Celebrity Inventors
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a patented inventor - she created a diaper equipped with a premoistened baby wipe. And that's no act!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318456 | Modular weaving system with individual yarn control A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for supporting a plurality of removable bobbins thereon, the bobbins being pre-loadable with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316366 | Compact creel A highly mobile, compact creel that utilizes frames for holding yarn packages (or bobbins) for feeding yarn to a tufting machine. Each frame includes holders affixed to the frame for holding yarn packages facing front and back, a header attachable to the frame for d... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7178558 | Modular weaving for short production runs A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for being pre-loaded with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is configured to receivably support the warp units thereon, so that th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7017244 | Beam winding apparatus An apparatus and method for winding a sheet of aligned parallel yarns onto a beam is described. The beam winder utilizes a circularly arced yarn spool rack that feeds each yarn to an alignment comb through associated guide tubes. The distance between each spool of y... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004415 | Compact creel A highly mobile, compact creel that utilizes frames for holding yarn packages (or bobbins) for feeding yarn to a tufting machine. Each frame includes holders affixed to the frame for holding yarn packages facing front and back, a header attachable to the frame for d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6923401 | Method for unwinding elastomeric yarn from coiled packages A method for unwinding tacky elastomeric yarn from one or multiple coiled yarn packages includes the steps of (a) removing tubular cores from each yarn package to expose the beginning end of the yarn strand at the inner diameter of the yarn package; (b) forming a te... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6772972 | Cone holder with tube end protectors A tube holder on a creel receives a cardboard tube with a yam wound thereabout. The tube holder is preferably equipped with a tube stop at a non-feeding portion of the tube holder and a tube end protector which is preferably connected to the tube holder at a feeding... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6725884 | Yarn tightening element for a textile machine A yarn tightening element for a weaving machine, comprising a passage (16) for a yarn (15) and a contact means (2) to transmit a tightening force to a yarn (15) moving along through this passage, the passage (16) being not bordered... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6702213 | Molded fiber and plastic tubes A payout tube for insertion in a radial hole of a wound coil of filamentary material and the radial hole extending from the inner to the outer wind of the wound coil, the payout tube including an entrance and an exit opening in coaxial and spaced relation... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6634585 | Compact creel A highly mobile, compact creel (20) that utilizes frames (22) for holding yarn packages (30) (or bobbins) for feeding yarn (33) to a tufting machine (58). Each frame (22) includes holders (60) affixed to the frame (22) for holding yarn packages (30) facin... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6513748 | Process for the operation of a bobbin creel and bobbin creel for a winding system At least one thread tension sensor for each thread is provided on a winding machine. The actual value of thread tension is measured for each thread. The actual value is compared with a specified value in a comparator device and, in the event of a deviatio... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6511011 | Process for the operation of a bobbin creel and bobbin creel for a winding system At least one thread tension sensor for each thread is provided on a winding machine. The actual value of thread tension is measured for each thread. The actual value is compared with a specified value in a comparator device and, in the event of a deviatio... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6345783 | Spool rack with connecting system A spool rack (1) composed of carrying and connecting struts includes a connecting system for the struts connecting element (15) which are inserted in each case into one of the struts. The connecting element has a pressure transmitting portion (23) against... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6283399 | Yarn tension device A yarn braking device, in particular a double plate brake for textile yarns running from bobbin creels, with two pairs of brake plates through which the yarn passes and whose top and bottom plates are to be pressed together adjustably in order to tension ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6247504 | Device for tensioning and drawing back warp yarns coming from a creel to a weaving machine A device for tensioning and drawing back warp yarns brought from a creel to a weaving machine. The tensioning and drawing back device keeps tension and if necessary draws back warp yarns (2) led from a bobbin (1) to a weaving machine. A supporting body (6... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6237866 | Yarn unwinding tension stabilizer and a yarn unwinding tension stabilizing apparatus for a warping creel using the same A yarn unwinding tension stabilizer capable of stably unwinding a yarn from various types of yarn suppliers in such shapes as cheese and cone so as to effectively cope with such drawbacks as slide of wound layers on a yarn supplier and slippage of yarn lo... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6126102 | Apparatus for high speed beaming of elastomeric yarns A beaming apparatus that includes a creel and warper head, the creel being positioned adjacent to the warper head, the creel having elastomeric yarn unwinder assemblies which include a guide support that supports rotating guides and stationary wound cakes... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6116292 | Bobbin pallets for a weaving device A weaving frame or module for supporting warp thread bobbins for a weaving device and for changing bobbins with the weaving modules and bobbin pallets, has bobbins that can, at least partly, be changed without causing any interruption or any disturbance t... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6109557 | Winding device for threads from creels Winding device for threads from V-creels, from the bobbins of which the threads are drawn off via pre-looping bars and through a comb, and wound on a winding shaft of the winding device, where the pre-looping bars near the winding device have more threads... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6016850 | Controlled warp tensioning during fabric weaving In the event of an interruption of the weaving process and in the case of weaving-technical operations, such as tabby weaving and unraveling, a trailing of warp thread bobbins and thus a trailing of warp threads which are withdrawn from the bobbins and fo... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5927629 | Anti-static tension device An anti-static tension device for maintaining tension and drag on yarn and for reducing static on the yarn, as the yarn is supplied from a yarn bobbin supply to the creel of a knitting or weaving machine. The anti-static tension device includes a mounting... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5810271 | Roller board and method for loading the same A roller board (16) for organizing a plurality of filaments (14) from spools (28) for delivery to a collection point, includes a first plurality of rollers (40) arranged to form spaces (42) therebetween, and a second plurality of rollers (44), each pivota... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5806773 | Creel with antiballooning guides A creel has a frame provided with a plurality of parallel and longitudinally extending rows of holders each adapted to carry a respective filament-carrying bobbin with the holders of each row longitudinally staggered relative to the holders of adjacent ro... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5752549 | Work thread-tensioning and pull-back device for jacquard pile weaving machine creel A thread-tensioning and pull-back device for use with a weaving machine for controlling the tension of a series of warp threads pulled off from removable and replaceable bobbins arranged in rows in a weaving rack of a weaving machine is adapted to be loca... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5749210 | Creel with two-for-one twisting units A creel 1 with twisting devices is capable of directly supplying twisted yarns from bobbins carrying non-twisted yarns to a loom or a warper, and of producing not only normal fabric but also a fabric having a low weft density woven at a higher rate or a f... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749531 | Yarn creels A yarn creel 20 includes vertical ducts 27 having openings 28 therein through which air is directed towards the upper surfaces of yarn cones 22 mounted on pins 21. Yarn drawn off from the cones 22 exits the creel 20 via tubes 23 whose entrance ends 24 are... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5573191 | Device for the ejection of remnant packages and empty bobbins on a creel An impact element (12, 17), which is connected with a spring device (15), is tensioned through the feed movement of the package carrier rods (5) and, when a trigger position (23) is reached, will be released in such a way that a force impulse (I) is deliv... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5492152 | Creel with twisting device A creel for directly supplying twisted yarns to a machine (13) such as a loom or warper from a plurality of yarn bobbins (3) arranged on a creel (1) for holding non-twisted yarn (2). Two banks of bobbins (3), optionally contrarotate at a predetermined spe... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5451006 | Yarn delivery A yarn delivery system including a trolley creel and a yarn guide apparatus. The trolley creel is made up of a plurality of independently moveable trolleys and each includes a set of rotatable yarn packages. When each trolley is moved into place, the yarn... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5379956 | Spool holder for thread spools A spool holder having a carrier arm (7) can carry thread spools having cylindrical or conical cores (3). This arm has a contact surface (8) for the core (3) and at the distal end thereof, an angled surface (10). This angled surface diverges at the free en... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5372164 | Quick change assembly for tire cord fabric looms A quick change assembly for a tire cord fabric loom utilizes a pattern of warp ends which are threaded through suitable harnesses. The pattern in the harnesses is placed in the loom and the individual warp ends are pulled back to a plurality of creel comb... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5333354 | Device for collecting dust as fiber waste and the like on creel stand A fan located in a lower part of an inner section of the creel stand creates an air flow that extends upwardly through a cylindrical duct to a ceiling plate of the creel stand. The air then passes radially outwardly, and thence downwardly through an outer... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5312062 | Device for monitoring the thread run on a bobbin creel A thread clamping device for a textile machine includes a clamping pad which is pressed against a clamping rib by a compression spring. The spring force can be adjusted, independent of other like devices associated with the machine, by an adjusting mechan... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5218748 | Method for exchanging packages on a textile machine In a system for exchanging packages on a textile machine such as a rewinder, a creel loader receives empty packages from a creel for transportation to the position of a package supporter, the package supporter is rotated about a vertical axis over 180 deg... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5060884 | Creel for warping arrangement having spool core discharge means A creel for a warping arrangement has a closed circuit carrier with a plurality of pegs for circulating them in a circulation direction. The pegs are adapted to receive thread spools and are distributed along the circulation direction upon the closed circ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5040742 | Equipment for the start-up control of bobbin creels A device for the start-up control of bobbin creels for warp beams or warping reels, the winding heads of which, disposed in rows and columns, each have associated with them a yarn monitor, which causes the yarn to be deflected by a stop-motion sensor, and... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5000231 | Automatic weft yarn package changing system A yarn package changing method and an apparatus for carrying out the same, for use in combination with a loom which receives the weft yarn from a yarn package. The yarn package changing method carries out automatic yarn package changing operation through ... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4948067 | Textile Yarn Creel An adjustable textile yarn creel of circular construction includes a plurality of yarn package supporting assemblies each of which has a frame on which a pair of yarn package supporting members are mountable in parallel at selectively variable spacings. T... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4944471 | Method of producing a yarn tension on a bobbin creel In order to increase the yarn tension between a winder and a bobbin creel, the yarns are returned from a first yarn tensioner to the inlet of a second adjacent yarn tensioner in the row. The rows of bobbins which are associated with the second yarn tensio... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4903367 | Apparatus for pneumatic dedusting for textile machines An apparatus for pneumatic dedusting of yarn supply supports and thread guiding elements of textile machines comprises at least one blowing element which forms a blowing air stream in a dust forming region occupied by a yarn supply support and a thread gu... | 02/27/1990 |
