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 |
| 7434708 | Valve assembly A valve assembly for a fluid dispenser includes a housing having at least a first opening and a second opening, and a valve member fitted in the housing, the valve member being rotatable about an axis and comprising a first channel, extending along said axis and com... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7210507 | Capsule filling machine The capsule filling machine is provided with special volumetric dosing stations each having two or more adjacent dosing units (9, 9′, 22), fixed at equal distances from each other on the periphery of the carousel and located outside and at a distance from t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7011120 | Liquid filling device and method A liquid filling enables liquid, especially high consistency liquid, to be filled in a constant quantity without bubbles and without drops of the liquid. In the liquid filling device for receiving liquid into a cylinder and feeding it into a container, a three-way v... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6942128 | Automatic dispenser for underground sprinkler-systems An automatic fertilizer that is designed to be used with a yard/lawn/garden sprinkler system. This unit is placed before the zone valves of the sprinkler system. The unit is designed to disperse fertilizer into a tank chamber below a discharge tray. The fertilizer d... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6595245 | Method and a machine for metering products, in particular liquids, and for filling containers with the metered products According to a method for filling containers (2) with a metered quantity of products (10), the products is supplied to a reservoir (3), inside which there is a metering receptacle (7). In its upper part, the metering receptacle (7) is open and its lower p... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6390330 | Apparatus for metering and dispensing powder into hard gelatin capsules or the like An apparatus for metering and dispensing powder into hard gelatin capsules or the like. The apparatus has a metering disk that rotates in advancing steps, with bores disposed in its base. The bores which cooperate with tamping plungers that move up and do... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386899 | Receptacle type connector A receptacle type connector fixed to a side plate of an image forming device body includes a primary inserting and drawing recess which is open upward. A contact holding wall of an opponent plug type connector is inserted into and drawn out from the prima... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5944072 | Filling valve for container filling machine A flange 52 extends upwardly about a filling passage 50 and a flexible tubular valve member 54 having a bead 56 in tension about and in sealing engagement with the flange and extending through an inlet cavity 48 to an annular ring 58 presenting an upwardl... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5944071 | Two chamber filling tank A beverage filling machine (10) for conserving beverage at the end of a production run of the type comprising at least one filling assembly (20) for filling a beverage container (22) and a supply tank (12) for supplying beverage (32) to the filling assemb... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5356041 | Dispensing apparatus having improved valving A sealing valve arrangement for dispensing apparatus having a turntable rotatably mounted on a support includes a valve with an outwardly protruding operator member with a free end remote from the valve, and a valve mount for mounting the valve to the tur... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5230373 | Piston filler A piston filler apparatus as disclosed in which the filler pistons and associated reciprocal valves are disposed below the product containing bowl so that they can be withdrawn into the bowl to effect easy in-place cleaning. A method of in-place cleaning ... | 07/27/1993 |
| 4938125 | Liquid dispensing apparatus A dispenser for liquids or granular materials suitable for use in an automatic cooking apparatus. Liquid ingredients are held in a container with a dispensing orifice in the bottom. The orifice is sealed by a valve at the underside of the container, which... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4685593 | Feeder for highly abrasive materials A feeder for highly abrasive materials includes a housing and an impeller. The housing includes inner an outer concentric, spaced apart, vertically oriented wall portions which are each closed at their lower ends by a common bottom plate and at their uppe... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4558804 | Food consumption appliance A food consumption appliance (100) for use in consuming dry comestibles such as ready-to-eat cereals in combination with liquids comprises a stabilized lower fluid compartment (102) for holding milk and other liquids. The lower compartment (102) includes ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4542835 | Method for filling containers with metered quantities of powdered materials The present invention concerns a method for obtaining a uniform dose for filling containers with metered quantities of powdered materials. The powdered materials are drawn from a rotating container by a plurality of dosing devices which are advanced by a ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4359177 | Revolving turret for continuous casting, with independent arms, and eccentric load compensation A continuous casting revolving tower, with independent arms, of the type having a central support column against which lies a turret supported for rotation about a vertical axis, and a pair of arms, at the end of each of which is assembled a ladle, liftab... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4244404 | Rotary piston filler A rotary piston filler with a plurality of cylinders and pistons around the periphery of the turret to fill containers rotating with the turret, a circumferential cam bar surrounding the turret, a cam follower following the cam bars and producing reciproc... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4123918 | Ice dispensing machine An ice dispensing machine comprising a rotatable ice storage bin adapted to have ice from a suitable source thereof deposited therein; an ice shearing blade located below the bin and adapted to shear off ice located within the bin such that said ice is de... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4121742 | Ladle-rotating turret arrangement A ladle-rotating turret arrangement to be used in a continuous casting plant has a concrete base block with a hole through it, a central column inserted in the hole with play, carrier arms provided on the column, and two annular discs arranged at the hole... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4108221 | Container filling machine A container filling machine comprises a plurality of filling stations each including a container platform which is raised and lowered by a cam controlled elevating mechanism, for providing bottom-up filling; a cam-controlled pumping mechanism operating a ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4093085 | Apparatus for making ready-mixed concrete This invention relates to apparatus for making ready-mixed concrete, comprising a plurality of transfer containers divided into separate chambers and adapted to be moved along a closed path to at least one filling station and a plurality of emptying or wa... | 06/06/1978 |
| 3934627 | Filling machines A filling machine for filling containers includes a receptacle for holding the substance to be filled and cylinders disposed in a circle around the exterior of the receptacle and connectible to the receptacle and to discharge openings. Each cylinder conta... | 01/27/1976 |
