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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4597197 | Personalized boot pullstrap Boots, particularly cowboy boots, having a looped pullstrap. A reinforced and welted pullstrap is personalized by the attachment of a pullstrap plate to the pullstrap exterior, such that a name panel insert may be inscribed with the wearer's name and affi... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4514915 | Combination boot and lockable storage means A combination boot and lockable storage means. The combination comprises a boot having an opening therein for insertion of a foot. A slide closure means is provided which is attached to the sides of the opening for closing the opening. A securing means is... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4388594 | Semi-permeable electrolytic cell and method for surveying buried structures An apparatus and method of conducting continuous or closely spaced buried structure-to-soil electrical surveys uses a soil contact cell adapted to be worn on the bottom of the walking field boots of a surveyor walking over the right-of-way of the buried s... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4366630 | Foot wear The invention concerns a composite sole for use in safety footwear, as well as a combination heel and sole and a complete article of footwear, the composite sole comprising an inner sole of electrically conducting material, and a thin flexible outer sole ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4229888 | Fastener suitable for attaching a heel to a shoe The invention concerns a fastener suitable for use in attaching a plastic heel to a shoe. The fastener comprises a generally flat head portion and at least three shank portions extending from the head portion. Each shank portion has at least one aperture ... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4214383 | Storable slippers A pair of slippers each of which, in preferred form, has one-half of a slide fastener connected around substantially the entire periphery of the slipper's sole. The slide fastener half remains connected to each slipper while the slippers are being worn. T... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4186502 | Scent dispersing boot A scent dispersing means, e.g., for deer lure, comprising an absorbent pad adapted to be impregnated with scent and held within a pocket in a boot, the pocket having ventilating means for communicating the scent to the air. In preferred embodiments the pa... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4050168 | Footwear with detachable symbols An attachment for footwear having a sole is provided and comprises at least one raised symbol detachably mounted to the sole by a pressure sensitive adhesive. With the symbol or symbols arranged as desired on the sole, the outline of the symbol is imprint... | 09/27/1977 |
| 3938264 | Sock and shoe A sock for wearing on the feet which is restrained from creeping between the toes, when worn in the shoe of the invention. The forward external toe section of the sock is fitted with a Velcro patch of a size to engage a Velcro patch fastened inside the fo... | 02/17/1976 |
