Abstract: A furniture cushion for limiting the effects of impact of an item of furniture with a stationary object is disclosed. The cushion includes a cylindrical pad portion made of a highly elastic material, such as polyurethane, which is adhered to an attachment portion made from a relatively non-elastic polyethylene material. The cushion further includes tab portions for attachment of the cushion to the item of furniture. The disclosed cushion also includes material saving recesses in the attachment portion which are separated by dividers for limiting potentially detrimental flexing of the attachment portion.

Abstract: An improved tarp fastener is disclosed. The fastener comprises a button and a roughly hair-pin shaped wire retainer, the apical segment is bent out of the plane of the retainer so that the apical segment is spaced sufficiently apart from button to accommodate a variety of tarp thicknesses when the button and retainer are engaged and fastened to a tarp.

Abstract: Tumor nucleoli were treated with polyclonal antisera to normal human tissue nucleoli to block determinants common to tumor and normal tissue nucleoli. Immunization of mice with these immune-complexes resulted in the development of a monoclonal antibody (FB2) to a novel nucleolar proliferation associated antigen which has a molecular weiThe present invention was made with partial support from Federal funding grants. Subject to these grants, the Government may exercise certain rights in the invention.

Abstract: Specific common nucleolar antigens are found in a broad range of human malignant tumor specimens and have been isolated, extracted and purifed. Monoclonal antibodies specific to one of these nucleolar antigens (p145) are harvested from mouse ascites or culture supernatant and used for detection of humanThe Government may have rights in this invention subject to funding grants provided by the Department of Health and Human Services No. 5 PO1-CA-10893-19.

Abstract: Freight is shipped from a production center to a railhead by loading the freight at the production center onto railroad boxcars which are water-borne, i.e. carried by railroad barges or railroad ferries. The track-carrying vessel which carries the boxcars is provided with a loading platform onto which forklift trucks carrying palletized freight can drive from a dockside warehouse facility and from which the forklift trucks can move via removable runways into boxcars arranged in multiple rows.

Abstract: A fishing reel with an automatic transmission which causes the spool to turn between a one to one speed ratio with the handle to a three to one speed ratio. This is accomplished by an automatic transmission and associated clutch and brake elements.

Abstract: Freight is shipped from a production center to a railhead by loading the freight at the production center onto railroad boxcars which are water-borne, i.e. carried by railroad barges or railroad ferries. The track-carrying vessel which carries the boxcars is provided with a loading platform onto which forklift trucks carrying palletized freight can drive from a dockside warehouse facility and from which the forklift trucks can move via removable runways into boxcars arranged in multiple rows.

Abstract: A receptacle at the end of a pole is provided with loop members which open or spread apart under engagement with the fruit to allow passage thereby of the fruit and which then spring back into enclosing relation with the fruit to enable the fruit to be pulled off the tree.