...that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5474283 | Spring assembly for seating and bedding A spring includes upper and lower runs of wire interconnected by an intermediate run of wire, all of the runs being integrally formed from spring wire. The opposite ends of the upper and lower runs respectively include hooks and coils while the intermedia... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5246210 | Grid and spring subassembly for box springs A spring and grid sub-assembly for use in furniture and box spring assemblies in which spring modules are attached to the wire grid through an attachment system in which the springs are in both an over-under relationship and a side-to-side interwoven rela... | 09/21/1993 |
| 4862531 | Bedding foundation having snap-in place formed wire springs A box spring assembly includes a base frame, a top wire grid and a plurality of formed wire springs interconnecting the top wire grid and the base frame. The formed wire springs each comprises a wire strip formed into an inverted U-shaped configuration wi... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4619445 | Spring unit A plurality of main springs and a plurality of intermediate support springs are disposed and fixed on a rectangular base plate. Each main spring has a linear connecting rod portion and two coil spring portions such that one end of each of the two coil spr... | 10/28/1986 |