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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 |
| 5487282 | Process for knitting tubular fabric on a flat bed knitting machine A process for knitting tubular fabric on a straight knitting machine having two main needle beds, two auxiliary needle beds and a racking device. An edge stitch is transferred from each main needle bed to respective auxiliary needles beds, the needle beds... | 01/30/1996 |
| 4790149 | Flatbed knitting machine with electronic control In a flatbed knitting machine with electronic control and comprising programmable fixed-word stores and freely accessible stores, all the data for the operation of the machine is split into five divisions, namely motif pattern draft, needle set-up, knitti... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4788835 | Flatbed knitting machine with electronic control In a flatbed knitting machine with electronic control and comprising programmable fixed-word stores and freely accessible stores, all the data for the operation of the machine is split into five divisions, namely motif pattern draft, needle set-up, knitti... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4777808 | Cloth draw-off roller for knitting machines A cloth draw-off roller for flat knitting machines has individual roller elements rotatably mounted on a draw-off shaft and intermediate rings arranged with axial play relative thereto between the roller elements, which intermediate rings are rigidly secu... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4513588 | Flat knitting machine for the production of knitted pieces with intarsia A flat knitting machine for the production of knitted pieces with intarsia comprises a yarn guide with a yarn guide sheave mounted to be vertically displaceable on a yarn guide box, and a slider on the yarn guide box and which is displaceable horizontally... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4474037 | Knitting-transfer cam unit for V-bed flat knitting machines with slider needles A knitting-transfer cam unit for V-bed flat knitting machines wherein needle butts of the needle bodies of slider needles are selectively lowerable in the needle channels of the needle beds by means of a needle selection device, and wherein the slider nee... | 10/02/1984 |
| 3943730 | Control device for knitting machines A limit switch arrangement for controlling the patterning and working width of knitted articles on a straight knitting machine includes a plurality of magnetically responsive switch on the movable carriage of the machine and a plurality of permanent magne... | 03/16/1976 |
