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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161896 | Hollow needle cutting apparatus A hollow needle tufting apparatus is provided with swivel mounted knives and an improved needle design directed to improve cutting efficiency and the life of the hollow needles and associated knives. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7359761 | System and method for pre-tensioning backing material A tufting machine control system for controlling the tension applied to a backing material as it enters the tufting zone of the tufting machine, including a pair of driven backing feed rolls for feeding the backing material. The drive motors for the backing feed rol... | 04/15/2008 |
| 5555826 | Shifting needle carpet mender A hand-held mending gun for tufting stitches into a backing material has a hollow needle reciprocably driven axially and oscillated laterally so as to form stitches in a backing material laterally offset from other stitches. Zig-zag backstitches may thus ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5103746 | Embroidery A method of embroidery on a fabric and an embroidery tool enable the production in a simple manner of decorative effect on knitted or other garments. The tool has a tubular needle portion with a handle at one end and a closed curved point at the other. Th... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4991523 | Tufting apparatus Apparatus for producing tufted textile goods employs a plurality of hollow needles which serve as backing openers, the backing openers being carried on a widthwise extending member which is reciprocated in a vertical direction to cause the backing openers... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4841885 | Adjustable length needle implement A thread carrying needle assembly usable for a variety of craft purposes, the needle assembly having means to adjust the length of the exposed pointed end of the needle. A safety feature is that the needle may be fully retracted within the housing. The ne... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4765264 | Needle punch for producing decorative thread designs A four component part adjustable needle punch is presented with each part in threaded interrelationship. A hollow needle is embedded in a plastic needle housing seated within a guide housing. A cylindrical interior housing is threaded at its front end to ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4488498 | Apparatus for producing decoratively stitched trim part A decoratively stitched trim panel is produced by a new apparatus. The trim panel includes a series of decorative stitches of alternating visible and embedded, non-visible loops frictionally retained within the substrate of the trim panel without passing ... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4479445 | Adjustable embroidering tool An embroidering tool has an adjustable needle penetration capability and is formed from two interfitting components that are relatively rotatable about a common axis to provide the adjusting movement. One part has a cannulation needle assembly in accord w... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4475473 | Hand-held embroidery machine A hand-held embroidery machine comprises an elongated cylindrical casing sized for grasping a user's hand and terminating in a truncated cone at the front end. A hollow embroidery needle protrudes from an opening in the front end of the cone. The rear end... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4448194 | Full stroke compelling mechanism for surgical instrument with drum drive An actuating mechanism is provided for a hand-operated surgical instrument having at least one operating member. The operating member is engaged by or extends from a flexible pusher member wound at least partially around the circumference of a drum and se... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4388881 | Hand-held tufting machines A hand-held tufting mending gun has a piston within a cylinder pivotably mounted on a plate, the piston rod being eccentrically connected to a crank pin on a rotatable drive disk. The plate has an inlet port and an outlet port for registering cyclically w... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4306510 | Adjustable rug hooking implement A rug hooking implement in which a needle is longitudinally moveable within the confines of the longitudinally oriented body of a handle. Such movement is brought about so as to adjust the projection of the needle forwardly of the body. This is accomplish... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4273058 | Embroidery needle assembly An embroidery needle comprising a hollow handle member within which is received a spring biased push-rod operating member. A push-button is carried at one end of the rod and a clasp is threaded to the other end. The clasp includes expandable spring finger... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4267784 | Tufting machine An improved tufting machine for forming loop or cut pile tufts in a backing material from at least one continuous strand of yarn. The machine includes a hollow, channel-like needle reciprocally inserted through a backing material followed by a plunger whi... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4234111 | Device for threading strings or the like A device for threading strings or the like through bores of an anchoring part consisting of a tube detachably secured to a handle with a stylus extending from the handle and being received within the tube. The free tip of the stylus projects beyond the fo... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4135458 | Needle holder A holder for an embroidery needle has an elongated body divided into a forward needle-retaining portion and a rearward handle portion. The retaining portion includes a wall which forms a bed for receiving the handle portion of a needle and a narrow passag... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4132182 | Tufting machine A tufting machine for forming loop or cut pile tufts in a backing material from at least one continuous strand of yarn. A hollow channel-like needle having a yarn entrance opening is reciprocally inserted through the backing material after which a plunger... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4123985 | Mend counter A mending gun for mending tufted fabric which incorporates a control circuit to count the number of actual mends made but prevents counting of mends of a short duration and ignores mends made more often than a selected adjustable time.... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4103631 | Embroidery punch A tool for hand embroidery work. The tool is specifically designed for loop embroidery where a pattern is constructed of loops of thread or embroidery floss formed on the opposite surface of a background fabric from the surface in which the needle is inse... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4011823 | Tufting tool for even stitching A tufting tool comprising an elongated body, a shuttle mounted on the body for reciprocating movement, an elongated resilient plunger attached to the shuttle, and a needle mounted on the body and having a yarn receiving passage and a plunger receiving pas... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4007698 | Motor driven tufting machine A hand held motor driven tufting machine employs concentric needles which reciprocate and oscillate in timed relationship to form loops of yarn on a backing sheet. An electric motor drives the moving parts of the device, and this motor has a metallic fram... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4006694 | Hand held tufting machine A tufting machine employs a manual crank and gearing on one side of a support plate for driving a rotary eccentric and a crank arm on the other side. The rotary eccentric causes orbital motion of the upper end of a body, and a hollow needle fixed to the b... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3977336 | Motorized rug hooking needle In a hooking needle which includes an elongated bar which has a handle attached to one end, a needle fixed to the opposite forward end of the bar, and where the needle defines an open-ended enclosure having a yarn-receiving passage and a looper-receiving ... | 08/31/1976 |
