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Class 19/65R - WORKING


Subclass of Class 19 - Textiles: fiber preparation
Definition: Method and apparatus for disentangling, cleaning, straightening,
No. of patents: 36
Last issue date: 04/01/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7351463Down-feather and manmade fiber mixed filler and product manufacturing from the same
A down-feather and manmade fiber filled product has an outer layer, an inner layer, and a filler filled between the outer layer and the inner layer. The filler is formed by agitating dry down-feathers and manmade fibers with a predetermined ratio in an agitating cha...
04/01/2008
7328485Fiber spreading apparatus
A fiber spreading apparatus prevents a fiber bundle from being split apart. Position restriction rollers 43g and 43h are arranged in a fiber bundle streaming and feeding section 43 so as to restrict a streaming and feeding position...
02/12/2008
7216767Screen basket and shale shakers
A screen mounting basket for a vibratory separator for separating components of material introduced into the basket, the vibratory separator including a collection receptacle beneath the basket, the basket including two opposed spaced-apart side walls having first e...
05/15/2007
7173703Apparatus on a textile fibre processing machine for evaluating textile fibre material
In an apparatus for inspecting and evaluating fiber material, for example a sliver or fleece, an opto-electronic system, is provided across the width of a textile machine and scans the moving fiber material and converts the measured values into electronic signals. T...
02/06/2007
7165928Seed cotton handling system
Wrapped cotton bales transported from a cotton harvest area to a receiver at the gin are moved intact to a position generally above a receiver upstream of the ginning equipment. As the bales are supported and conveyed, knife or similar cutting structure severs a por...
01/23/2007
7004332Articulating disc screen apparatus for recyclable materials
A disc screen apparatus for classifying a stream of mixed recyclable materials of various sizes and shapes, including newspaper, clean mixed paper, magazines, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, cans, and the like. The apparatus has an inclined fixed first disc...
02/28/2006
6877188Device for strengthening a conveyable fiber lap
A method of strengthening a conveyable fiber lap in an endlessly circulating conveying device is provided. The method includes conveying the fiber lap using first and second converging rollers, each roller having an outer surface, at least the first roller being pro...
04/12/2005
6848149Method and device for identifying and expelling foreign material in a stream of fibers consisting of compressed textile fibers
The invention relates to a method and a device for identifying and expelling foreign material in a stream of fibres consisting of compressed textile fibres. To provide a method and a device which continuously check the stream of fibres in industrial use also at high...
02/01/2005
6598267Fiber length and strength measurement system
Method and apparatus for the collection of samples of staple fibers from a quantity (batch) of such fibers without material consideration of the "condition" of the fibers within the batch, (e.g., the relative humidity and/or temperature of the environment...
07/29/2003
6584650Fiber tumbler system and method
A system and method are provided for cleaning fiber. Included is a structure with a basket pivotally coupled thereto. The basket is adapted for receiving fiber therein. In use, particles are removed from the fiber upon rotation of the basket. In another e...
07/01/2003
6550105Follow-up system for a reserve lap in a combing machine
The method and an apparatus provide for the automatic provision and transfer of a reserve lap (WR) from a reserve position (RP) to a working position (AP) in a machine (K1 to K3) for processing wound laps and for the automatic discharge of an empty tube (...
04/22/2003
6449805Follow-up system for a reserve lap in a combing machine
The method and an apparatus provide for the automatic provision and transfer of a reserve lap (WR) from a reserve position (RP) to a working position (AP) in a machine (K1 to K3) for processing wound laps and for the automatic discharge of an empty tube (...
09/17/2002
6389646Fiber tumbler and method of use
A system and method are provided for cleaning fiber. Included is a structure with a basket pivotally coupled thereto. The basket is adapted for receiving fiber therein. In use, particles are removed from the fiber upon rotation of the basket. In another e...
05/21/2002
6298522Apparatus for removing foreign material from a fiber processing line
A fiber processing machine includes a generally vertically oriented feed chute having an upper portion and a lower portion; a device for introducing fiber material into the upper chute portion; a clothed fiber opening roll supported for rotation in the lo...
10/09/2001
6195841Device for preparation and opening of flock fibers to be supplied to a carder
Silo for supply of flock fibers to a carder, which silo is subdivided into superimposed chambers, between which there is interposed a set of rollers which regulate the descending flow, and carry out breaking and separation of the fibrous material, in whic...
03/06/2001
6161441Fiber individualizer
An apparatus that individualizes fibers within a feed stream without breaking the fibers. A first stage, having first pinch rollers, receives the feed stream and provides it to a second stage. The second stage receives the feed stream from the first stage...
12/19/2000
5926918Apparatus and method for opening and for reclaiming fibers
A driven opening roll (A) covered with card clothing receives a web (W) over a feed plate (B) which carries a pair of serially arranged feed rolls (C) and (D) for separating fibrous material from the web and removing the fibrous material in a passageway (...
07/27/1999
5920961Ventilating carding roll
A ventilated carding cylinder for allowing heat generated in the carding cylinder during operation to be dissipated. The carding cylinder includes an internal, longitudinally extending, air flow passage and impeller means provided therein for moving air t...
07/13/1999
5689857Air cushion cleaner
Seed cotton is carried by an airstream into an upright cleaning chamber. Dust and fine trash is carried off through a fine screen in the top of the chamber. The airstream carrying the seed cotton into the chamber will lack sufficient strength to carry the...
11/25/1997
5688301Method for producing non-woven material from irregularly shaped glass fibers
An irregularly shaped glass fiber is provided which enjoys improved resiliency, and openness in pack structures. Wool packs and other wool portions having such irregularly shaped fibers may be processed directly through needling to form a non-woven materi...
11/18/1997
5546635Apparatus for cleaning and opening fiber tufts
An apparatus for cleaning and opening fiber tufts includes a feeding device and an opening device adjoining the feeding device for receiving fiber tufts therefrom. The device has a series of immediately consecutive, mutually cooperating fiber processing r...
08/20/1996
5367747Needle-based apparatus for individualizing fibers and other textile entities for testing purposes
Disclosed are various needle-based devices for individualizing single fibers and other entities from a fibrous mass, particularly for testing purposes. In one embodiment, an accelerated pin drafting machine has a plurality of combing elements which sequen...
11/29/1994
4984335Apparatus for transporting textile laps
Apparatus for transporting full textile laps to a plurality of combers includes an elevated bridge structure movable in series between a lap storage station and the plural combers, a trolley movable along the bridge structure, and a lap gripping device su...
01/15/1991
4972550Fill or effect material
An apparatus for producing, in bulk, long tailed neps, the apparatus including a housing supporting a main rotor the periphery of which has a plurality of teeth and beaters which co-operate with teeth on a set of feed rollers mounted in the housing alongs...
11/27/1990
4970759Textile fiber processing apparatus and method
Apparatus for processing textile fibers is disclosed which includes a carding machine (14) and a batt former (A). Batt former (A) includes an air circulation loop which includes a plenum (B), fiber compacting chamber (C), air separating means (72, 74), ac...
11/20/1990
4890358System for automatically conveying cotton laps from a ribbon-lap machine to a combing machine assembly
The system comprises, downstream of a ribbon-lap machine, a cradle lifting device for taking up a lap roller from a lap roller collecting frame, a gripper taking up device being moreover provided which is adapted to remove a lap roller from the cradle lif...
01/02/1990
4794671Method of opening bales of cotton and other fibers
The method and equipment for removing the straps tied around a bale of cotton comprises the steps of: 1. lifting and transporting the bale by a forklift to an impact cutter provided with a long horizontal cutter blade, 2. pushing the bale towards the cutt...
01/03/1989
4528721Transport system for spinning preparation
A transport system for transporting laps wound on tubes in spinning preparation. The laps are transported above head height by carriers or supports movable along transport rails and are raised and lowered by means of carrier rails. The transport rails and...
07/16/1985
4452134Cotton harvester
An improved, hydraulically controlled, cotton harvesting apparatus comprising: cotton receiving and containing means; means for feeding cotton to a cotton boll breaking means; cotton boll breaking means comprising a roller and a brush operatively associat...
06/05/1984
4240181Web guiding device
A device for withdrawing and gathering a fiber web discharged by a web delivering assembly of a carding machine includes a guide element arranged immediately downstream of the web delivering assembly and has a web guiding face; a support for positioning t...
12/23/1980
4225244Device for indicating fibre length distribution of a fibre sample
A device for indicating the fibre length distribution of a fibre sample for use with an apparatus which produces output signals representative of the number of fibres in a cross section of a fibre sample by slit-wise illumination of the sample, has a puls...
09/30/1980
4122582Fiber mat forming machine
A soft, loosely compacted mat of fibers is continuously formed atop a traveling conveyor. The fibers are deposited on top of the screen from an air-fiber flow within a suitably sized conduit having the same width as the desired width of the mat. A fiberiz...
10/31/1978
4041573Machine for combing and grading textile fibers
A machine for combing textile fibers prior to spinning, which operates to regroup the fibers in accordance with their length, is described. The machine operates to pull off tufts of fibers from a web or card sliver, to perform a preliminary combing of the...
08/16/1977
4031593Hot shelf seed cotton tower dryer apparatus and method
A seed cotton dryer system of the parallel flow tower type, having hollow vertically spaced horizontal shelves alternately extending from opposite sides of the tower to locations near but spaced from the opposite side to define a continuing zig-zag cotton...
06/28/1977
3987615Process of forming yarns from gin motes
A method of processing relatively inexpensive gin motes to reclaim the spinnable but normally waste cotton fibers contained therein and form a reduced cost yarn therefrom. The method involves cleaning the gin motes to separate and remove from the cotton f...
10/26/1976
3961397Clump removal devices
Clump-removal devices are disclosed for separating unacceptably large clumps from an air stream containing both clumps and substantially individualized fibers. The devices include an inlet duct for receiving the air stream containing the fiber/clump mix; ...
06/08/1976
 
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