Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7004220 | Transfer printing machine Machine for transfer pattern printing of a textile web, said machine comprising a centre roller (1), at least one pressure roller (2), a tension roller (3), a reversing roller (4) and an endless belt (5) which is of a width substan... | 02/28/2006 |
| 5900117 | Apparatus and method for cleaning papermachine clothing A papermachine clothing cleaning apparatus has a fluid injection nozzle with an apertured plate (14). The injection nozzle directs fluid onto the papermachine clothing (11) in order to clean the clothing. The areas of papermachine clothing that are adjace... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5653130 | Process and device for applying liquids to the surface of leather or similar flat materials A moving piece of leather on a bearing support will be moved parallel to a moving open-porous-structured, mesh-like (strainer) belt, the pores or meshes being filled with fluid. This fluid will be transmitted by pressure onto the leather surface. The pres... | 08/05/1997 |
| 4943327 | Procedure to form a non-woven cloth made of synthetic filaments Procedure to form a non-woven cloth (6) made of synthetic filaments (5) in which synthetic filaments (5) are extruded, stretched, cooled, and projected onto a moving plastic fabric (1), which is characterized by cleaning the plastic fabric (1) by passing ... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4701242 | Mechanism for moving a shower nozzle in a paper making machine A motorized shower head mechanism is disclosed in which a housing is provided with a track and a trolley, and a motor mounted on the trolley. The trolley is moved along the track by the motor and a shower head which extends through the housing is carried ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4602914 | Process for printing polyester fiber materials by the transfer printing technique: separate dots for individual colors The textile-printing industry is very interested in bypassing the laborious and expensive production of transfer printing papers, together with the required engraving of rolls. It has been found that this demand can be satisfied by electronically recordin... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4463467 | Method and apparatus for applying a pattern to a continuously advancing web of material A method and apparatus for applying a pattern to a continuously advancing web with a foam containing treatment medium. The pattern may be generated in the foam prior to or after the foam is transferred to the web. In one embodiment, the pattern is generat... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4459128 | Pile articles and a method for producing the pile articles Pile articles, such as artificial furs, wherein at least a part of piles is colored in at least two kinds of colorations which vary in the length direction of the piles, said color variation being caused on level surfaces distant substantially constantly ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4455845 | Apparatus for forming patterns in materials such as textile goods A dye-containing foam is applied to a textile to create patterns thereon. The foam is transferred to the textile in the form of parallel lanes or strips. The lanes of foam are formed on an endless belt which then merges with the textile at a nip to effect... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4442560 | Method for continuously finishing and/or dyeing planar textile structures Method of continuously treating planar textile structures by applying thereto a treatment medium in the form of foam, which includes subsequently applying underpressure to the planar textile structures at a magnitude at which the foam is completely destro... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4349930 | Continuous method for uniform foam treatment of planar textile structures Continuous method for uniform foam treatment of planar textile structures wherein a foamed treatment medium for finishing and/or dyeing is applied to the planar structure which is then subjected to underpressure, which includes sucking the foam onto the p... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4268263 | Method and apparatus for immersion printing of pile fabrics A horizontally moving belt has a waffle grid surface into the compartments of which dyes are injected in accordance with a desired color pattern to be printed. Carpeting is moved adjacent the waffle grid surface with the pile facing down toward the grid. ... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4050269 | Dry thermal transfer of organic compounds by needle-bearing support This invention provides an apparatus for the dry thermal transfer of organic compounds, preferably of textile finishing agents, onto webs of organic materials, in particular textile webs and carpets, by means of needle-bearing supports. The apparatus comp... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4046942 | Method of producing an endless follower, and product per se Method of producing an entrainer for squeezing or dyeing textile fabric webs with the aid of a foulard which includes inserting a spread-out endless textile web into an annular mold both the web and the annular mold having a periphery and a width correspo... | 09/06/1977 |
| 3936918 | Strand treatment apparatus Conveyor apparatus for temporary holdup of textile strands, especially crimped strands for setting. Screenlike conveyor belts receive the strand between downwardly converging flights and discharge the strand from between upwardly diverging flights. The co... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3932905 | Method of dyeing a textile web Method of dyeing a textile web having a relatively large volume or relief-like construction which includes immersing the web in a dye solution having a dye concentration corresponding to the quantity of liquid to be squeezed from the web in a subsequent d... | 01/20/1976 |
