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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945999 | Needle bar for a warp drawframe A needle bar has a carrier bar and a casing surrounding the latter and holding a number of needles lined up with one. The carrier bar has a diameter of, in particular, 7.2 mm and the casing has a thin-walled region with a wall thickness of, in particular, 1.0 mm. | 05/24/2011 |
| 7159280 | Disposable faller bar with improved core A faller bar assembly includes a support member that defines a generally annular shaft. A sleeve defines a tubular wall with a generally annular opening and receives the generally annular shaft. The sleeve includes a rib that projects outwardly from the tubular wall... | 01/09/2007 |
| 5560085 | Needle for a needle bar or rod for textile combing machines, and a needle bar with such needles, as well as a method for attaching or replacing an outfit of such needles In a needle for a needle bar or rod, the needle comprising a fastening area at its foot and above this an actively combing tip area, the needle being a stamped element and the fastening area having a recess closed or open outwards for the needle to be sli... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5491876 | Needle-based apparatus for individualizing single fibers and other textile entities for testing puposes Disclosed are various needle-based devices for individualizing single fibers and other entities from a fibrous mass, particularly for testing purposes. In one embodiment, an accelerated pin drafting machine has a plurality of combing elements which sequen... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5426824 | Method for producing nonwoven webs from unordered fibres A method for producing uniform nonwoven webs from a supply of unordered fibre material includes discharging a quantity of fibre material onto a needle-type transport system having needles which are movable along a transport path, taking-up the fibre mater... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5228173 | Method for cleaning a needle bar, in particular a top comb for textile machinery, and needle bars for putting the method into practice In a method for cleaning the needle bar, in particular a top comb for textile machinery, comprising at least one row of needles or needle-like stamped elements, which are held between two cover plates, whereby the needle tips protrude, while forming free ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5201098 | Needle bar carrier In a needle bar carrier with a needle bar comprising a plurality of needles anchored in a plastic bar, the needle bar being attachable to the needle bar carrier by form locking and for the purpose of achieving a very stable connection between the needle b... | 04/13/1993 |
| 4928356 | Top comb for textile machinery and process for cleaning same Air channels (11) are provided in a needle strip for the removal of contaminants that are deposited in the open passageways (F) between the needle points (4), which air channels can be connected to a compressed air source or a vacuum source via an air cha... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4797977 | Picker assembly There is disclosed a picker assembly comprising a picker bar having a T-slot therein and a plurality of picker teeth. The picker teeth have bases in the slot with wedging surfaces thereon for maintaining the teeth against a surface of the bar when the too... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4635323 | Drawhead for drawing equipment for drawing woolen fleece or the like A drawhead for drawing equipment having a plurality of fallers or the like disposed parallel to each other along a closed guideway at a predetermined distance from one another. In such a drawhead it is expected to achieve the transfer of large forces para... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4532678 | Needle bar drawing device The invention concerns the gilling area of needle bar drawing devices (gill boxes) for card slivers which gilling area comprises needle bars provided with needles, carried by flexible driving elements and rotatingly driven. In a gilling area whose needle ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4503589 | Needle bar drawing device In a needle bar drawing device (gill box) for the drawing of card slivers bars carrying needles are led without being connected to each other. In a device which, according to today's terminology, is to be identified as a push bar draw frame pairs of drive... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4406038 | Stretch head A stretch head for a stretching mechanism includes a plurality of needle rods which move along a generally planar working path and a return path. Linear motor means are operable to move the needle rods along the planar working path along material to be wa... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4400853 | Needle bar drawing device In an needle bar drawing device or gill box comprising needle bars carried by chains is arranged a bristle mat consisting of one or few layers of bristles extending along the whole needle field up to the proximity of a clamping gap formed between a pair o... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4398319 | Gill boxes with rotating heads An improved gill box with rotating heads, which comprises a plurality of needles acting on an assemblage of slivers fed substantially continuously and consists of a feeder group, a group which controls the fibers and is constituted by two heads with combs... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4364154 | Faller bars In order to overcome problems associated with the fitting of a pinned plastics strip into the bar of a faller bar, hot melt adhesive is applied to the strip before the strip is placed in the groove in the bar, and the adhesive is activated by heat derived... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4351089 | Needle bar draw frame The invention concerns a needle bar draw frame or gill box with a needle field or gilling area of needle bars carried by chains. With the aim of attaining the usual performances in respect of speed and drawing ratio at the same quality also in the case of... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4344208 | Needle plate for needle bars of needle bar drawing devices A needle rod for use in needle bar drawing devices, also termed and known as gill boxes is proposed to comprise needle plate segments (7) which are releasably connectable to a carrier bar (2) and which have a profile of T, Z or Y shaped cross-section. The... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4293983 | High speed gill box A high speed gill box having an upper head and lower head each of which contains a compliment of individual unconnected faller bars constrained to move in a smooth closed loop path. Each head is constructed to engage the associated faller bars outside of ... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4266327 | Releasably interlocking needlestrip and needle-carrier for textile machines A releasably interlockable needlestrip and needle-carrier for textile machines includes a generally U-shaped elongated needle carrier having legs defining a longitudinally extending recess therebetween. A plurality of protuberances are provided on one of ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4169301 | Gilling or stretching apparatus In gilling or stretching apparatus wherein a plurality of pin bars are driven and guided in a circuitous path including a stretching run and a return run, with threaded spindles engaging the pin bars along said runs, means are provided to retard the speed... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4070732 | Textile fibre control system in a drawing device The control system is constituted by a succession of elongate parallel control elements, made of elastomer, which extend in directions transverse to the direction of the path of the fibres to be controlled and which each have a work face and an opposite f... | 01/31/1978 |
| 3984897 | Gilling machine A gilling machine having a pair or set of spirally threaded faller screws for advancing gill bars spanning the space between the screws and advancing them in a forward direction with portions of the screws held or engaged by the spiral threads of the fall... | 10/12/1976 |