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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181590 | Sluice device for an ROV A sluice device suitable for a remotely cable operated vehicle. A water tight compartment has a first and a second sluice gate. The sluice device includes a system for enabling launching, operating, and retrieving of the remotely cable operated vehicle. An insert fo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7743722 | Underwater vehicles An underwater vehicle including a housing, an internal guidewire dispenser for storing and deploying a guidewire, and a splice cavity defining a storage space, for carrying and deploying a splice between the internal guidewire and an external guidewire and excess gu... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7441509 | Ice fish casting submarine having bait/lure carrying compartment An ice fishing submarine for carrying an end portion of a fishing line radially away from an ice fishing hole comprising: i) a hull enclosing a propulsion system which includes a battery which powers an electric motor which turns a propeller; ii) a power switch to b... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7267072 | Dry cargo submarine with air-charge cargo hold Submarines with air-charged cargo holds are provided. The pressurize hull of a traditional submarine's cargo hold is replaced by non-pressurized hull, which lowers costs for transporting dry cargo and solves strength and seal problems raised when providing large ope... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7213532 | System and method for managing the buoyancy of an underwater vehicle The present invention provides a system and a method, including a gas supply proximate to a worksite, for repetitively recharging the ballast tank of an underwater vehicle as required to control its buoyancy while moving underwater payloads. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7013827 | Multipurpose underwater vehicle for carrying diverse payloads and method of using same An underwater vehicle includes an elongate body defining a longitudinal channel and having a waterproof interior with a processor operably connected to a memory in the interior, a payload holder in the channel for releasably securing a payload, and a communication p... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6945187 | Instride inflatable autonomous fuel depot A fuel depot and method autonomously and clandestinely provide fuel for transiting ships. An elongate streamlined flexible bladder member has flexible hull walls and divider walls separated by uniform spaces to form fuel compartments having a fuel valve and fuel pum... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6832572 | Underwater deposit-recovery scooper and specimen storage container A transparent/translucent flexible resilient plastic scooper container for operation by underwater remotely operated vehicle jaws, having a flat-bottomed lower portion hollow bowl and an upper inverted bowl lid rearwardly hinged thereto and resiliently insertable in... | 12/21/2004 |
| 5899637 | Offshore production and storage facility and method of installing the same A concrete barge having oil storage tanks secured to its deck is towed to an oil production site where it is sunk to the sea bottom. Oil from an adjacent caisson supported production facility is temporarily stored in the tanks pending later transfer to an... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5613460 | Submersible vessel external load mounting system An external storage system for a submersible vessel, e.g. a submarine, includes an outer skin formed as a fairing member of the vessel. The internal volume of the external storage system, bounded by the outer skin and the hull of the vessel is occupied by... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5544610 | Cargo submarine A cargo submarine has a cargo section (2) between tapered peripheral buoyancy sections (2-5) and an on-board cargo-handling components (32-49) capable of rapid loading and unloading of large volumes of cargo. A hydrodynamic tower (14) conveys fresh air in... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5235931 | Inflatable undersea vehicle system of special utility as a daughter vessel to a mother vessel The submersible vehicle system of the present invention comprises a unitary ndersea vehicle composed of a rigid hull submersible mated to an inflated auxiliary submersible. Both the rigid hull submersible and the auxiliary submersible may be initially stor... | 08/17/1993 |
| 4930444 | Apparatus and method of fishing for swimming fish A method of fishing for swimming fish while nourishing the fish with sea water containing plankton and apparatus therefor. Fish eggs are individually disposed in openings in trays which are fed with fresh sea water containing plankton until the eggs are a... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4860681 | Apparatus for carrying out operations under water An apparatus for carrying out operations under water having a twin hull autonomous submarine which in the space between two pressure hulls is provided with a cargo hold having an apparatus for receiving and carrying cargo units. The compartment between th... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4506623 | Non-rigid buoyant marine storage vessels for fluids A buoyant marine storage vessel for fluids, such as oil, includes a flexible containment bag having at least a controllable inlet and outlet for fluids and a wire rope cage for the bag which is attached to the bag in such a manner that emptying of the flu... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4480569 | Container for ground material removed by a ground working device from the bottom of a watercourse The invention relates to a container for the ground material removed by a ground working device, for example, a mud plough or a suction device from the bottom of a watercourse. Such a container is known in the form of a compartment trough moved by the tug... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4357764 | Submarine vehicle for dredging and raising minerals resting on the sea bed at great depths A submarine vehicle for collecting and raising materials resting on the sea bed at great depths, of the type comprising a load-bearing structure, collecting elements for the materials, storage silos for storing the materials collected and/or the ballast m... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4185580 | Submarine system A submarine system comprising a submarine device for operation within a fluid environment. The device is provided with a self-contained source of energy, propulsion components coupled to the energy source, maneuvering components and an environment observa... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4147124 | Apparatus for launching stores from a submerged vehicle An apparatus for launching stores from a recess of a vehicle submerged in a arine environment includes a capsule having an elongated body of rectangular cross section for enclosing the stores. A structure for providing hydrodynamic stability to the capsule... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4108101 | Towing system for cargo containers An arrangement for transporting in which a self-propelled surface vessel tows a submergible elongated cargo container by means of a semi-rigid boom extending from the stern of the vessel to the nose of the cargo container. The position of the boom is cont... | 08/22/1978 |
| 3975167 | Transportation of natural gas as a hydrate A method and apparatus is described for transporting a natural gas in the form of a hydrate. The method utilizes the pressure and temperature conditions of a submerged vessel to facilitate the formation and maintenance of natural gas as a hydrate during t... | 08/17/1976 |
