...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 |
| 7617950 | Controlling flow from multi-chamber containers The dispensing of substances from multi-chamber containers, such as tubes, can be controlled by the placement of a flow modifying unit in the dispensing nozzle of the container. The dispensing nozzle will have a plurality of channels, usually one for each chamber. T... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7337925 | Multi-chamber container element body The object of this invention is to provide a multi-partitioned body of a tubular container, in which inner space is divided by a partition wall or walls into multiple compartments disposed in a row. Technically, such a multi-partitioned body of a tubular container c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7232082 | Dispenser bottle for at least two active fluids A dispenser bottle comprising two receptacles for two (preferably different) fluid active substances wherein both receptacles have outlets arranged next to one another in such a way that both active fluids can be applied to a common application field. The receptacle... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7147884 | Method for making a novelty frozen food product A novel frozen product and method for making the same are disclosed, wherein a beaded frozen product is intermixed with conventional ice cream. In this regard, the beaded ice cream (or other frozen produce) may be intermixed with soft-serve ice cream on an individua... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7128935 | Method for making a patterned food product A food product, preferably a food ingredient in the form of dye, pigment or similar colorant in a random pattern in refrigerated yogurt, is produced by supplying the food ingredient through a supply tube (82) extending through an injection tube (80) an... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7063235 | Metering pump dispenser A metering pump made of plastic for the metered dispensing of liquid and/or pasty media from a bottle-like container, can-like container or tube-like container with a follower piston. A pump chamber delivering the medium is connected via a suction valve with the con... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044402 | Multi-component fluid mix ratio check nozzle and kit A multi-component fluid mix ratio check nozzle includes a base engageable with a multi-component fluid dispensing gun for receiving fluid components dispensed from the gun. At least two hollow extensions extend from the base, wherein each of the extensions provides ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6994818 | Method of making a multiple chamber tube The invention relates to a multi-chamber tube with at least two chambers and a tube head, with closable withdrawal apertures corresponding to the number of chambers and consisting of an accumulation of at least two separately produced tubular pipes arranged parallel... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6953551 | Microarray fabrication techniques and apparatus Disclosed is a microarray printing system and methods of printing probe microarrays. The system has a print-head formed of one or more capillary bundle, such as light-guiding capillaries. The bundles may especially be bundles of capillaries that provide a large numb... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6889873 | Pouch and packaging and distribution unit The invention relates to a pouch that is provided with a deformable flexible wall and designed to contain a liquid/pasty product that is distributed by a manual recirculating metering jet pump disposed on an opening zone of said-pouch and able to be fitted in such a... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877638 | Uniform dispensing, multi-chambered tube comprising a flow regulating element Disclosed is a multi-chambered tube for containing and dispensing a contents, comprising: (a) a body divided by at least one divider wall into at least two chambers, each chamber housing a portion of the contents, the body being sealed at one end by a crimp seal and... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6696298 | Multi-channel reagent dispensing apparatus Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved chemical synthesis apparatus for performing chemical synthesis such as nuclei acid synthesis in a plurality of reaction wells or cells in an efficient manner. The apparatus employs dispenser... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6681957 | Collapsible dispensing system A dispenser for simultaneously dispensing at least two viscous materials to be mixed. The dispenser contains an outer cartridge and an inner container. The cartridge has an open rear end having a rear thrust wall which will be pushed forward by the conven... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6520378 | Dual-outlet dispensing closure A dual-outlet dispensing closure for dispensing fluid products from a dual-chamber container that includes a base for securement to a container and having laterally adjacent outlet openings for alignment with outlets in the container. A turret is mounted ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6454130 | Multichannel dispensing closure A closure for a multi-chamber container can have a flow director device that will assist in the dispensing of the products from the multi-chamber tube in a number of product streams that are greater than the number of chambers in the container. This provi... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6453803 | Soft ice cream manufacture method thereof and soft ice cream manufacture apparatus There is provided a soft ice cream in which even materials such as a strawberry easily changed in properties and containing an acid component can be used, and the unique flavor of the material other than a soft ice cream mix, such as strawberry jam and ch... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6439433 | Pouring device A pouring device for two individual, mutually connected containers include in each case a sealing bung on each container neck. The sealing bung has a pouring outlet and an incoming air orifice. Pouring elements, which each includes a chamber, are disposed... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6345733 | Dual compartment package A two-compartment package is provided which includes a unitarily formed hollow sleeve with first and second openings on opposite ends. First and second compartments are formed from the sleeve through a crimp between the first and second ends, the crimp pr... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6341716 | Dual-outlet dispensing closure A dual-outlet dispensing closure for dispensing fluid products from a dual-chamber container that includes a base for securement to a container and having laterally adjacent outlet openings for alignment with outlets in the container. A turret is mounted ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6308862 | Dispenser package for dual viscous products A dispenser package for dispensing dual viscous products which are separately retained within the package and merged at a dispensing nozzle. The dispensing package comprises a container having a compressible portion and a hanger and pouch assembly of plas... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6176395 | Dual dispense container A dual dispense container is comprised of an inner container and an outer container, the outer container neck base having a groove, a latch and an undersurface, and the inner container neck having a bead engaged in the groove, and ribs below the bead whic... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6158621 | Device for the use of a thin wall package The cartridge assembly for dispensing at least one component comprises a cartridge having a rigid cartridge cylinder, a package assembly having a membrane containing liquid chemical, the membrane having a closed inlet end and an outlet end and a piston as... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6129243 | Dual tube dispenser and adaptor The invention relates to an adaptor which enables two premade tubes such as toothpaste tubes of varying sizes to be fitted together, one inside the other to obtain a dual tube dispenser providing for separate storage of two dissimilar substances and its c... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6116466 | Two-product dispensing unit A dispenser is provided for dispensing through at least one outlet at least two products. The dispenser includes a container for containing a first product, and a dispensing member extending from the container. The dispensing member is capable of being ac... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6047862 | Dispenser for dispensing viscous fluids A pump dispenser suitable for striped toothpaste, comprising a pump head [1] and a replaceable reservoir [2] for the toothpaste, in which the toothpaste is packed in radially disposed segments, and the reservoir is locked against rotation relative to the ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6039215 | Dual product pump dispenser with multi-outlet closure for product separation The present invention provides a dispensing pump for dispensing a plurality of fluids simultaneously but separately through a spout. The spout has a plurality of discharge orifices and a closure associated with the spout for closing the discharge orifices... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5988444 | Dental product A dental product is provided packaged in a telescopically arranged multi-cavity dispensing container having at least two cylinders in an upper body thereof. Peroxide and baking soda are placed as active ingredients in separate respective semi-solid stream... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5967373 | Product dispenser having separable refill cartridge and staging and locking structure A product dispenser includes a cartridge containing a product; a housing having a base member and a cartridge receiving member movably mounted to the base member between a shipping position wherein the cartridge receiving member is substantially extended ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5941420 | Multichamber container dispensing orifices A multichamber container such as a multichamber tube or multichamber pump can deliver the contained products in varying arrays by the use of container shoulders of different channel configurations. The container body remains the same with chamber dividing... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5899360 | Multi-chamber refillable dispenser The dispenser is a rigid type multi-chamber, refillable dispenser where only the substance containing chambers need to be discarded and replaced. At the point of the chambers interconnecting into the upper portion of the dispensers there is a cutter to br... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5881920 | Product dispenser having separable refill cartridge A product dispenser includes a cartridge containing a product; a housing having a sidewall defining an interior space for receiving the cartridge; an access cutout formed in the sidewall for installing and removing the cartridge in the interior space; and... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5857591 | Simultaneous pump dispenser Simultaneous pump dispenser of the trigger-sprayer type has a single container with separate liquid compartments. Side-by-side main cylinders in the dispenser body have vent cylinders there-adjacent. Pistons in all cylinders are worked together by a pisto... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5823387 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously dispensing viscous materials A method an apparatus for simultaneously dispensing a plurality of viscous materials, such as dentifrice pastes, produces a striped outer layer of a first material surrounding a core of a second viscous material. The apparatus includes a collapsible tube ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5799832 | Frozen dessert and drink dispenser and method The present invention is directed to an improved frozen drink and dessert dispenser and method therefor. The improved frozen drink and dessert dispenser and method permits the simultaneous or alternate dispensing of two products. Further, through a dispen... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5752626 | Simulataneous pump dispenser Simultaneous pump dispenser of the trigger-sprayer type has a single container with separate liquid compartments. Side-by-side main cylinders in the dispenser body have vent cylinders there-adjacent. Pistons in all cylinders are worked together by a pisto... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5749495 | Dispenser for dispensing two liquid products The present invention relates to a dispenser for dispensing two liquid products. The dispenser permits feed-out of the viscous products either separately or together.... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5706980 | Comestibles consumption device A comestibles consumption device (12) for the simultaneous dispensing of a liquid (40), such as milk, and a dry comestible (42), such as cereal, by the force of gravity when tilted for use, directly into the mouth of a consumer without the use of other to... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5702033 | Adjoined dual-tube dispenser A dispenser with adjoined dual tubes for providing a combination of ingredients which remains separate from each other during storage. The compartments, at one end, taper to a restricted opening adjacent to each other. Each of the openings has a shape gen... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5615803 | Tube container A tube container has an outer tube formed with an extruding mouth at one end and two inner tubes each formed with an extruding mouth at one end. The inner tubes are inserted into the outer tube, and the extruding mouths of the two inner tubes are secured ... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5593065 | Metered dual dispenser cap for squeeze containers The metered dual dispenser cap is for dual compartmented squeeze type containers which separately contain two distinct materials. The metered dual dispenser cap has a lower portion which is reciprocally attached to an upper portion. The lower portion has ... | 01/14/1997 |