Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6212915 | Warp knitting machine with thread sheet turning arrangement A flexible sheet turning arrangement located in a thread path upstream of the guides in a warp knitting machine that has a machine frame and at least one plurality of guides. The arrangement has a set of springs with proximal ends supported on the machine... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5699681 | Method and apparatus for precision pattern knitting on a warp knitting machine A method and apparatus for controlling tension of lay-in warp yarns knitted on a warp knitting machine is provided for knitting a fabric having lay-in yarns with varying intermittent spacing between horizontally corresponding lengths thereof. The lay-in w... | 12/23/1997 |
| 4663947 | Mechanism to produce irregular effects in warp knitting A mechanism to produce irregular effects in warp knitting on a conventional machine having a rotary camshaft which controls movement of a fork engaged with the yarn. A mechanical device selectively and independently controls translatory movement of the ca... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4520636 | Woven-like warp knit fabric with tension control for top effect yarn An improved warp knit fabric that can use conventional warp knit base fabric constructions or instead produce novel sheer base fabrics and apply top effect yarns in the warp direction to produce novelty effects using standard yarn ends. Also, full weight,... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4382371 | Method and apparatus for producing patterning effect on knitted fabric An attachment for a warp knitting machine is disclosed. The attachment produces a patterned effect on fabric knitted by the warp knitting machine. The warp knitting machine includes at least one warp beam, a thread separating mechanism, a knitting mechani... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4378096 | Tension control for top effect yarn An improved warp knit fabric that can serve as a base fabric for producing full weight, self-lined drapery material as well as sheer drapery material and the process and apparatus therefor. The base fabric is primarily comprised of three groups of yarns k... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4235083 | Method and apparatus for producing patterned effect on knitted fabric An attachment for a warp knitting machine is disclosed. The attachment produces a patterned effect on fabric knitted by the warp knitting machine. The warp knitting machine includes at least one warp beam, a thread separating mechanism, a knitting mechani... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4197725 | Warp knitting machine with jacquard arrangement A warp knitting machine which includes a jacquard mechanism to control the pattern threads utilizes the jacquard mechanism to further control a thread breaking device and a thread tensioning device thereby providing an unusual thread pattern without the a... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4192158 | Weft thread tensioning device for warp knitting machines A weft thread tensioning device for use on a warp knitting machine provides a means for testing the tension of the weft threads and, if the threads are not at the desired tension, tensioning the threads to a predetermined amount. The device includes a spr... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4069690 | Knitting apparatus Decorative knitted fabrics have a basic weft knit structure with patterned effects produced by a warp yarn loops of which cover selected loops of weft yarn so as to be visible on the face of the fabric. The fabrics are produced by feeding warp yarns to se... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4020656 | Method of warp knitting A warp-knitted fabric with surface interest patterning is formed from two full sets of warp threads being fed to each position of two separate guide bars of a warp knitting machine then to each needle of the warp knitting machine and from a partial set of... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020654 | Method of warp knitting A two-bar warp-knitted fabric with surface interest patterning is formed from two sets of threads being fed to separate guide bars of a warp knitting machine then to a single needle bed for knitting by crossing at least one of the threads from one set of ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4019700 | Beam creel A beam creel with a movable support which can be automatically moved from a loading position to a yarn pay-off position and incorporates a tension control which automatically maintains the tension in a plurality of yarn sheets from a plurality of beams mo... | 04/26/1977 |
