Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43407 | Retractable hat tether device A retractable hat tether apparatus for a hat having a cap portion. The tether apparatus includes a guide base movably mounted to the cap portion for movement thereof along a fixed path between a first position and a second position. A flexible tether includes a firs... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7325255 | Hat with retractable accessory attachments The present invention involves a hat with the ability to store a small item. The hat is preferably a standard baseball cap, but can also be a visor. The hat contains a sleeve therein for holding an item such as a pen, bottle opener, or golf tee. One end of the sleev... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7058988 | Apparatus for hanging articles of clothing Accessories and methods for directly suspending clothing from a mounted rod. An opening is provided in the clothing, the opening communicating with an edge of the product and having both an open configuration and a closed configuration, with a supporting material su... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7036156 | Head protection system A head protection system includes an open-ended tubular cap band of flexible material for partially encircling the head of a wearer generally at the level of the wearer's forehead. A belt member is slidably received through the tubular cap band and adjusts to accomm... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7013491 | Sport cap A baseball style cap having a retractable cord, which can secure eyewear to the face and or the brim of the cap, which will thereby prevent a loss of the eyewear and or cap rendering the eye wear easily accessible. In the preferred embodiment is a hidden retractable... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6877168 | Retractable hat tether device A retractable hat tether apparatus for a hat having a cap portion. The tether apparatus includes a guide base movably mounted to the cap portion for movement thereof along a fixed path between a first position and a second position. A flexible tether includes a firs... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6446265 | Hat tether apparatus and method A hat retaining mechanism has a flexible tether, a clip mechanism attached to one end of the flexible tether to be located on the outside of a hat, and a slidable retraction component on the flexible tether located on the inside of the hat between the oth... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6442764 | Multi-use cap with tab for holding accessories A type of lightweight, multi-use headware is provided which has a concealable elastic loop on one or both sides of the headware for temporarily receiving a small illuminating device that allows the handle of the illuminating device to be securely held wit... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442762 | Chin strap for a cap and combination thereof A chin strap which can be used to retrofit an existing head covering so as to provide a means to retain the head covering on the wearer's head without damage to or modification of the head covering. The chin strap is an elongate strand and is provided wit... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6154887 | Headgear A headgear which includes a crown put on a head and having an insertion through portion, and a headgear blow-away preventing device including a connection member having one end provided with a clip clipped to a wear. The other end of the connection member... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5675841 | Headwear tether A tether for coupling an article of headwear to clothing of an individual. The inventive device includes a headwear engaging assembly for coupling to an article of headwear. A tether extends from the headwear engaging assembly and terminates in a clothing... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676293 | Backpack and method of using same The backpack includes a main storage compartment having a back engageable portion, and a pair of shoulder straps attached thereto. A lumbar support member attached to a lower portion of the back engageable portion is attached to the lower ends of each sho... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5411695 | Thermoplastic resin film and a method for producing the same A thermoplastic resin film at least oriented in the transverse direction with minimized bowing phenomenon is provided. The thermal shrinkage stress in the transverse direction of the film satisfies the following formula I, and the thermal shrinkage factor... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5144695 | Baseball cap retention device A retaining device (10) for headwear (100); wherein, the device comprises a pair of tether members (20) operatively connected together by a slide member (30) and provided on one end with clip elements (40) having spring loaded jaws (41) which captively ye... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4841576 | Device for attaching a retaining string to headwear A device for attaching a retaining string to headwear is comprised of first, second and third relatively flat tab members, which are substantially co-planar. The first and second tab members are oriented along a common axis, while the third tab member is ... | 06/27/1989 |
