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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 |
| 7427047 | Powered aircraft including inflatable and rotatable bodies exhibiting a circular cross-section perpendicular to its rotation axis and in order to generate a lift force A lift force generating aircraft having an engine and a thrust force producing device. A pair of elongated and rotating bodies, an axial centerline through the bodies extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a fore to aft axis extending between the en... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7344106 | Vertical take-off and landing aircraft A vertical take-off and landing aircraft has an airframe body that defines a loop-shaped path of travel for a plurality of movably-mounted wings that are transversely disposed relative to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The airframe body has two side frames tha... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7300019 | Multimodal, deployable vehicle A multimodal vehicle includes a ground based vehicle with an attached high-capacity airfoil parachute for deployment. The ground based vehicle includes a drive system for use on either land, water or both. Furthermore, the ground based vehicle is sized and dimension... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7213786 | Lift unit for vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle A lift unit for a vertical take-off and landing type aerial vehicle. A smooth, cylindrical rotor, rotating at a high rate, as close as is practicable to the smooth, inside of a half-cylindrical, cradle-shaped stator, generates lift. While there is no up or down forc... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7178757 | Motorcycle rider autogyro An autogyro, or aircraft with a rotating wing, has an airframe providing a motorcycle-like configuration for the rider. The motorcycle-like straddle-type seat locates the rider in front of the rotating wing, behind a teardrop shaped simulated fuel tank, and above th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7048227 | Parachute supported aircraft with controlled wing collapse and inflation This invention relates to a parachute supported aircraft having a frame and a seat for supporting at least a pilot. A parachute is coupled to the frame by a plurality of riser lines for allowing the parachute to inflate and form a wing for lifting the frame. A pair ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6969027 | Vertical takeoff and landing apparatus A vertical takeoff and landing apparatus is excellent in the maneuverability and postural stability of its airframe, serves to protect a pilot from an impact when landing, and can make extremely stable flight when hovering near a building. An airframe has a propulsi... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6845942 | Omni-directional air vehicle personal transportation system An omni-directional air vehicle having a pod with a connected turbofan system, the pod has a body that contains a power source for generating electrical power and a ducted fan with spherical articulation mechanism having a projecting arm with counter-rotating propel... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6527229 | Aerodynamic lift generating device An aircraft has its wing defined as a wing-like body with a tangential flow rotor in the leading edge. A shroud, under the lower part of the tangential flow rotor, terminates in at least one movable flap defining a lift-generating lip when the rotor is ro... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6402088 | Passenger vehicle employing a circumferentially disposed rotatable thrust assembly A vertical take-off and landing vehicle that employs a thrust assembly, a fuselage, and an intermediate rotation decoupling interface assembly for rotationally decoupling the thrust assembly from the fuselage. The thrust assembly forms a single combined t... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5954295 | Lift generation by counter-rotating line vortices A mechanism and method for generating lift with the Bernoulli Effect. A pair of cylindrical impellers create a pair of counter rotating forced linear vortices. Fast moving, low pressure air surrounding the forced vortices comes into contact with the upper... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5180119 | Vertical lift system through tangential blowing of air jets channelled over the top of rotating cylinders This invention pertains to a means of aerial lift depending on the use of an air jet blown and channelled (through a nozzle and a vane) exclusively and almost tangentially over a limited segment of a rotating cylinder (a Magnus cylinder) thereby creating ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 4903917 | Projectile with rotatable stabilizing device The invention is concerned with a projectile with a stabilizing device that is depolyable beyond the caliber and that should at least comprise an object rotatable about its axis. The stabilizing device can be telescopically arranged and can have a cover t... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4657207 | Kit for converting a motorcycle to an airborne vehicle A kit for converting a motorcycle to an aircraft or airborne vehicle includes a glider type parachute with fore and aft lines for connecting to and supporting a motorcycle, in a balanced position, with a propeller system including counter rotating propell... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4469294 | V/STOL Aircraft A V/STOL aircraft comprising a fuselage, having three sets of wings that are offset lengthwise and vertically. The center set of relatively small relatively thick wings 34 between the canard 14 and the rear relatively thin relatively large aerodynamic lif... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4452007 | Horizontal axis rotatory frustum flying toy The Horizontal Axis Rotatory Frustum Toy is a catapulted cylinderlike flying-wing glider that rotates horizontally to produce lift and quite slow flight, suitable indoors or out. A rubber band or string can be used to launch it. Unique shape provides good... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4401284 | Collapsible magnus-effect rotor A lift-producing arrangement suitable for driving a boat by the Magnus effect comprises an elongate tubular envelope mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis. A drive is provided to rotate the envelope. The envelope is of flexible material, e.g., ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4390148 | Rotary wing device A rotary wing device adapted to be rotated about its longitudinal axis and to be propelled forwardly with its longitudinal axis having a small upward pitch angle relative to the forward flight direction in order to generate an upward lifting force on the ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4051622 | Free flying aerodynamic toy with high stability A free flying aerodynamic toy that is manually launched and is composed of an elongate air foil having two identical surfaces that are joined to one another symmetrically of the longitudinal axis so that in response to rotation and translation through air... | 10/04/1977 |
