Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5624494 | Paraffin coating device for textile machines A paraffin coating device of a textile machine which has a fixed paraffin body to coat a yarn running with paraffin is provided with a compact unit supporting the essential parts of the paraffin treatment apparatus and which can be easily removed from the... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5592807 | Bearing arrangement for an open-end spinning rotor An open-end spinning device has a spinning rotor with a rotor pot defining a fiber collection groove therein. A rotor shaft is provided having a diameter between 5.5 mm and 9 mm. Pairs of rotatable supporting rings supported on axles define a nip therebet... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5519925 | Denim fabric made from denim waste Denim fabric suitable for use as apparel is made from about 40-100% fibers produced from denim waste (pre-consumer and/or post-consumer). The denim waste is collected, starch and size are optionally removed, and it is subjected to garnetting to produce de... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5497609 | Spinning of yarn A method and apparatus for spinning fibres into yarn including providing a supply of fibres, providing a yarn-building region, opening fibres from the supply into the region, landing opened fibres in said region, removing energy from landing fibres, build... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5481864 | Cloth scrap recycling method A method for producing high quality fabrics using recycled fabric scraps is disclosed. By use of pre-gin contacting of the virgin carrier fibers as well as moistening the fiber scraps that are recycled, fiber length and fiber uniformity percentages are ma... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5471720 | Use of at least forty percent recycled denim waste Denim fabric suitable for use as apparel is made from about 40-100% fibers produced from denim waste (pre-consumer and/or post-consumer). The denim waste is collected, starch and size are optionally removed, and it is subjected to garnetting to produce de... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5462778 | Artificial turf, pile yarn for artificial turf and process and spinneret for producing pile yarn An artificial turf with high water rentivity. A cut pile is formed over the surface of a backing structure by implanting a multiplicity of tufts. Each tuft comprises one or a plurality of pile yarns. Each of the pile yarns is composed of one flat filament... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5435121 | Yarn lap preventor for a take-up shaft in an open end spinning machine and associated method A yarn lap preventor for deflecting a parted yarn end away from an enlarged diameter area of a rotating take-up shaft of the open end spinning machine, particularly of the type for forming cylindrical yarn packages. The yarn lap preventor is preferably in... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5400583 | Yarn lap preventor for a take-up shaft in open end spinning machine A yarn lap preventor for mounting in an open end spinning machine to deflect a parted yarn end away from an enlarged diameter area of a rotating take-up shaft of the open end spinning machine. The yarn lap preventor is preferably integrally molded plastic... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5398492 | Industrial dust mop Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5397622 | Industrial dust mop comprising a blended yarn Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5331801 | Recycled yarns from textile waste and the manufacturing process therefor The subject invention provides a new method for manufacturing yarns using recycled cotton waste and a new type of recycled cotton yarn. Various types of cotton waste materials such as manufacturing by-products and post-consumer material are used in conjun... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5313777 | Spinning process and device for the production of a yarn The instant invention relates to a spinning process and to a device for the production of a yarn. In the spinning process the fibers are conveyed to a perforated collection surface which is subjected to suction in one zone. They are brought together into ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5193332 | Spinning or twisting device with a pipe shaped element capable of being subjected to negative pressure A spinning or twisting device in which a yarn is to be back-fed into the bore of a pipe-shaped element subjected to negative pressure in order to repair a yarn break. This pipe-shaped element is made in form of a yarn draw-off pipe of an open-end spinning... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5187930 | Arrangement for spinning staple fibers into a yarn An arrangement is disclosed for spinning staple fibers to a yarn which has a feeding and opening device which opens up fiber material supplied in the form of slivers into a individual fibers, and a disk-type collecting element which takes over the separat... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5163205 | Belted rotary drafting device for staple fibers and method An apparatus for drafting a continuous strand of staple fibers into a finer strand of the staple fibers and including a mechanism for supplying separated fibers suspended in a fluid and a rotating fiber chute receiving the fluid with the separated fibers ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5077126 | Process for making cotton blend warp yarns for durable fabrics Staple yarns of cotton and high modulus fiber are wet and then dried under tension to provide warp yarn for durable, abrasion resistant fabrics.... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4866925 | Arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having a spinning rotor In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having a spinning rotor which, by means of a rotor shaft, is disposed in wedge-shaped gaps formed by pairs of supporting disks and is driven by means of a tangential belt, it is provided that a cleaning elemen... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4791781 | Method and apparatus for false twisting yarn in opened spinners In open-end rotor spinning, imparting lesser false twist to the yarn being formed as it revolves through the yarn receiving zone and greater false twist as it revolves away from the zone. This is accomplished by different frictional resistance surface cha... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4724668 | Method and apparatus for the formation of spinning fibers For improving spinning results, a sideways limited swarm of fibers (11) is applied tangentially at the mantle of a rotating perforated drum (3) whose interior is supplied with suction air, is transported further on this drum (3) in the peripheral directio... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4719744 | Vacuum spinning method Vacuum spinning of yarn produces yarns having good properties, and which may have a wide variety of different effects and constructions. A core filament yarn may be fed into operative association with a nipped sliver or roving, and then fed to a perforate... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4713931 | Apparatus for vacuum spinning Vacuum spun yarn is produced that has strength property approaching that of ring spun yarn, and significantly greater than air jet spun yarn, and may be produced at speeds greatly in excess of production speeds for ring spun yarn. An elongated hollow shaf... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4694642 | Method and apparatus for producing reinforced thread The method of producing reinforced thread includes feeding loose fibres o the disc of a rotary twisting member, guiding the core thread through the disc eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the twisting member and conducting the winding ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4676062 | Method and device for the formation of spinning fibers Method of forming spinning fibers for producing a thread, which includes applying at least one laterally limited swarm of spinning fibers continuously to an outer cylindrical surface of a rotating, perforated drum having an interior, to which suction air ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4662166 | Drive apparatus for a paraffining device Disclosed is a drive apparatus for a device for applying paraffin wax to yarn. In the device, a solid block of paraffin is mounted on a polyhedral bolt which is driven by a whorl or drive pulley. The whorl, in turn, is driven by a continuous drive belt. A... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4628678 | Twisting member of ringless spinning apparatus A twisting member of a ringless spinning apparatus comprises a cylindrical ousing with blades on its peripheral side surface. Secured on the blades is a first disc with an eccentric passage extending therethrough for the advancement of fibres, this disc ac... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4593522 | Method and apparatus for producing spun yarn An apparatus and method for producing a spun yarn having true twist comprising extracting staple fibers from a bundle of staple fibers; and collecting the extracted staple fibers on the periphery of a spinning rotor; and recontacting the extracted fibers ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4563873 | Apparatus for controlling production in a spinning machine An apparatus for controlling production in a spinning machine is disclosed herein. Sliver consumption quantity at each of the spinning stations is computed from the count of pulse signals generated in synchronism with the rotation of a drive shaft, e.g., ... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4545194 | Spinning method and apparatus for putting method to use The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for spinning using fiber bundles selected from a mass of loose fibers. The apparatus essentially consists of means for removing the fiber bundles comprising a perforated belt (8) and a retaining drum (... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4539806 | Fiber feed arrangement An arrangement for open-end friction spinning is disclosed having two adjacently arranged friction rollers driven in the same rotational direction forming a yarn forming wedge shaped gap or slot. A fiber opening device is provided for opening fibers to be... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4497168 | Method and apparatus for open-end spinning A method for open-end spinning, in an apparatus having a stationary fiber-collecting groove formed therein with two ends and a bottom, includes continuously carrying and transporting fibers into the stationary fiber-collecting groove with an airstream, co... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4322942 | Open-end spinning method and apparatus An open-end spinning method and an apparatus wherein a flow of discrete fibers is supplied to a fiber spreading element by which they are spread over the entire periphery of an inner fiber deposit surface of a drum where a fibrous layer is continuously cr... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4285192 | Twisting member for ringless spinning apparatus The invention relates to twisting members for use in connection with rotary twisting machines. The twisting member comprises a rotor coupled to a disc having a duct formed therethrough. The outlet of the duct is arranged eccentrically with respect to the ... | 08/25/1981 |
| 3987615 | Process of forming yarns from gin motes A method of processing relatively inexpensive gin motes to reclaim the spinnable but normally waste cotton fibers contained therein and form a reduced cost yarn therefrom. The method involves cleaning the gin motes to separate and remove from the cotton f... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3943220 | Method of producing fiber strand A wet process for producing continuous strands from discontinuous inorganic fibers by extruding and aligning a dispersion of said fibers in a liquid medium, which medium contains a gelable agent, into a coagulating bath to gel and convert the agent to a b... | 03/09/1976 |
