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Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London ; 1830
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353944 | Roll package and method of making same A roll package includes a material roll that is provided with the protective covering material. The material roll has an outer surface defining an axis. The protective covering material is axially wrapped about the material roll in a plurality of overlapping layers.... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7094456 | Hybrid liners having reduced adhesion to an unvulcanized rubber material A hybrid liner (40) and system for using a hybrid liner includes a first portion (42) being made of one material and a second portion (44) being made of a separate material. The two materials have a different propensity for sticking to the unvul... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6966514 | Device for decurling a sheet of paper taken from a roll The invention is directed to a roll assembly comprising an elongated, substantially rigid, cylindrical roll; a carrier sheet wrapped around the roll, having an inner edge attached to the roll in parallel with the roll axis and upper and lower surfaces with opposed l... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964141 | Building reinforcing method, material, and structure A high-ductility material or a high-ductility covering material is disposed on the outer circumferential surface of a member, such as a column, of a structure so as to confine expansion of apparent volume accompanying rupture of the member, to thereby control ruptur... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6076674 | Wrapped material, and method and apparatus for wrapping such material A wrapped mass of material. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a cold-flowable material such as a hot-melt adhesive wrapped in a liner such that the liner is easily removed from the material. The present invention also provides a method and ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5873464 | Film bubble wrap interleaf A method for protecting a roll of pressure-sensitive paper and a package produced by the method uses bubble wrap and film to protect the roll of paper. The bubble wrap has a plurality of bubbles which permanently entrap air. These pockets of air in the bu... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5848696 | Wrapped material, and method and apparatus for wrapping and unwrapping such material An elongate mass of material wrapped by a liner in which the liner is wrapped around the material with the liner inside surface facing the peripheral surface of the material, with first and second regions of the liner extending away from the material with... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5375707 | Method and device for storing a puzzle A cloth material such as a felt on which there is a rectangular outline is provided and the puzzle is partly or completely assembled inside the outline. When it is intended to store away the puzzle, the felt with the puzzle is rolled over a tube which is ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5114012 | Interleaved spiral wrapping of foam product and stretch film for packaging carbonless paper rolls A method and apparatus are provided for producing a foam wrapped package for protecting a roll of pressure-sensitive carbonless copy paper. Interleaved foam and film are wrapped under tension around the outer periphery of the roll of carbonless paper by s... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5105944 | Shipping package for perfluorinated membrane Membranes such as fluorine-containing cation exchange membranes are wrapped on a roll for shipment, without using adhesive to fasten the membrane to the core or to itself at the end of the wrap. Instead, paper is taped to the core and interleaved with the... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5007538 | Interleaved spiral wrapping of foam product and stretch film for packaging carbonless paper rolls A method and apparatus are provided for producing a foam wrapped package for protecting a roll of pressure-sensitive carbonless copy paper. Interleaved foam and film are wrapped under tension around the outer periphery of the roll of carbonless paper by s... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5004635 | Contoured liner for preassembled tire components A contoured liner for rolling of a preassembled uncured rubber tire component with a variable cross-sectional thickness into a coil with minimal dimensional distortion. A filler of compressible material such as polyester, is sandwiched between a flexible ... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4993550 | Packing small mesh pieces In order to provide a suitable packaging system, mesh pieces are deposited across the width of a moving run of flexible wrapping material and are deposited in longitudinally overlapping relationship along the length of the wrapping material, by feeding th... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4947990 | Package of abrasive materials Package of preferably self-adhesive abrasive material (1), comprising circular disks or sheets, which are attached to each other to make a connected unit, which is folded together to make a bundle (3) so that all the abrasive material sheets or disks (1) ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4936459 | Interleaved spiral wrapping of foam product and stretch film for packaging carbonless paper rolls A method and apparatus are provided for producing a foam wrapped package for protecting a roll of pressure-sensitive carbonless copy paper. Interleaved foam and film are wrapped under tension around the outer periphery of the roll of carbonless paper by s... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4839210 | Method and mechanism for producing cushioning dunnage product A mechanism and method for producing relatively low density pad-like cushioning dunnage product from sheet-like stock material. The mechanism takes the sheet-like stock material from a multi-ply roll thereof and changes it into a pad-like cushioning dunna... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4710351 | Automated handling system Apparatus and process are disclosed for removing a single flexible member from a storage spool capable of holding multiple flexible members. This storage spool is designed to contain multiple elongated flexible members in an accurate position on the spool... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4575988 | Method and apparatus for storing continuously arriving flat products, especially printed products, and product package formed from such products Firstly, a leading first portion of the continuously arriving stream of printed products is stored in the form of an intermediate package present on a winding core journaled for rotation. Subsequently the printed products are again unwound from the interm... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4567081 | Separator sheets for collation with a stack of transparencies A separator for separating adjacent transparencies in a stack of transparencies, where the separator is characterized by enhanced permeability due either to the intrinsic material from which it is made, or due to a plurality of apertures, holes, perforati... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4505424 | Container for displaying and storing flat articles selectively in flattened or cylindrical form A container consisting of at least two layers of flexible material forming a pocket for retaining relatively flat articles, which also can be formed into a cylinder and retained in this position by providing adhering means in spot or strip form extending ... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4467917 | Carrier tube for prints, sheets or artistic canvases A carrying or transporting tube for artistic prints, sheets, or canvas materials features a backing liner that protects the wound print within the tube and prevents the unwinding of the wound print. The liner is comprised of a rectilinear section having a pouc... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4326632 | Two-component adhesive body A cylindrically shaped body of a two-component adhesive material includes at least one web wound spirally around a central axis so that the web forms a number of overlapping layers in the radical direction of the body. The two-component adhesive material ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4294357 | Pop up abrasive disc dispenser The invention provides a container having a roll of abrasive adhesive discs releasably connected to a backing paper inside the container. The container is designed such that the discs and backing paper may be pulled from the upper front of the container a... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4258846 | Interleaved rolls of web material A means is disclosed for preventing the generation of wrinkles in wound rolls of web material. Wrinkles tend to form in wound rolls after an indefinite time of storage and growth of such post-forming wrinkles is eliminated by insertion of an interleaf of ... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4193313 | Apparatus for carrying flexible goods A carrier film composed of an ultra high molecular weight high density polyethylene is disclosed herein. The carrier film has a pair of opposed surfaces and a pair of opposed edges. The carrier film is perforated with a plurality of circular apertures. On... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4124183 | Roll of wire mesh of the chain-link fencing type Chain-link fencing reticulated wire mesh having square or rhomboidal mesh and formed from wire spirals which are interengaged is rolled in a compact roll with the aid of at least one and up to three elongated elements or binding strands which extend in tr... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4113092 | Packaging A package for pile fabrics in which individual turns of the fabric when coiled into a roll are separated and spaced apart by spacing means associated with a supporting strip releasably secured to one edge of the pile fabric. The turns of the supporting st... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4069359 | Means and method of separating lengths of flattened flexible polymeric tube A plurality of lengths of at least one flattened flexible polymeric tube disposed in superposed relation. Each length in cross section includes enlarged folded edge portions with a flat center portion between the edge portions. Means such as a separator o... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4053115 | Fabric protecting means The pile surfaces of high pile and velour fabrics are protected during shipment and storage by an improved fabric protecting means which comprises an elongate, flexible carrier strip. Upwardly and downwardly disposed fabric engaging means are integral wit... | 10/11/1977 |