...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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| 7140825 | Self tapping bolt A self tapping bolt which fastens a mounting member and a receiving member while the bolt cuts internal threads on an inner surface of a tap drill hole prepared in the receiving member. The bolt includes at least one groove formed near an end of a threaded portion o... | 11/28/2006 |
| 5863165 | Self-tapping screw A self-tapping screw has a thread shaft having a leading end, a wood screw thread provided on the thread shaft and having a plurality of turns, and milling profiles formed on the turns of the wood screw thread and spaced from one another in an axial direc... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5667348 | Screw for fibrous boards The shank portion of a screw, which is free of a drill bit portion and which is adapted for use with a fibrous board, has a surface that is formed with a screw thread throughout the length of the shank portion, and a lower section that is formed with a fl... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5599149 | Self-tapping floor screw A self-tapping screw fastener includes a shank having first and second ends and a head disposed at the second end of the shank. The shank has a tapered portion of a predetermined axial length adjacent the first end, and the tapered portion terminates at t... | 02/04/1997 |
| 4425066 | Drill screw A drill screw having a drilling section with a thread form thereon in which truncated thread crests taper inwardly and thread roots taper outwardly as they progress in the direction of the tip. The drilling section further includes a flute having a chip d... | 01/10/1984 |