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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228675 | Filling device and method for making a mattress A filling device for making a mattress includes a main frame, a feed vessel, a feeding platen, a capping structure, and a power mechanism. The feed vessel includes an open top and a bottom having supplying openings. The feeding platen includes filling containers. Ea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6955132 | Method and apparatus for splicing indeterminate length fiber tow ends Indeterminate length fiber tows ends are joined by overlapping end portions of the first and second fiber tows. The first and second tows are secured in a clamp with a portion of the overlapping area exposed. The overlapping area of the tows is positioned on a sewin... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6145248 | Sports playing surfaces with biodegradable backings A biodegradable playing surface (100) including a synthetic turf base (104) positioned atop a foundation (102) is provided. The synthetic turf base includes an at least partially biodegradable backing (112) having a plurality of openings (116), and synthe... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5488758 | Sliver piecing method The present invention relates to a sliver piecing method wherein sliver piecing is performed with yarn incorporated in an overlapped portion of sliver ends and since yarn having a suitable thickness is incorporated in an overlapped portion of sliver ends ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5447506 | Absorption body The present invention relates to an absorption body intended for an absorbent product, such as a sanitary towel or an incontinence guard, and comprising an absorbent material, preferably cellulose fluff, which increases in quantity continuously from the e... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5030314 | Apparatus for forming discrete particulate areas in a composite article The invention is generally accomplished by providing a roll having cavities suitable for retaining small quantities of particulate material. The roll further is adapted to be rotated such that the particulate material is deposited onto a web in discrete a... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5023976 | Feed table of a drawframe arrangement The invention relates to a feed table for feeding slivers by way of a conveyor to a textile processing machine. The slivers are drawn off from associated spinning cans by way of draw-off devices and placed on the conveyor. In the event of a sliver running... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4987645 | Automatic piecing of overlapped leading and trailing ends of slivers in a textile machine A first sliver in an exhaust can (2F) is introduced and held in a recess (38a) of a sliver piecing unit (38) while gripped by a sliver gripper (34). The first sliver is severed by the displacement of the gripper (34) away from the recess (38a) so that a t... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4322380 | Method for feeding and orienting fibrous furnish Methods are presented for continuous-line manufacture of composition board from furnish which is moved in a continuous-flow manner through a processing line and distributed for deposition at a uniform rate over a preselected area to continuously form a ma... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4211583 | Card-clothing wire Card-clothing wire is manufactured for use on rollers in textile fibre processing machines. The wire is formed into a helical coil, with the teeth projecting radially from the rib of the wire, in the same manner as in the condition of use on the roller, a... | 07/08/1980 |
