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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8032459 | Banknote-handling system A banknote-handling system includes a plurality of banknote-handling machines (11, 12, . . . ); a plurality of banks (16, 17) for accounting purposes, etc; a co-ordinating central unit (10); a transport system (18, 19 . . . ) for transpor... | 10/04/2011 |
| 6945378 | Arrangement of banknote handling machines for the infeed and outfeed of banknotes A system for handling banknote flows with the aid of a banknote handling machine for feeding banknotes into and out of a banknote magazine included in the banknote handling machine. The system includes a central unit which includes a locality that is divided by an i... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6874611 | Teller machine for the infeed and outfeed of banknotes A teller machine for the infeed and outfeed of banknotes having detectors for checking respectively the quality, denomination and validity of banknotes. The detector for checking the validity of a banknote carries out on each deposited and by-passing banknote a chec... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6655584 | System for handling banknotes within a geographically limited area A system for handling banknotes within a geographically limited area, including a plurality of banknote handling machines positioned over the geographically limited area for depositing and withdrawing banknotes. The machines are adapted to separately bund... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6598726 | Machine for receiving and enclosing bank notes, where information is printed on the inside of a transparent film A banknote handling machine having an infeed part for receiving banknotes deposited by a customer from outside the machine and for identifying the customer, a detector unit for checking the validity of the deposited banknotes, a printing unit for printing... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6581746 | Banknote handling machine A banknote handling machine having an infeed part for receiving externally posted banknotes and including a detector mechanism for checking the genuineness, quality and value of posted banknotes. The detector mechanism functions to sort false banknotes an... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6568154 | Method and apparatus for enclosing banknotes where information is printed on the inside of a transparent film A banknote handling apparatus including a first unit for receiving banknotes deposited from outside the machine, a second unit for checking validity, quality and denomination of the deposited banknotes, and a third unit for bundling and packaging checked ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6553922 | Safe for valuable documents A safe for valuable documents having a shell protection around the safe for impeding attempts to force an entry thereinto and processor unit actuated in response to damage to the shell protection to initiate a safe protection function. The safe contains a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6497186 | Safe for valuable documents such as banknotes, cheques etc. A safe for accomodating valuable documents includes one or more units (1-17), each of which is intended to accomodate several valuable documents and is equipped with destructive devices (112-172) for local destruction of valuable documents in respective u... | 12/24/2002 |
