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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7779618 | Fitting ring for an opening roller of an open-end spinning device Clothing ring (27) for an opening roller (21) of an open-end spinning device (1), comprising teeth (38) which are formed by at least one groove (39) incorporated in the peripheral face of a basic body (45) and running in the... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7392649 | Feeding trough for a sliver opening device of an open-end spinning device A feeding trough for a sliver opening device of an open-end spinning device, having a concave gripping area for conveying a sliver, lateral walls for guiding the sliver, and a concavely curved support surface for fixing a fiber tuft combed by an opening roller, wher... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7347040 | Fiber guide channel A fiber guide channel for pneumatic transport of individual fibers combed from a sliver by an opening cylinder of an open end spinning device for delivery to a spinning rotor. The fiber guide channel is arranged in a cover element for the rotor housing and the input... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349756 | Method for control of yarn processing equipment A method for starting or stopping each of at least two separately controllable roll-sets (22, 26, 34, 56) used for processing a yarn (Y) in a stretch-break process, each roll-set comrpising at least two rolls, the method is characterized by the step of each r... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7325278 | All-steel card clothing for rollers and/or drums of carders of carding machines The present invention relates to an all-steel card clothing for rollers and/or cylinders of carding machines. Carding machines comprise rollers which are configured to actively take over raw fiber materials from rollers arranged upstream in work direction. Therefore... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313908 | Disintegrator with improved contour A disintegrator apparatus for textile machines is provided that includes a plurality of teeth at a tooth spacing (LZ) of no greater than about 20 mm and preferably less than about 12 mm. The teeth generally include two sections. A first section is located... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7257938 | Opening roller assembly for an open-end spinning machine An opening roller assembly for an open-end spinning device of a textile machine, wherein an opening roller (12) is mounted on a bearing shaft (17) which is fixed in a bearing bracket (14) of an opening roller housing (11) in such a manner... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7188463 | Opening device for spinning machines The invention is relative to opening devices for spinning machines, especially open-end spinning machines, that are provided with clothing wires or rings for separating fibers of a supplied sliver. The opening device is characterized in that the clothing wires are p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7077562 | Watch hairspring and method for making same The invention relates mainly to a hairspring intended to equip the balance wheel of a mechanical timepiece. It is in the form of a spiraled rod (10) cut from an {001} single-crystal silicon plate. Its structure and its dimensions are calculated so as to minim... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6978594 | Process for the manufacture of a disintegrating roll of an open-end spinning apparatus as well as a disintegrating roll made by such a process A sawtooth wire to be laid in a groove of a shredding-element-carrier of a disintegrating roll of an open-end spinning apparatus is brought into a shape, which essentially represents that shape, which the sawtooth wire is to assume on the shredding-element carrier. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6920671 | Sawtooth wire A sawtooth wire for producing all-steel sawtooth clothing for the doffer and/or doffing cylinder of a carding machine with a plurality of teeth successively arranged in the longitudinal direction of the wire. Each tooth has a tooth breast beginning at the tooth bott... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920747 | Combing ring for an opening roller of an open-end spinning arrangement and method of making same A combing ring for an opening roller of an open-end spinning arrangement is provided with at least two surface coatings, one applied on top of the other. Of these two coatings, the bottom one is a wear-resistant, harder PVD coating, while the upper one is a less har... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6880322 | Opening roller housing for an open-end spinning device, device for an opening roller housing and procedure for modernizing spinning devices An exchangeable insert is proposed as auxiliary equipment for a housing of a disintegrating apparatus of an open-end spinning apparatus. The insert is adaptable, so that the disintegrator roll housing can be made to conform to various spinning conditions. In a parti... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6865876 | Opening roller unit of an open-end spinning device A generally cylindrical opening roller unit of an open-end spinning device includes a unitary ring body having card clothing formed of at least one helical groove formed in the ring body, at least one helical ridge between courses of the groove, and saw teeth define... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6837035 | Opening cylinder for an open-end spinning device For the design of an opening cylinder (1) for an open-end spinning device where the opening cylinder (1) has a face (11), it is proposed that the base body (12) of the opening cylinder (1) be located on the end of a shaft (2... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834490 | Arrangement for open-end rotor spinning In an arrangement for application in open-end rotor spinning, an opening roller is housed in a swivel housing. The swivel housing can, together with the assembled opening roller, be removed from the arrangement for open-end rotor spinning when the machine is in oper... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6820407 | Opening arrangement for an open-end spinning frame An opening arrangement for an open-end spinning device with a rotating opening roller having opening elements stationarily arranged on its circumference for opening a delivered sliver into individual fibers and for combing out the fibers at a comb-out point. The ope... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6694720 | Method and apparatus for forming a cotton/rayon blended yarn An apparatus for forming a cotton/rayon blended yarn. The apparatus includes a supply of cotton fibers and a supply of rayon fibers. A blending operation line blends the cotton fibers and the rayon fibers. The fibers are then spun in an open end spinning ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6691502 | Opening cylinder for an open-end spinning device An opening cylinder (1) for an open-end spinning device with a detachably fixed opening ring (2) which can be fixed by a torque-free rapid tension device (7) in a readily replaceable manner on a rotatably supported structural component of an opening cylin... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6668536 | Open-end spinning arrangement An open-end spinning arrangement (1) comprises a stationary spinning box housing (2) arranged on a base frame of a textile machine for seating a high speed spinning rotor (7) in a vacuum-charged rotor housing (8), a sliver opening unit (4) connected to th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6591600 | Rotor spinning machine The invention relates to a rotor spinning machine comprising a plurality of operating units situated next to each other, each of which contains a spinning unit (1) with a singling-out device (5) having in its body a rotatably mounted combing roller (52) e... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6438935 | Process and apparatus for the manufacture of composite fibrous stand comprising glass fibers A process and apparatus are provided for the manufacture of a composite fibrous strand comprising glass fibers. Glass fibers and an additive fibrous material (e.g., thermoplastic polymeric fibers) are each introduced separately into a substantially rotati... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6321522 | Spinning rotor for open-end spinning machine and method for producing the spinning rotor A spinning rotor for open-end spinning machines and a method for balancing the spinning rotor in the course of a single clamping process by removing material from a cylindrical-shaped section of the collar (20) of the rotor cup (19) to form an identificat... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6308507 | Method of and apparatus for producing a textile yarn Singled fibers from a fiber strand, separated by a rotor, are collected by suction on a continuously moving surface of a perforated belt or rotary drum. The fiber packet is not formed with a twist in this region and, only upon transfer to a downstream reg... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6295800 | Apparatus for open-end spinning In the case of an apparatus for open-end spinning, a fiber feed channel is arranged between an opening roller and a spinning rotor, which fiber feed channel tapers in a transport direction and which comprises a deflecting zone on its transport path. Immed... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6116011 | Impurity-removal device for an open-end spinning machine An open-end spinning machine (1) with a plurality of adjacent open-end spinning units (2) each having a sliver opening device (4) with impurity-discharge openings (10). An impurity-removal device (11) is installed below the impurity-discharge openings (10... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6101805 | Opening roller for an open-end spinning device An opening roller (1) for an open-end spinning device with a rotatably seated cylindrical roller body (7) is encircled by a sawtooth card clothing, (10, 10") molded in the form of a helical coil spring essentially entirely of a commercial ceramic material... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101803 | Process and apparatus for piecing a yarn end in an open-end rotor spinning machine For piecing a yarn end at a spinning station of an open-end rotor spinning machine, the previously stopped feed roller is re-activated for a short pre-feeding period. The fiber beard, which has been thinned out by the still rotating open roller, can thus ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6067786 | Opening device for an open-end spinning aggregate and method of making same An opening device for an open-end spinning aggregate has a housing which takes up an opening roller. The housing includes a base plate arranged perpendicular to the axis of the opening roller. The base plate is covered by a flat metal sheet, which is prov... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6065277 | Process for producing dyed spun cotton yarns having improved uniformity, physical properties, and luster and yarns thus produced A process for producing dyed spun cotton yarns having a reduced number of irregularities and increased luster is described. The process involves dyeing at least a portion of the cotton fibers which are to form the yarn, then combing the dyed fibers subseq... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6055801 | Process for modernizing an open-end spinning machine An open-end spinning machine comprises a plurality of adjacently arranged spinning aggregates. Each spinning aggregate consists essentially of a rotor unit comprising a spinning rotor, and an opening unit for opening a fed sliver into single fibers. The o... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6047537 | Method for producing a twisted yarn by an integrated spinning and twisting process according to the two-for-one principle as well as device for performing the method In a method for producing a twisted yarn by an integrated spinning and twisting process, individual spun yarns are spun from loose fiber material in at least two spinning devices. The spun yarns are combined and guided in a first direction and subjected t... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6035623 | Open-end spinning device with replaceable conduit plate adapter An open-end spinning device having a spinning rotor housed within a rotor housing which includes a yarn conduit plate for closing the front side of the rotor housing and a conduit plate adapter, defining a mouth area of a yarn conduit guide and including ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6035624 | Fiber transporting apparatus for a rotor type open end fine spinning machine A fiber transporting apparatus for a rotor type open end fine spinning machine is provided that may reduce an amount of effective fiber discharged from a burling opening portion without degrading yarn quality of the spun yarn. Fiber opened by a combing ro... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6016650 | Fiber feed element for a rotor spinning machine The invention concerns a fiber feed element 1 of a rotor spinning machine. A bearing surface formed on the lower side 2 of the fiber feed element 1 can be disposed above a opening cylinder for the processing of the initial fiber material. A pivotably born... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6006511 | Separating roll for an open end spinning machine For a separating roll, which finds application on an open end spinning machine, the proposal is made that a spiral trim wire be preformed and precoated before the trim wire is installed upon the circumference of the roll. In this way, separating rolls of ... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5987870 | Open-end spinning device An open-end spinning device comprises a spinning rotor rotating in a vacuum-loaded rotor housing which can be closed by a conduit plate having a receptacle receiving a replaceable conduit-plate adapter and a locking device, e.g., a bar spring, for spring-... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5964083 | Method for producing a twisted yarn in a combined spinning and twisting process A method for manufacturing a twisted yarn by a combined spinning and twisting process includes the steps of producing in at least two spinning devices individual spun yarns and guiding the spun yarns together to a first centering location positioned coaxi... | 10/12/1999 |
