Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110020645 | FISHING LINE OF CORE-SHEATH STRUCTURE COMPRISING SHORT FIBER The present invention provides a yarn comprising a composite yarn composed of a core part comprising a short fiber and a sheath part comprising a synthetic fiber filament yarn, the core part and the sheath part being integrated via fluff of the short fiber getting betwe... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100281842 | ELASTIC COMPOSITE YARNS AND WOVEN FABRICS MADE THEREFROM, AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME Composite yarns have a filamentary core provided with at least one elastic performance filament and at least one inelastic control filament. A fibrous sheath, preferably formed from spun staple fibers, surrounds the filamentary core, preferably substantially along the e... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100089017 | Composite yarn, method for obtaining same and resulting textile structure A composite yarn for technical or industrial use, particularly suitable for textile webs, is uniformly coated with a polymer and exhibits improved fir behaviour and improved resistance to sheath stripping. The yarn may be obtained by a process where a continuous yarn, o... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20090044510 | Core fiber detecting method and device in core yarn spinning The presence/absence of a core fiber in a core yarn is reliably detected to prevent production of a core fiber-free core yarn. In a method for producing a core yarn C by wrapping a fiber bundle S around a core fiber F, the core yarn C is spun with a core fiber F content... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20080268734 | ELASTIC COMPOSITE YARNS AND WOVEN FABRICS MADE THEREFROM, AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME Composite yarns have a filamentary core provided with at least one elastic performance filament and at least one inelastic control filament. A fibrous sheath, preferably formed from spun staple fibers, surrounds the filamentary core, preferably substantially along the e... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080022650 | Composite yarn and process for producing the same A process for producing composite yarns comprises the steps of first wrapping a second yarn around the perimeter of and along the length of a first yarn and then heating the yarn intermediate produced by such wrapping to produce a composite yarn. When a heat-shrinkable ... | 01/31/2008 |
