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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341076 | Woven fabric comprising leno weave bound metal A woven fabric in which warp elements are provided out of metal. The fabric further comprising at least a first set of substantially parallel binding elements present in warp direction of the fabric. This first set of binding elements bind the warp elements to the w... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7172802 | Casement fabrics Window coverings are formed of woven fabrics of acrylic yarns to provide minimal degradation of the window covering due to ultraviolet (UV) radiation and to minimize damage to interior furnishings within a building at which the window coverings are applied. The wind... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168272 | Crimp-free infusible reinforcement fabric The present invention relates to a composite fabric wherein a plurality of small tows are intermittently spaced between large tows forming channels. The channels formed by spacing the between the large tows thereby forming ridges. The irregular thickness that result... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6809046 | Non-heat cleaned fabrics and products including the same The present invention provides non-heat cleaned glass fiber fabrics comprising resin compatible coatings that offer higher tensile strengths than corresponding fabrics that have been heat cleaned and silane finished. These fabrics can be used in a wide variety of ap... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6381989 | Heat treated fibers for reinforced dental restorations and method of manufacture thereof A method for processing a glass fiber material, wherein the glass fiber material has been heat treated at a temperature less than or equal to the annealing temperature of the glass for a length of time effective to prevent separation and fraying of the ed... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6267151 | Method of making a patterned glass fabric A method for the production of a patterned glass fabric, especially for wallpaper or similar materials having a fabric woven with glass fiber yams, in which glass fiber yams are processed on a pattern-controlled Jacquard loom, a glass fiber yam with a tit... | 07/31/2001 |
| 5837624 | Woven glass cloth for printed wiring board and printed wiring products manufactured therefrom To enhance the tear strength without increasing the thickness, a woven glass cloth having a mass of 15 to 30 g/m2, for use as a base material for printed wiring board material, is characterized in that the weft or warp is provided by a 75 denie... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5807793 | Laminates for printed circuits using unidirectional glass fabric A description is provided of laminates for printed circuits using unidirectional glass fabric produced with continuous yarn which is twisted, has a low number of twists or zero twisting turns with different gramme weights, interlaced warpwise with a leno ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5792713 | Glass fabric produced with zero-twist yarn A woven glass fabric reinforcement for paper or resinous articles made of continuous glass filament warp yarns and weft yarns is provided. At least one of the warp yarns and the weft yarns is a zero-twist yarn made of continuous glass filaments having a d... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5752550 | Warpwise unidirectional glass fabric with leno binding threads A unidirectional fabric produced with a continuous glass yarn which is twisted, plied or has zero twisting turns, with different gram weights. Interlacings of thin glass binding yarns for stabilizing the fabric extend warpwise to engage weft yarns in a le... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5732748 | Composite material fabric based on predominantly untwisted coarse multifilament warp & weft threads A woven fabric to be used in formation of a composite material includes multifilament warp and weft threads. Each of the warp threads and the weft threads have a total weight less than 80% of the weight of the fabric. The woven warp and weft threads have ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5690150 | Woven fabric made with a yarn having periodic flat spots A woven fabric of warp yarn and fill yarn uses a strand of individual filaments for the fill yarn, where the strand has a primary cross-sectional shape and periodic flat spots with a flat cross-sectional shape which is more elongated than the primary cros... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5673727 | Fabric treating process A fiberglass mesh process includes coating fiberglass yarn, conveying the coated yarn to a loom without first beaming the yarn, weaving a mesh fabric of said yarn, conveying the mesh fabric to an in-line fabric treating station from said loom, tentering t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5630897 | Process for making a continuous structure of a composite material The described process for making a continuous composite material structure (50) starts from a continuous semifinished product (1) made of a reinforcing fiber comprising an upper layer (4) and a lower layer (5) facing each other and mutually connected by i... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5433991 | Reinforcement system for mastic intumescent fire protection coatings comprising a hybrid mesh fabric A reinforcement system for mastic intumescent fire protection coatings. Free floating hybrid mesh embedded in the coating is used to reinforce the coating. The hybrid mesh is made from a combination of high temperature and low temperature yarns.... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5387455 | Component made of resinified space-layer fabric, and a method of producing a lagging The invention relates to a structural part (1) consisting of a cured resinified spaced-layer fabric of industrial fibers such as glass fiber, aramid fiber, ceramic fiber or the like, having a first layer (2) and a second layer (3) which are liquid-tight a... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5280558 | Smart skin array woven fiber optic ribbon and arrays and packaging thereof A woven material is described in which optical fibers are positioned and held in the material in a manner to maximize their optical efficiency. The material consists of fibers extending in both the warp and woof direction, the optical fibers are positione... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5240533 | Method of fabricating a structural element formed of a resin-hardened velour fabric A structure based on velour fabric, having at least a first layer and a second layer and intermediate ribs connecting these layers provides a production-efficient, stable and nevertheless light-weight product. The velour fabric is made of a commercial yar... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5180409 | Hot-gas-filtering fabric of spaced uncrimped support strands and crimped lofty fill yarns A fabric for filtering particulate matter from a stream of hot gases, e.g., from a diesel engine, has an unknotted weave of flexible, incompressible, uncrimped, spaced support yarns and flexible, lofty, fully crimped, fill yarns. During the weaving proces... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5080141 | Multiply fabric having center portion with delicate warp threads and lateral portions with robust threads A multiply fabric which has a center portion and lateral marginal portions, the warp threads in the center portion being carbon fibers or glass fibers and the warp threads in the lateral marginal portions being made of a robust material having a high tens... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4919978 | Production of fiber composites Fiber composites produced by impregnating a woven fabric in which parallel reinforcing fibers are held together by thermoplastic filament yarns in an impregnating bath containing from 0 to 50% by weight of a thermoplastic and from 100 to 0% by weight of a... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4894276 | Bonded glass fabric edge Feathered edges of fiberglass fabrics woven on a shuttleless or airjet loom are secured and prevented from ravelling by a glass yarn coated with a hot melt composition. The coated yarn is woven along the longitudinal edges of the fabric, typically in a le... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4877660 | Recoverable fabric sleeve A sleeve suitable for making a cable splice case comprises a matrix material and a recoverable fabric by virtue of which the sleeve is recoverable. The sleeve comprises recoverable weft fibres in bundles of 2-6 running circumferentially, and longitudinal ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4813459 | Stretchable material having redundant conductive sections A stretchable grounding strap for additional reliability in grounding the wearer's body through the use of two or more separate sections of conductive material, each of which is connected to ground by a separate grounding line. Circuitry utilized in conne... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4748996 | Woven multilayered textile fabrics and attendant method of making A woven multilayered textile fabric and attendant method wherein a plurality of layers of the fabric are formed of straight yarns, including at least one layer formed of warp yarns and respective layers formed of filling yarns positioned in superposed rel... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4579772 | Glass cloth for printed circuits and method of manufacture wherein yarns have a substantially elliptical cross-section Woven glass cloth and method of its manufacture suitable for use as a resin-impregnated substrate for printed circuits in which the major dimension or transverse axis of the elliptical warp yarns exceeds a predetermined fraction of that dimension of the f... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4563385 | Hybrid glass cloth for printed circuit boards Woven glass fiber cloth for printed circuit substrates in which the warp is of plied yarn and the fill is of unplied or twisted yarn to facilitate more thorough polymeric resin impregnation and achieve improved dimensional stability.... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4506717 | Woven wire fabric and a tire having a tread reinforcing ply made thereof A woven fabric is generally comprised of metallic warp cords and non-metallic weft cords. The weft cords are comprised of a plurality of glass filaments encapsulated in a resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex adhesive.... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4414264 | Chip carrier substrates of hybrid woven glass cloths Multilayer laminates and substrates for carriers of silicon chips which are used in circuitry boards will comprise woven hybrid glass cloth formed from fiberglass and a second material which possesses a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about ... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4372347 | Hybrid woven glass cloths Woven hybrid glass cloths which may be utilized as chip carrier substrates and as inner layers in multi-layer laminate circuit boards which will be stable due to a desired co-efficient of thermal expansion may be prepared by weaving fiberglass with a seco... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4282011 | Woven fabrics containing glass fibers and abrasive belts made from same A woven fabric comprising glass fibers cushioned from each other by organic fibers in the warp direction, the sinuosity of the glass fibers being less than or equal to the sinuosity of the organic fibers for a given length of woven fabric, and organic fib... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4274448 | Dryer felt with encapsulated, bulky center yarns A dryer felt comprising a multiple-plane fabric having at least a base plane, a top plane and an intermediate plane positioned between the base plane and the top plane. The base plane is defined by a first plurality of cross machine direction yarns; the t... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4263362 | Coating composition for glass fibers and coated glass fibers made from same A coating composition for producing coated glass fiber strands and the coated glass fiber strands are provided, where the coated strands have good knot tensile strength and improved processability. The coating composition has a carboxylated elastomeric la... | 04/21/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4107381 | Composite article providing seamless fabric-lined bearings in multiple A fabric sleeve having lengthwise yarns of a low friction material and circumferential threads of a bondable material is secured on a mandrel utilizing in particular the heat shrinkage of the circumferential threads but also the axial shrinkage of the low... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4103102 | Reinforced flexible printed wiring board An improved reinforced flexible printed wiring board is disclosed. The reinforcement in this printed wiring board is composed of a fabric woven from a yarn of plied continuous filaments of polyester and glass. The fabric is impregnated with an appropriate... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4097631 | Surface covering with interwoven fabric strips A surface covering comprised of a base fabric having an adhesive layer thereon. First and second groups of fabric strips disposed on the adhesive layer in criss-crossed, interwoven relationship to each other. Each strip of each group has a plurality of sp... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4066106 | Sized woven glass fabric A sizing composition for textile glass fibers comprising a starch, a textile softener, a lubricant and 100 to 150 percent by weight of combined nonionic wetting agents based upon the weight of said lubricant. The glass fibers sized in accordance with this... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4002188 | Woven shade screen A woven fabric shade screen comprising substantially even spaced elongated strands in one direction, such as the fill direction, and groups of more closely spaced strands woven so that the two outside strands alternate respectively being over and under su... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3988490 | Cover cloth fabric A fabric in which resin coated glass yarns are interwoven with staple fiber spun synthetic yarns for a cover cloth used upon flatwork ironers. The fabric of the cover cloth has a work engaging surface that is relatively soft so as not to impress its weave... | 10/26/1976 |
