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...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 |
| 8104753 | Support means Support means are provided for supporting one or more items in use. The support means includes at least first and second members and at least one of said first and second member movable relative to the other member to allow clamping and/or unclamping on an item loca... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7806394 | Automatic workpiece clamp and support An automatic clamping device is disclosed for holding planar workpieces such as: doors, windows, panels, plasterboard, etc. The planar workpiece is held in an upright position by clamping bars actuated by the weight of the workpiece. Automatic clamping is accomplish... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7252271 | Play apparatus A support for a play apparatus comprising a plurality of legs with each leg having an elongate base member for contacting the ground and an elongate support member arranged substantially perpendicularly to the base member. Each support member is hingably connected t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7040583 | Support stand for holding display items A stand for supporting display items of a flat plane type in a vertical position, and of the type having a ground engaging flat base plate (10) a fixed vertical support member with a flat planar surface (20) and an adjustable vertical support member ( | 05/09/2006 |
| 7008166 | Door lifting apparatus and method A door lifting apparatus includes a frame and a lift mechanism. The lift mechanism includes a slide and a lever. The slide includes a plurality of holders and a plurality of glides, wherein the holders are operable to engage and support a door while the glides coope... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6978988 | Free-floating hydraulic clamping device with edge-gripping arbor The present invention provides a workholder and a method for securing a work piece by engaging either a bore contained in the work piece or by gripping the edge of the bore of the work piece. The workholder includes a support platform, and a bore clamping device tha... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6886821 | Portable, adjustable vertical work holder device The present invention is directed to a portable, adjustable vertical work holder device. The device includes a base support having an arcuate front view profile and a flat bottom view, and has a top and a bottom. There is a pair of opposing jaws connected to the bas... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6663123 | Panel mover The panel mover is designed for receiving, holding and moving a panel and comprises: first and second elongate arms each having an upper end and a lower end and each having a length of between approximately 2 feet and approximately 4 feet; panel support s... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6447868 | Optical molding material, and optical disk substrate and production method thereof Provided is an optical molding material comprising a cyclic polyolefin resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 120° C. to 170° C., wherein the melt viscosity of the resin at 260° C. is 5,000 to 50,000 poises as measured at a shear rate of 1... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6431533 | Sheet material supporting apparatus An apparatus for supporting sheet material includes clamping means (16) having opposed jaws (60, 62) arranged to releaseably clamp sheet material therebetween and handle means (14) located, in use, below the clamping means (16) for use in manual lifting o... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6305679 | Ski and snowboard supporting stand and method of employing same A portable stand for holding snowboards and skis horizontal and upright during servicing, comprising two identical and free standing stations. Each station having one horizontal member having two temporarily connected support legs. The top surface of the ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6220589 | Dual action clamp A two-way dual action clamp for accurately clamping together two or more workpieces. The clamps are particularly useful in temporarily clamping together two European style wall cabinets prior to permanently joining the units together with a plurality of s... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6024351 | Door and window support clamp A door or window floor clamp provides opposing compression legs pivotally mounted onto opposing base legs and supported in upright attitudes by opposing telescoping braces. The braces are adjustable and extensible with latches provided for positioning the... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5513836 | Clamping device for holding doors, panels and the like in an upright position A clamping device is disclosed for holding doors, panels and similar generally planar workpieces in an upright position while the device is attached to a stationary or movable support. Automatic clamping of a workpiece is accomplished by placing the workp... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5507509 | Adjusting brace panel cart The invention provides a cart to carry large panels of sheet goods. It incorporates a panel bracing mechanism that automatically adjusts and locks in place different width panels. The cart consists of a wheeled frame, a handle attached to the frame, and a... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5318316 | Cart for vertically oriented longitudinally extending objects Carts for transporting doors, sheets of plywood and dry wall, narrow crates, mirrors, and other large, awkward-to-handle and perhaps fragile articles of similar configurations in a horizontal orientation which allows the object to be freely manipulated th... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5294099 | Holder assembly for clenching a door in an upright position A holder assembly for clenching a door in upright position includes a pair of jaws having respective horizontal base members and upright clamp member, a pair of resiliently compressible support pads attached to and underlying the outer end portions of the... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5277412 | Assembly orientation jig An orientation jig for facilitating assembly of a structure including a plurality of structural members and for positioning each structural member in predetermined orientation with respect to one another is provided. The orientation jig includes a mountin... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5072918 | Workpiece clamping device Clamping apparatus for holding a workpiece such as a log comprises a cruciform support frame of legs the upper limbs of which define upwardly open V-shape volumes for receiving a log. Arcuately clamped arms are pivotally connected to respective legs and s... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5029814 | Scissor jack stand An adjustable support device comprising a first elongated member having an upper end, a second elongated member having an upper end, a mechanism for connecting the first member to the second member such that the upper ends of the first and second members ... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4932642 | Workpiece support tooling An improved workpiece support tooling for a balancing machine is disclosed having a unique two point contact system for the workpiece. The two point contact system provides extremely accurate centering and leveling of the workpiece with respect to the unb... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4799658 | Door holder and electrical carpenter's aid A clamp (16) has movable and fixed ledges (58, 82) extending forwardly towards one another from posts (38, 40) on the clamp's halves (34, 36). The movable ledge receives a door whose weight moves the ledge in a generally gravitaionally downward direction ... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4564178 | Log holder A support to hold a log while sawing the log into fireplace lengths including a mechanism operated by the foot of the user to grasp the log and hold it clamped in place and having wheels so that the device will clamp easily and is easily moved from one pl... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4264063 | Joist hanger aid Disclosed is a reusable device for assisting a carpenter by securely holding up one end of a joist while the carpenter nails the other end in place. A pair of vertical supports has a pair of legs extending out and away from the respective lower ends of th... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4257585 | Supporting structure When beams are to be welded to large plates, temporary supporting structures comprising a pair of L-shaped horses, are used, each horse being provided with a slot extending mainly at 45° upwardly/outwardly from the corner formed by the base flange and th... | 03/24/1981 |
| 3993297 | Work-holding apparatus A work-holding apparatus comprising a support member, a first member rotatably coupled at one end to said support member, a second member rotatably coupled to the other end of said first member, a work piece holding member, and a plurality of restoring me... | 11/23/1976 |
