Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6935381 | Device for driving one or several pile carriers for the selection of one or several pile yarns A device is provided for driving one or several pile carriers (2) for the selection of one or several pile yarns (15), comprising at least one drive motor (4) for driving a pile carrier (2), the pile carrier moving under the motor housing... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6886602 | Method for driving one or several pile carriers for the selection of one or several pile yarns The invention relates to a method for driving one or several pile carriers (2) for the selection of one or several pile yarns (15), the pile carriers (2) moving between a first and a second extreme position for pile selection, each pile carrier ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6701970 | Carpet weaving A carpet weaving loom including at least one tuft forming unit (1) for forming sequentially yarn tufts (7) of a number of different colors, means to receive and hold at yarn tuft holding sites (8) yam tufts supplied sequentially by the tuft forming unit (... | 03/09/2004 |
| 5806568 | Positioning pile yarns in a gripper axminster carpet weaving machine For positioning pile yarns in variable selection positions in a carpet weaving machine of the gripper Axminster type, in which pile yarns (1-8) of different colors are placed next to each other in a line in pile yarn loaders (10), each pile yarn loader (1... | 09/15/1998 |
| 4371577 | Antimicrobial carpet containing amino acid type surfactant An antimicrobial carpet having bacteriostatic and sterilizing effect against molds, bacteria and viruses is prepared by incorporating into fibrous materials prior to or after fabrication into a carpet an amino acid type surfactant represented by the formu... | 02/01/1983 |
| 3999577 | Apparatus for making axminster carpets Apparatus for weaving a plain or patterned Axminster pile carpet, wall carpet, floor rug, or mat in which the pile is produced by carrying selected tufts of pile yarn from a yarn feed position to the weaving point by a gripper, and in which at least two d... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3963058 | Carpet looms A method for producing Axminster carpets having two different heights of pile in the same pile forming pick on an Axminster gripper loom. The method comprises engagement of selected yarn carriers on a lifting bar when said yarn carriers move for pile yarn... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3938559 | Method of making pile fabrics and the pile fabric made thereby A method of increasing the length of tuft to be woven into an Axminster carpet on a gripper loom. After the yarns have been drawn-off the yarn carriers by relative movement between the yarn carriers and the grippers, means, such as a finger mounted on the... | 02/17/1976 |
