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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422111 | Needlecraft organizers and methods of construction A yarn keeper has a front, back, two sides, bottom and top provided as discs. Most of the discs are joined at sew lines with at least one gap separating adjacent sew lines which provide access into an interior of the yarn keeper. The top is hingedly connected to the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7370761 | Innovative shipping package A container package assembly comprises a first support member and a second support member, each of which have a front side, a back side, a right side and a left side. The support members being arranged along a common plane wherein one of the sides of the first suppo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7175648 | Deep endoscopic staple and stapler An endoscopic staple and related stapling device that can be used in conjunction with flexible or rigid endoscopy. The staple can also be used for other surgical procedures. The invention relates to performing a stapling operation on internal body tissues as part of... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7124889 | Rolled film and pallet construction A rolled film and pallet combination for storing rolls of film material wound on a core whose ends extend past the ends of the rolls, with the pallet being symmetrical and having aligned openings in the top and bottom to accommodate the core ends. The pallet compris... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104748 | Methods for use with tray-based integrated circuit device handling systems A stack processing tray for use with tray-based integrated circuit device handling systems. The stack processing tray has a plurality of cells, each cell being configured to receive at least two integrated circuit devices in a vertically superimposed, stacked relati... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7032747 | Reusable packaging system A reusable packaging system is disclosed in which a series of thermoformed trays are used to mount six spider type office chair bases. Three bases are mounted in an inverted position on the tray and three bases are mounted upright. A stack of load trays may be const... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6982118 | Polyester type conjugate fiber package A package of polyester type conjugate fiber of either a side-by-side type or an eccentric sheath/core type in which two kinds of polyester components are adhered to each other to form a single filament, wherein at least one of the components consisting of the single... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6959813 | Corrugated container A self-squaring corrugated container employs alignment markings on and adjacent to the manufacturing joint to allow quick visual inspection of placement and orientation of the manufacturing joint, and employs interlocking contoured peripheral edges on the major bott... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6899225 | Yarn pack A divider for use in handling quantities of yarn spools arranged in layers. The divider includes a main body generally planar polygonal portion and a skirt portion extending around the periphery of the main body portion and formed into a series of circumferentially ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6824869 | Polyester type conjugate fiber package A package of polyester type conjugate fiber of either a side-by-side type or an eccentric sheath/core type in which two kinds of polyester components are adhered to each other to form a single filament, wherein at least one of the components consisting of the single... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6709689 | Drawn yarn package and production method therefor The present invention provides a package of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) drawn yarn obtained by a direct spin-draw process of poly(trimethylene terephthalate), having an industrially practical winding amount and excellent in unwindability during high speed unwin... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6682815 | Stretched yarn pirn The invention provides a poly(trimethylene terephthalate) drawn yarn pirn. The drawn yarn pirn of the invention comprises poly(trimethylene terephthalate) drawn yarn having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.7-1.3 dl/g, a heat shrinkage stress-exhibiting initial... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6673443 | Polyester conjugate fiber pirn and method for producing same The present invention provides a polyester-based conjugate fiber pirn that is formed by winding, in a pirn shape, a conjugate fiber wherein the fiber is formed from a single filament prepared by combining two types of polyester components in a side-by-sid... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6440555 | Package for taking up false twist yarns The present invention provides a package, of a false twist yarn composed of polytrimethylene terephthalate fibers, characterized in that a hardness and a winding density of the package and the number of crimps of the false twist yarn thus taken up simulta... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6089371 | Plastic pallet and separator for packaging yarn spools A construction for the packaging of plastic separators having top, middle and bottom plates formed of single plastic moldings. Each of the plates have support plugs for positioning one or more yarn spools sandwiched between the top plate and the middle pl... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6032798 | Yarn storage container A yarn storage container 10 including a generally rectangular container member 20 divided into an upper 28 and lower 29 main compartment which are further divided by permanent 30 and removable 31 partitions into enlarged sub-compartments 40 and smaller co... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5750215 | High speed process for making fully-oriented nylon yarns and yarns made thereby A coupled spin-draw process for making a fully-oriented nylon yarn including extruding molten nylon polymer with a selected RV through a spinneret and cooling to produce a yarn. The yarn is withdrawn from the quench zone with a feed roll rotating at a spe... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5396991 | Yarn spool holding tray A holding tray for spools of yarn suitable for embroidery machines comprises a molded body forming a flat horizontal base and a plurality of upstanding vertical pegs each of which is generally frustoconical in shape. At the top of each peg is formed a sli... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5213211 | Stackable container made from plastic material for accomodating objects, in particular cans A stackable container particularly for receiving cans, having no side walls, is built with holding tongues protruding from the container bottom in an upward direction. The holding tongues disposed along the circumferential margin are arranged in a manner ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 4998619 | Close-pack, vertical-stack webbing roll packaging A shipping package system with at least one tier of vertically-stacked webbing rolls utilizes pads with an inner set of passages and an outer set of passages, which webbing rolls may have extended tubular core ends nesting in the pad passages. The outer s... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4967907 | Supporting structure for quick loading of yarn spools in dyeing and drying machines or other processing devices A separator holder structure for the quick loading of yarn would spools in dyeing machines, drying machines or other processing devices. The structure consists of a frame forming latticed tray which is divided internally into housings in each of which is ... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4890743 | System and pallet for packaging yarn spools An improvement in a system for palletizing yarn packages or other cylindrical-core-wound goods includes molded plastic pallets, a first one of which supports a plurality of yarn spools thereon and a second one of which acts as a cover; the improved pallet... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4863029 | Apparatus and process for packaging yarn and product therefrom A layered yarn package is formed of continuous filament yarn wads wherein the yarn alternates between compacted and extended lengths by axially compacting the yarn into a length, segmenting the length into alternating extended and compacted lengths then a... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4667823 | Pallet-type package and packaging system and trays therefore for transporting, storing and unloading bobbin yarn A pallet-type package and system and tray therefore are provided that utilize reusable structural components of bobbins and trays. The pallet-type package has a bottom pallet layer on top of which is located at least one tray constituting the first tray l... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4635834 | Apparatus for pattern crocheting Disclosed is a dispensing facility for differently colored skeins of yarn featuring a yarn tender operable to retain the yarn ends loosely captive and free of entanglement while being inverted as a group as a patterned crocheted workpiece is inverted at t... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4630730 | Knitting project workbox A workbox for a knitting project containing a plurality of small containers connected together, to house the individual yarns, each container having a loading door and a top aperture that is staggered with its neighbor apertures, from which the yarn issue... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4618059 | Divider for separating stacked articles A divider for separating stacked articles, particularly yarn spools, includes a substantially rigid planar member in which plural apertures, preferably having the shape and arrangement as shown in FIG. 1, are defined so that the divider is capable of acco... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4582196 | Yarn dispenser The purpose of the yarn dispenser is to store and dispense embroidery floss in a orderly manner. The operation of the device involves placing a skein of floss over the two bushings which rotate on internal axles. After the two halves of the outer case are... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4580680 | Shipping pallet and container formed therefrom A shipping pallet is provided formed of a unitary sheet of material and having a generally planar base with a plurality of spaced proturberances extending upwardly from the upper surface of the base. The protuberances are adapted to receive respective ite... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4502597 | Shipping pallet A shipping pallet is formed from a backing member which comprises at least two thicknesses of corrugated material and which has on the edges for a substantial majority of the perimeter folded corrugated material with only a minor portion of the perimeter ... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4482051 | Shipping pallet A article support for use with a Shipping Pallet having a flange area to interlock between sheets of rigid material, an article locator for positioning of shipped articles and a ledge area associated with each article locator to prevent the article from c... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4397390 | Container for packed wire bundles The invention relates to a container for storing a number of wire bundles, each bundle being packed into a rectangular flat box having a lower wall, four side walls and an upper wall into which a central opening can be made. The container comprises a lowe... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4390154 | Corrugated paperboard pallet deck A two-ply corrugated paperboard pallet deck wherein the corrugations of one ply extend at right angles to the corrugations of the other ply.... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4202448 | Equipment for transporting and/or storing textile bobbins Carriers adapted to support strand spools in wire type pallets are disclosed. Each carrier comprises a tray having gripping devices or claws for centering the carrier at the intersection of the crossed support wires which comprise the pallet. Tubular supp... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4142634 | Layer separator for a container A separator for supporting stacked layers of items within a container comprising a first plastic section having a honeycomb pattern embossed on its top surface for rigidity and to distribute any applied force equally in all directions and a second plastic... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4141447 | Tray support for shipping wound material packages The shipping support tray of this invention comprises a single containerboard element containing integral members cut in the board to form a plurality of interlocking post elements for supporting and positioning tubes of wound yarn in a spaced relationshi... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4042108 | Stackable yarn support A device for supporting yarn bobbins during shipment and storage comprises molded plastic pallets and a plurality of spaced, segmented, bullet-shaped protuberances thereon which fit in ends of bobbin tubes for keeping the bobbins immobilized and separated... | 08/16/1977 |
| 3983997 | Yarn package and method for mixing and dispensing A package of filamentary yarn in the form of a wound cake of successive layers of the yarn, as may be produced by a forming winder, has an unlined hollow core. The lead end of the yarn extends for unwinding drafting of the yarn from the interior of the ca... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3980176 | Screw jet pack for textile fibers This high speed yarn take-up system consists of a pneumatic injector nozzle rotatably mounted off-center of a single flighted rotating screw. Yarn is injected into the area exposed at the trailing edge of the screw and compressed and moved forward in a co... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3946866 | Cone nose protector A protector for the nose of a yarn cone having conical sides connecting an inner cup with a hemitoroidal portion such that the protector fits over the nose of the cone and prevents damage thereto.... | 03/30/1976 |