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 |
| 7347484 | Bed lift mechanism A lift mechanism is mounted to a support for raising and lowering a bed. The lift mechanism is attached to a side of the bed and includes at least one chain, at least one bed bracket connected to the chain, and a drive mechanism for controllably moving the chain to ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7077773 | Drive assembly with dynamic tensioning device A drive assembly for a closed loop cable system in which a flexible driver member drives a door or the like back and forth has the flexible drive member wrapped around and driven by a drive pulley. The drive assembly includes a motor unit having a motor shaft that r... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6773367 | Belt drive two speed shift mechanism A two speed shift mechanism for a belt drive that includes a rotatable shaft with a first pulley, and a tube concentric with the shaft and rotatable therearound. The tube includes a shift hub supporting a second pulley in axially spaced relation to the first pulley ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 4075901 | Variable speed friction transmission A transmission including a cylindrical drive pulley, a cylindrical driven pulley, an endless belt of a suitable material and a predetermined uniform thickness, the belt being frictionally confined between the drive and driven pulleys and loosely encompass... | 02/28/1978 |
| 3945262 | Drive for feed rolls A drive assembly for first and second rolls in a roll laminator includes sprocket wheels affixed to each roll, a driven sprocket wheel, a first idler sprocket wheel rotatable about an axis, an endless drive element trained over the sprocket wheels, and a ... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3939723 | Drive for rotatable cutter mechanisms A pair of rotatable cutter mechanisms are positioned on opposite sides of a moving web and are arranged upon rotation of the cutter shafts to cut notches in the side edges of the moving web. The cutter shafts are rotatably driven by a drive mechanism that... | 02/24/1976 |
