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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4838017 | Wire wrapped yarn for protective garments An improved yarn, fabric and protective garment made from such yarn where the yarn, fabric and garment exhibit increased cut resistance. The yarn includes a core made of fiber and a covering wrapped around the core, the covering includes at least one stra... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4777789 | Wire wrapped yarn for protective garments An improved yarn, fabric and protective garment made from such yarn where the yarn, fabric and garment exhibit increased cut resistance. The yarn includes a core made of fiber and a covering wrapped around the core, the covering includes at least one stra... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4581882 | Refractory fiber rope packing An asbestos-free rope packing comprising at least 3 strands of a twisted, ceramic fiber-containing paper wherein: (a) each of said strands contains at least one carrier insert; (b) said twisted ceramic fiber-containing paper contains about 3-9 wt. % of a suita... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4563869 | Rope with reduced lash-back construction A synthetic plastic rope includes a selected number of first components having a relatively high elongation characteristic and second components whose elongation characteristic is considerably lower. In one form of the invention, the rope has a central co... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4523425 | Reinforcement cable for elastomeric conduits Reinforcement cable of metal wire for elastomeric conduits are disclosed, containing at least two corded-together strands which each have two or more wires and at least one outerlying of which strands is composed from two or more core wires wrapped by at ... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4516395 | Metallic cable for reinforcing elastomeric articles A metallic cable for reinforcing elastomeric articles comprises two strands of two filaments twisted together and having a cable lay length. The filaments of each strand are twisted together and the strands have strand lay lengths that are equal to one an... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4495760 | Process and apparatus for spinning cored filaments, and cored filaments thus obtained Fiber sheaths are drawn between a pair of drawing cylinders and continuous filaments are introduced upstream of the drawing cylinders to form two strands which are twisted together at a convergence point upstream of a winding mechanism. The tension of the... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4449353 | Gut string for sports rackets A natural gut string for sports rackets comprises at least two gut strands, each strand of which comprises a plurality of gut ribbons twisted together in a first direction, which strands are combined and re-twisted together in a direction opposite to the ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4430851 | Twisted ceramic fiber sewing thread A twisted sewing thread comprising at least two strands made of ceramic fibers at least one of which strands is served with organic or inorganic fibers, the strands being individually twisted or two or more strands twisted together in one direction and th... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4408444 | Steel cord for reinforcement of elastomer material A steel cord for the reinforcement of elastomer material. comprising two equivalent wire groups of at least two wires each, the wire groups being twisted around each other, in which the wires of the first group are parallel or nearly parallel, and the wir... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4387555 | Ornamental thread and method of forming same Thread consisting of three polymer strands twisted in one direction, each strand being wrapped with a metallic strip wound in the other direction, the strands and strip being covered with an elastomer sheath.... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4384449 | Protective gloves and the like and a yarn with flexible core wrapped with aramid fiber Protective gloves and the like and a yarn comprising a core of a flexible wire alongside an aramid fiber strand or strands and a covering of aramid fiber such as that manufactured and sold under the trademark "Kevlar" by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4299884 | Type of wrapped textile thread and process for its production which involves thermofusion to secure wrapping to core There is provided a new wrapped textile thread which includes a core made of threads arranged considerably parallel to each other. The core is covered by a wrapping thread which winds in a single turn, forming a regular and joined spiral around the core. ... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4106276 | Non-rotating rope A non-rotating rope, comprising 3 or 4 strands of of clam-shaped cross section so arranged around a flexible core equidistantly from the rope center that the principal axes of the clams are on the equiangularly spaced radial lines radiating from the rope ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4034547 | Composite cable and method of making the same A cable is disclosed having a wire rope jacket and a synthetic compressible core of yarn filaments with a specific tensile strength greater than the members of the jacket and which serve as a reinforcing component for the jacket to provide a cable constru... | 07/12/1977 |
| 3956877 | Spliceless cable and method of forming same A spliceless longitudinally extending strand structure and method of fabricating the same which method embodies the steps of stranding at least one generally elongated strand wire about a first individual core wire segment to form a first outer layer segm... | 05/18/1976 |
