Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7740786 | Process for making necked nonwoven webs having improved cross-directional uniformity Necked nonwoven webs having improved cross-directional uniformity are made by a process which includes the step (prior to neck stretching) of corrugating the nonwoven web to reduce its width from an initial width A to a reduced corrugated width B. The cross-directio... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7670528 | High flow fluid filtration systems and methods for manufacturing same The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of manufacturing filter cartridges are disclosed, the system including a tube of laminated and seamed filter media, a media unwind mechanism, a mandrel having a starting point operatively positioned proximate... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7367094 | Apparatus for imparting stretch to fabrics An apparatus for the treatment of fabric which comprises transport means (20, 26) for effecting relative movement between a heat and pressure application means and the fabric, whereby the passage of the fabric through the apparatus results in the yarns substa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7235115 | Method of forming self-supporting pleated filter media The method of forming pleated filter media includes providing a generally planar web of filter material, folding the web to form a pleated web having a plurality of fold lines, arranging the plurality of pleats in a first spaced configuration defined by a first dist... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7125375 | Dunnage conversion machine with translating grippers, and method and product A dunnage conversion machine for converting stock material into a dunnage product includes a forming assembly and a pulling assembly. The pulling assembly includes at least two grippers movable together through a transfer region in opposition to one another and coop... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7097803 | Process of making a corrugated net material The present invention is to provide a process of making a corrugated net material including the following steps. First prepare a net material with an adequate length, and then heat and soften the net material by means of a heating element. March the soften net mater... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7048885 | Method and apparatus for forming an embossed article An apparatus and process (20) for forming an embossed web or other article can include moving a target, composite web (26) along an appointed machine-direction (22) at a selected web speed, and operatively contacting the target web (26) w... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6932850 | Pleated filter and a method for making the same A filter may comprise a plurality of pleats, at least one pleat including a pair of pleat legs and pleat tip region. In some embodiments, a thickness of pleat tip region at a point spaced about one to four pleat leg thicknesses from the end of the pleat tip region m... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6818167 | Method of manufacturing rubber crawler In a method of manufacturing a rubber crawler through a first vulcanization step and a second vulcanization step using an upper mold, a middle mold and a lower mold, at least the middle mold is heated at each vulcanization step, and a vulcanizing circumferential len... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6767493 | Rubber crawler producing method It is to provide a method of manufacturing a rubber crawler which enhances a degree of freedom in the handling in a vulcanization-shaping of a crawler part and largely improves vulcanization shapability and operability and facilitates an arrangement of an auxiliary ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6726870 | Method for making a bulked web A method for making a bulky web. A web is fed in a first direction. The web is subjected to incremental stretching in a direction perpendicular to the first direction to provide a bulky web. The bulky web is then stabilized to provide a stabilized bulked web, Option... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6623587 | Method for making fibrous loop member The present invention relates to a method of making a fibrous loop member which can be used in disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, adult incontinence devices, sanitary napkins, and the like. The fibrous loop member includes a backing and a shee... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6511623 | Manufacturing method of filter element A manufacturing method for a filter element having a filter portion and a flange portion formed along an outer periphery of the filter portion to protrude outwardly. First, a corrugated intermediate product having plural ridges of the filter element is fo... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6506329 | Method for making a stable nonwoven web having enhanced extensibility in multiple direction The present invention provides a stable material having enhanced extensibility and a method for making the same. A neckable material is fed in a first direction. The neckable material is subjected to incremental stretching in a direction perpendicular to ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6497754 | Self ionizing pleated air filter system A pleated filter is provided with electrically conductive fibrous material that releases ions to improve trapping efficiency. The edges of folded filter media are rendered emitting as by attaching conductive strings to the edges of the folds. The ends of ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6461559 | Method for shaping strip-like films A method for the shaping of strip-like films (2) involves the following steps: a) A film strip (2) is continuously forwarded from a film supply to shaping units. b) The film strip (2) is pleated in a first shaping unit (11). In this, edges (21, 22) are pr... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6187381 | Process for preparing silica gel and process for producing dehumidifying element A process for preparing silica gel is disclosed. The silica gel is produced by immersing a base in silica sol, drying the impregnated base in a mixed solution of an alkali silicate and an alkali hydroxide, removing the impregnated base form the mixed solu... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5733403 | Product packaging material and its manufacturing method This invention relates to a product packaging material and method, and in particular to a product packaging material (27) formed from a length of rolled corrugated paper (20) and a method of manufacture therefor. There is provided a packaging material com... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5580409 | Methods for manufacturing articles of manufacture from hydraulically settable sheets Compositions and methods for manufacturing containers from sheets having a hydraulically settable matrix. Suitable compositions are prepared by mixing together a hydraulic binder, water, and appropriate additives (such as aggregates, fibers, and rheology-... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5577989 | Method for forming corrugated paper container and container made therefrom A method for forming a corrugated paperboard container and a container made therefrom having a first layer of flat paperboard to which is attached a second layer of contoured paperboard, said contoured layer having a plurality of flutes, each said flute i... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5468033 | Impact absorbing bumper mount and method of making Impact-absorbing bumper mount with two telescoping tubes, in particular for motor vehicles, to decelerate a vehicle via damping forces when the vehicle strikes an obstacle, whereby a work piston is guided in a sealed manner in one of the tubes, and with w... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5296065 | Method of forming workpieces by means of multi-sectional pressing members A forming assembly comprises two presser members (22,24) each having a corrugated surface for receiving a workpiece made up of generally diamond-shaped pockets (10). Each presser member is made up of sections (22a,22b; 24a, 24b) mounted on slide rods (38)... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5100496 | System for fabricating a convolutely wound tube An improved system for fabricating convolutely wound tubes includes a supply roll support for supporting a large supply of paperboard, an adhesive applicator for receiving paperboard from the supply roll and applying a coating of adhesive to one side ther... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5064598 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing a pleated filter insert A process and apparatus for the manufacture of a pleated filter insert made of a thermoplastic material. The pleat walls are maintained at a distance with the filter pleats open in the direction of outflow of the filter insert by elongated ribs made of th... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4980003 | Method for producing zigzagged plastic strand and forming into multiple-hook fastener media U.S. Pat. No. 4,615,084 disclosed and claimed a method for making multiple-hook fasteners and the resulting multiple-hooks. A strand of stiffly flexible bendable settable polymeric plastic material is zig-zagged back and forth cross a centerline, with sha... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4921643 | Web processing with two mated rolls A machine and process for a web of material employing two side-by-side sets of spaced apart driven disks adapted to rotate respectively in opposite directions about two spaced apart parallel axes, the axes being sufficiently close that peripheral margins ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4604792 | Method for making electro-acoustic transducer apparatus The method of making the diaphragm includes pressing on the front face of a film at spaced apart areas to deform it progressively into a series of closely-spaced generally U-shaped projections. A manufacturing device presses the sides of the projections i... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4594162 | Pleated filter and method and apparatus for fabricating same A filter for separating constituent components of fluids includes a plural-layer sheet-like member which is multiply pleated to provide layers of the same or different porosity or to provide structural support layers for pleating a soft or membrane-like f... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4400338 | Method for making sealant The method of making a deformable sealant strip having a continuous strip of rigid corrugated material embedded longitudinally within mastic material wherein a continuous linear-rigid spacer is first corrugated and then fed in this condition into an extru... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4289725 | Material web for the manufacture of filter rods for tobacco products and apparatus and process for producing such web The invention relates to a longitudinally creped paper web for use in the manufacture of filter rods. In order to improve the filtering capacity and resistance to flow therethrough without weakening filter plugs formed from the web in respect of resistanc... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4279679 | Method of manufacturing insulating corrugated structural members An insulating corrugated member is provided by two sheets having identical corrugations, at least one of the sheets being of a thermoplastic material and having its edges deformed, the deformed edges being adhesively secured to the other sheet. The edges ... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4248822 | Process and apparatus for producing a moisture-permeable film In the manufacture of a moisture-permeable covering film for absorbent material a thermoplastic film is provided with capillary-like protrusions by embossing, after which openings are produced in the ends of said protrusions. Embossing is effected with si... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4239472 | Clamping ring for vacuum-forming apparatus Apparatus for use in the vacuum-forming of sheet material in a mould comprises a clamping ring formed by a plurality of rollers mounted close to each other on an annular support which will hold the sheet material on the rim of a mould yet permit some move... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4223059 | Process and product thereof for stretching a non-woven web of an orientable polymeric fiber A non-woven web of synthetic fibers is selectively stretched in incremental portions in a first and second station wherein the first and second station are provided with sets of rolls having grooves parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the axis of... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4144008 | Apparatus for stretching a tubularly-formed sheet of thermoplastic material There is described in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a process and apparatus for bi-axially stretching a tubularly-formed sheet of thermoplastic material in a first station and a plurality of second stations wherein the first and second ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4101625 | Method for making corrugated molecularly oriented plastic strapping A method in which a band formed of essentially unoriented thermoplastic polymeric material is provided with a transverse cross-section which is of corrugated configuration and is generally uniform in thickness, with at least portions of such band being co... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4012932 | Machine for manufacturing herringbone-pleated structures A machine for manufacturing herringbone-pleated structures of a type particularly suitable for use in cylindrical or flat filter elements. The machine includes consecutive feeding forming and bunching components by which a continuous band of flat sheet ma... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3966646 | Fabricating bodies A method of manufacturing a body comprising the steps of forming a single strip of material with at least one plain region and at least one region of protrusions, such as corrugations, bumps or ridges. The single strip of material is then laid on itself i... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3966912 | Method of preparing tobacco smoke filter A tobacco smoke filter element for use in cigarettes, cigarette holders, cigar holders or pipes is formed from a bonded non-woven fabric composed wholly or partly of wool fibers. It is preferred that the content of wool fibers shall be as high as is econo... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3966379 | Apparatus for making corrugated flexible tubing Apparatus for making corrugated flexible tubing such as the suction hose used in a vacuum cleaner comprises an extruder which extrudes tubular plastic material with annular corrugations, followed by a higher-speed haul-off device, a heater, a cooler, and ... | 06/29/1976 |
