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 |
| 6634283 | Skin loosening or removal apparatus Apparatus for loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. Carriers are arranged to receive the products and a liquid jet manifold is adapted to direct jet or jets at the products. In a preferred embodiment, ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 5427018 | Centrifugal disk for impact mills, air classifiers or the like A rotor disc for accelerating and projecting particles radially outwards off the disc toward an encircling impact element includes a rotatable disc base having radial channels for guiding particles radially outwards. The channels are formed of side walls ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 4741913 | Wheat flouring process A pretreatment system for wheat to be floured comprises a plurality of friction type wheat polishing machines disposed in series relation to form a continuous wheat polishing process line. Each polishing machine includes a perforated tubular polishing mem... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4724632 | Filament seed thresher A method and apparatus for removing appendages from seeds are described. The apparatus includes a chamber to contain the seed to be threshed. Mounted rotatively in the chamber is at least one filament spool means which, upon rotation, causes filament to b... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4393762 | Sunflower seed dehulling machine A machine for dehulling flat disc-like seeds having a relatively heavy kernel inside the hull comprising a spinning rotor for throwing the seeds against an annular impact band to crack the hull. The rotor consists of a disc with radial blades on the surfa... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4329371 | Method of processing grain Methods and apparatus for processing grain to provide meal, grit, flour and masa products suitable for human consumption and by-products suitable for use as animal feed and industrial products. The methods includes forming a slurry of the grain with water... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4313374 | Machine for hulling nuts A machine for hulling nuts having a rotationally driven horizontal disc provided with an upwardly disposed abrasive surface; a cylindrical casing coaxially related to the disc, closely spaced from its periphery, and provided with a discharge opening; a co... | 02/02/1982 |
