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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4051807 | Apparatus for applying preparation agents to a bundle of filaments Apparatus for applying preparation agents onto a large filament bundle passing through substantially vertically, comprising an applicator head with a slit for applying the preparation agent and at least one guide edge for guiding the filament bundle. A su... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4052017 | Method and apparatus for automatically changing textile bobbins on a cantilevered bobbin chuck of a textile winding machine A method of, and apparatus for, automatically changing textile bobbins on a cantilevered bobbin chuck of a textile winding machine, wherein there is cut and sucked-off a thread moving towards a textile bobbin package placed on the bobbin chuck, the textil... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4049211 | Winding apparatus for textile threads The speed of the friction drive drum is electronically controlled as a function of the thread speed. The apparatus allows winding of a precision wound package or a random wound package. The apparatus employs an electronic control unit which calculates a d... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4041770 | Method and apparatus for sensing the thickness of a fiber layer on a moving surface A pneumatic measuring means is placed over the main cylinder to measure pressure variations due to changes in fiber layer thickness. The measured pressures are transmitted to a measuring and control means which compares the measured pressures to a pre-set... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4039092 | Bobbin package storage box A bobbin package storage box which is movable on at least one rail and provided with an endless chain revolving in a substantially vertical plane. A bobbin transfer point associated with a winding machine is located at a region along the path of travel of... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4036446 | Method and apparatus for braking a bobbin chuck and for releasing a bobbin tube thereon The bobbin chuck is provided with a pneumatically operated bobbin tube holding means and is arranged to be pivoted against a brake shoe to be braked to a standstill. The brake shoe is pivotally mounted about a remote axis and is movable radially of this a... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4035703 | Current circuit arrangement for reducing the switch-on power dissipation of a power transistor The current circuit arrangement is used to reduce the switch-on power dissipation of a power transistor which intermittently switches a direct-current voltage to an ohmic-inductive load and in which a voltage limiting diode is arranged parallel to the loa... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4023741 | Apparatus for winding a multiplicity of threads onto respective bobbin tubes Two bobbin tubes are mounted on a common bobbin chuck and a common thread severing means and suction means is used to sever and hold the threads during a bobbin change. After the threads are severed and drawn into the suction tube, a rod which carries two... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4020997 | Apparatus for producing waste and reserve windings on bobbin tubes on winding machines The combs which guide the thread to the bobbin tube are moved up and down relative to each other at a frequency at least equal to the rotational speed of the bobbin tube. The thread is initially caused to wind on the bobbin to form a waste bunch with subs... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020622 | Method and apparatus for a joint start-up and stopping of the spinning positions of an open-end spinning machine The start-stop program for the open-end spinning machine causes the external suction means to be rendered ineffective during the stopping process before the rotor falls below a speed necessary to maintain tension in the fiber ring in the fiber collecting ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4019690 | Winding device for automatically changing bobbin tubes A winding device for automatically changing tubes taking-up endless threads, with a thread deflecting device for lifting the thread off a thread traversing device, a thread holding device for guiding the thread in its lifted-off position during change of ... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4012893 | Method of loading transporting trolleys with full cans or the like and supplying full cans to spinning machines fed with fiber sliver and apparatus for implementing the method A method of, and apparatus for, loading transporting trolleys with full cans and supplying full cans to spinning machines fed with fiber sliver, wherein the empty cans are placed upon transporting trolleys interconnected to form a transporting trolley tra... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4009562 | Method and apparatus for eliminating impurities from an open-end spinning machine An air duct is located opposite a separating opening which opens into the space containing the fiber opening roll so as to receive impurities centrifuged from the opening roll. The separating opening has a wall which forms an acute angle with the opposite... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4004820 | Transport cart The wheels of the cart are arranged so that a front wheel and a rear wheel can be interconnected with each other and driven off a steering gear. Upon pivoting of the steering gear during turning of the cart, these front and rear wheels pivot in opposite d... | 01/25/1977 |
| 4005302 | Inductively heated drawroll A heatable drawroll for drawtwisting, draw-winding and spin-draw winding machines includes a stationary induction heating coil having a core and mounted within rotatable metal jacket. A sleeve of heat and electrical insulating material is stationarily dis... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3998041 | False twist device and method of producing a textured yarn or the like A method of, and apparatus for, fabricating a textured yarn or the like comprising a false twist device containing a number of friction disks arranged in spaced coaxial relationship with respect to one another in succession and thread guide elements helic... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3973647 | Oil supply apparatus for ring spinning machines and ring twisting machines Each oil branch duct is mounted on the machine frame so that, as the ring rail moves downwardly into an underwinding position relative to the bobbins, the oil branch duct is inserted into the oil duct carried on the ring rail. A metered flow of oil is inj... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3970260 | Apparatus for building a rotationally symmetrically evened bobbin package and method of operating the apparatus Apparatus for building a rotationally symmetrically evened bobbin package with a bobbin chuck for supporting the bobbin and with a friction drive drum for driving the bobbin. The bobbin chuck is rotatable at speeds above the critical rotational speed and ... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3955768 | Apparatus for producing waste wraps and thread reserve windings on a bobbin tube Apparatus for producing waste wraps and thread reserve windings on a bobbin tube which is placed onto a rotating bobbin chuck and at a face side of which there is provided a thread catching zone. For the purpose of producing the waste wraps there is provi... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955243 | Apparatus for receiving a silver can and for controlling the quantity of material deposited therein The turntable on which the silver can is mounted is connected to a piston of a compressed air cylinder and air pressure is used to maintain the piston and table in preset positions. When the silver can is filled to the preset weight, the table and piston ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3942731 | Method and apparatus for forming reserve windings during a bobbin change on a spinning machine A suction means and a severing means are located behind the friction drive drum to receive a yarn when the bobbin holder is lifted into a idling position and to sever the yarn when the holder is returned to the operating position with a fresh tube in plac... | 03/09/1976 |
