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 |
| 7258503 | Adjustment device for printer head of barcode printer A device for adjusting the position of a printer head of a barcode printer includes a casing mounted to the barcode printer and a base movably coupled to the casing. A slide board is slidably supported on the base and carries the printer head. A first adjuster is ar... | 08/21/2007 |
| 5238318 | Control apparatus for a typing/reading aid device A control apparatus for a typing/reading aid device controls a ruler to move along a frame board in steps according to a user-defined line-space unit set by a plurality of switches. The control apparatus is also allowed to be connected between a keyboard ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 4580915 | Single shaft sheet advancement mechanism A copysheet incremental feeder apparatus (10) comprising a drive unit (11) operatively connected to a rotor actuating unit (12) which drives a "floating" roller unit (13) rotatably disposed in a roller housing unit (14), whereby the floating roller elemen... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4043064 | Copyholder A copyholder that is operable efficiently both with copy having regular lines and copy having irregular lines. A first actuating device moves an indicator over copy in an adjustable but predetermined and regular manner so that copy having regular lines ma... | 08/23/1977 |
