Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4894894 | Continuous high speed method for making a commingled carpet yarn A continuous, high speed (greater than 800 meters per minute) process and apparatus enable the production of a multifilament carpet yarn having a degree of filament intermixture high enough so that a standard deviation of less than 6.0 results upon conduc... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4884325 | Process for the manufacture of a blanket product The process herein described provides the weaving of a manufactured product consisting of an upper fabric (2) made of cotton or any other suitable material and a lower fabric (3) with weft yarns (3a) made of wool and warp yarns (3b) interlaced with the we... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4879788 | Drawing machine This invention provides a drawing machine for pinching and stretching a film-like material of the type having rails installed extending from an inlet section to the outlet section and returning in the opposite direction from the outlet section back to the... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4878278 | Method for manufacture of paper making fabrics An apparatus and method for papermaking fabrics (W) with a machine direction fiber batt (24) is disclosed. A carding machine (B, B') is arranged with its carding cylinder (39) parallel to the axis of rotation (22) of carriage rollers (20) about which a ba... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4878280 | Apparatus and process for intermingling filament yarns This invention relates to an apparatus and a process involving fluid jet devices for intermingling filaments of a continuous filament yarn or yarns, including combining a plurality of yarns to produce a larger coherent yarn. More particularly, the inventi... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4878279 | Warp transfer apparatus A warp transfer apparatus for transferring warp threads to a warp drawing apparatus, comprising a stationary frame structure, a warp carrying frame structure for carrying the warp threads thereon which is movable with respect to the stationary frame struc... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4877163 | Garment hanger accessory A detachable accessory device for a garment hanger has a fastening element, such as a clip, for fastening to a portion of a garment, and a flexible element for attaching the fastening element to the garment hanger such that the fastening element is movabl... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4876774 | Method for preparing heat set fabrics Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fibers of high tenacity and modulus shrink controlled amounts at temperatures in the range of 100°-145° C. Fabrics and twisted multifilament yarns of these fibers are heat-shrunk or heat-set at these temperatures.... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4876775 | Yarn sheet transfer system A method of converting a warping arrangement having two creel halves and a warper from a setup for long lots of one style to a setup for shorter lots. The method includes converting transfer package positions on each of the creel halves to running package... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4875260 | Apparatus for the presettable calendering of tubular knitted fabric Equipment for the calendering of tubular knitted fabric (13) which, in the end step of a processing cycle, allows, by means of a cloth expander device (16), a steaming cxhamber (18) and a flattening, the width of the tubular fabric to be determined and fi... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4872568 | Coat hanger suspending device A device is provided which may be used to suspend coat hangers or the like in order to expand the storage capacity of a closet, garment bag or other like clothing storage units. The device is comprised of a unitary elongated rod member having a generally ... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4871098 | Hook socket for ganging hangers A garment hanger having a molded plastic body supported from above by a hook at its center has a dependent loop vertically aligned with the hook. The legs forming the loop are joined at their lower ends and are offset from each other in a normal to the fa... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4870839 | Apparatus for deknitting elastic yarns An apparatus and method for feeding a knitted yarn package having a plurality of yarn ends to a textile fabric making machine. The apparatus includes takeup means for moving the yarn in the direction of the machine and tension means located upstream of th... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4871097 | Display hanger with finger clamps A hanger for displaying lightweight garments has an elongated body at each end of which is a dependent U-shaped garment grip in the central opening of which is a downwardly extending slightly resilient finger, the free end of which is spaced a short dista... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4870727 | Method for detecting anomalies in corduroy preparation The apparatus detects corduroy cutter needles coming out of the weft yarn loop channels which are being cut open by the needles, by means of a laser beam scanning about 10 to 20 times a second, transversely across the region where the parallel needles are... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4870728 | Apparatus for creating air turbulence A substantially twist-free, crimped, continuous, multifilament yarn containing randomly-spaced, tightly entangled nubs and the process and apparatus used for making such yarns is disclosed. The nub yarn is made by feeding a substantially entanglement-free... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4868959 | Apparatus for processing a warp sheet of yarns An apparatus for processing a warp sheet of synthetic multifilament yarns is disclosed, and wherein the yarns may be withdrawn from supply packages and advanced along a path of travel in warp sheet form, heated and drawn while in advancing warp sheet form... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4868958 | Backing drum Process and apparatus for producing apertured or non-apertured nonwoven fabric wherein fibrous web is introduced onto support means and treated with high velocity water streams jetted from above. The non-apertured nonwoven fabric may be produced by fiber ... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4866821 | Mechanism for separating threads held in an array A separator for successively seizing threads (14) held in an array (28) includes a frame (10) having a front face or recess gap (12) and in which two or more strap or bar needles (15, 16, 18) are slidably disposed side by side. Each needle is provided wit... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4866822 | Yarn crimping apparatus and control thereof A process and apparatus for crimping yarn wherein the yarn is introduced to the crimping chamber by means of an injector supplied with steam under constant pressure. The position of the wad in the crimping chamber is controlled by the position of discharg... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4864701 | Method of forming spun-like synthetic yarn An apparatus and process to produce a spun-like synthetic yarn which employs a filament loop breaker which is periodically and automatically opened to break the vacuum pressure to allow lint collected therein to be released and collected.... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4865083 | Seamed multi-layered papermaker's fabric A seam is provided for a papermaker's felt for use in a papermaker's machine. The seam joins a felt having at least four layers of machine direction yarns in which at least two layers at each end of the felt are finished in loops, and the remaining layers... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4865236 | Garment hanger A clothing hanger formed of a synthetic plastic material and comprising a body portion adapted to support articles of clothing and a hook portion by which the hanger may be supported. The body portion comprises a pair of arms each of which has a cross sec... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4865235 | Suspender hanger A suspender hangar apparatus is disclosed for holding a plurality of suspenders. The hangar includes a mounting block, a lower portion having a clip to grip the suspenders, and an upper portion having two laterally extending arms over which the suspenders... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4863078 | Clothes hanger A clothes hanger with a suspension hook, where a continuous slot, lying essentially in the plane of the hook, is situated in the area of the top of the curve of the suspension hook. A rod is pivotably mounted in this slot in such a fashion that its free e... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862564 | Apparatus for stretching a thermoplastic material web A thermoplastic material web is stretched transverse to the machine direction along a stretch course which widens exponentially in the stretching zone, an improved stretching apparatus being used to effect such stretching.... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4863077 | Automatic stretchers of sleeves of knitted garments and the like for ironing machines The invention relates to automatic stretchers of sleeves of knitted garments and the like, for ironing machines. These stretchers are composed of chains (1) having links (12), on one side, shaped with conventional grip teeth (13) and, on the other side, w... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862565 | Spreader roll for wrinkle-free traveling web This invention pertains to a spreader roll adapted to remove wrinkles, ripples, bags and torque marks from fast-traveling webs of material of fabric, plastic or combinations thereof. The resulting fast-traveling web has a smooth, uninterrupted surface. Th... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4860412 | Loop breaker for textured yarn An apparatus and process to produce a spun-like synthetic yarn which employs a filament loop breaker which is periodically and automatically opened to break the vacuum pressure to allow lint collected therein to be released and collected.... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4860411 | Thread separator for seaming machines The invention concerns a thread separator for seaming machines, especially the seaming of dewatering webs, drying webs, felts and so on. The object underlying the invention consists therein to optimize the reliablility of the function of the thread separator b... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4858287 | Method for the continuous sizing and stretching of synthetic filament yarns The method for the production of partial warps wound on warping beams or sectional beams, or warps of synthetic filament yarns wound on warp beams, which are completely stretched and sized, consists of sizing a group of parallel synthetic thermoplastic fi... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4858288 | Method vortex action yarn hairiness reduction Yarn hairiness is reduced by employing a vortex action of a fluid, such as air or steam. Yarn in a substantially dry condition is passed in a generally linear path through a body having a central through-extending generally linear passageway that is circu... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4858795 | Device for aiding in the putting on of stockings or the like A device to aid an individual in putting on an elastic stocking. The device includes a member with a slidable surface. The member has a U-shaped portion on a front end extending into a flat base portion on the back end. The U-shaped portion has opposed si... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856152 | Apparatus for needling a nonwoven web An apparatus for needling a nonwoven web comprises a needle carrier, which is adapted to be driven, and a bedplate and a stripper for guiding the web between them. In order to impart a pure rotary motion to the needle carrier, the needle carrier consists ... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4854019 | Texturizing nozzle for endless filament threads An apparatus for texturizing endless filament threads comprises a thread infeed portion, a treatment portion and a crimping portion. The crimping portion is structured as a so-called slotted nozzle provided with lamellae arranged in a star-shaped array. T... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4854020 | Process for treatment of filament cable Filament cables are crimped and the crimp cake of the filament cable obtained is passed over a gas permeable screen plate while gas flows to the bottom of the cake from flow through the screen plate so that the cake can be moved over the plate without mak... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4854489 | Garment hanger A garment hanger is provided comprising a middle section with a hanging member such as a hook mounted thereon and two end sections with means for engaging a garment. At least one of the end sections is arranged for sliding movement relative to the middle ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4854021 | Stufferbox crimper and process for preparing crimped synthetic fibers In an improved crimping process, use is made of a stufferbox where (a) lid and/or floor are arranged movably and (b) in the working position, the distance between lid and floor at the inlet opening is smaller than the distance between lid and floor at the outl... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4852225 | Draw warping apparatus A drawing apparatus for a textile draw warping system includes rotatable feed, swing, godet and take-up rolls about which a plurality of synthetic continuous filaments travel in sequential peripheral engagement. The godet and take-up rolls are driven at d... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4852226 | Composite yarn texturing system An apparatus and process to produce a spun-like synthetic yarn which employs a filament loop breaker which is periodically and automatically opened to break the vacuum pressure to allow lint collected therein to be released and collected.... | 08/01/1989 |
