British merchant Peter Durand invented the tin can in 1810.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293512 | Sequin sewing apparatus A feeding mechanism (6) feeds a plurality of continuous sequin strips (3, 60), which are supplied in an overlapped state, a predetermined pitch at a time to a sewing mechanism (2, 31, 32, 41, 50, 51) while keeping the continuous sequin strips in... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7156103 | Bead, a tool and a method for applying the bead to hair A bead, a tool and a method are provided for applying the bead to hair. The bead may be constructed from a pliant and/or soft and/or resilient material, such as for example, rubber, foam, or the like. The bead may be placed around the tool which may hold one or more... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7124918 | Beading tool and method A device including a rod having an end portion and a hooked portion is presented. The end portion and the hooked portion are located at opposite ends of the rod. A support is connected to the rod. The support includes a many rod guides. The hooked portion is adapted... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6991141 | Methods of producing and treating twisted beads Methods of using carnival beads to create twisted bead structures. A plurality of primary bead strands and shorter Prep pieces are twisted together in order to create quaternary structures having particular three-dimensional configurations. The structures can be int... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6729508 | Mechanical beading system A mechanical beading system is disclosed. Specifically, the beading system rotates a stiff but flexible beading wire inside an appropriately-shaped container of beads, causing them to slide onto the open end of the beading wire. The beading wire engages the beading ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6719013 | Bead-weaving system A bead-weaving system including a multiplicity of beads for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, wherein the beads are pierced by a hole in their diameter and threaded on a weft thread by a needle and positioned between each warp thread, the needle having a... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6015070 | Portable bow making machine A portable bow making machine with three clutches controlling the size, arc generation and a no-back clutch assuring that the belt driving the impaler assembly doesn't go into reverse The user requiring no particular skill, merely threads the ribbon in a ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5664707 | Bead installing tool and method of use A tool for installing perforated beads on a strand of fibers, such as a strand of hair. The tool comprises a rod terminating in a closed loop at one end, and having a removable cap at the other end. When the cap is removed, perforated beads are sequential... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5395245 | Elastic pattern abacus and tool for changing arrangement of abacus beads The elastic pattern abacus relates to educational counting devices for learning basic number and arithmetic concepts. The present invention introduces a new flexible medium for threading and holding counters (beads or blocks of any shapes) in a sequence, ... | 03/07/1995 |