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California Inventor Develops Pedal, Cleat Assembly
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News February 14, 2007 700+ words ...Mar, Calif., has developed a pedal/cleat assembly. According to the U.S. Patent...Trademark Office: "An improved pedal/cleat assembly provides a float range that is easily and precisely adjusted. The pedal/cleat assembly includes a pedal assembly incorporating... |
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Florida Inventor Develops Folding Boat Cleat
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 8, 2006 700+ words ...Harbor, Fla., has developed a folding cleat with spring actuation. According to the...amp; Trademark Office: "A folding boat cleat which is secured to a boat hull includes...boat hull, the base including a gap and a cleat head rotatably secured at one end to the... |
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Add A Neat Cleat.(How To)
Magazine article from: Motorboating Clemans, John September 1, 2006 700+ words ...Simply decide where you want an extra cleat and follow these easy steps. They refer...Lay masking tape over the area where the cleat will be installed and use the supplied...sure the template is positioned so the cleat will swing up to the outboard, or tension... |
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Hawaii Inventor Develops Pull-Up Cleat
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 6, 2006 700+ words ...Kapaa, Hawaii, has developed a pull-up cleat with infinite position adjustment. According...Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "cleat assembly having a base adapted for mounting...extends through the mounting surface. The cleat assembly includes a cleat member having... |
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Investigators identify cleat/natural grass combination may be less likely to...
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly February 5, 2010 700+ words ...a cut on a natural grass surface while wearing a cleat. This is the conclusion from a study by investigators...modern playing turf/turf shoe, modern turf/cleat, and natural grass/cleat. The study appears in the January 2010 issue of... |
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Massachusetts Inventors Develop Removable Cleat System Utilizing System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 19, 2008 700+ words ...Gardner, Mass., has developed a method of installing removable cleat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable cleat for a shoe is described. The cleat includes a ground-engaging structure for engaging the ground... |
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Florida Inventor Develops Movable Boat Cleat
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News April 28, 2008 700+ words ...has developed a method for using movable boat cleat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark...apparatus and method of use that involves a movable cleat on a boat. The movable cleat includes a base neck supporting two cleat arms above... |
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Virginia Inventor Develops Self-Adhesive, Disposable Footwear Cleat
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News January 29, 2007 700+ words ...developed a self-adhesive, disposable footwear cleat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 'RED e' cleat is a disposable, self-adhesive, all-surface footwear cleat having a non-skid gripping surface, designed... |
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LION Cleat Benders: LION has been manufacturing cleat benders since 1974!
Magazine article from: Snips October 1, 2003 700+ words ...inches Closed End PNEUMATIC COMBINATION Cleat Bender and Bar Folder 90-100 PSI * 1...degrees] angle bends True 180[degrees]+ cleat bending Standing seam bends Hems with 90...bends Drip edge bending Channel bending S-cleat edging Corner locks * Cleat benders make... |
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Oregon Inventors Develop Footwear with Height Adjustable Cleat-Member
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News October 14, 2008 700+ words ...An article of footwear has selectively height adjustable cleat members provided on a sole. A cleat member provided in a unit engaged with or otherwise attached to the sole. The cleat member may have a portion which extends outwardly from the... |
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cleat
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English cleat / klēt / • n. a T-shaped piece of metal or wood, esp. on a boat or ship...prevent slipping. ∎ a small wedge, esp. one on a plow or scythe. DERIVATIVES: cleat·ed adj. cleat |
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thumb cleat
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea thumb cleat, a cleat with a single arm used primarily to stop rigging slipping along a spar . They are also seized to standing rigging to form a hook from which a bight of running rigging can be suspended and are often used, grouped, on deckhouse faces for the storage of warps . |
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sweat, to
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...sweated up by taking a single turn round a cleat , hauling the standing part out from...the end to prevent it slipping on the cleat. This raised the sail fractionally. The slack was then taken up round the cleat as the halyard was released so that... |
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Riddell Sports Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories ...football team. Riddell designed the first screw-on removable cleat in 1922 so that his players ’ footgear would not have...then found a company that would make football shoes with this cleat, but in 1927 he quit teaching and coaching to open his own... |
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Hand Working
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...be flown is hung by a set of lines, generally three, which pass over three pulley blocks in the grid and are made fast to a cleat on the fly rail. A complete box-set can be battened together, with property furniture attached to its walls, and the whole... |
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