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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361185 | Clinical and surgical system and method for moving and stretching plastic tissue A system and method of moving and stretching plastic tissue using dynamic force. A preferably non-reactive force applying component is adjustably attachable to one or more tissue attachment structures for securing the force applying component to the plastic tissue, ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350275 | Attachment device A cord attachment device is provided for sewing into a garment, bag or other structure and includes a receiver for holding an end of a cord therein. A sew tab has ribs for strengthening and is stitched into the structure. The receiver has a limited opening through w... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7251868 | Adjustable shoelace A stretchable string (100) having a first cross sectional diameter at rest and a second smaller cross sectional diameter when stretched. An aglet (200) positioned on the string. The aglet has an inner cross sectional diameter that is smaller than the c... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7152285 | Shoe lace fastening device A shoe fastening device includes a body having two open ends and two push members are movably inserted in the body from the two open ends and a spring is connected between the two push members. Two ends of a string extend through two passages in the two push members... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143486 | Anchoring device for fastening laces The present invention is an anchoring device for fastening laces which includes a structure having a supporting base and a pair of overlapping throat members which hold sections of the fastening lace. The bottom throat member forms a reel and includes retention ledg... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7124482 | Fixing device for laces Disclosed is a fixing device for laces used in footwear, clothes, bags, and so on, and that can be configured in an extremely simple manner while maintaining the lace at a tightly fixed state when in use, without having any slip, thereby ensuring convenience of use.... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121829 | Mount for holding and releasing dental implant components A mount for holding and releasing dental implant components. The mount has a generally cylindrical body with a capture formed in the body. The capture includes an opening that is deformable between two positions. In a first position, a dental component is frictional... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6513210 | Draw-tight elastic cordage A cordage for threading through an opening. An elastic cord is provided with an elongated shank component and at least one outwardly expandable component. When the cord is under tension, the expandable component shrinks to a diameter which is sufficient t... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6324774 | Shoelace retaining clip and footwear closure means using same A retaining clip for holding shoelaces and replacing standard footwear eyelets including one integral member formed with a base attached to the shoe upper with a curved member extending upwardly therefrom and an upper member extending back across the base... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6247214 | Holding device for fastening laces The invention provides a fastening device for releasably securing two lace ends (3) together. The fastening device comprises a body including first and second members (11, 12) having a passage through which the lace ends can pass. The passage may include ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6081977 | Closure for footwear, clothing, tents, rucksacks The invention relates to a fastening mechanism (1) for shoes, articles of clothing, tents, rucksacks etc. with a lace or tape-like tying element (2) which is inserted into a guiding tab (9) designed as a hook or eye, which at least in an end region (15) w... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6029323 | Positive lace zone isolation lock system and method A positive lace zone tension isolation device and method for use with laced footwear including a base, a opposed, pivotable cam for clamping interposed laces against the underlying base and isolating the selected lace tension against migration at that poi... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5924177 | Shoelace retention device A new shoelace retention device for removably securing the loops and tails of a bow tie knot of a shoelace in a close relationship to the shoe. The inventive device includes the shoe lace retention device comprising an elongate base member for mounting th... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5884375 | Method for securing an object by lines A fastener for securing an object is formed of a resilient material and includes an opening therethrough. At least two lines, such as a shoestring, cord, rope, twine, string, or similar article, extending from the object are disposed through the opening i... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5724710 | Fastener for securing an object A fastener for securing an object is formed of a resilient material and includes an opening therethrough. At least two lines, such as a shoestring, cord, rope, twine, siring, or similar article, extending from the object are disposed through the opening i... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5572778 | Shoelace securing method A shoelace securing method includes, initially, threading the free end portions of a pair of shoelaces, emanating from a tightly laced region on the shoe, upwardly through a main passageway formed in a securing device by passing the free end portions into... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5182838 | Filament, cordage locking device A cord lock of unitary construction comprising a body of resilient material and a slit through the center thereof that defines two cord gripping surfaces. A cord or cords threaded through the slit are securely engaged by a clamping effect at the slit and ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 4852223 | Clothing cord securing clamp A cord clamp provides a device for securing shoe laces, belts and tie cords with advertising possibilities. The cord clamp has a thin uniform thickness wall elastomeric hemisphere of a plastic composition, with a centrally disposed post radially projectin... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4648159 | Fastener for a lace or rope or the like A device for removably securing a line or the like, said device having a base with at least one fastener integral therewith. The fastener has at least one wall extending outwardly therefrom and is, effectively, flexibly secured to the base with the wall t... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4619058 | Footwear corresponding to physiology An article of footwear comprising a unitary shell enveloping the foot, having a heel collar and an incision therein adapted to accommodate an inserted foot and including an intrinsic pattern of elastic interconnections between predetermined points on the ... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4506417 | Fastener for string A fastener for securing in position a string to be used for gathering the skirt of a coat or the open edge of a pouch, for example, is constructed of a housing provided therein with a blind cavity, a sliding member admitted into the blind cavity of the ho... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4485529 | Reusable tying device A tying device for shoelaces which can be attached to the shoe and serves to maintain tied laces in their disposition. The device includes a body portion which remains exposed for viewing by the public and an eyelet member which receives the laces for sec... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4336636 | Fastening device A fastening device is structured so that one half thereof is symmetrical with the other and includes a casing, with a pair of inwardly folded portions, and a pair of symmetrical block-members, each having a bar-member and accommodated within the casing su... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4258456 | Shoelace holder A pair of devices mountable on a shoe for anchoring a center of a shoe lace, each device, in one design, including a leather pad affixed to the shoe and a removable cap being attached on top of it by means of a tongue and clamp securement, the shoe lace b... | 03/31/1981 |
