Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337644 | Assembled workstation A workstation has a base, a conveying device, a driving assembly and a working device. The base is composed of multiple supporting frames. The conveying device is mounted on the base and has a rail, a moving base, a motor, a pushing rod and two rotating rods. The ro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7198452 | Bar stock loading table and apparatus A bar stock loader for an elongate member and a method for use is includes a support apparatus with a support surface for supporting the elongate member and a translation apparatus proximate to the support apparatus. The translation apparatus is moveable and has an ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 6554559 | Device for supplying to a machine-tool bars to be machined The invention concerns a device wherein the bars (13) are arranged in bulk in the container (5). The mobile frame (17) of the grasping mechanism (14) moves forward such that the jaw (24) can seize a bar by its middle part and remove it in position (13a) w... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6164434 | Apparatus for transporting profiles Apparatus for transporting profiles of different size and cross section, such as flats, angles, I sections, U sections, T sections and bulb sections, in longitudinal direction, includes a plurality of support elements for transporting the sections along a... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6035502 | Apparatus for manufacturing a housing for a perforating gun An apparatus for manufacturing a machined article from an elongated tubular workpiece is disclosed. A machining device is movable within a work area of the apparatus and a movable base having first and second spaced apart clamps secure a section of the ar... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5857820 | Sheet metal-working machine The machine includes: a worktable on to which a metal sheet is loaded in use; a work station; a member for feeding the sheet along the worktable to and from the work station, the member including a carriage movable along a first horizontal axis, a slide f... | 01/12/1999 |
| 4929138 | Device for feeding rodlike workpieces In order to markedly reduce the necessary installation area for a device for feeding rodlike workpieces to a machine tool with at least one rod feed tube for a rodlike workpiece (15) to be processed, feedable from a magazine (16) into the rod feed tube, i... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4773203 | Apparatus and process for stripping a net from meat An apparatus and method for stripping a meat net from a process meat product. The apparatus includes a base which is adapted to support at least one inner tube and one outer tube, with the inner tube including a container for secondarily processed meat go... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4753563 | Welded tube seam positioner and method Apparatus for positioning the seam of a welded tube comprises a plunger rod of a diameter less than the tube having a first longitudinal axis supported and journaled upon its first axis for reciprocal and rotational movements. A radial knife edge projects... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4695242 | Plunger molding machine having blank loading device A plunger molding machine includes a material cylinder having at one end an extending die for extruding a blank therethrough and pivotally movable about a pivotal axis on a side of the extending die by means of a cylinder tilting mechanism, a piston havin... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4604924 | Control device for the opening and closing of the metal bar sliding guides in an equipment for the feeding of metal bars to a multiple-spindle lathe A device is described which is meant to control the opening and closing of the metal bar sliding guides in a multiple-spindle lathe feeding equipment. Each sliding guide consists of two parts, a fixed one and a mobile one, and the device to open and close... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4574991 | Fastener feeding apparatus A fastener feeding apparatus is used to supply a pair of strips of detachably connected staples to a magazine of a fastener driving device in each loading cycle of the feeding apparatus. A plurality of pairs of strips of staples are supplied to an incline... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4420284 | Device for the feeding of material bars for processing machines A device for the feeding of material bars for processing machines, with which in a tube the rearward end of the bar is moved in the direction of the processing machine by a piston guided in the tube and loaded by a pressurizing medium. A loading bellows l... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4373414 | Coded key cutting device A coded key cutting device for cutting key blanks using the manufacturer's code is comprised of a pair of movable carriage assemblies that index a key blank secured to one of the carriage assemblies under a punch cutter. Each of the assemblies is movably ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4184798 | Workpiece rotating and feeding apparatus Apparatus is provided for simultaneously rotating and axially feeding an elongated workpiece past an induction heating inductor. The apparatus includes a collet having a passageway therethrough defined in part by radially displaceable fingers normally pro... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4068545 | Method of and apparatus for feeding nonround-section bars to screw machines A screw machine has a headstock provided with an openable and closable chuck rotatable at high speed and having a throughgoing aperture of cross-sectional shape complementary to that of a bar to be machined in the screw machine. A feed apparatus for this ... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4061232 | Rectilinear transport means The disclosure relates to a rectilinear transport means particularly adapted for transporting a rectangular array of individual photographic film elements one at a time into register with the axis of a projector lens or the like or for the purpose of movi... | 12/06/1977 |
| 3981214 | Code key cutter having interchangeable attachments A key cutting machine for making coded cuts in a key blank having interchangeable depth control attachments as well as interchangeable punch and die attachments, so that any type of standard key may be cut simply by utilizing the appropriate set of attach... | 09/21/1976 |
