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A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123155 | Fence wire stretching device A fence wire stretching device is provided having a square shape made up of five leg portions, three of which form three of the sides of the square. The fourth side of the square has a proximal leg portion and a distal leg portion that are pivotally attached togethe... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7806358 | Yarn tension control device A yarn tension control device controls tension in a running yarn. The tension control device includes a housing having a yarn guiding inlet for receiving running yarn at an unwinding tension from a yarn supply source, and a yarn guiding outlet for guiding running ya... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7360735 | Device for the attachment of a card clothing with a force measuring device The present invention relates to a device for winding a card clothing onto a roll with a roll drive unit and a braking device acting on the card clothing for generating a winding pretension in a region of the card clothing between roll and braking device. To be able... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7325766 | Automatic bobbin winder system A housing has major and minor surfaces creating major and minor chambers. A motor secured within the minor chamber has a drive shaft extending upwardly through the minor surface. A power source is within the major chamber. Electrical components control the motor. | 02/05/2008 |
| 7229044 | Compensating disk tension controller An improved tension controller for a strand to achieve constant downstream tension regardless of tension variation in the upstream strand has a pair of tensioning plates (9, 10) between which the strand upstream (3), downstream (5) is compressed... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7201272 | Consumer tote for wallpaper printer A consumer tote for a roll of wallpaper is disclosed. The tote has a disposable exterior with a main access flap and a pair of core access openings, one at each end. The tote has an interior in which may be located a disposable core. The core aligns with the access ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182212 | Floating lifting device The invention relates to a floating lifting device, using two movable lifting structures (13, 14) which can be alternatively engaged with broaden support members (5, 6, 7) of a cable (4). The cable (4) is stored substantially without tens... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7147102 | Consumer tote with core A consumer tote for a roll of wallpaper is provided. The tote comprises a disposable exterior in which formed a main access flap and a pair of axially disposed core access openings. The tote has an interior in which is located a disposable core which is aligned with... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124674 | Protective spool dispenser and cutter The present invention relates to a protective spool dispenser that is portable, efficient and convenient for dispensing line. The dispenser has four corner members and upper and lower sidebars, forming a box-like outer frame. A crossbar extends between two adjacent ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7063245 | System for dispensing plurality of wet wipes There is provided a wet wipes dispensing system. The system includes a plurality of separably joined wet wipes and the plurality of separably joined wet wipes include a lubricant. The system also includes a dispenser including a sealed chamber, the sealed chamber ho... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055718 | Ticket dispenser drawer A drawer for the storage, display, and dispensing apparatus for dispensing tickets of various sizes without the use of moving parts. The dispensing apparatus includes a bin for storing tickets and a dispensing slot utilizing tension arms to guide and control the dis... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044416 | Tensioning board for slit metal rewinding An apparatus for tensioning strips of metal as the metal strips are rewound comprises a board having a top surface defining a groove and a tray having opposed side portions and opposed end portions and disposed in the groove. Each of the side portions of the tray ha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7014065 | Dispenser for series-connected tickets An improved dispenser for displaying and dispensing lottery tickets utilizes a dispensing slot with tension arms to provide tension to tickets of varying thicknesses. The dispensing slot is cut into a door at an end of a box-like structure, which holds the tickets. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007777 | Thread brake and textile machines and thread feed devices equipped therewith The invention relates to a thread brake with a holding means (17), a bearing pin (25), which has an assembly section (24) disposed in the holding means (17) and a bearing section (26) projecting out of the holding means (17)... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994290 | Magnetic tape manufacturing apparatus The magnetic tape manufacturing apparatus draws out a wide web-like magnetic tape material wound in roll form from the delivery side, slits the magnetic tape material into a plurality of narrow magnetic tapes by use of a slitter while transporting the magnetic tape ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6964392 | Variable strip tensioner A tensioner for use in a coil slitting line includes segmented resistance surfaces with a plurality of actuators for urging the resistance surfaces against the slit strips to cause a different tension to be imparted to different strips. ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6938849 | Device and process for removing the defective end portions from yarn on a package fed to an automatic winder Device and process for the automatic elimination of the defective start and end portions from packages of yarn fed to the units of an automatic winder using the same members thereof for reattaching the ends eliminating said portion from them, by suction with the suc... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6805271 | Single hand, paper towel sheet dispenser The present invention is directed to a single hand, paper towel sheet dispenser comprising a base and a core holder operable to hold a roll of paper towel segments. A paper towel dispensing bale is pivotally connected to the base, the dispensing bale includes in inn... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6805315 | Drag board assembly and method of applying a contact pad to a drag board A drag board for use in a coil processing line for tensioning or wiping a continuous line of strip material using a substrate to which is selectively secured a contact pad. The leading edge section of the substrate is constructed and arranged for receiving a locking... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6702224 | Magazine for a plurality of reels of tape provided with a device for selecting a reel to be used and a reel to be replaced A magazine for a plurality of reels of tape provided with a device for selecting a reel of tape to be used, comprising a plurality of supports for the reels, which can slide on a guide so that the reels form a stack whose axis is parallel to the guide, el... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6702218 | Thread-feed device, comprising an adjustable thread-guide unit A modular yarn feeder having a basic carrier on which additional modules can be secured as needed by suitable coupling devices. This makes the yarn feeder more adaptable to different kinds of use and different situations.... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6691744 | Actuator and thread brake comprising an actuator An actuator (A) for a component (2), comprising at least one defined stop position, in particular to a brake component actuator of a yarn brake (B), for a selective braking of a running yarn (Y) which actuator has a drive element (D) for linear or rotatio... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6684498 | Cable management system A cable management system comprising a cable flex radius system having at least two opposing curved surfaces to control flex radius of a cable linking a stationary system to a dynamic system is disclosed. The cable management system also comprises a cable... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6669130 | Feeding string Method of and apparatus for feeding string involving entraining the string around two godet rolls and driving one or both rolls in the direction for feeding the string forward. The string entrained around the rolls is tensioned by retarding the string ups... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6644583 | Wire rope tensioning device A tensioning device for providing tension to a length of running cable or line (e.g., wire rope) as it is being wound onto a drum. The tensioning device has a tubular housing in two longitudinal halves, the tubular housing halves hingeably joined along on... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6578787 | Method and bobbin holder for manufacturing a fishing fly A method and bobbin holder for manufacturing a fishing fly includes a check member for elastically and frictionally engaging the line to provide tension in the line and prevent slackening or loosening of the line when the line is drawn from the bobbin or ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6572047 | Yarn brake and yarn feeding device having a yarn brake A ring-shaped, thin walled braking body with a circumferentially continuous and conical braking surface in a yarn brake for a yarn feeding device. The braking body is held by a first spring assembly in its outer region in a ring-shaped carrying structure.... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6439488 | Tensioning device for circular knitting machine A textile machine for processing yarn including a yarn tensioning device comprising a generally C-shaped frame having a generally vertical leg carrying generally parallel and horizontal arms in spaced positions along one side thereof each having a yarn gu... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6340129 | Method for operating a workstation of a cheese-producing textile machine A method for operating a work station (10) of a cheese-making textile machine. A work station computer (32) communicates with a tensile yarn force sensor (54) for monitoring the tensile yarn force of a yarn (22) traveling from a supply bobbin (12) to a ta... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6328081 | Weft tension brake control A method for controlling electrically actuated weft brakes for automatically adjusting mechanical tension of a weft thread in textile machines with mechanical insertion, comprising the steps of: generating and modulating an excitation current of an actuat... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6283399 | Yarn tension device A yarn braking device, in particular a double plate brake for textile yarns running from bobbin creels, with two pairs of brake plates through which the yarn passes and whose top and bottom plates are to be pressed together adjustably in order to tension ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6267322 | Toilet paper or paper towel dispenser This invention relates to a device which offers a person the convenience of tearing off with one hand any length of a flexible sheet material, typically toilet paper or kitchen towel, from a roll at a line of weakness (perforation) in the sheet. The devic... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6164584 | Winding machine An apparatus for winding a wire about a component having a plurality of slots. The apparatus includes a rotatable gripper mechanism for gripping the component and rotating the component about a transverse axis of the component, the gripper mechanism being... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6161595 | Yarn tensioning device A movable brake shoe (32) is mounted in a yarn brake (23). The yarn brake (33) includes two brake shoes (31, 32) arranged to brake a yarn (3) running between them. Actuating devices (33, 34) allow mutual compression of the brake shoes (31, 32). The movabl... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6123283 | Automatic winding machine To provide an automatic winding machine wherein even if a yarn splicing operation is carried out during the reduction of yarn winding tension at the time of winding yarn splicing, the subsequent winding tension can be maintained at an appropriate value de... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6119733 | Controllable weft thread presenting and clamping apparatus including an actuated clamp element A weft thread clamp for a weft thread presenting lever is positively actuated to selectively open or close the clamp and thereby release or hold the weft thread respectively. To achieve this, a second clamp element is movable or deflectable relative to a ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6065711 | Yarn brake and textile machine and yarn feed device equipped therewith A yarn brake has a bearing pin, two brake elements for braking a yarn, the brake elements being mounted on the bearing pin for being rotated by the yarn in friction engagement with the brake elements when the yarn is consumed, at least one of the brake el... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5992203 | Coil holder for a sheet bending brake A combined sheet bending brake, coil holder and cut-off mechanism that includes a sheet bending brake having a support base, and elongated fixed and movable clamping members carried by the support base so as to clamp sheet stock extending longitudinally b... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5915947 | Tippet dispenser A tippet dispenser apparatus with several different spools each of which has a different diameter tippet on it. A common support shaft mounts each of the spools on it and this shaft is supported by a frame structure with two separate leg members. The fram... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5908169 | Device for processing at least two webs of material made of paper or plastic film A device for processing at least two webs of material made of paper or plastic film is provided with at least two rolls of material, each of which can be rotated in an unwind unit and from each of which a predrawing unit, comprising predrawing rollers or ... | 06/01/1999 |
