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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5442835 | Screens for a carding machine A card screen and a lickerin screen are provided for a forty inch carding machine having the usual side ribs and end blanks. The grid bars in both the card screen and the lickerin screen are of triangular configuration in cross-section and are structured ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5237727 | Adjustable cleaning of fibers in a spiralled air path and apparatus A method for enabling the cleaning of fibers in a fiber cleaning machine in which a cleaning stream moves tufts around a rotating cleaning cylinder, the tufts being cleaned and opened. The cleaning action can be adapted to fibers of varying origin and to ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5084942 | Device and method for the fine cleaning of textile fibers having positionable blades and guides An apparatus and method for use in a cleaning process of textile fibers, and for use in conjunction with an opening roller. The apparatus includes a plurality of separating blades and guide elements which are spaced from the opening roller during the clea... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4993118 | Cleaning machine for textile fibres having improved grate bar arrangement A machine for cleaning textile fibres including a casing, a horizontal opening roller rotatably mounted in the casing, the roller being fitted with beater elements and at least one group of grate bars arranged below the underside and approximately paralle... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4958404 | Card for producing fibrous webs etc. A card for producing fibrous webs or random webs of textile fibers comprises a plurality of cylinders in series with metallic wire. The cylinders rotate in a predetermined mutual sense to which worker rolls are coordinated. The cylinders and workers are c... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4601084 | Means for adjusting an extractor for cotton stripper A means for adjusting the clearance between the grid plate assembly and the drum of an extractor of the type which separates trash from cotton lint as it passes through this clearance. The present means is easily and quickly installed on commercially-avai... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4547935 | Waste grid for a textile fiber processing machine A textile fiber processing machine includes a rotary cylinder having circumferential areas for engaging and circumferentially entraining fiber material introduced into the machine; and a waste grid situated adjacent to and radially spaced from, a circumfe... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4524492 | Carding apparatus and method Carding apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a plurality of lickerin rolls are provided for use with a combination card screen and plenum providing trash removal points so spaced as to provide, together with multiple carding locations, more even card... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4505005 | Grating arrangement for an opening roller for fibers A grating composed of individual bars is provided for an opening roller serving for cleaning of fibers and provided with clothing. Each bar carries a guide element extending over its length and comprises a guide sheet, the spacing of which from the clothi... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4502185 | Screen for carding machines A card screen with side frames and central rib penetrated with longitudinally spaced transverse openings and transverse bars equipped with pins and sockets supported in the transverse openings to secure the screen together without solder.... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4366601 | Card screen A carding machine has a carding cylinder, a lickerin cooperating with the carding cylinder and defining a corner zone therewith and a card screen extending underneath the carding cylinder including the corner zone. The card screen has a screen face which ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4224717 | Cylinder screen for a card A carding machine has a card cylinder, a doffer cooperating with the card cylinder and a cylinder screen situated underneath the card cylinder and generally conforming to the surface curvature thereof. The cylinder screen has a screen face including a scr... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4157601 | Front screen for carding machines A front screen is illustrated having a nose portion extending from beneath the cylinder between the cylinder and the doffer wherein orifice means are provided for directing air under pressure forwardly therefrom for avoiding collection of fibers on the si... | 06/12/1979 |