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 |
| 7322407 | Wellhead isolation tool and method of fracturing a well A wellhead assembly is provided including a casing and a tubular member mounted over the casing. A flange extends from the tubular member. A generally elongated annular member is provided in the tubular member. The generally elongated annular member has a first end ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 6721381 | Seal arrangement for in-core instrument housing A seal arrangement for providing a seal between a nuclear reactor in-core instrument housing and an instrument contained within the housing includes a lower seal assembly surrounding an outer portion of the in-core instrument housing, an upper seal assembly surround... | 04/13/2004 |
| 5667254 | Device for connecting a container wall with a pipe A device for connecting a container wall with a pipe which extends through the container wall. The device comprises a muff which is provided on the outside of the pipe. One end section of the muff is connected with the pipe and the container wall is conne... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5564753 | Cryogenic fluid manifold A double walled manifold assembly for a cryogenic fluid, such as liquid oxygen, is assembled as alternating bellows portions and tee portions. The inner bellows portions have a greater axial length than the outer bellows portions to enable welding of an i... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5509696 | Connector with spring retainer An adapter for connecting one size of nozzle with a blower tip of varying sizes has a plurality of springs spaced there around. Each spring has straight portions resiliently urged towards the blower tip. At the entrance end of the adapter, the springs are... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5494318 | Secondary containment system A secondary containment piping system is composed of a plurality of modules of concentric pipe. The inner pipe carries fluid being transported, and the outer pipe provides secondary containment of fluid leaking from the inner pipe. The module consists of ... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5452922 | Elbow fittings with expanded outer annulus space for double-containment assemblies An elbow fitting for a double-containment assembly has an inner elbow section contained within an outer elbow section, and the inner elbow section is coupled to corresponding straight sections of inner pipe and the outer elbow section is coupled to corres... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5449203 | Fittings for connection to double wall pipeline systems A double wall compression fitting is dimensioned for attachment to a double wall pipeline system having an inner pipeline and an outer pipeline. The fitting is comprised of an inner housing having at least two terminals, an outer housing encasing the inne... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5433484 | Double containment pipe and fitting joint A welded joint for a thermoplastic double containment pipes is formed by an apparatus including an electrofusion welding sleeve placed over the primary pipe, an electrofusion welding sleeve placed over the secondary pipe, clamps which concentrate their cl... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5398977 | Concentric hose coupling with cuff assembly surrounding an end of the outer hose A hose assembly having opposite ends and having a first fluid passage therein for conveying a volatile liquid in one direction from one of the ends thereof to a container adjacent the other of the ends thereof and a second fluid passage therein for return... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5398973 | Double containment pipe support retainer A containment pipe fitting subassembly of a containment fitting, having open end sockets of a radius to slidingly receive ends of containment pipes, a carrier fitting having open end sockets of a radius to slidingly receive ends of carrier pipes, the carr... | 03/21/1995 |
| 4374595 | Metal to metal sealed joint for tubing string A subsea well apparatus having an improved means of axially connecting the plurality of tubing string sections disposed about each riser conduit section. The subsea well apparatus has a riser conduit section with a mating flange at each end, tubing string... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4130304 | Well head seal assembly An improved seal assembly for a well head including a ring-shaped seal body positioned in the tubing head, a tubular coupling formed to the seal body and adapted to connect between adjacent portions of inner tubing, a lower seal ring positioned in the tub... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4111466 | Collapsible tanker hose coupling A pair of concentric hoses of flexible elastomeric material are spaced radially apart to define an annular space around the inner hose. Both hoses are secured at each of their ends to a common connector ring for securing successive lengths of the double h... | 09/05/1978 |
