Did You Know...
...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 |
| 4390999 | Panty hose with body bulge control The body bulge controlling portion of the panty hose has elastic yarn incorporated therein to provide a medium amount of compressive force against the body of the wearer and is positioned between portions of the panty hose having a relatively great amount... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4366764 | Apparatus for forming loops of strip material Apparatus for forming loops of strip material, with each loop comprising a length of the material having its ends secured together, comprising a sewing machine for stitching ends of the length of strip material together to form it into a closed loop, and ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4305414 | Tent having a waterproof floor A tent comprising side walls which are inclined when the tent is erected, loops at the lower edges of the walls adapted to receive stakes driven into the ground, and a floor member of water impervious material comprising a floor panel adapted to lie on th... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4234135 | Web inspection apparatus Apparatus for feeding a web of material from a supply thereof through an inspection area and winding the web, comprising a frame, a supply roll on the frame, a mandrel for winding the web on the frame having a gripper for gripping a leading end portion of... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4175763 | Suspension system for land vehicles A vehicle comprises a frame, wheel carriers spaced longitudinally of the frame, and wheels on the carriers. A suspension system supports the frame on the carriers with connections between the frame and the carriers allowing relative rocking movement of th... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4170682 | Treatment of nylon fabric for wettability and product thereof The treatment of nylon fabric for wettability, with the treated fabric capable of withstanding a substantial number of launderings without undue loss of wettability, involving exhaustion of a condensation product of ethylene oxide with an aliphatic primar... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4075723 | Boat cover means A cover of flexible sheet material and a flexible resilient rib adapted to extend in arched configuration over a boat from adjacent one gunwale of the boat to the other for supporting the cover arched over the boat. The rib is secured to the cover with th... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4057880 | Method of producing snag resistant hosiery article The snag resistant leg portion of this hosiery article is knit of a composite self-crimping yarn including a series of mechanical crimps imparted thereto prior to knitting, and a series of crimps imparted to the composite yarn by development of the latent... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4027062 | Composition and method for imparting fire resistance and water repellency to fabric A coating composition useful for imparting fire resistance and water-repellency to fabric comprises between about 5% and about 23% by weight of a liquid chlorinated paraffin, between about 20% and about 40% by weight of a resinous chlorinated paraffin, be... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3943952 | Tent A tent comprising a bay extending from front to rear and wings extending laterally outwardly from opposite sides thereof, each wing having a front wall and a back wall, each wall of each wing comprising an outside screen and an inside closure flap adapted... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3943953 | Umbrella tent A tent comprising four walls and a peaked roof, the upper edges of the walls constituting eaves which generally form a rectangle when the tent is erected. The tent further comprises an external frame for holding the tent erect including a pair of eave fra... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3940355 | Composition and method for imparting fire resistance and water repellency to fabric A coating composition useful for imparting fire resistance and water-repellency to fabric comprises between about 5% and about 23% by weight of a liquid chlorinated paraffin, between about 20% and about 40% by weight of a resinous chlorinated paraffin, be... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3935607 | Inflatable boat An inflatable boat comprising inner inflatable tubes in an outer tube, the inner tubes and the outer tube being fabricated from flat sheet stock by a method involving stitching a bottom seam of the outer tube with the outer tube in place on the inflated i... | 02/03/1976 |
