Did You Know...
...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 |
| 5379817 | Sharpener for a soft element pencil A sharpener for a soft element pencil has a housing with a pencil hole. A rotor rotatably mounted in the housing has: (a) a base portion, (b) an annular portion spaced from said base portion, and (c) a blade supported at but not between the base and the a... | 01/10/1995 |
| 4124048 | Lead sharpener A lead sharpener comprises a housing formed by relatively rotatable lower and upper housing portions containing a milling cutter of which the operating face extends at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of a guide passage through which the lead that ... | 11/07/1978 |
