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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 |
| 7313829 | Sealing device for body suit and sealing method using hydrogels A sealing device for a body suit and a sealing method utilize a reactive seal that incorporates a swelling polymer activated upon contact with a fluid medium, such as water. The reactive seal can be embodied in a neck seal, wrist seal, or ankle seal of the body suit... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313830 | Athletic glove with thumb protector A hockey glove including a thumb portion comprising first and second protective portions disposed on a dorsal side of the thumb portion. The second portion includes a rigid shell and is disposed overtop of at least a proximal end of the first portion. The first and ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313831 | Protective glove with articulated locking thumb A protective glove system is disclosed wherein each glove has an articulated thumb skeleton disposed in the thumb member. The thumb skeleton comprises a plurality of sections pivotably joined together to enable the thumb to articulate between open and closed positio... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313832 | Ostomy support garment An ostomy support garment in the form of a material having a hole for receiving a stoma. The hole has a stabilized edge that is provided with an element allowing an increase or reduction of the length of the edge of the hole to obtain a snug fit to the stoma. This a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313833 | Vehicle emergency toilet system Inventive disclosures made herein comprise various embodiments of a vehicle emergency toilet system having portions built into the seat of the vehicle. The toilet equipped vehicle seats having a toilet with a disposable waste receiving reservoir built into a seat po... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313834 | Bathtub water tap A bathtub water tap includes a tap body, a fluid control device, a showerhead hose and a showerhead. The tap body has a hose passage and a water passage. The water passage has an outlet and an inlet for transporting water diverted by the fluid control device. The ho... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313835 | Port-a-cot A foldable and portable cot that can easily be assembled and dissembled as needed. The cot includes a sheet of fabric and a pillow. The disassembled parts of the cot, along with the sheet of fabric and the pillow, can be placed within a carry bag for easy portabilit... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313836 | Free-standing reclining bed lounge A compact free-standing reclining bed lounge, expanding a product line marketed under BedLounge®, is made with a removable fabric slip-cover enclosing foam and fiber padding covering a basic seat structure formed from air-core plastic sheet material utilizing “li... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313837 | Inflatable product provided with electric air pump An inflatable product that includes a chamber and an electric air pump for inflating the chamber. The air pump has an air intake and an air outlet. The air intake is connected to the outside of the chamber and the air outlet is connected to the inside of the chamber... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313838 | Powered cleaner/polisher A motorized cleaning/polishing device includes a housing and a carrier with a detachable cleaning/polishing attachment. The housing contains a rechargeable battery, motor and flex mount having flexible pillars to which the carrier is mounted. The carrier is also cou... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313839 | Sweeping system with front removable hopper A surface maintenance apparatus is described, having a sweeping system positioned near the front or leading edge of the apparatus. The sweeping system includes a plurality of brushes and a removable hopper for collecting debris. The sweeping system is capable of bei... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313840 | Induction liquid pump and magnetic tank scrubber An induction liquid pump includes a power unit and a circulation unit that are oppositely mountable to a tank with a plurality of fixation units. The liquid pump power unit includes a power induction unit to produce a variable magnetic field. The submersible liquid ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313841 | Suspendable magnetic brush for cleaning an aquarium with a curved window surface Present invention relates a suspendable magnetic brush for cleaning an aquarium with curved window surface, characterized in that an upper cover with an air chamber is attached tightly to a bottom cover with a cleaning material layer underneath, and an inner cover w... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313842 | Shoe-mounted umpire's brush unit A brush is mounted on the toe of an umpire's shoe and is used to clean dirt and debris from home plate. One form of the brush includes straps that encircle the shoe, while other forms of the brush include brushes that are movable. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313843 | Mop with disposable cleaning element A mop construction comprises an elongate shaft (3) and a mop head (4) arranged on a first end of the shaft, wherein the mop head has a clamp mechanism (103). A discardable substantially rigid cleaning member (50) is selectively engageable... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313844 | Trash receptacle cleaning product A trash receptacle cleaning product has a trash receiving receptacle with side walls and a bottom wall. Side walls of the container extend past the bottom wall, forming a base for the container and a partially enclosed space below the bottom wall of the container. T... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313845 | Upright type cleaner An upright type cleaner comprises: a body provided with a handgrip at an upper side thereof; a suction head positioned at a lower side of the body and hinge-connected to the body, for sucking dust and foreign materials of a floor; and a power ON/OFF unit disposed be... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313846 | Sliders for reclosable containers A flexible reclosable container including profiles which are locked and unlocked by a slider. One embodiment of the slider has a pair of feet which extend from one end of the slider to the other end and which resist pulling of the slider off of the profiles. Another... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313847 | CTF flip-N-zip slider The CTF Flip-N-Zip slider enables the purchasers of a zipper with the CTF Flip-N-Zip slider installed to disconnect at least one side of a zipped zipper and return it to the starting position. Current fixed sliders are very hard to fix if a foreign object jams the z... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313848 | Canopy release buckle with dual action release lever A dual action canopy release for releasably holding a parachute harness securement strap in a buckle. The canopy release may be activated by a forward movement of a lever arm or a rearward movement of the lever arm. The lever arm cooperates with an actuating lever h... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313849 | Fastener for a lace A fastener for a lace includes a fastening body and a pull unit. The fastening body includes a base, and at least one clamp assembly having a substantially U-shaped member which have two pivoting ends pivotally connected to the base to define an opening with the bas... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313850 | Compact, economical, multi-axis, multi-tasking, small part machine tool A compact, economical, and easy-to-use small parts machine tool that can machine small parts from bar stock as well as castings, forgings, slugs, and near net shape raw materials, is comprised a base with a spindle for moving a workpiece, a first carriage connected ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313851 | Method for monitoring the installation of blind rivets Apparatus is provided for monitoring the installation of a blind rivet to attach together top and bottom members. The blind rivet installation tool includes a housing having an anvil seated on the rivet head. A collet is reciprocable within the tool housing and carr... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313852 | Method of forming a rivet using a riveting apparatus A riveting yoke assembly (11) comprises a yoke (30), a force applying mechanism (22) and a rivet forming device (34, 36). The yoke has a first end (38), a second end (40), and a middle section (42) coupled between the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313853 | Tap process for hard workpieces A process and apparatus for producing screw threads in hard material workpieces with a series of taps. The present invention employs a threaded bore formed in a bracket assembly to align and position multiple taps on a rotary machine. The taps are used in sequence t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313854 | Method of manufacturing a tactile sensor A method of manufacturing a tactile sensor, which is capable of implementing a wide range of senses, including sensing contact pressure (vertical force and horizontal force) with an external object and heat caused by the contact pressure, comprises forming a side bl... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313855 | Method of forming a head suspension with an integral boss tower A method of making a multi-piece head suspension for a rigid disk drive. The method includes providing a first layer including a mounting region with an integral boss tower attached to a stiffener by one or more positioning tabs; attaching a second layer including a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313856 | Method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive sensor with a thin antiferromagnetic layer for pinning antiparallel coupled tabs A manufacturing method for a spin valve sensor with a thin antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer exchange coupled to a self-pinned antiparallel coupled bias layer in the lead overlap regions is provided. The spin valve sensor comprises forming a ferromagnetic bias layer ant... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313857 | Method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device A method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device is provided for reducing a degradation in device characteristics due to annealing. The method includes the steps of depositing constituent layers, which make up a magneto-resistive layer on a base, patterning one ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313858 | Method for manufacturing a magnetic head coil structure and/or pole tip structure A Damascene process is provided for manufacturing a coil structure for a magnetic head. During the manufacturing process, an insulating layer is initially deposited after which a photoresist layer is deposited. A silicon dielectric layer is then deposited on the pho... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313859 | Method for optimizing placement order by placement apparatuses that place electronic components on circuit board An optimization apparatus capable of efficiently placing an electronic component. An optimization unit (203) determines a first assignment to the placement apparatus and calculates a first placement time required for placing all the electronic components assi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313860 | Mounting device A mounting apparatus includes an X-Y table for holding a board onto which components are to be mounted, and drive units for moving a mounting section by which the components are to be mounted, and also moving individual sections. When an effective torque calculated ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313861 | Electric drive for a shaping die A driving mechanism for operating a shaping die to join stacked plates by a deep-drawing and swaging operation is implemented as an electric drive, such as a linear motor or a rotary motor, which is operatively connected to the shaping die. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313862 | Method of mounting components on a PCB A printed wiring board is disclosed. The printed wiring board includes a board recognition mark formed of a conductive foil, a first component land covered with resist, and a second component land not covered with the resist. The board recognition mark is defined by... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313863 | Method to form a cavity having inner walls of varying slope An improved mold, for use in the formation of a perpendicular magnetic write head, is described, together with a process for its manufacture. Conventional alumina is replaced by tantalum in the yoke portion of the mold. When both the tantalum and the alumina areas a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313864 | Method for producing a run-flat support body for run-flat vehicle wheels A run-flat support body for run-flat vehicle wheels. The support body is typically embodied as a shell-shaped, metallic annular body having an undulated supporting annular surface. A simple, effective method for producing one such annular body, according to which a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313865 | Process of forming a baffling, sealing or reinforcement member with thermoset carrier member There is disclosed a member for reinforcing, sealing or baffling a structure of an article of manufacture such as an automotive vehicle. The member preferably includes a carrier member and an activatable (e.g., expandable, curable or both) material disposed upon a s... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313866 | Spring assist knife A spring assist folding knife and method of biasing a blade in a folding knife. The folding knife includes a blade, liner, and handle. The blade includes a first recess for receiving a pivot pin. The blade includes a second recess offset from the axis of rotation. A... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313867 | Inner cutter of a reciprocating electric shaver A method for manufacturing an inner cutter for a reciprocating electric shaver, including the steps of: press-stamping a thin metal plate to obtain a thin metal plate element that has an outer contour of an unfolded inner cutter and elongated openings that extend su... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313868 | Cutoff tool In a cutoff tool, a hood is arranged to overlap a distal end portion of a cutting blade, and a distal end portion of the hook is arranged to protrude from a toothed portion of the cutting blade. When the cutting blade retracts farthest in a uniaxial direction, the d... | 01/01/2008 |
