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 |
| 7318849 | Cyclonic fluid separator equipped with adjustable vortex finder position A cyclonic fluid separator for separating one or more condensable components, such as water, and/or solids, such as smoke or sand particles, from a fluid mixture has a tubular housing having a fluid inlet section in which the fluid mixture is accelerated to a supers... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311700 | LASIK laminar flow system A system that can be used to perform an ophthalmic procedure. The system may include a patient support that supports a patient and a light source which can direct a beam of light onto the patient's cornea. The system may also include an airflow module that directs a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 6921424 | Dust pre-separator for an automobile engine A pre-separator removes contaminants from dirty air and an air intake system of an automobile engine. The pre-separator includes a central body connected to a plurality of vanes, the central body including a leading nose-cone portion and a trailing nose-cone portion... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6887291 | Filter devices and methods for carbon nanomaterial collection Filter devices and methods for collection of carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, produced in gas phase reactors are provided. The filter devices provide for in situ cleaning of filters to release captured product for collection. Product can be released and r... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6723205 | Degassing centrifugal apparatus with energy recovery, process for degassing a fluid and process for producing paper or board The invention relates to a degassing centrifugal apparatus such as a pump having energy recovery means and to a process for degassing a fluid. The apparatus has a rotatable hollow rotor connected to a fluid inlet at one end and a liquid outlet at the opposite end. A... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6379433 | Device for use in filtering contaminated air The present invention relates to a device for use in a manhole or similar structure, whereby the device is designed to filter contaminate gas typically found in such structure. More particularly, the device includes a canister member filled with filtratio... | 04/30/2002 |
| 4853010 | Multi stage gas scrubber A gaseous stream scrubber includes a cylindrical housing having a curved outer wall for confining therewithin a gaseous stream to be scrubbed. A flow inlet communicates with the housing and introduces the polluted gaseous stream into the housing, the inle... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4626343 | Separator for sorting particulate material A separator for sorting particulate material suspended in a conveying gas into coarse and fine fractions has a rotor (1) with two sets (9,10) of vanes. Dampers (13,14) in outlet ducts for the fine fraction regulate the relative flow through the two vane s... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4505051 | Cyclone heat exchanger including segmented immersion pipe A cyclone heat exchanger particularly adapted for direct heat exchange between a granular product and hot exhaust gases from a kiln used in the production of cement, the heat exchanger comprising a housing, a gas feed pipe introducing hot gases tangential... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4465499 | Assembly for securing filter channels to support structure in a casing such as the housing of an air handling unit and for selectively providing flanges for securing a duct to the casing An assembly is provided for securing a pair of filter supports to support structure defined by the casing of an air handling unit and for selectively providing flanges for securing a duct to the casing. The filter support includes a filter channel having ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4351476 | Air filtering system and method of operation An air filtering unit for blowing only filtered air into a room of a building having a central air conditioning air duct outlet therein, includes an electric blower unit having an air inlet and an air outlet. An air guide system conducts all air flowing t... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4285706 | Particulate filtration device A device for the filtration of particulate from a particulate laden gas, including a housing containing a circumferential, vertically stacked arrangement of separator units and transfer structure to transfer the particulate laden gas, the clean gas and th... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4285707 | Dust separator for separating dust from flowing gaseous media Dust separator for the separation of even fine dust particles from a flowing gaseous media whereby a swirling action is imparted to the gas through which the coarse dust portion is centrifuged and a free-running turbine wheel is rotated so that the fine d... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4266955 | Particle-in-gas filtration A filter assembly for particle-in-gas filtration comprises ducts leading to a filter housing which is removable from the ducts and is provided with covers to prevent egress of material from the housing during transport. Covers may be also provided for the... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4205965 | Apparatus and method for separating a specific lighter component from a flowing medium Solid components such as dust particles having a lighter density are sepaed from a flowing medium, such as a gas, wherein the dust is suspended. The gas has the lightest density. For this purpose, the flowing medium which includes the gas and the solid c... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4148694 | Container for loose material, in particular hot coal A container for loose material, in particular for hot coal, during the operation of a coke oven battery including a novel deflecting means for directing particulate matter located in the gas emanating from the loose material back into the container to red... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4073631 | Stationary drum filtration device and method A filtration device and method for removing particulate matter entrained in a gas stream including a filter media with a first prescribed surface area on one side thereof; a perforated support for positioning the filter media so that one side thereof is i... | 02/14/1978 |
| 3936176 | Device for maintaining a developability regulating apparatus contaminant free A device in which a developability regulating apparatus employed in a multi-color electrophotographic printing machine is maintained substantially free from contaminating particles. This is achieved in the present invention by directing a substantially la... | 02/03/1976 |
