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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4677011 | Warp-knit support tape for loop and hook fasteners A warp-knit support tape for hook and loop fasteners comprises a pile portion including a foundation of tricot stitches and single cord stitches and a multiplicity of pile-loops formed from chain stitches. The tricot and single cord stitches are formed of... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4672825 | Antistatic cover An antistatic cover is composed of a tubular knitted fabric comprising water-shrinkable or heat-shrinkable ground yarns which are alternately knitted to form a needle loop in a course of a ground fabric so that each sinker loop of the ground fabric has a ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4633683 | Method for the manufacture of patterned pile fabrics and circular knitting machine therefor Patterned pile (terry or plush) fabrics are made on circular knitting machines with cylinder and sinker ring or latch needles and pile elements (pile sinkers, pile hooks, latch needles). The pile elements are not selected, but perform their pile forming m... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4628709 | Apparatus and method for producing knitted hook-type fastener material A knitted material is disclosed having on one side a multiplicity of upstanding hook-like engaging elements suitable for repeated face-to-face engagement and disengagement with a material having a multiplicity of upstanding pile loop-like mating engagemen... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4614094 | Covering fabric for a damping roller of an offset printing machine A covering for a damping form roller prepared by knitting fabric into a cylindrical form consists of a pile yarn, a ground yarn and an elastic annex yarn. This elastic yarn knitted to straightly extend in a direction of a course, and to be caught and boun... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4589267 | Method and apparatus for producing hosiery article A hosiery knitting method and apparatus wherein contoured terry-type heel and toe areas are circularly knit on a four station hosiery machine by arranging one station to knit complete terry courses on all needles and sinkers and arranging the other three ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4570461 | Eyelet and terry knit fabric and method This fabric includes a repeating pattern of courses containing wales of jersey stitch loops and eyelets in selected sinker wales between the jersey stitch loops, and a repeating pattern of courses containing wales of jersey stitch loops knit with a pair o... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4567075 | Double faced knit fabric and method A nappable, dimensionally stable fabric is produced on a three bar warp knitting machine by over feeding the yarns fed by the bottom bar to provide nappable loops, and by knitting the yarns fed by the top bar in a pattern providing nappable floats, longit... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4546026 | Simulated cashmere fabric and method A simulated cashmere fabric comprises a warp knit ground comprising a stretch yarn such as an elastomeric yarn such as Lycra (RTM) and a raised and cropped face. The face yarn may be knitted in over a plurality of, say five, needles, and the fabric may be... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4527403 | Circular knit panty and method The present panty is formed of first and second seamless tubular knit blanks each of which includes an inwardly turned welt on one end, a predetermined length of body yarn and inwardly contracted mock rib areas formed by incorporating elastic yarn therein... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4513042 | Nonflammable sliver knit high pile fabric A nonflammable sliver knit high pile fabric. The backing fabric is knitted from a flame retardant aramind spun yarn, the pile fibers are composed of a mixture of flame retardant rayon fibers and superwashed wool fibers and the back coating is constituted ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4499741 | Stretchable knitted article with printed design A stretchable knitted article of predominately terry loop construction, e.g., an athletic headband, with a design printed thereon, includes a knitted fabric of single jersey construction the reverse side of which has a predominant terry loop region border... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4490995 | Right-left knitted pile fabric A knitted base fabric comprises stitches which are arranged in courses and are formed each by a stitch-forming base yarn. A plurality of tufts are held on the base fabric by at least part of said stitches. Each of said stitches of at least one of said cou... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4467625 | Two bar warp-knitted loop fabric A two bar warp-knitted loop fabric comprises a ground of separate knitted warp chains formed by the front bar at half gauge and lay-ins formed by the back bar at full gauge in pattern repeats in which each lay-in thread forms at least three successive cou... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4404999 | Loop pile fabric This invention relates to a loop pile fabric comprising a backing fabric and resilient pile yarns interengaged with said backing fabric at spaced intervals and extending from one face thereof to form a pile comprised of a multiplicity of pile loops. The f... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4400418 | Cylindrical covering fabric for a damping form roller of an offset printing machine A cylindrical covering fabric for a damping form roller of an offset printing machine is manufactured by weaving, as ground yarn, yarns composed of polyurethane fibers drafted to at least twice of free length, water-soluble fibers and water-insoluble fibe... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4381805 | Simulated grass pile fabric The simulated grass pile fabric of this invention is of the woven or warp knit type and is characterized by having a dense pile surface defining a playing surface on which a playing ball will roll substantially equally free in all directions and will boun... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4338800 | Velvet-type fastener web A velvet-type or snap-together fastener web comprises a warp-knitted ground structure and series of interlooped loops disposed in at least every other wale, each loop including a pair of mushroomed stems projecting from the wale at each course. To produce... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4322232 | Filter bag and method for suppressing electrostatic charges A fabric filter bag, a method of making such a bag, and apparatus using such bags, in which the bag is a tube of yarn knit into stitches defining a ground and stitches defining terry loop pile extending from the ground. In accordance with the present inve... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4320634 | Thermal-fusible tape of a warp knitted fabric This invention relates to a thermal-fusible tape used to adhere two fabrics together, and used especially to hem slacks. The adhesive tape of the present invention consists of a warp knitted tape, and at least one thermal adhesive thread which longitudinally e... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4315419 | Contoured pile fabric and a process for the preparation thereof A process for the manufacture of contoured pile ware on a conventional double needle bar warp knitting machine yields textured pile fabric with an unusual appearance. The pattern is formed of pile threads of different length and in different positions in ... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4302953 | Right-right warp knitting machines A right-right warp knitting machine capable of providing pile fabrics such as velour includes two needle beds, each needle bed producing one fabric panel, utilizes one guide bar supplying a ground thread and at least a second guide bar for providing a pil... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4298643 | Fiber sheet for forming A fiber sheet for forming comprising a low softening point fiber and/or a high stretchability fiber and a high softening point fiber.... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4297858 | High density pile ware and the process therefor The process for preparing high density pile ware on a warp knitting machine wherein the pile loops formed from at least one thread system are knotted in by the stitches of the ground fabric structure formed from at least one other thread system includes a... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4284507 | Knit pile filter A filter, and apparatus and methods using the filter, in the form of a knitted fabric having particular characteristics and effective for separating materials from flowing fluid streams.... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4280259 | Method of knitting a velour lace fabric A knitted velour lace fabric is made by knitting a net or mesh ground fabric and knitting velour threads on to the ground fabric. Each velour thread substantially follows the path of one of the ground threads, except that at points along the length of the... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4244198 | Sliver loop knit fabric A sliver loop knit fabric comprising a base fabric formed of knitted courses and wales and anchoring a plurality of tufts of sliver fibers, the free ends of which are incorporated into at least two courses and two wales of the fabric to provide a generall... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4236286 | Manufacture of knitted synthetic fur fabric Process technology is provided for making a synthetic fur piece from a sliver knit, high pile, differentially transversely knitted, longitudinally patterned, unstabilized starting fabric having a pile containing heat shrinkable fibers. The process involve... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4193137 | Warp-knitted double-velour prosthesis A warp-knitted fabric has pile loops on both faces thereof. The loops on both faces are continuous with each other so that when the fabric is used as a prosthesis, growth of tissue from one face to the other is facilitated. This feature is particularly si... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4104892 | Cushioned sole tube sock and method This tube sock includes a cushioned sole formed by partial courses of terry loops on the inner surface of at least that part of the foot portion adapted to underlie the sole of a wearer's foot while that part of the foot portion adapted to overlie the ins... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4047400 | Moisture absorbent band The band is of the type commonly known as a "sweatband" adapted to be worn around the wrist or head when playing tennis and other sports. The band is knit with at least some moisture absorbent yarn and is completely formed on a circular knitting machine. ... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4043151 | Method of producing pile or plush goods on double-bed circular knitting machines by means of plush hooks The present invention relates to a method of producing pile or plush goods or fabrics on circular knitting machines with plush hooks in the cylinder and latch needles in the dial and circular double knitting machines by means of pile hooks in a needle bed... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4026126 | Method of knitting knit plush fabric having a nap, or pile loops An inlay or plaiting yarn is passed through knit stitches of a plain knitted fabric, the plaiting yarn is wrapped around the side portions of the knit stitches of the base fabric by a needle having a main latch and an auxiliary, angled latch, is knocked o... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4010004 | Velvet fabric A metallic velvet material comprising a woven textile pile fabric wherein at least a portion of the woven base fabric and/or the velvet surface-forming pile yarns is metallic. The metallic yarn may comprise a blended yarn formed of staple metal fibers and... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3977216 | Knitting machines and methods for knitting fabrics having terry loops on both sides thereof The invention comprises an improved apparatus and method for producing knit fabrics having terry loops on both the technical front and technical back sides of a ground fabric in which the terry loops are interconnected or knitted jointly with the ground y... | 08/31/1976 |
