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...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 |
| 7036411 | Active measurement and control system for a material cutting apparatus An active measurement and control system for a material cutting apparatus. The apparatus comprises a cutting tool which may be pivoted for cutting a workpiece in a cutting area at a selectable angle. The cutting area defines a datum plane, and a feed table with a sh... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6330895 | Log flaking and loading method and apparatus A log flaking and loading method and apparatus. First and second pairs of cutting heads have cutting heads spaced apart to receive a log passed therebetween and thereby to cut two substantially parallel sides. The log is first cut by the first pair of cut... | 12/18/2001 |
| 5500070 | Method of preparing a multilayered solid wood panel A method of preparing a multilayered wood panel from thin boards is discld. The thin boards are produced by from square timber by a knife cut.... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5427163 | Method and installation for cutting squared timber into boards of a predetermined thickness The present invention concerns a method for cutting squared timber into a number of thin boards. Individual boards 32 are cut off by a blade 30 from the squared timber in each of the successive cutting machines 14a-g, essentially in longitudinal direction... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5400843 | Apparatus for controlling the taper of wood boards formed by a chipless cutting operation Sheets of wood are cut from a timber piece along a guide and against a cung blade. A transverse taper of the wood piece is measured as the wood piece is conveyed. In accordance with changes in the measured transverse taper, the guide or the blade is pivo... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5352317 | Method of preparing a multilayered solid wood panel A method of preparing a multilayered wood panel from thin boards is discld. The thin boards are produced by from square timber by a knife cut.... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5052452 | Method for processing squared timber A method wherein a length of squared timber can be completely separated i a number of thin boards having a predetermined thickness without an excessively thin or excessively thick unusable residual board being left over is disclosed. The method includes ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4825917 | Apparatus for producing thin boards An apparatus for producing thin boards by chipless cutting of the boards from a log or a squared timber on one or both opposing sides of the timber where the apparatus includes a support means for the article being cut and a cutter station which is arrang... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4589456 | Apparatus for producing squared timbers by means of non-chip severing of boards therefrom An apparatus for producing squared timbers by means of severing portions or boards from opposite surfaces of the log without creating either chips or sawdust characterized by oscillatory opposed banks of staggered blade units with the blades of each unit ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4503892 | Device for producing flat wood articles In a device for producing flat boards separated from a square timber trunk by blades in a non-cutting manner a straightening device is provided for each blade. Each straightening device includes an adjustable bending roll mounted at one side of the board ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4457350 | Lumber planing machine A lumber planing machine with mechanisms in several embodiments whereby equal thickness planing cuts are very accurately taken from the top and bottom surfaces of sawed lumber with capability of planing at a high rate of speed while automatically adjustin... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4441536 | Machine for hewing square timbers A machine for hewing squared timbers from round trunks, with the aid of rotary cutters, before which there is a set of guiding rollers for the trunk to be hewn. The machine comprises two cutter pairs disposed immediately after each other and the axes of w... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4220185 | Apparatus for producing machined timber Apparatus for producing machined timber from round timber logs comprises a eed device for receiving a log and feeding it longitudinally through at least one machining device whereby the middle region of the log is machined into squared timber. The wood sec... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4219056 | Method and apparatus for sawing timber The invention relates to a method and apparatus for sawing logs having a curved longitudinal length to obtain maximum recovery of sawed planks therefrom. There are provided several sawing stations for handling the curved log including edge sawing, heart s... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4143692 | Method for the production of timber from round logs A method and apparatus for processing round logs in which substantially the entire log is utilized to produce a relatively high value wood stock. The outer area of the log is peeled in sheets to square the central area for the formation of planks, beams, ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4102369 | Machine for hewing small square timber Machine for hewing small square timber with rectangular cross section from round stocks and comprising two mutually parallel cutter shafts on which cutting blades hewing the timber have been affixed, which blades form a 45° angle with the cutter shaft an... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4086944 | Method and apparatus for the production of timber from round logs A method and apparatus for processing round logs in which substantially the entire log is utilized to produce a relatively high value wood stock. The outer area of the log is peeled in sheets to square the central area for the formation of planks, beams, ... | 05/02/1978 |
