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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 |
| 7111647 | Weaving machine and method for weaving pile fabrics and spacer for such a weaving machine A weaving machine weaves pile fabrics having weft yarns, backing warp yarns, and pile warp yarns. One or several spacers extend between the pile warp yarns either to realize a constant pile height between two pile fabrics formed, or to determine the pile loop height... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7086424 | Method and system for weaving fabrics with two useable sides This invention relates to a method and to a system for weaving fabrics with two useable sides (W1), (W2), in which per operating cycle one weft thread (6) is inserted, and in which each fabric comprises a first figure warp thread (1) and ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7044173 | Microfiber towel with cotton base A terry fabric having increased static and dynamic absorbency includes a ground fabric having opposing first and second surfaces and woven from ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns, each of the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns consisting of at least one ce... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6935382 | Exercise rug with contours A woven exercise rug having contours on the exercise surface for the purpose of reducing the chance of a user slipping during exercise is disclosed. The woven characteristic of the exercise rug provides for some moisture absorption and the contours provide additiona... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6372310 | Combined and stabilized turf for an athletic field The invention relates to a base layer for a combined synthetic and natural turf comprising a fabric of which at least a part of the weft and/or warp threads is manufactured from a biodegradable material and/or is wholly absent so that the fabric contains ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6357487 | Surface fastener with double weaving structure A woven double cloth surface fastener structure comprising front and rear woven foundation fabrics. An engaging element yarn protrudes from at least one of the fabrics, and a thermal melting yarn is woven between the fabrics, the thermal melting yarn has ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6343626 | Method for face-to-face weaving false boucle fabrics with cut pile, and fabrics woven according to this method Method for weaving fabrics with a rib structure, whereby on a weaving machine, two fabrics (22), (23); (49), (50) are woven one above the other with a rib structure according to a face-to-face weaving method, whereby each fabric comprises a backing fabric... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6336475 | Method for manufacturing a pile fabric with a high frame count Method for face-to-face weaving pile fabrics whereby warp yarns (1)-(15) of a series of warp yarn systems are interwoven with weft yarns (16), (17), (18) in order to weave a top (19) and a bottom backing fabric (20), whereby pile warp yarns (11)-(15) are ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6305431 | Cleaning cloth A fabric suitable for use as a cleaning cloth has an array of parallel warp filaments and an array of ground weft filaments crossing and interwoven with the warp filaments forming a ground fabric. A first group of tuft-forming weft filaments is interwoven... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6242062 | Combined turf The invention relates to a base layer for a combined synthetic and natural turf comprising a fabric of which at least a part of the weft and/or warp threads is manufactured from a biodegradable material and/or is wholly absent so that the fabric contains ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6186189 | False and true boucle fabrics, and a method for the production of such fabrics A method for manufacturing fabrics with a rib structure, in particular false boucle fabrics is provided. On a weaving machine two series of warp threads (4, 5, 6, 10, 11); (7, 8, 9, 12, 13) are provided for weaving a respective fabric (21); (22). In succe... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6173746 | Fabrics with rib structure on both sides and method of manufacturing A method for weaving fabrics with a two-sided rib structure, such as false boucle fabrics, comprises forming a fabric on a weaving machine from weft threads and warp threads of a series of warp thread systems, with sets of at least two weft threads runnin... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5482091 | Fabric A fabric comprising binding warp threads, tension warp threads, weft threads and pile threads or a part thereof, in which binding warp threads cross each other in pairs in order to form a series of openings, and in which at least two weft threads pass thr... | 01/09/1996 |
