1. A retractable tether line clip combination for selectively securing personal items to a user’s person comprises,
a contoured hollow body housing having an integral arm dip portion,
a spring urged rigid retainment bar pivotally secured to said housing in end to end longitudinal interlocking alignment with said arm clip portion, the rigid retainment bar is of an overall equal cross-sectional dimension as that of said aligned arm clip portion,
a spring winding fitting within said housing,
a spool in communication with said spring winding fitting,
a retractable tether line extending about said spool and extending from said housing in centered trans-axial alignment from said spool,
a line stop on said tether line inwardly of its free end thereof.
2. The retractable tether line clip combination set forth in claim 1 wherein said spring urged rigid retainment bar is movable from a first longitudinally aligned engaged position with said arm clip portion to a second non-engaged non-aligned position thereto and said rigid retainment bar is of an equal diameter to that of said engageable arm clip portion.
3. The retractable tether line clip combination set forth in claim 1 wherein said line stop on said tether line inwardly of its free end thereof restricting full retraction of said tether line into said hollow body housing.
4. The retractable tether line clip combination set forth in claim 1 wherein said tether line has an access engagement ring attached to its free end for receiving ancillary personal items thereto.
5. The retractable tether line clip combination set forth in claim 1 wherein a second spring winding fitting and spool is positioned within said housing,
a secondary tether line extending about and secured to said spool,
said secondary spool and spring winding is in co-planar relationship to said first spring winding and spool in spaced relation to one another.
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) Seed of maize inbred line designated NP2467, representative seed of said maize inbred line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. ______.
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 of the plant of claim 2.
5) A maize plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant according to claim 2.
6) A maize plant or part thereof produced from the maize plant according to claim 2, by transformation with a transgene that confers upon said maize plant or part thereof tolerance to a herbicide.
7) A maize plant or part thereof produced from the maize plant according to claim 5, by transformation with a transgene that confers upon said maize plant or part thereof tolerance to a herbicide.
8) The maize plant according to claim 6, wherein said herbicide is glyphosate, gluphosinate, a sulfonylurea herbicide, an imidazolinone herbicide, a hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitor or a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor.
9) The maize plant according to claim 7, wherein said herbicide is glyphosate, gluphosinate, a sulfonylurea herbicide, an imidazolinone herbicide, a hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitor or a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor.
10) A maize plant or a part thereof produced from the maize according to claim 2, by transformation with an transgene that confers upon said maize plant, or a part thereof, male sterility, insect resistance, disease resistance or bacterial, fungal, or viral resistance.
11) A maize plant or a part thereof produced from the maize according to claim 5, by transformation with an transgene that confers upon said maize plant, or a part thereof, male sterility, insect resistance, disease resistance or bacterial, fungal, or viral resistance.
12) The maize plant according to claim 10, wherein said transgene conferring is a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab gene.
13) The maize plant according to claim 11, wherein said transgene conferring is a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab gene.
14) The maize plant according to claim 10, wherein said transgene is a VIP3 gene.
15) The maize plant according to claim 11, wherein said transgene is a VIP3 gene.
16) The maize plant according to claim 10, wherein said expression vector further comprises a bar gene.
17) The maize plant according to claim 11, wherein said expression vector further comprises a bar gene.
18) The maize plant according to claim 10, wherein said Cry1Ab gene is introgressed into said maize plant from a maize plant comprising a Bt-11 event or a 176 event.
19) The maize plant according to claim 11, wherein said Cry1Ab gene is introgressed into said maize plant from a maize plant comprising a Bt-11 event or a 176 event.
20) Seed produced by selfing the plant according to claim 2, wherein said seed produce plants having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred line NP2467, seed of said inbred line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______.
21) Seed produced by selfing the plant according to claim 5, wherein said seed produce plants having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred line NP2467, seed of said inbred line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______.
22) A tissue culture of regenerable cells of the maize plant according to claim 2.
23) The tissue culture according to claim 22, wherein the regenerable cells are from a tissue selected from the group consisting of embryo, meristem, pollen, leaf, anther, root, root tip, silk, flower, kernel, ear, cob, husk and stalk, or are protoplasts or callus produced therefrom.
24) A maize plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 23, having the morphological and physiological characteristics of inbred line NP2467, seed of said inbred line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No: ______.
25) A method for producing maize seed comprising crossing a first parent maize plant with a second parent maize plant and harvesting the resultant maize seed, wherein said first or second parent maize plant is the inbred maize plant of claim 2.
26) A method for producing maize seed comprising crossing a first parent maize plant with a second parent maize plant and harvesting the resultant maize seed, wherein said first or second parent maize plant is the inbred maize plant of claim 5.
27) An F1 hybrid seed produced by the method of claim 25.
28) An F1 hybrid seed produced by the method of claim 26.
29) An F1 hybrid plant, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of claim 27.
30) An F1 hybrid plant, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of claim 28.
31) A method of introducing a desired trait into maize inbred line NP2467 comprising:
(a) crossing NP2467 plants grown from NP2467 seed, representative seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession No.______, 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, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, thermotolerant phytase, bacterial, fungal, or viral 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 NP2467 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred line NP2467 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 NP2467.
32) A method for obtaining a maize inbred line comprising:
a) planting hybrid seed comprising hybrid seed and small amounts of inbred seed, one of whose parents is a plant according to claim 2, or a maize plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of a plant according to claim 2, said hybrid seed comprising some seed of said inbred line;
b) growing plants from said hybrid and inbred seeds;
c) identifying inbred plants;
d) selecting said inbred plants;
e) controlling pollination in a manner which preserves the homozygosity of said inbred plant; and
f) harvesting said inbred plants, or a part or portion thereof.