Abstract: A protection device that provides improved protection against damage to the underlying product. The protection device includes silk impact pillows that absorb energy from low or high impacts. The present disclosure provides the ability to adjust a plurality of attributes: 1) pillow stiffness, 2) cocoon density; and 3) cocoon height, to construct a pillow of a desired impact resistance.

Abstract: A protection device that provides improved protection against damage to the underlying product. The protection device includes silk impact pillows that absorb energy from low or high impacts. The present disclosure provides the ability to adjust a plurality of attributes: 1) pillow stiffness, 2) cocoon density; and 3) cocoon height, to construct a pillow of a desired impact resistance.

Abstract: A protection device that provides improved protection against damage to the underlying product. The protection device includes silk impact pillows that absorb energy from low or high impacts. The present disclosure provides the ability to adjust a plurality of attributes: 1) pillow stiffness, 2) cocoon density; and 3) cocoon height, to construct a pillow of a desired impact resistance.

Abstract: A system for controlling access to a secure area under surveillance by a single ticket seller. A magnetically encoded ticket is sold by a ticket seller which is presented to a magnetic reader which verifies the ticket and allows passage through an electrically controlled turnstile. Verification of the ticket is automatically made and an electrical count, together with a mechanical count and a photocell count of all entries, is recorded. All detected information at a given location is recorded and controlled by a transaction terminal located on the premises. A remotely located central processing unit automatically and periodically communicates with each of a plurality of remotely located transaction terminals for causing all recorded information in each transaction terminal to be transmitted and recorded at a centrally located central processing unit.