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Assignee: Platt Saco Lowell Limited (GB)


Location: Not specified.
No. of patents: 11

NumberTitleIssue Date
4317260Method improvement to increase the proportion of usable fibers in processable textile fiber stock
In opening and cleaning fibers an improved method to increase the proportion of usable fibers in processable textile fiber stock using a plurality of bale opening machines feeding fiber to a line of fiber cleaning and mixing machines, following which the ...
03/02/1982
4315398Open-end spinning apparatus
A friction spinning apparatus comprises an opening roller system for feeding fibres in a feed duct to the throat formed between the adjacent peripheral surfaces of two parallel drums rotating in the same direction. Yarn formed at the throat, by frictional...
02/16/1982
4280250Textile carding machine frame construction
A carding machine for textile material has a taker-in cylinder, a main cylinder and a doffing cylinder supported by a frame comprising of two frame side members. The frame side members are costructed from sheet steel and are interconnected by two sheet st...
07/28/1981
4236319Warp sheet splitting device for a drying chamber in a yarn sizing process
In a sizing process for a warp sheet of yarns, a drying chamber has an upper first region, substantially void of a drying medium, and a second region containing the drying medium. A transversable warp splitting device is provided in the chamber which is t...
12/02/1980
4206589Formation of a self twist fibrous structure
A method of forming a self-twisted fibrous structure comprises twisting two strands of similar count such that each has repeated along its length alternating zones of opposite twist, converging the strands at a convergence point such that they partly untw...
06/10/1980
4179773Means for severing and compacting coiled sliver
In combination with a sliver coiler and can changer apparatus, a sliver compactor and severing device is provided which concurrently compacts coiled sliver and separates, parts or severs through attenuation the ultimate strand portion extending between th...
12/25/1979
4170102Open end spinning rotor with special boss
A rotor for an open end yarn spinner is disclosed having a depending boss with a bore therethrough for interference fit with a supporting shaft, wherein the boss is formed with an annular concave recess proximal its juncture with the base of the cup porti...
10/09/1979
4169348Fibre opening apparatus for an open-end spinning machine
A fibre opening apparatus for an open-end spinning machine includes a housing provided with a recess in which is mounted for rotation a fibre opening roller. The peripheral surface of the opening roller co-operates with a fibre locating surface defined by...
10/02/1979
4167846Steel rotor with hardened fibre collecting groove and method of manufacture thereof
Disclosed is a method of manufacture of a rotor for the open end spinning of staple fibres into yarn which is formed of a steel and has hardened surfaces at its fiber contacting and collecting surfaces, wherein the rotor may be fashioned by machining from...
09/18/1979
4151706Yarn stripper
Disclosed is a plate-like yarn stripper device for use in removing staple fiber yarns from rotatable elements of circular cross-section, such as in the removal of yarn wraps underwound beneath a spindle blade to anchor the yarn threadline in the doffing a...
05/01/1979
4016004Trash collecting system for open-end spinning machine
First suction forces of relatively large magnitude and small duration, and second suction forces of relatively small magnitude and large duration, are alternatively applied to the trash outlet of each trash box of a multi-station open-end spinning machine...
04/05/1977
 
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