Did You Know...
...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 |
| 5133198 | Endoscopic apparatus for flaw detection on a circular knitting machine The apparatus has particular use in the detection of flaws in articles being knitted on a circular knitting machine and aplies in particular to the manufacturing of footwear. The apparatus comprises a light source, an electro-optical sensor receiving ligh... | 07/28/1992 |
| 4799365 | Device for flatbed knitting machines for monitoring the knitwear for falling-off The device for monitoring the knitwear (16') of a flatbed knitting machine for falling-off exhibits several support bodies (18) having in each case a feeling lever (17) which rests against the knitwear (16') and which is coupled to a switching arm (25). T... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4748334 | Method and apparatus for detecting flaws in knitted fabric A proposal for detecting flaws not defining normal stitches in a knitted fabric. Fabric detection signals are derived from three detectors arranged to correspond to intervals between lines of thread defining stitches. The detection signals are then added ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4710646 | Thread movement sensor The invention relates to a thread movement sensor comprising an arm with at least one thread guide. The invention solves the problem of sensitivity of the sensor to the vibrations of the machine by making a part of the arm an element of a magnetic circuit... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4702283 | Process and apparatus for inspecting woven fabric during its production on one or more looms Optical scanning and inspection of loomed fabric on one or more looms is carried out using a travelling optical scanner that scans an inspection area of fabric on a loom faster than the fabric traverses the inspection area, such inspection area provided b... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4633914 | Take-up tension control Apparatus and method to detect high tension in a web material being taken-up and cutting off the take-up device upon such detection to prevent stretching and necking of the fabric being handled. The detection device provides a time delay between detection... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4565076 | Safety device for circular knitting machines A single safety device to automatically stop a conventional circular knitting machine in the event of failure of the belt used to drive a pair of fabric advancing rollers of the machine while the fabric is being knit, and/or to stop the machine in the eve... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4464913 | Knitting machine control system A rundown detector system for controlling operation of the cylinder of a circular knitting machine includes a photoelectric circuit, including fiber optic means and a sensor for sensing predetermined extended periods of low reflected light level and emitt... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4454730 | Interrupter apparatus for hosiery knitting machine A hosiery handling apparatus for separating individual hosiery articles from a continuous tubular hosiery string and thereafter transporting the separated articles to a remote location includes a control circuit for interrupting operation in the event of ... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4364243 | Circular knitting machine for the production of high pile fabrics having combed-in fibers Circular knitting machine for the production of high pile fabrics having combed-in fabrics, having a needle cylinder with displaceably mounted knitting needles defining a circular knitting field along the upper edge of the cylinder, carding devices dispos... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4361171 | Weaving defect detector A weaving detector for detecting weaving defects generated on the surface of a ground fabric of a carpet or rug moving in a first direction is disclosed. The weaving detector moves in the direction of the width of the cloth and includes one or more detect... | 11/30/1982 |
| 3999405 | Air control system for pile knitting machine Rotating baffle supported from below substantially closes opening at knitting level of tubular fabric produced by circular pile fabric knitting machine, and deflects air jet carrying stray fiber up toward exhaust intake above machine. Secondary rotating b... | 12/28/1976 |
