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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975952 | Winding station with magazine for empty tubes located under the winding mechanism A winding station for winding textile yarn onto empty tubes is disclosed. The winding station includes a winding mechanism (1) with two flanges (2) for gripping the ends of the tube (8). Each flange is mounted on a pivoted winding arm (6)... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7258298 | Supplying device for film cores and method for supplying film cores A preparatory device provided for arranging film roll cores in a condition ready for use for a film roll winding machine, in which the film roll cores are vertically arranged, comprises a supply device for supplying horizontally disposed film roll cores. The supply ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7240875 | Yarn carrier A yarn carrier is provided in the form of a yarn winding tube having a yarn catch insert. The yarn winding tube is a hollow cylindrical tube having a longitudinal axis extending lengthwise between its first and second opposite ends. The tube has a hole through its s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7194791 | Turn-table type roll stock apparatus and plating factory for process roll for gravure printing There are provided a plating factory for process roll for a gravure printing and a turn-table type roll stock apparatus preferable to the gravure printing plate manufacturing factory where a series of plating steps can be performed against the process roll for the g... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7134625 | Automatic reel changer comprising a reel stand and a method for disposing of residual reel casings An automatic roll changer including a reel stand having a holder. At least one roll of material is rotatably mounted in that holder. A transport device is provided for transporting either at least one new material roll or at least one spent reel casing from which th... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7097129 | Yarn winding machine A yarn winding apparatus for continuously winding yarns to packages. The winding apparatus has a plurality of winding spindles, which are mounted in cantilever fashion for rotation on a movable turret, and which are alternately guided between a winding position for ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6942174 | Apparatus for winding a thread reserve and a cross-wound bobbin onto a bobbin tube An apparatus for winding a cross-wound bobbin onto a bobbin tube is provided and comprises a bobbin creel including two bobbin creel arms for the mounting of two bobbin tube centering plates, a thread intake device effective in the region of an arm and with which is... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6912048 | Method and device for identifying foreign bodies in a textile material In a method and a device for identifying foreign bodies in a base textile material, the base textile material is subjected to beams and the beams reflected on the base material are detected and converted into an electrical signal. In order to detect foreign bodies i... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6877688 | Preparing strand cable for concrete mold A method and apparatus is disclosed to prepare strand segments of predetermined length for use in a molded concrete product at an assembly facility. The strand segments are loaded into a strand reel (10) having multiple slots. The strand reel is then transpor... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6592698 | Sheet roll producing apparatus, sheet roll discharging apparatus, and core supplying apparatus A method of forming sheet rolls made of a heat transfer recording sheet having a transfer ink layer on a surface of a base by winding the recording sheet around the outer peripheries of a plurality of cores. The method includes supplying a web heat transf... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6511013 | Device for starting a work station of a cheese-producing textile machine A device for starting a work station (2) of a cheese-producing textile machine, in particular after a batch change, wherein the work station (2) has a creel (18) for rotatably holding a bobbin tube (34), a splicing device (13) for connecting yarn ends, an... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6405968 | Bobbin winding machine In a bobbin winding machine with multiple winding heads, each having a creel associated with a torque transmitter (15) adjusted by a drive element (16) for controlling the bearing load between a bobbin (10) held in the creel and a drive drum (14), buttons... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6328247 | Cheese-producing textile machine A cheese-producing textile machine (1), having a central control unit (37), a plurality of work stations (2), and a service unit (23), which automatically supplies the work stations (2). The work stations (2) each have a winding device with a winding drum... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6269859 | Sheet roll producing apparatus, sheet roll discharging apparatus, and core supplying apparatus A sheet roll forming system for forming sheet rolls by winding a heat transfer recording sheet around an outer periphery of a plurality of cores including a core supplying apparatus and a sheet roll discharge apparatus. The core supplying apparatus includ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6192957 | Heat transfer recording sheet producing apparatus and roll shaft supplying apparatus A printing unit in a gravure printing portion prints a plurality of end marks on a web having a base film and a hot melt ink layer. The end marks printed on the web are dried by a drying apparatus. A sheet obtained from the web is wound around a roll shaf... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6193185 | Automatic steel cord winders An automatic cord winder for steel cord braiding machines is disclosed. The winder automatically and continuously drives a spool assembly during a steel cord winding operation. In the spool assembly, a plurality of spools are assembled together into a lon... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6170417 | Remote control bobbin case exchanger device In a remote control bobbin case exchanger device (1), a rotary bobbin (K) is to be placed in a position that is not easily accessed, and an exchangeable position () is provided in a position that is readily accessed in a bobbin case providing membe... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6098918 | Assembly for cable winding and despooling An assembly for transferring a wound coil disposed around a first mandrel onto a second mandrel. The first mandrel is radially expandable between first and second outer diameters and the coil is wound onto the first mandrel when in its larger, first outer... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6086009 | Apparatus and method to catch, damp and feed a cable, wire, rope or the like which is rolled up in a ring An apparatus and method for intercepting, damping and feeding a cable (1), wire, line or the like, rolled up into a coil (4), which coil (4) is intended to be fed in the radial direction of the coil (4). The apparatus includes first and second support rol... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6062506 | Process and device for producing a package of elongated winding material A process and device are disclosed for producing a package of elongated winding material. A winding bobbin (50) has a conical winding core (52) and a first detachable flange (53) arranged at the side of the winding core (52) having the smaller diameter, a... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6056227 | Device for automatically replacing thread bobbins and spooling device with replacement unit In order to make possible an automatic replacement of full bobbins in a spooling device with continuous thread supply, the supplied thread from the traversing thread guide is lifted and directed to a cutting and suction device. The supplied thread is cut ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6012668 | Method for the controlled winding or unwinding of an elongated object on or from a reel body In a method for controlled winding of an elongated object, at least one elongated object (11) is guided by a guide head (35) to a reel body (15, 16), which is mounted to rotate and is rotated by a drive member (20). A program controlled adjustment of the ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5979817 | System for recognizing the position of spinning spindle of cops on a winder and managing its data, and method for tracing cop numbers by conveyance sections A system for obtaining position data of cops on a winder while the cops are carried in a direction along a predetermined conveyance path having sections, connections of sections and sections where movement of the cops in a direction from one of the sectio... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5947405 | Method for optimizing a batch change in an open-end spinning machine The method by which a batch is ended in a spinning machine has an effect on its efficiency. As the rule, the end of a batch is determined according to a preset time, the amount of yarn to be produced, or a preset number of bobbins. In order to end a batch... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5937629 | Method and device for supplying empty tubes to winding devices of a textile machine A method and device are provided for supplying empty tubes to winding devices of a textile machine comprising a plurality of operating units arranged next to each other in at least one line and equipped each with a winding device as a part of the operatin... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5906266 | Transport apparatus for textile packages An apparatus for transporting textile packages in a transport direction along an elongate package supporting surface comprises a guide track extending beneath the elongate supporting surface, an elongated thrust element slidable on the guide track, and an... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5822969 | Device for delivering wound bobbins from a textile machine A device for delivering wound bobbins from a textile machine, comprising a main conveyor of wound bobbins, the conveyor having an end, an ancillary belt conveyor which receives wound bobbins from the end of the main conveyor and conveys them in a conveyin... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5765356 | Spinning machine tube transport and removal system In a spinning machine with a tube magazine (1) several tube mandrils (3) placed on a conveyor are provided for the placement of a tube (4) at a time. At a removal station (2) a take-up device 21 to take up individual tubes (4) from the tube magazine (1) i... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5676323 | Apparatus and method for changing and winding bobbins involving the correction of movement sequences in a moving element A textile machine with an apparatus for recognizing and correcting deviations of sequences of movements of an element (31) driven by a driving element (33). A device (51) acquires the arrival time (t4) of the driven element (31) and corrects th... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5636803 | Apparatus for checking the winding quality of yarn bobbins and use of the apparatus on a winding or spinning machine A number of sensors, each including a light source, illuminating and imaging optics and a detector, are arranged decentrally on a spinning or winding machine having a number of thread lines to provide online monitoring of the winding quality of a number o... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5613642 | Process and system for winding and transporting a wound package A system and process for winding and mechanically transporting a wound package includes: (a) a plurality of fibers; (b) a guide for gathering the fibers to form a bundle; (c) a winder having a rotatable package collector and an apparatus for rotating the ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5566540 | Transport assembly in a ring spinning machine with driven conveyor belts for delivering empty tubes and for removing cops disposed along spindle rows at the machine An assembly for transporting empty tubes and cops in a ring-spinning machine. Driven conveyor belts are disposed alongside rows of spindles disposed on both sides of the ring-spinning machine. The conveyor belts are driven for delivering empty tubes to an... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5555713 | Apparatus for feeding bobbins and bobbin cores to and from a spinning or twisting machine A rotary position sensor is connected to the belt of an apparatus for receiving the full bobbins and delivering the empty bobbin cores to both sides of a spinning or twisting machine. The microprocessor control unit has a memory which stores the restartin... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5544828 | Automatic bobbin-changing device having a vertical rotating axis An automatic bobbin-changing device (10) for a winding machine with a vertical winding axis, the device having a bobbin carrier (12) which can rotate about a vertical axis (13) and which can adopt two bobbin-holding positions staggered at an angle of abou... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5431352 | Yarn winding apparatus of an automatic bobbin changing type A machine frame has a traverse device and a frame having a contact roller movably mounted thereon. A first slider guide member is substantially vertically disposed below the contact roller, and a second slider guide member is pivoted on a shaft spaced fro... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5426930 | Device for sequentially loading oriented tubes in a spinning machine A device for sequentially loading tubes in a spinning machine wherein the tubes are fed by a tube orientating device. The device disclosed includes a duct for guiding the fall of the tubes and provided at its lower end with a shutter which loads one tube ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5423493 | Method for operating an automatic bobbin-winding machine during batch changing operations A method of handling the tube and cop supporting pallets in a textile winder during batch changing operations, by which, at the end of a batch, the pallets are maintained in the transport system of the winder and are conveyed from the tube return path to ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5407056 | Apparatus and method for distributively feeding plural winding bobbins An apparatus and a method for distributively feeding a plurality of winding bobbins to predetermined locations, wherein the winding bobbins can simultaneously be fitted onto a rotational shaft without the necessity for large-sized equipment. The apparatus... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5337550 | Method and device for stopping a spool on an open-end spinning machine A method of stopping a spool which is driven by a continuously rotating spool roller on an open-end spinning machine. The spool is lifted off the spool roller and a braking roller is placed on the peripheral surface of the spool, after which the braking r... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5316126 | System for conveying packages A system for conveying packages of synthetic fiber yarn in which an overhead traveling carriage including a carrier having downwardly projecting bobbin chucks is connected between a station where it receives packages of unfinished yarn from pallets, and a... | 05/31/1994 |
