"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London ; 1830
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7263587 | Unified memory controller A unified memory controller (UMC) is disclosed. The UMC may be used in a digital television (DTV) receiver. The UMC allows the DTV receiver to use a unified memory. The UMC accepts memory requests from various clients, and determines which requests should receive pr... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7237272 | Protective clothing and flexible mesh from interwoven metal rings for production of protective clothing A flexible mesh of interwoven metal rings for production of protective clothing is provided with one or more recesses in which an oblong stiffening element is arranged, which latter consists of a metal strap made from a spring material and is provided with holes at ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225639 | Expandable ring design and method for making same An expandable jewelry ring. The ring has a split circular spring made of springy metal and having first and second ends separated by a gap. A tongue portion extends from the first end of the spring and into the gap. A mounting is made of metal and has a generally sp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7108233 | Wire ring net for rocky wall barriers and method for making it A wire ring net, particularly for providing barriers for rocky walls and the like comprises a plurality of braided wire rings, each wire ring comprising, at a starting end of its wire, a first curled portion wound about the wire of the first turn and, at the termina... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105465 | Papermaking belts and industrial textiles with enhanced surface properties An industrial textile including a polymeric substrate and a resin system grafted onto the polymeric substrate by way of a primer. The resin system includes a water-borne thermoplastic, a polyhydroxyether resin and/or an analogue of a polyhydroxyether resin, and at l... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6910587 | Gumbo separator methods and apparatuses A separator system for separating first material from second material, in one aspect for separating gumbo from drilling fluid, a combination of the first material and second material introducible to the separator system, the separator system having a screen conveyor... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6699540 | Materials of packing and packing made from the materials A packing material wherein one or a plurality of hard metal wire and one or a plurality of soft metal wire are tied up or twisted in a bundle to construct a weft material wherein the ratio of the number of the former to the number of the later is 1:1-0.3,... | 03/02/2004 |
| 5334440 | Wire-link belt A wire-link, such as a filament-link belt for process purposes, in particular one serving as a clothing for paper-making machines, with a plurality of juxtaposed, mutually engaging wire-coils comprising end-arcs enclosing plug-in wires and turn-legs conne... | 08/02/1994 |
| 4796749 | Spiral link belt with composite helices A spiral link belt comprising a multiplicity of synthetic resin helices consisting of flat winding lets and winding arcs with the winding arcs of a helix meshing in zipper fashion with the winding arcs of the adjacent helix. Pintle wires are inserted into... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4696852 | Spiral link belt of reduced air permeability and method of producing same The spiral link belt consists of a multiplicity of synthetic resin helices in which the windings of one helix mesh with the windings of the adjacent helices in zipper fashion. Pintle wires are inserted into the channels formed by the meshing windings of e... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4695015 | Improvements relating to belts of inter-woven spiral wires A spiral wire, comprising adjacent thread spirals (1) positioned in pairs with loops thereof interlapping to form transverse rows of loops in the wire, and linking threads (2) inserted in the rows of loops. The opposite ends of the spiral wire are interco... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4681287 | Spiral wire and a method of manufacturing such a wire A spiral wire and a method of manufacturing a spiral wire comprising adjacent spirals (1) positioned in pairs with their loops (1a) intermeshing to form rows of loops in the transverse direction of the wire, and link threads (2) inserted in the rows. The ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4575472 | Double helix, spiral belts made therefrom Double helices each comprising two helix elements made from plastic wire with the longitudinal axes of the two helix elements extending in parallel and with the windings of the two helix elements intertwined, the double helices being formed by winding two... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4520065 | Flat link band of wire coils, wire coil for the production of such a link band and process for the production of such a wire coil A flat link band of wire coils, a wire coil for the production of such a link band, and the process for the production of such a wire coil, where the wire coils are fabricated from an elastic material such as plastic. Each turn of the wire coil includes a... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4488347 | Method of and apparatus for arranging helical coils in interdigitated side-by-side disposition A method and apparatus is proposed for the simultaneous joining together of a multiplicity of individual helical coils in forming a link belt section intended for co-operation with other like sections to produce a link belt of a requisite length, coils of... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4477959 | Method and devices for constructing a shackled conveyor belt from helical elements A method and apparatus for assembling a shackled conveyor belt from prepared helical elements having alternately a left handed thread and a right handed thread in a movable helical element connector which feeds individual helical elements towards the end ... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4440367 | Barrier-type metal wire fabric and its manufacture A barrier-type metal wire fabric which is substantially free of transverse passages while providing desired travel path flexibility is disclosed along with methods and means for its manufacture. Shaped wire with at least two diametrically opposed planar s... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4423543 | Method for the production of a link-belt The application discloses a dimensionally stable link-belt comprising a multiplicity of helical coils arranged in interdigitated side-by-side disposition and connected together by respective hinge wires threaded therethrough, and also a method for produci... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4396041 | Barrier-type metal wire fabric and its manufacture A barrier-type metal wire fabric which is substantially free of transverse passages while providing desired travel path flexibility is disclosed along with methods and means for its manufacture. Shaped wire with at least two diametrically opposed planar s... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4345730 | Method for the production of a link-belt and a link-belt produced thereby The application discloses a dimensionally stable link-belt comprising a multiplicity of helical coils arranged in interdigitated side-by-side disposition and connected together by respective hinge wires threaded therethrough, and also a method for produci... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4124183 | Roll of wire mesh of the chain-link fencing type Chain-link fencing reticulated wire mesh having square or rhomboidal mesh and formed from wire spirals which are interengaged is rolled in a compact roll with the aid of at least one and up to three elongated elements or binding strands which extend in tr... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4049224 | Chain-link fencing package and method of making same Chain-link fencing consisting of a mesh of interlinked wire coils is flattened so as to have an overall thickness perpendicular to the plane of the mesh equal to between two and five times the diameter of the wire constituting the coils. Thereupon the fla... | 09/20/1977 |