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!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314101 | Inner core barrel head assembly for core tube within a drill string Inner core barrel head assembly (10) includes an upper latch body (24), a plurality of latching balls (26) which are retained in the latch body (24) and a locking sleeve (28) disposed within the latch body (24). The sleeve (... | 01/01/2008 |
| 6708784 | Core barrel valve assembly The present invention relates to a method for a valve, which valve comprises a movable valve body (6) having a first side (9) facing a means for supplying pressurized fluid and influenced in the supply direction by a force from said fluid, and a second... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6019181 | Core drilling latch assembly A core drilling latch assembly for use in terrestrial core drilling operations. The latch assembly incorporates features and elements which affect the flow of drilling fluids past the latch assembly and toward the drill bit, depending upon whether the lat... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5992543 | Core drilling latch assembly A core drilling latch assembly for use in terrestrial core drilling operations. The latch assembly incorporates features and elements which affect the flow of drilling fluids past the latch assembly and toward the drill bit, depending upon whether the lat... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5592994 | Propulsion seal for wire line core drilling apparatus There is provided a wire line core drilling apparatus including an elongated assembly which is hydraulically propelled along the interior of a drill string to a desired location adjacent the bit end of the drill string under the influence of a moving pres... | 01/14/1997 |
| 4832138 | Device to control the locking of a boring corer To control the locking of a cable boring corer (1), a control device (30) is used, comprising a deflecting casing (33), a sleeve (31) and a piston (32), which are movable in relation to the deflecting casing (33). The piston (32) is able to be rendered in... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4588036 | Continuous, undisturbed sampling by rotational boring in non-plastic granular tills An apparatus and a method to obtain continuous undisturbed sampling, by rotational boring in non-plastic granular tills. The designation of non-plastic granular till refers to a heterogeneous glacial deposit containing an unstratified and unsorted mixture... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4573539 | Hydraulically pulsed indexing system for sleeve-type core barrels A coring tool, which includes a flexible wire mesh in which the core is disposed, includes a mechanism for maintaining tension on the wire mesh sleeve which then seizes the core disposed within the sleeve, and which serves to retain the core and maintain ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4452321 | Device in core barrels A device in core drilling for indicating when a core barrel placed in a rotatable hollow drill rod is no longer capable of receiving a further quantity of reamed-out core material includes a valve which at said condition of the barrel constricts the passa... | 06/05/1984 |
