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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042577 | Seam press fabric A press fabric includes a substantially flat inner sleeve having first and second ends; and an outer sleeve around the inner sleeve and comprising at least one machine direction yarn wound around the inner sleeve and defining first and second seam loops at the first... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7980275 | Papermaker's press felt with long machine direction floats in base fabric A papermaker's press felt includes: a base fabric, comprising: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; and a set of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns and the bottom MD yarns. The top MD yarns, bottom MD... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7624767 | Dryer fabric and dryer fabric seam area A dryer fabric and a seam area of a dryer fabric. The basic structure of the dryer fabric having at least two superposed machine direction yarn systems. Some yarns of a paper side machine direction yarn system form seam loops at connecting ends and some of the paper... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7600538 | Seam fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper or paperboard Seam fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper or paperboard, includes a basic structure constructed as seam cloth with weft threads running in a belt longitudinal direction and warp threads running in a belt transverse direction. At the b... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7513277 | Low tensile creep belt An endless fabric belt subjected to a substantial running tension. The belt has an endless woven fabric formed from a plurality of MD (machine direction) ultra high molecular weight polymer strands approaching zero creep at high tensile loads. A plurality of CMD (cr... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7455078 | Non-marking endless woven press felt seam A method of making a seam for an endless woven multilayer papermakers fabric such as a press felt base fabric, comprises selecting a repeating weave pattern so as to provide during weaving a body portion woven as a double layer, and a shed change for the warp yarns ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7441566 | Machine direction yarn stitched triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics Triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having a set of top MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of top CMD yarns to form at least part of a top fabric layer and a set of bottom MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of bottom CMD yarns... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426944 | Double layer forming fabric with high center plane resistance Double layer forming fabrics, woven to an overall repeating weave pattern requiring at least 8 sheds in the loom, provide a low drainage area in a notional center plane between the paper and machine side layers, to resist and retard initial impingement drainage. Tra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7384515 | Four layer seam multi-axial fabric A fabric and a method of forming a fabric formed by the steps of providing an endless fabric having at least two layers of MD yarns, raveling CD yarns in an area of said endless fabric to be cut, cutting at least one layer of MD yarns at a first predetermined locati... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381308 | Seam for multiaxial papermaking fabrics A method of seaming an on-machine-seamable multiaxial papermaker's fabric to prevent yarn migration. The multiaxial fabric is in the form of an endless loop flattened into two layers along fold lines. CD yarns are removed from the folds to create extended ravel area... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7360560 | Single layer papermakers fabric A single layer papermakers fabric comprises machine direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with cross-machine direction (CD) weft yarns to a repeating weave pattern requiring N sheds in the loom, N being an integer and at least 4. Each warp yarn follows a path in the ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354636 | Flexible laminate material for lighter-than-air vehicles A laminate material for lighter-than-air vehicles includes a liquid crystal polymer fiber layer, a polyimide layer secured to the liquid crystal polymer fiber layer; and a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) layer secured to the polyimide layer. The layers are secured to... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343938 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric comprising pairs of an upper surface side warp and a lower surface side warp arranged vertically, and warp binding yarns woven with upper surface side wefts and lower surface side wefts to form a portion of an upper surface side surfac... | 03/18/2008 |
| RE40066 | Multi-layer forming fabric with stitching yarn pairs integrated into papermaking surface A multi-layer papermaker's forming fabric has stitching yarns integrated into the papermaking surface. Each of a plurality of repeating units of the fabric comprises: a set of top machine direction yarns; a set of top cross-machine direction yarns interwoven with th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7306014 | Industrial two-layer fabric In a lower surface side layer of an industrial two-layer fabric, warps are formed by sequentially arranging a repeating design unit, in which one warp passes over six successive lower surface side wefts, passes under one lower surface side weft, passes over two lowe... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7273074 | On-machine-seamable industrial fabric having seam-reinforcing rings An on-machine-seamable industrial fabric includes rings in the seam region. In one principal embodiment, the rings are between the seaming loops at the two ends of the fabric and enclose at least one cross-machine-direction (CD) yarn. As such, the rings strengthen t... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270151 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric which comprises eight pairs of warps obtained by arranging eight upper surface side warps and eight lower surface side warps, and a plurality of upper surface side wefts and lower surface side wefts, and has an upper surface side layer... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249615 | Paper machine clothing Paper machine clothing, such as a forming fabric formed by a large number of repeating units, wherein each repeat unit includes a paper-side woven structure having paper-side warp and weft threads and a machine-side woven structure having machine-side warp and weft ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7238259 | Methods of seaming A papermaker's fabric and a method of forming a papermaker's fabric, for installation in a papermaking machine. The papermaker's fabric having a plurality of cross-machine, a plurality of machine directional yarns, and a plurality of heat shrunk joints connecting en... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229531 | Method of seaming a multiaxial papermaking fabric to prevent yarn migration A method of seaming an on-machine-seamable multiaxial papermaker's fabric to prevent yarn migration. The multiaxial fabric is in the form of an endless loop flattened into two layers along fold lines. CD yarns are removed from the folds to create ravel areas. This l... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225838 | Method for producing a fabric in plain weaves and leno weaves and a loom for carrying out the method A loom simultaneously forms a plain weave (16) and a gauze weave (15) in a textile (9) in one weaving cycle. To form the plain weave (16), the adjacent warp threads (1L,2L) that are used to form the upp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216677 | Industrial two-layer fabric In an industrial two-layer fabric, running surface side wefts constituting the running surface side layer each has a design in which the running surface side weft passes over a running surface side warp, passes under two successive running surface side warps, passes... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207355 | Multi-axial seamed papermaking fabric and method A multi-axial seamed base fabric is provided that is formed from a spirally wound fabric strip having a width less than an overall width of the fabric that is joined together along neighboring adjacent edges of the strip to form a fabric tube. The fabric strip inclu... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207356 | Through air dryer fabric A through-air dryer (TAD) fabric formed by interweaving of a warp yarn system with a weft yarn system. The TAD fabric has a paper side with a contact area between 20% and 30%. The warp yarn system includes flat warp yarns and/or the weft yarn system includes flat we... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195040 | Papermaker's forming fabric with machine direction stitching yarns that form machine side knuckles A papermaking fabric includes a series of repeat units, each of the repeat units including: a first set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a second set of top MD yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the first and second sets of t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7168456 | Method and apparatus to remove yarns from the fringes of an industrial textile A method and apparatus for the removal of one or more lateral yarns from a woven industrial textile to prepare it for seaming. The apparatus consists of a movable table, a clamping device to hold the fabric, and a yarn removal device, consisting of a cutter and a co... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166349 | Grid of synthetic material The invention relates to a grid of synthetic material with two groups of parallel, load-bearing strands, wherein the strands of the first group extend in the longitudinal direction of the grid and the strands of the second group extend transversely to the longitudin... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7141144 | Multi-layer woven seam baseweave having different sized seam attachments A multi-layer woven papermaker's fabric having at least two sets of seam loops. Longer and a shorter seam attachment mechanisms are used to connect the bottom and top layer seam loops. The longer attachment mechanism in the top layer being over the shorter attachmen... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7135093 | Pin seamed papermaker's press felt with cross machine direction yarns woven in Dreher weave at seam loops A press felt for a papermaking machine includes: a base fabric comprising a plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns interwoven with a plurality of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns in a predetermined regular weave pattern, the MD yarns being divisible into upper... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128097 | Transparent seam spirals The present invention relates to a seam for use in joining a first end and a second end of a papermakers' fabric. The seam may include a first seaming spiral element attachable to the first end and a second seaming spiral element attachable to the second end. At lea... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7108019 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric comprises an upper layer fabric having upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts and a lower layer fabric having lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts. The upper layer fabric and the lower layer fabric are b... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7101404 | Paper machine clothing, especially press felt, as well as a method for manufacturing the paper machine clothing Paper machine clothing, especially a press felt (1), has a support (2) which has at least one layer of a thread lap (3, 4, 5, 13). The lap threads (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 38, 43, 44, 45) run parallel to one anothe... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093621 | Multi-pin pin seam for an industrial fabric The present invention relates to a multi-pin pin seam used to join the a woven fabric wherein the loops are made around three or more cross-machine CD pins or pintles. Advantageously, this arrangement results in the seam area having a weave pattern that more closely... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089968 | Seamed felts Paper making machine fabric comprising weft yarns extending in the machine direction (MD) and forming seaming loops at each end of the fabric, cross machine direction (CD) warp yarns being interwoven with the weft yarns, wherein that at least one multifilament warp ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077362 | Sieve tray for a sieve device A sieve tray for a sieve device that includes at least one sieve netting. The sieve netting includes wire netting having warp and weft wires mutually connected in a weave. The weave has mutually spaced alternating crossings extending diagonally with respect to the w... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073539 | Industrial two-layer fabric It is an object of the present invention to provide a fabric having superior surface property, fiber supporting property, wear resistance, water removing property, and rigidity. The fabric according to the present invention comprises an upper layer comprising an upp... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066214 | Narrow fabric needle loom for producing a strip-shaped tissue, and corresponding strip-shaped tissue The invention relates to a narrow fabric needle loom, comprising a shedding device forming a shed, and a weft insertion needle (12) for at least one weft loop (14). A knitting needle (26) is provided on the discharge end (20) of the shed ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059357 | Warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabrics A warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabric has a set of bottom warp yarns, a set of bottom weft yarns, a set of top weft yarns and a set of warp stitching yarn pairs. The bottom warp yarns are interwoven with the bottom weft yarns. The stitching warp yarns inter... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059358 | Open-ended base fabric for papermaking press felt and papermaking press felt The object of the present invention is to provide an open-ended base fabric for a papermaking press felt wherein the shape of seam loops are retained to facilitate the mounting operation of the press felt. The object is achieved by an open-ended base fabric f... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7036533 | Woven fabric belt device The woven fabric belt device includes a connecting device (7a′; 7b′) located at at least one end of the woven fabric belt (20′, 21′). The connecting device is connectable to another connecting device (7b′... | 05/02/2006 |
