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 |
| 7237729 | Sprayer with changeable volume A sprayer with a changeable volume includes a container, a pump, a first pipe, a second pipe and a nozzle. The container includes an upper wall and a lower wall. The upper wall can be compressed while not containing water and extensible for containing water. The low... | 07/03/2007 |
| 6838138 | Synthetic resin container bearing label It is an object of the present invention to prevent the edge of the in-molded label from the crack due to the impact of dropping the container, especially to prevent the occurrence of the crack on the thin synthetic resin container and to provide the synthetic resin... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6126034 | Lightweight metal beverage container Lightweight beverage containers disclosed herein require less metal per container, exhibit less earing and have one or more of the following features: 1) a reduced seam between the can end and the can body, 2) a side wall having vertically disposed altern... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6065300 | Self-cooling container with internal beverage vessel having a vessel wall with reversible wall bulges A rapid refrigeration apparatus includes a container having a container upper end, a container wall with a container opening in the container upper end bordered by a container rim; a beverage retaining vessel extending within the container defining an ann... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6056840 | Method and apparatus for heavy corrugated plastic construction A heated blade arrangement in a press is brought down on a plastic work piece of heavy corrugated plastic held on the bed of the press to compress the work piece along fold lines. The work piece may then be folded up to form a box-like structure. The arra... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5908135 | Sleeve pack A sleeve pack to be used with a pallet base and cover to form a container for shipping bulk goods comprises four vertical walls arranged such that each vertical wall is orthogonal to two adjacent walls. At least one vertical wall of corrugated plastic is ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5908127 | Load bearing polymeric container A load bearing container is provided which is made from a non-glass material and yet possesses the top load column strength of a glass container or bottle. The container includes a diagonally oriented molded ring profile composed of alternatingly outwardl... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5850936 | Impenetrable wall element An integral wall formation for fruit and vegetables containers made of plastic has an outer surface having a plurality of longitudinally extending outer legs wherein adjacent legs define outer apertures therebetween. An inner surface has a plurality of lo... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5794775 | Packaging container for elastic filar material An improved packaging container for elastic filar material is disclosed in which the wound elastic material has uniform density and no tension. The packaging container is the form of a cylindrical wall with an open top end and an open bottom end. The cyli... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5772111 | Container structure This invention pertains to an upstanding container having a corrugated sidewall. Flutes in the medium of the corrugated sidewall follow preferably equal and opposite alternating lateral divergences from generally longitudinal upstanding axes. Preferred al... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5702151 | Vehicle body including leakproof damage resistant wall construction A vehicle body, such as a truck or trailer body, comprises an intermodal container, or the like, having a lightweight, leakproof, damage resistant and corrosion resistant wall construction. The wall construction includes a sheet-like panel reinforced with... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5582957 | Resuspension optimization for photographic nanosuspensions A method for storing nanoparticulate suspensions of photographically useful compounds is disclosed that comprises the steps of: providing a suspension of nanoparticulate photographically useful chemical substance in the form of a solid particle dispersion; pro... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5564589 | Pot or pan A more efficient flat bottom pot or pan is obtained by (a) the introduction of an initial central downward depression in the bottom plate in the order of twice the plate thickness to avoid the undesirable upward bulging of the pot bottom as a result of ag... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5512480 | Flow-through bioreactor with grooves for cell retention The invention is a flow-through bioreactor for the retention and culture of cells in perfused media. The bioreactor is a generally rectangular vessel with inlet and outlet ports in the lid allowing for media flow along the longitudinal axis of the vessel.... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5501758 | Method of making a collapsible plastic container A reusable and collapsible container having a collapsed configuration for storage and shipment and an assembled configuration for containing a product. The container is formed from a polymeric sheet and has substantially flat panels, hinges connecting adj... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5497895 | Transport container Transport containers are known that comprise walls (10, 10'; 12) and a floor (11). The side walls (10, 10') are connected to one another by frame parts (20). The walls (10) of these containers are made of plywood, chipboard or sheet metal. A considerable ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5407093 | Container system A container for containing a semi-solid product to be dispensed from the container by deformation in the axial direction, the container including a flexible part, a body part, and a cap part, each part having an open end, the cap part being securable to t... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5395009 | Plastic container for fruits and vegetables A plastic box has vertical walls and a bottom, the walls having openings in the form of slits which have their inner edges set outwardly at the bases of respective inwardly diverging troughs to minimize the contact of the contained fruits or vegetables wi... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5346371 | Hydraulic elevator oil tank An elevator hydraulic tank is provided with shaped sides which increase the rigidity and heat dissipating ability of the tank. The shaped sides of the tank may be corrugated. A hydraulic machine is mounted on the underside of the tank lid so that maintena... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5342082 | Airbag reaction canister having softened edges A reaction canister for a vehicle passive restraint system has its side walls weakened in the regions adjoining edges which are adjacent automotive panels likely to be impacted by occupants in the event of a low speed collision. The resultant softening se... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5156901 | Corrugated cardboard structure A corrugated cardboard structure for use in wrapping of goods during shipment. A core cardboard of wave shape is glued to at least one cardboard surface sheet at crests of the waves of the core cardboard, with at least one non-glued portion of the cardboa... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5002199 | Stackable bottle An improved light weight liquid-containing stackable bottle made of plastic such as polycarbonate. The bottle is preferably of rectangular cross-section with parallel oppositely disposed mating sides which permits secure and space-saving stacking of the b... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4538439 | Cans formed of thin-walled material and apparatus for forming precise fine beads therein A can fabricated from sheet material or stock of small thickness contains a can body comprising closely adjacently situated circumferential beads of high precision and mutual parallelism which impart high strength to the can body in both axial direction a... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4473165 | Vacuum-moulded container for stacking A container comprises an open-mouthed receptacle and a lid. The receptacle has side walls and a base, and is formed with an outwardling-extending rim which surrounds the open mouth of the receptacle. The receptacle is formed by vacuum moulding a sheet of ... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4135634 | Container or like structure A container or like structure having a corrugated tubular base or wall at least partly embraced by a thin, pliable sheet clamped in place by a like corrugated collar embracing both the sheet and the tube so that the corrugations intermesh, deforming and s... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4082187 | Means and method for packaging frangible articles A system of packaging frozen onion rings and other frangible articles for transport and storage is disclosed. Vacuum formed polystyrene packages having a shock absorbing flange are stacked in rigid walled shipping containers, each package resting with a d... | 04/04/1978 |
| 3973721 | Packing case and apparatus for producing the same A packing case or box having a bottom, opposing lateral side walls, opposing longitudinal side walls and upper side walls, or fixed flaps, at opposing edges of the lateral side walls is produced from a blank piece of thermoplastic material, and an apparat... | 08/10/1976 |
