1. A slat support assembly comprising a slat support arm which is movable to deploy a slat from a leading edge of an aircraft wing about an axis of rotation of the arm and a slat mount on a slat which is coupled to one end of said slat support arm by a joint, wherein the joint is configured to allow the slat mount to slide in a direction of the axis of rotation of the arm.
2. A slat support assembly according to claim 1, wherein the joint comprises a bearing element mounted to the slat mount, the bearing element being slidably received in a bearing sleeve on the slat support arm.
3. A slat support assembly according to claim 2, wherein the bearing element is configured to slide in a linear direction in the bearing sleeve.
4. A slat support assembly according to claim 3, wherein the bearing element comprises a shaft which is slidable in the bearing sleeve in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the shaft.
5. A slat support assembly according to claim 4, wherein the bearing sleeve comprises opposing bushes on the slat support arm and ends of the shaft are slidably received in the bushes, and the shaft extends between the opposing bushes.
6. A slat support assembly according to claim 5, further comprising a yoke formed at the one end of the slat support arm with two spaced yoke members, wherein the opposing bushes are formed in the yoke members.
7. A slat support assembly according to claim 6, wherein the slat mount is disposed between the yoke members.
8. A slat support assembly according to claim 5, wherein the slat mount is mountable to the shaft of the bearing element between the ends of the shaft.
9. A slat support assembly according to claim 5, wherein the ends of the shaft form cylindrical bearing journal surfaces which mate with corresponding bearing seats of the bushes.
10. A slat support assembly according to claim 5, wherein the longitudinal axis of the shaft extends parallel to the axis of rotation of the arm.
11. A slat support assembly according to claim 5, wherein each bush has an end stop at an end thereof, and the ends of the shaft are capable of abutting the end stops to restrict the range of motion of the shaft.
12. A slat support assembly according to claim 11, wherein the length of the shaft is shorter than the distance between the end stops of the opposing bushes so that the shaft is slidable in the bushes between the two end stops.
13. A slat support assembly according to claim 11, wherein an outlet is formed through each end stop.
14. A slat support assembly according to claim 8, wherein the slat mount is pivotally mounted to the shaft.
15. A slat support assembly according to claim 14, further comprising a collar on the slat mounting slat mount which locates around and mates with the shaft.
16. A slat support assembly according to claim 15, wherein the shaft further comprises a part-spherical section disposed between each end of the shaft and the collar locates around and mates with the part-spherical section of the shaft.
17. A slat support assembly according to claim 11, wherein the range of motion of the shaft is configured to prevent the slat mount abutting the yoke members.
18. A slat support assembly according to claim 4, further comprising a link arm extending between the slat support arm and the slat to prevent rotation of the slat about the longitudinal axis of the shaft.
19. A slat support assembly according to claim 18, wherein the link arm is pivotally mounted to the slat support arm and the slat by spherical bearings.
20. A slat support assembly according to claim 4, wherein a pin extends through the shaft along the longitudinal axis of the shaft to strengthen the shaft.
21. A slat support assembly according to claim 20, wherein the pin is fixedly mounted at each end to the bearing seat and the shaft is slidable along the pin.
22. A slat support assembly according to claim 21, when dependent on claim 11, wherein the pin is fixedly mounted to the end stops.
23. A slat support assembly according to claim 2, further comprising a plurality of bearings mountable within a wing, each bearing being in rolling contact with an associated bearing surface on the slat support arm to support the slat support arm and guide it during deployment and retraction of the slat, wherein at least some of the bearing surfaces and associated bearings are configured so that each bearing counteracts load applied to the slat support arm in more than one direction.
24. A slat support assembly according to claim 23, wherein the slat support arm has a pair of adjacent upper bearing surfaces, each upper bearing surface being arranged at an angle relative to its adjacent upper bearing surface such that a bearing associated with one upper bearing surface does not share a common axis with the bearing associated with the other upper bearing surface.
25. A slat support assembly according claim 1, comprising a groove in the slat support arm and a slat rack mounted to the slat support arm in the groove for cooperation with a drive pinion configured to rotate the slat track about its axis for deployment and retraction of the slat.
26. A joint for coupling a slat to one end of a slat support arm which is movable to deploy said slat from a leading edge of an aircraft wing about an axis of rotation of said slat support arm, the joint comprising a bearing element mountable to a slat and a bearing element sleeve mountable to a slat support arm, wherein the bearing element is configured to slide in the sleeve so that said slat is slidable relative to said slat support arm in the direction of the axis of rotation of the arm.
27. An aircraft wing having a slat and a slat support assembly according to claim 1.
28. An aircraft wing according to claim 27, wherein the slat support assembly according to any of claims 1 to 25 is a secondary slat support assembly which mounts a secondary slat mount of a slat to a secondary slat support assembly, and the aircraft wing further comprises a primary slat support assembly configured to fixedly mount a primary slat mount of said slat to a primary slat support arm which is configured to prevent the primary slat mount from sliding in the direction of the axis of rotation of the primary slat support arm.
29. (canceled)
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A seed of maize inbred line designated PHCK5, representative seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035.
2. A maize plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.
3. Pollen of the plant of claim 2.
4. An ovule or ovules of the plant of claim 2.
5. The maize plant of claim 2, wherein said plant has been detasseled.
6. A maize plant, or a part thereof, expressing all the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred line PHCK5, representative seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035.
7. A maize plant cell comprising all of the alleles of inbred line PHCK5 at the SSR loci listed in Table 2, representative seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035.
8. A maize seed comprising the maize plant cell of claim 7.
9. A maize plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 8.
10. A tissue culture comprising the maize plant cell of claim 7.
11. A tissue culture of regenerable cells produced from the plant of claim 2.
12. Protoplasts or callus produced from the tissue culture of claim 11.
13. The tissue culture of claim 11, wherein the regenerable cells of the tissue culture are produced from protoplasts or from tissue of a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaf, pollen, embryo, immature embryo, meristematic cells, immature tassels, microspores, root, root tip, anther, silk, flower, kernel, ear, cob, husk and stalk.
14. A maize plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 13, said plant having all the morphological and physiological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5, representative seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035.
15. A process for producing an F1 hybrid maize seed, said process comprising crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different maize plant and harvesting F1 hybrid maize seed.
16. The process of claim 15, further comprising growing the F1 hybrid maize seed to produce a hybrid maize plant.
17. A process of producing a maize plant with a desired trait, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, site-specific recombination, and abiotic stress tolerance, comprising transforming the maize plant of claim 2 with a nucleic acid molecule that confers said desired trait.
18. A maize plant produced by the process of claim 17, wherein the desired trait is male sterility and the trait is conferred by a nucleic acid molecule that confers male sterility.
19. A maize plant produced by the method of claim 17, wherein the desired trait is site-specific recombination and the site-specific recombination site is conferred by a member of the group consisting of flpfrt, crelox, Gin, Pin, and RRS.
20. A maize plant produced by the process of claim 17, wherein the desired trait is abiotic stress tolerance and the trait is conferred by a member of the group consisting of cytokinin, ethylene, abscisic acid, CBF, and a transcription factor.
21. A process of producing a herbicide resistant, disease resistant or insect resistant maize plant comprising transforming the maize plant of claim 2 with a nucleic acid molecule that confers said resistance.
22. A maize plant produced by the process of claim 21, wherein said resistance comprises herbicide, disease or insect resistance.
23. The resistant maize plant of claim 22, wherein said resistance is herbicide resistance and the herbicide is glyphosate, glufosinate, a sulfonylurea herbicide, an imidazolinone herbicide, a hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitor or a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor.
24. The resistant maize plant of claim 22, wherein the resistance is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a nucleic acid molecule encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
25. The resistant maize plant of claim 22, wherein the resistance is disease resistance and the disease is caused by a bacterium, fungus, nematode or virus.
26. A process of producing a maize plant with altered grain characteristics, comprising transforming the maize plant of claim 2 with a nucleic acid molecule that confers altered phosphorus, antioxidants, fatty acids, essential amino acids or carbohydrates.
27. A maize plant produced by the process of claim 26, wherein said altered grain characteristics are conferred by a nucleic acid molecule selected from the group consisting of thioredoxin, dek1, Ipa1, Ipa3, mi1ps, hpt and hggt.
28. A process of introducing a desired trait into maize inbred line PHCK5 comprising:
(a) crossing PHCK5 plants grown from PHCK5 seed, representative seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035, with plants of another maize line that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, site-specific recombination, increased transformability and abiotic stress tolerance;
(b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
(c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the PHCK5 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
29. A plant produced by the process of claim 28, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
30. The plant of claim 29, wherein the desired trait is male sterility and the trait is conferred by a nucleic acid molecule that confers male sterility.
31. The plant of claim 29, wherein the desired trait is site specific recombination and the site-specific recombination site is conferred by a member of the group consisting of flpfrt, crelox, Gin, Pin, and RRS.
32. The plant of claim 29, wherein the desired trait is abiotic stress tolerance and the trait is conferred by a member of the group consisting of cytokinin, ethylene, abscisic acid, CBF, and a transcription factor.
33. The plant of claim 29, wherein the desired trait is increased transformability and the trait is conferred by inbred maize line Hi-II.
34. A process of introducing a desired trait into maize inbred line PHCK5 comprising:
(a) crossing PHCK5 plants grown from PHCK5 seed, representative seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035, with plants of another maize line that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of herbicide resistance, insect resistance and disease resistance;
(b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
(c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the PHCK5 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
35. A plant produced by the process of claim 34, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
36. The plant of claim 35, wherein the desired trait is herbicide resistance and said herbicide is glyphosate, glufosinate, a sulfonylurea herbicide, an imidazolinone herbicide, a hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitor or a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor.
37. The plant of claim 35, wherein the desired trait is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a nucleic acid molecule encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
38. The plant of claim 35, wherein the desired trait is disease resistance and the disease is caused by a bacterium, fungus, nematode or virus.
39. A process of introducing altered grain characteristics trait into maize inbred line PHCK5 comprising:
(a) crossing PHCK5 plants grown from PHCK5 seed, representative seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession No: PTA-7035, with plants of another maize line that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is altered phosphorus, antioxidants, fatty acids, essential amino acids or carbohydrates;
(b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
(c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the PHCK5 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
40. A plant produced by the process of claim 39, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line PHCK5 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
41. A plant produced by the process of claim 39, wherein the desired trait is altered carbohydrate and the carbohydrate is waxy starch.