Abstract: A fruit picker's supported container, has a back for comfortable bag-like fitting against a user's body, and completed front and left and right sides, which are firm, rigid, fixed, non-yielding, by using in part, a preformed partial circular arc laminate of high density polyethylene plastic, to protect the picked fruit inside the container from bruising caused by front and side forces, such as when a ladder or tree branch is bumped. Initially the back, front, left and right sides of the container, which form a bucket like volume, are formed of a laminated arrangement of an interior lining or lamination layer of fabric, a middle lamination of open cell foam plastic insulation, and an outer cover or lamination layer of fabric. A depending skirt is made of only a layer of fabric. On a smaller container, quick release fasteners on narrow straps are used in preparation for emptying small fruit, via the skirt.

Abstract: A pad coat for a carbonless paper product is provided. The pad coat comprises a binder; a pigment; and an adhesive component capable of preventing a fan-out padding adhesive from substantially penetrating and wetting a surface of the carbonless paper product. In an embodiment, the binder is a starch. In an embodiment, the pigment is chosen from the group of materials consisting of alumina trihydrate, calcium carbonate, clay, calcined clay, and silicates. In an embodiment, the adhesive component is a fluorinated compound. Preferably, the pad coat is mixed with water to make a solution, the solution comprising approximately 5 to about 60% solids and approximately 40 to about 95% water.