Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6390425 | Micro-adjusting device for lifting and lowering the worktable of a planer A micro adjusting device for lifting and lowering the worktable of a planer includes a base, a movable worktable positioned at one side of the base and having two fix holes in two side plates, and a micro-adjusting device positioned at one side of a conne... | 05/21/2002 |
| 5787948 | Machine for producing wood molding A machine for producing wooden molding includes a base, a table floating on said base for supporting a wooden workpiece for travel beneath a cylindrical cutter head, rollers mounted in a frame on the table for moving a workpiece across the table beneath t... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5066177 | Attachment to a portable power planar An attachment for use with a portable power planer for consistently producing a scarf cut of a particular angle in sections of plywood or like material which are to be joined to form a continuous piece of material. The attachment produces the scarf cut by... | 11/19/1991 |
