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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 |
| 7420718 | Sheet conveying apparatus, image reading apparatus and cam member driving device There are provided a cam 23 which can be rotated by a releasing motor M4, a contact/separation lever 24 which is moved according to the rotation of the cam 23, a light shielding plate 25 and a cam position detecting sensor S7 | 09/02/2008 |
| 7347418 | Method and apparatus for overlapping sheets in a sheet feeder and providing the overlapped sheets to a printing press The present invention is directed to a sheet feeding apparatus and method. In particular this invention comprises a sheet feeding apparatus having a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a sheet bending member. The first conveyance member conveys ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7303523 | Paper-folding apparatus A paper-folding apparatus includes a hopper for holding one or more sheets of paper or other similar foldable media, a discharge feed and stripper assembly, a shuttle associated with the hopper operable to transfer a sheet of paper from the hopper to the discharge f... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7004461 | Device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet in each case from a stack In a device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet (1) in each case from a stack (2), with pushing-out elements (9) which grip the rear edge (3a, 3b) of the sheet (1) and transport it through, under a front... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6908080 | Device for forming and conveying away a sheet stack with the aid of a separating mechanism A device for manipulating sheet stacks in a stack repository includes a sheet feeding device and a mechanism for separating adapted to be moved into the stack repository while a sheet stack is conveyed away from the stack repository. The separating mechanism include... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6886826 | Apparatus and method for destacking a stack of flat articles An apparatus and method for destacking a stack of flat sheet-like articles, comprising a bearing surface for supporting the stack at a fixed elevation, and a separating arrangement for repeatedly separating the uppermost article from the stack and transferring it la... | 05/03/2005 |
| 5785309 | Automatic plate feeding system and method A plate feeding system for grasping and moving a plate from a stack of plates. The system includes an arm mechanism having a plate grasping member for grasping the plate and a plate interposing member for interposing between the plate and an adjacent plat... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5356126 | Method and apparatus for separating piled textile cuts A method and apparatus for separating an uppermost textile cut from a pile of textile cuts by gripping the uppermost cut at the top surface. The uppermost cut is lifted, and a loader is placed onto a restricted area closed to the edge of the uppermost cut... | 10/18/1994 |
| 4978113 | Pick mechanism for sheet feeding apparatus A pick mechanism for sheet feeding apparatus of a type in which the top sheet of a stack of media is separated from the remainder of the stack by pick movement to engage and lift the rear end of the top sheet from the remainder of the stack for subsequent... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4661091 | Machine for manufacture of boxes with integrally reinforced walls Various configurations of boxes of a corrugated or fiberboard material are manufactured by a machine and process in which scored marginal flaps of the preformed box blank material are laterally wrapped around forming mandrels or fingers to define corner a... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4653667 | Apparatus for dispensing tickets or the like A dispensing arrangement for dispensing planar lottery tickets and like articles comprises a chute which in cross-section corresponds to the surface configuration of a lottery ticket, and at one end of which there is arranged a dispensing mechanism intend... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4579329 | Single ply pickup apparatus and method A method and apparatus for isolating, separating, and removing a single ply of material from a stack of plies including pickup fingers for lifting a peripheral edge of the topmost ply in the stack with adhesive tape, a spin off assembly for removing cling... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4353539 | Process for positioning a supple piece in sheet form on a support surface and handling installation applying said process The present invention relates to a process for positioning a supple piece in sheet form on a support surface and to a handling installation applying this process, whereby the piece on the storage support is gripped by two so-called gripping points, these ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4304181 | Printer for a desk computer A printer for a desk computer includes a card case adapted to accommodate a large number of cards. The cards accommodated in the card case are pressed toward an open end of the card case by a biasing means. A movable frame is adapted to move up and down w... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4273321 | Apparatus for feeding conductor plates into a conductor plate tester Conductor plates are fed to a conductor plate tester from a stack by a reciprocating feeder which removes the lowermost plate only of the stack and propels it forwardly to a transport path. The transport path is inclined downwardly toward said tester, the... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4232859 | Blank feeding apparatus A blank feeding apparatus for feeding blanks one after another from a stack of blanks to the next processing rolls. Blanks are pushed by kickers attached to an endless conveyor. The motor for driving the conveyor is electronically controlled so that one c... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4019729 | Apparatus for controllably lowering and lifting a ply picking unit The disclosure relates to a novel apparatus for lowering and lifting a ply picking unit into controlled pressure contact with the top ply of a stack of limp plies. The picking unit is supported by a lifting lever, which is pivotally mounted on a frame. An... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4004797 | Gum slab feed apparatus Slabs of gum stacked in a top-loaded magazine and successively fed from the bottom of the magazine by a reciprocable pusher mechanism are advanced by line pressure along a generally predetermined first path to a rotary trimming and scoring mechanism which... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3960373 | Shuttle guard for signature feeder A signature feeding mechanism having a shuttle plate and an associated vacuum gripper for feeding the bottom signature from a stack in a supply magazine into the bite of pinch rolls which advance successive signature pieces to a transport system for advan... | 06/01/1976 |
