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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5428878 | Thread or yarn monitor for textile machines The thread monitor serves to detect the passage in a textile machine of a thread (F) moving in a direction transverse to the thread length. The monitor contains a pivoting member (B) which can be actuated by the thread and a sensor (7) monitoring the actu... | 07/04/1995 |
| 4976018 | Device for monitoring threads on a textile machine A monitoring needle (19) is rotatably mounted under spring tension in a housing (18). A light emitter/light receptor device is fixed to the housing (18) in the plane of the thread (5) and in the pivotal region of the monitoring needle (19), this device pr... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4787199 | Yarn monitoring device for a doubling machine A yarn monitoring device comprises in association with each doubling spindle (1) a sensing arm (7) monitoring the upwardly directed yarn run between yarn guide eye (3) and feed roller (V), which arm is mounted by means of a mounting bush (9) for limited s... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4582968 | Needle thread-break monitor for embroidery machines The needle thread-break monitor for embroidery machines comprises a double-armed rocking lever acting as a switch in an electrical circuit of an alarm system. The rocking lever is mounted on a bearing shaft forming one pole or terminal of the switch. The ... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4571582 | Fault pre-warning device for use in carpet manufacturing machines A fault pre-warning device for use in tufting machines has a switching strip (11) over which the carpet web is guided in such a way that the switching strip (11) is acted on by a defined force in the switching direction. On the occurrence of excessive ten... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4275574 | Stop mechanism for Rachel or Ketten type knitting machine A stop mechanism for knitting machines of the Rachel type comprising a reed with an upper flange fitted with a strengthening section projecting from and along a whole edge for guiding a thread. A contact which is fixed for threads not forming a nap, and i... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4229628 | Combined damper and thread breakage sensor for textile machines A combined damper and thread breakage sensor for use with textile machines includes a housing having a non-conducting medium disposed therein and a first contact and a second contact means immersed in the medium. The second contact extends beyond the hous... | 10/21/1980 |
