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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 |
| 5930954 | Remote control door operating device A door controlling device for opening and closing a door in a wall has a first arm, one end of which is mounted to the wall and the other end of which is pivotally attached to the second end of a second arm. The first end of the second arm is pivotally at... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930955 | Door assembly An apparatus for increasing the ability of a "double-door" door assembly to withstand stresses caused by high winds and flying debris associated therewith. The door assembly includes first and second doors. The first door has a first pivot stile for pivot... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930956 | Dropcloth An easily and quickly deployable device for protecting against soiling of non-workpiece items during painting of a workpiece is provided by a device having at least one rigid section and at least one flexible section. The rigid section also acts as a cent... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930957 | System roof A system roof for prefabricated building construction has a pair of rafter beams, which are provided at end parts with couplings. The opposite end parts have vertically directed posts for connection to a gable wall. The pairs of rafter beams are connected... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930958 | Insulated concrete form system An insulated concrete form system for constructing the walls of a structure including a multiplicity of insulated concrete form units. Each insulated concrete form unit includes a body, a tenon and a mortise positioned at opposing ends of the body, and at... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930959 | Method for applying a ground anchor into the ground, and anchor to be used therewith A method for introducing a ground anchor into the ground, comprising the step of screwing an elongate anchor body into the ground by means of an extension tube that is to be connected to the proximal end of said anchor body. The distal end of a tension li... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930960 | Prefab wall element with integrated chases The present invention concerns a device for forming finished walls in building carcasses or completed rooms with finished wall elements which can be assembled onsite in order to form partition walls and are provided with prefabricated ducts.... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930961 | Site assembled emergency shelter A site-assembled emergency shelter has matching site-assembly portions (21) that can be juxtaposed adjacently for low-volume packaging for shipment and then assembled on site. A wide selection of sizes and shapes are included. For different shelter uses, ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930962 | Ceiling element for a heating and cooling ceiling In order to simplify and lower the costs of production and to facilitate installation and assembly, aluminum ceiling elements, for channelling the heat-transfer medium, each include a hose, preferably made of polyurethane, which, for the purpose of ensuri... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930963 | Wall panel system A panel system includes a rigid generally rectangular frame assembly formed from a pair of spaced upright members and a plurality of transverse members connecting the upright members. One of the transverse members is positioned intermediate the ends of th... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930964 | Composite lightweight building element and methods of making and using same A composite lightweight building element comprises a first layer of aggregate based material (7, 8 and 9) extruded, sprayed, molded or cast onto a lightweight base form (1) which becomes an integral part of the element. This element can be manufactured in... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930965 | Insulated deck structure There is provided a self-supporting insulated deck structure for buildings whereby the deck can be constructed inexpensively and efficiently and can attain a desirable fire rating in addition to improved sound absorption properties. The self-supporting in... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930966 | Screw piercable structural support for a planar substrate A structural support for supporting a planar substrate, for example plywood, is provided with a screw receiving channel. The channel provides a guide simplifying screw attachment for a substrate to the support.... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930967 | Finger jointed floorboard with sandable wear surface A finger jointed floorboard or laminatable floorboard section of two connected shorter pieces includes a relatively thick upper wear region which may be sanded without exposing the fingers forming the connection, regardless of whether or not the pieces ar... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930968 | Interlocking stubs The present invention is a wall framing system comprising upper beams, lower beams and a plurality of studs secured to the beams via a securing system. The securing system comprising a plurality of apertures located within the upper and lower beams. The s... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930969 | Roof membrane attachment system A method and apparatus for attaching roof membranes to roof decks. A bridge is placed on flaps created by overlapping portions of roofing material. The bridge is comprised of two end portions which engage the roofing material. A screw is preferably instal... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930970 | Panel construction use as a forming device for settable fluids in construction In a universal, reusable system for molding concrete or other settable fluids for use in building construction, an apertured composite plastic panel is provided for use in the framing system in which the plastic panel, rather than being of a honeycomb str... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930971 | Building construction with tensioned support system A structural system for a building wherein multiple elongate rigid structural members, in the nature of posts and beams, include internal tensioning cables which, upon an end joining of the structural members, are interlocked and tensioned to each other a... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930972 | Frame piece for a switchgear cabinet A frame structure assembled from frame limbs for a switch gear cabinet, in which the frame limbs are preferably designed in mirror-image like manner in relation to their cross-sectional diagonals and in the interior region of the frame structure comprise ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930973 | Carpet fitting A flexible gasket for use in the fitting of a carpet is located between the floor and wall of a room and is of L-shape in section comprising a base limb to be connected to floor and a vertical limb extending at least to the height of the carpet.... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930974 | Apparatus and method for tiling floors A platform and support permit one to walk over freshly tiled areas before the bonding agent cures, without disturbing or shifting the tiles. The support is arranged in the grout joints between tiles and is supported by the subfloor, not the tiles. The pla... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930975 | Cutter/clamping means for bottom wrap 3/4 wrap apparatus Bottom wrap/three-quarter wrap apparatus having an automatic web feeder for safely advancing a web fed from a supply roll to a main web feeder. The main feed rollers advance one length of the web and a cutter cuts the advanced length, completing one cycle... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930976 | Packet wrapping unit A unit for wrapping packets, wherein a first seat, carried on a first conveyor, closed by a sheet of wrapping material and housing a packet, is brought into engagement with a second seat on a second conveyor to insert the packet inside the second seat and... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930977 | Automatic film-lid cohering machine An automatic film-lid cohering machine, which consists of a film transmission structure, an anti-slide device, a film-lid cohering transmission structure, a film-lid cohered object replacement device, and a holder. This invention is essentially to simplif... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930978 | Apparatus for packing products and method for controlling the same A product such as a monitor is transferred by a transferring unit such as a conveyor, stopped at a working position, elevated to a packing position by an elevating unit, packed with packing material, such as with a vinyl cover, buffering materials and a b... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930979 | Method for forming a cover about a flower pot A method of covering a pot means, the cover is a flattened sleeve which comprises a base portion sized to fit a pot and may have a non-linear upper edge defining a skirt and having a bottom having drainage means therein. The cover may be bondingly connect... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930980 | Method and a unit for producing round bales of straw or of like material with film wrapping For various reasons it is attractive to effect a sheet or film wrapping of round bales of straw or similar material, but so far has required the use of a costly special equipment. With the invention the wrapping is effected with a simple film supply devic... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930981 | Wrapping material having a pull tab and pull indicia for both wrapping a floral arrangement and removing the wrapping material from a floral arrangement and method An assembly for both wrapping a floral arrangement and removing the wrapping material from the floral arrangement comprising a sheet of material having a pull tab extending outwardly a distance from the sheet of material, the pull tab being positionable a... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930982 | Method of wrapping a flower pot A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system o... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930983 | Form, fill and seal packaging machine with bag squeezer and method A vertical form, fill and seal packing machine and method for making recloseable bags having a safety seal exterior to a recloseable seal. The machine produces durable, substantially air-tight bags at high speed and provides for the production of differen... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930984 | Method for forming a band seal on a capsule A band seal is formed between a body and a cap of a capsule by fitting the cap on the body, and applying a gelatin-base sealant at least one time in the form of a band spanning the cap and the body. Band sealing is carried out by at least one of the follo... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930985 | Indian bridle A bridle which has a first portion that is placed inside the horse's mouth and which can serve as reins so the rider can control the horse. It has a second portion which secures to the first portion and which is readily adjustable so the bridle can be att... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930986 | Stirrup with a moveable foot plate A stirrup for use in equestrian and other riding with traditional looking features has a pivotable footplate for ease of mounting and dismounting as well as for proper heels down, toes up positioning of the rider's foot while riding. A support bar extendi... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930987 | Harvesting apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for picking or harvesting agricultural products from plants on which they were grown. The apparatus is especially useful for harvesting peppers of various types (e.g., chili, bell, etc.). The apparatus includes fingers carried on el... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930988 | On-the-go from the tractor seat windrow adjustment The swathboard of a windrower can be remotely adjusted from the tractor seat and on-the-go using an electromechanical actuator or other remotely operated actuating device. When the swathboard is adjusted to its fully raised position, the stream of crop ma... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930989 | False twisted yarn A false twisted yarn is made from a lyocell multifilament yarn having a crimp shape coefficient defined by CE/N of 0.02-0.20, wherein CE is a crimp extension (%) and N is the number of crimps; a crimp extension of 0.7-7%; and a degree of swelling in water... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930990 | Method and apparatus for achieving power augmentation in gas turbines via wet compression A wet compression power augmentation apparatus and method for effectively adding a mass flow of nebulized water to a gas turbine by use of a spray rack group assembly having at least one spray rack water pipe and at least one spray rack water nozzle. Nebu... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930991 | Double door thrust reverser assembly with strut-carrier door pivot pins A pivoting door type thrust reverser assembly for a dual flow engine incls a fixed cowling construction with a front body portion (9) and a rear body portion (12) joined by longitudinal beams (10,11) and defining reversal chambers in each of which a door... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930992 | Process for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine in the cold start and warming up phases A process is disclosed for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine in which exhaust gases undergo subsequent treatment. To ensure a gaseous exchange, air is supplied to the individual cylinders through inlet devices and exhaust gases ar... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930993 | Method for monitoring the exhaust gas conversion rate of an exhaust catalyst for an internal combustion engine To improve monitoring of the conversion rate of an exhaust catalyst for an internal combustion engine, the HC emissions are determined downstream of the exhaust catalyst during a predetermined time interval. The time interval starting point and the time i... | 08/03/1999 |
