Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7074845 | Swollen starch-latex compositions for use in papermaking A novel filler treatment comprising the preparation of swollen starch-latex compositions, prepared in the presence or absence of co-additives, and the addition of the said composition to a filler suspension, has been developed. Use of the treated filler during paper... | 07/11/2006 |
| 5766415 | Process for delignification and bleaching of chemical wood pulps with peroxide and dicyandiamide activator A process of delignifying and bleaching a chemical wood pulp with hydrogen peroxide and dicyandiamide as an activator provides a higher degree of delignification and brightness of the pulp and overcomes problems of fibre degradation. The process comprises... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5451456 | Latex of poly-ଲ-hydroxyalkanoates for treating fiber constructs and coating paper A latex comprises a colloidal suspension in water of essentially non-crystalline particles of a polymer or copolymer or ଲ-hydroxyalkanoates, for example ଲ-hydroxybutyrate and ଲ-hydroxyvalerate; the latex may be employed to produce s... | 09/19/1995 |
