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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7410116 | Bobbin winding system A system for winding a cross-wound bobbin has a rotatably supported tube holder that is intended to receive a tube. The yarn guide element that serves the purpose of shogging the yarn moves in the direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the tube and is made to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7210647 | Reel with level winding mechanism A reel for receiving, storing, and paying out a cable, hose, or the like has a drum mounted in a frame and a level winding mechanism, which includes a carriage having a guide for the cable or hose, and a rotatable drive which moves the carriage approximately paralle... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7137586 | Hydraulic spooler Methods and apparatus for spooling a flexible member onto a drum with a spooler assembly. In certain embodiments, a spooler assembly comprises a spooler arm operable to guide a flexible member onto a drum rotating about a drum axis. A first actuator moves the spoole... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6647815 | Slide positioner A slide positioner for moving a structural member from an inoperating position to a working or operating position has a square shaft for supporting the structural member. Two bearing assemblies are adapted for supporting the sliding shaft. The two bearing... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6457668 | Apparatus and method for guiding and cutting an advancing yarn during a package doff An apparatus and method for guiding and cutting a continuously advancing yarn (1) during a package doff in a takeup device. The yarn is guided by means of a yarn guide (18) which is movable substantially parallel to a package or to a new tube (13), which ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6027063 | Takeup machine with threadup device A yarn winding machine for winding a plurality of yarns on a corresponding number of winding tubes. Each winding tube is associated with a contact yarn guide in a contacting position for threading the yarn. By means of a threadup device which includes, a ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5934601 | Method for controlling the drive of a yarn winder, and the yarn winder thereof A yarn winder in which a fluctuation of winding tension is avoided and the winding characteristics are made uniform from the most inner to the most outer layer. Yarn is wound by a winder in which a spindle 2 having a positively driven pressure roller 5 is... | 08/10/1999 |
| 4565334 | Electrohydraulic drive for process line winders, unwinders and other equipment An electrohydraulic drive for process line equipment, especially a spooler that winds and pays out an indefinite length of metallic strand, varies the output torque of a hydraulic motor by controlling its displacement and the pressure differential between... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4541584 | Cable winding apparatus An apparatus guides a cable so that the cable is wound on a drum in a substantially uniform manner. The apparatus includes a support slidable attached to a longitudinal stationary guide tube mounted to a floor. The tube is positioned substantially paralle... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4421284 | Reeling of cable Cable laying apparatus with a cable guide mechanism having a guide roller and means to apply a force downwardly through the cable feed path at an inclined angle opposite to the direction of lay of the cable. In one construction, a cable guide roller is in... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4232838 | Positive self-orienting traverse apparatus in wire take-up machine A positive, self-orienting traverse apparatus to be used in conjuction with a wire take-up machine for winding wire and the like onto a reel in uniform layers. The traverse apparatus includes a traverse pulley assembly disposed above the take-up reel whic... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4215831 | Winding apparatus Apparatus for helically winding a web or ribbon material on a mandrel. The web is wound in traversing or helical fashion by means of a guide wheel which is mechanically independent of the rotational movement of the mandrel. Lateral movement of the guide w... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4164331 | Slide guide device for moving wire and the like A device for guiding and/or changing the direction of movement of a wire and the like moving at a high speed in a rotating structure into which the wire is introduced at the axis of rotation of the rotating structure comprises a slide guide spaced from th... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4050640 | Apparatus for winding wire and the like The spool upon which the wire is to be wound is mounted upon a carriage which is movable into and out of the apparatus. A flyer having guide rollers thereon to guide the wire upon the spool is mounted for rotary movement around the spool and for reciproca... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050641 | Apparatus for winding wire In an apparatus for winding wire a spool upon which the wire is to be wound is held securely within the apparatus and a flyer having guide rollers to guide the wire upon the spool is mounted for rotary movement around the spool and for axial movement in a... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4005834 | Winding cables and the like on to storage drums Device for winding a cable on a drum in such manner as to form turns each comprising a circular portion extending over the major part of its circumference and connected to an adjacent turn by a short oblique portion, wherein the cable in the course of win... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3979084 | Apparatus for level winding tubing Level winding is accomplished by rotating a reel with sufficient torque to wind material on the reel while traversing the reel a predetermined precise fractional part of the width of the material wound for each increment of revolution of the reel so that ... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3946956 | Control device for equipment for winding yarn into cops A control device for the winding of yarn onto a cop and particularly for an actuator controlling the relative motions between the cop being wound and winding means, said actuator periodically reversing its motion, wherein said actuator is linked either to... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3941324 | Cable stringing apparatus A cable stringing device having a rotating bull wheel operative to take up and payout cable is disclosed. The bull wheel is pivotally operated by a hydraulic cylinder. A level wind control system includes limit sensing pilot valves which are actuated by a... | 03/02/1976 |
