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 |
| 4210247 | Folded sheets of wrapping paper A nest of folds of decorative wrapping paper. Each fold includes at least one sheet of wrapping paper which has one printed decorative surface and one unprinted surface. A first fold of paper is creased longitudinally into a flat V-shaped configuration ha... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4192420 | Flexible and pliable moisture-impervious package A flexible, moisture-impervious package for moistened webs includes a pocket portion and a flap section. The pocket portion includes an interior compartment in which the moistened webs are retained. A weakened region provided in a top wall of the pocket p... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4181225 | Wet-tissue pack Cleansing tissues arranged in a stack in pack or box which is provided in its upper surface with an opening for removal of the tissues located therein. The tissues are each folded to form in cross section a substantially planar center portion having two s... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4171742 | Corrugated fibreboard box A corrugated fibreboard shipping box for packing a stack of sheet material stacked into a flat rectangular shape having a certain thickness is made of a single box blank. The box blank is comprised of a rectangular bottom section, a pair of rectangular si... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4159250 | Dialyzer casing A dialysis device of the type including a stack of parallel membrane support plates and membranes. A casing encloses the top, bottom and two opposing sides of the stack with the casing formed of two plastic molded interchangeable parts. Each casing part c... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4139097 | Stackable container tray for storing and displaying flat objects A semi-transparent, tray-like container having a flat bottom and substantially vertical side and end walls defining a storage space has flange-like projections on each side wall inner surface in proximity to but spaced from the bottom to define, with the ... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4135624 | Plastic file sleeve and index cards A plastic file sleeve and index card set for organized record retention and use, including a sleeve having two relatively wide end walls, two relatively narrow side walls, open at the top and bottom defining a sleeve cavity therein to receive index file c... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4111299 | Deformable container A new deformable container is disclosed, suitable for use in packaging items of different dimensions. In use, portions of the container are deformed to provide abutments at the interior of the container for fixing therein the relative position of the item... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4064990 | Package for wrapping paper A package containing a number of folds of decorative wrapping paper. Each fold is formed of at least one sheet of decorative wrapping paper which is folded so that it forms a fold having a front panel and a rear panel connected along a backbone. The front... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4046923 | Package with staggered product slices and process for producing the same A package is disclosed herein that includes a plurality of individual product slices positioned in face abutting engagement with one another, with the lateral edges of adjacent slices being offset relative to one another, and with the lateral edges of alt... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4002250 | Automatic unloading metal pickling rack This invention consists of a metal plate pickling rack which eliminates manual handling at several stages of the pickling operation, and provides a safety factor for the operator against contact with the pickling acid. The rack consists of an acid resisti... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3987900 | Jacket for magnetic disc memory A foldable jacket made of a sheet material of rectangular shape and folded at the central portion thereof to form a square base sheet and a square cover sheet. The cover sheet is provided with a cut-away portion extending from an edge opposite to the fold... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3973674 | Shipping and storage package for paper sheet items A package for shipping and storing paper sheet items such as, for instance, greeting cards and the envelopes therefor, and which package is initially a flat sheet of cardboard material having a plurality of transverse lines of fold, the flat sheet being f... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3966103 | Holder for containers and napkins A holder is provided for both supporting and carrying napkins and containers, such as condiment bottles. The holder includes a lower tray for napkins and an upper tray supported thereabove on struts for containers. The struts are constructed with vertical... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3949869 | Document tray The cassette of the invention comprises a plastic tray having at one end an array of projecting curved fingers and an auxiliary member having an array of curved fingers, with the auxiliary member adapted to seat on the base so that the curved fingers of t... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3945490 | Covered artist palette apparatus An artist palette is provided which is easily held by the artist during mixing and applying paints and which may have a pad of disposable sheets of material carried thereon for mixing the paints upon. The palette has a removable cover which holds the pale... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3940054 | Tissue carton A tissue carton has in its top panel an opening dimensioned to pass tissues contained in the carton and covered with a removable strip of transparent film material permitting inspection of the carton contents.... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3936044 | Adjustable sheet guide Adjustable guides for a sheet stack are frictionally secured to the stack support by bristle pads provided on each adjustable guide and on the stack support. Each pad has bristles inclined at an acute angle relative to the surface of the pad. Interleafing... | 02/03/1976 |
