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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 |
| 7445019 | Gate valve having service position A gate valve including a valve housing defining a valve chamber having an opening therethrough along a flow path, a gate support supported within the valve housing between a closed position in the flow path, an open position outside of the flow path, and a service p... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7357373 | Pilot-type two-port valve A two-port valve includes a valve part configured to open and close a valve seat in a liquid flow path connecting a first port and a second port by a valve member and a pilot-type valve driving mechanism to open and close the valve member through a rod. The rod pass... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7338089 | Pipe interruption fitting A pipe interruption fitting having a flange is removable after pipe maintenance work has been completed. The fitting includes an upper reinforcing plate, an inner surface of which has a curvature corresponding to an outer surface of the pipe, and a vertical pipe wel... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7137974 | Sterile connector A sterile to sterile connection device comprising a connector and one or more coupling devices. The connector has body portion which has two openings sealed from the environment so as to form a sterile environment within the connector. At least one of the openings b... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7008532 | Chromatographic device having an elongate rod and method of forming and chromatographic device A chromatographic device comprises a chromatographic tube, a chromatographic medium, a piston assembly, an elongate rod, and a threaded member. The piston assembly is within the tube and is positioned generally between a first end of the tube and the chromatographic... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6997041 | Dual slide gate valve and method for using same A method and device for pressure testing a pipe line is provided wherein a fitting is inserted into the pipeline by inserting male ends of the pipeline into female ends of the fitting to define a flow path through the fitting extending along a longitudinal axis. The... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6983759 | Valve and method for repairing a valve under pressure A valve includes a valve body with a hollow valve body interior and an opening-defining portion that defines an access opening. The opening-defining portion is arranged as a connection-facilitating structure for facilitating the fluid-tight connection of a separate ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6843889 | Coke drum bottom throttling valve and system A coke drum bottom de-heading system having an internal shroud enclosure and a shroud end cap opened by a flange to a coke bottom de-heading valve capable of accepting the end of a gate valve upon actuation. Acting in coordination with the shroud enclosure to preven... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6679283 | Valve inspection chamber A valve inspection chamber includes a housing having a vertical inspection and valve retrieval opening. A valve cassette is provided which includes a frame and a valve member movable relative to the frame between an open position and a closed position. A ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6050541 | Pneumatic valve actuator assembly A pneumatic actuator and method for a gate valve are disclosed which provide for stepped guide connections between upper and lower cylinder plates for a pneumatic cylinder to thereby automatically centralize and locate the relatively heavy pneumatic cylin... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5878769 | Maintenance method and maintenance kit for a gate valve The maintenance method is for a gate valve. The method comprises the steps of closing the gate valve; removing sequentially the hand wheel, the gland flange, the gland and the packing from the stem of the gate valve; mounting a first clamp onto the gate v... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5743288 | Valve having provision for replacing stem packing while the valve is under pressure A valve, having provision for replacing stem packing while the valve is under pressure, has a valve body with a flow passageway through it, a gate that is vertically positioned to open and close the passageway, a stem extending upwardly from the valve bod... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5312087 | Low torque back seating stem for gate valve A gate valve adapted for stem back seating has a stem and bonnet assembly with a rotatable bearing ring to which the stem is releasably fixed during normal gate opening and closing operations. During back seating, the stem is released from the bearing rin... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5038817 | Narrow accessway liquid sewage pump remotely operable multi-part quick connect/disconnect slide coupling A narrow accessway sewage pump remotely operable, multi-part, quick connect/disconnect slide coupling comprising a fixed portion that forms a first part of a slide-together, bayonet-type coupling with a movable portion forming a second part of the couplin... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4909272 | Gate valve An improved gate valve is described. The valve utilizes a flat gate having a beveled edge which slices across a central passage in the valve housing when the valve closes. A manifold is disposed in the passage to direct a purge stream of fluid across the ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4800917 | Fluid actuated gate valve assembly There is disclosed a non-electric fluid actuated gate valve assembly of the type intended for interposition between a static structure and a municipal sewer line to prevent sewer back-up in flood conditions formed by an enclosed chamber having a water inl... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4744386 | Modular hydraulic actuator A surface safety valve hydraulic actuator of modular construction. The actuator includes separately installable, removable, and interchangeable wirecutting and non-wirecutting spring modules, used with the same hydraulic cylinder and bonnet. The bonnet is... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4671312 | Wireline cutting actuator and valve Disclosed is a wireline cutting actuator and valve assembly. The valve includes a valve body having a gate reciprocatingly mounted therein. The gate has a stepped bore. The actuator includes a bonnet adapted for connection to the valve body and an actuato... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4671313 | Slide valve This is a new slide valve arrangement, it includes a housing having a longitudinal axis and a disc valve or gate movable by external hydraulic or mechanical actuator. The gate slides along a first surface of a guide member. There is a throat member throug... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4615506 | Slide valve This is a new slide valve arrangement. It includes a housing having a longitudinal axis and a disc valve or gate movable by an external hydraulic or mechanical actuator. The gate slides along a first surface of a guide member. There is a throat member thr... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4561471 | Washing machine rinse-water diverter valve A dump valve adapted for use with automatic clothes washing machines provides an optional water conservation feature which allows the user to divert draining rinse water from the normal sewer drain port to an alternate drain port. The optional water conse... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4456026 | Control device particularly useful as manual slide valve A manual slide valve comprises a housing having a valve slide slidable within the housing. The housing is constituted of two sections each including projections and recesses cooperable with each other and with the slide valve such that when the slide valv... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4423748 | Emergency shut down device An emergency shut down device for a gate valve utilizes a pre-assembled spring cartridge assembly which includes a container and a compression spring pre-loaded therein. Suitable openings are provided in the end plates of the cartridge to permit the remai... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4408627 | Exhaust brake valve unit The invention provides an automatic exhaust brake valve unit having a hollow body with an exhaust gas passage extending therethrough and a valve closure member movable in the hollow body between a closed position in which it closes the passage, and an ope... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4231389 | Removable operator for gate valves A pedestal extends upwardly from the body of a gate valve housing in a straddling relationship to the gate. An operator, detachably attachable to the pedestal, includes a hand wheel operating through a pinion gear to impart translatory movement to a verti... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4220269 | Slide gate nozzle for a casting vessel A slide gate nozzle for a slide gate carried by a closure frame which includes two independent arms pivotally connected with a casting vessel for slidably moving the slide gate with respect to the casting vessel and for moving the slide gate away from the... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4141378 | Pressure pipeline structure and method This invention relates to a pressure/vacuum system apparatus; one part of such apparatus being an economical fitting, another part being operating mechanism, another part being a means to join such fitting to such operating mechanism in a substantially fl... | 02/27/1979 |
| 3993284 | Connection of actuator cylinder housing to valve bonnet A mount for securing an actuator cylinder on a gate valve, wherein the valve has a stem extending through a sleeve on the valve bonnet and the actuator cylinder has a collar mounted on the sleeve. The actuator cylinder is mounted such that it will not rot... | 11/23/1976 |
