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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6339921 | Textile yarn piecing device with an evaluation arrangement for determining parameters of an automatic yarn piecing process A piecing device with an evaluation arrangement for determining parameters of an automatic piecing process at a spinning station (1) of an open-end spinning frame, wherein a control device is provided which, initially in a test phase, controls the creatio... | 01/22/2002 |
| 5794426 | Device for threading in the thread during the change of a ring traveller A lever (30) is pivotably mounted about ax axis Z on a carrier journal (24) which is pivotable about an axis X and with which electromagnets (46, 48) cooperate. The lever carries a thread-receiving member (20) and is under the effect of a tension spring (... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5417045 | Traveller changer A traveller changer in which a first operating portion having a tensor for absorbing the slack of yarn passed through a traveller in a ring spinning frame, and a second operating portion having a yarn hooking lever, a traveller removing element and a trav... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5390483 | Traveler changing method and traveler changing apparatus for carrying out the same A traveler changing method and an apparatus for carrying out the same capable of automatic traveler changing operation for labor saving. The traveler changing method comprises steps of positioning a traveler at a predetermined position on a ring by turnin... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5333441 | Method and apparatus for restarting a textile spinning machine winding operation following a yarn break A method and apparatus for sequentially applying suction and auxiliary yarn to a yarn package of a textile spinning machine. The apparatus is operable to position yarn extending from a tube during a restarting operation in which the winding the yarn is re... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5170617 | Method and apparatus for producing packages Packages, particularly cross-wound packages are produced directly at a ring spinning frame. In a method and apparatus for making packages a rewinding device is provided for a group of spinning stations. The rewinding device comprises a fixed winding stati... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5090190 | Double sensor docking system particularly for textile ring spinning machines In order to coordinate the movements of two movable parts on a spinning frame and a service robot, a system is provided in which one part carries two sensors which are used to detect the position of the other part within the respective measuring ranges of... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5090189 | Method and apparatus for preparing a yarn package for a subsequent yarn restarting operation A method and apparatus for preparing a yarn package for a subsequent yarn restarting operation are provided. The apparatus includes an air jet for directing a tangential stream of pressurized air against a yarn package to effect loosening of a length of a... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5058816 | Cops preparation station In a cop preparation station having a customary thread detector and an additional thread detector the presence or absence of the upper portion of the thread package and optionally of the lower portion of the thread package of a cop is first detected by li... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5037036 | Yarn end finding apparatus A yarn end finding apparatus for a spinning bobbin comprising a lifting member capable of moving along the axis of a bobbin located at a predetermined position, a sensor provided on the lifting member, and an auxiliary yarn end finding member which acts o... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4766718 | Positioning mechanism for a traveling automatic maintenance unit for a textile ring spinning machine or the like A positioning mechanism for a traveling automatic maintenance unit for a textile ring spinning machine or the like, which unit includes a carriage movable on spaced tracks along the spinning stations of the machine for automatically stopping at spinning s... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4478035 | Broken end piecing up apparatus for ring spinning frames A broken end piecing up apparatus for ring spinning frames having a servicing assembly propelled along the spinning frame. This servicing assembly comprises a pressurized housing which contains the mechanisms. An optical scanner is provided for detecting ... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4155215 | Automatic threading device for filament winding machines A thread monitor moving along a bank of upright spindles surrounded by vertically reciprocable track rings engaged by travelers, designed to facilitate the winding of yarns, rovings or other filaments on cops carried by the spindles, includes a suction tu... | 05/22/1979 |
| 3992864 | Method of and apparatus for automatic reattachment of threads in spinning machines A method for the automatic repair of thread breakage in spinning machines includes the steps of searching for an end of a broken thread on a take-up thread holder. The method involves grasping the end of the thread, if found, pulling the thus grasped thre... | 11/23/1976 |
