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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2013
Acs Industries, Inc., Lincoln, RI (US);
George Greenwood, Tiverton, RI (US);
ACS Industries, Inc., Lincoln, RI (US);
Abstract
'Tinkles' (also known as 'gotchas') (see reference numberin FIGS.and) are portions of knitted metal loops produced when a tube of knitted wire mesh is cut into individual pieces. In the prior art, tinkles have been considered a fact of life and the approach has been to try to shake them out of the mesh or immobilize them on or in the mesh. By producing a knitted tube () having alternating segments () of knitted rows of yarn and knitted rows of wire, completely tinkle-free knitted socks are produced which are used to produce completely tinkle-free knitted wire mesh filters. Knitted wire mesh filters that cannot release tinkles because they do not have any tinkles can be used in such applications as fuel filters and airbag filters.