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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371197 | Safety racket A safety racket includes a head frame, a handle, a connecting portion, several nail members and a string. The head frame has a plurality of through holes. The connecting portion connects between the head frame and the handle. The nail members each have a head and at... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364520 | Sporting good items including pre-printed graphics A sporting good item or other product includes a “shrink-label” formed from a shrink-sleeve, shrink-wrap, or a stretch-sleeve adhered to or otherwise affixed to an outer surface of the item. The shrink-label includes pre-printed graphics and closely conforms to ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7326135 | Rib-reinforced hockey stick shaft and method of fabrication The invention relates to a hockey stick shaft having a cross-section and properties varying along a length thereof and to a method for fabrication thereof. The varying cross section defines selected regions of optimized grip for the hands of a player and of optimize... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326134 | Device to control a swinging implement and method of use What is disclosed is a device for assisting a person using a golf club, tennis racket or other swinging sports implement to maintain control of the implement during the swing. The device is a strap or other similar device that is to connect the implement and the use... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7273429 | Ball game device A ball game device comprising a body 10 adapted to receive a hand 24 and a wrist 25 of a user 26, the body 10 presenting two hitting surfaces 14 for hitting a ball 20. The body 10 comprises two panels 12... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7232386 | Hockey stick A composite hockey stick having a tubular hollow rectangular shaft and a blade is disclosed. The shaft comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, each of the inner and outer layers are formed of uni-directional substantially continuous fibers disposed in a hardene... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7144343 | Hockey stick A hockey stick comprising a blade and a shaft adapted to being joined together. The blade portion having an upper portion and a lower portion and a face. The upper portion being comprised of a defined region having a reduced width dimension in a direction that exten... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140398 | Sports equipment having a tubular structural member A tubular structural member that provides directional resistance. The tubular structural member has a flexural resistance that is greater in one direction than in another. The tubular structural member can be employed in variety of devices or structures so as to eff... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7108619 | Hockey stick handle A hockey stick handle has an inner shaft member which provides flexing characteristics and an outer tubular member in which the inner shaft member is fitted and which provides protection for the inner shaft member. ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7097577 | Hockey stick A hockey stick having a composite blade and a shaft is disclosed. The composite blade includes a heel section that is recessed relative to the front and back faces of the blade. The recessed heel section is configured to be received by a hockey stick shaft or an ada... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090597 | Hand shield for hockey stick The present invention provides a hand shield (10) adapted for use with a hockey stick. The hand shield includes a flexible shield portion (11) having a convex outer surface (12) and an opening configured to accommodate a portion of a hockey stic... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6939257 | Method for manufacturing shaft of stick, and shaft A method for manufacturing a shaft of an ice hockey stick, or the like, and a shaft. The shaft comprises an inner, first body part formed of binding material and reinforcing fibers that cross one another. Onto the first body part there is formed a second, substantia... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6626774 | Stringless sports racquet A stringless sports racquet made from a used stringed racquet comprises a handle, a head frame, a flexible scoop provided on a back side of the head frame for catching, tossing, and scooping up a ball, and a flexible crosspiece provided across a back side... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6257997 | Adjusting stiffness and flexibility in sports equipment A sports apparatus with variable directions of stiffness and flexibility, including sports equipment having a body; and a flexure resistance spine that is elongated and is stiffer and less flexible in one direction than in a different direction. The spine... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6113508 | Adjusting stiffness and flexibility in sports equipment A sports apparatus with variable directions of stiffness and flexibility, including sports equipment having a body with an elongated cavity; and a stiffening rod that is elongated and has a longitudinal axis in a direction of elongation of the stiffening ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5993336 | Method of executing a tennis stroke A method of executing a tennis stroke includes covering a knee of a tennis player with a knee pad during tennis play. The covered knee of the player is placed on a tennis court surface with the knee pad positioned between the knee and the surface. The ten... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5759122 | Racket for a ball catching game A racket for a ball catching game includes a first frame with a first throat, a second frame with a second throat, a handle securely mounted between the first throat and the second throat, and a net securely mounted between the first and second frames. Th... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5624121 | Stacked pogs with striking tool method A game comprising a plurality of substantially rigid playing discs each having an upper and lower surface bound by a circumferential ridge which is up-raised with respect to the upper and lower surfaces so as to provide a recess in the upper surface for a... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5364103 | Sports equipment for golf-like game An improved sports equipment for golf-like game has a club in combination with at least one fluffy ball. The ball is rather light in weight and soft in structure and has a ball-shaped leather cover and is stuffed with soft material inside, such as feather... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5265871 | Baseball glove conditioning tool and method This invention pertains to a tool for conditioning baseball gloves for use, and to the method for using the tool. The tool comprises a handle, a head having a rounded striking surface consisting of at least a half-sphere, and means for coupling the head t... | 11/30/1993 |
| 4962929 | Wrist strap for attracting an item of sports equipment to the wrist A slip knot wrist strap attachment for an item of equipment, such as a sport racquet, is fabricated from a single piece of tubular braid. One end of the braid is inserted through the core of the tubular braid from an insertion point thereof and fed throug... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4321906 | Toy projector A sheet of resiliently bendable but relatively stiff material has a hole from which slits radiate to define a circular series of stiff but resiliently bendable tabs. When the sheet is pressed downwardly over a fairly hard ball the tabs are flexed to pass ... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4174834 | Stick-propelled disk game A stick-propelled disk game is presented. Fundamentally, the invention includes an annular disk characterized by a central opening therein. The disk is caused to fly through the air and is retrieved therefrom by means of a stick which is insertable into t... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4130279 | Indoor golf A game for indoor or outdoor use comprising a hollowed out hand held club having a notch on top for a thumb hold. A series of markers numbered from one to eighteen are placed about the legs of furniture. The object is to hit a golf ball with the hand held... | 12/19/1978 |
