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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6307953 | System for electronically evaluating yarn or fabric samples cell by cell A method for electronically evaluating yarn or fabric samples by delineating a given sample into one or more cells and comparing the cells to each other or to one or more reference cells.... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6130746 | System and method for electronically evaluating predicted fabric qualities A system or method for electronically simulating fabrics to assist in grading yarn and fabric qualities, in which the diameter or other qualities of one or more yarn samples along the total length of the samples is measured, and representations of the mea... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5235852 | Method for measuring yarn strength In method of yarn strength measurement, the yarn of which the strength is being tested is grabbed while the yarn is moving during a production or processing process, in a spinning machine or a yarn-processing machine, a spooling frame or open-end spinning... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5211709 | Stop motion device for strand processing machine A stop motion device for a textile strand processing machine including a sensor positioned between a supply package and a take-up package for sensing the presence or absence of a strand within a defined sensing range of the sensor and a strand breaker pos... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5181374 | Method for setting the sensitivity limits of electronic yarn clearers, and device for carrying out the method For the setting of yarn clearers for fineness control the number of permissible false alarms for a given yarn length, i.e. the permissible alarm frequency, is fixed. During the clearing process measured values of the fineness are recorded continuously, an... | 01/26/1993 |
| 4924406 | Optical slub catcher, particularly suitable for openend process An optical slub catcher, particularly suitable for open-end process weaving machines, comprises a special optical head for the measurement of yarn diameter, the analog signal of which is cleaned of the disturbances due to ambient light. This analog signal... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4710701 | Capacitive cell for continuous measurement of the linear mass of textile products Device comprising two identical air capacitors for continuous measurement of the linear mass of textile products. The thread is passed through the air gap of one of the capacitors. Its presence causes differences in capacitance between the two capacitors ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4512526 | Doffing control system in automatic winder The present invention relates to a doffing control system in an automatic winder. When a signal for turning off a drum motor for stopping a traversing drum is put out to stop rotation of the drum due to a full-winding signal and then the yarn is wound up ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4436427 | Photoelectric measurement of moving filamentary material A light source is energized by pulses controlled by a frequency standard taken from a resonant circuit output. The resonant circuit acts as a narrow-band filter and comprises the capacitance of a photoresponsive receiver and an associated inductor so that... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4376516 | Spooling machine, method and apparatus to prevent formation of cut remnant thread pieces To prevent the formation of remnant thread pieces due to response of a thread cutting apparatus 2, 3, 4 coupled to a thread or yarn cleaning device 36, which erroneously responds with an "off-size" signal upon a thread break, the cutter blade is guided in... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4311958 | Capacitive thread stopping motion A method and device for detecting the presence of a running thread takes advantage of the inherent physical irregularities of the thread to generate an alternating current signal as the thread passes through a capacitive element. The variations in capacit... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4292868 | Textile spooling machine, an apparatus and method to prevent the formation of loose cut thread pieces High-speed spooling machines for yarn or thread are subject to the difficulty that, if the yarn or thread should break between a yarn cleaning, that is, size sensing and cutting apparatus and the takeup spool, stray remnant filamentary pieces may occur du... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4169399 | Electronic device for controlling the function of an electronic yarn clearer The invention is concerned with an electronic device for testing and controlling the clearing action of an electronic yarn clearer. The device comprises an individual fault measuring circuitry connected to the yarn sensing head of the yarn clearer for det... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4132875 | Yarn detector switch with snap-on trapper A two-piece snap-on yarn trapper including a molded U-shaped bracket that snaps onto a yarn detector switch and supports a plural-turn helical spring. This spring is held inwardly bowed in the bracket so that the turns are held open or separated on the ya... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4078202 | Apparatus for detecting wire joint Apparatus in a continuous processing line or wire wherein a welded joint, a disconnected part or an entangled part of a metallic wire, traveling continuously, is detected by sensing a variation in the electrostatic capacity between a detecting element and... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4075744 | Thread testing apparatus for textile machines The thread testing apparatus of a textile spooling machine is equipped with a thread inserter which is responsive to knots formed in the thread. In a typical thread testing apparatus a flaw is detected in a fault sensing zone whereupon the thread is cut, ... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4058962 | Method and apparatus for detecting periodic yarn irregularities in a yarn between a yarn forming stage and a yarn winding stage A measuring head is used to measure a yarn characteristic while generating a continuous signal proportional to variations in the measured characteristic. The signal is multiplied by an identical second signal obtained either from a second measuring head l... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4056926 | Method and apparatus for detecting so-called moire effect during spinning In the method, the number of defective portions of the yarn, occurring at periodic spacings within a predetermined time period, is detected to provide a detected value. This detected value is compared with a predetermined desired value of the number of de... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4027121 | Yarn trapper for yarn detector switch A trapper for trapping the yarn in a knitting machine and holding it, under normal slackening when knitting certain patterns, to prevent unwanted tripping of the detector switch and machine shutdown. This yarn trapper consists of a one-piece wire member h... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4016790 | Regulation of electronically operated quality control equipment This invention relates to the art of quality control, more particularly to the regulation of electronically operated quality control equipment such as yarn cleaners, or the like so that the quality control equipment may be selectively adjusted to eliminat... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3971272 | Regulation of electronically operated quality control equipment A method for regulating the operation of yarn clearers having error correcting means such as yarn cutters, and sensing means providing an electrical signal representative of the controlled quality. The method comprises the steps of: feeding the signal fro... | 07/27/1976 |
