...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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| 7280248 | Printer driver for setting stencil printing machine printing condition items and the like In the disclosed invention, when watermark print is set during printing, the printer driver makes a secret operation setting for holding the secret of print data accordingly, and transmits this print data to the stencil printing machine. Therefore, even if the print... | 10/09/2007 |
| 6662717 | Printing control apparatus having printing order information producing function A printing control apparatus for controlling a stencil printing machine (50, 100), wherein a stencil sheet, which is made on the basis of image data, is wound around a printing drum (25; 125, 126) with which a print sheet (34; 141) is held in pressured co... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6225026 | Printing stencil and a method for preparation thereof It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing stencil and a method for its preparation. There is thus provided, In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a printing stencil comprising a porous stencil carrier lay... | 05/01/2001 |
| 5797316 | Transfer rolling device for producing banners A transfer roll device for producing a banner including a housing, a paper roll mounted on the housing, a cloth roll mounted on the housing, first and second tension controllers connected to the housing and positioned above the paper and cloth rolls for c... | 08/25/1998 |
| 4195567 | Stencil printing apparatus A stencil printing apparatus for printing a workpiece web at a printing station has a support on which the workpiece web is to be located so that a pattern can be printed on it in a plurality of successive printing operations. A magazine is located above ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4073231 | Selective label printer A label printer of the type employing a stencil covered cylinder in which the stencil may have any one of plural arcuately spaced apart indicias cut therein separately printed therefrom. The label printer includes means for indexing the printing cylinder ... | 02/14/1978 |