"The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it...knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient."
Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French surgeon ; 1839
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7018118 | Hub and detectable spool An improved detectable spool for use with a ribbon includes an improved hub which includes a core and an indication member. The indication member is a generally planar metallic member that is substantially embedded in or is otherwise mounted to the core, with the in... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6997629 | Supply items for printers and the like, and method of loading supply items Improvements that facilitate loading of supply items into data bearing identification or financial document production equipment. Supply items include web materials that are used in data bearing identification or financial document production equipment, and which ar... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6874725 | Hub and detectable spool An improved detectable spool for use with a ribbon includes an improved hub which includes a core and an indication member. The indication member is a generally planar metallic member that is substantially embedded in or is otherwise mounted to the core, with the in... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6631574 | Tubular roll core with display The tubular core of a rolled product (e.g., toilet tissue, foil, plastic wrap, paper towels, etc.) includes an advertising or other display thereon, visible to consumers when the product has been removed from the roll. The display may be applied directly ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6557795 | Winding reel, veneer winding device, device for delivering tape to veneer roll, veneer roll unwinding device, and method of manufacturing plywood A take-up reel has a diameter equal to or more than 85 times a thickness of a veneer sheet wound thereon and equal to or more than 300 mm so as to be of a curvature of the take-up reel to reduce cracking in parallel to fiber orientations that occurs in wi... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6402086 | Paper roller including promotional indicia An improved paper roller for carrying sheets of product such as bathroom tissue, paper towels, aluminum foil, cellophane wrap, gift wrap, and the like is presented, the improvement being the inclusion of promotional printed indicia on the roller. The prom... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5789044 | Zeolite molecular sieves for packaging structures The invention relates to a method improving the storage qualities of a container or film holder comprising providing a container wherein at least a portion of the structure of said container comprises a molecular sieve or calcium, magnesium, or aluminum s... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5722613 | Easy reel device A easy reel device including a spool. The spool has a pair of spool rims with a cylindrical member for allowing material to be wrapped therearound when positioned between the pair of spool rims. Each spool rim has an interior side with a channel. An axle ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5405101 | Supporting core for wound-up recording media A hollow-cylindrical supporting core for pancakes which is produced from recyclable plastic by injection molding is described, the arms, which may be angled off, which extend from the gating point and run to the inside diameter of the supporting core rema... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5398884 | Edge reinforcing endcap for dispensing film An endcap for simultaneously dispensing and hemming film from a roll while an operator is wrapping a load. An endcap is inserted into each end of a roll of film and an operator manually dispenses the film. The endcap includes an insert, a base, and a flan... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5326113 | Single acting core chuck The pneumatically actuated core chuck described and shown has a compression ram movable with respect to a sleeve to force jaws to expand outwardly for engagement of the interior of a core of web material. The jaws are pivotally mounted by means of links e... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5240199 | Balloon holding device The subject device is a balloon holding device adapted to be attached to a balloon string and functioning to prevent a balloon filled with a lighter-than-air gas from rising above a given tethered length, such device comprising in general a spool member h... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5046678 | Binding tape reel having a tape cleaning tool A reel on which a supply of binding tape is mounted. The reel has a hub adapted to be mounted on a shaft with at least one flange extending radially outwardly therefrom. The flange is adapted to engage a braking member to maintain the binding tape unwindi... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5000396 | Film spool with integral battery component A photographic film spool, having a central core member (for engagement with a camera film-spool anchoring and rewinding element), contains an integral battery component for electrically powering selected camera functions. The battery, comprised of one or... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4990040 | Bracing device for preserving the shape of large coils An insertable hub-shaped bracing device for preserving the shape of large coils, consisting of a circular disk having a U-shaped cross-section and a cylindrical opening in its center, the disk being insertable in the cylindrical cores of large coils.... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4678135 | Control of line wrapping on reel, by reel groove design Apparatus is provided for wrapping a line, the line having an average cross section dimension D, and includes a reel having an axis of rotation, a hub outer surface extending about said axis, and two axially spaced flange surfaces which face one another, ... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4648343 | Band magazine with anchor band The invention relates to a device for attaching anchors, especially to sailing and motor boats and includes a strong, flat, flexible band which is comparatively thin in relation to its width and is attached to the anchor at one end and connected at its ot... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4274605 | Reel technology The use-registering reel for flexible tape has a pair of lateral disk-like members in spaced parallel relationship united to an axially centered core structure. The core structure includes an axial hub and a cylindrical tape-support member at its radially... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4267630 | Method of fabrication of coreless hollow filament separatory module Method of manufacturing a coreless separatory module utilizing a drum with outwardly projecting vanes having tips spaced greater than the desired length of ultimate bundle and after winding, sliding the bundle axially of the drum and cutting between vanes... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4247058 | Axial flow continuous loop film storage spool apparatus This invention provides for the edgewise storage of a filmstrip in the cavity between two concentric drums. The filmstrip is wound into the cavity between the two drums by a feed roller and pressure rollers as the drums rotate synchronously. The feed roll... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4018401 | Yarn tube with slant cut end A tube usable on an automatic yarn tube winding machine of the type requiring a space between tubes on the winding spindle and between the tubes and the spindle shoulder for permitting yarn being wound on the tube to contact knives on the spindle for a se... | 04/19/1977 |