Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6694582 | Method and machine for unraveling knitted fabrics Methods for unraveling knitted fabrics and a machine for unraveling knitted fabrics in order to reuse the yarns of a knitted fabric to be unraveled; the methods providing that the yarns can be unraveled either by stretching and loosening the yarns or by t... | 02/24/2004 |
| 4530137 | Apparatus for unraveling knitted fabric The machine comprises means for securing a piece of knitted fabric, pigtail guides for directing ends of yarn from the fabric to a former, a variable speed motor for rotating the former through a countershaft, a belt and a slip clutch. A traverse mechanis... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4497098 | Fill yarn removal apparatus Apparatus for removing a fill yarn from a web of warp tows advances the web lengthwise across a tabletop having opposite pairs of bars at the leading edge thereof for separating the outermost tow at each of the opposite edges of the web from the remaining... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4193252 | Knit-deknit method of handling yarn to produce carbon or graphite yarn In a method of making carbon or graphite yarn, a bundle of single ply precursor yarns is knit into an elongated fabric to facilitate subsequent processing of the yarns. The elongated fabric is pretreated to facilitate carbonization thereof such as by bein... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4118842 | Weave-de-weave process A weave-de-weave process in which a plurality of weft loops are fluidly injected from opposite sides and normal to a plurality of warp yarns to form a composite tape. The tape is deweaved after the warp is space dyed by splitting the interior of the tape ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4091512 | Deweaving apparatus for textile tapes A deweaving apparatus for deweaving a fabric tape by separating and removing a weft filling yarn from a plurality of warp yarns. Control means are provided for sensing breakage of the warp yarns and weft yarn, as well as knots, splices and tangles in the ... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4080694 | Method for separating and winding pre-treated tire cord A method and apparatus for separating and winding pre-treated yarn, for example, tire cord, the method comprising two stages. In a first stage, a coated and heat-set fabric, constituted of longitudinally running warp cords and laterally running picks inte... | 03/28/1978 |
| 3930357 | Recovery of filling yarns in a fabric woven on a double pick needle loom Filling yarns are removed from a fabric woven on a double pick needle loom and then packaged on a revolving bobbin for subsequent re-use by interposing a ring and ring traveler through which traveler the yarn is led from the fabric to the bobbin package w... | 01/06/1976 |
