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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356983 | Spiraling apparatus A spiraling apparatus is provided that includes a rotatable deck having a deck plate that includes first and second sides. A plurality of first spools are rotatably attached to the first side of the deck plate. The first spools include a length of reinforcement woun... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342175 | Electrical connector A splice electrical connector for connecting core members of two cable conductors to each other is provided. The connector include two end members. Each end member comprises a first coupler end and a second wedge contact end. A splice coupler connects the first coup... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7287366 | Method for producing a multielectrode lead A wire wrapping device that includes a turntable assembly that is made up of a turntable and a driver adapted to rotate the turntable. Also, a set of payout carriers are mounted on the turntable, each payout carrier adapted to let out wire to be wrapped. A driver is... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7189295 | Yarn with heat-activated binder material and process of making Yarn suitable for tufting comprises a base fiber ring spun or wrap spun with a second fiber at least partially comprising a heat-activated adhesive material such that the yarn includes from 0.1 to 12, preferably 0.25 to 10, weight percent adhesive material having a ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7114320 | Composite elastic yarn and manufacturing method thereof, stretchable textile fabric, and stretchable knitted fabric The composite elastic yarn may be made from a wide, stretchable textile fabric or stretchable knitted fabric. A composite elastic yarn is obtained by drawing an elastic yarn 11 at a first draft rate to prepare a precursor composite elastic yarn with an inelas... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7079000 | Spool assembly A spool assembly retains a winding of an electrical wire thereabout. The electrical wire is covered by a liquid insulating material. The spool assembly includes a cylinder to finding a longitudinal axis and an outer diameter. The cylinder extends between a high volt... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7011768 | Methods for hydrogen storage using doped alanate compositions The present invention concerns compositions, apparatus and methods for hydrogen storage. In certain embodiments, the compositions comprise sodium alanate and {n5-C5H5}2TiH2. In preferred embodiments, the compone... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6971388 | Internal nasal dilator filter A device combining internal nasal filtration and internal nasal dilation operating synchronously provides air filtration by retaining particulate in a single piece foam nasal filter during inhalation through the nose. Internal nasal dilation is provided by the effec... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969437 | Yarn with heat-activated binder material and process of making Yarn suitable for tufting comprises a base fiber ring spun or wrap spun with a second fiber at least partially comprising a heat-activated adhesive material such that the yarn includes from 0.1 to 12, preferably 0.25 to 10, weight percent adhesive material having a ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6869493 | Apparatus for manufacturing wire The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing wire having an inverted cone-shaped cylinder within a spool, wherein the diameter of the top end of the cylinder is larger than the lower end thereof enabling a tape wound thereon unwound from the spool... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6789380 | Spiral wrapper for conduit ducts A bundle of conduit ducts is supplied by reels to a tandem arrangement of a pattern unit, a supply roller unit, an applicator unit and a delivery roller unit all supported by a wheeled base. The pattern unit has rows of discrete apertures for delivering conduit duct... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6519924 | Bough roping machine An evergreen bough roping machine is disclosed. The device includes a spool support member for rotatably holding a spool of wrapping wire used to fasten boughs to a core wire thereby producing an evergreen garland. The separation of the spool of wrapping ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6467250 | Method for the manufacture of elastic twisted yarns A method for the manufacture of an elastic twisted yarn has at least one outer yarn wound or twisted around an expanded, elastic core yarn. In a first process step the outer yarn is wound around the core yarn with a winding speed providing less than the n... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6321519 | Jigs for creating coiled craft stock, and methods of using same Wire, or other material, is wrapped around a shaft as the shaft turns, producing a coil. After being slid off the end of the shaft, the coil can be re-coiled by repeating the process. By shaping the twice-coiled material, a variety of pleasing jewelry bea... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6101801 | Method for handling threads in spiralling machines Threads (15) are handled in spiralling or covering machines with improved efficiency by replacing traditional bobbins (20) with double-coned bobbins (10) which include flanges (22) at both ends and by providing that the outside edges of the flanges do not... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6032449 | Process and device for splicing an optical cable to the conductor strand of an aerial line The lashing device has at least one supply reel, which contains a lashing element which is to be applied in a continuous spiral. The supply reel is mounted on a journal so that it can revolve about its longitudinal axis, and the journal, together with the... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032448 | Apparatus for wrapping fibre optic cable around and overhead line An apparatus for wrapping fiber optic cable around an overhead line (A), has a carriage (1) which sits on the overhead line (A) and is movable along the overhead line (A). A supply of fiber optic cable (B) is located on one side of the carriage (1) and a ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5979288 | Helical braider A helical braider for constructing a triaxially braided tubular member in which the angle formed by primary fiber relative to the longitudinal axis of the tubular member can be controlled independently of the corresponding angles formed by the remaining f... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5943852 | Method of an apparatus for producing thick/thin and/or color effects yarn A thick/thin and/or color effect composite yarn is produced by depositing a sheath of one or more effect threads on a thick/thin filament yarn in which the thick regions are incompletely stretched, and the resulting assembly is then subjected to stretchin... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5927059 | Method and apparatus for creating coiled craft stock An exemplary apparatus is a jig including a chuck having a plurality of radially movable members for controllably gripping a member inserted in an axial bore extending therethrough. The chuck is mounted on a hollow tube whose axis is collinear with the bo... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5826419 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing fiber optic cable An apparatus and method for manufacturing fiber optic cable having a plurality of optical fiber buffer tubes bound by a binder is provided. The apparatus includes a frame and an oscillator shaft support on the frame for oscillating movement about a longit... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5819518 | Method of producing a hose including reinforcing threads A hose with reinforcing threads, includes an inner wall forming a pipe wall; a plurality of coated conductive wires spirally wound with a predetermined pitch; a plurality of reinforcing threads disposed on outer surfaces of the inner wall and the coated c... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5791134 | Winding device and method for wrapping a product being processed in cable technology A method and device for winding an elongated element onto a cable product comprises a probe for measuring the tensile stress of the elongated element as it moves from a supply coil to a point for winding the element onto the cable product.... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5644905 | Stranding device with an exchangeable supply member and an associated method A device for stranding elongated stranding elements, in which an axially extending supply member has a surface on which stranding elements are fed to a stranding disk. A first suspension device has a first receiving device for holding a first end of the s... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5632136 | Wire winding apparatus The invention is directed to an apparatus for winding resistance wire about a filament core. The apparatus includes a plurality of wire supply reels supported by a frame, each wire supply reel having an axial bore extending therethrough and carrying a len... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5588290 | Reel-to-reel pipe wrap machine A machine wraps pipe as it travels along a substantially linear path between a feeder reel from which the pipe is unwound to a take up reel onto which the pipe is rewound. A pipe wrap assembly for wrapping one or more layers of tape about the pipe is rota... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5517812 | Automatic control of armour tape tension A method and system are provided for automatically controlling tension of an armour tape being wrapped around a continuous strand of material, such as an electrical cable, travelling through an armouring machine having a reel of tape and tape feed rolls r... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5487941 | Continuous/discontinuous filament yarn or tow A yarn/tow composed of continuous thermoplastic filaments and discontinuous structural filaments wherein the discontinuous structural filaments are intermingled with the continuous thermoplastic filaments. Groups of discontinuous structural filaments have... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5332165 | Transmission cable termination box, and transmission cable installation and recovering method A method for installing and recovering transmission cable. A termination box has a stationary winding barrel having a central axis, and a transmission cable guide rotatably coupled to the stationary winding barrel for guiding a transmission cable onto and... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5038458 | Method of manufacture of a nonuniform heating element A flexible elongated resistance heating element of improved uniformity and ease of termination has a continuous strip of resistance wire formed about a flexible elongated strand of insulating material in a generally helical pattern of nonuniform pitch wit... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4998403 | Apparatus and method of covering spandex yarn A method and apparatus are disclosed for wrapping a cover yarn onto an elastic core yarn utilizing a "producer" package directly. The disclosed apparatus eliminates the conventional rewinding step used by garment material manufacturers.... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4926626 | Flamme fancy yarn manufacturing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for flamme fancy yarn manufacture for textile production of various number of effects along the length and in a given length of ready-made yarn, irrespective of the length of the fibres of the inlet product both from short staple an... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4899529 | Method for winding a covered yarn A method for winding a covered yarn in a covered yarn manufacturing machine. A non-elastic yarn is supplied from a wrapping yarn bobbin and is wrapped around a core yarn made of an elastic yarn to form a covered yarn. The covered yarn is traversed by a tr... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4869059 | Yarn consolidation by wrapping for hollow fiber membranes Hollow fiber separation membranes are bundled in groups of 5-350 membranes and helically wound with a 20-120 denier yarn. The bundle is more readily handled when making permeators using dry membranes and there is significantly reduced fiber breakage and d... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4824036 | Apparatus for the spiral winding of elongated objects, especially strands of hair The invention relates to an apparatus for the spiral winding of elongated objects, especially hair strands, with at least one winding material in the form of a thread or the like. This apparatus contains a casing (6), an annular disk (7) journaled thereon... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4807430 | Thread wrapping apparatus In the thread wrapping apparatus disclosed herein a binder spindle is driven by control circuit at a speed corresponding to the operating frequency of a variable oscillator. First, second and third sets of drafting rolls which draw and feed a sliver of fi... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4612759 | Method of and device for providing a concentric layer of wire material on a cable A method of and a device for providing a concentric layer of wire material on a cable (C), in which a number of wires (G) are taken simultaneously and in a tangential direction off a common rotating feed reel (27) on which the wires (G) are wound parallel... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4605182 | Yarn tension control device The present yarn tension control device is adaptable for regulating and adjusting the tension being applied to a running yarn being fed along a predetermined path of travel. The device includes first and second plate members having adjacent inner faces po... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4564992 | Method for producing helix structures for use in forming helix belts A helix of great length wherein the structure is filled with a filler and wherein the structure is produced by a practice in which the helix structure and filler material are caused to rotate about each other upstream of the point of convergence, while th... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4558562 | Spinning aggregate for wrapped yarn A spinning aggregate is disclosed for spinning wrapped yarn. A drivable hollow spindle carrys a corotating sleeve with a binding yarn wound on said sleeve, a corotating positive false-twisting device into which the binding yarn and a sliver enter, said sl... | 12/17/1985 |
