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...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 |
| 7117821 | Cat scratching apparatus A cat scratching apparatus is disclosed. The cat scratching apparatus comprises a casing and first and second scratching surfaces. Each of the scratching surfaces is formed by superimposed edge portions of stacks of corrugated material. Further, each of the scratchi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7086924 | Modular cavity nesting for hymenoptera A modular nest including a backing member including a pair of generally opposing leafs connected to a spine and a removable nesting substrate including a plurality of grooves formed on a first face, the plurality of grooves forming a plurality of nesting cavities wh... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6364738 | Solitary bee nesting block A nesting block for the rearing and management of cavity nesting solitary bees used for pollinating crops is disclosed. The nesting block includes a chamber having at least one substantially flat face, and a plurality of open tubes which extend therefrom ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 5618220 | Leafcutter bee management system including a laminate bee board A bee nest made from a plurality of bee board laminates held in close side by side relation by a permanent, flexible and lightproof backing material. The nest includes a mechanism for releasably opening and closing the nest at the front edges of the lamin... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5591063 | Raised orientation pattern for nesting blocks for megachile rotundata In the raising and propagation of leaf cutter bees, rectangular nesting blocks molded from thermal plastics and having a number of open-ended apertures therethrough, are used. Each leaf cutter bee chooses one of the apertures in which to raise its sole pr... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5403226 | Leaf cutter bee nest A molded plastic leaf cutter bee nest block, having opposed sides, opposed ends, and opposed faces, formed of expanded plastic beads, having nonstandard length, to accommodate more integrally molded round bee holes. The holes may be tapered, for ease of s... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5372535 | Leafcutter bee management system including a laminate bee board A bee nest made from a plurality of bee board laminates held in close side by side relation by a permanent, flexible and lightproof backing material. The nest includes a closure for releasably opening and closing the nest at the front edges of the laminat... | 12/13/1994 |
| 4787108 | Nest for and method of managing megachile rotundata A nest for Megachile Rotundata bees describes a group of blind tunnels specifically designed to present bees with a near as possible natural tunnel to suit their instinctive nesting habit. The nest as described hereinbefore along with details of husbandry... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4765007 | Leaf cutter bee nest block A unique mixture of expanded polystyrene beads and vermiculite is molded to form a one piece nesting block, having a plurality of egg laying holes for the leaf cutter bee. The unique nesting block is light weight and possesses the necessary environmental ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4716609 | Domicile for leaf cutter bees A domicile for leaf cutter bees includes front, end and rear panels, a base and top panel and a lid of weather resistant material. The domicile is supported on legs which are fitted to the end panels and to each of which there is fitted an angle bracket c... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4628558 | Bee nesting box A leafcutter bee nesting box is formed from a mixture of sawdust and shredded paper such as newspaper or the like. A slurry formed of the sawdust, paper and water is placed into the mold box and subsequently removed therefrom with the resulting box having... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4491994 | Wild bee nesting domicile A wild bee nesting domicile comprising a strip assembly of a flexible backing sheet to which is secured a matching pleated strip, the strip assembly being rolled or wrapped about itself so that the tips of the pleats are in contact with the backing sheet ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4365372 | Materials and methods for culture of nesting insects Nesting insects, e.g. lucerne leaf cutter bees and bumble bees, are cultured in artificial nests comprising assemblies of tubes, e.g. waxed paper tubes, packed with open ends located at the open front of a container e.g. an open waxed paper box. In use th... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4319371 | Leafcutter bee nest A nest or hive for bee culture having spirally wound alternate layers of flat and corrugated materials respectively and contained within a predator and parasite resistant holder for attachment to a field support structure.... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4257134 | Beehive A beehive including a housing comprising a bottom portion, longitudinal sidewall portions extending upwardly from the bottom portion, retainers associated with the upper free edges of the sidewall portions, removable end sections extending between the sid... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4207637 | Beehive A beehive of generally circular configuration including a continuously wound combination of a resilient cellular strip and a plastic strip corrugated transversely of its length, the corrugations being spaced less than about one-half inch and having a dept... | 06/17/1980 |
| 3936894 | Artificial nest for hatching bees An assembly of a multiplicity of thin wood boards each having parallel grooves in one face from edge to edge thereof, and the opposite face being ungrooved, is held together by one or more rods extending through the several boards, the grooved face of eac... | 02/10/1976 |
