Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7182813 | Production apparatus of multilayer coating film The coating construction has flexibility corresponding to the number of layers of multiple coating layers, by which a multilayer coating film can be produced with small film thickness without adherence of dust to a film surface, a drying fault such as unevenness ind... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6418289 | Drying device and method for drying ink on a medium An apparatus is provided for drying a liquid image carried on a surface of a medium moving along a predetermined path from an upstream location towards a downstream location. The apparatus includes an air moving device, such as a blower, that moves air. A... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6260481 | Apparatus for increasing the gloss and/or smoothness of a web of material A process and device for increasing the gloss and/or smoothness of a web of material are described, whereby a web of material (5) is passed through a roller gap where it is exposed to pressure. A steam dispensing device (7) is provided upstream of the rol... | 07/17/2001 |
| 5836084 | Stencil dryer An automated stencil dryer includes a holder mechanism for holding a stencil, a discharge mechanism for discharging air against a stencil positioned in the holder, and a driver mechanism operatively coupled to the discharge mechanism for automatically mov... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5420673 | Drying device for electrostatic recording apparatus A drying device, for use with an electrostatic recording apparatus arranged such that an electrostatic latent image of an image to be recorded is formed on a surface of a recording paper moving through a predetermined moving path and the latent image is d... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5347726 | Method for reducing chill roll condensation An apparatus for dispersing contaminants from the surface of a web moving in a processing direction within a web processing system, the web processing system including a web processing structure, the apparatus including a chill roll air bar disposed proxi... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5345696 | Device for hot-air drying of a film printed in a rotogravure machine A device (1) for the hot-air drying of a printed film in a rotogravure machine, comprising a support structure (3) to house a blowing group (4) which blowing group (4) will feed hot air towards a film (2) to be dried, a plurality of pinions (5) mutually d... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5293699 | Process and apparatus for guiding a coated material strip An apparatus for guiding a coated material strip through a dryer has a plurality of guide elements disposed in the dryer so that the plurality of guide elements are equally-spaced. The plurality of guide elements each have a gas-permeable guide face which... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5282323 | Apparatus for contacting running paper webs with dried steam Apparatus for directing steam against one side of a running web of fibrous material has a housing defining one or more steam chambers and having walls which surround the chamber or chambers. One of the walls is apertured and is located at the path for the... | 02/01/1994 |
| 4793074 | Dryer assembly for photographic paper Apparatus for transporting and drying photographic paper which has been chemically processed, includes a roller assembly for transporting the paper through a drying tank. Drying of the paper is accomplished by means of warm air which is propelled by a pum... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4560347 | Yarn heating chamber A yarn heating chamber is disclosed which is adapted for thermally processing an advancing yarn. The chamber comprises first and second members each having a discontinuity in the form of a groove, shoulder or the like in a surface thereof, and the members... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4529378 | Heating chamber for processing advancing yarn A yarn heating chamber is disclosed which is adapted for thermally processing an advancing yarn. The chamber comprises first and second members each having a discontinuity in the form of a groove, shoulder or the like in the front surface thereof, and the... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4286394 | Recovery of solvent residues from textiles A steam lock is connected to the processing chamber in which textile goods are treated with an organic solvent which is immiscible with water. The web of material is led through this lock. This steam lock consists of an evacuation chamber which is separat... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4132013 | Film dryer A film dryer is provided primarily for use in the graphic arts in which relatively large sheets of film must be processed and dried. A part of input rollers is of sufficiently hard rubber as to squeegee off most of the surface moisture which drops into a ... | 01/02/1979 |
| 3986274 | Apparatus for web treatment A running textile web that has been subjected to soaking by a liquid such as a scouring solvent is carried between a suction box located adjacent one face of the web and a source of pressurized and relatively dry heated gas adjacent the other face thereof... | 10/19/1976 |
