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Patent No. 5205055

Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus

This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.

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Attorney: Hendershot; Michael L.


Number of patents: 12
Last date: January 15, 1980

NumberTitleIssue Date
4183362Decreasing the burn rate of smoking tobaccos
The burn rate of tobacco is decreased without impairment of its quality of smoking by the application thereto of small amounts of certain salts, preferably hydrated magnesium chloride, which upon heating exhibit a plurality of endothermic reactions at suc...
01/15/1980
4174720Glue transfer apparatus for cigarette filters
A filter is formed by placing increments of glue in spaced apart relation on a moving stream of plug wrap paper and thereafter depositing alternating fibrous filter sections on the glue increments. Particulate marterial is then deposited between the fibro...
11/20/1979
4171635Apparatus for measuring smoke dilution in a vented-filter cigarette
As a puff generator draws a volume of smoke and air through the vented-filter cigarette air is drawn from a ventilation cylinder to cause a piston to travel to a dead center position. The amount of movement of this piston is a measure of an amount of air ...
10/23/1979
4157370Apparatus and method for compacting multi-sectional particulate containing filters
A multi-sectional filter tip assembly is initially made with two charcoal filter sections and alternate sections of cellulose acetate fibrous material with a fibrous section at each end. The filter tip assembly is then compacted by a pin compactor which p...
06/05/1979
4149545Cigarette making and packing system
Two cigarette making machines are interconnected to a single cigarette packing machine via a transfer system which uses individual conveyors to convey the cigarettes from each making machine to a single chute leading to the packing machine. The flow of ci...
04/17/1979
4116602Apparatus for compacting multi-sectional particulate containing filters
A multi-sectional filter tip assembly is initially made with two charcoal filter sections and alternate sections of cellulose acetate fibrous material with a fibrous section at each end. The filter tip assembly is then compacted by a pin compactor which p...
09/26/1978
4109666Cigarette filter
A filter tipped cigarette includes a cylindrical tobacco section and a cylindrical filter axially aligned therewith. The filter is comprised of an axially aligned tube extending from said tobacco section, a layer of filter material positioned circumferent...
08/29/1978
4063494Apparatus for making filter rods for cigarettes
The apparatus employs two cutting discs which are spaced apart from each other laterally to sever plugs of different lengths from a travelling rod of filter material. The plugs alternate in size, for example, between 24 millimeters and 14 millimeters and ...
12/20/1977
4063633Vacuum plug feed machine
An apparatus for the high speed transportation of cigarette filter rods from a magazine containing the rods to a transfer drum. The apparatus has a magazine, a downwardly extended chute connected to the magazine adapted to receive filter rods singularly, ...
12/20/1977
4052993Cinnamic derivatives as tobacco additives
Cinnamic derivatives, especially the methyl or ethyl ethers of cinnamyl alcohol, para-methoxycinnamyl alcohol, and para-ethoxycinnamyl alcohol, are added to tobacco to improve the flavor and aroma of the tobacco and tobacco smoke....
10/11/1977
4037524Apparatus for combining a tube with a cigarette filter
The machine produces a filter rod made up of a cylinder of tow and spaced apart hollow plastic tubes within the tow. The machine includes a means for supplying a continuous tow stream to an injection station below a rotatable wheel which delivers the plas...
07/26/1977
3949107Method of polishing floors
A method of forming a bright-drying floor finish on a resilient flooring comprising applying a polish containing an aqueous dispersion of fine particles of a resin with a Tg of 30° to 80°C to a flooring, preferably a resilient flooring, with at least on...
04/06/1976
 
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