Brucie wrote: > How can you patent washing and drying? Apparently that is all she is > doing > to the stuff. >
I just wish we could all pull our chairs in a circle and read this patent aloud, making sure no small children could hear our responses :-) This is what the patent office gave as the abstract of her patent - the short version. > Processing of american buffalo hair to produce a yarn > > Abstract > > A method for making a pure buffalo yarn is disclosed and includes the > steps of, scouring a buffalo fleece with detergent and > water at a temperature of at least 80 degrees centigrade to clean the > fleece, dehairing the buffalo fleece to remove unwanted > course hair from the fleece to produce dehaired fine soft fibers, > blending the dehaired fine soft fibers with an oil and water > emulsion in a mixing picker to produce a mixed fiber, carding the > mixed fiber at 50 weight percent of normal to produce a > roving of straight and parallel fibers, spinning the roving to produce > a yarn and twisting the yarn to increase the bulk and > softness of the yarn. Barf warning: Here's the link to the full nine yards (Don't know if you can cut and paste this whole tag - if not, go to the patft.etc....and type the patent number 6,385,954 into the search. I am assuming you want to be well informed. You might want a patent of your own some day. Maybe for washing wool.) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,385,954'.WKU.&OS=PN/6,385,954&RS=PN/6,385,954 Carol http://www.thesilkworker.com (convinced there has to be patentable stuff here somewhere) To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
