Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7726349 | Tissue products having high durability and a deep discontinuous pocket structure A tissue sheet having a deep discontinuous pocket structure provides improved durability as measured by the ratio of the cross-machine direction tensile energy absorbed to the cross-machine direction tensile strength. ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7407518 | Method for production of seat belt webbing A method of producing seat belt webbing is proposed in which the webbing is first woven using at least two synthetic yarns of different colours of which at least one yarn is spun-dyed, and using weaves that are known per se, and that is distinguished in that the web... | 08/05/2008 |
| 6837277 | Papermaker's forming fabric The bottom machine direction yarns and the bottom cross machine direction yarns of a triple layer fabric are interwoven in a series of repeat units in which the bottom machine direction yarns pass below multiple nonadjacent bottom cross machine direction yarns to fo... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6817384 | Method of weaving straw decorative ribbon by plastic tape In an improved method of weaving straw decorative ribbons by plastic tapes, the plastic tape is used as the warp or weft, and a nylon string as the weft or warp to weave a piece of cloth by the square weaving method of a weaving machine, such that the plastic tape a... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6794319 | Unbalanced twill weave fabric and airbag device The present invention relates to an unbalanced twill weave fabric having fill yarns at least about three times larger than the warp yarns. Such a fabric thus has increased strength provided by the fill direction. The present invention further relates to an airbag re... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6745797 | Papermaker's forming fabric A triple layer forming fabric includes: a set of top machine direction yarns; a set of top cross machine direction yarns; a set of bottom machine direction yarns; a set of bottom cross machine direction yarns; and stitching yarns interwoven with the top and bottom f... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6708733 | Woven band for attaching onto various portions of users A woven band includes a prototype having an outer peripheral layer and an inner peripheral layer and each having two end portions woven and coupled continuously with each other. The inner peripheral layer includes a woven pattern disposed and formed in the middle po... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6244306 | Papermaker's forming fabric A triple layer papermaker's fabric includes: a set of top machine direction yarns; a set of top cross machine direction yarns interwoven with the top machine direction yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom machine direction yarns; a set of bot... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5571605 | PTFE fiber woven fabric The present invention is an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fiber with improved handling properties. Unlike previous expanded PTFE fibers, the fiber of the present invention employs a fiber of increased thickness so that the fiber is maintained in... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5553642 | Process and device for making decorated woven-knitted textile backing A textile backing with a decorative weft is manufactured by raising at least one bonding needle across the warp yarn lap of the textile backing, the bonding needle being used to form a locking mesh having a number of loops; retracting the needles under th... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5285661 | Tubular textile insert for strengthening material and a mechanism for its production A tubular textile insert for strengthening material is made of a stack of successive layers of parallel and interlinked threads. More particularly, there is a first-direction layer defining a cylindrical shape and form by several parallel threads arranged... | 02/15/1994 |
| 4336296 | Three-dimensionally latticed flexible-structure composite A three-dimensionally latticed flexible-structure composite, including a three-dimensional lattice formed of longitudinal, lateral and vertical strings and a matrix formed by selectively impregnating the component strings of the aforementioned lattice wit... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4134433 | Apparatus for producing knit-woven fabric selvage structure There is disclosed an apparatus for producing a selvage structure of a knit-woven fabric. The knit-woven fabric is produced in a warp-knit structure from weft thread loops and comprises spaced apart stitch wales with warp thread groups disposed therebetwe... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4106531 | Knit-woven fabric selvage structure, and apparatus for producing the same There are disclosed a selvage structure of a knit-woven fabric, and an apparatus for producing it. The knit-woven fabric is produced in a warp-knit structure from weft thread loops and comprises spaced apart stitch wales with warp thread groups disposed t... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4086941 | Biplanar papermaker's belt A papermaker's belt particularly suited for use as a forming fabric, the fabric being of biplanar construction with sets of upper and lower filling yarns interconnected by warp yarns extending between the upper and lower surfaces of the fabric, the fabric... | 05/02/1978 |
