1. An air register, comprising:
a top panel having a top surface and an opposed bottom surface, and having top openings extending between the top and bottom surfaces;
an air transmission grid with top and bottom grid surfaces, including a plurality of individual cells formed by cell walls, at least some of which open along grid top and bottom surfaces;
the grid being joined to the bottom surface of the top panel such that at least some of the cells open into the openings;
a bottom panel having an upper surface and an opposed lower surface and having bottom openings extending between the upper and lower surfaces;
wherein the bottom panel is joined to the grid along the bottom grid surface; and
wherein the bottom and top openings are offset to opposed sides of associated cells.
2. The register of claim 1 wherein the openings are elongated, with each opening overlapping a plurality of cells.
3. The register of claim 1 wherein open ends of the cells are of greater dimension than the top and bottom openings.
4. The register of claim 1 wherein the grid is a rectangular grid.
5. The register of claim 1 wherein the grid is a rectangular grid and the cells are of rectangular cross section.
6. The register of claim 1 wherein the top and bottom panels are flat and planar.
7. The register of claim 1, further comprising a joining bracket mechanically connecting the panels and grid together.
8. The register of claim 1, further comprising a joining bracket, connecting the top and bottom panels on opposed sides of the grid.
9. The register of claim 1, wherein the grid is comprised of square cells.
10. The register of claim 9 wherein the bottom openings are elongated and span a plurality of said cells.
11. The register of claim 10 wherein top openings are elongated and span a plurality of said cells.
12. The register of claim 11 wherein the elongated openings include width dimensions and the cells include cell width dimensions, and wherein the cell width dimensions are greater than the width dimensions of the openings.
13. The register of claim 1 wherein the cells include cell walls that are at least substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the bottom panel.
14. The register of claim 13 wherein the cell walls are at least substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface of the top panel.
15. An air register, comprising:
a laminated body including top and bottom panels on opposed sides of a central grid;
wherein the grid includes wall members extending between the top and bottom panels and arranged to form at least one open ended cell;
wherein the top panel includes a top opening in open communication with the cell adjacent one wall member of the grid and the bottom panel includes a bottom opening in open communication with the cell adjacent another wall member of the grid.
16. The air register of claim 15 wherein the wall members are substantially perpendicular to the top and bottom panels.
17. The air register of claim 15 wherein the cell is rectangular and the top and bottom openings are situated adjacent opposed walls of the cell.
18. The air register of claim 17 wherein the cell includes a width dimension and wherein the top and bottom openings each include width dimensions that are less than the cell width dimension.
19. The air register of claim 18 wherein the top and bottom opening width dimensions are less than one half the width dimension of the cell.
20. The air register of claim 15 further comprising a bracket joining the top and bottom panels on opposed sides of the grid.
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 spinach plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of spinach line SMB66-1143, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486.
2. A seed comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of spinach line SMB66-1143, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486.
3. The plant of claim 1, which is inbred.
4. The plant of claim 1, which is hybrid.
5. The seed of claim 2, which is inbred.
6. The seed of claim 2, which is hybrid.
7. The plant of claim 4, wherein the hybrid plant is spinach hybrid RX 06691714, a sample of seed of said hybrid RX 06691714 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12504.
8. The seed of claim 6, defined as a seed of spinach hybrid RX 06691714, a sample of seed of said hybrid RX 06691714 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12504.
9. The seed of claim 2, defined as a seed of line SMB66-1143.
10. A plant part of the plant of claim 1.
11. The plant part of claim 10, further defined as a fruit, a ovule, pollen, a leaf, or a cell.
12. A spinach plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the spinach plant of claim 7.
13. A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the plant of claim 1.
14. The tissue culture according to claim 13, comprising cells or protoplasts from a plant part selected from the group consisting of embryos, meristems, cotyledons, pollen, leaves, anthers, roots, root tips, pistil, flower, seed and stalks.
15. A spinach plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 13.
16. A method of vegetatively propagating the plant of claim 1 comprising the steps of:
(a) collecting tissue capable of being propagated from a plant according to claim 1;
(b) cultivating said tissue to obtain proliferated shoots; and
(c) rooting said proliferated shoots to obtain rooted plantlets.
17. The method of claim 16, further comprising growing at least a first plant from said rooted plantlets.
18. A method of introducing a desired trait into a spinach line comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of line SMB66-1143 with a second spinach plant that comprises a desired trait to produce F1 progeny, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486;
(b) selecting an F1 progeny that comprises the desired trait;
(c) backcrossing the selected F1 progeny with a plant of line SMB66-1143 to produce backcross progeny;
(d) selecting backcross progeny comprising the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristic of spinach line SMB66-1143; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny that comprise the desired trait.
19. A spinach plant produced by the method of claim 18.
20. A method of producing a plant comprising an added trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the trait into a plant of hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143, a sample of seed of said hybrid and line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12504, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486, respectively.
21. A plant produced by the method of claim 20.
22. The plant of claim 1, comprising a transgene.
23. The plant of claim 22, wherein the transgene confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.
24. The plant of claim 1, comprising a single locus conversion.
25. The plant of claim 24, wherein the single locus conversion confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, environmental stress tolerance, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.
26. A method for producing a seed of a plant derived from at least one of hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143 comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing a spinach plant of hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143 with itself or a second spinach plant; a sample of seed of said hybrid and line having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12504, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486, respectively; and
(b) allowing seed of a hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143-derived spinach plant to form.
27. The method of claim 26, further comprising the steps of:
(c) selfing a plant grown from said hybrid RX 06691714, or SMB66-1143-derived spinach seed to yield additional hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143-derived spinach seed;
(d) growing said additional hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143-derived spinach seed of step (c) to yield additional hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143-derived spinach plants; and
(e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (c) and (d) to generate at least a first further hybrid RX 06691714, or line SMB66-1143-derived spinach plant.
28. The method of claim 26, wherein the second spinach plant is of an inbred spinach line.
29. The method of claim 26, comprising crossing line SMB66-1143 with line SSB 66-1129F, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486, and ATCC Accession Number PTA-12019, respectively.
30. The method of claim 27, further comprising:
(f) crossing the further hybrid RX 06691714, or SMB66-1143-derived spinach plant with a second spinach plant to produce seed of a hybrid progeny plant.
31. A plant part of the plant of claim 7.
32. The plant part of claim 31, further defined as a fruit, a ovule, pollen, a leaf, or a cell.
33. A method of producing a spinach seed comprising crossing the plant of claim 1 with itself or a second spinach plant and allowing seed to form.
34. A method of producing a spinach comprising:
(a) obtaining a plant according to claim 1, wherein the plant has been cultivated to maturity; and
(b) collecting a spinach from the plant.
35. A method of producing a plant of spinach hybrid RX 06691714 comprising a single locus conversion, the method comprising crossing a plant of line SSB 66-1129F with a plant of line SMB66-1143, wherein at least one of said lines comprises a single locus conversion, a sample of seed of said lines SSB 66-1129F and SMB66-1143 having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12019 and ATCC Accession Number PTA-12486, respectively.