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...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 |
| 7438283 | Toddler stair safety system A heavy net is used with an optimally sized mesh that provides an easy gripping surface for a toddler's hands with no choking or entrapment hazards. A tension securement to a carpeted surface is provided by the use of deep-machined hook surfaces. A net is fastened t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 6834846 | Extruded fencing and related manufacturing method Webbing for use in fencing includes a plurality of longitudinally extending and substantially vertically aligned high-tensile strength core members including at least one electrically conductive wire. A solid plastic sheath encases each of the core members and a plu... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6279858 | Woven wire netting for protection against rock falls or for securing a top layer of soil, and method and device for producing same A wire netting, preferably used as a gravel screen or for protecting a soil surface layer is woven from corrosion-resistant wires and either fitted on the soil surface or secured in an almost upright position on a slope or something similar. The wires in ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6027785 | Impact absorbing net and a method for absorbing impact Impact absorbing net for attenuation of impact energy, having continuous ring groups 10a, 10b, 10c . . . of the ropes 20 with the ring clamps 30 provided to hold the ropes 20. The continuous ring groups 10a, 10b, 10c . . . , are each composed of the rings... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5575458 | Mesh structure An improved mesh structure and method of making same uses a border to define the a general mesh shape and a first and a second plurality of a lengths of strand doubled back upon themselves so as to connect with the border member at points where each stran... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5484137 | Portable line barrier A portable line barrier including a plurality of telescopically extendable poles. Further provided are a pair of line payer heads. Each line payer head is coupled to a separate pole and each head has a container with a hollow interior and a closeable open... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5163658 | Electric fence wire construction An improved fence construction includes an elongated plastic strip with the edges of the strip folded over parallel wires. The wires may be electrified. The plastic strip may be coded, decorated or laminated with other materials to provide an improved fen... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5096162 | Electric fence wire construction An improved fence construction includes an elongated plastic strip with the edges of the strip folded over parallel wires. The wires may be electrified. The plastic strip may be coded, decorated or laminated with other materials to provide an improved fen... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4182382 | Thermoplastic resin-coated metallic substrate and the method of producing the same through use of a polyamide adhesive layer A metallic substrate and an outer thermoplastic resinous coating are bonded to one another by a resinous polyamide hot melt adhesive prepared by condensation of an unpolymerized amide-forming dicarboxylic-containing compound or polymeric fatty acid with a... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4179160 | Mine life line system A mine life line system utilizing a life line having direction indicating means for indicating, when touched, the direction towards the outside of the mine. The direction indicating means is formed so that as the miner walks towards the outside of the min... | 12/18/1979 |
