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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7313908 | Disintegrator with improved contour A disintegrator apparatus for textile machines is provided that includes a plurality of teeth at a tooth spacing (LZ) of no greater than about 20 mm and preferably less than about 12 mm. The teeth generally include two sections. A first section is located... | 01/01/2008 |
| 6996878 | Device such as a carding machine for processing fibres The present invention relates to a device, such as a carding machine, for processing fibers, said device comprising a cylinder, which is provided with a lining, and at least two carding segments which are arranged one after the other in the direction of rotation at ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 5642611 | Mounting for an opening roller In the case of a mounting for an opening roller comprising a plurality of teeth, all the tooth faces and the tooth backs are inclined in rotational direction. At their tips, the tooth faces form an angle relative to an opening roller radial plane of betwe... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5555717 | Open-end spinning device having an improved fiber feeding channel In the recess of a housing (4) of an open-end spinning device containing a driven opener roller (40), an insertion piece (32) is provided which contains the first channel part (30) of a fiber feeding channel. The insertion piece (32) is installed in housi... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5396688 | Making slub yarn on open-end machine Denim fabric is made from novelty cotton yarn having irregularly spaced irregularities (e.g. slubs) about one-half inch to two inches in length. The cotton novelty yarn is made by separating cotton sliver into cotton fibers, and acting on the cotton fiber... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5318497 | Combing roll assembly An improved combing or opening roll assembly for open-end spinning machines includes means for cleaning the inner cavities by direct axial injection of compressed air into the cavity, and an outer surface configuration designed to inhibit or prevent accum... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5168602 | Opening roller having inclined beater elements for opening and cleaning machine A fiber opening and cleaning machine includes an opening roll provided with inclined beater elements. Such beater elements have a wave shaped design and are considerably less in diameter than the relatively larger diameter beater rods customarily used in ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5136753 | Fiber bale opener having separately adjustable opening roll penetrations A travelling fiber tuft detaching device for removing fiber tufts from top surfaces of stationarily supported fiber bales includes a housing; first and second toothed, parallel detaching rolls accommodated in the housing; first and second pivot frames car... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5113559 | Rotary drum with points for a textile machine, an opener, a desintegrator, a tearer The invention relates to the fixing of staves (10) provided with points (12) to the cylinder (1) of a textile machine drum. Inside the cylinder (1) bars (6) provided with threaded holes (8) are slid. The half-openings (14) of the bases (11) of the staves ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5085047 | Opening roll for an open-end spinning device An opening roll for an open-end spinning device upon which clothing is carried. The opening roll includes a unitary member that has enlarged surfaces provided on circumferentially spaced ribs extending between a centrally located hub and a ring shaped con... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5019110 | Needle ring with needles for the combing cylinder of an open-end spinning machine Whereas in known needle rings the needles are of circular cross-section, the cross-section of the needles (1) the present needle ring (2) is equipped with is either oval or rectangular with flattened ends, or intermediate between these two shapes. The sho... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5018247 | Cleaning machine for textile fibres with drum having reduced diameter over the length A machine for cleaning textile fibres including a casing, a horizontal opening roller rotatably mounded in the casing, the roller body having a roller body and beater rods protruding from the peripheral area of the roller body and bar grates arranged belo... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5008979 | Textile-fiber treating grooved roller and a wire with teeth having a foot portion indented for force-fitting the wire into the groove and method of making same A roller for the treatment of fiber masses for the textile industry has a sawtooth wire received in a rectangular cross section helical groove of a steel roll body and indented by a peening or indenting roller to provide, by plastic deformation of the foo... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5005259 | Opening roller for open end spinning machines A pinned opening roller for an open end spinning machine wherein the pinning pattern around the circumferential surface of the roller is provided by spaced pairs of rows of pins which may extend parallel to the rotational axis of the roller, the spacing b... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4995142 | Apparatus for removing fiber flocks from a line of fiber bales The removal roll carrier can be inclined at an angle while the carrier is simultaneously moved vertically and while the removal apparatus moves over the line of fiber bales. This has the advantage that flocks can be removed from the bales not only in the ... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4928354 | Method and apparatus for removal of fiber flocks from fiber bales The fiber flock removal apparatus has a pair of removal rolls which may be adjusted in height relative to each other to obtain different depths of penetration into the fiber bales. The removal rolls may rotate codirectionally with the direction of travel ... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4916777 | Ring mounting for opening rollers of spinning machines In the case of a ring mounting for opening rollers of spinning machines having a ring-shaped basic body, out of the outer circumference of which a set of teeth is worked by means of notches extending essentially in axial direction and by means of grooves ... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4894983 | Opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement An opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement is disclosed which contains a basic body pressed onto a shaft. This basic body contains an exchangeable ring mounting which is held by means of its end faces between a flange of the basic body and a t... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4884395 | Fibre opening devices A fibre opening device for use in apparatus for spinning fibres into yarns comprising a housing in which an opening roller is rotatably mounted, the housing having a trash separation zone and a fibre stripping zone and the roller having a cylindrical work... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4862688 | Opening cylinder for open-end spinning machine An opening cylinder for an open-end spinning machine comprising a cylinder body of aluminum or similar material having a helical groove therein for receiving the foot portion of a saw-tooth wire fillet wherein the width of the groove is smaller than the f... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4858275 | Opening roller construction for open end spinning machine and the like In the case of a mounting or ring fitting for an opening roller for open end spinning machines and the like, it is provided that the tooth tips are chamfered and form cutting edges which extend essentially in the travel direction of the teeth.... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4833757 | Mounting for an opening roller In the case of a mounting for opening rollers having a plurality of teeth, it is provided that the lateral profiles of the teeth are located in essentially radial surfaces, and that, not before the area of the tip, at least one lateral profile has an end ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4825511 | Securing segments to a base A method of securing a plurality o048268999 f replaceable segments to a base wherein a plurality of deformable supporting members are releasably fastened to the base and wherein co-operating means are provided on a rear face of the segments and on the sup... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4805395 | Opening roller for an opening device of an open-end spinning machine An opening assembly for an open-end spinning arrangement is provided which includes a steel alloy fitting ring element arranged on a rotatable roller body element for opening a silver into individual fibers. The fitting ring element includes a base wall h... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4798046 | Opening cylinder for open-end spinning machines The opening cylinder comprising a cylindrical ring serving as a needle support and being provided with needle-housing bores extending from the inner ring surface to the outer one is designed to carry needles comprising a point section of generally tapered... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797977 | Picker assembly There is disclosed a picker assembly comprising a picker bar having a T-slot therein and a plurality of picker teeth. The picker teeth have bases in the slot with wedging surfaces thereon for maintaining the teeth against a surface of the bar when the too... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4768262 | Apparatus and method for textile strand drafting A novel fiber drafting system disclosed according to which a textile fiber strand is passed through a plurality of pairs of drafting rollers wherein one of each pair of drafting rollers includes a circumferential groove for receiving the fiber strand and ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4715177 | Attachment device for an opening roller and a method for using the attachment device An opening roller apparatus is provided for an open-end spinning arrangement of the type having a shaft supporting an opening roller base body. The opening roller apparatus includes an exchangeable fitting ring device which fits over the opening roller ba... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4679390 | Opening roller assemblies for open end spinning machines An opening roller assembly for open end spinning machines wherein the roller is releasably and slidably supported on a drive shaft of the open end spinning machine to enable easy removal of the roller for refurbishing, replacement or repair. Non-mechanica... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4657031 | Cut tobacco distributing device for cigarette making machines The invention has for its object a cut-tobacco distributing device for cigarette making machines. The distributing device includes a rotating drum (2) provided with points (3) which takes or receives the cut tobacco. This drum (2) provided with points (3) coop... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4646389 | Fitting for opening rollers An arrangement is provided for an opening roller having a plurality of teeth wherein the tooth faces exhibit an oblique curvature in the direction of rotation of the roller resulting in a face angle between 12° and 30° in the region of the tip of the to... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4627131 | Combing roller for an open-end spinning machine A combing roller for an open-end spinning machine which utilizes whirling airflow. The roller has on its circumferential surface and in its axial direction dovetail grooves, in which needle plate laminated members which have needle rows in the axial direc... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4625366 | Opening cylinder for open-end spinning machines or the like The invention relates to an opening cylinder for open-end spinning machines or the like comprising a cylindrical basic body (1) with helically extending grooves (2) for the accommodation for fittings. To achieve high combing quality with easy replaceabili... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4606095 | Saw-toothed stamped metal part as outfit for a comb segment of a porcupine Saw toothed metal parts as outfits for comb segment of a porcupine for textile machines such as combing machines in which each metal part has a stilt functioning as the holding component in the comb segment and a plurality of teeth extending outwardly fro... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4530133 | Opening roller for open end spinning machines An opening roller for an open end spinning machine which may be formed in one or two parts, the opening roller having a central body or hub (1) preferably provided with a central cylindrical aperture (10) therein for mounting on a drive shaft of an open e... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4510949 | Feeding particulate material, especially tobacco A cigarette making machine or feed apparatus for fibrous material other than tobacco includes a pinned conveyor (20) arranged to feed material from a supply and past refusing means (22) whereby the feed conveyor will carry a metered stream of the material... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4471607 | Opening unit for open-end spinning machines In an opening unit for open-end spinning machines, which comprises a housing and a roller lined with sawtooth wire and rotatably arranged in the housing for separating the fibers along their path from the inlet to the outlet of the opening unit, a dirt se... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4435953 | Opening roller unit for open-end spinning installations An opening roller unit for open-end spinning installations as a shaft supported in a bearing box and an opening roller arranged on an end of the shaft which projects from the bearing box. The opening roller extends over the bearing box in a manner forming... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4394789 | Toothed edging means for textile machinery Toothed edging apparatus for mounting on a rotatable support of a textile machine includes tooth segments each having a plurality of teeth elements arranged generally along an arc and a foot portion from which the teeth elements extend, the foot portion b... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4392276 | Fiber separator for feeding a freed-fiber spinning unit The device for separating individual fibers of a fiber sliver comprises sliver feed rollers, sliver opening means comprising a press roller and a separating roller adapted to carry a stack of thin disks provided with combing elements which consist of teet... | 07/12/1983 |
