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 |
| 7039976 | Braking control system for a washing machine An inner tub of a washing machine is rapidly braked during a portion of a deceleration phase following an extraction phase of an overall spin cycle. A controller establishes the braking operation over a critical speed band or resonant frequency zone during which exc... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6540914 | Cleanable filter with spinning screen A fluid filter which comprises a canister having an open end and a closed end, the canister sealing to an adapter body to prevent leakage between the canister and the adapter body, the adapter body having a plurality of fluid inlet ports extending through... | 04/01/2003 |
| 5655390 | Suspension-treating device A device for treating a preferably cellulose containing suspension, comprising a housing (110) on a stand (112), characterized in that it comprises an injection chamber (132) limited by two disc-shaped wall members (134) arranged so as to rotate about a c... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5461888 | Suspension-treating device A device for treating a preferably cellulose-containing suspension, comprising a housing (1) on a stand (2). It is characterized in that it comprises an injection chamber (8) limited by two disc-shaped wall members (9) mounted having an inner part on an a... | 10/31/1995 |
| 4919158 | Method and apparatus for washing pulp The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for washing pulp according to which method the pulp is supplied onto a movable liquid-pervious support surface (2) to form a substantially continuous layer (7); and washing liquid is supplied to t... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4859333 | Continous blood centrifugation cell A continuous blood centrifugation cell includes a bell shaped outer container rotatable about a central axis, a coaxial inner volume displacement body which has a central longitudinal passage, and a circularly shaped partition which has a central aperture... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4696739 | Water purification apparatus This apparatus and method consists of serially or in parallel of contacting a contaminated water countercurrently with air, preferably containing ozone, to remove dissolved organics from the water. It is also desirable to pass the treated water through a ... | 09/29/1987 |
| 3997447 | Fluid processing apparatus Described are fluid processing devices primarily intended for filtration but which devices may also be used for dispensing or sparging liquids and gases into a body of fluid medium. According to the method of using the disclosed devices, fluid medium to b... | 12/14/1976 |
