...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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| 5618263 | Soft splint A soft splint structure is wrappable around a patient's jointed limb. A plurality of interconnected elongated soft fabric sleeves are flexibly connected at their side edges to form a unitary structure. The sleeves define individual pockets which are parti... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5360258 | Portable single and multiple unit baby support seat A single, dual or multiple portable baby support seat is made from mostly interchangeable components of commonly available and inexpensive materials. A frame is formed from two or more spaced apart upright frame members in side-by-side arrangement, the fr... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5279237 | Method of making a floating baby bather A baby bather has an open mesh coated fabric envelope filled to a soft cushion shape with lightweight buoyant foam plastic beads for supporting a baby floating in a tub or over a sink. The center portion of the cushion has a gradual depression having a ce... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5182828 | Roll preventing structures A machine washable wedge shaped support structure is formed from a fabric envelope loosely filled with lightweight, preferably polystyrene, beads which shape it. The fabric may have a non-skid surface to resist sliding in use. The wedge conforms to a pati... | 02/02/1993 |