Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7594520 | Method of making a dual filter A dual filter apparatus and a process of making a dual filter apparatus that minimizes disruption to the normal flow pattern through the filter apparatus by forming a porous medium suitable to carry a fluid activator and placing an activator proximate the porous fil... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7341077 | Method for operating a loom A loom having a first drive motor (10), which for instance drives a batten (13), and having at least one second drive motor (44), which drives a dobby (46), is provided with a control and regulating device (48), which forms a rotat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7332183 | Multilayer dosage forms containing NSAIDs and triptans The present invention is directed to multilayer pharmaceutical tablets in which an NSAID and a triptan are present in separate and distinct layers. The layers are in a side-by-side configuration, which allows the dissolution of triptan and NSAID to occur independent... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7310565 | Method for optimizing a textile production process and devices applying this method Method for optimizing a textile production process, which consists in manufacturing a fabric (11) on a weaving machine (1), characterized in that characteristics of the fabric (11) and/or fabric-determining elements are visualized on a machine s... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299827 | Loom restarting method A loom restarting method restarts a loom stopped due to a loom stopping cause without entailing a “wavy set mark”. When a loom is stopped due to a loom stopping cause entailing faulty picking, the loom restarting method provides a loom stopping command, withhold... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7272244 | Method and unit for the production of images with high resolution in jacquard fabric The invention relates to a method for the production of images with high resolution jacquard fabric comprising the following steps: colour scanning of an output image to be reproduced on a fabric, video visualisation of said image with the largest number of colours ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7159407 | Atomized liquid jet refrigeration system A system for controlling temperature includes an atomizer that forms micron-sized hydrogen-bonded refrigerant droplets within a chamber. A vacuum pump is coupled to the chamber to lower its interior pressure. Under these conditions, the refrigerant droplets evaporat... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7147009 | Method for hands only weaving A process for weaving that can be implemented using just the hands as the loom and shuttle, a weaving material such as yarn, an instrument for cutting like nail clippers or a small pair of scissors, and an object for intermissions in the process such as a paper clip... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134457 | Method of weaving braille and woven braille textile A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist sighted persons in determining the woven Braille cells by differentiating the colors of each number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp thread. A method of weaving Braille and/or the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131464 | Apparatus to facilitate weaving around a cylindrical object An apparatus for weaving patterns comprising pattern threads and wrapping threads around an object having a central axis comprising an elongated slide tube and at least two side wheel assemblies, one of said side wheel assemblies mounted on said slide tube and the o... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122052 | Integral support stent graft assembly A stent graft is disclosed having a tubular graft formed from flexible filamentary members interwoven with a supporting monofilament defining radial corrugations around the graft. The ends of the graft are tapered from a smaller to a larger diameter and have stents ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114527 | Method for operating a drive assembly of a loom and shedding machine comprising divided drive technology A method achieves highly constant energy in the operation of a loom and shedding machine with separated drive technology, and ensures the run-up in one weft insertion for the loom and if necessary also for the shedding machine. The control arrangement controlling th... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7069960 | Method of controlling pile fabric loom A control technique is capable of adjusting a weight of a pile fabric by adjusting consumption of a pile warp at a proper range with a more simplified system. In a pile loom, a tolerance relative to a value associated with consumption of the pile warp is set, and th... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066704 | Component feeder exchange cart, and mechanism and method for positioning component feeder A cart comprises a base frame, driver for extending an operational stroke of a hydraulic jack and transferring this movement into an up and down motion, a pair of elevating rods simultaneously lifted of lowered by movement of the driver, a pair of supporting frames ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7055061 | Normal and standby modes for duplicated field apparatus control system In a field apparatus control system, one of duplicated main control units and one of communication control units constitute a normal system, and the other of the duplicated main control units and other of the communication control units constitute a standby system. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028718 | Method for manufacturing a fabric and an apparatus for manufacturing a fabric The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a fabric and an apparatus for manufacturing a fabric that enable weaving of weak fibers including monofilaments of noble metal such as 24-carat gold. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021340 | Method of and loom for teaching Braille Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method of and loom for teaching Braille by weaving with a loom, wherein the levers to move the harnesses are shaped and spaced like the levers on a Perkins Brailler (a Braille typewriter). ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6994120 | Patterned fabric and a method for the production thereof A patterned fabric having warp threads and weft threads that form an illustration. The weft threads are arranged to form a threaded group and, together with at least one warp thread, form a cell. The weft threaded are tied off in the cell by the warp thread so that ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994508 | Method and arrangement for handling parent reels In this publication it is described a method and an arrangement for moving parent reels (1) between at least two handling stations with the aid of a parent reel cart (2, 3), wherein at least one of the stations a parent reel (1) is carried on ca... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973942 | Weft carrying grippers for weaving looms and in guiding means thereof Weft carrying grippers (1, 2), of the type wherein the grippers are made of metal and are driven in their back-and-forth movements through the shed by carbon-fibre and/or polyester straps exclusively guided from outside the shed are both characterised by a me... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6962171 | Drive arrangement for a weaving loom and shedding machine A drive arrangement is constructed for permitting the separate operation of a weaving machine and a shed forming machine. The drive arrangement compensates any r.p.m. variations of the weaving machine drive and of the shed forming machine relative to the drive shaft... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6901970 | Automatic heddling apparatus and method for automatically heddling An automatic heddling method and a related automatic heddling apparatus 100, by which a plurality of heddles 2 removed from a plurality of heddle frames 1 are integrally collected in such a manner that flat faces 11 of the heddles 2 | 06/07/2005 |
| 6860298 | Host computer for use in loom user supporting system, loom user supporting system, loom user supporting method A host computer is used in a supporting system for supporting a user of a plurality of looms. The host computer includes a database section for storing specifications information relating to specifications of each of a plurality of looms, the specifications informat... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6843280 | Weaving device for the production of thick textile armatures and armatures thus obtained A weaving device for the production of thick textile armatures constituted by superposed layers of threads secured together by a binding thread traversing the layers, includes a frame provided laterally and at its periphery with regularly distributed hooking pins, e... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6820655 | Loom and room conditioning system The invention relates to an improvement in the art of loom and weaving room conditioning, in which the necessary moisture required by the yarn to perform best in the loom is metered exactly and directly on the yarn, whereby yarn breakage is reduced and weaving air r... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6807457 | System for the telemanagement of weaving looms in weaving premises and method of assistance thereof A method and system for the management of and assistance to weaving looms in the weaving premises includes, for each loom, a unit to control actuators, a set of operation sensors, and a logic a unit apt to correlate signals from the sensors with the control unit. Th... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6751521 | Information display apparatus of a loom The information display apparatus is characterized by storing at least plural pieces of loom information, by comprising: data control means capable of outputting the stored loom information; display means for displaying in a screen the loom information outputted fro... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6742546 | Face-to-face weaving machine without rear traverse A face-to-face weaving machine with face-to-face shed forming has a passage for, and access to, the weaving frames without being hampered by a rear traverse. The face-to-face weaving machine with face-to-face shed forming is provided in which the weaving machine has... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6733862 | Reinforced article and method of making A fabric for providing reinforcement and the like which is made from a two dimensional flat fabric which included woven and unwoven portions that allow the fabric to be folded to create a three dimensional structure without the need for cutting and darting. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6701970 | Carpet weaving A carpet weaving loom including at least one tuft forming unit (1) for forming sequentially yarn tufts (7) of a number of different colors, means to receive and hold at yarn tuft holding sites (8) yam tufts supplied sequentially by the tuft forming unit (... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6691744 | Actuator and thread brake comprising an actuator An actuator (A) for a component (2), comprising at least one defined stop position, in particular to a brake component actuator of a yarn brake (B), for a selective braking of a running yarn (Y) which actuator has a drive element (D) for linear or rotatio... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6604553 | Device for noise reduction, air-conditioning and accident reduction for a jacquard weaving machine and jacquard weaving machine with such a device A plurality of casing modules are mountable to a Jacquard weaving machine such as to enclose same. A first module encloses the weaving machine and comprises a device for supply fresh or conditioned air. A second module encloses the weaving area and harnes... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6572942 | Static dissipative fabric for flexible containers for bulk material Antistatic fabric for flexible containers for bulk material that includes electrically non-conducting threads and static dissipative, special permanent antistatic threads. The static dissipative, special permanent antistatic threads are made of a thermopl... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6554028 | Weaving or textile machine and process for such a machine A weaving or textile machine is provided that has a beamed (20, 21, 22 and 23) base (2) and moving parts, wherein the moving parts, during weaving, cause vibrations (18, 19) which spread to the base (2), and wherein that the beams are joined by or by mean... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6546966 | Apparatus for making available a leno thread for a weaving machine The apparatus (1) for making available a leno thread (2a, 3a) for a weaving machine comprises a shaft (4) which is rotatably journalled about an axis of rotation (A). This apparatus has an active connection to a drive apparatus (5) in order to set the sha... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6546965 | Institutional towel A coloured institutional towel comprising ground warp, fill, and pile warped yarns, all of said yarns being colored by intimately draw blending a predetermined amount of pre-dyed polyester fiber with cotton fiber when the yarn is spun and twisted to there... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6520216 | Process for obtaining a woven cloth A method for obtaining a woven fabric which comprises continuously unwinding from a single warp beam, a set of parallel warp yarns; passing the set of warp yarns on a whip-roll; forming a shed using heald means; inserting a weft yarn in the shed in the pr... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6513554 | Yarn processing system and method to operate a yarn processing system A yarn processing system includes a yarn consuming textile machine and at least one yard feeding device, each having electric drive means and electronic control and/or monitoring means. The yarn processing system includes data transmission paths for mutua... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6491068 | Apparatus for heating lubricating oil in a weaving machine An apparatus for the heating of a lubricating oil for a weaving machine contains at least one heating element with at least one semiconductor and temperature regulator with a sensor.... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6408893 | Tubular bag with ventilation bands and method of making A specialty bag is formed from a circular loom adapted with a unique mechanism of the current invention such that the resulting woven tubular sheet contains at least one venting band extending along the length of the tubular sheet. The tubular sheet is th... | 06/25/2002 |
