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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4697298 | Traveling cleaner system A traveling cleaner system with means for effecting a temporary alteration in the rate of travel of the traveling cleaner unit which is characterized by its ability to provide additional amounts of cleaning to preselected portions of the textile mill. The... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4665686 | System for managing doffing of strand processing machines The doff management system of the present invention employs a central computer unit communicating with each yarn processing machine in a textile mill and operating under program control for monitoring and governing the operation of various functions and a... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4581881 | Textile yarn spinning machine with improved supply strand interruption means Apparatus for use in combination with a traveling unit including sensor and remote actuator means to interrupt supply strand feeding to drafting systems of a textile spinning machine. A collar means is rotatably mounted on an elongate strand guide and one... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4572745 | Single-air traveling suction blower cleaner with automatic doffing A traveling suction floor cleaner for cleaning textile mills and adapted for periodic removal of textile waste material collected by the cleaner, and comprising a suction blower fan; means for causing said suction blower fan to travel adjacent one or more... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4506498 | Textile yarn spinning machine with supply strand interruption Apparatus for use in combination with a traveling unit including sensor and remote actuator means to interrupt supply strand feeding to drafting systems of a textile spinning machine. Interruption is accomplished through the cooperation of an elongate str... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4435876 | Fiber waste disposal system for traveling pneumatic cleaners A plurality of traveling pneumatic cleaners is provided for respective groups of textile machines and cooperates with respective unloading stations for transferring fiber waste from collection chambers of the traveling cleaners and into the unloading stat... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4425754 | Spinning machine information gathering apparatus and method An identification detector and cooperating identification encoder generate an identification signal uniquely correlated to a specific individual one of a group of ring spinning machines which are traversed by at least one traveling unit.... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4333772 | Traveling pneumatic cleaner and automatic unloading arrangement and method A plurality of traveling pneumatic cleaners for respective groups of textile machines cooperate with respective unloading stations for transferring fiber waste from collection chambers of the traveling cleaners into the unloading stations. All the unloadi... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4329128 | Pump for thermoplastic materials with heater means A gear-type pump for thermoplastic materials including synthetic and natural polymers or resins, the pump including a housing, intermeshing gears disposed in the housing, the housing having an inlet conduit for directing bulk thermoplastic materials to th... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4326371 | Supply strand interruption mechanism for textile yarn spinning machine In the combination of a textile yarn spinning machine, a traveling unit movable along the spinning machine for monitoring production of attenuated strands, and supply strand interruption mechanism responsive to the traveling unit, an improvement which com... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4307483 | Traveling pneumatic cleaner with noise reducer A noise abating enclosure is positioned beneath and movable with the overhead-mounted blower fan housing of a traveling pneumatic cleaner, and is provided with an upwardly opening air flow inlet passage in a medial portion thereof which communicates with ... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4294066 | Method and apparatus for displaying specific spinning machine operating conditions Apparatus and method for facilitating efficient management of manufacture by ring spinning machines in a textile mill through the use of a data system wherein sensors are provided on each machine for signalling operating characteristics of the machines, a... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4294065 | Method and apparatus for facilitating maintenance of spinning machine information system Apparatus and method for facilitating maintenance of a data system gathering information regarding the operating conditions of ring spinning machines in a textile mill wherein at least one traveling unit, supported for travel along a predetermined path fo... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4292800 | Textile machine data link apparatus An improvement in a data link, such as is used for continuously transferring data concerning operations of textile yarn forming machines such as ring spinning frames, wherein a transmitter and receiver each use particular combinations of oscillators and p... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4198726 | Traveling pneumatic cleaner filter An improvement in a traveling pneumatic cleaner for vacuum collection of fiber waste from a textile mill room in the form of a filter disposed in a receptacle for separating fiber waste from an air current passing through the receptacle. The filter define... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4194349 | Apparatus and method for gathering and displaying information Apparatus and method for displaying information regarding the operating conditions of ring spinning machines in a textile mill wherein at least one traveling unit, supported for travel along a predetermined path for traversing one or more ring spinning ma... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4112665 | Plural sensor ends down detecting apparatus An improved sensor arrangement for use in an apparatus which travels a detector along ttextilestrand processing machines such as spinning frames for determining the absence of ends of yarn from locations therealong at which such ends normally are present ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4000603 | Textile yarn spinning machine with supply strand interruption Positive interruption of supply strand feeding to drafting systems of a textile yarn spinning machine is assured by the cooperation of rings for threadingly receiving corresponding supply strands and plugs for positively entrapping a threadingly received ... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3935108 | Changeover valves with bypass and bent valving Changeover valves are provided for a dual filter system which are characterized by auxiliary bypass and vent valving to facilitate changing over from one filter to the other. The bypass valving allows a process fluid to fill the second filter while the fi... | 01/27/1976 |
