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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| 20110139583 | ACTIVE SOLIDS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING SOLIDS A solids supply systems having a solids deaeration zone and a solids pump zone, and to methods for supplying the solids e.g., pulverized dry coal, to an application, e.g., gasification process. The solids deaeration zone includes a roller system containing a plurality o... | 06/16/2011 |
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| 20070017782 | Conveyor transfer system A transfer system that laterally grips an open container at a position along a first belt upstream of a conveyor transfer and then transfers the container across the interface between belts before depositing the container on a second belt downstream of the conveyor tran... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20060157321 | Product supply apparatus In a product supply apparatus 3 for successively receiving products X, transported from a previous processing station, and then supplying them towards a quality inspecting machine 4 positioned downstream thereof, there is provided upper and lower conveyors... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20050077150 | ROTARY POWERED SNACK PIECE TURNOVER A flipping apparatus for turning over product pieces such as potato crisps having a first conveyor and a second conveyor. A terminal portion of the first conveyor is nested within a concavity defined by an upturned and curved portion of the second conveyor. A channel is... | 04/14/2005 |
