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...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 |
| 4416025 | Bib having segmented neck-aperture perimetric edge A bib having a neck-accommodating aperture defined by a segmented perimetric edge: i.e., a segmented neck-aperture perimeter. The neck-accommodating aperture is generally oval-shape and the sheet material from which the bib is constructed has a plurality ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416026 | Multi-purpose mechanic's glove An improved mechanic's glove having a plurality of openings on various of the finger stalls, and in the palm, to permit feel of the tools or other work being handled while at the same time providing substantial protection. The improved glove also includes... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416027 | Diving suit seam construction An improved seam construction for diving suits and method of performing same which consists of a seam formed by cutting slits into the edges of two abutting pieces of elastomeric material, gluing and stitching the outer layers of the edge of each piece, i... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416028 | Blood vessel prosthesis A blood vessel prosthesis, comprising a tubular element of an inert, completely or partially non-resorbable material having no adverse tissue reaction. To the inside of the tubular element an interior wall construction of a resorbable material with no adv... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416029 | Trileaflet prosthetic heart valve Heart valve for implantation as a surgical prosthesis including a valve housing having an orifice ring and three pairs of structural short and long projections extending inwardly and centrally within the plane of the orifice ring. A like plurality of leaf... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416030 | Compact adjustable spa jet aerator An improved more compact type of fully adjustable spa jet water aerator is provided which is simple, inexpensive, durable, easy to install and use and which features easy separate adjustment of water and air flow therethrough. The aerator can be secured w... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416031 | Machine adapted for use in the manufacturing of shoes A shoe support for supporting a shoe, bottom uppermost, with the bottom thereof exposed for an operation to be performed thereon, has a heel end support arrangement and toe end support means moveable relative thereto to accommodate shoes of different size... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416032 | Connector adaptor for pin-type blade An adaptor for mounting a pin-type wiper blade on a hook-type wiper arm includes first and second walls separated by a shouldered pin and a pair of struts. A U-shaped spring clip is disposed over the shouldered pin, the spring clip is disposed over the sh... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416033 | Full bag indicator There is provided a full bag indicator which is calibrated by movement of it along the structure it is mounted to, to thereby vary an aperture leading into the full bag indicator.... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416034 | Front-suction arrangement on a vacuum cleaner An arrangement for front suction on a vacuum cleaner, which includes a lever or a spring on a front side of the vacuum cleaner. The lever or the spring lifts the vacuum cleaner from the floor in response to a counter pressure exerted on the lever or the s... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416035 | Safety bar cutoff and brake An emergency actuator bar extends across an opening in the housing of a lint cleaner in a cotton gin. Actuator arms which hold the bar also normally hold a trip plate in the run position. However, a workman striking the emergency bar will remove a sear on... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416036 | Fastening means for the wrist strap of a ski stick and method for the manufacture thereof Fastening means for the wrist strap of a ski stick, said means being positioned in a cavity (3) of the knob (2) of a stick handle (1). The fastening means is a removable unit separable from the stick knob and consisting of two plastic elements (5) and (7)... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416037 | Releasable connector in leashes for domestic animal, safety line or the like A releasable connector in leashes for domestic animals, safety lines or the like, comprising a coupling portion (12) provided with a spherical, drop-shaped or similarly shaped head member (14), and a holding portion (10) adapted to be coupled to the holdi... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416038 | Balloon clip A closure device for the tubular stem of an inflated balloon, including a pair of legs which are hingedly interconnected for movement from an open to a closed position wherein they are in substantially parallel spaced relation. Closure members on the legs... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416039 | Artery or vein perforator Apparatus for manually perforating blood vessels preparatory to embalming. The apparatus preferably comprises a pair of handle members adapted to be squeezed together to close a jaw whereby to penetrate the artery or vein with an appropriate needle. In th... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416040 | Weaving loom with interchangeable sections A weaving loom comprises a plurality of interchangeable sections forming the loom frame. The sections are separably connected together in end-to-end abutment. The connection between abutting sections is an unique tab and slot construction preventing them ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416041 | Apparatus for threading a thread into a texturizing nozzle The invention concerns a method of threading in a thread (1) into a texturing nozzle (2) known as such, and an apparatus for implementing the method. The texturing nozzle is brought from a working position (A) into a threading-in position (B) for threadin... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416042 | Method and apparatus for raising the ram of a vertical milling machine The ram of a vertical milling machine is raised up from the machine base and then secured thereto in a raised position to accommodate a workpiece having a vertical dimension that is greater than the normal vertical clearance between the tool spindle on th... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416043 | Disc roll This invention relates to a disk roll characterized in that the flaky vermiculite particles obtained by pulverizing the expanded vermiculite, which may be optionally mixed with a fiber material, are dispersed in water and filtered to form a thin sheet as ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416044 | Cast recuperator tube The method of casting a plate type recuperative heat exchange envelope that encloses a hollow space therein in a single casting operation. A sand core with a heat sensitive binder therein defines the hollow space within the envelope. The sand core is supp... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416045 | Snap ring removal tool A snap ring removal tool is adapted for removing a split snap ring from a cylindrical shaft. The tool has a receptacle at the end of a handle for holding the shaft lengthwise and ring-engaging means connected to the handle for engaging the snap ring at po... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416046 | Method of binding sheets using stitchers A wire stitcher includes a cutter for cutting a length of wire W from a supply thereof and a stitcher head having a former and driver for forming and driving the length of cut wire for binding a set SS of sheets. The length of cut wire which is presented ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416047 | Method of manufacturing a shutter link A shutter link (1) for a multi-link overhead shutter or roller blind comprises two sheet metal sheets (7, 8) formed with a cavity (3) between them. The cavity is filled with a heat insulative compound (4) and hinge formations (5, 6) are provided along the... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416048 | Toilet seat mounting arrangement A mounting arrangement for attaching a toilet seat and cover to a toilet bowl is disclosed which facilitates installation without the use of conventional hand tools. The arrangement includes a base having a hinge post for hingedly connecting the seat and ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416049 | Semiconductor integrated circuit with vertical implanted polycrystalline silicon resistor Integrated circuit resistor elements which may be used as load devices in static MOS RAM cells are created vertically in polycrystalline silicon ion implanted to provide the desired resistivity. The method of making these devices is compatible with a stan... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416050 | Method of fabrication of dielectrically isolated CMOS devices A method of fabricating an integrated circuit on a body of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and a first dopant concentration by depositing a layer of semiconductor material of first conductivity type and a second dopant concentration on... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416051 | Restoration of high infrared sensitivity in extrinsic silicon detectors A method and apparatus for removing heavy metal impurities such as gold, silver, nickel and copper from a crystalline substrate is described incorporating a damaged crystalline layer which may be formed by excessive doping to trap or getter heavy metal im... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416052 | Method of making a thin-film solar cell A method of making a thin gallium arsenide solar cell having a reflecting back surface and coplanar electrical contacts. A photovoltaic cell comprising gallium arsenide is produced in a self-supporting thickness by conventional methods. A pattern of conta... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416053 | Method of fabricating gallium arsenide burris FET structure for optical detection A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416054 | Method of batch-fabricating flip-chip bonded dual integrated circuit arrays A focal plane array including a first integrated circuit for infrared radiation (IR) detection and a second integrated circuit for signal processing is assembled in a flip-chip structural configuration. Each integrated circuit includes an array of metalli... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416055 | Method of fabricating a monolithic integrated circuit structure Method of fabricating monolithic integrated circuit structure incorporating a bipolar transistor and a high value resistor. First and second N-type sectors are formed in an N-type epitaxial layer by junction isolation. A silicon oxide layer is formed on t... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416056 | Process for preparation of film coils A process for the preparation of film coils is disclosed, which comprises forming a first plane coil layer by arranging a plurality of insulated spiral conductor patterns wound in the same direction adjacent to one another without any gaps, laminating on ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416057 | Methods of testing the integrity of an electrical coil as it is wound In the manufacture of electrical coils (10), particularly large transformer coils, an insulated wire (11) is wound on a rotatable winding arbor (12) so as to form a succession of turns of the insulated wire. Particularly when large gauge enamelled copper ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416058 | Apparatus for winding coils and inserting coils and wedges into stator cores Apparatus for forming coils of magnet wire and for inserting that magnet wire along the insulating wedges into the core of a stator comprises a transfer tool of circumferentially disposed wedge guides which receives wedges at a wedging station, is wound w... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416059 | Wire insertion tool A wire insertion tool usable for inserting a wire into a split cylinder connector. The tool includes a central rod portion, a sleeve portion spaced outwardly from the rod portion and at least a pair of openings in the side wall of the sleeve portion to pr... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416060 | Slide fastener finishing machine A slide fastener finishing machine is disclosed. The machine is comprised of an upper frame, a bottom stop fastening head mounted on said upper frame for vertical movement and having a punch, a lower frame, a slider holding jig fixedly secured to said low... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416061 | Method for jointing cables A method for jointing the armouring wires of electrical cables, in particular power cables, in order to ensure that the stress or tension in the cable during handling and installation is equally distributed among the individual armouring wires. The armour... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416062 | Self centering pipe cutting device A self centering pipe cutting device having opposing cutting and roller support assemblies which are automatically advanced in concurrent, converging relationship as the cutting device is rotated about the pipe being cut. A ratchet and advancing gear adap... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416063 | Golden proportion calipers A proportional divider comprises a reference index located between a pair of variable indices and a sectionalized threaded spindle having opposite end sections with reverse threads and of different pitches in a ratio approximating 1 to 0.618. Each spindle... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416064 | Ladder bar dial An auxiliary device which is secured to the wheel and body of a racing vehicle to determine whether or not the body suspension is adjusted properly.... | 11/22/1983 |
