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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 |
| 7337555 | Manufacturing method and continuous drying apparatus for head decorating regenerated collagen fiber Provided is a method for manufacturing a regenerated collagen fiber and a drying apparatus therefor in a manufacturing process of a head decorating regenerated collagen fiber, the method enabling suppression of fluff (fiber breakage) and process trouble and providin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7204911 | Process and apparatus for forming discrete microcavities in a filament wire using a polymer etching mask A microcavity-forming system for making microcavities in a wire (especially a tungsten filament wire). The system has a coating station receiving the wire and applying a polymer coating to the wire. A mask-forming station receives the polymer-coated wire and blows m... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7192506 | Shortened layout from dryer to reel in tissue machine A dry end of a tissue machine is made shorter by close-coupling a reel-up to the drying section and supporting the web from the drying section to the reel-up by a foil or a belt such that web stability is maintained, thus allowing high-speed operation. The foil's do... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7169259 | Shortened layout from dryer to reel in tissue machine A dry end of a tissue machine is made shorter by close-coupling a reel-up to the drying section and supporting the web from the drying section to the reel-up by a foil or a belt such that web stability is maintained, thus allowing high-speed operation. The foil's do... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6749723 | Measuring arrangements in a shortened dry end of a tissue machine A property of a paper web is measured using one or more reflectance measurement sensors emitting measuring beams onto the web and receiving the beams reflected from the web, from which the web property is deduced. The web is supported on a web support during the mea... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6669818 | Shortened layout from dryer to reel in tissue machine A dry end of a tissue machine is made shorter by close-coupling a reel-up to the drying section and supporting the web from the drying section to the reel-up by a foil or a belt such that web stability is maintained, thus allowing high-speed operation. Th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6555013 | Treatment method for things like sludge and treatment apparatus A method and apparatus for treating an aqueous-containing sludge in which the sludge is filtered on an elongate moving sheet of a water permeable unwoven fabric on paper. The moving sheet is folded and compressed between rollers whereby to express water t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6348072 | Heat setting chamber arrangement and use of same to make textured yarn An arrangement for transporting yarn through a heat setting chamber has a rotatably driven central mast which is equipped with transport belts arranged around the mast in the form of a polygon in cross section. At least one yarn is wound around the transp... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6076281 | Web finishing section in a paper machine A web finishing section in a paper machine including a dryer section having one or more dryer groups, a calender and a reel-up. The calender is placed at least partly underneath the reel spool storage space of the reel-up so that the reel-up is placed sub... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6054682 | Method and system for reducing water vapor in integrated circuit packages prior to reflow A system and method for assembling components onto a circuit board is disclosed. The system includes: a thermal chamber for receiving a plurality of components therein and for heating the plurality of components at a predetermined temperature for a predet... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5943787 | Web finishing section in a paper machine A web finishing section in a paper machine including a dryer section having one or more dryer groups, a calender and a reel-up. The calender is placed at least partly underneath the reel spool storage space of the reel-up so that the reel-up is placed sub... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5890301 | Thread-up apparatus for a corrugator double backer A web thread-up apparatus for a beltless double backer includes a coiled flexible band positioned at the downstream end of the double backer on a reel from which the band may be unwound in the upstream direction through the double backer heating section. ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5878974 | Device for winding a textile web A device to wind and unwind a textile web onto and from a spool, when it comes into or out of a wet-processing group is disclosed. The device includes a guide and tension roll supported at the free ends of winding arms and resting on the spool. A moisture... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5775002 | Apparatus for drying an electrode plate for a battery The apparatus for drying an electrode plate for a battery has: a support drum of a cylindrical shape having a peripheral face on which a long sheet-like electrode plate for a battery is to be wound, and in which a large number of blow holes for allowing t... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5606914 | Process and device for printing sheeting in rotary offset press A method and an apparatus for the printing of foil webs in web offset printing are proposed in which strongly oxidatively drying inks are used, the printed foil webs are subjected to a heat-air drying, the printed foil webs are furthermore conducted over ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5557862 | Process and apparatus for the continuous heat setting of yarn laid down in loops In the case of a process for the continuous heat setting of yarn, the yarn, laid down in loops on transport belts, is fed through a heat setting chamber which operates with superheated steam and under atmospheric pressure. Because of the entry and exit op... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5551171 | Winding device for a fiber web The invention pertains to a winding device for a fiber web having a carrier drum that is at least partially enveloped by the fiber web, wherein a carrier axis for the fiber web is adapted to fed or moved to the carrier drum and is adapted to contact the c... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5335428 | Roll up and drying device to be incorporated in a rust cleaning machine A roll up and drying device to be incorporated in a rust cleaning machine includes a main shaft on which a pair of spaced, identical circular plates are concentrically and fixedly mounted on the main shaft and a plurality of connecting ribs screw connecti... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5134789 | Installation for wet and/or dry treatment of a web, yarn, strand or of filiform textile goods The invention relates to an installation for the wet and/or dry treatment, such as washing, dyeing, bleaching, steaming, drying, finishing and/or sizing of a web, yarn, strand or filiform textile goods with a carrier supporting the textile goods, consisti... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5120506 | Chemical analyzer A chemical analyzer has a cold-storage chamber and a tape-feeding cassette which can be accommodated in the cold-storage chamber and is detachable therefrom. The cassette contains a chemical analysis tape and has an opening through which the tape can be t... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5072527 | Method and apparatus for conveying and tensioning a length of sheet material This invention relates in general to sheet material conveyor devices, and in particular to an apparatus to convey under controllable tension and under controllable speed sheet materials such as textile fabrics for the purpose of decoration. The apparatus ... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4959976 | Refrigerator, dry air generating device for the same, and method for operating the device A refrigerator comprises a cassette accommodating section which is enclosed by a wall, kept at a low temperature, and capable of accommodating a film feed cassette in such a way that it can be released therefrom. The film feed cassette houses therein a lo... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4658512 | Drying tower A predrying tower serves for heat-treating a vertically conducted length of material. In addition to infrared heating rods arranged on each side of the length of material and over the treatment height of the drying tower, respectively one air supply box i... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4593480 | Paper deflection roller for a printer or copier means functioning on the principle of electrophotography A paper web recording medium provided with toner images as conducted through a fixing housing containing solvent vapor over a paper deflection drum for fixing the toner images on the recording medium. The paper deflection drum is formed by a rigid roller ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4264304 | Apparatus for fixing images consisting of powder toner on a recording carrier with the aid of solvent vapor A solvent vapor toner image fixing device for use with electrostatic devices is disclosed. The fixing device includes a fixing station having a well-shaped recepticle through which the paper web or the like is guided in a loop shaped manner. At the bottom... | 04/28/1981 |
