Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6913045 | Process for selectivity lacing filaments on multidimensional textile preforms and device for practicing the same A process for selectively lacing filaments on multi-dimensional textile preforms made of rods, the rods are displaced by the filament and pressed vertically downwardly by a needle with an open eye which, after passing through the piece to be laced, is opened at an i... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6494362 | ID labeled fabric and method of applying an ID label to fabric at its point of manufacture A fabric is formed of interlacing yarns, and is labeled for ready and accurate identification by a manufacturer. The fabric includes a label carrier yarn selected from at least one end of the interlacing yarns. A fabric identifying label is attached to th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 5826626 | Weft thread monitoring system in a circular loom A device for monitoring a weft in a circular loom where the weft is drawn-off from a bobbin of the weaving shuttle rotating along a circular path formed by a circular reed. The device includes a magnetic sensor stationarily arranged in a zone of the circu... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5617905 | Circular-weaving machine with vertically moving heddles A circular loom for the manufacture of tubular fabrics having an annular frame with an upper annular plate and a lower annular plate, both having bearing bores for vertically moving healds (heddles) guiding the warp threads of the hose to be manufactured.... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5458157 | Toothed wheel type shed forming device for shuttle loom A shed forming device for a shuttle loom includes a carrier (6) for at least one shuttle (5, 5') and a stationary frame (1) accommodating a reed of wires or dents (7) disposed in a plane extending parallel to the direction of movement of the shuttle carri... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5293906 | Circular loom for and method of weaving ribbon-shaped weft A circular loom comprises weft ribbon shuttle assemblies and a control system for detecting the position of one of the shuttle assemblies at spaced points about the periphery of the loom, and then presetting warp ribbon-setting air cylinders in advance of... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5246040 | Method and apparatus for weaving an indicia into a woven circular fabric A method and apparatus for weaving an indicia such as a trademark, symbol or design into a tubular fabric. About a selected warp yarn segment of the tubular fabric, for each warp yarn increment, two warp yarns are actually directed into the loom, one warp... | 09/21/1993 |
| 4977933 | Circular loom for weaving ribbon-shaped materials A circular loom for making fabric, especially from flat strip-like or ribbon-shaped material, in which the weft carrier or shuttle assembly travels in a circular path and has a body member carrying its own weft supply, motive power means and warp shed for... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4938270 | Spherical cloth weaving machine with shuttle chucks A spherical cloth weaving machine in which radially stretched warp yarn and circumferentially running weft yarns are woven into a desired spherical shape, the machine being constructed with a mechanism for moving the warp yarns alternately by shuttle chuc... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4821778 | Circular loom In a circular loom having a machine frame and a lower and an upper circular-ring-shaped running race arranged in the machine frame for guiding a shuttle, the running rollers of the same are fitted in between inclined guiding surfaces of the upper and lowe... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4735236 | Multiple yarn insertion device A circular loom which holds multiple longitudinal threads is able to weave them into a three-dimensional fabric using a filament insertion device which supplies it with multiple circumferential threads and a supply of weaver thread. One version of the fil... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4719946 | Method of producing a tubular woven fabric and a circular loom for carrying out the method For the production of a tubular woven fabric having a floats-including weave, by using a circular loom, at least two shuttles are moved through sheds formed by warp threads. The warp threads are guided through thread eyes of thread guiding organs and are ... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4616681 | Arrangement for the supervision of weft threads on a circular loom Weft threads on a circular loom which are wound off the respective bobbin of the weaving shuttle traveling in the weaving shed along a circular path formed by the circular reed, and transferred onto the fabric edge of the tubular fabric, are supervised by... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4355666 | Shuttle propelling mechanism in circular loom In a circular loom in which at least one shuttle is continuously travelled in one direction along an annular shuttle guide means, and a plurality of shed forming mechanisms arranged annularly and coaxially with the guide means are sequentially opened prio... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4273162 | Braking apparatus for tape rollers of weaving shuttles A shuttle for a circular loom comprises trunnions supporting and turning together with a winding core of a tape package. One of the trunnions carries a brake disc co-operating with a brake shoe carried by a pivoted lever which is connected to a rocker sha... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4234021 | Circular looms In a circular loom a weft failure indicator system includes means for issuing a signal that a weft failure has occurred on the shuttle, and a detector adapted to detect the weft failure signal, the detector being located on a stationary part of the loom a... | 11/18/1980 |
