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...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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080115648 | In-situ compressor blade tip cropping assembly and method An assembly is provided for cropping the trailing edge tip of a stator zero blade in-situ. The cropping assembly includes a base plate that is secured to the end of the compressor stator blade to be cropped; a removable, rotational guide block; and a drill that is mount... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115649 | PROCESSES AND APPLIANCE FOR SLICING FOOD, SEPARATING AND STACKING SLICES AND PROTECTING ALL THEIR SURFACES FROM EXPOSURE TO THE ENVIRONMENT This invention patent refers to processes and appliance for slicing food, stacking and protecting obtained slices from exposure to the environment, through a continued flexible separator, with foldable flaps, in contact with side, front and rear surfaces of referred sli... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115650 | Cutting Device And Method For Operating A Cutting Device A cutting device has a jacket member (22) embodied to selectively shield or expose a rotor commutator (6), and a cutting mechanism (24) fixed to the jacket member (22) having scissors (25) with a scissor (25) drive. The scissor ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115651 | INTERNALLY-MOUNTED SOUNDHOLE INTERFACING DEVICE Disclosed is a device for improving the tonal characteristics of a stringed instrument. This has been accomplished using a device that interfaces acoustically with the soundhole. The device inhabits space where sound energy waves tend to interfere and redirects the soun... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115652 | SNARE STRAINER A snare strainer adapted to a snare drum is equipped with two strainers, which are attached to the opposite positions on the circumferential exterior of a cylinder of the snare drum and which control a snappy member to be selectively brought into contact with or separat... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115653 | Color-guiding music teaching system including practice pad, pitch plates, percussion targets & lesson book assembly and method A Color-guiding Music Teaching System including practice pad, pitch plates, percussion targets & lesson book assembly and method is disclosed. The teaching method enables young students to learn music much faster than before by creating an association between musical no... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115654 | System for Generating Musical Sounds Within a Vehicle System for generating musical sounds, Structure adapted for mounting within a vehicle includes a plurality of spatially separated, touch-sensitive sensors for activation by an occupant of the vehicle. A memory module stores a plurality of musical sounds and a microcontr... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115655 | PLAYBACK SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INTEGRATED MUSIC, LYRICS AND SONG INFORMATION Playback systems and methods with integrated music, lyrics and song information. The system comprises a database and a processing module. The database stores a plurality of music/lyrics/song information integrated files, each corresponding to a song, and comprising a fi... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115656 | TEMPO DETECTION APPARATUS, CHORD-NAME DETECTION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR There is provided a tempo detection apparatus capable of detecting, from the acoustic signal of a human performance of a musical piece having a fluctuating tempo, the average tempo of the entire piece of music and the correct beat positions, and further, the meter of th... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115657 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND PERFORMANCE CONTROL PROGRAM SYSTEMS AND METHODS An electronic musical instrument that includes an input means for inputting first performance data from a first performer side and a second performance data from a second performer side, wherein the input includes at least pitch information, query performance data and r... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115658 | Music-piece processing apparatus and method For each of a plurality of music pieces, a storage device stores respective tone data of a plurality of fragments of the music piece and respective musical character values of the fragments. Similarity determination section calculates a similarity index value indicative... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115659 | Expressing Music Expressing a musical work includes identifying a series of musical moments in the musical work and electronically specifying values for levels of each musical moment in the series. The electronically-specified values for at least one level are displayed.... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115660 | Remotely Controlled Marker For Hunting Games A marker fired by commands from a remote location for hunting games such as a paintball gun or a laser gun used in laser tag. The marker is controller by a variety of control systems, both open loop and closed loop. Such control systems allow remote error detection and ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115661 | Hydraulic system for supplying a hydraulic fluid to a component A hydraulic system for supplying a hydraulic fluid to a hydraulically-operated component. A pump for delivering component the hydraulic fluid from a reservoir is connected with the reservoir through a flow control valve. The control valve is a 4/3 directional flow contr... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115662 | CHEMICAL LIQUID SUPPLYING APPARATUS A chemical liquid supplying apparatus can discharge chemical liquid with high accuracy and monitor a leakage of an incompressible medium from a region between a piston and a cylinder. A pump has a flexible tube for partitioning a pump chamber and a drive chamber, and th... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115663 | Vibration damper with amplitude-selective damping force A vibration damper including a cylinder filled with damping medium; a piston rod axially moveable in the cylinder; a piston mounted on the piston rod in the cylinder, the piston dividing the cylinder into a first working space around the piston rod and a second working ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115664 | Magnet Type Rodless Cylinder Repulsive magnetic forces in the axial direction of cylinder tubes act between the rows 11 of inner magnets of pistons 10, 10 accommodated in two cylinder tubes 2, 2, and the inner magnets 12 of the pistons 10 come to a halt being slig... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115665 | Apparatus for dehydrator and compressor combination skid and method of operation A method and apparatus for the dehydration of glycol, comprising a gas compressor unit including an engine which produces a flow of hot exhaust gas; a glycol dehydrator unit including a reboiler for heating and dehydrating the glycol; transferring heat from the exhaust ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115666 | GAS SEPARATION USING MOLECULAR SIEVE SSZ-74 The present invention relates to new crystalline molecular sieve SSZ-74 prepared using a hexamethylene-1,6-bis-(N-methyl-N-pyrrolidinium) dication as a structure-directing agent, and its use in gas separations.... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115667 | Conductive membrane for carbon dioxide separation Disclosed are a conductive membrane able to selectively separate carbon dioxide from a gas mixture containing carbon dioxide, a manufacturing method thereof, and a method of separating carbon dioxide using the membrane. The conductive membrane for carbon dioxide separat... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115668 | Arrangement For Cleaning Filter Apparatus Of Rock Drilling Rig A method for cleaning a filter apparatus of a rock drilling rig, a filter apparatus and a rock drilling rig. The filter apparatus comprises several filter units, and the filters therein separate solid matter from the filtering flow. The filter apparatus comprises a clea... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115669 | Hydrogen purification devices, components, and fuel processing systems containing the same Hydrogen purification devices, components thereof, and fuel processors and fuel cell systems containing the same. The hydrogen purification devices include an enclosure, such as a pressure vessel, that contains a separation assembly that receives under pressure a mixed ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115670 | Air filter with partial-depth, open-cell stabilizer to reduce detrimental shifting and settling of granular filter materials within the filter A filter comprising a hollow frame comprising a first face, a second face and an interior passageway extending therebetween; a first screen extending across the passageway at the first face; a first partial-depth, open-cell stabilizer extending across and into the passa... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115671 | Vacuum cleaner filter bag The invention relates to vacuum cleaner filter bag with a bag wall made of a filter material, wherein the bag wall and/or the interior of the vacuum cleaner filter bag comprise fibres containing a biopolymer and having an antibacterial effect and/or a powder produced fr... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115672 | MIXING CHAMBER FOR PRODUCING A NON-CARBONATED BEVERAGE The present invention relates to a mixing chamber for producing a non-carbonated tea beverage, wherein the tea beverage is susceptible to growth of detrimental microorganisms, comprising: a tea concentrate feed line having a check valve; a hot water feed line; a cold wa... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115673 | Device For The Automatic Ejection Of A Capsule Or Pellet In A Machine For The Production Of Hot Beverages Or Coffee A device for the automatic ejection of a capsule or pellet in a machine for the production of hot beverages or coffee, where the machine comprises a movable part (13), moved by an actuator (14), and a fixed part (15), realising an infusion chamber (... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115674 | Method and apparatus for beverage formation with liquid delivery control A method and apparatus for forming a beverage. A brewer may be operated so that when water or other beverage precursor is detected to be heated to a desired temperature, the liquid may be provided to a brew chamber to form a beverage. In one embodiment, detection of the... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115675 | INSERT FOR FILTER HOLDERS OF COFFEE MACHINES, PARTICULARLY FOR ESPRESSO COFFEE MACHINES An insert for filter holders of coffee machines, particularly espresso coffee machines, comprising an adapter provided with means for fixing to a filter holder and a disposable tray for containing a dose of ground coffee; the tray comprising a base which has a discharge... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115676 | Retractable structure of a grill A retractable structure of a grill includes a lower grill base with a connecting groove at a rear end of the lower grill base and a limit portion on the connecting groove, and an upper grill cover and the lower grill base define a space for containing a foodstuff. The u... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115677 | Food processor with combined grinding and juice extracting functions A food processor designed for grinding beans and cereals as well as extracting juice from fruits and vegetables includes a bowl, a base, a strainer basket, a cover, an upper grinding disc fixedly mounted around a bottom of a feed tube formed on the cover, and a lower gr... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115678 | Bottle crushing device An exemplary method, apparatus and system of crushing a bottle may include a barrel for surrounding a bottle. The barrel may have a main body with a threaded outer surface. A plate may be slidably engaged with an inner surface of the barrel at a first end of the barrel.... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115679 | Method for Aligning Color Separations of a Printing Image on a Printing Material The invention relates to a method for aligning color separations of a printing image on a printing material (2), i.e., perpendicular to the transport direction (3) of said printing material (2). Method for aligning color separations on a printing ma... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115680 | PRINTER-ROLLER SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND PRINTER An ink-transfer roller is brought into contact with an ink-source roller so that ink is transferred from the ink-source roller to the ink-transfer roller. The ink-transfer roller includes an ink-transfer member, an ink-transfer roller body, an elastic member, and a rota... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115681 | Cleaning device for a printing mechanism A cleaning device for a printing mechanism includes a substrate; and a layer of adherent material deposited on at least one side of the substrate. The adherent material collects buildup from at least one component of the printing mechanism at operating temperatures in t... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115682 | CLEANING DEVICE AND PRINTER A cleaning device that cleans an ink-supply path of a printer including a plurality of cylinders that constitute the ink-supply path. The cleaning device supplies cleaning solution from a cleaning nozzle to an ink-transfer cylinder in the state where the ink-transfer cy... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115683 | System for soft lithography A transfer sheet placed between a vacuum chuck and a stamp in a soft lithography aligner facilitates three dimensional manufacturing with elastomeric materials.... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115684 | Method For Printing A Date Stamp On Package Of Food By Using Edible Ink Disclosed is a method of printing a date stamp on food packaging using edible ink. The method is advantageous in that, since the date stamp is printed between bottom and top films using the edible ink approved by the FDA through an inkjet process, and heat energy is app... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115685 | DECORATIVE GARLAND STRING FIREWORK DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME Decorative garland string firework devices and methods for making same are provided. A garland string firework device can comprise an internal firework device and an outer decorative garland disposed around the internal firework device. The internal firework device can ... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115686 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROJECTILE FUZE SETBACK GENERATOR POWER SOURCE AND PROJECTILES INCLUDING SAME Projectile fuze setback generator power source apparatuses and methods of use and manufacture are disclosed. An explosive projectile contains a fuze with a setback generator and associated fuze electronics. Upon initiation of projectile launch, the setback generator pro... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080115687 | Weapon Launched Reconnaissance System The present invention is an arrow-shaped reconnaissance means, which is designed to be connected to the barrel of a weapon and launched by firing a round of ammunition from the weapon. The reconnaissance means is designed to penetrate and stick into a wall or other targ... | 05/22/2008 |
