Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7232777 | Yarns and fabrics having a wash-durable antimicrobial silver particulate finish Durable silver particulate treatments for yarns and textile fabrics are provided. Such treatments provide, as one example, an antimicrobial fiber and/or textile fabric which remains on the surface and retains its antimicrobial characteristics after a substantial num... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7080412 | Insect barrier garment Lower body, upper body, and hood garments formed of a textile that inhibit the ability of insects or small animals to bite or sting the wearer. The textile of the garments have a base fabric and a cover fabric separated by a spacer layer. The base fabric is open to ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6981394 | Textile fabric having randomly arranged yarn segments of variable texture and crystalline orientation A knit fabric wherein at least a portion of the interconnected yarn loops are formed from segments of a common yarn of multi-filament construction. In the fabric the common yarn includes a first group of yarn segments having a first average cross-sectional filament ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6936076 | Textile substrate having coating containing multiphase fluorochemical, cationic material, and sorbant polymer thereon, for image printing A textile coated with a coating having a multiphase fluorochemical, a cationic material, and a sorbant polymer. A printed image is subsequently placed on the coated textile. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6749641 | Textile substrate having coating containing multiphase fluorochemical, organic cationic material, and sorbant polymer thereon, for image printing A textile coated with a coating having a multiphase fluorochemical, an organic cationic material, and a sorbant polymer. A printed image is subsequently placed on the coated textile. ... | 06/15/2004 |
