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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7909954 | Method and apparatus for winding a filter media pack A method and apparatus are provided, for forming a filter element including a media pack in the form of a coiled fluted filter media, by winding the web of fluted filter media around a pair of tools of a mandrel. The tools engage the sides of the filter media. The t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7887662 | Corrugated hose with non-conforming outer layer for dispensing loose-fill insulation A hose assembly comprises: a flexible corrugated inner hose suitable for conveying and dispensing loose-fill insulation material, and a non-conforming outer hose snugly fitted about the inner hose, the outer hose having a substantially cylindrical outer surface that... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7850812 | Methods for manufacturing a paint roller and component parts thereof Described is a method of making a laminated paint roller wherein a perforated strip of thermoplastic material is advanced, the perforated strip having holes there-through. A lubricant is applied to the inner surface of the advancing perforated strip of thermoplastic... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7410550 | Flexible insulating sleeve The present invention relates to flexible cylindrical sleeves for use in protecting wires or conduits from excess heat and/or abrasion. In particular, the present invention provides a flexible sleeve made of multiple bands that are continuously spirally wrapped arou... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7347910 | Method for manufacturing a container end wall of lightweight construction and a container provided with such an end wall A method for producing a lightweight end wall of a containers characterized by the following stages: manufacturing a large size lightweight thermoplastics tube by spirally winding and joining together a hollow profile of thermoplastics, cutting a piece from such a t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7291240 | Method of forming a conduit using a wound sacrificial layer A thin ribbon spirally wound polymer conduit and method of forming, wherein a helical reinforcing bead is interposed adjacent overlapping layers of ribbon. Further, a method of continuously forming spirally wound conduit wherein a sacrificial layer, preferably havin... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284573 | Hose for installing loose fill insulation The present invention provides tubes for, in an exemplary embodiment, dispensing loose fill insulation. The tube comprises an inner web formed in a tubular shape and having a plurality of spaced helical projections disposed along an inner surface thereof and extendi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266872 | Method and device for the separation of tubes An apparatus and method for separation of tubes produced continuously on a row of mandrels, continuously coupled to one another, by the mandrels being advanced in a conveying direction (X) and by material layers being applied to the mandrels. A material difference e... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7226519 | Flexible hose for a vacuum cleaner and fabricating method thereof Disclosed is a flexible hose for a vacuum cleaner and a fabricating method thereof. The fabrication method includes the steps of: extruding a primary extrusion molding band 13 having a larger size than a size of a finished state while embedding an electric wi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7188800 | Collapsible winding core and method of making same A winding core capable of being made in relatively thick-walled configurations and yet capable of being readily collapsed into a flattened configuration for shipping or storage prior to use comprises a plurality of fibrous plies helically wound one atop another and ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186449 | Recycled rubber construction materials The present invention broadly comprises a construction material constructed from a plurality of flexible strips, the strips are helically wound upon one another to form a tire pole. The tire pole may incorporate bolts, nails, screws and polymers for securing the fle... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7175726 | Continuous rubber-strip forming apparatus and process An apparatus for continuously winding a rubber strip extruded from a rubber-strip extruding machine, on a tire-building drum, comprises: a rubber-strip extruding machine including a gear pump for delivering the rubber material outputted from the extruder to a formin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7166251 | Segmented flexible barrel lay-up mandrel An aircraft barrel lay-up assembly is provided comprising a barrel mandrel assembly having a contiguous outer barrel lay-up surface. A minor barrel outer surface element is movable between a minor barrel engaged position and a minor barrel disengaged position and fo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7147756 | Unique fabric structure for industrial fabrics An industrial process fabric and a method for manufacturing such a fabric. The fabric is made of material and is endless, or made endless with a seam, in the machine direction of a machine on which it is used. The fabric comprises at least one layer composed of a sp... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7137941 | Apparatus and method for forming a hemmed edge on carton blanks An apparatus and method for forming a hem on a 5th panel of a liquid carton blank comprising a skiving section, a stepped creaser section, a burner section, a vacuum hemmer section, and a sealer section. Carton blanks are fed into the skiver section and e... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7060150 | Methods for making a supported graft A method for making an endoluminal prosthesis for implantation within a body lumen to maintain luminal patency, the prothesis including a support structure, such as a wire member, and a polymer component, such as a polymer cladding. The method may include joining a ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7014450 | Thermoplastic sheet forming apparatus and method There are provided apparatuses and related methods for forming sheets. The formed sheets can be formed of a thermoplastic material, such as flat sheets of reinforced thermoplastic, which can be lightweight, strong, and perform well in flammability, smoke, and toxici... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7011731 | Long nip press belt made from thermoplastic resin-impregnated fibers Provided is a method for manufacturing a papermaking belt structure using tapes made of a solid thermoplastic resin surrounding a fibrous matrix. The method calls for applying a layer of CD oriented tapes to a mandrel surface, then applying a layer of MD oriented ta... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007887 | Tubular core with polymer plies A tubular core and associated method of manufacture are provided. The tubular core includes at least one inner ply and at least two plastic plies disposed thereon. The inner ply, which can be paper or plastic, has an inner surface upon which identifying indicia are ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6989067 | Method and apparatus for application of material to core A strip builder for winding a material strip about a rotating core includes a traveling applicator head assembly for receipt of the material strip from an upstream extruder station and transport of the strip to a downstream rotating core. The assembly includes a cen... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6974516 | Method of making laminate thin-wall ceramic tubes and said tubes with electrodes, particularly for solid oxide fuel cells A method of fabricating a ceramic tube with electrodes thereon suitable for use as a tubular reaction chamber for a fuel cell. In one embodiment, the method includes wrapping a first electrode material around a mandrel, then wrapping a green ceramic material over th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972064 | Method of forming laminar structures having variable angle tape wrap Composite laminar structures which exhibit nonlinear surfaces and which exhibit a variable ply angle relative to a defined axis and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A change in ply angle may be induced by the formation of a ramp structure, such as by the i... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6955024 | Filament wound structural light poles A one-piece, unitary, elongate, tubular light pole. The elongate light pole defines a central axis and is constructed from a filament-wound composite of fiber-reinforced bonding agent and has a wall thickness of less than ¾ inch, and preferably ⅜ inch. The pole i... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6939424 | Method of making a spirally-wound tube This invention concerns a method and an apparatus for making a spirally-wound tube from a hollow thermoplastic profile (1) having a substantially rectangular cross-section, which method comprises the steps of: winding the thermoplastic profile (1) arou... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939590 | Paperboard tube structures with one or more cut-and-folded plies There is provided a paperboard tube structure with an intermediate ply having cut-and-folded tabs to increase the effective thickness of the intermediate ply. The paperboard tube includes a plurality of paperboard plies wrapped one atop another about an axis with th... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6929709 | Helically formed stent/graft assembly The present invention relates to a support structure/membrane composite device which includes a support structure, such as a radially expandable stent, a porous non-textile polymeric membrane adjacent to said stent and a thermoplastic anchor means attaching said ste... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6921449 | Continuous spiral process for manufacturing imageable seamed belts for printers A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material, which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width. In the disclosed embo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6878329 | Method of making a catheter balloon using a polyimide covered mandrel A method of making a catheter balloon or other tubular medical device or component, in which a sheet of polymeric material is wrapped on a mandrel and heated to fuse sections of the wrapped sheet together to form a tube. The mandrel has a metallic core and a jacket ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6851643 | Spirally wound tube with enhanced inner diameter stiffness, and method of making same Wide ply gaps are intentionally introduced into one or more plies in a radially intermediate zone of the wall of a spirally wound tube. Each ply having wide ply gaps is narrower than the width that would ordinarily be employed at a given spiral winding angle to achi... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6793754 | Covered roll having an under-layer formed of resin infused densely packed fibers that provides increased strength and adhesion properties A covered roll is disclosed. Under an exemplary embodiment, the covered roll includes a roll core base, an under-layer formed of densely packed fibers and a covering layer. The under-layer, which may include straight and directionally oriented fibers, is infused wit... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6752890 | Method of manufacturing a press fabric by spirally attaching a top laminate layer with a heat-activated adhesive A method for manufacturing a press fabric for a paper machine includes the attachment of a strip of top laminate layer material to a base fabric using a heat-activated adhesive film. The top laminate layer material may be a woven fabric, a nonwoven mesh, or a thermo... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6723208 | Method for producing spiral wound paper machine clothing A papermaker's fabric is manufactured by spirally winding a laminated structure in a plurality of turns. The laminated structure has a bottom layer and a top layer, both of which are strips having a common width. The bottom layer and the top layer are laminated to o... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6679966 | Liner with a tubular film that is coated with a nonwoven The invention relates to a liner for producing a lining tube for carrying out sewer pipe renovation work, comprising at least one layer consisting of at least one tubular, resin-impregnated fiber band and a tubular film located on said at least one fiber ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6660118 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing paint rollers A method of manufacturing paint rollers includes the steps of extruding a cylindrical plastic core through a rotating extruder head, and securing an absorbent sheet material onto an outer surface of the core in a continuous process.... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6537405 | Spiral formed products and method of manufacture In the present invention, hollow thermoplastic foam tubes of any desired diameter are easily achieved as well as large sheets or planks of thermoplastic foam material in any width and thickness desired by spirally wrapping and fusing a thermoplastic foam ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6514369 | Method for and devices used in covering a roll core with a resin infused fiber reinforced adhesive under layer and a polymeric top layer, the method including the use of an improved mold tape The invention includes a method for producing a covered roll having a reinforcement fiber mat under layer infused with low viscosity thermoset resin and a smooth high temperature, high performance polymeric outer layer. The mat is formed of a plurality of... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6488802 | Pipe extrusion process A process of making a continuous thermoplastic helical seam profile pipe. The thermoplastic material is extruded through a die to form a continuous square tube. The continuous tube is cooled and a filler material is applied. The continuous tube bearing th... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6458233 | Method for manufacturing a wall thickness program into an elastomeric tubular component for incorporation into a packing device for use in a subterranean well A method of manufacturing a wall thickness program onto an elastomeric tubular component, such as an expandable bladder and/or cover element, for incorporation into a packing device for use in a subterranean well includes steps of contouring upon a surfac... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6440274 | Shoe press belt and manufacturing method An easily manufactured shoe press belt for a papermaking machine comprises a high molecular weight cylindrical elastic member having embedded within it, between its inner and outer walls, a multiple layer base member formed by winding a belt-like woven fa... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6394145 | Flexible conduit, such as pipe for medical or surgical use Disclosed is a process for obtaining a flexible conduit comprising a tube and a helical structure. The process comprises extruding a crosslinkable plastic material in a malleable or formable state, so as to form a profiled strip having, as one piece, a we... | 05/28/2002 |
