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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 |
| 6925849 | Stapler anvil A stapler anvil and method for clinching a staple is disclosed. The anvil includes a body having a well. The well has an axis extending between the legs of a staple and is defined by a first surface having a first portion along which the first leg of the staple is d... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6658712 | Belt lacer A belt lacer for connectors of the type having a plurality of wire hooks arranged in a side-by-side relationship includes a base element, and a holding member supported on the base element, and configured to receive and retain therein the belt connectors.... | 12/09/2003 |
| 5983697 | Clip pliers A hog-ring type clip-applying device having an upper jaw and a lower jaw with a clip receipt area defined therebetween to receive and clench a hog ring clip. The lower jaw is attached to a rear handle, and the upper jaw is attached to a diagonally dispose... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979213 | Pneumatic device A hand-held pneumatic device, such as a C ring clamping device, comprises a main body, a grip joined to a lower portion of the main body, a pneumatic cylinder contained in the main body, and a directional control valve contained in the main body. A first ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5042124 | Machine for punching out butterfly clips for fastening to a frame of a spring core A machine in which butterfly clips are prebent and then punched out of steel strip and simultaneously finally bent, such that they fasten together a spring and the frame of a spring core. Thus, both the punching out of the clip and the final bending proce... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5035040 | Hog ring fastener, tool and methods A hog ring fastener has a straight line base and legs each perpendicular to the base but offset at an angle to each other permitting the use of relatively inexpensive "C" points. A stick of the fasteners is generally channel shaped, with the legs and base... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5020355 | Method and apparatus for securing first and second members Method and apparatus for securing a fastener around two members, the jaws of which are initially retracted to allow loading of a fastener from a magazine, cassette, clip, or cartridge into the jaws. A piston is then moved into engagement with the jaws, wh... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4907327 | Device for automatically securing a borderwire on a mattress innerspring A device for automatically securing a borderwire on a mattress innerspring comprising a plurality of coils is disclosed. The device comprises a tool for sequentially joining segments of the borderwire to perimeter ones of the coils located along a perimet... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4724590 | Apparatus and method for automatically securing borderwires on mattress innersprings Apparatus for automatically securing borderwires on mattress innersprings, comprising support members for receiving borderwires and a mattress innerspring in stacked, properly oriented relation to one another. A drive mechanism is provided for automatical... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4546910 | Active clinchers and wire stitchers incorporating same An active clincher 201 has a housing 202 forming a support surface 203 for an article, such as a set of sheets, to be stapled. One or a pair of clincher ears 204 is positively driven by an actuator 223 for bending over the staple leg(s) to form clinches. ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4403406 | Component position indicator for electronic component insertion station Equipment to visually identify insertion points to an operator of a pre-programmed, semi-automatic electronic assembly station. This equipment includes a pair of illuminators disposed at opposite ends of a cut-clinch mechanism and arranged to shine on the... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4309808 | Lead cut and outward clinch mechanism An electronic component lead cutting and outwardly clinching mechanism for cutting the component leads that extend from the underside of a printed circuit board and for outwardly clinching the portions of the leads remaining after the cutting to the under... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4169307 | Clinch tool and method A clinch tool and method for clamping a grid frame to a coil in which a clinch component is fed automatically into a space formed by the tool between the grid frame and coil with the clinch component saddled in position on the grid frame to be bent to ret... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4153082 | Cut-clinch mechanism for variably spaced leads The mechanism cuts component lead portions projecting from a support such as a circuit board though the leads may be spaced apart at different distances, and then clinches them against the board. Additionally, the mechanism is movable heightwise relative ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4125136 | Cut and clinch mechanism Electrical component leads, extending through apertures of a printed circuit board, are cut and clinched by reciprocating cutter blocks moved transverse to the axis of the leads. All the leads are cut with selected ones being bent to a greater extent than... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4031585 | Binding of perforated sheets A machine for binding packets of perforated sheets to book form with wire binding elements each formed from a length of metal wire bent to form a series of curved hairpin-shaped prongs on which the sheets are impaled and which are brought to ring shape by... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3995870 | Process of manufacturing wrought-iron lattices Pre-shaped wrought-iron rods are placed one beside another in a lattice array, in which node-forming portions of adjacent rods are disclosed close to each other at a plurality of node positions. All node-forming portions at each of said node positions are... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3986533 | Mechanism for clinching leads inwardly or outwardly Mechanism for cutting and clinching leads projecting from circuit boards or the like is operable in two alternative modes: (1) clinching them inwardly, i.e. toward one another, and (2) clinching outwardly. Shifting of one part, a pin, for example, from on... | 10/19/1976 |
