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 |
| 7029366 | Method and apparatus for abrasive circular machining For the machining of a workpiece (18) rotating about a workpiece axis, a first abrasive tool (20), which rotates about a first tool axis, and the workpiece (18) are advanced towards one another, in order to machine a first workpiece face in a fi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021990 | Method and apparatus for circular grinding A method and apparatus for a circular grinding of a workpiece having first and second workpiece faces which are rotationally symmetrical with respect to the workpiece axis and which form a circular transition edge between them are provided. The workpiece rotating ab... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6368196 | Blade sharpener for curved and straight edge blades A blade sharpener comprises a work surface consisting of a single support line. A grinding wheel defines a plane that contains the support line. The grinding wheel is swingable in the grinding wheel plane to a selected position relative to the support lin... | 04/09/2002 |
