User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7834251 | Cucumber hybrid Excelsior Hybrid cucumber cultivars designated ‘Excelsior’, ‘15620’, ‘15660’, and ‘15597’, which are the first pickling cucumbers suitable for a vertical growing system under covered cultivation, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucu... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7714197 | Cucumber variety Paraiso A hybrid cucumber cultivar designated ‘Paraiso’ is disclosed which is the first parthenocarpic slicing cucumber that also has intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus, cucumber vein yellowing virus and cucumber yellow stunting disorder vi... | 05/11/2010 |
| 6765130 | Inbred cucumber line 8D-5079 An inbred cucumber line, designated 8D-5079, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred cucumber line 8D-5079, to the plants of inbred cucumber line 8D-5079 and to methods for producing a cucumber plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbre... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6720479 | Plant retroelements and methods related thereto The present invention provides plant retroelements useful as molecular tools. In one embodiment, the present invention provides nucleic acids encoding gag, pol and/or env genes of plant retroelements. The elements can be used, among other uses, as building blocks of... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6624139 | Hypersensitive response elicitor-induced stress resistance The present invention is directed to imparting stress resistance to plants. This can be achieved by applying a hypersensitive response elicitor in a non-infectious form to plants or plant seeds under conditions effective to impart stress resistance to pla... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6350935 | Fruit-specific and ripening-regulation expansin gene to control fruit texture and softening Expansins are proteins that induce extension in isolated plant cell walls in vitro and have been proposed to disrupt non-covalent interactions between hemicellulose and cellulose microfibrils. Because the plant primary cell wall acts as a constraint to ce... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6342655 | Plants resistant to WT strains of cucumber mosaic virus CP genes of CMV strains V27, V33, V34, and A35 (CMV-V27, CMV-V33, CMV-V34, and CMV-A35 respectively) are provided.... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6323396 | Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants Agrobacterium strains which have lost the capacity to proliferate vigorously in vitro or in planta, are provided, as well as transformation methods using these Agrobacterium strains.... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6320101 | Enhancing inorganic carbon fixation by photosynthetic organisms A method of enhancing inorganic carbon fixation by a photosynthetic organism. The method is effected by transforming cells of the photosynthetic organism with an expressible polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having a bicarbonate transporter activity. ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6300489 | Small and cysteine rich antifungal defensin and thionine-like protein genes highly expressed in the incompatible interaction The present invention related to two cDNA clones, designated to PepDef (pepper defensin protein gene) and PepThi (pepper thionin-like protein gene) and individual component; thereof including its coding region and its gene product; modification thereto; a... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6268552 | Transgenic seedless fruit comprising AGL or GH3 promoter operably linked to isopentenyl transferase or tryptophan monooxygenase coding DNA The present invention provides methods and DNA constructs for the genetic engineering of plant cells to produce plants which produce substantially seedless fruit in the absence of exogenous growth factors (auxins or cytokinins) and in the absence of polli... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6235974 | Hypersensitive response induced resistance in plants by seed treatment with a hypersensitive response elicitor The present invention relates to a method of imparting pathogen resistance to plants. This involves applying a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein in a non-infectious form to a plant seed under conditions where the polypeptide or prote... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6228644 | Hypersensitive response elicitor from Erwinia amylovora, its use, and encoding gene The present invention is directed to an isolated protein or polypeptide which elicits a hypersensitive response in plants as well as an isolated DNA molecule which encodes the hypersensitive response eliciting protein or polypeptide. This isolated protein... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6160201 | Lettuce infectious yellows virus genes The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid which contains a nucleotide sequence which encodes at least one of five LIYV proteins: the coat protein, the heat shock protein-70, RNA polymerase, the protein encoded by the gene positioned at ORF 3... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6127601 | Plants resistant to C strains of cucumber mosaic virus Coat protein genes of cucumber mosaic virus strains V27, V33, V34 and A35 (CMV V27, CMV V33, CMV V34, and CMV A35 respectively) are provided.... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6091004 | Gene encoding a protein involved in the signal transduction cascade leading to systemic acquired resistance in plants The invention concerns the location and characterization of a gene (designated NIM1) that is a key component of the SAR pathway and that in connection with chemical and biological inducers enables induction of SAR gene expression and broad spectrum diseas... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6084152 | Method for producing transgenic cucumber that produces high levels of superoxide dismutase The invention relates to a transgenic plant that produces high levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and to a method for producing the transgenic plant. The hypocotyl section of seedlings is co-cultured with Agrobacterium transformant and regenerated by ad... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6069299 | Fungus and insect control with chitinolytic enzymes The present invention relates to chitinolytic enzymes which have chitinolytic activity under alkaline conditions as well as DNA molecules encoding these enzymes and expression systems, host cells, and transgenic plants and plant seeds transformed with suc... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6051752 | Genetic factor responsible for a defective endosperm phenotype in seeds, plants comprising said factor and their use in hybridization processes The invention relates to a genetic male gametophytic factor capable, when expressed, of conferring a defective endosperm phenotype to seeds, said seeds being unable to germinate on their own. The invention also relates to the use of plants or part of plan... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6031153 | Method for protecting plants The present invention concerns a method of protecting plants from pathogen attack through synergistic disease resistance attained by applying a conventional microbicide to immunomodulated plants. Immunomodulated plants are those in which SAR is activated ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5977436 | Oleosin 5' regulatory region for the modification of plant seed lipid composition The present invention is directed to 5' regulatory regions of an Arabidopsis oleosin gene. The 5' regulatory regions, when operably linked to either the coding sequence of a heterologous gene or a sequence complementary to a native plant gene, direct expr... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5945579 | Modification of crop plant architecture to enhance yield by causing proximity-conditional dwarfing to control shade avoidance reactions Provided are trnasgenic plants comprising cells transformed or transfected with a recombinant DNA construct containing a coding sequence which encodes phytochrome A, which when expressed, causes the stimulation of phytochrome A and confers upon said plant... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5932479 | Genetic engineering of plant chloroplasts Methods for the transformation of etioplasts and of chloroplasts are disclosed. One method comprises incubating isolated etioplasts with a chelating agent to bind metal ions on which chloroplast nucleases are dependent and incubating the resultant nucleas... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5929303 | Fruit-specific and ripening-regulation expansin genes to control fruit texture and softening Expansins are proteins that induce extension in isolated plant cell walls in vitro and have been proposed to disrupt non-covalent interactions between hemicellulose and cellulose microfibrils. Because the plant primary cell wall acts as a constraint to ce... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5929306 | KYRT1, a disarmed version of a highly tumorigenic Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain identified as Chry5 Disarmed A. tumefaciencs strain KYRT1, derived from a highly tumorigenic strain identified as A. tumefaciens strain Chry5. Disarming is accomplished by inactivation of plasmid pTiChry5 T-DNA sequences by, for example, deletion of sequences comprising the ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5898096 | Plant promoter A plant promoter that is a nucleic acid region located upstream of the 5' end of a plant DNA structural coding sequence that is transcribed at high levels in meristematic tissue and/or rapidly dividing cells. This promoter region is capable of conferring ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5723752 | Cloning and developmental expression of pea ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit N-methyltransferase The gene sequence for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) large subunit (LS) &3xb5;N-methyltransferase (protein methylase III or Rubisco LSMT) is disclosed. This enzyme catalyzes methylation of the &3xb5;-amine of lysine-14 in the la... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5589583 | Plant promoter A plant promoter that is a nucleic acid region located upstream of the 5' end of a plant DNA structural coding sequence that is transcribed at high levels in meristematic tissue and/or rapidly dividing cells. This promoter region is capable of conferring ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5585536 | Pregerminated seeds Pregerminated seeds comprising desiccation tolerant emerged radicles, processes for their production, and plants produced from such seeds.... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5268526 | Overexpression of phytochrome in transgenic plants The preparation of an uninterrupted coding sequence for phytochrome polypeptide, and its incorporation in a recombinant DNA construct containing a constitutive promoter and/or enhancer to transform plants to cause overexpression of phytochrome is describe... | 12/07/1993 |
| 4822949 | Production of hybrid cucumber seeds The invention relates to the production of F1 hybrid seeds in cucumber (Cucumis sativus). The present invention relates to a method wherein the pollen-parent bears only male flowers and thus lacks the capability to bear fruits. The method compr... | 04/18/1989 |