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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8046934 | Convective system for a dryer installation The present invention concerns a convective system for a dryer installation for a passing web, more particularly paper. The convective system 7 is an assembly of an exterior casing 13 for suction of combustion products with opening 14 towards th... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7998353 | Filter candle comprising an elongated mesh pack A filter candle 100 as subject of the present invention comprises: an elongated mesh pack 200 for filtering a fluid, comprising an end fitting 206 securely fixed to a filter medium 205. Further, a hollow core tube 300 is provided h... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7989528 | Coupling agent to provide the coupling of a metal element to a material to be reinforced The invention relates to a coupling agent to provide the coupling of a metal element to a vulcanizable elastomeric material whereby the coupling agent provides both binding to the metal element and reaction with the vulcanizable elastomeric material. The coupling ag... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7963093 | Steel cord with iron-zinc alloy coating A steel cord comprises more than one steel filament (10). At least some of the steel filaments have a zinc iron alloy layer (14) partially covered with a zinc cover (16). The zinc cover is only present in valleys formed in the zinc-iron alloy la... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7933064 | Reflector for an infrared radiating element The invention relates to a reflector for an infrared radiating element. The reflector comprises a metal foil coated with—a first oxide layer deposited on the metal foil; —an infrared reflecting metal layer deposited on said first oxide layer; and—a second oxid... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7927700 | Substrate covered with an intermediate coating and a hard carbon coating The invention relates to a substrate covered at least partially with a layered coating. The layered coating comprises an intermediate coating and a hard carbon coating. The intermediate coating comprises a first metal layer deposited on the substrate, the first meta... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926200 | Infrared drier installation for passing web Infrared drier installation (1) for a passing web (2), which installation ( ) has gas-heated infrared radiant elements (5), arranged one next to the other so as to form a unit (4). Each unit comprises at least two adjacent rows (8)... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918040 | Drier installation for drying web A drier installation (1) for drying web (2), more particularly paper, which installation is provided for drying a maximum web width, the installation (1) comprises gas-heated radiant elements (3) for radiating the web, arranged according ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7891973 | Appliance for connecting a gas-heated radiant element An appliance for providing air and gas to a gas burner includes a gas tube and an air tube. The gas tube comprises an aperture for providing gas inwards to the air tube. The air tube comprises a first aperture for receiving a back tube of the gas burner. The gas tub... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7846539 | Roll of preformed steel cord reinforced strip The invention concerns a roll of strip of elastomer material reinforced with parallel steel cords. The roll of strip differs from the prior art that it is intentionally not flat when unrolled: it has obtained a permanent preformation so as to take a helical shape wh... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7846230 | Diesel soot particulate filter medium A diesel soot particulate filter medium, as subject of the invention comprises fibers, preferably metal fibers. The diesel soot particulate filter medium has a thickness T between its inflow side and its outflow side being equal or more than 5 cm. The S/V at the inf... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7856803 | Connection of steel cord ends A connection for connecting steel cord ends to one another is described. The connection solves the problem of filaments that break off at the connection during handling of the cord. In the inventive connection a fixation section is introduced before or after the joi... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7820293 | Substrate coated with a layered structure comprising a tetrahedral carbon coating The invention relates to a metal substrate (11) coated at least partially with a layered structure. The layered structure comprises an intermediate layer (14) deposited on said substrate (11) and a tetrahedral carbon layer (16) deposited ... | 10/26/2010 |
| D625172 | Spool | 10/12/2010 |
| D623927 | Spool | 09/21/2010 |
| 7770328 | Cable and window elevator system using such cable A cable (11) is provided comprising a steel cord (12) and a polymer material (15). The steel cord (12) has a diameter less than 2.5 mm, and is coated with the polymer material (15). The cable (11) has a permanent elongation ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764156 | Magnetic flux return path with collated bands of wire Method of forming a magnetic core or part of a magnetic core including several layers of windings of magnetic wire in a very compact configuration, and the core or part of core is formed by winding several layers of a collated band of wires side by side until desire... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7735201 | Multiple wire card wiring, carding cylinder, and method of making such Card wiring includes a first carding wire including a number of rough, pointed, first teeth, and a second carding wire having smooth, blunt teeth. The rough teeth include a rough surface having a first coefficient of friction, an attack angle, and a back angle. The ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7709095 | Infra-red reflecting layered structure The invention relates to an infra-red reflecting layered structure comprising a transparent substrate layer; a first metal oxide layer; a first silver containing layer, a second metal oxide layer; a second silver containing layer and a third metal oxide layer. The f... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7674511 | Closed reinforcement fiber package, as well as chain packing consisting of such closed packages Closed reinforcement fiber package includes a material disintegratable in concrete, such as fiber concrete. Reinforcing fibers are present in a loose form in the package. The reinforcing fibers may be provided in a substantially mutually parallel position in the pac... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7645939 | Retroreflecting elongated metal wire product A metal wire is first coated with a coating. In this first coating, retro-reflective beads are partly embedded. Thereafter the beads and the first coating are covered by a protective coating. The metal wire is made from a strand or wire made of stainless steel, or l... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7645519 | Composite article comprising a metal reinforcement element embedded in a thermoplastic polymer material The invention relates to a composite article comprising at least one metal reinforcement element embedded in a polymer material. An adhesion promoting layer is interposed between the metal reinforcement element and the polymer material. The adhesion promoting layer ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7604159 | Method and calculator for converting concrete reinforcing materials to an equivalent quantity of concrete reinforcing fibers Method for converting a first type of concrete reinforcing material to an equivalent quantity of concrete reinforcing fibers for designing a reinforced concrete slab. Fibers may be steel or other materials. User determines whether a slab to be reinforced is a lightl... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7585583 | Metal stack for fuel cells or electrolysers A stack, to be used in a fuel cell or electrolyzer, includes a collector layer, at least one diffusion layer and at least one anchoring layer. The collector layer being a metal foil or metal plate or foamed metal sheet, the diffusion layer can be a metal mesh or exp... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7566486 | Braid reinforced flexible hose A braided hose reinforcement includes left and right turning strips. Each of the strips includes a number of elongated metal elements embedded in a matrix of a polymer material. ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7563488 | Process for the manufacturing of a sputter target The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a sputter target. The process comprises the steps of—providing a target holder (12); —applying an intermediate layer (14) on said target holder; —applying a top layer (16) on top of said... | 07/21/2009 |
| D589363 | Boxed spool | 03/31/2009 |
| 7487803 | Flat high-tensile wire as hose reinforcement A flexible hose or pipe (42) is reinforced by means of at least one flattened steel wire (10, 20) with natural edges. The steel wire has a thickness-to-width ratio t/w below 0.95, a tensile strength Rm exceeding 3500−2000×d, where d is th... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7445853 | Layered filter structure comprising short metal fibers The invention relates to a layered filter structure, said filter element comprises—a first layer, said first layer comprising a porous metal layer;—a second layer, said second layer comprising a self-supporting layer of sintered short metal fibers. The first and... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7426821 | Metal strand comprising interrupted filament A metal strand comprising at least two filaments. At least one filament is interrupted, providing a filament end, which is fixed to the uninterrupted filaments of the strand using a fixing substance, preferably a soldering substance. Such strand can be used to provi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426822 | Metal cord A metal cord comprising at least two metal strands. At least one strand is welded, with the welded strand having an elongation at rupture of more than 30% of the elongation at rupture of an identical strand without a weld. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| D568930 | Insert for a wire-bound notebook | 05/13/2008 |
| D568931 | Insert for a wire-bound notebook | 05/13/2008 |
| 7354550 | Disinfection or sterilisation method The invention relates to a disinfection or sterilisation method. The material to be disinfected is introduced in a receptacle and the receptacle is sealed. Subsequently, the sealed receptacle is heated under a water vapour and/or radical pressure. The water vapour p... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7341076 | Woven fabric comprising leno weave bound metal A woven fabric in which warp elements are provided out of metal. The fabric further comprising at least a first set of substantially parallel binding elements present in warp direction of the fabric. This first set of binding elements bind the warp elements to the w... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337604 | Hybrid high elongation cord An elongation cord adapted for the reinforcement of elastomer structures has a polymer core and three to nine strands twisted around the core with a cord twisting step in a cord twisting direction. At least one of the strands a first group of filaments and a second ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7311751 | Filter medium A filter medium includes at least a first and a second layer. Both first and second layers have a layer volume VLq and a layer filtering surface SLq, where SLq is the accumulation of all mantle surfaces of the fibers present in this layer q. The first layer has a SL... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304007 | Woven composite fabric As subject of the present invention, a woven composite fabric, comprising metal elements and polymer elements is provided. The metal elements being metal wires, bundles of metal wires, metal strands or metal cords. According to the invention, the polymer elements ar... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300685 | Steel wire with metal layer and roughnesses Steel wire is coated with a metal layer such that the metal layer has a surface with roughnesses. A surface roughness Ra of above 0.25 μm is reached. Preferably, the roughnesses are randomly dispersed at the surface. The result is an improved visual aspect and an i... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300706 | High-carbon steel wire with nickel sub coating A wire for external exposure, i.e. without chemical binding with a polymer or rubber matrix. The wire has a steel core, a nickel sub-coating and a zinc or zinc alloy top coating above the nickel sub-coating. The steel core has a carbon content exceeding 0.20%. The w... | 11/27/2007 |