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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132297 | Apparatus on a flat card or roller card having a cylinder and at least one doffer In an apparatus on a carding machine having a cylinder and at least one doffer, in which the cylinder and the doffer each have an all-steel clothing having saw teeth, the clothing on the cylinder and the clothing on the doffer each have a point density per square in... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7367088 | Apparatus at a carding machine having a web removal and silver formation device In an apparatus at a carding machine having a web removal and sliver formation device, there are provided, following on from the web removal device, a web funnel and a pair of draw-off rollers, which are arranged to pivot together with a rotary mounting. In order to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7318254 | Fiber conveying and discarding device to be connected to a carder In a sliver conveying and depositing device, the sliver is guided from the carder through a draw frame to a can coiler. A first deflection device mounted on the free end of a pivotable arm is arranged between the last driven roller pair of the draw frame and the can... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7204748 | Poultry breast portion sizing apparatus An apparatus for producing portions severed from a poultry breast of controlled size and weight having a rotary mounted product holder including a generally cylindrical outer surface provided with at least one product cavity for receiving a first portion of a poultr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7173703 | Apparatus on a textile fibre processing machine for evaluating textile fibre material In an apparatus for inspecting and evaluating fiber material, for example a sliver or fleece, an opto-electronic system, is provided across the width of a textile machine and scans the moving fiber material and converts the measured values into electronic signals. T... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7143479 | Inspection device on a spinning preparation machine, especially a carding machine, cleaner or the like In a device on a spinning preparation machine, especially a carding machine, cleaner or the like, having a machinery housing, the machine and/or fiber feed and fiber discharge devices are arranged in the interior of the machinery housing. In order that the fi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6971144 | Method for manufacturing polyurethane foam injected with strand mats and device for increasing volume of the strand mats A manufacturing method of a polyurethane foam injected with strand mats and a device for increasing the volume of the strand mats. The method comprises the steps of: increasing the volume of each of the strand mats to weaken the cohesion between glass fibers in each... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6929459 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing polyurethane foam injected with strand mats A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a polyurethane foam injected with strand mats. After a polyurethane foam solution is sprayed on the strand mats, the strand mats are moved upward and downward by prominences and depressions and then intermittently pressed ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6874202 | Cylinder for spinning preparation machine A cylinder is provided for a spinning preparation machine. The cylinder has an outer shell having a hub at each end of the outer shell. A separate shaft journal is connected to each hub and the shaft journals are glued to the hubs. ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6704969 | Device for strengthening a conveyable fiber lap An endlessly circulating conveying device is provided for strengthening a conveyable fiber lap. The device has first and second converging rollers for conveying the fiber lap. Each roller has an outer surface and at least the first roller is provided with profile el... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6647595 | Device on a cleaner, a carding machine or the like for cleaning and opening textile material In order to detect and remove interfering particles, particularly trash particles, husk naps, seed remnants and the like, from textile fiber goods, a device on a carding machine, a cleaner or the like is provided across the width of the carding machine, c... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6353973 | Calender, particularly for webs of textile fabric, non-woven fabric, or synthetic fabric A calender, particularly for webs of textile fabric, non-woven fabric or synthetic fabric, includes a frame and a first roll, a second roll and a third roll mounted on the frame. The third roll forms during operation of the calender a single nip either wi... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6230368 | Device and process for cleaning web-squeezing rollers at output from a carding machine Device and process for cleaning web-squeezing rollers (5, 6) at output from a carding machine, and their scraper blades (17), in which the said blades are mounted so that they can move tangentially away from and up to the web-squeezing rollers (5, 6) and ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6185788 | Device and method for discharge and cleaning of the web at the output of a carder Method and device for discharge and cleaning of the web produced by a carder, by the effect of suction applied to the web, in its passage from the detachment cylinder to the web-presser cylinders, preferably combined with drawing of the web in this sectio... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6073313 | Intermediate card and a web-production process A method and apparatus for producing a web of non-woven fibrous material which is cross-linked in the carding step by means of an intermediate card. There is a main cylinder with two web forming rollers engaging the main cylinder, each taking off one card... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5974629 | Method and apparatus for measuring fiber length and nep number in a carding machine A method of measuring fiber material while being processed by fiber processing components of a carding machine, includes the following steps: measuring fiber length and nep number at an outlet of the carding machine; applying measured values of the fiber ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5930871 | Air doffing system for a textile processing machine An air doffing system for a fiber-processing machine which includes an air plenum associated with a carding roll. A doffing blade initiates lifting of fibers from a carding roll, and a laminar airflow pulls the fibers through the plenum. The airflow is pu... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930870 | Measuring fiber length at input and output of a fiber processing machine A method of measuring fiber while being processed by a fiber processing machine, includes the following steps: measuring the length of fiber at an inlet of the fiber processing machine; measuring the length of fiber at an outlet of the fiber processing ma... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5926919 | Card waste monitoring A carding machine for treating a fibrous feedstock and having an adjustable cleaning device arranged at any position on the machine where removal of waste from the feedstock is required while undergoing treatment, and a machine management device for monit... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5926918 | Apparatus and method for opening and for reclaiming fibers A driven opening roll (A) covered with card clothing receives a web (W) over a feed plate (B) which carries a pair of serially arranged feed rolls (C) and (D) for separating fibrous material from the web and removing the fibrous material in a passageway (... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5915509 | Method and device for regulating the sliver in a card A method and device for controlling a card with a feed roll, a doffer, and a control wherein the feed roll is controlled relative to the doffer in such a way that during running up or braking transitory (transient) phenomenon in the formation of a sliver ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5855043 | Carding machine having an after-connected sliver coiler provided with a sliver drawing unit An apparatus includes a carding machine which has a web trumpet gathering a running fiber web into sliver and a calender roll pair arranged immediately downstream of the web trumpet for pulling the sliver therethrough. The apparatus further includes a sli... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5839165 | Textile machine In order to control cotton fibre fluctuation between the compactor device (5) and the drafting unit (6) within a card (1A), the drafting unit (6) can be moved (either along a rectilinear trajectory and/or along a circular trajectory) between a first posit... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5774940 | Draftless sliver coiler packaging system for automated textile drafting system An automated drafting system particularly suitable for drafting textile strands of sliver is provided. The automated drafting system includes a synchronous drive sliver drafting roller system utilizing toothed gears in the preferred embodiment operatively... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5745956 | Automatic device for regulating and monitoring the tension of the silver transferred from the drafting unit of a card to the silver collection unit A device for monitoring and regulating the tension in the sliver produced by a carding unit and transferred from this along a path to a unit for its collection into cans for further processing, comprising a deviator bar pivoted on a pivot and an oppositel... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5692267 | Apparatus for recognizing impurities of fiber material during processing in a textile machine and method A fiber processing apparatus includes a plurality of serially-arranged fiber processing components for forming and advancing a fiber web and for gathering the web into a sliver. Some of the components are spaced by a clearance from one another such that t... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5618364 | Process for lofty battings Lofty battings are prepared by a process involving carding to make one or more webs of fibers, preferably using a blend of mechanically-crimped filling fibers with bicomponent fibers of helical configuration, and that preferably also contains binder fiber... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5584101 | Apparatus for removing and conveying a fiber web at high speed from the outlet from a carder The device of the invention enables a fiber web at the outlet from a carder to be removed and conveyed at high speed without significant change to the structure of the web, and in particular without stretching the web. The device comprises a takeoff cylin... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5522119 | Fiber web supporting device in a carding machine A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder; a doffer cooperating with the main carding cylinder for removing fiber material therefrom; a stripping roll cooperating with the doffer for removing a fiber web therefrom; upper and lower cooperating cru... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5432981 | Device for stripping the web of fibres from the doffer roller in a carding machine The device for stripping the web of fibres (2) from the doffer roller (1) in a carding machine which includes a fly comb (3) on the output side of the doffer roller is characterized in that it comprises a toothed roller (5) cooperative with the doffer rol... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5406679 | Web guiding and supporting device at the outlet of a carding machine A carding machine includes a web delivering mechanism formed of a pair of cooperating rolls, for discharging a fiber web; and a web guiding element positioned immediately downstream of the roll pair as viewed in the direction of web advance. The web guidi... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5398380 | Drive system for a carding machine including doffer zone draft setting A carding machine includes a plurality of rotary fiber processing rolls arranged in succession as viewed in a direction of fiber advance through the carding machine. The output speed of the carding machine is varied by varying the rpm of one of the fiber ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5339495 | Coiler and autoleveller This invention relates to a coiler using tongue and groove rollers preferably for measuring sliver thickness and guiding sliver emerging from between these rollers, using guide means such as a pair of calender rollers driven for rotation in the same conve... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5329669 | Drive system for carding machine doffer, crush and calendar rolls A fiber processing system for the front end of a textile card, the system having a doffer, a crush roll pair and a calendar roll pair rotatably mounted in progression respectively from back to front on the front end of the frame of the card, a gear on the... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5274883 | Carding apparatus with drafting and autolever device A sliver is created by directly condensing the carded web from a carding apparatus and then feeding it to a drafting set from which it is subsequently delivered by way of an autoleveller comprising sliver thickness sensing means and variable draft means.... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5272790 | Maintaining a predetermined quality of sliver in a card and/or drawframe The present invention is directed to a card having a sliver delivery device and a computer part for maintaining a predetermined quality of a carded sliver, wherein there is a predetermined overproduction from a card and/or a drawframe relative to a spinni... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5157810 | Apparatus for measuring the mass of a sliver For use in a spinning mill, the apparatus is used to even up the mass of sliver being conveyed, for manufacturing perfect roving yarns. The evening up takes place by measuring the thickness of the sliver after it has been compressed to a certain volume in... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5152033 | Textile apparatus/method for reducing variations in silver weight A method and apparatus for a textile carding machine or drafting machine drawframe having an out-of-round or otherwise imperfect rotating member is based on detecting and analyzing the relative rotative positions of selected of the machines rotating membe... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5144723 | Device for assisting the transfer of a fleece from the card main cylinder to the doffer roll In order to optimally control the air supply in a diverging gap between a card main cylinder and a doffer roll, an air guide plate with a predetermined spacing on the narrowest part between the air guide plate and the surface of the main cylinder and with... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5065637 | Adjusting device and adjustable textile fiber carding apparatus Textile fiber carding apparatus is provided with an adjusting system for carrying out linear adjusting movements which are at least esentially independent of friction, and free from jerks and oscillations. The system includes a carrier (20) for the object... | 11/19/1991 |
