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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 |
| 4769971 | Apparatus for introducing blister-type products and the like into boxes The apparatus for introducing blister-type products and the like into boxes, comprises a carousel rotatable about a horizontal axis and composed of box retention means, angularly distributed around the axis and a product distribution drum. On the product ... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4705470 | Cheese handling apparatus A portable apparatus for handling cheese, including a base and a turntable mounted on the base. The turntable has cutout recesses in the periphery thereof for moving molds in a circular locus. A platform is provided on the base for supporting the molds as... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4653248 | Apparatus for making cartons of cigarette packs and the like Apparatus for making cartons with arrays of cigarette packs therein has a conveyor which transports the arrays to a transfer station and a feeding unit which delivers successive blanks to the transfer station so that a freshly delivered blank is adjacent ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4648234 | Automatic bag-loading attachment for rotary bag-filling machines An automatic bag-loading apparatus for placing valve bags onto the spouts of a bag-filling machine. The apparatus comprises a carousel with carrier arms equipped at their ends with grippers to grip and hold bags. Synchronizing means are mounted to the bag... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4648236 | Packaging machine including a folding, sealing and conveying apparatus A packaging machine has, for wrapping flat, rectangular items in a wrapper sheet, a folding, sealing and conveying apparatus including an intermittently driven turntable, a plurality of pocket assemblies on the turntable, a charging station for radially i... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4580390 | Packaging assembly There is disclosed a packaging assembly for inserting a plurality of small diameter tubes into a packaging container wherein the assembly is comprised of a container rotor, a tube supply rotor and an injection rotor mounted in keyed relationship on a shaf... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580393 | Packing apparatus A vacuum packing apparatus for vacuum packing objects into flexible bags. The apparatus has first and second gears rotatable around a pair of spaced apart vertical axes and an endless chain which is engaged with the gears. The first gear has a plurality o... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4523422 | Apparatus for introducing tape cassettes or the like and supplements into hinged boxes An apparatus for introducing tape cassettes or the like together with supplements into hinged boxes including a turret which is arranged to rotate step-by-step about a horizontal axis and containing holding means for the hinged boxes. The hinged boxes are... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4484432 | Bottom-folding packaging machine Apparatus for packaging cigarettes, the apparatus comprising means for applying a strip of packaging material about a group of the articles to form a tube and folding and gluing the ends of the wrapper to define the package is provided with a plural stage... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4479345 | Corrugated box forming, loading and sealing machine There is illustrated and described a machine for setting up corrugated box blanks having four side panels folded double and sealed along their otherwise adjacent free edges and having top and bottom end flaps extending from each end of each side panel. Th... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4358920 | Apparatus for wrapping a sheet article A wrapping device in which two rotating drums (18, 20) of identical circumferential velocities are arranged symmetrically and one of the rotating drums (18) is provided around its circumference with a number of recesses (36) adapted to receive the sheet a... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4305496 | Method of transporting singulated parts Centrifugal feeders, particularly a method of transporting singulated parts from the periphery of a centrifugal feeder. The method includes vertically orienting while supporting the parts in nests or notches defined at the periphery of the feeder, advanci... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4281499 | Box packing machine and process A box packing machine and process for packing a shipping box such as a carton with a group of containers such as bottles and cans smoothly without interference between separators and containers. Separators are placed at predetermined positions inside an i... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4235067 | Semi-automatic bagging machine A semi-automatic bag filling and weighing machine is disclosed including a rotatable indexing table supporting a bag at four spaced locations around the table, a conveyor device for supplying articles to be weighed and filled into the bags, a weighing and... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4235066 | Nuclear fuel rod loading apparatus An apparatus incorporating a microprocessor control is provided for automatically loading nuclear fuel pellets into fuel rods commonly used in nuclear reactor cores. The apparatus comprises a split "V" trough for assembling segments of fuel pellets in row... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4233799 | Distributing machine for placing stored objects on grill stands A machine for placing stored objects on grill stand is disclosed which has a plate carrying the grills to be filled and which successively moves them under a plurality of distributing stations. The distributing stations are continuously fed pins from bulk... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4211055 | Machine for feeding, cutting, spacing and accumulating articles Sausages or other articles having initial lengths several times longer than their final, packaged lengths are automatically severed to their proper dimensions, accumulated into multisausage clusters and then inserted into awaiting containers, all automati... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4201027 | Device for inserting tape cassettes or the like and enclosures particularly into hinged boxes Device for inserting tape cassette or the like and enclosures particularly into hinged boxes, having devices for feeding the boxes, for opening the boxes, for feeding and inserting the cassettes and enclosures into the open boxes and for closing and pushi... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4184306 | Packaging method and apparatus A new packaging method and apparatus for positively nesting at least one workpiece in a base member comprised of permanently deformable material such as cellular urethane foam. The base member is electrostatically neutralized, cleaned and then moved onto ... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4168599 | Packaging system A system for packaging articles within containers, each including a lower article receiving portion, wherein a plurality of container receivers are continuously rotated in an endless path and displaced radially of their axis of rotation to various work zo... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4045940 | Baler system and method In the overall system, vertically disposed, primary bags are filled with articles to a predetermined weight and conveyor means conduct the filled primary bags to a discharge point where a predetermined number of said filled bags are discharged at a discha... | 09/06/1977 |
| 3982377 | Automatic bagging machine Apparatus for automatically covering an item, such as a garment on a hanger, with a bag closed at the top and sides, and open at the bottom. The bagging material is supplied from a continuous roll in tubular form and is automatically fed from the roll, pu... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3948019 | Apparatus for the fully automatic production of filled, gusseted bags of plastic Automatic Production, filling, and closing of bags, especially plastic guted bags. The bag is produced at a first station of the apparatus for carrying out the invention, from a flat tube. The bag is then successively moved to a second station where it i... | 04/06/1976 |
