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 |
| 7235504 | Three dimensional knitted fabric having unevenness A three-dimensional knitted fabric having front and back ground structures and an interconnection yarn uniting the ground structures. At least one of the front and back ground structures of the three-dimensional knitted fabric has an uneven pattern with projections ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7039991 | Vehicle safety device An inflatable element in the form of a tension tube, and method of making same. The method involves forming a tube by a knitting process, then heatsetting the tube whilst simultaneously maintaining it under lengthwise tension. The tension in the tube is maintained d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6370925 | Fastening device with tape In a fastening device with tape, made of synthetic resin, the tape is composed of a warp knitting structure including an attachment area composed of one or more wales disposed at the right and left edge portions in a width direction of the tape, and a fas... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6119487 | Method for knitting double jersey fabric including rib knitting and fabric knitted by the method To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to o... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5735145 | Weft knit wicking fabric and method of making same A multi-layer weft knit fabric for absorbing moisture and wicking it from a first fabric layer to a second layer is described, as well as a method for making the fabric. The multi-layer fabric includes a first hydrophobic layer and a second hydrophilic la... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5687587 | Elastic double-knit fabric A process for making a double-knit fabric from elastic yarns and hard yarns and the double-knit fabric product. The double-knit fabric does not have to be heat-set prior to use.... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5528910 | Double-faced weft knitted fabric, notably for leisure clothes The double-faced knitted fabric, notably for leisure clothes, according to the invention, has one face with a surface in a first material, preferably cotton, whether pure or in a mixture, and the other face with a surface in a second material, preferably ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5463881 | Double-knit fabric having non-run and stretchability characteristics and method and apparatus for knitting the same A double-knit fabric having non-run and stretchability characteristics and method and apparatus for knitting the same in which multiple yarns are knit into cylinder needle and dial needle wales, in which two yarns are knit together into stitch loops in ea... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5050406 | Fabric for recreational clothing A knit fabric is made of a combination of a corespun yarn having a core of a resilient continuous filament yarn covered by a cotton fiber and a cotton yarn. These yarns are knit together in such a manner that one side of the knit fabric exposes only one o... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4890462 | Knitted fabric In knitted fabric there is provided at least one area contained by a tension thread which is tied by means of tuck loops into individual stitches of the adjoining fabric in such a way that its two ends lie on the same edge side of the contained fabric are... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4563382 | Open-work knitted and bonded textile structure and method of obtaining same Open-work textile structure of the type constituted by a warp knit fabric produced with yarns coated with a thermoplastic material, the coating being partly melted and bonding the yarns together in those areas where they are in contact. According to said ... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4353229 | Weft knitted fabric Weft double knitted fabric has a looped structure with some knitted loops drawn in one direction and other knitted loops drawn in an opposite direction. Yarns of some courses are drawn into knitted loops in both directions to form knit stitches on both fa... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4133191 | Knitted fabric having open areas A fabric having open areas is knitted from a plurality of body yarns interspersed at intervals with locking yarns having a lower melting temperature by casting off selected loops in selected body yarns, causing the cast-off loops to unravel toward but not... | 01/09/1979 |
| 3986374 | Welf knitted fabric simulating woven cloth A knitted rib or purl stitch fabric the ground structure of which has two faces of knitted loops drawn in respectively opposite directions. Courses of the loops of one face have inserted into them unknitted weft yarn contrasting with the ground structure.... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3964277 | Weft knit fabric with deflected inlaid yarn The inlaid yarn is incorporated in a rib or double knit fabric by forming groups of held stitch loops on the face side of the fabric. The inlaid yarns extend behind the held stitch loops and are maintained in position by the rearwardly facing stitch loops... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3937041 | High relief double knit fabric A double knit fabric having a high relief of small puffs on the back of the fabric and a substantially smooth surface on the front of the fabric wherein said puffs are elliptical in shape and alternate in vertical rows with a depressed portion of the fabr... | 02/10/1976 |
