...that Kleenex tissue was originally designed to be a gas mask filter? It was developed at the beginning of World War I to replace cotton, which was then in short supply as a surgical dressing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396171 | Thor expandable ring printer for wide print media A printing machine for use with paper roll stock is disclosed. The print head consists of an expandable cylindrical ring print head where the printing brushes are integrated in a spiral pattern around the ring print head. Ink wells are located outside of the print h... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7119962 | Method of manufacturing a molded lenslet array An imaging apparatus (10) to image wise expose desired microcapsules (38) within a photosensitive media (44) with an image exposure device (12) to harden the desired microcapsules applying pressure to the exposed photosensitive media rupt... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7088383 | Method of registering a molded lenslet array with an array of light emitting elements A method of registering a molded lenslet array (14) with an array of light emitting elements (54) includes etching an array of light source registration recesses (42) in a silicon pad (28). At least two registration recesses (30) a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6755125 | High speed marker A marking device (10) comprises a frame (1) (of frame plates (12,14)) to which are fixed first and second motors (16,18). A carriage frame (40) is pivoted in the frame about a screw axis (22). A marking head (30) is m... | 06/29/2004 |
| 4494885 | Compact printer A compact printer having a typefont belt constituting a typefont wheel maintained under tension on a support, wherein the platen is rendered displaceable in a direction away from the typefont wheel after the completion of the printing operation, and the f... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4480935 | Printing type drum There is disclosed an integrated cylindrical formation of plural lines of a printing type belt in such a printing type drum as contains a hammer unit therein, has plural lines of printing type belts installed round the periphery of the cylindrically forme... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4437776 | Printing mechanism A printing mechanism has a type drum which rotates in a plane that extends perpendicularly to the feeding direction of a printing paper sheet, and a control assembly for rotating and for shifting the type drum along a printing line. During printing, the t... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4423970 | Printing apparatus Printing apparatus for printing characters in a line on paper has a print drum arranged horizontally with respect to the paper and is formed having the indexing means and the translational drive means affixed to the frame to greatly decrease the mass of t... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4339209 | Manually operated typing device A manually operated typing device comprises a pistol-shaped housing which is formed with a hollow space at the rear part for receiving the tape magazine, is formed with another hollow space at the middle part for receiving a typing handle, is formed with ... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4019615 | Low inertia impact printing means In a print head, a print wheel comprising the combination of a disk, a plurality of permanently magnetized printing members bearing characters thereon, and electromagnet imparting translation to the printing members by magnetic interaction, and also provi... | 04/26/1977 |
| 3991872 | Type element mounting for high speed type positioning mechanism An improved type element mounting for a high speed type element positioning mechanism of the type which has a type head member having therein a plurality of type elements and a type head shaft on which the type head is mounted. The type head member has a ... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3986449 | Selective printing apparatus There are disclosed method and apparatus for selectively printing human readable characters and a machine readable code on record members in the form of tickets, tags or labels. A disclosed method of printing relates to selective printing using one or mor... | 10/19/1976 |