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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146339 | Steel cord for reinforcing rubber article and pneumatic radial tire A steel cord for reinforcing rubber article having a 1×n structure composed of a plurality of steel filaments stranded in the same direction at the same stranding pitch, the number of the steel filaments being 6 to 12 and the diameter of the steel filaments being 0... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8001758 | Rubber-product-reinforcing steel cord and method for manufacturing the same A single-layered rubber-product-reinforcing steel cord with good rubber penetration properties, excellent fatigue resistance, and small low-load stretch is obtained. All of wires 11 are provided with curls having a substantially elliptical cross-section and a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7905081 | Sewing thread An improved sewing thread and method of making it where at least one strand of spun yarn is composed of 100% staple fibers and has a high level of single twist that is equal to or greater than 4 more turns per inch than that of the ply twisted final product. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7757472 | Synthetic fiber cable and elevator installation with such a synthetic fiber cable A synthetic fiber cable has the strands of a strand layer mutually spaced apart. With the mutual spacing, the strands of the outer strand layer can move radially in the direction of the cable center and exert a radial pressure on the strands of the first inner stran... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7677023 | Cabled carbon-fiber thread Thread having at least two strands of continuous carbon fiber that are twisted around one another, whereby the carbon fibers of the strands are arranged approximately parallel to the thread direction. The at least two strands of continuous carbon fiber are twisted a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7520121 | Composite twisted yarn A textile includes a composite twisted yarn, including a spun yarn and a water-soluble yarn. The spun yarn has a twist direction that is a reverse of a twist direction of the composite twisted yarn. The water-soluble yarn is twisted with the spun yarn. A twist numbe... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7448197 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their twisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polymer ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441394 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426821 | Metal strand comprising interrupted filament A metal strand comprising at least two filaments. At least one filament is interrupted, providing a filament end, which is fixed to the uninterrupted filaments of the strand using a fixing substance, preferably a soldering substance. Such strand can be used to provi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7399514 | Synthetic turf The present invention provides new types of synthetic turf. The synthetic turf includes a pile fabric having a backing (1) and tufts (2) projecting therefrom. In one embodiment, at least a number of the tufts are made of a composite yarn formed by at l... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395654 | Reinforcing composite yarn and production therefor A composite yarn having a high reinforcing effect on a matrix material to be reinforced is a paralleled yarn of at least one substantially non-twisted multifilament yarn having a tensile strength of 13 cN/dtex or more and an initial modulus of 300 cN/dtex or more wi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7316175 | Reduced-bulk, enhanced-resilience, lower-drag netting Netting (15) includes mesh bars (26) made from twines (11, 13) which possess physical properties that vary, change or alternate along a series of collinear mesh bars (26). The non-homogeneous media obtained by arranging in this way mesh b... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305814 | Safety arrester cable Safety arrester cables are provided to connect a wheel of a racing car to its chassis. The safety arrester cable is formed of a multitude of untwisted windings that form closed loops. An open tab is formed at both ends of each of the windings. The windings in the sa... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303804 | Pile cloth for cleaning A pile fabric comprises a base fabric and a pile layer composed of many cut piles extending from at least one face of the base fabric, and has a pile length of from 2 to 30 mm. The pile yarns forming the cut piles are core-sheath type composite yarns each comprising... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7291236 | Method and machine for producing a seam which is not susceptible to coming undone A method and a machine for producing a seam which is not susceptible to coming undone, with at least one interlooped and/or interlaced stitching thread and with stitching passes in or through at least one thickness of the material of an object, called the sewn objec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291391 | Electrically conductive yarn An electrically conductive yarn comprises stainless steel fibers with a specific stainless steel electrical resistance. The stainless steel fibers are coated with a metal coating, consisting of a metal material having a specific electrical resistance, smaller than t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288504 | Method for producing spherical activation carbon Disclosure is made of a specific process for producing activated carbon in spherical form, starting with organic polymer spherules based on styrene and divinylbenzene, wherein said polymer spherules contain chemical groups leading to the formation of free radicals a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288306 | Textile substrate having low variable twist yarn A textile substrate is made from two or more strands of yarn that are twisted together using a very low variable twist level. The amount of slight twist and variation in the twist are effective to give the finished carpet made from the textile substrate a uniform ap... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7273648 | Combination loop textile A base substrate having a first side and a second side, first and second receiving loops extending from the first and second side of the base substrate, respectively, and first and second stiff loops extending from the first and second side of the base substrate, re... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7254934 | Endless belt with improved load carrying cord A power transmission belt with an embedded load carrier cord having a plurality of yarns and possessing a first twist corresponding to a first twist multiplier and a first twist direction, and possessing a second twist corresponding to a second twist multiplier in t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251922 | Tire reinforcing steel cord and tire A zero degree tire reinforcing steel cord is formed by twisting together four to seven individual wires having a wire diameter of 0.20 to 0.45 mm, wherein the steel cord has a substantially spiral or a substantially planar wavy deformation, has an elongation of 1.2%... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7188462 | High-strength spun yarn produced from continuous high-modulus filaments, and process for making same A process for making a high-strength spun yarn begins by feeding one or more tows of substantially uncrimped continuous filaments of high-modulus material having a tensile modulus exceeding about 20×106 psi through a high-speed stretch-breaking apparatus... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7155891 | Composite twist core-spun yarn and method and device for its production A substantially torqueless composite dual core-spun yarn (10) has a substantially inelastic central hard core (20) covered with a dual-spun fiber covering (30). The central hard core (20) has an elongation at break less than 50% and a Z o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7134267 | Wrapped yarns for use in ropes having predetermined surface characteristics A rope and method of making the same. The rope comprises a plurality of yarns. At least one of the yarns comprises first and second sets of fibers. The first fibers are formed of a first material, and the second set of second fibers at least partly surrounds the fir... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131257 | Metal cord and pneumatic tire including the same A metal cord for reinforcing rubber articles and a pneumatic tire including metal cords to reinforce tire components such as carcass, breaker and band are disclosed, wherein a metal cord according to one aspect of the present invention comprises filaments having a t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127878 | Controlled failure rope systems and methods A controlled failure rope and method of making the same. The controlled failure rope comprises first and second portions. The first portion is formed of a first material having a first set of tension failure characteristics. The second portion is formed of a second ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127879 | Ply-twisted yarn for cut resistant fabrics A ply-twisted yarn useful in cut resistant fabrics is made by providing a first multifilament yarn of continuous organic filaments having a tensile strength of at least 4 grams per denier and having a twist in a first direction of from 0.5 to 10 turns per inch; prov... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7089725 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086217 | Rope of synthetic fiber with reinforcement element for frictionally engaged power transmission and rope of synthetic fiber with reinforcement element for positively engaged power transmission A rope apparatus includes two ropes of synthetic fiber strands arranged for taking up force applied in a lengthwise direction. The ropes are arranged a predetermined distance apart and are fixed by a rope sheathing forming a fixed link running in the lengthwise dire... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7048343 | Endless elastomeric track with corrosion resistant cables This invention relates to annular or endless elastomeric track 10 for use in vehicles for civil engineering, construction works and agricultural works. The track 10 has a thin belt 20 which includes a primary table 59 made of corrosion re... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7014914 | Polyester yarn and airbags employing certain polyester yarn Airbag cushions manufactured from polyester yarn having certain levels of intrinsic viscosity (IV) and certain specific carboxyl end group (“CEG”) levels perform unexpectedly well in high temperature and high humidity environments for airbag cushion applications... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000374 | Tire for a vehicle wheel including at least one breaker layer A vehicle wheel tire includes a carcass, a tread, a pair of side walls ending with beads for mounting the tire on a rim, a belt structure, and at least one breaker layer. The belt structure includes first, second, and third belts strips. The first and second belt st... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6946183 | Slip resistant mat A slip resistant floor mat composed of one or more layers of material the bottom layer of which incorporates a plurality of recessions with inset suction cups in the bottom surface of the bottom layer that comes into contact with the intended surface, such as a floo... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6904744 | Steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles Steel cord includes a first group and a second group. The second group is helically twisted around the first group with a cord twisting step. The first group includes a first number of first steel filaments. The first number ranges between three and eight. The secon... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6863103 | Steel cord for the reinforcement of a rubber article and tire A steel cord having a strand construction formed by twisting a plurality of sheath strands each formed by twisting plural filaments around a core strand formed by twisting plural filaments is provided. At least one of the core strand and the sheath strands has a con... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6848248 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6829880 | Tire comprising metal cord A tire for a vehicle wheel, includes a torus-shaped carcass, a tread located on a periphery of the carcass, and a pair of axially-facing side walls ending with beads reinforced with bead wires and respective bead-filling elements for mounting the tire on a correspon... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6805178 | Metallic cord and carcass ply of pneumatic tire including same A metallic cord is composed of metallic filaments gathered together, the metallic filaments include at least one patterned filament which is, before gathered together, two-dimensionally waved so as to have a wave form defined by plural kinds of cycles different from... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6796115 | Needle punched yarns A process for producing yarns that have enhanced resistance to unraveling and linting, wherein the yarns are moved along guides through a needle loom where a series of needles engage the yarns. This engagement of the yarns by the needles causes the fibers of the yar... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6748731 | Tire cord A tire cord having core filaments preformed into a helical configuration while maintaining the core filaments in a parallel, side-by-side relationship. The core filaments are not twisted or stranded together. High tensile strength sheath filaments are also preformed... | 06/15/2004 |
