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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 |
| 7331469 | Vibratory separator with automatically adjustable beach A vibratory separator having a basket for supporting screen apparatus for treating material, the basket pivotably mounted on a base, vibratory apparatus connected to the basket for vibrating the basket, the material forming a pool on the screen apparatus, and a beac... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7278540 | Adjustable basket vibratory separator A vibratory separator having a base, a basket movably mounted on the base and for supporting screen apparatus for treating material introduced into the vibratory separator, the basket on a base and pivotable with respect thereto, vibratory apparatus connected to the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7111739 | Wet fine particle sizing and separating apparatus A particle sizing and separating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base and a frame that is movably connected to the base. A motor assembly is provided to vibrate the frame and at least two screens are connected to the frame. Means also are provided f... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6953097 | Drilling systems Systems and methods for providing a mixture of drilling fluid and beads into a flow of drilling fluid, e.g., flowing in a conduit or flowing upwardly within an annulus of a riser, the method in certain aspects including: introducing an initial stream including a mix... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6892889 | Screen A screen system employs a resiliently mounted housing, a vibration generator mounted to the housing, a mounting frame fixed to the resiliently mounted housing and a support surface. This system receives a screen including a screen frame and pre-tensioned screen clot... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6820749 | Large, stationary, modular aggregate processing plant and method of manufacturing and installing same A method of manufacturing a large stationary, aggregate processing screening tower by fabricating weldment modules and preassembling them with aggregate processing equipment internal within the weldment modules, transporting the preassembled weldment modules to a fi... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6715612 | Vibrator assembly The invention provides a vibrator assembly (5) having a pair of vibrators (1) held in spaced apart relationship by a frame (10), screen assembly (1), having a screen (2, 3) extending between a pair of side plates (4), is sec... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6679386 | Low-density particle sizing apparatus and method An apparatus and method for sizing and separating particles of generally low-density materials includes a stand, a frame movably suspended on the stand by a plurality of suspension assemblies, and an elongated screen box mounted on the frame. The screen b... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6170670 | Methods of and apparatus for feeding granular material An apparatus for feeding a granular catalyst to a destination such as a reactor at a constant feeding rate uniformly charges the catalyst material into the device. The granular catalyst is loaded into individual compartments of a hopper and is ejected at ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6065606 | Elevatable frame for transportable sorting machines A transportable sorting machine frame formed of first and second frame sections which are hinged together is provided. The sorting machine is mounted to one frame section and an infeed conveyor is mounted to the other. A pair of elevational jacks located ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5595306 | Screening system A screening system having a resiliently mounted housing with a screen extending thereacross. The housing is vibrated by a low frequency vibratory drive using eccentric weights. About the peripheral frame of the screen, a high frequency drive or drives is ... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5538139 | Arrangement for a plansifter A large or square plansifter has a large number of sieve stacks with e.g. more than 20 sieve boxes. Such boxes are constructed without a supporting grating and design so as to be exchangeable in the covered state and so that they can be placed on or in th... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5037535 | Superposed two frame system elastic screening machine having independent oscillating drives for each frame system In a screening machine comprising two screening frames (13 and 31) each having mutual oppositely located feed and discharge ends on which there is arranged an elastic screening lining (54) and which are caused to oscillate by independent oscillating drive... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4443332 | Cross flow solid-to-solid heat transfer apparatus Apparatus for transferring heat between solid particles includes placing a first granular material composed of particles of a first size on the upper side of a downwardly sloping vibratory screen. The openings in the screen are sufficiently small to preve... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4167478 | Universal modular screening, classifying, cleaning and sizing machine A universal modular screening, classifying, cleaning and sizing machine for dusty material, comprising a frame which supports a screen box by means of cables permitting the free oscillation of the box; the screen box containing spaced parallel screens and... | 09/11/1979 |
