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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325284 | Apparatus and method for texturizing yarn A texturizing apparatus comprising a drive housing having a false twist inlet to allow a plurality of yarns to enter the drive housing, a pair of opposing counter-rotating nip rollers positioned downstream of the false twist inlet, each nip roller having a circumfer... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7278191 | Apparatus and method for texturizing yarn A texturizing apparatus comprising a drive housing having a false twist inlet to allow a plurality of yarns to enter the drive housing, a pair of opposing counter-rotating nip rollers positioned downstream of the false twist inlet, each nip roller having a circumfer... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260874 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss for textured yarn and other related methods A yarn texturizing system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous textured yarn production process are provided. The system includes a yarn supply, a yarn stuffing container to produce textured yarn periodic... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7228604 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss having compressor A yarn texturizing system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous textured yarn production process are provided. The system includes a yarn texturizer to texturize yarn, a chute positioned to receive and gui... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7185406 | Device and method for treating an elongated medium A device for treatment of an elongated medium with at least two first rotational bodies, which are pivoted around predefined rotational axes, whereby the rotational axes are essentially parallel to one another, with at least two second rotational bodies, which are p... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7097803 | Process of making a corrugated net material The present invention is to provide a process of making a corrugated net material including the following steps. First prepare a net material with an adequate length, and then heat and soften the net material by means of a heating element. March the soften net mater... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6770867 | Method and apparatus for scanned instrument calibration Methods and apparatus for calibration of a scanned beam system are provided by sampling a calibration specimen containing an array of targets with a spacing between samples that is greater than the spacing between targets in the array and forming an image from the s... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6305059 | Method and apparatus for stuffer box crimping a yarn A method and an apparatus for stuffer box crimping a spun multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn is packed in a crimping device to form a yarn plug. After cooling the yarn plug, it is unraveled into a yarn. In so doing, the position of the unraveling point ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5737815 | Method and apparatus for controlling a take-up point when texturizing a yarn A method and apparatus for maintaining a yarn take-up point stationary. A first sensor, such as an optical sensor, is positioned proximate a first location of a yarn travel path to output a first signal representative of the position of a yarn at the firs... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5351374 | Method and an apparatus for the continuous crimping of thermoplastic threads Threads made from thermoplastic materials are textured, in that they are heated by a delivery medium in a delivery channel and conveyed through an orifice into a stuffer box where they are stuffed to form a plug. In order to maintain plug formation consta... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5339502 | Method and apparatus for plug loosening after texturing A textured yarn is directed through a path in which the textured yarn plug forms a loop in which the direction of the yarn plug is changed and the speed of the yarn plug is increased via a draw-off bobbin. The yarn plug within the loop is loosened and the... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5020198 | Crimped textile fibers and stuffer box apparatus and methods for crimping textile fibers An improved stuffer box used for crimping textile fibers, particularly fibrillated polyolefin films. The width of the stuffer box is related to the linear density of the fiber bundles to be crimped whereby there is one millimeter of width for each fiber b... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4956901 | Apparatus and process for forming a wad of yarn A layered yarn package is formed of continuous filament yarn wads wherein the yarn alternates between compacted an extended lengths by axially compacting the yarn into a length, segmenting the length into alternating extended and compacted lengths then ar... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4936001 | Apparatus and process for packaging continuously connected lengths of compacted yarn A layered yarn package is formed of continuous filament yarn wads wherein the yarn alternates between compacted and extended lengths by axially compacting the yarn into a length, segmenting the length into alternating extended and compacted lengths then a... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4908919 | Production of textured yarn Yarn 1 fron an extruder is stretched by heated rollers (3,5) and passes to a texturizer unit 2 where it is plasticized and crimped, leaving in the form of a crimp plug along a stack (8). The yarn is heated in the unit (2) by air passing along a pipe (7) a... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4866822 | Yarn crimping apparatus and control thereof A process and apparatus for crimping yarn wherein the yarn is introduced to the crimping chamber by means of an injector supplied with steam under constant pressure. The position of the wad in the crimping chamber is controlled by the position of discharg... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4707896 | Crimper discharge regulation A gate/loading arrangement which balances applied gate force betweem the edges of tow being crimped in a stuffer box crimper. A single hinged gate has been replaced with two or three equal sized gates and force is applied to the gates from an air cylinder... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4608736 | Apparatus for manufacturing a bulky textured yarn Apparatus for manufacturing a bulky textured yarn from a thermoplastic multifilament yarn by applying a pressurized heated fluid in a condition of automatically controlling the operating characters of the texturing operation. During the steady operational... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4547934 | Crimped staple fiber Process and apparatus are provided for the preparation of crimped staple fibers. By automatically adjusting the pressure on the stuffer crimper box discharge means as a function of staple cutter speed, a crimped staple product with uniform fiber-to-fiber ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4462143 | Method for controlling texture level in a moving cavity texturing process A method is described for monitoring and controlling the texture level of a yarn produced in a moving cavity texturing apparatus. The texture level of the yarn is controlled by monitoring fluid pressure in the cavity. The pressure is used as a feedback si... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4408377 | Stuffing chamber texturizing process A process for stuffer box crimping of a yarn of synthetic thermoplastic filaments wherein the discharge resistance on the yarn plug formed in the stuffing chamber is increased or reduced in response to a continuously measured value of advancing pressure o... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4404718 | Apparatus for manufacturing a bulky textured yarn Apparatus for manufacturing a bulky textured yarn from a thermoplastic multifilament yarn by applying a pressurized heated fluid in a condition of automatically controlling the operating parameters of the texturing operation. During the steady operational... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4399597 | Method and apparatus for production of textured yarn A method and apparatus for producing texturized multifilament yarn or the like which includes a control arrangement for controlling the length of a yarn plug in a bulking chamber and accumulating tube so that the processed yarn can be removed at a constan... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4337557 | Method and apparatus for texturizing thermoplastic yarn Thermoplastic yarn is texturized by the known method of forwarding it in a heated condition to a crimping zone at the entrance of a stuffer chamber (7) so as to form a plug (8) of crimped yarn within the chamber and withdrawing the yarn from the other end... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4306450 | Apparatus for measuring a cross-sectional area of a travelling fiber sliver The apparatus permits establishment of measuring values, yielding measuring values being representative of the material cross-section area solely of fiber slivers. A through-put duct converging, as seen, in the direction of transport of the fiber sliver i... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4302968 | Method and apparatus for measuring the linear density of a travelling fiber sliver The method is used for producing measuring values depending on the linear density of a fiber sliver transported through a measuring funnel. A measuring signal transmitted from the measuring funnel is transformed into a proportional electric voltage signal... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4270252 | Apparatus to count and control crimps in a moving tow of yarn Apparatus is disclosed to count and control crimps in a moving tow of yarn. The apparatus comprises a target (the tow of yarn), a stroboscopic light, condenser lens, mirror, transparent support for the target, focusing lens, diode array to sense variation... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4162564 | Method and apparatus for stuffer crimping strand material Textile strands are bulked or crimped by lengthwise compression, accompanied by flow of propellant fluid, into a foraminous region in which the strand is confined laterally but the fluid may escape except where the strand is compressed into a compact mass... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4135511 | Method for start up of a yarn crimping process The temperature of a heating fluid used in a yarn crimping zone is controlled in response to whether a yarn plug is detected at a predetermined point, and in another embodiment a fluid is heated, passed to a yarn heating zone and a yarn is heated in the z... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4122588 | Yarn processing apparatus A straightened, textured yarn is produced employing an apparatus comprising a crimping means, an entangling means and a heating and tensioning means which heats and applies tension to the crimped and entangled yarn prior to packaging.... | 10/31/1978 |
| 3978561 | Apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn A method and apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn wherein the yarn is fed at a controlled rate and under controlled tension into a confined crimping zone against a mass of crimped yarn therein causing the yarn to collapse longitudinally formin... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3977060 | Apparatus for loading a medical needle holder with a filter element Apparatus for loading a medical needle holder with a filter element consisting of a filament yarn, comprising a transport tube having yarn inlet and outlet ends, a yarn feed means for feeding a continuous filament yarn into the transport tube through the ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3961402 | Process for the production of bulked and crimped yarn Bulked and crimped yarn is produced by a process comprising driving heated yarn forward to form an elongated package of compressed yarn, to which yarn is continually added at one end and withdrawn from the other end. The magnitude of the deviation of the ... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3936917 | Automatic gate loading control for stuffer box texturing machine In stuffer box crimping of yarn, yarn is forced into a crimping chamber to form a wad and discharged with a discharge control being varied in response to sensing the position of the wad at the exit of the crimping chamber. The improvement of this inventio... | 02/10/1976 |
