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...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 |
| 7320483 | Medication reminder system A medication reminder system is provided for allowing patients, especially those with memory or eyesight problems, to improve compliance with a medication regimen that has been prescribed by their physician. The system is organized for ease of patient identification... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7234522 | Apparatus and method for drilling a wellbore with casing and cementing the casing in the wellbore A float system for use in cementing a casing in a wellbore. The wellbore is drilled with a drill bit attached to the casing. The drill bit is removed after the wellbore is drilled. The float system is lowered into the casing after the drill bit is removed. The float... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7201579 | Nutrition and exercise program An exercise nutritional program focuses on overall health of the user and is part of an overall fitness regimen including exercise. Proper weight and weight maintenance is an ancillary benefit of following a nutritional program and will be achieved by years of follo... | 04/10/2007 |
| 6959924 | Euchre scorekeeper A unique Euchre scoring device includes a tablet with aligned rows of scoring spots to keep score of each of the two steams in the card game Euchre. Further, the device includes a storage compartment, and an indication of what suit is trump. The device also allows a... | 11/01/2005 |
| 5992344 | Tournament scheduler What is disclosed is a tournament scheduler wherein one disk is subdivided into a multiplicity of fields, with each field being assigned to one round of the tournament. Each field is provided with a multiplicity of receptions to which markers representing... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5979752 | Portable and floatable fish weight tabulation peg board and method for using same during competition Invention relates to an accurate, yet inexpensive system for recording and maintaining the weight of fish caught during a fishing competition, where the object is to catch and retain a predetermined number of fish, of the highest weight, within a prescrib... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5605000 | Scheduling board A scheduling board having a multiplicity of horizontal designations and a series of vertical designations allows the placement of markers at the intersections of the designations to indicate a job or functions which is scheduled, for example, at a particu... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5573405 | Behavior monitoring and training device A behavoir training and modification device includes a board having a plurality of pegs extending from its front face. The pegs are arranged in a predetermined pattern such as a grid of rows and columns. Indicator plates can be marked with visual indicia ... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5491324 | Score-keeping-with-carry score boards The present inventions are score-keeping-with-carry score boards and are specifically suited by design for accumulating and displaying points during the play of games like cribbage, rummy or five hundred euchre but not limited to these. The present invent... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5438950 | Dart board scoring system A dartboard scoring system for allowing players to keep score of a variety of dart games comprising a pegboard bearing indicia for dividing it into a plurality of team zones, each team zone bearing indicia dividing it into a matrix of scoring spaces, each... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5388547 | Fish score card A fish score card for counting the number of fish caught during a fishing trip is disclosed. The score card includes a column for each fisherman on the trip and a row for each possible type of fish caught. Each time a fish is caught the fisherman places a... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5109789 | Personal compatibility indicating device A matchmaking or personal compatibility indicating device including a base member, a plurality of visually sensible indicator locations formed on the base member for indication of characteristics by the user of the device and apparatus cooperative with th... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5054792 | Dart game scoring system A scoring system for a dart game apparatus includes a target wall for mounting a dart board, a supply of at least two visually distinctive kinds of scoring markers for association with corresponding players of the game, the markers of opposing players bei... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4948148 | Dart game scoring system A scoring system for a dart game apparatus includes a target wall for mounting a dart board, a supply of at least two visually distinctive kinds of scoring markers for association with corresponding players of the game, the markers of opposing players bei... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4941688 | Periodic event recorder A period event recorder comprising a label, indicia on the label corresponding to a desired time or frequency interval; a porous substrate attached to the underside of the label; means for attaching the porous substrate to an object associated with, relat... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4831956 | Tennis scoring apparatus This invention relates to a portable, yet full size tennis scoring apparatus. This scoring device is constructed of a durable fabric and is designed so as to be foldable about itself into a small and portable configuration and yet be unfoldable to a full ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4805909 | Score keeping apparatus A score keeping apparatus (10) for games comprising a clipboard unit (11) adapted to operatively engage a score pad unit (12) and a sequence monitoring unit (13) operatively associated with the clipboard unit (11); wherein the sequence monitoring unit (13... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4673915 | Key storage and monitoring system A storage board for keys and other articles which keeps track of missing keys by assigning user codes to authorized users and making provision for the entry of a code when a key is removed. In one embodiment, the keys are stored on pegs mounted to rotate ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4520749 | Checklist device A device that contains a pocket wherein checklist cards can be inserted that match with pushbuttons that are used to indicate completion of certain steps in a series of steps.... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4282824 | Memory aiding device A device for aiding the remembering of an event which uses a display having board having a surface visible to the observer. A plurality of openings are adapted for accepting a peg like element having a plurality of faces. Indicia associated with each open... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4181305 | Apparatus for playing a game The apparatus is made up of a board having four parellel columns of equal numbers of holes extending therethrough. A plurality of mutually distinguishable flexible pegs may be received in the holes. The pegs have indicium on both ends. The indicia on a gi... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4148273 | Medicine management device A device is described whereby persons required to take one or more doses of a plurality of medicines, over a span of hours and days can keep track of times said dosages should be taken, by means of an apparatus which comprises a thin sheet member having a... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4122760 | Carton jam detection means A carton jam detector means for use on a carton loader apparatus in a carton packaging machine. The loader push rod has mounted thereon a carrier block which has fixed thereto a valve body having pressurized air passages formed therethrough. A carton lift... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4084671 | Device for wear warning in a servo operated disc clutch A disc clutch servo mechanism cylinder has a signal bore extending from the cylinder working chamber to atmosphere. In normal operating state a pin seals this bore. The pin extends into the chamber and when the clutch is worn the piston will come close to... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4008524 | Growth measuring scale An elongated sloping flange I-beam type panel, adapted to be vertically secured longitudinally to a wall surface, is provided with parallel tracks which slidably support a vertically movable head. A coextensive rack is secured to the panel web medially it... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3999504 | Insulin injection reminder An insulin injection reminder having a number of grids corresponding to the general injection areas of the body such as the arms, abdomen, thighs, and so forth. Each grid has a number of indicia corresponding to the specific injection sites within each ge... | 12/28/1976 |
