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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6978524 | Apparatus and method for removing remnant material from a bobbin A bobbin stripper for cutting and stripping remnant material such as cable and wire from a bobbin drum. The bobbin stripper comprises a cutting head that includes a cutting blade having a straight side and a tapered side having a sharp edge. The cutting blade is mov... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6651419 | Mechanism for cutting a thread reserve of spindles in continuous spinning machines A mechanism for cutting a reserve of thread of spindles of continuous spinning machines has a cutting blade, an element which is draggable and which is adjustable without contacting an area of a spindle where there exists a thread of a reserve to be cut a... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6470543 | Method of and apparatus for removing yarn residue from tubes carrying same The invention concerns a method of removing thread residues which are found on a tube. According to the invention the method is characterized in that a water jet operates on the surface of the tube. The invention further relates to an apparatus for removing th... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6279213 | Device for holding and centering textile yarn tubes A device (6) for holding and centering yam tubes (3) for processing while in a vertical orientation on transport disks (2), e.g., for removing a yam remnant (4) at a tube cleaning station. During such processing, the tubes are fixed in place by means of a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6195857 | Automated device and method for stripping residual yarn from yarn tube A device is designed to automate the process of stripping residual yarn from a yarn tube. The device comprises a feeding mechanism, an index dial, a residual yarn removing mechanism, a compression mechanism, and an arranging mechanism. The automated devic... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5884468 | Centering device for tubes A device for centering tubes during their processing, for example in a tube cleaning station of a textile machine. In a textile machine provided with several batches of tubes of differing length, diameter and/or material, which cannot be processed togethe... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5341549 | Apparatus for removing yarn remnants An apparatus for removing yarn remnants from a cop tube, especially a cop tube located a caddy, includes a device for removing yarn remnants from the cop tube. An elastically deformable energy storing device is disposed in the vicinity of the bottom of th... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5205397 | Remained roving bobbin exchanging device A remained roving bobbin exchanging device for making all the roving bobbins to be transported to a roving frame into vacant bobbins and discloses the remained roving bobbin exchanging device comprising a fixing or removal device for detecting the bobbins... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5177950 | Flexible whirl-cleaning nozzle A pneumatic cleaner for textile machinery adapted to travel along the length of endwise-aligned machines in which yarn spindles have whirl-cleaner blades to strip the turns of yarn from the whirl. The cleaner has exhaust tubes having at least one exhaust ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5148665 | Roving bobbin carrier system A roving bobbin carrier system having a single carrier line for conveying a plurality of full wound roving bobbins from a roving frame to a fine spinning frame and conveying a plurality of unwound roving bobbins from the fine spinning frame to the roving ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5004132 | Method and apparatus for producing socks A method and apparatus for finishing socks is disclosed which utilizes a boarding or blocking machine of the type having a plurality of sock boarding (blocking) forms which are movable within a track. Socks to be block (boarded) are applied to the boardin... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4998331 | Apparatus for removing unused thread from a spool Unused thread is automatically removed from a spool by a device which holds the spool in position for a thread cutting operation. A clamping device is provided to maintain the unused thread on the spool during the cutting operation. A cutting device is mo... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4965917 | Bobbin stripping system An improved textile bobbin cleaning system for removing fiberglass remnants, rovings, yarn, waste or the like from a textile fiber spool, core or bobbin in order that same may reused to store or rewind with new textile fibers, threads, yarn or the like. T... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4936086 | Apparatus for stripping yarn ends from spindles Apparatus for use with a traveling cleaner for textile machines, particularly ring spinners, operable to strip yarn ends from the whirls of the spindles for the bobbins of the ring spinner apparatus. A whirl cleaner blade is pivoted to the frame of the ri... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4899532 | Residual roving clearing apparatus A residual roving clearing apparatus for clearing a residual roving remaining on a roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus comprises a bobbin holding device for rotatably holding a roving bobbin, a cutting device for cutting layers of coils ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4845815 | Bobbin stripping machine A high speed device (10) for safely removing residual yarn (18) from a paper tube (16) without damage to the latter is provided which includes a specialized multiple-blade cutting assembly (20) serving to completely strip yarn from the tube (16) without t... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4775421 | Method of removing textile roll lap-ups Strand lap-ups may be removed from textile rolls by using the present method and apparatus while the textile rolls remain in position on the textile machine or by initially removing a roll with a lap-up thereon from the textile machine before shearing and... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4691415 | Roller of draft apparatus A draft roller in a spinning machine in which its portion in contact with a fiber bundle, i.e. the draft portion, is made relatively large in diameter, and the roller portion adjacent to the draft portion are tapered gradually away from the draft portion ... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4620346 | Device to aid in the removal of residual textile material from a core element A device to aid in the removal of residual textile material from a core element includes a platform to support plural core elements thereon and an indexing system to sequentially index the core elements into a cutting position. The indexing system include... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4596173 | Bobbin separating unit A bobbin separating unit, includes at least two first and second serially connected bobbin separating devices, the second bobbin separating device having a given upper level, the first bobbin separating device including a feeding device being controllable... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4461060 | Method and apparatus for removing yarn remnants from a bobbin Yarn remnants are automatically removed from a bobbin or the like by disposing the bobbin along a longitudinal axis substantially coinciding with its central axis and locating a cutter and at least two strippers about the longitudinal axis. The bobbin is ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4327617 | Coil removal apparatus Apparatus is provided for removing coils of scrap wire or cable (103) from about a reel (100) comprised of an array of juxtaposed cutting blades (50-53) and apparatus (60-63, 54-57) for reciprocally driving each of the blades independently along a differe... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4078282 | Apparatus for the removal of yarn residue from a bobbin or the like Apparatus for the removal of yarn residue from a bobbin, cop carrier or the like, comprising a cutting element, supported by a movable support and a sensor, being formed by an elongated finger which is slidable longitudinally in a bore of a holder mounted... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4014082 | Method and equipment for removing reeling waste In the method and equipment, the yarn support outer surface is drawn by means of a suitably sized die ring adapted to retain and slide the reeling waste all along the yarn support outer surface and strip the reeling waste therefrom. Suitable cutters opera... | 03/29/1977 |
