over the strands and the base member by resilient biased members integrally molded from the top wall.

Abstract: A method and a serrated hand tool for construction are disclosed. A novel hand tool for plaster application over a taped surface joined includes a blade having a central section and two serrated side sections. The central section contains a cutout with a straight edge of sufficient width to allow a thicker layer of plaster to be placed over the tape. The serrated side sections contain a number of teeth with a triangular shape. According to the method, the plaster is applied in a plurality of parallel lines under the side sections and in a smooth straight layer under the central section of the tool all at one time to reduce the overall construction time, plaster consumption, and the skill level required to perform the task.

Abstract: A wiper device has an arm support constituting a wiper arm that is provided with a waterproof structure. The waterproof structure protects a link coupling portion of the arm support from water. First and second link coupling portions are provided on a proximal end portion of the arm support. First and second guiding passages are formed between the first and second link coupling portions, and a third guiding passage is formed above the second link coupling portion. Furthermore, locking hooks for mounting a cover that serve also as dripping guide members are provided and disposed at right ends of the first, second, and third guiding passages such that the locking hooks face each other. Thus, water on a surface of the arm support is positively drained toward a window surface.

Abstract: A wiper device is located between a rear door and a rear window, which is opened independently from the door. An actuator having an output shaft is attached to the rear door. A power transmission unit includes a shaft holder attached to the rear window and a pivot shaft supported by the shaft holder. Before the shaft holder is attached to the rear window, a positioning mechanism fixes the position of the power transmission unit relative to the actuator such that the axis of the pivot shaft is aligned with the axis of the output shaft. Thus, the axes of the output shaft and the pivot shaft are fixed during the installation process. Therefore, no adjustment of these axis is required during installation.

Abstract: A sash window counterbalance arrangement for counterbalancing the weight of a sash window includes a spring support mounting located within a channel in a sash window jamb, a sash shoe slidable in the channel, a spring arrangement which generates a spring force between the mounting and sash shoe to counterbalance the weight of the window, the mounting including at least one mounting peg which projects from the mounting to engage a mounting aperture within one channel wall to locate and secure the mounting within the channel, with the mounting peg being resiliently biased into engagement with the aperture.