Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7640880 | Automatic sewing device for hosiery knitting machines An automatic sewing device (1), particularly for hosiery knitting machines, characterized in that it comprises a supporting arm (2, 3, 4) for an oscillating means (7, 8), which comprises at least one first oscillating assembly (7), consti... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7290409 | Method and device for handling a tubular knitted article, in particular a sock A method to orient a tubular knitted article, such as a sock or the like, with respect to a pocket of fabric, for example the heel or toe pocket of said article. The method comprises the phases of: stretching an article on a tubular member (1) so that an inte... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7049621 | Apparatus and method for detecting the orientation of textile products such as stockings and socks The orientation of textile articles such as stockings and socks having closed or open toe are detected by a method and apparatus, in a plant for the automatic treatment of articles in which the articles are pneumatically moved. A machine (6) requires the arti... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044071 | Apparatus and method for automatically orienting hosiery articles for closing toe ends thereof An apparatus for orienting sock blanks or the like so that the open toes of the blanks can be sewn closed includes a device for turning the sock inside out, a sock rotation device for grasping the sock and rotating it until sensors detect that the sock is in the pro... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6341570 | Method and apparatus for sewing the toe of a sock A method of sewing the toe of a sock is provided which can automatically take out a sock pattern of knitted fabric from a sock knitting machine and sew up the selvedge at the toe portion of the sock pattern of knitted fabric thus improving both the effici... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6158367 | Apparatus and method for automatically orienting hosiery articles for closing toe ends thereof An apparatus for orienting open-toe sock blanks includes a tube for receiving a sock blank sleeved thereover such that the open toe end of the blank extends beyond the end of the tube, a clamping mechanism for engaging the blank against the tube and for r... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5669321 | Stocking-holder shape for pantyhose sewing machine Improved stocking-holder shape comprising two contouring flat elements that can be stretched apart under control, wherein each of said flat elements is provided, in correspondence of the respective outer side, with a flexible and elastic body which has on... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5277139 | Sewing apparatus A sewing apparatus and method for receiving tubular knit fabric from a pre-knitted roll and making the fabric into foot covers. The fabric is first passed through an unique spreader which is mounted at the end of a pivotal boom adjacent a sewing machine. ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5165355 | Method and apparatus for handling hosiery blanks A system for automatically producing pantyhose garments from elongated tubular fabric blanks, each having a toe end portion and a welt or band end portion. Randomly oriented blanks are sequentially removed from a supply reservoir, oriented in a predetermi... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5058516 | Apparatus for automatically positioning pantyhose materials in a panty part sewing machine An apparatus for automatically positioning welt portions and garter lines of pantyhose materials by aligning upper and lower positions in relation to each other for carrying out a pantyhose panty part seaming process, in which when detection sensors detec... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4957051 | Automatic fitting apparatus for hose part of half made pantyhose An automatic fitting apparatus for holding and forwarding a pair of tubular hose parts of half made pantyhose to a panty part sewing maching includes a forwarding mechanism, a transfer device, movable back and forth to transfer the parts to a table, capab... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4784070 | Pantihose manufacture For the manufacture of pantihose, a gusset inserting machine is coupled to a hosiery machine such as a boarding or toe closing machine, for automatic transfer or gussetted pantihose to the latter machine, by a first transfer mechanism which strips pantiho... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4598656 | Device for the transfer of collants and the like to a relevant sewing machine and drawing device The invention relates to a device for automatically supplying tubular fabrics to a machine providing for pairing, cutting and sewing thereof to partially form such articles as pantyhose, drawers or the like. The partially formed article then transferred k... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4576318 | Pantyhose crotch edge stretching apparatus and method Apparatus and method for removing wrinkles from a pantyhose portion surrounding a crotch area to which a gusset is applied, the pantyhose having a pair of leg portions and a panty portion, which comprises an edge stretcher for stretching the edge portion ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4538534 | Apparatus and method for processing hosiery blanks A hosiery toe closing machine is provided with automatic hosiery donning means for drawing successive hosiery blanks onto successive hosiery carriers as they move into position at a hosiery receiving station of the hosiery toe closing machine. A hot wire ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4532875 | Process and a machine for the automatic transfer of pantyhose from a machine which produces a pantyhose with seams to a gusset-sewing machine Apparatus for automatically transferring pantyhose from a machine producing pantyhose with seams to a gusset-sewing machine, which includes a pronged catching device for a rapid and correct elastic catching or grabbing of the garment with its prongs which... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4485749 | Control device for controlling the application of a gusset to a tubular article Control device for use with a carrousel-type machine for applying a gusset to a pantyhose article. The control device senses the presence of the pantyhose article on a support and then transfers the gusset to the pantyhose article when it is on the suppor... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4267785 | Automatic apparatus for feeding and fitting a gore piece to the inside thigh opening of a stocking material A material strip is intermittently delivered from a supply reel, gore pieces are separated one after another from the material strip after trimming into a diamond shape by means of a pair of cutters, and individual gore piece is fed and fitted, in a folde... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4089279 | Apparatus for the manufacture of reinforced panties An improved technique for automatically producing a reinforced, peripherally contoured fabric blank adapted to be folded over and sewn to form a finished panty is described. A plurality of fabric segments to the central portion of which an underlying rein... | 05/16/1978 |
