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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360735 | Device for the attachment of a card clothing with a force measuring device The present invention relates to a device for winding a card clothing onto a roll with a roll drive unit and a braking device acting on the card clothing for generating a winding pretension in a region of the card clothing between roll and braking device. To be able... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7191973 | Method and device for controlling the tension of a web Tension in a web of material that is passing through a web treatment machine, such as a web-fed rotary printing press, is controlled. The desired value for the web tension is modified to counteract defects that may influence web tension during production operation o... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6887410 | Parallel spinning process involving the intermingling of threads between galettes and a corresponding spinning installation therefor A parallel spinning process, in particular for filaments, e.g. for textile or industrial applications, made from polymers such as, for example, PET or PA, in each case having a thread interlacing device between two godets for each individual thread, the godets being... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6619313 | Hose reels A hose reel has a drum (4) having a damper (15) for damping rotational movement of the drum in at least one direction, corresponding to the unwinding of a hose pipe from the drum. The damper prevents unwanted unwinding of hose pipe from the drum due to in... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6416011 | Dispensing machine for wipe material with the reel in a frontal position A dispensing machine for wipe material with the reel in a frontal position of the type includes a housing (2), a cover (3), a drum (4), a cutting device (5-6) built into the drum, a cam and start sprig for starting and returning the drum and a device to p... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6239362 | Device for compensating variations in the length of tensioned cables, with substantially constant traction A device for compensating length variations of tensioned cables, with a substantially constant tension, including a contrast element, which is meant to be interposed between one end of the tensioned cable and an anchoring element and is adapted to generat... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5979093 | Changeable information scroll sign module A web tension maintaining roll in a scroll sign module is arranged with its axis parallel to a rotatable second roll, both rolls being arranged for rotation between laterally spaced apart side frame members. For each roll, a short shaft projects from oppo... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5752670 | Wire dispenser with retractor A coiled material dispenser with automatic spring retractor for respooling wire and the like after a portion of the material has been removed. The dispenser being capable of adaptably receiving different size spools is suspended at or near a work station ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5657935 | Wire dispenser with adjustable base A wire dispenser for dispensing coiled wire, such as welding wire, wherein the dispenser uses a wire guiding arm which rotates about the spool upper flange. The wire guide arm is mounted upon a vertical column supported by the spool end flange through a b... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5343601 | Yarn spinning method with high-speed winding A method of processing an endless synthetic yarn is disclosed, wherein the yarn is withdrawn from a spinneret, and advanced into contact with a feed system which is operated under conditions which produce slippage between the feed system and the advancing... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5324909 | Apparatus for measuring and/or controlling the tension in a ribbon or wire-type electrode of an electric discharge machine An apparatus for measuring and/or controlling the tension in a ribbon or wire-type electrode of an electric discharge machine in which the ribbon or wire-type electrode is passed around a rotatable roller which is in operative engagement with a sensor. Th... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5080295 | Wire tensioner for a wire handling machine A wire tensioner, for feeding wire from a wire source to a wire handling machine such as a coil winding machine, comprising a tension pulley coupled with an output shaft of a motor via a clutch such as an electromagnetic powder clutch with a variable torq... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4792101 | Process for unwinding a thread from a reel in looms, and arrangement used therefor Process for unwinding a thread from a reel in looms, wherein the thread (6) is guided through a thread guide (4) placed behind the reel, characterized thereby that the distance (L) between said thread guide (4) and said reel (3) is adjusted automatically ... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4484713 | Thread reeling apparatus The thread reeling apparatus includes a rotary cam drum with a traversing thread guide assembly used to guide a thread from a delivery mechanism to a bobbin or thread package. A roller having a smooth, peripheral surface is interposed at a location downst... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4398677 | Winding apparatus for strand type materials The present winding apparatus for strand type materials such as wire, rope, strings or the like, facilitates the exchange of the reel or drum in the winding machine including a flyer so that a continuous operation, for example of a wire drawing machine, d... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4379528 | Thread reeling apparatus The thread reeling apparatus includes a rotary cam drum with a traversing thread guide assembly used to guide a thread from a delivery mechanism to a bobbin or thread package. A roller having a smooth, peripheral surface is interposed at a location downst... | 04/12/1983 |
