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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7178211 | Beam winding apparatus with beam switching turntable An apparatus and method for winding a sheet of aligned parallel yarns onto a beam is described. The beam winder utilizes a circularly arced yarn spool rack that feeds each yarn to an alignment comb through associated guide tubes. The distance between each spool of y... | 02/20/2007 |
| 4632156 | Skeining apparatus A skeining machine has a looping member arranged to move in an elongated endless track having recurvate ends with a pair of looping needles arranged within said path to have a filament looped thereon during revolution of the looping member about the path ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4620571 | Skeining apparatus Method and apparatus for forming a twisted skein in a filament for use in a coil winding machine without severing the filament. The apparatus is provided with a pair of spaced apart filament guides between which are located looping needles about which the... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4586669 | Method and apparatus of forming cords of hanking A method and apparatus for hanking cords including a pair of jaws for supporting the cord in an elongated position. The jaws being activated to move the cord to a winding turntable that has two upstanding posts. A latching device located at a post of the ... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4427404 | Apparatus for stacking a tape of indefinite length in folded condition An apparatus for stacking a tape of indefinite length in folded condition by shaking the tape off into an accumulation box. When the height of the tape stacked goes above the top of the accumulation box, the top of the tape stack is pressed down to increa... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4425109 | Method of piling and a transport storage pile formed of ribbon A method of piling plastics or rubber mixture ribbons on a support (1) for transport and storage wherein the ribbon (2) is folded in superimposed layers (3,4). The ribbon is folded in each layer partly to overlap not more than 2/3 of the width of the ribb... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4351092 | Method of fabrication of coreless hollow filament separatory module The method of fabricating a coreless hollow filament bundle of interlaced hollow filaments to be used as the membrane elements in a separatory module comprising the steps of providing first and second axially spaced co-axially rotatable engagement members... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4177957 | Apparatus for clamping a thread Apparatus for clamping a thread in a reeling machine having a reeling cage which is rotatably mounted on the machine frame and comprises bars extending parallel to the axis of rotation thereof, and a thread laying device which is displaceable on the machi... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4021896 | Devices for tying a layer of threads or slivers The shuttle of the tying device is of magnetic metal, at least at its extremities. Each extremity of two arms is fitted with an electromagnet for temporarily receiving and retaining the corresponding extremity of the shuttle. The electromagnets are energi... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4003524 | Cross-winding machine A cross-winding machine comprises a winding mandrel and means for rotating the mandrel so that yarn supplied thereto is formed on the mandrel into a cross-wound package. Reciprocably movable doffing means transfer a wound package on the mandrel to a posit... | 01/18/1977 |