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An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6081972 | Fiber band feed apparatus with guide and monitor for breakage The invention concerns a textile machine operating on fiber band with a feeding device for the fiber band and a guide element for the fiber band and further provided with a band monitor for the discovery of band breakage. The band monitor (BW, BW1, BW2, B... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5528798 | Draw frame and process for the operation of a draw frame responsive to silver sensing A process for controlling the operation of a textile draw frame wherein a plurality of fiber slivers are fed to the draw frame at a predetermined desired delivery speed includes monitoring the presence of individual fiber slivers delivered to the draw fra... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5086542 | Electronic stop motion for textile draw frame An apparatus for sensing a parting in any of the strands of sliver fed from a creel to the drafting rolls of a high speed textile draw frame to stop the drawing process in response to a sliver parting. A plurality of sliver guides are mounted on an elonga... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5023976 | Feed table of a drawframe arrangement The invention relates to a feed table for feeding slivers by way of a conveyor to a textile processing machine. The slivers are drawn off from associated spinning cans by way of draw-off devices and placed on the conveyor. In the event of a sliver running... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5003668 | Textile spinning machine The textile machine, for example a spinning machine, comprising at least one drawing system consisting of a plurality of runs, such as pairs of rollers and the like. At least two such runs each have a cylinder having markings which are detected by a senso... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4982477 | Method and apparatus for detecting sliver feed Apparatus and method for detecting sliver feed or standstill uses comparative measurements over a time-lapse to determine sliver movement. An identical reading in two or more sequential measurements indicates the sliver is not being conveyed, that is, it ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4982563 | Sliver connecting arrangement for a spinning machine In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality of spinning units which are arranged next to one another and to each of which a sliver is fed from a container, a movable servicing device is provided which contains devices for the picking-up of the st... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4972667 | Apparatus for and method of stopping fiber-material feed In the event of a yarn breakage the pressing roll of the inlet roll pair of a drafting arrangement is raised by a slubbing guide element from the inlet drafting roll or cylinder while simultaneously forming a clamping location for the slubbing or other fi... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4951357 | Stop motion apparatus for a roving drafting device of a textile machine A stop motion apparatus for a drafting device for roving in a textile machine includes a stop member into roving stopping engagement with the intake feed rollers of the drafting device by operation of an actuating rod. The actuating rod includes a notch h... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4922702 | Stopping device for fiber material, such as a silver, roving or slubbing in a textile machine and energy storage device The slubbing stopping device comprises a movable part having a magnet and a fixed part having a magnet. One of these magnets is an electromagnet and the other a permanent magnet. The movable and fixed parts can assume an operating position in readiness fo... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4922704 | Method and apparatus for introducing a roving into a textile machine drafting frame According to the method, an end part of a roving is first introduced into the main drafting zone of a drafting frame of a textile machine after a reference point at a clamping device. Thereafter, a middle part of the roving is drawn laterally into the pre... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4920736 | Arrangement for interrupting the operation of an individual drafting frame at a spinning machine In an arrangement for interrupting the operation of an individual drafting frame at a spinning machine, devices are provided for reducing the contact of a sliver with the bottom rollers and particularly for lifting the sliver off the bottom rollers which ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4916890 | Apparatus for supporting a stop member of a textile ring spinning machine An apparatus for supporting a stop member of a stop motion device of a textile ring spinning machine is provided. The apparatus includes a carriage having a cam portion for removably receiving and manipulating the projecting cam follower portion of the st... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4914785 | Device to feed fiber silvers A device used to feed fiber slivers to a processing machine with at least one sliver guide. The sliver guide is provided with a guiding surface over which the fiber sliver is guided. The guiding surface also serves as a sliver monitoring device. The slive... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4912919 | Roving stop motion for a spinning machine drafting system An improvement in a roving stop motion for a spinning machine of the type having a series of pairs of drafting rollers, the stop motion including a clamping member mounted on a lever arm drivenly connected to an actuating rod by a carriage which is select... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4727713 | Roving or sliver clamping device for a drafting frame or a spinning machine Roving or sliver clamping device at the drafting unit of a spinning machine, with a clamp segment which enters in the operative position between the upper inlet roller and the lower inlet roller of the drafting unit, and which clamp segment raises the upp... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4683711 | Thread monitoring device A spinning machine is provided with a thread monitoring device having a light source and a light sensitive cell to sense the thread running to a spindle from the front exit rollers. The thread monitor is formed of two parts, each having a housing arranged... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4635321 | Spinning machines and the like with signal or indicator devices Spinning machine in which the upper rollers of the drafting units are arranged at pressure arm assemblies, whereby each pressure arm assembly has a main arm and an operating lever which is positionally arranged above the main arm and radially movable. To ... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4630434 | Roving blocking mechanism on draw frames of spinning machines A draw frame for a spinning machine is provided with roving blocking mechanism associated with its inlet rollers actuable on rupture of the remittant thread to arrest movement of the roving and is further provided with a sensor for detecting the continuit... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4592114 | Drafting roller arrangement for spinning machines A drafting roller arrangement for spinning machines is disclosed having at least three pairs of rollers forming successive drafting zones in the conveying direction of the sliver and having a sliver stopping device assigned to the first pair of rollers th... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4538328 | Device for interrupting feed of a roving to a drawing frame A device for interrupting feed of a roving on a drawing frame, having a feed roller pair, e.g., a powered bottom roller and a top roller tensioned against the bottom roller by springs, includes a clamp for lifting the top roller away from the bottom rolle... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4510645 | Construction of draw frames for spinning machines A draw frame for spinning machine is provided with a blocking mechanism movable into a position between the upper and lower feed rollers in the event of yarn breakage, to lift the roving from contact with the driven rollers. The blocking member is mounted... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4484376 | Blocking device for rovings on spinning machine draw frames A drawing frame for a spinning machine is provided with a blocking mechanism movable into a position between the upper and the lower feed rollers in the event of yarn breakage, to lift the roving from contact with the driven roller. A roving holder facili... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4480354 | Roving holding mechanism for draw frames A drawing frame for a spinning machine is provided with a blocking mechanism movable into a position between the upper and the lower feed rollers, in the event of yarn breakage, to lift the roving from contact with the driven roller. The blocking mechanis... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4450677 | Thread monitor and a slubbing clamping device for draw frames of spinning machines equipped with double upper rollers A bearing rail is provided extending along each side of the draw frame and spaced laterally from the outer edges of the double upper rollers. At the end of the each rail, in the area when the thread exits from the exit rollers, each rail is provided with ... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4432195 | Device for interrupting the feed of a roving to drawing frames A device is provided for interrupting the feed of a roving to drawing frames on ring spinning machines in response to thread breakage at a respective spinning unit. The device includes a clamping segment annularly clamped about a lower drawing roll and ha... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4428097 | Process and apparatus for stopping draw frames and the like Disclosed is a process and apparatus for stopping the drawing action of a draw frame whenever sliver breaks. The sliver is pneumatically conveyed into the field of influence of a sensor which generates a signal indicating the presence of the broken sliver... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4412367 | Electric stop motion apparatus for a textile machine In textile machines fed with fibre slivers, such as e.g. drawframes, immediate stopping of the machine is required in case of a sliver breakage before or on the feed table. This requirement is fulfilled using the inventive stop motion apparatus quickly an... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4353492 | Ends-down sensor device An ends-down sensor device for detecting breakage or absence of a cabinet end of filamentary yarn, involving a cylindrical roller seated upon a fixed center post with the center of gravity of the roller causing it to rotate relative to the center post in ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4319235 | Yarn-piecing and cleaning system for a spinning machine An order produced by an interruption of yarn delivery at the exit of a spinning unit is cancelled so that the yarn-piecing automaton does not stop in front of the unit but continues to travel towards another spinning unit. At the same time, an alarm syste... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4240181 | Web guiding device A device for withdrawing and gathering a fiber web discharged by a web delivering assembly of a carding machine includes a guide element arranged immediately downstream of the web delivering assembly and has a web guiding face; a support for positioning t... | 12/23/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4193168 | Stop motion and condition responsive apparatus for carding machines A stop motion apparatus is disclosed for disengaging a drive motion on a carding machine in response to the detection of a desired operating condition wherein the carding machine is of the type having motorized drive means for imparting a drive motion to ... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4122657 | Apparatus for monitoring for thread breakage a continuous sequence of work positions on a textile machine In monitoring a continuous sequence of work positions on a textile machine for thread breakage, a magnetic probe is driven along a path adjacent the ring traveler at each work position so as to generate a signal upon detection of the traveler as it rotate... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4087699 | Apparatus for monitoring the continuity of a web in a processing machine In a textile machine of the kind which processes a material in the form of a web or a gauze, a circuit for checking the continuity of said web or gauze, said circuit being branched off from the circuit which feeds the machine proper and ending in two term... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4065831 | Stop motion for drawing frames A pivoted stop motion particularly adapted for each of a plurality of ends of sliver or the like is operatively associated with a rotatable guide for sliver having little tensile strength to stop the drawing frame if an end of sliver breaks or becomes sla... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4027358 | Variable speed drive system for carding machine A variable speed drive system for a carding machine employs a variable pitch pulley assembly that rotates the feed cylinder and doffer cylinder at a constant slow speed as the sliver is made up to the coiler can, and after a predetermined time lapse the s... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4015452 | Interrupting the rotary movement of a guide roller This invention relates to an apparatus for interrupting the rotary movement of a drive roller for feeding a textile web and comprises a pivoted lever having a frame at one end with an opening through which passes the web driven by the roller. Positioned b... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3999249 | Driving method and apparatus for a tandem carding machine A method for driving a Tandem carding machine provided with a fiber tufts supply means, a first and second carding machine, a first web transfer means disposed between the first and second carding machine, a second web transfer means for transferring a co... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3999695 | Filament breakage detection and correction The present invention relates to: process and apparatus for feeding continuous filaments to a continuous multifilament structure utilizing tangentially converging fluid streams to forward the filaments; process and apparatus for detecting breakage of fila... | 12/28/1976 |
