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 |
| 6711798 | Method for manufacturing products according to customer orders A manufacturing facility for manufacturing products according to customer orders includes a kitting facility at which components are collected for a product in a customer order. The manufacturing facility also includes a build cell in which the component are assembl... | 03/30/2004 |
| 4688730 | Paper shredder and method of making the same A paper shredder cutting mechanism includes two parallel-spaced, cooperating rotary knife rollers formed of a core and an axial series of generally equidistantly spaced cutter discs affixed to the core and extending radially therefrom. The cutter discs of... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4454644 | Method of making a clamp A method of making a clamp used for a supercharger in an internal combustion engine is initiated by cutting out an unworked clamp half from a plate material. The half is then formed such that it is semicircular in front elevation and the opposite ends ext... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4422691 | Passenger seat A passenger seat structure for installation in vehicles such as buses, railroad cars, boats and airplanes consists of a support frame provided with support legs. The frame includes two beams having top and bottom channels with seat and leg mounting means ... | 12/27/1983 |
