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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6370859 | Demountable subassembly for units for compacting bundles of textile fibres A demountable subassembly is provided for a series of compacting units of adjacent spinning stations. The subassembly includes a transverse tube with a series of longitudinal suction slots and a suction manifold connectable to the tube in the region of a ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6161258 | Spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations An arrangement for condensing a drafted fiber strand is arranged at each spinning station of a spinning machine. The condensing arrangements each comprise a transport surface which transports the fiber strand over a suction slit of a suction device. A joi... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5274883 | Carding apparatus with drafting and autolever device A sliver is created by directly condensing the carded web from a carding apparatus and then feeding it to a drafting set from which it is subsequently delivered by way of an autoleveller comprising sliver thickness sensing means and variable draft means.... | 01/04/1994 |
| 4768262 | Apparatus and method for textile strand drafting A novel fiber drafting system disclosed according to which a textile fiber strand is passed through a plurality of pairs of drafting rollers wherein one of each pair of drafting rollers includes a circumferential groove for receiving the fiber strand and ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4551887 | Draft apparatus for a spinning machine Draft apparatus for use with a pneumatic high speed spinning frame. At least one pair of sliver compressing member are disposed on the sliver path. One of the sliver compressing members has a circumferential recessed groove for receiving the sliver and th... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4539729 | Apparatus for the continuous compression or determination of the mass of a fiber sliver Fiber slivers must be condensed during the course of a spinning process or their mass must be determined. For this purpose there are employed so-called grooved pairs of rollers, that is to say, profiled rolls which define a sliver throughput groove which ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4489461 | Method and apparatus for textile fiber drafting A novel fiber drafting system is disclosed, according to which fibers of sliver supplied continuously are passed through a first pair of rotatable cooperating rollers while being pressed and compacted into a reduced section by and between a space formed b... | 12/25/1984 |
