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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275291 | Pneumatic thread stretcher and thread processing system The invention relates to a pneumatic thread stretcher (T) for a rapier weaving machine or a knitting machine, in which the air current deflection surface (19) for deflecting the thread (Y, Y1) forms a seamless extension (12) of the inner wall of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7234212 | Method of winding a beam An apparatus and method for winding a sheet of aligned parallel yarns onto a beam is described. The beam winder utilizes a circularly arced yarn spool rack that feeds each yarn to an alignment comb through associated guide tubes. The distance between each spool of y... | 06/26/2007 |
| 6736917 | Process for manufacturing elastically stretchable and contractible composite sheet A process for manufacturing a composite sheet by joining a second web made of thermoplastic synthetic fiber and capable of inelastic extension to at least one surface of a first web capable of elastic stretch and contraction in an intermittent manner. The process in... | 05/18/2004 |
| 5930878 | Device for coupling a thread, in particular a weaving thread There is described a device for coupling a thread, in particular a weaving thread, to a tentering means comprising a clamping sleeve (1) and a clamping body (2) axially movable inside the clamping sleeve (1), which clamping body can be connected to a tent... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5870808 | Draw point control arrangement An apparatus and method for processing a synthetic yarn includes at least a one sensor for generating a signal representative of the actual velocity of the yarn at a point intermediate an upstream and the downstream rolls. The temperature of the upstream ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5675878 | Apparatus to merge and texturize mulitple filament yarns Apparatus to continuously draw, texture and warp polyester yam in which the texturing apparatus includes texturing balls mounted on a common mount for a plurality of texturing positions which individually can be rotated into and out of position without in... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5407621 | Process for preparing polyester fine filaments Polyester fine filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer viscosity and spinning condit... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5333364 | Method for producing random yarn denier variations on draw warping machines The present invention discloses a method of draw warping a plurality of partially oriented synthetic continuous filaments traveling in parallel side by side relation to produce denier variations randomly along the length of each filament and randomly from... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5229060 | Process for improving the properties of a feed yarn of undrawn polyester filaments Drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing or other heat-treatments of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at speeds of, e.g., 4 kg/min, and have low shrinkage and... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5223198 | Process of making mixed shrinkage yarn A process of making mixed shrinkage yarn, including drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing or other heat-treatments of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at s... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5223197 | Process of making mixed filament yarn A process of making mixed filament yarns, involving drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing, or other heat-treatments, of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5066447 | Process for improving the properties of a feed yarn Drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing or other heat-treatments of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at speeds of, e.g., 4 kg/min, and have low shrinkage and... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4715097 | Arrangement for the entanglement of multi-filament threads An arrangement for the entanglement of multi-filament thread can entangle warp threads travelling from spools on a creel to a warping machine. This arrangement has a jet arm adapted to communicate with a source of compressed air. The arrangement has a plu... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4669158 | Method for preparing warp wound on beams, starting from a series of continuous, partially-drafted thermoplastic yarns A procedure for the drafting and interlacing of a series of continuous, thermoplastic yarns, consisting of filaments which are substantially parallel to one another, in the manufacture of warp wound on beams.... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4669159 | Arrangement for the stretching and warping of warp threads In an arrangement for the stretching and warping of thermoplastic warp threads, in particular polyester threads, there is provided an arrangement comprising a set of feeding rollers, a heating arrangement and a set of take-off rollers. The latter set of r... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4644622 | Apparatus for air entangling a plurality of advancing yarns An apparatus is disclosed for simultaneously air jet entangling a plurality of advancing multifilament yarns. The apparatus includes a plurality of elongate air jet beams, with each beam having a longitudinal air passageway extending along its length, and... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4630340 | Apparatus for drawing a warp sheet of yarns An apparatus and method for processing a warp sheet of synthetic multifilament yarns is disclosed, and wherein the yarns may be withdrawn from supply packages and advanced along a path of travel in warp sheet form, heated and drawn while in advancing warp... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4611410 | Apparatus for the heat treatment of synthetic yarn An apparatus for the heat treatment of synthetic yarn is provided where synthetic yarn is provided by a synthetic yarn source and is fed via rollers to a first heating surface and then via a heating pin to a second heating surface and from there via rolle... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4592119 | Air jet yarn entangling apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for simultaneously air jet entangling a plurality of advancing multifilament yarns. The apparatus comprises a plurality of elongate air jet beams, with each beam having a longitudinal air passageway extending along its length, an... | 06/03/1986 |
