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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356893 | Device for the separation of threads from a thread layer In order, during the processing of a thread layer, which is tensioned in tensioning means and exhibits threads running parallel to one another, to be able to vary the sequence of the processing of the threads, a storage device is proposed for the temporary depositio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7318456 | Modular weaving system with individual yarn control A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for supporting a plurality of removable bobbins thereon, the bobbins being pre-loadable with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7178558 | Modular weaving for short production runs A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for being pre-loaded with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is configured to receivably support the warp units thereon, so that th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7017620 | Heddle In a heddle (6), the slender heddle shank (21) has been lengthened, at the cost of the end eyelets (7, 8) and the yarn eyelet region (29). This is accomplished on the one hand by shortening the end eyelet regions (7, 8) to their ab... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6901970 | Automatic heddling apparatus and method for automatically heddling An automatic heddling method and a related automatic heddling apparatus 100, by which a plurality of heddles 2 removed from a plurality of heddle frames 1 are integrally collected in such a manner that flat faces 11 of the heddles 2 | 06/07/2005 |
| 6282765 | Method and device for aligning eyelets of harness elements A drawing-in machine includes a harness element provided with an eyelet; an arrangement for displacing the harness element in a direction parallel to the length dimension of the harness element; and a device for aligning the eyelet with a desired drawing-... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6230377 | Method and device for separating strands The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for singularizing healds, which are lined up via eyes on supporting rails to form a stack. In a method and an apparatus which carefully handle the healds during the separation and subsequent transport awa... | 05/15/2001 |
| 5839606 | Method/apparatus for separating wire healds An arrangement (apparatus and method) for drawing a wire heald from a group of such wire healds of juxtaposed magnetic material. The method includes the steps of a) inserting a drawing pin located on a notch portion of a magnetic head into a guide hole fo... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5829109 | Stocker for wire healds A stocker for wire healdes comprising a housing constructed and arranged such that a plurality of wire healds can be stacked on top of one another in a vertical direction and be arranged so as to longitudinally extend in a horizontal direction. The housin... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5475906 | Heald-separation apparatus for warp-thread drawing-in machines The separating apparatus contains carrier rails for the storage of healds in the form of a stack, a dividing-off member for pushing the foremost heald laterally out of the stack into an intermediate position, and a first transfer device for transporting t... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5459913 | Heald carrier rails having control clamps for holding rails and limiting movement of healds The heald handling apparatus contains carrier rails for the storage of the healds and a transport device for feeding the healds to a separating station. Each carrier rail is held by a plurality of controlled clamps and is thereby subdivided into a plurali... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5448812 | Heald transfer station having locks positioned to control movement of healds The healds are distributed to carrier rails in a transfer station by heald holders forming part of a distribution station. A lock having two spaced controlled clamps a transfer member and a slide are provided for each carrier rail. The transfer member tra... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5448811 | Drop-wire separation device for warp drawing-in machines A separation device for a warp drawing-in machine contains a dividing-off member for dividing off the foremost dropwire of a drop-wire stack. This dividing-off member includes a separating device and a transport device. The separating device subjects to p... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5361467 | Drop wire handling apparatus for warp yarn drawing-in machine Apparatus for handling the drop wires after the warp-yarn draw-in has taken place contains rail-like carrier members (12) provided for lining up the drop wires. Threaded spindles (34) are arranged on top parts of the carrier members in position to engage ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5309615 | Dropper random-separating mechanism A dropper random-separating mechanism comprising a plurality of dropper rows arranged in parallel, a plurality of pairs of separating pawls corresponding in number to the plurality of dropper rows, each pair of separating pawls being adapted for separatin... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5184380 | Method and apparatus for singularizing healds for warp thread drawing-in machine A heald singularizing system includes a selecting member (21) for the healds (LI) fed in the form of a stack (LS). The selecting member (21) separates the front-most heald (LI1) from the stack and makes it available for the drawing-in of the warp threads.... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5174000 | Apparatus for singularizing drop-wires in warp-thread drawing-in machines A drawing-in machine for threading weaving machine harnesses is provided with apparatus for separating one at a time the drop-wires to be threaded from a stack of drop-wires. The stack of drop-wires is moved toward a stop located adjacent a slit. A select... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5153972 | Method and device for the selection of the loops of heddles in an automatic heddling machine To bring about selection of the loops of heddles of the flat type with open heads, individually from the packet of loops hanging on a track whose horizontal guides pass through both heads, upper and lower, of the loops, use is made of: a binary track whic... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5148585 | Device for manipulating drop wires for warp-thread drawing-in machines The apparatus includes magazines (16) for accommodating drop-wire stacks (LA) and transport mechanisms for feeding the drop-wire stacks (LA) to a separating station where the drop wires are singularized. The transport means contain a first path (11) for f... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5136762 | Method of automatic drawing-in and machine for carrying out the said method A method and apparatus for carrying out an automatic drawing-in is provided including forming lengths of thread which are double folded. The thread is passed to a corresponding heddle and between corresponding dents of a reed. The threads are leased and p... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5111560 | Automatic warp threading apparatus The technical field of the present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically threading a warp through the eye of a heddle. In a conventional automatic warp threading apparatus, a drawing-in needle equipped with a hook is delivered out through th... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5088523 | Heddle selection in a weaving machine for rethreading The device for repairing a yarn break includes a folder blade which is to be inserted between the warp yarns adjacent a broken yarn. During horizontal motion, the folder blade has two wings which diverge outwardly for spreading out the warp yarn. The fold... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5084950 | Thread drawing-in head with clamp for drawing device A thread drawing-in head for a drawing device in which at least two heads, each having a warp thread guide passage, are disposed in series such that the passages can align in series, to clamp a heald therebetween in such a manner that a hole of the heald ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4916785 | Heddle magazine A heddle magazine comprising a pair of first magazine bars having carried thereon a plurality of heddles which form a first heddle group; a pair of second magazine bars disposed in parallel relationship to the first magazine bars and having carried thereo... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4891871 | Heddle transferring apparatus A heddle transferring apparatus comprising: a heddle magazine having upper and lower magazine bars which have a plurality of heddles supported thereon; a heddle bar supporting rack having a plurality of upper and lower heddle bars supported thereon; means... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4549333 | Process for preparation of a row of two different and alternating types of drop wires, and an assembly resulting from such process For pinning of drop wires for the mechanical drawing-in of warp threads, the keyholes thereof located at different distances from the thread eyes in two different types of drop wires must be aligned with one another for the reception of a pinning rod. Bot... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4525906 | Device for drawing warp threads into readied heddles and drop wires Several draw-in needles are arranged in parallel in a warp thread draw-in device. The draw-in needles can be coupled selectively individually or in combination to an advanceable carriage. When the carriage is advanced, only the selected and coupled draw-i... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4047270 | Apparatus for separating objects This invention relates to an apparatus for separating objects, particularly for drawing-off individual heddles from a pack, comprising substantially U-shaped, pivotal, reciprocatable pipe means adapted to be mounted adjacent a pack of heddles and to conta... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4017948 | Heddle carrying rods with connectors and/or pieces The heddle carrying rods are provided with open ended axially extending slots in each end. Connectors are provided having longitudinal edges complementary to the longitudinal edges of the slots to define a tongue and groove connection. One end of a connec... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4014083 | Draw-in gripper assembly for drawing-in warp threads A draw-in gripper assembly for drawing warp threads into weaving components including holding means mounted above one another for holding a plurality of warp threads, fed off of a beam, in place, each individual warp thread forming a loop outside of the c... | 03/29/1977 |
