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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5025532 | Fiber bale opener having two opening chambers A circular textile fiber bale opener with a goosenecked transition from separately chambered dual plucker rolls provide for larger laydown area and greater production. The transition causes uniform air velocity at the top of the fiber bales across the ful... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4593436 | Baffled webformer and system In a webformer including a chute for feeding a web of fibers to subsequent equipment the improvement comprising an air deflector plate for controlling the amount of air that can be exuded from substantially all areas of a perforated wall.... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4557021 | Laying out and opening of fiber bales A method of textile fiber bale opening wherein fiber bales are laid within a circle on the floor in a predetermined arrangement and are opened by a beater which rotates about the center of the circle and sweeps over the tops of the bales to loosen and str... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4467502 | Fiber bale opener Textile fiber bale opener with rotary beater which extends in a radial direction while rotatingly sweeping over an annular area defined by concentric circles between which bales are disposed. Up/down means is provided to raise and lower the beater automat... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4449272 | Chute feed adjustment for card evenness A textile processing system is disclosed in which a chute feeder is juxtaposed with a card as a web supply device for the card, and the card, in turn, is juxtaposed with a coiler device, typically a dual coiler, for coiling sliver into cans, from the outp... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4219288 | Web former having stop motion control A web former for a textile card or the like in which fibers in an air stream are delivered into a housing divided by a perforated plate into two chambers. The fibers fall to the bottom of one chamber and are formed into a web by three rollers. The plate i... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4176995 | Automatic pickup and unloading crane Apparatus for supplying textile fibers to each of a plurality of textile blending machines extending in a line and defining a blending line from each of a plurality of fiber bales extending behind each of the machines with an overhead crane mounted for mo... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4163927 | Auto-leveler circuit A circuit for controlling the speed of a feed roller in a card or the like in which the sliver thickness is detected and a signal produced which is combined with signals representing feed and doff roller speeds, and a signal representing feed motor torque... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4157658 | Engine horsepower measurement system An apparatus for producing an indication of the horsepower produced by a motor, engine or the like in which a load beam mounted on the motor produces a signal which is applied to a torque circuit which includes an A/D converter operating as a dual slope i... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4154485 | Web-former A system and apparatus for forming webs from textile fibers entrained in an air stream in a conduit with a perforated plate dividing the interior of a housing into first and second chambers so that the entrained fibers fall to the bottom of the first cham... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4100791 | Auto-leveler An apparatus for producing an electrical output signal which varies as a function of sliver thickness with a trumpet having a bore through which the sliver passes and a port opening into the bore, and a sensor with a housing defining an inner space sealin... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4009803 | Web former An improved web former for feeding a fiber web of dense material or the like to subsequent textile processing machinery. The web former disclosed incorporates an offset cam means comprising an eccentric sleeve concentrically rotatably journalled in a bear... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3984895 | Density sensing and controlling equipment Apparatus in a card for sensing and controlling the relative speeds of the feed and doffer rolls in accordance with the sliver density as sensed by error detection circuitry responding to the amount of a transduced compression wave in the sonic ultrasonic... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3977046 | Density sensing and controlling equipment Apparatus in a card for sensing and controlling the relative speeds of the feed and doffer rolls in accordance with the sliver density. A mechanical sensing device responds to the cross-section of the sliver to close the contacts of an electrical circuit ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3945683 | Priority interrupt circuit Overfeed prevention method and apparatus operative during the purging of a pneumatic line which, between purges, conveys fiber material from a source to one or more of a plurality of stations. Whenever a station indicates a demand for fibers, control circ... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3938223 | Auto leveler An apparatus for maintaining sliver thickness uniform whereby the web from a carding machine is gathered by a trumpet and passed between a grooved driven roller and a sensor roller riding in the groove so that the movements of the sensor roller vary as a ... | 02/17/1976 |
