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 |
| 7254969 | Ribbed washing machine basket A basket for a washing machine includes a body comprising an outer wall and at least one rib extending radially inward from said wall, said rib comprising at least a first portion having a first cross section and a second portion having a second cross section, said ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 4254642 | Variable slope bottom basket for an orbital clothes washer A basket for an orbital washer is provided with a bottom wall having a variable slope. The angle of bottom slope varies from a maximum angle to a minimum angle in the circumferential direction about the axis of the basket. The slope variation causes chang... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4252005 | Symmetrical opposed motion basket for an orbital clothes washer A symmetrical opposed-motion basket design is provided for an orbital clothes washer. The symmetrical opposed-motion basket is structured to cause clothes in one portion of the basket to tend to move clockwise, while clothes in another portion of the bask... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4233827 | Unsymmetrical basket for an orbital clothes washer An unsymmetrical basket design is disclosed for an orbital clothes washer. The unsymmetrical design includes a basket bottom having one portion thereof axially lower than another portion with prescribed slopes connecting the upper and lower portions of th... | 11/18/1980 |
| 3958434 | Washing machine A washing machine comprises two frames each mounting a plurality of tubular wash receptacles and arranged to oscillate on a support in opposite directions. Connecting rods resiliently affixed to each frame interconnect the two frames and constitute an osc... | 05/25/1976 |
