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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7076848 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7025134 | Surface pulse system for injection wells The present invention relates to petroleum recovery operations, and more particularly, to the use of pulse technology to enhance the effectiveness of waterflooding operations. The systems of the present invention generally comprise an injection means for continually... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7010383 | Method for control of the travel movement of at least one service unit at a textile machine The invention relates to a method for the control of the travel movement of at least one service unit at a rotor-spinning machine, whereby the service unit services and/or controls an operating zone assigned to it containing a plurality of processing stations of the... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6948303 | Process and arrangement for spinning yarn A process is disclosed for a spinning arrangement for dealing with the correction of an end break. During operation, sliver-like fiber material fed to the spinning arrangement is opened to single fibers by means of an opening roller. The single fibers are then trans... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6860096 | Arrangement for open-end rotor spinning An arrangement for an open-end rotor spinning comprises a spinning rotor which is radially supported with a rotatable shaft in a wedge-shaped gap of two supporting disc pairs and axially in a step bearing housing. The shaft can be pulled out from its support from th... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6573628 | Apparatus for spinning-in yarn in a spinning machine A spinning device of a rotor spinning machine has a spinning rotor made of magnetically hard material, seated for rotation in an air chamber connected with an underpressure source. A stator includes at least two electromagnetic coils is arranged around th... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6321521 | Process and apparatus for cleaning an open-end spinning rotor For the purpose of cleaning an open-end spinning rotor, the fiber feed is usually interrupted and the open-end spinning rotor slowed down. Subsequently, in the case of many embodiments, after a cover is removed from the vacuum chamber, cleaning elements a... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6293082 | Trash removal method and apparatus for an open end spinning machine The spinning aggregates, arranged in a row, of an open-end spinning machine are each provided with an opening device, which comprises a removal opening for trash particles. A channel extending in a longitudinal machine direction takes up the expelled tras... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6116011 | Impurity-removal device for an open-end spinning machine An open-end spinning machine (1) with a plurality of adjacent open-end spinning units (2) each having a sliver opening device (4) with impurity-discharge openings (10). An impurity-removal device (11) is installed below the impurity-discharge openings (10... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6094901 | Process and an apparatus for the pneumatic cleaning of a thread withdrawal tube The present invention concerns a process and an apparatus, in particular a rotor cover (3) and a thread withdrawal tube (2), of an open-end spinning machine, for the pneumatic cleaning of the thread withdrawal tube (2) which has an irregular inner contour... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6055801 | Process for modernizing an open-end spinning machine An open-end spinning machine comprises a plurality of adjacently arranged spinning aggregates. Each spinning aggregate consists essentially of a rotor unit comprising a spinning rotor, and an opening unit for opening a fed sliver into single fibers. The o... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6035624 | Fiber transporting apparatus for a rotor type open end fine spinning machine A fiber transporting apparatus for a rotor type open end fine spinning machine is provided that may reduce an amount of effective fiber discharged from a burling opening portion without degrading yarn quality of the spun yarn. Fiber opened by a combing ro... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6003295 | Spinning box for an open-end spinning machine In order that stray fibers do not settle in the rotor during the spinning start process at the spinning box of a rotor spinning machine, an openable air valve is provided for initially cleaned the rotor by delivering an air current into the rotor either b... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5987869 | Debris removal device for an open-end spinning machine with a plurality of spinning units A mechanically operating debris removal device for an open-end spinning machine 1 comprises a guide conduit arranged below the spinning units and enclosing a debris conveyor belt. The guide conduit comprises a base and a cover, which may be pivotable or d... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5946899 | Sliver opening device In an open-end spinning unit 1 having a pivotably mounted cover element 8 for covering a rotor housing 2 of the spinning unit 1, a sliver opening device is incorporated into the cover element 8. The sliver opening device has an opening cylinder housing 17... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5943853 | Open-end spinning machine with a trash removal system The adjacently arranged spinning aggregates of an open-end spinning machine are each provided with an opening device, which includes a removal opening for trash particles. A channel extending in the machine longitudinal direction takes up the trash partic... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5916119 | Device for the control of an air stream in an open-end spinning device The present invention relates to a device for the control of an air stream in an open-end spinning device (6). The open-end spinning device (6) is equipped with an air channel (8) opening into the second housing compartment (600) of the open-end spinning ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5916118 | Device for preparing a piecing process in an open-end spinning machine So that stray fibers do not become attached to the rotor during a yam piecing process in the spinning box of a rotor spinning machine, the rotor may be cleaned by an air flow generated by drawing air into the rotor by the prevailing spinning vacuum or by ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5911676 | Low-speed trash belt for open-end spinning machine and method A method of reducing trash recirculation into the fiber formation stream of an open-end spinning machine yarn formation station of an open-end spinning machine of the type having a movable trash belt which collects trash removed from sliver during yarn fo... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5901543 | Independently controlled-brush motor for open-end spinning machine and method A method of reducing trash recirculation into the fiber formation stream of an open-end spinning machine yarn formation station in an open-end spinning machine of the type having a movable trash belt which collects trash removed from sliver during yarn fo... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5867974 | Opening device for an open-end spinning machine In the case of an opening device for an open-end spinning machine, the rotating opening roller is arranged in a housing with a prevailing vacuum and has one front side which is exposed to the free atmosphere. In the area of this front side the opening rol... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5839266 | Variable speed trash belt for open-end spinning machine and method A method of reducing trash recirculation into the fiber formation stream of an open-end spinning machine yarn formation station in an open-end spinning machine of the type having a movable trash belt which collects trash removed from the yarn during forma... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5832710 | Open-end spinning frame with dirt removal device An open-end spinning frame having a sliver opening device wherein the housing for the opening roller has a dirt outlet opening for removing dirt particles from the housing as well as for admitting air flow to assist in the fiber opening process. In accord... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5822972 | Air curtain nep separation and detection A nep separator and detector for presenting a fiber sample having fibers, neps, and trash. A toothed rotating cylinder receives the fiber sample at a fiber sample receiving point, and impacts and propels at least a portion of the trash and neps along an e... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5809766 | Device for cleaning fiber material in an open-end spinning aggregate In the case of an open-end spinning aggregate, an opening roller rotates in a housing which comprises a device for cleaning fiber material. A trash removal opening is provided between a sliver feed point and a fiber delivery point in the circumferential w... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5799476 | Spinning station error signalling and qualifying device In order to increase the operating efficiency of the spinning machine and in order to generate a response suitable to the hierarchy or quality of the error message in case of an error in the yarn or in another electrical or mechanical device of the spinni... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5732543 | Open-end spinning machine for producing cheeses A pneumatic cleaning device (10) for the spinning stations of an open-end spinning machine (1) is disposed on the sliver draw-in arm (22) of a traveling service unit (16) for unitary movement with the draw-in arm between a resting position (I) and an oper... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5694758 | Variable-speed trash belt for open-end spinning machine and method A method of and apparatus for reducing trash recirculation into the fiber formation stream of an open-end spinning machine yarn formation station in an open-end spinning machine of the type having a movable trash belt which collects trash removed from the... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5669215 | Combined pneumatic yarn attending for textile machines An attending device of a textile machine, in particular of a rotor spinning machine, is provided having pneumatic pressure means intended to attend a working place and being disengageably connected to an overpressure source, and having underpressure pneum... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5666798 | Positive and negative pressure rotor cleaning assembly for a rotor spinning machine A method and device of cleaning the rotor (6) of a rotor spinning machine are provided in which, after the opening of a spinning unit, there are sucked off from the rotor (6) fibres and impurities being released from the inner surface of the rotor by pres... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5647196 | Open-end spinning frame A pneumatic debris aspirating device adapted to be retrofitted on open-end spinning frames originally designed for a mechanical debris disposal installation utilizes an asymmetrical debris pickup funnel which can be connected via a connector conduit to a ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5640839 | Method of spinning-in yarn on open-end spinning machines using a pressurized air feed and a device for carrying out the method A method of spinning-in yarn on open-end spinning machines in which an interruption of the spinning process is followed by the stop of the feed of the sliver (4) into the singling-out device (2) whose combing roller (22) keeps turning, and the rotor is st... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5611195 | Device and process for maintenance of spinning devices A method and system for maintaining spinning machines having a plurality of spinning stations include automatically positioning a maintenance unit proximate to the spinning stations for removing spinning components from the spinning stations and replacing... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5600945 | Method and apparatus for manipulating a sliver during cleaning of an open-end spinning station Spinning stations of open-end spinning frames are cleaned from time to time to increase productivity, e.g. each time a sliver can change is made although, if the times between the exchange of two cans are too long, cleaning may be performed at a preset cy... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5575143 | Air directing apparatus for use with textile machines and the like Apparatus for supplying conditioned air to spinning machines which includes a duct for transporting conditioned air to the machine, such duct having an opening through which the conditioned air exits the duct. An air diffuser is mounted on the duct adjace... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5540043 | Rotor spinning apparatus with spinning box dirt separator A rotor spinning apparatus includes a support frame stationarily disposed on a frame of a spinning machine. A bearing is disposed on the support frame. A spinning rotor is disposed on the bearing and has a rotor axis and a rotor opening. A rotor housing s... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5535580 | Process and device for piecing on an open-end spinning device A process and device for piecing in an open-end spinning device includes switching on a fiber feeding device for a predetermined period of time so that fibers which are undesired for piecing are combed out of the leading end of the fiber sliver which is p... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5481862 | Pneumatically operated debris removal device for an open-end spinning device An open-end spinning device (1) of the type having a sliver opening device (30) and a pneumatically operated debris removal device (34) is disclosed. The opening cylinder housing (11) of the sliver opening device (30) has a debris discharge opening (15) a... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5465567 | Fiber opening device for separating individual fibers from a fiber sliver A fiber opening device for use in a discontinuous spinning process. The opening device includes an opening roller rotatably mounted about an axis and having a cylindrical working surface which extends around the axis. Opening elements are provided around ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5454219 | Means for providing air flow in a trash removal chamber of an open-end spinning unit A housing encloses a rotor, an opening roller, and a conduit communicating between the rotor and opening roller for the feeding of fiber from the opening roller to the rotor. The housing forms a trash removal chamber below the opening roller into which tr... | 10/03/1995 |
