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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037583 | Systems and methods for fabricating biased fabric In one embodiment, a biased fabric is supplied. The biased fabric supply has a first specified width and a first bias angle of warp yarns relative to weft yarns. At least one overfeed roller configured to overfeed fabric from the biased fabric supply at an overfeed ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7437807 | Tufted backing and method of manufacturing same A tufted backing and a method of manufacturing a tufted backing from thermoplastic polymer fibers or filaments that are processed to yield a spunbonded nonwoven are described, the spunbonded nonwoven containing only fibers or filaments having a titer of 1 to 15 dtex... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7284305 | Apparatus and process for automatically cutting textile web with reduced wrinkling The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and process for automatically cutting a textile web with reduced wrinkling. The process includes passing the textile web across a first guide roller having a first guide surface directing the textile web to the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7243404 | Web-spreading process and web-spreading device A web-spreading device and a web-spreading process are provided. The web-spreading device, is provided whereby a first web strand being conveyed and a second web strand being conveyed next to the first web strand in a web-processing machine can be offset in parallel... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7039990 | Zoned stretching of a web Apparatus and methods for stretching one or more zones of a web are disclosed. Webs including stretched or activated zones are also disclosed. Each of the zones in the web is stretched in the cross-web direction, i.e., the direction transverse to the down-web direct... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6996881 | Method and plant for automatic washing and/or ironing of substantially flat objects, and plant for carrying out the method Method and plant for processing in the form of washing and/or ironing of substantially flat items (4), such as textiles and the like, which individually can be fed continuously and successively into a processing plant. The processing plant contains fixed as w... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995339 | Heatable wiper rest area for a transparency An automotive transparency having a heatable wiper rest area includes a first glass sheet and a second glass sheet secured together by an interlayer material. An opaque band is positioned on the inner surface of the outer glass sheet along a portion of an edge of th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973702 | Web expander This invention provides a web expander comprising means for carrying a web 2 having longitudinal slits, means 5 for expanding the width of the web, and opening control means 6 for uniformly forming size and form of openings of the web expanded b... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6938309 | Zoned stretching of a web Apparatus and methods for stretching one or more zones of a web are disclosed. Webs including stretched or activated zones are also disclosed. Each of the zones in the web is stretched in the cross-web direction, i.e., the direction transverse to the down-web direct... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6800235 | Carpet straightening apparatus A straightening apparatus for straightening carpet prior to laying the carpet on a floor surface. The apparatus includes an entry conveyor from which carpet is unrolled and fed into a heating section. In the heating section, the carpet is heated sufficient to soften... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6598276 | Fastener loop material, its manufacture, and products incorporating the material Lightweight, non-woven loop products for hook-and-loop fastening are disclosed, as are methods for making them and end products employing them. The products are non-woven webs of entangled fibers of substantial tenacity, the fibers forming both a sheet-fo... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6329016 | Loop material for touch fastening Lightweight, non-woven loop products for hook-and-loop fastening are disclosed, as are methods for making them and end products employing them. The products are non-woven webs of entangled fibers of substantial tenacity, the fibers forming both a sheet-fo... | 12/11/2001 |
| 5996196 | Speed adjusting apparatus for plastic drawing installations An improved apparatus for adapting speed, in particular for nippers (1) which can be made to travel along a rail arrangement (3), is distinguished by the following features a rotating and electrically conductive eddy-current body (17), preferably designed... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5749400 | Process for the manufacture of a figured elastic fabric made by the jacquard system A combination of rigid, non-elastic wefts with other wefts which are elastic and much thinner allows the creation of a figured, elastic fabric. The floats of the elastic wefts may be stretched between points of bindings. It is the density of the elastic t... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5666704 | Detwisting mechanism for fabric processing line A improved upper level de-twisting mechanism is provided to facilitate the handling of rope form fabric as it is drawn from a bulk container, typically in wet condition, and conveyed to a processing operation, such as spreading. The mechanism includes a r... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5657520 | Method for tentering hydroenhanced fabric Woven or knit fabric is pre-tentered (stretched) prior to hydroenhancement treatment to a predetermined width in excess of the desired finished width of the fabric. The pre-tentering width is selected so that the expected shrinkage caused by the hydroenha... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5594998 | Heatable shield for heat treatment of paper-making machine textiles A heat shield which is attached to a heatable roller in a stretching machine for the treatment of felt and wire cloths is designed to have channels for the heating medium extending in the machine direction. The ducts may be grouped in sections having a co... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5590445 | Tape extension device for semiconductor producing apparatus and semiconductor producing apparatus with tape extension device In a tape extension device for a semiconductor producing apparatus having a vertical tension device for tensing a tape, which is withdrawn from a tape roller, in a down-web direction above a semiconductor wafer, the tape extension device in the present in... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5430915 | Apparatus for spreading rectangular cloth pieces In a cloth piece spreading apparatus which carries out a process in which, after a corner C1 of a rectangular cloth piece 15 and a position Ya on the side of the cloth piece which includes this corner C1 are gripped by a movable grip... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5375305 | Honeycomb expander mechanism A honeycomb manufacturing expander mechanism which includes a cam or guide plate having two sets of guide slots respectively extending outwardly in opposite directions away from a center portion of the plate. The inboard ends of the slots in each set are ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5357661 | Stretching machine A stretching machine for treating removable belts supported on rollers, such as felts and wires in papermaking machines, comprises two rollers, over which the belt is trained in a loop. A heated belt contact structure has a contact surface adapted to cont... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5296289 | Stretchable spun bonded nonwoven web and method A spun bonded nonwoven web having spaced autogenous spot bonds A has continuous ribs B of filaments therebetween extending axially in the machine direction as well as continuous ribs C extending axially in the cross direction throughout the web, said nonw... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5191686 | Apparatus for protecting stretching rollers in synthetic film stretchers Lengthwise stretching machines for thermoplastic synthetic films are equipped with mechanical or opto-electrical devices for detecting a tearing of the film or an accumulation of film on the stretching rollers and for stopping the machine when tearing or ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5184379 | Foil stretching plant Foil stretching plant comprising a plurality of zones, more particularly a heating zone I, a stretching zone II, a stabilizing zone III and a cooling zone IV. The individual zones I, II, III and IV are designed as modules which can be installed and remove... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5152039 | Device for aligning wefts of moving textile web A device for aligning wefts of textile belts comprises four arched cylinders which are positioned so that they define a regular or irregular quadrilateral. The orientations of the axes and angular positions of the cylinders are adjustable. In other words,... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5111564 | Heatable roll for use in calenders and the like A calender roll wherein a cylindrical shell is rotatably mounted on a stationary carrier by way of bearings which are disposed in the end portions of the shell. The median portion of the shell is heated by a first heating device, and the end portions of t... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5094664 | Production of heat set fabrics with a new wrinkle A process of decorating fabric includes the step of imparting wrinkles to the fabric oblique to the warp and weft directions and heat setting the wrinkles into the fabric. The wrinkle imparting step may include moving the fabric longitudinally and simulta... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5041255 | Softening and bulking stitchbonded fabrics A process in which a stitchbonded fabric is stretched and then allowed to recover from the stretch decreases the stiffness of the fabric while greatly increasing its thickness and bulk.... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4906520 | Woven fabric from splittable ribbons A fabric, useful as a primary carpet backing, woven in both the warp and weft directions from filmy elements in the form of longitudinally-oriented, splittable ribbons formed from a blend of a major amount of polyester and a minor amount of a polyolefin. ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4882006 | System for stretching and severing strip-like resin sheet A system stretches and severs a strip-like resin sheet unwound from a sheet roll to produce a product of a prescribed shape, the system having a stretching device having forming members for stretching the strip-like resin sheet into a fan-shaped resin she... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4844969 | Orthopedic bed structure A method and apparatus for providing orthopedic sleeping support without utilizing traditional box-spring or spring-in-mattress devices. A specially prepared (by prescription) fabric is stretched between rigid frame support members beyond moduli conventio... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4760631 | Roll An improved roller apparatus for treating material webs, in which energy requirements are reduced by decreasing losses caused by fluid turbulence. The apparatus includes a cylindrical, hollow roll, supported on a shaft by hydraulic fluid under pressure. L... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4631911 | Apparatus for removing twist from moving fabric and method for accomplishing same Apparatus and method for removing real or false twist from a moving fabric in rope form. Freely rotatable, diagonally opposite elements are located on opposite sides of an fabric path of travel. Each element has a helically wound fabric contact member the... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4616543 | Apparatus for working on woven fabric wound on a supply roll Programmable apparatus for cutting woven fabric wound on a supply roll includes a fabric spreader which pays-off fabric from the supply roll and onto a cutting table as the spreader moves relative to the table. A vibrating member carried by the fabric spr... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4554713 | Apparatus for differentially stretching, aligning and cutting sheet material Differentially stretched plastic with a dyed border along one side suitable for shaded interlayers of laminated windshields moves in an arcuate path away from a frustoconical roll of a continuously operating differential web stretcher toward an intermitte... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554207 | Stretched-and-bonded polyethylene plexifilamentary nonwoven sheet Lightweight nonwoven sheets of polyethylene plexifilamentary film-fibril strands are made by a stretching-and-bonding operation in which the unit weight of the sheet is decreased in stages while at a temperature within 3° to 8° C. of the melting point o... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4457968 | Process for manufacture of a poly (perfluoroolefin) belt and a belt made thereby A method for making a perfluoroolefin polymer filament belt is disclosed. The belt is substantially free of stretching under typical conditions of use including application of heat and force to the belt. This characteristic is produced by the process whic... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4428723 | Apparatus for stretching a continuously advancing synthetic-resin web and feeding same stepwise to a thermoforming machine An apparatus used in combination with an input machine that continuously delivers a stretchable web to an input location and with an output machine that operates stepwise to treat the web at a stationary output location has a reciprocal support frame betw... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4400238 | Apparatus for stretching an endless web An apparatus for processing an endless web includes means for supporting the endless web at a first location and a roll for supporting the endless web at a second location. The roll has first and second ends. First and second carriages are engaged to firs... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4381586 | Width control and alignment means for continuous extensible web A control system is provided for maintaining a constant predetermined transverse width in a continuous elastic or extensible web while the web is traveling longitudinally and while simultaneously transversely aligning the longitudinally moving web in regi... | 05/03/1983 |
