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 |
| 4121700 | Disc brakes for vehicles In a disc brake of the kind in which the clamping member straddling the disc consists of pressure plates located on opposite sides of the disc and interconnected at their outermost ends by draw-bars, each draw-bar is provided at one end with a threaded po... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4094558 | Locking nut assembly with deformable locking sleeve A self contained nut assembly to allow self nut locking and unlocking for use with a support member. The nut assembly comprises an upper nut containing a pronged locking sleeve. The nut and locking sleeve fit onto a threaded element projecting through a s... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4092904 | Means for retaining a piston on a piston rod A piston of a hydraulic actuator is threaded on one end of a piston rod and is prevented from becoming unthreaded therefrom by means of a radially extending key received in a keyway formed by cooperating recesses in the ends of the piston and piston rod. ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4090545 | Nut locking means A locking arrangement is provided for retaining a nut, such as a spanner nut, locked in position on a shaft. The nut has a plurality of equally spaced apart apertures in one axial face thereof. An arcuate key is provided with a pair of apertures spaced ap... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4087201 | Locking device for a nozzle block and a method for installing it An apparatus used in steam turbines for locking a nozzle block and nozzle chamber together. At least one modified cap screw is engaged with the nozzle block and nozzle chamber and tightened to a required torque. A plate is affixed to either two or more mo... | 05/02/1978 |
| 3957394 | Marine propeller mounting device A shaft coupled at one end to motive means is externally threaded in spaced proximate relation with the opposite free end thereof. A plurality of keyways supporting a plurality of keys are provided at the free end of the shaft. A propeller mount supportin... | 05/18/1976 |
