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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 |
| 5427852 | Filter tow and method for its manufacture as well as tobacco smoke filter element and method for its manufacture A filter tow of cellulose acetate filaments and/or cellulose acetate staple fibers, has at least the surface of the filaments and staple fibers consisting of a cellulose acetate having an acetyl number of less than 53%, preferably less than 49%. The metho... | 06/27/1995 |
| 4685492 | Reading device in dobby machine In a reading device for a dobby machine, the reading levers and retaining hooks are pivotally mounted on separate axes. Each reading lever rotates a retaining hook so that the angular velocity of the retaining hook decreases as the retaining hook pivots f... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4542770 | Command device for dobby A command device for a dobby machine, which device includes a pattern card having a plurality of perforations bored in a pattern corresponding to a desired fabric and driven in one direction and a feeler needle suspended from a horizontal needle and displ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4527597 | Dobby Dobby for a weaving loom in which control of the operative and non-operative positions of retaining hooks or hook arms which are engaged with and disengaged from hooks of heald frame-driving levers to actuate desired heald frame is electrically performed ... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4489763 | Leveling device of dobby machine This invention relates to a leveling device in which a shaft (7) of a card cylinder (6) is supported by a bearing of a card cylinder bracket, base portion of the card cylinder bracket is pivotally attached to a machine frame, and the card cylinder bracket... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4471814 | Loom dobby reading unit The invention provides improvements in the members of a loom dobby reading unit, which enable the reading unit and control unit to be structurally separated. For this purpose, the reading unit rockers act on the control unit by simple bearing and thrust c... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4465109 | Loom dobby control units Improvements are made to members of a loom dobby control unit so as to allow structural separation between the reading unit and control unit. For this purpose, the reading unit rockers operate on the control unit by simple bearing and thrust contact with ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4461325 | Electromagnetic device for controlling dobbies and other weaving systems The present invention relates to electromagnetic devices for controlling dobbies and other weaving systems, wherein the control unit which contains the electro-magnets is borne by an oscillating frame on which is mounted an equal number of selectors assoc... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4415007 | Apparatus for effecting back-and-forth movement of a guide synchronously with the intermittent rotary movement of a shaft An apparatus for controlling a dobby in which reading needles read a punch card and each needle influences the movement of a respective heddle frame. Two outer disks having annular toothed portions arranged on the axial facing sides thereof which face one... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4385646 | Reading and lifting device for a control machine A reading and lifting device has a force amplifying bar which can be reciprocated vertically and is driven positively, and a reading needle is slidably supported therein. A pattern card with nonperforated and perforated points is provided below the force ... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4371006 | Reading and control device for a control machine A reading needle is slidingly supported in a force amplifying bar which is automatically moved up and down and the reading needle reads nonperforated and perforated points of a pattern card. In the case of a perforated point, a pivotal lock member biassed... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4172476 | Reading arrangement for a dobby A dobby with a mechanical reading device for a control card having perforated and nonperforated portions therein according to a pattern. The reading needle of the reading device of the pattern card has yielding elements for the purpose of reducing the imp... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4154268 | Reading device, in particular for a shed-forming machine A method for controlling the heddle movement in a shed-forming machine and apparatus for performing the method. Reading needles are moved into and out of engagement with a pattern card having perforated and nonperforated portions therein actively cooperat... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4139028 | Device for the selective actuation of the needle selection members in needles looms A device for the selective actuation of the needle selection members in needles looms using a perforated paper pattern, of the kind comprising memory means for recording information which corresponds to the perforations of the paper, them for controlling,... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4139027 | Jacquard machine for a weaving machine The Jacquard machine employs a selector system for blocking and un-blocking the pressers (e.g. Jacquard needles) wherein use is made of a control means comprised of two electrically magnetizable relatively movable rods. Upon energization of a magnetic fie... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4137951 | Apparatus for controlling actuating mechanism of loom dobby The present invention relates to apparatus for controlling the actuating mechanism of a loom dobby and may be most effectively used in looms wherein the heald shafts are raised and lowered by means of continuously-rotating dobbies. This apparatus includes... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4134432 | Jacquard machine The Jacquard machine employs a selector system for blocking and un-blocking the pressers (e.g. Jacquard needles) wherein use is made of pivotally mounted locking levers between a control element and each presser. The control elements which may be in the f... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4120327 | Double-lift dobby A negative double-lift dobby, Hattersley system, comprising controlled holding hooks and draw hooks. In order for the holding hook to be able to be controlled at any time, namely independent from the position of the draw hook, by the pegs of the pattern c... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4116242 | Jacquard machine having means for controlling jacquard needle motion The jacquard needles are moved lengthwise via a reciprocable drive element and a selector in order to selectively press the lifting wires in a pressing direction. Each needle carries a force accumulator, such as a coiled spring, which abuts against the dr... | 09/26/1978 |
| 3951176 | Hook connecting apparatus in a chain disc-type dobby machine In a chain disc-type compound dobby machine, flexible instruction receiving members are integrally fixed to supporting hooks for decreasing the weight and the moment of inertia of the moving parts so that the connecting and detaching action of the hooks m... | 04/20/1976 |
