Did You Know...
...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 |
| 5972006 | Buckle securing means for sternum banding assembly A banding assembly has a needle at one end, a long thin band, and a buckle at the other end. The buckle is provided with upstanding elements on either side of a channel which receives the band. The elements have openings adapted to be engaged by a towel c... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5924578 | Clothing hanger holder First and second rods extend from spaced points on an open frame. The rods support a plurality of hangers situated in parallel planes. When the frame is mounted on a wall such that the rods extend horizontally, the hangers are retained on the rods by upwa... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5898299 | Probe type tester with circuit board stabilizer The hand held circuit tester includes a hollow handle. A probe extends from one end of the handle. First and second leads extend from the other. An LED carrying circuit board is situated within the handle. One end of the circuit board is connected to the ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5842562 | Stuffed animal jewelry holder The stuffed animal has a body covered by simulated fur material. First and second ears extend from the head in an upstanding manner. Each ear includes a mesh section adapted to receive the jewelry. The edges of the mesh section are covered by the simulate... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5826969 | Illuminating screw driver The handle defines a cavity retaining a power source and a source of illumination. The shaft, mounted on one end of the handle, has a channel extending from the handle and through the blade for guiding light down the shaft and out the blade to illuminate ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5778935 | Flexible replacement section for irrigation and water pipe For connecting the spaced ends of underground irrigation or water pipe, a flexible replacement section with a rigid tubular coupling at each end is employed. Each coupling has an inner diameter equal to the outer diameter of the pipe being connected and i... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5753890 | Non-fogging mirror for dental or medical use A casing seals to the edge of a mirror blank to form an autoclavable unit. An electrically energizable heater element is enclosed within the unit. The element is connected to a plug which extends from the casing and is adapted to engage a socket when the ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5729199 | Security system for a metallic enclosure A system for monitoring the occurrence of an event occurring with respect to an essentially metallic enclosure such as a truck body, e.g., the unwarranted opening of a locked door to the enclosure, which comprises a detector within the enclosure which sen... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5695723 | High-tech computerized containment and treatment apparatus and process for combustion off-gas A substantially closed-loop system for use with a furnace wherein a fuel is burned and produces an off-gas, which system, by sensing appropriate parameters of the off-gas as it passes through the system, treats that off-gas in an optimized fashion in orde... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5669902 | Incontinence garment in the form of boxer shorts The relatively loose fiting external portion of the garment has a waistband. An internal shell is adapted to extend between the legs of the wearer from the front portion of the waistband to the rear portion of the waistband. The shell forms a snug fitting... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5658540 | High-tech computerized containment and treatment apparatus and process for combustion off-gas An integrated, at least substantially self-contained and at least substantially closed-loop combustion process and system for the control of gaseous, ionic, colloidal, liquid or particulate matter, particularly noxious contaminants contained in the off-ga... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5653666 | Negative resistance weightlifting apparatus A negative resistance weightlifting apparatus suitable for use with, among other things, a weight in the form of a separate barbell, in which means under the direct control of the user controllably produces a negative resistance effect by pressing down wi... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5635414 | Low cost method of fabricating shallow junction, Schottky semiconductor devices Significant reduction in the cost of fabrication of shallow junction, Schottky or similar semiconductor devices without sacrifice of functional characteristics, while at the same time achieving the advantages is achieved, after the non-polishing cleaning ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5633058 | Message-indicating self-wound tape and method of making same A tape is adapted to be secured to a container or other object which when removed therefrom causes the display of a message which was formerly not visible, such as a notification that the object has been tampered with, the tape being provided on one surfa... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5631806 | Lead with slits for reducing solder overflow and eliminating air gaps in the execution of solder joints The portion of the lead which is soldered between electrical components in a circuit module includes one or more radially extending slits. Once heated, the fluid solder is drawn into the slits by capillary action. Trapped air escapes, eliminating air pock... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5583584 | Ornamental element mounting means Means are provided for removably mounting an ornamental element to the temple piece of an eyeglass frame. In one set of preferred embodiments, a recess which receives the temple piece is defined between the element and a part. One or more machine screws a... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5571329 | Gas flow system for CVD reactor To minimize contamination of gas flow lines and reactor surfaces from high impurity concentrations present in the CVD reactor, control of the dopant gas supply is located closely adjacent to the reactor input port and the dopant gas supply line is separat... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5557815 | Convertible pillow/chair pad The edges of first and second fabric sides are joined along a seam to form an enclosure for cushion material. Tie strings extend from the seam along one end of the cushion. First and second fabric flaps are provided. Each flap is joined along three edges ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5541577 | Electromagnetic asset protection system The security of articles, and particularly articles in transit, is checked by detecting the status of a magnetic strip attached to the articles at a strategic location when the strip is subjected to an electromagnetic field which causes the strip to subst... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5500693 | Ornamental element mounting means Means are provided for removably mounting an ornamental element to the temple piece of an eyeglass frame. In one set of preferred embodiments, a recess which receives the temple piece is defined between the element and a part. One or more machine screws a... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5484080 | Liquid container within retractable straw The base defines a liquid retaining reservoir and has a cover with a straw containing compartment which includes a tubular section and an enlarged section. A pivotally mounted lever has a portion accessible from the exterior of the container and an interi... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5475886 | Combination pillow and chair cushion with tie string accomodating pocket When in use on a chair, sets of strings which extend from the seam proximate an expandable pocket are tied around vertical elements of the chair back to secure the cushion. The strings are stored within the pocket when the product is used as a decorative ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5405070 | Clip of attachments One or both ends of the connector bar is extended outwardly beyond the main section of the bar to which the attachments are mounted. The extended end provides access to the clip from the exterior of the attacher housing, permitting the clip to be manually... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5374174 | Apparatus for/installing a liner within a service pipe or the like An improved apparatus particularly well adapted for installing a liner within a service pipe having an access end and a terminal end, the liner having a part which is everted and then inflated by the insertion of a fluid thereinto, the fluid being thus in... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5366461 | Sternum banding assembly A banding assembly has a needle at one end, a long thin band, and a buckle at the other end. The buckle is provided with upstanding elements on either side of a channel which receives the band. The elements have openings adapted to be engaged by a towel c... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5361895 | Combined variable volume shipping and display tray A tray is provided for the shipping and display of a row of articles, the tray when configured for shipping being adapted to receive a particular number of such objects and when configured for display being adapted to receive a different number of such ob... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5360509 | Low cost method of fabricating epitaxial semiconductor devices Significant reductions in the cost of fabrication of epitaxial semiconductor devices without sacrifice of functional characteristics is achieved by eliminating the conventional but costly polishing procedure, instead subjecting the substrate to grinding, ... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5358359 | Apparatus for everting a tube In a tube eversion apparatus having a chamber in which eversion pressure is produced, that pressure is controllably sealed by providing curtain means communicating with the chamber through which the eversion tube slides and by providing inflatable means, ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5356649 | Method and apparatus for processng and packaging foods Different new foods are placed into separate open compartments of specially dimensioned plastic trays. Groups of filled trays are placed in a magazine and simultaneously sealed with an oxygen barrier film under carefully controlled vacuum conditions. The ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5353460 | Power driven toothbrush A hand-held power driven toothbrush carries a pair of exposed brush elements and self-contained driving means effective to directly drive one of said brush elements in oscillation, with linkage between the brush elements such that the second brush element... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5342805 | Method of growing a semiconductor material by epilaxy This invention concerns itself with an improved method of producing sharply defined misfit dislocations; (MD) with a new, inexpensive method of doping these misfit dislocations with Au; with invention that a combination of Au and Pt doping in misfit dislo... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5339884 | Shower curtain ring The shower curtain ring has a flexible body adapted to encircle a curtain rod and close by frictionally interengaging end members. One of the end members includes an elongated part which is received through an opening along the top edge of the curtain. A ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5339954 | Clip of attachments One or both ends of the connector bar is extended outwardly beyond the main section of the bar to which the attachments are mounted. The extended end provides access to the clip from the exterior of the attacher housing, permitting the clip to be manually... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5324426 | Chromatography column In a chromatography column one or more of the end plates defining the column are provided with specially designed lands and grooves to more effectively uniformly distribute the input liquid over the column cross-sectional area and thus improve the separat... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5324685 | Method for fabricating a multilayer epitaxial structure An all epitaxial process performed entirely in a CVD reactor is employed to grow heavily doped layer on lightly doped layer on a heavily doped substrate, eliminating the need for separate diffusion, even for high impurity concentrations. The process start... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5322220 | Toy ink applicator The hand held housing has a depressible trigger effective when actuated to energize a motor. The motor drives a cylindrical brush to rotate within the housing. As the brush rotates, the ends of the radially extending bristles contact and remove ink from t... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5316607 | Method for fabricating an ostomy device with a convex adhesive faceplate and protective shield A plastic annular disk has a convex exterior surface upon which is situated an adhesive wafer. A removable protective shield is formed to have a substantially wrinkle-free surface with a contour identical to that of the convex surface. The disk and wafer ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5305798 | Two-wall leakage detection system for a pipe An elongated fluid detection device, together with a body of absorbent material, is located between the inner surface of a pipe and an impervious liner spaced from the inner surface thereof, the detection device being operatively connected to an external ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5298457 | Method of making semiconductor devices using epitaxial techniques to form Si/Si-Ge interfaces and inverting the material The all epitaxial process starts with a high resistivity silicon substrate. Alternating layers of silicon and silicon-germanium are epitaxially grown on the substrate under conditions which create a region with misfit dislocations. A low resistivity silic... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5291637 | Vibration resistant metallic tie A resilent element extends from the interior of the locking head into the band receiving cavity. The element exerts a force on the roller, when the roller is in position to retain the band, which has a component directed toward the band, reducing the tend... | 03/08/1994 |
