Ammunition was sold outdoors, in cartons, as in the fastener aisle of a hardware store.

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The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage.

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Last year ITW introduced a plastic fastener that it calls the BosScrew.

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It's a far cry from the time when soldiers were instructed to say "slide fastener" in order to avoid using "zipper, " a trademark.

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Seeing the potential, he cleverly secured a two-year exclusive European patent on the zipper, which came to be known as the Hermes Fastener.

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Carmakers no longer have to mold a dozen or so brass inserts into their plastic intake manifolds to accept screws, at six cents per fastener.

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Velcro was designed as a fastener to replace zippers, but caught on commercially only after proving itself as a way to stop things floating around space capsules.

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Last fall, Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris visited the Pilgrim Screw Corporation, a fastener manufacturing firm that used work sharing to avoid laying off 35 workers in their Rhode Island facility.

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In addition to being durable and IPX-4-rated splash-proof, BoostSolar also features fastener holes that enable it to be easily attached to a backpack for maximum portability and to charge while you're on the go.

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