...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7198067 | Warp-runner triple layer fabric with paired intrinsic warp binders A papermaker's fabric, usable in a forming section of a paper machine, having a first layer formed of a first system of paired machine-direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with a first system of cross machine-direction (CD) weft yarns and a second layer formed of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 6994125 | Fabrication of air bag fabric A method for weaving fabrics that comprise in at least some sections multiple layers, especially one-piece woven (OPW) airbags comprising single-layer, double-layer and multi-layer sections. Weaves or weave combinations are produced in the double- or multi-layer sec... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6918410 | Method for fabricating wovens A method for weaving single-layered and/or multi-layered woven fabric, especially airbag fabric, includes interweaving warp threads delivered by at least two warp beams. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6832633 | High density fabric for air bag and method for manufacturing high density fabric There is provided a high density woven fabric wherein air permeability under 50 kPa differential pressure is 2.5 L/cm2/min. or less, and air permeability index (50 kPa) calculated by the formula 1 is 1.2 or more. Air permeability index (50 kPa)=... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6748980 | Base fabric for hollow-woven air bag and air bag A base fabric for a hollow-woven air bag, including: a bag portion (multiple fabric portion) formed by connecting a plurality of cloth pieces by hollow weaving; a fastened portion A connected to the bag portion (multiple fabric portion); and a fastened portion B of ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6734125 | Laminated multi-denier mixed fabrics for use in inflatable vehicle restraint systems A woven textile fabric is disclosed which is formed of synthetic yarns of at least two different deniers to which a solid polymeric film is laminated. An adhesive polymeric coating is provided for adhering the solid polymeric film to the woven textile fabric. The co... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6701971 | Low permeability side curtain airbag cushions having extremely low coating levels Coated inflatable fabrics, more particularly airbags to which very low add-on amounts of coating have been applied, are provided which exhibit extremely low air permeabilities. The inventive fabrics are primarily for use in automotive restraint cushions w... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698458 | Low permeability airbag cushions having film coatings of extremely low thickness Coated inflatable fabrics, more particularly airbags to which very low add-on amounts of coating have been applied, are provided which exhibit extremely low air permeability. The inventive inflatable fabrics are primarily for use in automotive restraint c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6660668 | Woven webbing structure There is disclosed a woven webbing structure, which resists interwoven yarns from coming out from the surface of the webbing due to bending, or the like. This is achieved without any significant reduction in the strength or energy absorptivity of the webb... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6110850 | Fabric The invention relates to a fabric for the production of clothing from at least two different threads. For the creation of such a fabric, which has on one side substantially the properties determined by one thread and on the other side substantially the pr... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5804277 | Three-dimensional fiber weave with cubic symmetry and no zero valued shear moduli A fiber reinforced composite structure and method for fabricating the composite, are described wherein four sets of mechanically flexible fibers are interwoven in a three-dimensional woven structure wherein each fiber is woven through the structure genera... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5447787 | Reinforced fabric A reinforced fabric composed of a background fabric and a reinforcing grid that is joined to the background fabric so that the grid reinforced fabric is at least 20% stronger than a fabric into which reinforcing yarns of the same type and weight percent a... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5052448 | Self stitching multilayer papermaking fabric A multi-layer self-stitched papermakers' fabric including a top fabric layer of relatively fine machine direction and cross machine direction yarns and a bottom fabric layer of relatively coarse machine direction and cross machine direction yarns, interwo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4815499 | Composite forming fabric A composite paper making fabric comprising at least two complete weaves each formed by its own set of warp and weft yarns and interconnected by a binder yarn which is interwoven with the two complete weaves. An upper one of the complete weaves constitutes... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4564052 | Double-layer fabric for paper machine screen A double-layer woven fabric comprising longitudinally extending warp wires and two layers of transversely extending weft wires, at least part of the warp wires being interwoven with weft wires of both weft layers and warp wires, separated by not more than... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4261392 | Dryer felt having soft, bulky surface A dryer felt having a soft, bulky top surface and comprising at least a top surface, which is defined by a plurality of machine direction yarns and a plurality of cross machine direction yarns interwoven according to a desired weave pattern. A preselected... | 04/14/1981 |