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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001759 | Method for operating a textile machine An improved method for operating a textile machine having plural workstations comprising exchangeable components, each having a readable and writable transponder arranged on or integrated in the exchangeable components. During the lifecycle of the exchangeable compo... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7770373 | Core fiber detecting method and device in core yarn spinning The presence/absence of a core fiber in a core yarn is reliably detected to prevent production of a core fiber-free core yarn. In a method for producing a core yarn C by wrapping a fiber bundle S around a core fiber F, the core yarn C is spun with a core fiber F con... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7752831 | System for activating a rotor drive of an open-end rotor spinning machine A system for activating a rotor drive (31) of an open-end rotor spinning machine (30), having an open-end rotor spinning machine (30) with a plurality of workstations (33), each having a rotor drive (31) with a control unit (4 | 07/13/2010 |
| 7721519 | Method for the production of a fancy yarn A method which improves the correspondence between the produced fancy yarn and the predetermined configuration of said fancy yarn. The fancy yarn is guided through a sensor device in a spinning device after it is formed and the diameter of the fancy yarn is continuo... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7516606 | Process for optimizing the production performance of a spinning machine A process is provided for optimizing the production performance of a spinning machine. Each individual spinning position is separately monitored in relation to the number of end breaks and is adjusted to an optimal production speed. When this process is applied to a... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7464531 | Method for visually displaying the maintaining of specified effects A method for visually displaying the maintaining of specified effects in a produced fancy yarn by measuring the deviations of the yarn diameter from the desired specifications. The display is a two-dimensional classifying matrix which is known per se. The display ma... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7424800 | Yarn cleaner A yarn cleaner for cleaning defects from a yarn, by means of a head for measuring at least one yarn parameter for comparison against cleaning limits determined for the yarn parameter. If the cleaning limits are exceeded, a defect in the yarn is indicated whereby int... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7392648 | Rotor Spinning machine A rotor spinning machine has a plurality of spinning stations, each of which comprises an opening roller and a draw-in roller for supplying sliver to the opening roller and each of which is equipped with control devices for individual drives of the draw-in rollers. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7360354 | Method and device for the production of covered elastic yarn and for automatically replacing feeding spools The device comprises in combination: an interlacing jet for reciprocally joining the covering yarn and the elastic yarn; supporting elements for spools of elastic yarn; winding members for winding the composite yarn on a developing cop; a device for interrupting the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7328569 | Arrangement for producing a spun thread from a staple fiber strand An arrangement for producing a spun thread includes a drafting unit having a delivery roller pair and an airjet assembly arranged downstream thereof. In the airjet assembly, a vortex chamber with an air evacuation channel is provided. Furthermore, at least one clean... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299615 | Variable twist level yarn using fluid twisting A method and apparatus for twisting two or more strands of yarn together in accordance with a pre-selected and changeable pattern so as to obtain twisted yarn with a selected twist level extending for a selected length of the yarn and other selected twist levels and... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288306 | Textile substrate having low variable twist yarn A textile substrate is made from two or more strands of yarn that are twisted together using a very low variable twist level. The amount of slight twist and variation in the twist are effective to give the finished carpet made from the textile substrate a uniform ap... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281366 | Arrangement device for producing a spun thread An arrangement for producing a spun thread from a staple sliver including a drafting unit and an air jet aggregate arranged downstream thereof. A vortex chamber with an air evacuation channel is located in the air jet aggregate. A cleaning channel is arranged to the... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269936 | Spinning device and method for detecting fiber accumulated state It is an object of the present invention to provide a spinning device that detects early that fibers F have been accumulated in an air exhausting space 55 to prevent a defect (weak yarn) in a spun yarn. A spinning device in accordance with the present inventi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7219730 | Smart cementing systems The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining the location of an apparatus in a wellbore. The method includes lowering the apparatus with a conveying member and measuring a parameter associated with the conveying member. Thereafter, the measur... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219556 | Yarn snarling testing apparatus and method A process for measuring snarling properties of a yarn is provided. Firstly a first and a second point of the yarn are held in close proximity, and a portion of the yarn between the two points is of a predetermined length. A predetermined tension force is temporarily... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200983 | Supporting disc for a supporting disc bearing of open-end spinning rotors and method of making same A supporting disc for a supporting disc bearing of open-end spinning rotors has a disc-like base body, on whose outer circumference a tire-like covering is applied. On a front side of the supporting disc facing the operator's side of the spinning aggregate, a cylind... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203567 | Method and apparatus for electronically controlling fiber processing machines, particularly spinning preparation machines An apparatus for electronically controlling a fiber processing machine includes at least one plug-in module group and at least one memory for receiving and storing data. A non-volatile memory is disposed physically apart from the plug-in module group whereby the dat... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7146792 | Service trolley for open-end spinning machines Service trolley for open-end spinning machines equipped with members dedicated to the operations in the intervention cycles and managed by the trolley's own control unit in which each member is independent from the others, being equipped with independent actuation c... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7137238 | Yarn quality assurance method and yarn processing machine A yarn quality assurance method and a yarn processing machine set up for implementing the method according to the invention is proposed comprising at least one feeding spool receiver 24, 30 set up to receive respectively at least one feeding spool 20, 29 | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136719 | Method for the computer-assisted regulating of a plurality of serially coupled machines, regulating device and machine arrangement A method for stabilizing machine processes in which the machines are regulated by a machine regulation matrix selected from a plurality of machine regulation matrixes using a detected machine sensor value, set-point values of the machines being stored in each machin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7111446 | Method and apparatus for operating an open-end rotor spinning unit An open-end spinning unit, which comprises a spinning rotor 1 that rotates during the spinning operation at a high rotational speed in a closed rotor housing 2. The spinning rotor is rotated by an individual electric motor drive 18 and supported... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102745 | Automated optical inspection of wire-wrapped well screens Methods and systems for automatically inspecting a wire-wrapped well screen are provided. A camera may capture an image of a portion of the screen including at least two facing edge portions of adjacent wraps of wire defining a slot therebetween. A thickness of the ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7082746 | Process and device for the piecing of a yarn in an open-end spinning device For the piecing of a yarn in an spinning device, various computation formulas are stored in a control device into which calculated values as well as special data converted into numerical values relating in particular to the fiber material, the yarn and the spinning ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7065948 | Web twister removal process An apparatus for detecting and eliminating a twister in a running web of flexible material. The apparatus includes a catch section for twisters, a rotor, a scanner arrangement for detection of a twister that has entered a catch section and a control unit , which, up... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7043894 | Air spinning frame with reluctance motors For an air spinning frame, reluctance motors are provided for each spinning place to drive the pairs of rollers of the drafting unit, the drawing-off means, and the friction roller. Thereby, for the run-up of a spinning place, e.g., after a thread break, a specific ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036300 | Procedure and an apparatus for start-up spinning of the thread in an open-end spinning apparatus A procedure and apparatus for start-up spinning of a thread in an open-end spinning apparatus is provided. A first and second auxiliary roll-pair are presentable within a thread course during start up spinning. A source of a suction air stream within the spinning ap... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028943 | Device for winding a yarn on a holder driven in rotation Yarn is dispensed by a yarn guide mobile in translation parallel to generatrices of a rotary holder. The device comprises a carriage receiving the yarn guide and having fittings for being coupled with a flexible transmission and driving member adapted to impart to t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013542 | Process and apparatus for the transformation of yarns and a yarn thus produced Process for the mechanical transformation of a thread (F) of vegetable, animal or artificial or synthetic origin, characterized in that it includes abrading the thread (F) when the latter is supported in the air between two supports (55, 56). ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6990795 | Yarn false twist texturing machine A texturing machine for draw texturing a plurality of synthetic multi-filament yarns and which includes a plurality of side by side processing stations. Each of the processing stations comprises a plurality of processing units for advancing, texturing, drawing, and ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6959533 | Apparatus and method for producing twisted pair cables with reduced propagation delay and crosstalk An apparatus for forming a twisted pair cable comprising a device for rotating at a first predetermined rate of rotation a pair of elongated conductor strands about a twisting location, the device guiding the elongated conductor strands to the twisting location. The... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6907309 | Textile machine with at least one service unit The invention relates to a textile machine with at least one first service unit capable of traveling along a guide rail alongside a plurality of processing stations of the textile machine, and with a control system for the control of the travel movement of the servi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6895736 | Thread-guiding device for collecting spun yarns on bobbins particularly for open-end spinning frames Thread-guiding device for collecting spun yarns on bobbins, particularly for open-end spinning frames, constituted by a common thread-guiding rod which carries the thread-guides for the spinning units, driven in alternate movement in front of the bobbins being forme... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6877305 | Method and device for detecting a thickening in a running thread The invention relates to a method and to a device for detecting a thickening in a running thread. The thread runs through a forked guide element which is moved away from an initial position by a thickening in the thread, thereby triggering a signal. While the guide ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6856851 | Apparatus and method for operating and controlling a textile machine An apparatus for operating and controlling a textile machine comprises driving means, an operating device, a control device and selection means, for the purpose of using the said textile machine for conventional weaving processes and/or for stubbing, multicount, mul... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6817170 | Yarn monitoring A method of and apparatus for monitoring the processing of a multifilament yarn to indicate a number of protrusions in the yarn is provided. In this method, a multifilament yarn is passed through a light beam directed from a light emitting device to a light receivin... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6761022 | Method and apparatus to monitor a yarn piecing joint on a spinning machine The invention relates to a method and an apparatus to monitor a yarn piecing joint on a spinning machine with a plurality of piecing stations to which a piecing robot equipped with a yarn piecing apparatus with adjustable yarn piecing speed can be presented, whereby... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6751938 | Independent torsioning unit The independent torsioning unit consists of two different units: the case frame and the programming and control unit. The case frame houses the spindle axis, the electrical motor, the drive belt, the yarn guide, the vertical deflection roller, the horizontal deflect... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6725639 | Yarn texturing device, yarn texturing method and winding package employing quality indicating function The object of the present invention is to allow the reliable identification of the quality level of the winding package based on the yarn quality such as the yarn winding tension or the twisting density when manufacturing a winding package. According to the draw tex... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6679043 | Spinning machine A spinning machine includes a plurality of spinning stations or places. Each spinning place includes a yarn formation mechanism that is supplied with staple fiber material in the form of a longitudinal object. Each spinning place includes a refining mecha... | 01/20/2004 |
