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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293395 | Apparatus and method for inserting cup-shaped inserts into containers An apparatus and method for producing container assemblies having a cup-shaped insert disposed within a container. A container conveyor conveys a series of open containers along a lower horizontal path, the container conveyor bringing each container in turn to a sto... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7258298 | Supplying device for film cores and method for supplying film cores A preparatory device provided for arranging film roll cores in a condition ready for use for a film roll winding machine, in which the film roll cores are vertically arranged, comprises a supply device for supplying horizontally disposed film roll cores. The supply ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7210586 | Adapter element for card cage system An adapter element is provided for interfacing with a card guide of a card cage system to enable ready definition of various card storage configurations within the card cage system. The adapter element is configured to be removably attached to a card guide so that d... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7165927 | Automated material handling system for semiconductor manufacturing based on a combination of vertical carousels and overhead hoists An Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) that allows an overhead hoist transport vehicle to load/ unload parts directly to/from storage units included in the system. The AMHS includes an overhead hoist transport subsystem and a vertical carousel stocker having a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7107752 | System and a method for moving and diverting trains of articles in a conveying plant for such articles A system for moving and diverting trains (5) of bobbins (7) in a spinning plant with more spinning mills (1) includes a pair of rails (40,41), along which a carriage (32) moves. The carriage (32) can be stopped at a point co... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6769854 | Arrangement for exchange of empty bobbins with full bobbins in a bobbin creel An arrangement for exchanging empty bobbins with full bobbins includes a creel having lateral delivery positions for holding filament-carrying bobbins for delivery of filaments to a textile machine. Disposed above the creel is a bobbin carrier which has several tran... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6588194 | Process and apparatus for level adjustment of the can plate of a spinning can A process for the level adjustment of the can plate of a sliver can is proposed which is in a filling position at the output of a textile machine to be filled with fiber sliver F. The can plate is moved before the start of the filling process by a first m... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6363702 | Transportation and storage system for rectangular spinning cans A transportation and storage system for spinning machines with transfer storage places associated with each spinning machine. With an automatic supply of the spinning machine via transporters as the connecting means between the transfer storage place and ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6357685 | Spool-collar with transponder especially for spin-spooling of glass fibers A spool sleeve consisting of several interconnected layers formed by webs, wherein a recess in an inner layer contains an appropriately shaped transponder having a weight that is approximately equal to that of the web material removed to create the recess... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6352214 | Method for identifying the spinning position of a cop In a method for identifying the spinning position of cops, each cop is provided with an individual marker. The marker is read at the rewinding machine for determining the corresponding spinning position. The marker can e.g. consist of a bar code applied t... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6349530 | Process and apparatus for controlling cops of ring spun yarn dependent on a yarn hairiness In the case of ring spinning with condensing devices there is a risk that the yarns of the individual cops have a varying degree of hairiness. This can result in faults in the end product, for example a woven fabric. In order to avoid such faults, the rin... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6290165 | Automatic cheese winder and method for operating an automatic cheese winder A method for operating an automatic cheese winder, having multiple winding stations (A, B, etc.) and a transportation system (21) for supplying the winding stations with spinning cops (39) and discharging them of empty tubes (40). The spinning cops are fu... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6279306 | Operator controlled spinning can transporter A spinning can transporter for a plurality of spinning cans disposed on a platform. The platform has a standing place for the operator or driver equipped with controls for steering the transporter. To make it possible for the operator/driver to exchange s... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6272833 | Process and an apparatus for the manipulation of an empty spool on a textile machine On a textile machine, arL empty spool (12) is conveyed along a multiplicity of spool stations (1) situated next to one another. In a predetermined position relative to a grasping apparatus (3) the said empty spool (12) is stopped and is picked up by said ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263653 | Spinning plant with roving frames and ring-spinning frames A spinning plant having one or more roving frames and one or more ring-spinning machines coupled by a common transporter has bobbin/core transfer units equipped with a color sensor which ensures that color coded cores representing particular roving qualit... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6256973 | Transporting and storage system for spinning cans A transporting and storage system for spinning machines is described, whose object is to achieve supply between machines that fill spinning cans and machines that empty spinning cans with the least possible loss in terms of travel distances and utility. A... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6250059 | Filament spool or doff handling system A handling system 1 for filament bobbins 4 or doffs 5 in a spinning mill, which has a spinning area 2 and a storage area 12. The handling system 1 has a transport device 16, a separating device 17 and a transfer station 11. The transport device 6 and the ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6244533 | Device for loading spools onto a support plate, for transport and positioning of the spools in textile machines A spool loading and centering device for loading and centering spools on support plates in order to send the said spools for winding. Each support plate has a rod and centering and restraining springs. The spool loading and centering device includes a spo... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6209285 | Automatic device for collection and packing in a container, of the strip produced by a carding unit Automatic device for packing in a container, of the strip provided by a carding unit, consisting of an eccentric distributor which rotates relative to the collection container, which is rotated by an underlying rotary platform, and also comprises a device... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6079195 | Procedure for re-equipping and simultaneous modernization of an open end rotor spinning machine A procedure is described in which an open-end rotor spinning machine already in operation can be modernized by means of re-equipping it with new parts. This machine comprises device means for interrupting the spinning process at a spinning station for the... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6073435 | Centrifugal spinning and winding machine A centrifugal spinning and winding machine (23) with a plurality of work stations (1) arranged in series. The work stations (1) comprise several autonomous centrifugal spinning units (2), an associated winding device (5), and an associated storage device ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6038846 | Roving frame with a device enabling full roving bobbins to be replaced automatically by empty roving sleeves The invention concerns a roving machine with a device for the automatic replacement of full roving bobbins journalled on a bobbin rail 4, with empty roving sleeves 13, which has at least one guide rail 5 for feeding a suspension carriage train 10 into and... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5996327 | Method of and apparatus for transporting full bobbins and empty bobbin cores A horizontal transporter at a roving frame level delivers full bobbins to a vertical movable carriage which picks up the bobbins from the bottom, replaces them with core sleeves, and lodges the bobbins in a second horizontal transporter at another story f... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5992136 | Method for exchanging sliver cans at a spinning machine A method for the exchange of full for empty rectangular spinning cans for a spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations is described. With the method a conveying track is provided respectively between two rows of n spinning stations for the f... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987866 | Spinning process utilizing roving frames and ring-spinning frames Roving bobbins of a weight of about 5 kg, by contrast to standard bobbins with weights up to 3 kg, can be used in a spinning system in which the flyer frames are of the multi-axial drive type and are equipped with an automatic bobbin change mechanism whic... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5987868 | Monitoring of core mounting for a roving frame A roving frame has a flyer region into which the suspension carriage trains are moved past a device for monitoring the presence or absence of cores or bobbins on the hangers. An error signal is transmitted in the case of an error and correction is effecte... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5979817 | System for recognizing the position of spinning spindle of cops on a winder and managing its data, and method for tracing cop numbers by conveyance sections A system for obtaining position data of cops on a winder while the cops are carried in a direction along a predetermined conveyance path having sections, connections of sections and sections where movement of the cops in a direction from one of the sectio... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974630 | Spinning can stand A spinning can stand of a fiber sliver-processing machine such as a flyer or a jet spinning frame having a plurality of spindles in at least one row. Rectangular cans are used instead of round cans for reducing the expenditure for exchanging the spinning ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5970699 | Roving frame with bobbin changing device In order to quickly exchange empty sleeves (18) for full bobbins (6)in a roving frame, guiding rails (14, 21, 22) are mounted along at least one row of flyers (4). A suspended carriage train (15) with hangers (16) can be driven on the guiding rails (14, 2... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5960622 | Cable depositing device A cable depositing device for processing a plurality of cables includes at least one receiving transport band having a length and an entry end, a partition that extends above the upper driving strand of the receiving transport band along the length of the... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5954293 | Caddy for maintaining packages and tubes in an erect position for their transport and positioning within textile machines A caddy for packages having tubes for use in a yarn production process includes a disc-shaped base in which there is coupled a hollow tubular peg about which a package support slider is slidably mounted coaxial to the peg, to offer to the package mounted ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5937629 | Method and device for supplying empty tubes to winding devices of a textile machine A method and device are provided for supplying empty tubes to winding devices of a textile machine comprising a plurality of operating units arranged next to each other in at least one line and equipped each with a winding device as a part of the operatin... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937484 | Flat container of textile fibre sliver A flat container of textile fiber sliver for receiving a sliver produced on a sliver producing textile machine and for feeding the sliver to a sliver processing machine taking over the sliver. The flat container has a movable bottom adapted to move vertic... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5934059 | Manipulating device on a can changing carriage of a spinning machine A manipulating device for can changing between a can changing carriage and a row of payout cans in a spinning machine is described for the case where rectangular cans are used. To automate the transfer of the cans without substantially increasing the expe... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5924273 | Textile yarn cop changing and transport system A cop changing and transport system for a composite ring spinning and winding machine wherein both the ring spinning machine and the winding machine have respective transport systems 2 and 3 in which circulate separate respective groups of transport palle... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5916117 | Yarn guide for a pot spinning machine A pot spinning machine for forming a spinning cop includes a spinning pot onto an interior of which yarn is deposited to form a spinning cake; a yarn guide which deposits the yarn onto the spinning pot to form the spinning cake; a yarn carrier onto which ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5845864 | Transport system for a textile machine A textile package transport system utilizing transport plates for transporting spinning cops, particularly within a textile machine which produces cheeses. Each transport plate has an information storage medium in the form of a magnet of ferromagnetic mat... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5822970 | Transport apparatus for bobbins and bobbin sleeves in a textile plant A roving frame and spinning machine system in which each roving frame is coupled with a plurality of spinning machines via a respective suspension track system having a respective transporter for transferring bobbins from the roving frame to the spinning ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5822969 | Device for delivering wound bobbins from a textile machine A device for delivering wound bobbins from a textile machine, comprising a main conveyor of wound bobbins, the conveyor having an end, an ancillary belt conveyor which receives wound bobbins from the end of the main conveyor and conveys them in a conveyin... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5802834 | Method for threading yarns of two supply bobbins positioned coaxially atop one another in a two-for-one twisting spindle through the two-part hollow spindle axle In a method for threading yarns of two supply bobbins positioned coaxially one atop the other in a two-for-one twisting spindle through at two-part hollow spindle axle and a yarn guide channel of a yarn storage disk with a compressed-air operated injectio... | 09/08/1998 |
