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 |
| 7074359 | Vibratory molding process and product A fastener strip is disclosed having permanently sealed, airtight portion and a reclosable portion capable of maintaining an airtight seal when closed. The permanently sealed portion is generally planar and essentially impervious to air flow. The reclosable portion ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7039989 | Multi-track fastening system A multi-track fastening system having multiple tracks and a central slider or interchange. The central slider has angled openings and paths through which the tracks travel when the central slider is propelled along the tracks. Sliding the central slider along the tr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024701 | Systems and methods for transformable sleeves Methods and systems for transforming a volume of material into sleeves by means of a transforming fastener. The transforming fastener has multiple tracks, each track having a pair of matable rows. A slider coupled to the rows transforms the volume of material into s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6993792 | Draft barrier system A draft barrier system having a sliding fastener that lets a user selectively alternate a volume of material between open and closed formations. When the sliding fastener closes the volume of material into the closed formation, insulation is compressed together to f... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6427294 | Waterproof slide fastener and manufacturing method thereof The present invention intends to provide a waterproof slide fastener in which a synthetic resin film is fused to a fastener tape in order to prevent a perforation phenomenon that the synthetic resin film does not exist locally. A laminated synthetic resin... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6292986 | Assembly and accumulation of sliders for profiled zippers An assembly of sliders for zippers for plastic bags and the like and the accumulation of the sliders for use in form, fill and seal machines is disclosed. The sliders are oriented and mechanically or adhesively joined into chains. Mechanical assembly of s... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6289561 | Assembly and accumulation of sliders for profiled zippers An assembly of sliders for zippers for plastic bags and the like and the accumulation of the sliders for use in form, fill and seal machines is disclosed. The sliders are oriented and mechanically or adhesively joined into chains. Mechanical assembly of s... | 09/18/2001 |
| 5697130 | Side-entry fastener A side-entry fastener having first and second side strips with teeth, which can be connected to one another to close an opening, and each side strip defining two ends, a connecting block member at one location on one strip, the connecting block member bei... | 12/16/1997 |
| 4528731 | Slide fastener chain A slide fastener chain has a plurality of spaced separating regions along which the slide fastener chain can be separated or torn to slide fastener lengths one after another by hand without a cutting device. Each separating region extends transversely acr... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4485533 | Slide fastener chain and method of manufacturing the same A slide fastener chain comprises a pair of inter-engaged stringers including a pair of stringer tapes one longer than the other which have longitudinally staggered ends spaced from each other by a distance greater than the length of a slider which is to b... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4238872 | Separable slide fastener chain and a method of producing the same A separable slide fastener chain comprises a pair of oppositely disposed stringers of continuous length each having a support tape and a fastener element formed from a plastic monofilament into a continuous structure secured by sewn seams to a longitudina... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4187591 | Continuous slide fastener stringers A pair of slide fastener stringers of continuous or substantially endless length comprising a pair of opposed stringer tapes and a pair of rows of coupling fastener elements carried along the respective confronting inner longitudinal edges of the stringer... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4123827 | Slide fastener chain A continuous or substantially endless length of slide fastener stringers is provided with jointing means for conjoining lengthwise individual unit lengths of stringers. The jointing means is analogous in cross-sectional configuration to an interlocking fa... | 11/07/1978 |
| 3999255 | Manufacture of sliding clasp fasteners There is disclosed a method of producing sealed end stringers for sliding clasp fasteners from a pair of stringer tapes, each of which is provided on one of its edges with a row of fastening elements. The tapes are first arranged so that the two rows of f... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3953912 | Concealed sliding clasp fastener A concealed sliding clasp fastener is described, which fastener is provided with an adjustable end stop movably mounted on interengaged rows of coupling elements and positioned between a slider and a permanently secured bottom stop. The adjustable end sto... | 05/04/1976 |
