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!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6164516 | Soldering apparatus and method An automatic soldering apparatus includes a conveyor for conveying a printed circuit board along a predetermined path, a heater located below the conveyor and adapted to heat the lower surface of the printed circuit board on which leads of chips and other... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5238175 | Method and apparatus for selective soldering Disclosed is a method and apparatus for applying flux and solder in order to attach connectors to printed circuit boards (PCBs). Flux is applied to the connector tails and the PCB pads by means of a roller mounted above a flux reservoir. The piece parts a... | 08/24/1993 |
| 4684544 | Solder fluxing method and apparatus Solder flux is applied to the face of a printed circuit board (24) or the like by flowing a foam (30) of liquid flux bubbles upwardly through the top of a chimney flue (10) and into contact with the board face which is top passed over the top of the flue.... | 08/04/1987 |
