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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7409748 | Method of making high loft nonwoven The present invention relates to a process for making high loft, nonwoven material by providing either natural and/or synthetic fibers, providing a low melt binder fiber, mixing the low melt binder fiber and the natural and/or synthetic fibers to form a web, cross-l... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7320155 | Web buffering device Apparatus for variably buffering a web material, the apparatus having two endless transport belts including feed sections in which the belts are juxtaposed, and return sections, the feed and return sections being of varying lengths. In the feed sections, the belts m... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320154 | Fleece laying device A non-woven fiber web laying apparatus including (1) a camel back cross lapper having a supply arm, a laying arm connected thereto, and two delivery transport belts guided in juxtaposed fashion from an infeed zone to a lower end of the layering arm and (2) an upstre... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318255 | Cross lapper In a camel back cross lapper, a fiber web to be layered to form a fleece is guided from an infeed zone until its discharge in a layering zone in sandwiched manner between two transport belts extending over the arms of the cross lapper. The transport belts are extend... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7207794 | Pouch production apparatus and method A pouch production apparatus includes a pouch forming apparatus operable to form pouches from an elongate web of material and zipper tape and an extrusion apparatus responsive to operation of the pouch forming apparatus and operable to extrude zipper tape. A pneumat... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7189448 | Apparatus and process for producing a corrugated web and an absorbent article comprising a corrugated web Absorbent article comprising a liquid-impermeable cover sheet, a liquid-permeable cover sheet, and an absorbent body between the liquid-impermeable cover sheet and the liquid-permeable cover sheet. Any one or all of the liquid-impermeable cover sheet, the liquid-per... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7107652 | High speed former head A former head for dry forming fibrous tissue in which a fiber material is mixed with air introduced to at least one rotating drum in a former head by injection. The drum is provided internally with means for fluidizing the injected fibers simultaneously, enabling hi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6883209 | Plant for removing fines from fiber fluff A plant for removing fines from fiber fluff. The plant includes a forming wire, a forming head which is placed above the forming wire and arranged for air-laying fiber fluff into a layer upon the forming wire, at least one channel for carrying, in a flow of air, fib... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6662407 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a fiber fleece In the manufacture of a fiber fleece with a nonwoven producing means and a fleece laying machine, which produces from a single or multi-layered nonwoven web contionuously discharged by the nonwoven producing means a fleece web having a thickness variable ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6627032 | Method of making a high strength and single use bed and gurney covering Specific nonwoven fabrics having a good hand, high strength both wet and dry, and very high absorbency are useful for disposable health care and commercial bedding material. These fabrics are composed of randomly entangled natural and synthetic fibers int... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6550107 | Distributor layer A distributor layer moving in a reciprocating motion to deposit a web coming from a card, on an output apron to form thereon a lap designed for subsequent mechanical bonding. A front conveyor belt transporting the web up to a folding carriage and a rear c... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6490762 | Winding device In a lap winding apparatus for producing a batt lap, the batt is wound onto a tube which is rotatable about a fixed axis and is driven by a revolving endless belt. The belt is arranged in a loop, formed between two deflecting rolls and is tensioned by a t... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6434795 | Method for controlling the profile of a non-woven lap and related production installation An installation includes a carding machine (1), and a distributor-layer (2) depositing the card (1) web (6) in a reciprocating motion on a delivery belt (8) moving transversely. The resulting intermediate lap (16) is conveyed to a needling loom (3) to pro... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6270623 | Method for making apertured nonwoven fabric A method for making an apertured nonwoven fabric includes the steps of: obtaining wet sheet from slurry containing 0.5~20% by weight of fibrous component in water, which comprises, in turn, thermoplastic synthetic fibers having a length of 7~30 mm and a f... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6223398 | Web heating device for a fiber processing machine A textile fiber processing machine includes a device for forming a fiber web from a fiber lap; a device for advancing the fiber web to a web outputting device for discharging the web thereby in a direction of advance; and two cooperating calender rolls de... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6195844 | Method and devices for producing a textile fleece A carding machine or other web production device [(1)] supplies a crosslapper [(2)] with two elementary webs [(15a, 15b)] constituting a lappable web [(16)] which is deposited in a reciprocating manner on a transverse output belt [(26)]. In the device [(1... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6189185 | Methods and devices for producing a streamlined lap and a continuous textile product The invention concerns a stretcher comprising a carriage (21) subjected to a back-and-forward motion (2) for depositing in successive segments (2a . . . 2d) a web of fibres (2) on an outgoing conveyor (6) moving along a direction (9). In order to produce ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6141833 | Plant for producing a non-woven fiber product The invention relates to a plant for producing a non-woven, web-formed fiber product. The plant comprises a first forming wire with an inlet and outlet end and an upper part which, at the inlet end takes up a carded or air-laid layer of fiber and transpor... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6085391 | Matting device The invention relates to a process for producing a nonwoven fabric and a matting device with several layering belts between which the web is taken up and guided at least in regions. The matting device has a belt inlet on the inlet side for the layering be... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5766266 | Method of laser cleaning and bleaching a fiber web A method and apparatus for bleaching and cleaning fibers of a fiber web. The method and apparatus includes continuously forming and moving a fiber web through a bleaching and cleaning station. Directing ultraviolet light onto the surface of the fiber web ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5742981 | Device for dividing a card web into longitudinal sections A device for dividing a card web comprised of a loose structure of fibers into successive longitudinal sections, comprises an air-permeable conveyor belt having a conveyor strand carrying the card web on one side thereof for conveying the card web in a co... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5696175 | Preparation of bonded fiber structures for cell implantation A novel processing technique is reported to bond non-woven fibers and, thus, prepare structural interconnecting fiber networks with different shapes for organ implants. The fibers are physically joined without any surface or bulk modification and have the... | 12/09/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5512600 | Preparation of bonded fiber structures for cell implantation A novel processing technique is reported to bond non-woven fibers and, thus, prepare structural interconnecting fiber networks with different shapes for organ implants. The fibers are physically joined without any surface or bulk modification and have the... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5489351 | Method for molding nonwoven web into molded form A molded cushioning article is made by stuffing a bulky, tape-form nonwoven web such as sliver in a mold cavity and thereafter heat-treating the thus-formed molded form to fusion-bond intersecting points of fibers. Stuffing of the tape-form nonwoven web i... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5476703 | Method for forming a semifinished nonwoven product and a semifinished nonwoven product A lap is produced in a spreading lapping machine (2) by successively folding a fiber web from a card (1), whereafter the lap is drawn in a drawing machine (4). The drawing machine (4) is provided with rotatable devices having peripheral fittings with spik... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5430911 | Method for producing a random laid fiber web A feeder 1 for supplying a fiber material, a plurality of fiber opening cylinders 21, 22, 23, . . . 2n (n is a natural number) mounted adjacent to one another for transferring and opening the fiber material fed from the fe... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5341543 | Spreading and lap-forming machine A web of fibers (4) is conveyed by conveyor belts (2, 5) which pass around rollers (32 to 43, 60 to 69). Some of these rollers are carried by main carriages (10, 14) which are capable of displacement in reciprocating motion above an apron (8) which moves ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5111552 | Method and device for manufacturing a mineral wool web The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a mineral wool web from a thin primary web formed on a movable collecting surface (6). According to prior known methods, the primary web is folded on a receiving conveyor (18) in an overlapping ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4959894 | Disposable semi-durable nonwoven fabric and related method of manufacture A disposable semi-durable wipe is fabricated by fluid entanglement of a composite web including carded and randomized layers fabricated of a blend of at least 10% rayon and polyester fibers. Two sided entanglement of the web enhances interstitial binding ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4809920 | Method and apparatus for forming a wadding lap In a lap winding apparatus for forming a wadding lap from a wadding web, a lap receiving tube or the wadding lap formed thereon is supported on two winding rollers. On both sides of the winding rollers, support arms are provided which in the upper end reg... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4798045 | Process for splicing fibers in strips, and a machine for feeding a textile machine incorporating such a process A process for splicing textile fiber strips, which process comprises directing compressed air onto the fibers from one side of the overlapped fibers until they become matted, and exhausting the air through a filtering element disposed on the other side of... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4697311 | Apparatus for the manufacture of a nonwoven fabric Apparatus for the manufacture of a nonwoven fabric or the like whose width exceeds the working width of a carder or the like equipped with a plurality of take-down devices, deflection arrangement connecting thereto, and with a pile transport table, charac... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4673137 | Method of and apparatus for forming a wadding lap In a lap winding apparatus for forming a wadding lap from a wadding web, a lap receiving tube or the wadding lap formed thereon is supported on two winding rollers. On both sides of the winding rollers, support arms are provided which in the upper end reg... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4628571 | Method for production of a non-woven fabric A non-woven fabric is produced by the transportation of a fiber flow at an angle which is less than 90° to the transport direction of the non-woven fabric to be manufactured, with the feed rate of the fiber flow being controlled, the fibers which are to ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4589169 | Apparatus for production of a non-woven fabric A non-woven fabric is produced by the transportation of a fiber flow at an angle which is less than 90° to the transport direction of the non-woven fabric to be manufactured, with the feed rate of the fiber flow being controlled, the fibers which are to ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4566154 | Nonwoven web spreader A web spreading apparatus that includes a set of spreader rolls spaced from each other in the machine direction of web formation with the axles of the rolls extending generally in the cross-machine direction of web formation. The set of spreader rolls inc... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4553289 | Apparatus for producing a wide fibrous web Apparatus for producing a web whose width exceeds the working width of a machine having a number of take-off units and a table for conveying the web, for the production of webs from fibrous material, more particularly cards, carding machines, or pneumatic... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4285100 | Apparatus for stretching a non-woven web or an orientable polymeric material There is described in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a process and apparatus for bi-axially stretching a non-woven web of synthetic fibers in a first and second station wherein the first and second stations are provided with sets of roll... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4280253 | Method for collecting fibrous material A method and apparatus for collecting fibrous material (14) comprises distributing the fibrous material (14) onto a collection surface (18) to form a pack (20), and intercepting a portion of the fibrous material (14) during formation of the pack (20) with... | 07/28/1981 |
