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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4373457 | Feed arrangement for textile machines A thread feed arrangement particularly suitable for use in an embroidery machine for feeding and tightening a thread includes a drive mechanism for rotating a thread roller in the machine about its axis so as to tighten the thread a desired amount after t... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4320786 | Measuring device for thread and a method of adjusting the length of a travelling thread The measuring device is used for measuring lengths of thread, for example for measuring weft thread for a weaving machine. The measuring device includes a constantly rotating winding body or drum and a thread guide which is adjustable longitudinally of th... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4285285 | Feed device and method for feeding yarn or other textile material A feed device for feeding yarn or other textile material, the device comprising a hollow member through the interior of which textile material may be passed, feed means for feeding the textile material to the said interior, reciprocating means for recipro... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4278112 | Yarn feeder A weft yarn feeder for use in a shuttleless loom has a pair of spaced circular plates and a spindle rotatably supported on the circular plates. The spindle has a pair of externally threaded portions of opposite thread directions. A pair of threaded carria... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4261526 | Brake means for a yarn feeding device with constant adjustable tension, particularly for use in weaving and knitting machines In a yarn feeding device with constant adjustable tension, for use in weaving and knitting machines, of the type comprising a fixed hollow body around which the yarn to be fed is wound by an external rotary element, to form thereon a yarn reserve from whi... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4239066 | Yarn feeder A weft yarn feeder for use in a shuttleless loom has a spool and a spindle extending rotatably through the shaft of the spool and supporting a pair of drive gears. A plurality of yarn rods jointly defining a generally cylindrical configuration around whic... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4233825 | Knitting machine Disclosed is an improved knitting machine in which special steps have been taken to provide for close correlation of the operation of the knitting filament in-feed equipment and the knitted fabric out-feed equipment with the speed of the knitting head its... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4227657 | Device for feeding yarn to a knitting machine A device for feeding yarn to a knitting machine comprises a yarn guide and a drive pulley with a yarn feeding roller, mounted on a shaft for rotating said shaft. The yarn feeding roller is defined by two discs being provided, each of said discs, on the si... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4220274 | Device for feeding yarn in textile machines The device for feeding yarn in a textile machine comprises a set of feed driving rollers rotating at a speed exceeding the maximum yarn processing speed in the machine, a first yarn brake downstream of the driving rollers, a first swing support upstream o... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4173873 | Apparatus on a textile machine for feeding yarn, sliver or fibrous materials An apparatus for feeding yarn, or the like vice yarn guides which travel on an endless O-shaped floating-mounted track to present the yarn, or the like to the instrumentalities of a textile machine.... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4161297 | Yarn feeding device In a feeding device with constant adjustable tension for a yarn being fed from a yarn source to a yarn using machine, as a weaving machine, are provided: a fixed hollow body, around which the yarn coming from said source is wound into turns by an element ... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4138866 | Yarn delivery apparatus, especially for knitting machines To permit, selectively, positive feed or demand feed of yarn or thread to a utilization position of a textile machine, a rotating drum has a storage winding place thereon. A thread guide element is located laterally next to but below lower edge structure ... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4132368 | Drive for a yarn feeder for a textile machine The drive motor for the yarn storage device is controlled by a circuit arrangement which converts a direct current into a variable-frequency three-phase alternating current. The circuit arrangement includes an integrator to produce a trapezoidal control v... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4132370 | Device for forming a supply bobbin from a thread advanced from a yarn supply A device for forming a supply bobbin from a thread advanced from a yarn supply includes a stationary winding drum having a winding space around the drum and defining an internal chamber and a slit connecting the winding space and the chamber. A rotatably ... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4116397 | Drive arrangement for yarn storage and dispensing units The arrangement includes a drive motor for driving the winding member of a yarn storage and dispensing unit. The output torque of the drive motor is substantially independent of the momentary operational speed. The drive motor either is a synchronous hyst... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4099389 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine having means to knit a plurality of circumferentially spaced warp wales incorporating an elastic weft yarn in a helical manner in the knit chain stitches of the individual warp wales. Each of the warp yarns is fed to a respecti... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4058245 | Yarn control mechanisms and the like A rotating yarn control element comprises a hub portion with a number of pins spaced around the periphery of the hub portion to define for the yarn a zig-zag path which degenerates with increasing distance from the axis of rotation of the element into a l... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4026127 | Roll feed for circular knitting machine An attachment for a knitting machine in the form of a roll feed device to maintain an even yarn tension to the needles to provide a smooth fabric since the needles will always receive a constant tension yarn from the roll feed. The roll feed includes a bo... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4007607 | Method and apparatus for knitting patterned sliver high pile fabric The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling selectively the sliver feeding rates of the carding mechanisms of a multi-feed high pile fabric circular knitting machine, whereby the sliver feeding rates harmonize continuously with t... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3995786 | Intermediate yarn feeding and control device There is disclosed an intermediate yarn feeding and control device having a storage member adapted to have yarn wound thereabout adjacent one end thereof to form yarn windings which advance toward the other end thereof. Yarn guide means located adjacent t... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3994447 | Delivery device for running threads A delivery device for running yarn with a winding body to which the thread feeds in the range of a conical extension for the formation of a rewinding stock, the latter being displaced rearwardly and removable over head. At least one stay is arranged in cr... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3962891 | Knitting machine A yarn supply device for a rectilinear knitting machine capable of supplying the needles of the machine with a predetermined quantity of yarn irrespective of the speed of operation of the machine. The supply device comprises a yarn feed unit incorporating... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3957217 | Storage drum for intermediate yarn feeding device A storage drum adapted to have yarn wound thereon tangentially adjacent the rear end thereof for forming thereon a plurality of windings which advance axially toward the forward end thereof. The drum comprises a surface of revolution about the longitudina... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3955379 | High speed knitting machine Methods of and apparatus for manufacturing a knitted fabric from a strand of yarn by forming the yarn into series of interlaced loops. The apparatus includes an array of apertures through which sinusoidal loops of the strand are ejected sequentially, by a... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955769 | Yarn feeding device for knitting machines The present invention is an improved yarn feeding device which continuously forms yarn coils from a yarn package on its conical shaped winding body and then feeds the yarn to knitting machines with low and constant tension. A taper angle of the winding bo... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3940079 | Yarn feeding device with constant adjustable tension, particularly for feeding yarns to weaving and knitting machines and devices A yarn feeding device for feeding yarns to weaving and knitting machines and devices with a constant, adjustable tension, in which a yarn reserve is wound onto a stationary cage by means of a rotating framework. The device also comprises means for braking... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3939671 | Machine for knitting cord-like structures A knitting machine is provided having one or more needles for knitting from one or more strands a variety of cord-like structures formed of one or more wales of knitted stitches. The machine is particularly useful for the manufacture of knitted yarns, eit... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3931939 | Thread supply device for textile machines A thread supply device for a textile machine, in particular a knitting machine, having a thread drum upon which a thread issuing from a thread bobbin can be wound to form an intermediate thread supply and from which the thread can be unwound at an unwindi... | 01/13/1976 |
