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 |
| 6789683 | Camp cook kit strainer A strainer assembly for a camp cooking kit has a strainer body having at least one rim for engaging a rim of a camp cooking pot and a plurality of openings for pouring liquid from the camp cooking pot while preventing egress of other contents from the pot. Strap gui... | 09/14/2004 |
| 5487494 | Dispensing cap with internal measuring chamber and selectively useable sifter A measuring/dispensing cap adapted for attachment to an open, upper end of a container includes a top and a peripheral skirt extending downwardly from the top. A weir panel separates the peripheral skirt into upper and lower sections, the upper section co... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5360141 | Device for metering powder, grained or micropearl dyeing materials Device for quickly variable and high precision metering of powder, granulated or micropearl dyeing material including a container 1 for the dyeing material that is put under vacuum by means of a suction tube 7 from the outside, and a mesh-sieve 5 fixed on... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5007559 | Method and apparatus for dispensing a particulate material The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for dispensing detergent into a washing machine. A container of particulate detergent includes a multilayer cover over the container mouth, the outer layer of which is removable to expose an inner layer of ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4889619 | Package with a crumb trap A package for holding frangible particulate material, such as breakfast cereal. The package is designed to separate the crumbs or fines from the larger or unbroken and more palatable particles of cereal and to trap the crumbs so they will not recombine wi... | 12/26/1989 |
