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...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 |
| 7513213 | Method, apparatus, and system for coating food items A method, apparatus, and system for coating food items such as coating empty ice cream cones subsequently containing ice cream. A liquid recovery apparatus is used in the method, apparatus, and system and is fashioned in a tray-like manner to form a slideway that in... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7127984 | Dischargeable storage device for distributing food over a surface A dischargeable storage device instantaneously moveable between a store position and a discharge position. The dischargeable storage device includes a deck having a pair of pivotable trap doors. Each door has a guide post. The dischargeable storage device has a plun... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6962128 | Seasoning recovery and recycle Seasoning for use with snack chips can be recovered and recycled. A seasoning permeable conveyor transports snack chips through a seasoning application. The seasoning applicator deposits seasoning onto the snack chips. The conveyor allows the seasoning not adhered t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6755122 | Dischargeable storage device for distributing food over a surface A dischargeable storage device instantaneously moveable between a store position and a discharge position. The dischargeable storage device includes a deck having a pair of pivotable trap doors. Each door has a guide post. The dischargeable storage device has a plun... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6520110 | Installation for the sugarcoating or encasing of products with a device for cleaning the distribution or proportioning manifold The installation for sugarcoating or encasing of products by rotation of a cylindrical rotor includes a distribution and proportioning manifold mounted on support and guide rails external to the rotor permitting its total withdrawal from the rotor for the... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6401650 | Apparatus for coating articles with a liquid coating material An apparatus (1) for coating articles (5) includes an endless conveyer belt (4) for transporting the articles (5) to be coated through the apparatus (1). The liquid coating material circulates in a circulation direction in surplus through the apparatus (1... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5954876 | Apparatus for coating foods, such as sweets, baked goods and the like, with flowable coating substances, such as chocolate and other icings An apparatus for coating foods, such as sweets, baked goods and the like, with flowable coating substances, such as chocolate and other icings. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt for the coated goods or the goods to be coated and a run-off pl... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5865890 | Batter reclaimer system A reclaimer system is provided for collecting and recycling a viscous coating batter in a foods processing line, particularly such as in a production line for making batter coated French fry potato strips. The reclaimer system comprises an elongated colle... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5858089 | Corn buttering tool Corn Buttering Tool is an invention created with the intent of simplifying and efficiently buttering an ear of corn, alleviating slippage and mess. The components consist of a stainless mesh screen which secures and cradles the corn; one butter bin, accom... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5728217 | Apparatus for hardening covered seeds The covered seed hardening apparatus of this invention has a construction suited for performing simultaneous parallel processes of hardening the gelling agent of seeds. The seeds covered with the gelling agent are dropped from the valves (73b) of the gel ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5711805 | Apparatus for making and coating egg yolks and other articles Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for coating egg-yolk disks containing egg-yolk materials. The egg-yolk is initially produced in the form of a cylinder, which is cut into disks, which disks after being encapsulated into an edible membrane, are used i... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5437723 | Coating machine for the processing of chocolate and similar masses A coating machine for the processing of chocolate and similar masses having a frame and a circularly driven grating belt supported thereon for the reception of the articles to be coated. The grating belt is guided by deflectors and has a tensioning device... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5421882 | Apparatus for gel-coating seed A gel-coating apparatus for seeds comprising: a nozzle portion for forming and cutting a gel coating film by opening and closing operation of a cutting plunger; a seed storing vessel moving upward and downward; an arm having a rotation shaft at the center... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5180602 | Method and apparatus for controlled molding of chocolate shell goods and the like The specification discloses an apparatus for making confectionary or other shell goods by the method of filling a mold with a desired media and then inverting the mold to drain the media from the mold while leaving the mold coated by a layer of the media,... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5109760 | Cheese distributor The invention pertains to apparatus for evenly distributing food particles over a base food, and in particular is directed to apparatus for evenly distributing a predetermined quantity of cheese particles upon a pizza. The apparatus includes a conical scr... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5078090 | Article powdering apparatus A housing forming an internal powdering chamber in which an article support tray is removably supported. A hopper located on the exterior top of the housing is structured to dispense a metered amount of powder onto a powder distributor and sifting screen ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4898664 | Sifter for use in separating dough balls from breading An apparatus for separating dough balls from reusable breading having a container for holding breading containing dough balls, the container having an aperture in the bottom thereof for selectably discharging the breading having dough balls co-mingled the... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4693205 | Egg decorating kit The structure for decorating eggs which includes a master package and material for the decorating process. Decorating material is provided in a fluid form and is dripped onto the egg while the egg is being held in a position to allow the decorating materi... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4644901 | Apparatus for making chocolate-coated ice cream cookie sandwiches A low labor, highly efficient process and system for manufacturing chocolate coated ice cream cookie sandwiches is achieved by incorporating conveyor means for transporting the ice cream cookie sandwich through the various stages of its manufacture along ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4550677 | Sifter for breading apparatus A sifter for removing dough balls from breading, the sifter comprising a basket having foranamous side and bottom walls, the bottom wall being of conical configuration tapering downwardly to a centrally disposed discharge opening surrounded by a pair of s... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4505220 | Apparatus for coating and flavoring ice cream cones A method and apparatus for coating edible food containers with flavored barrier coatings. The coating material is allowed to flow into the interior of the container to coat the same. The containers are then manipulated to remove the excess and dried. A co... | 03/19/1985 |
