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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6796116 | Sliver opening device for an open-end spinning device An open-end spinning device with an opening device for opening continuously supplied sliver material by means of a rapidly running opening cylinder, which opening device is arranged in front of a sliver spreading device (78) with cooperating pairs of spreadin... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6240717 | Fiber conduit plate for an open-end spinning device An open-end spinning device (1) with a forwardly-opening vacuum-loaded rotor housing (2), a high speed spinning rotor (3) rotating in the rotor housing and with a fiber conduit plate (4) for closing the rotor housing. The fiber conduit plate (4) has a rep... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6209305 | Driving and supporting device for transporting roller for textile fibers A driving and supporting device for a transporting roller for textile fibers formed as a drawing roller in an open end spinning machine, the device has an electric motor for driving a transporting roller and having a drive shaft, a device part which is co... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6119312 | Device mounted on a spinning preparation machine, such as carding machine, a draw frame or the like, for guiding and compressing a sliver bundle A device for guiding and compressing a sliver running through the device in a travel direction includes first and second guide elements adjoining one another in the travel direction. Each guide element has two opposite first sides and two opposite second ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6105355 | Open-end spinning device for production Z- or S-twisted yarns An open-end spinning device (1) with a spinning rotor (3) whose rotor cup rotates at a high speed in a vacuum-loaded rotor housing (2) closable by a conduit plate (27). The spinning rotor (3) is supported with its rotor shaft (4) in the bearing nip of a s... | 08/22/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5950411 | Device for transmitting signals of a yarn monitor to a control circuit of a spinning location of an open-end spinning machine A device for transmitting yarn monitor signals to the control circuit of an open-end spinning station for determining whether a yarn spun by the spinning station is being drawn off or whether the yarn travel has been interrupted so that, in case of a yarn... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5916121 | Sliver feeding device for an open-end spinning machine A sliver feeding device for an open-ended spinning machine (1) wherein sliver is fed to the front of a spinning rotor (44) revolving at high speed in a rotor housing (2), with a pivotable cover element (11) for closing the rotor housing (2) having an inte... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5890356 | Open-end fiber veil spinning apparatus and method In a process for open-end spinning at least one sliver is opened to single fibers, which form a fiber veil. The single fibers are fed to a rotating collecting surface which is driven transversely to their travel direction, and are withdrawn from the colle... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5870890 | Method and apparatus for detecting the mass of fiber material in a spinning machine The invention relates to a method and device for detecting the mass of fiber material (5) which is processed in a rotor spinning machine to form yarn. In order to obtain a measurement signal which is a function of the mass of fiber material and which can ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5845477 | Device and method for feeding fiber material in sliver form and opening it into single fibers An open end spinning unit is disclosed which includes a feeding device forming a fiber beard nipping line for a fiber beard extending downstream thereof. An opening device acts on a downstream end area of the fiber beard to open the fiber beard into separ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5813211 | Feeding and opening device for an open-end spinning arrangement In the case of a feeding and opening device for an open-end spinning arrangement, a stationarily mounted sliver support is arranged at the end of the sliver to be opened to single fibers. The sliver support comprises a deflecting edge for deflecting the s... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5775086 | Device for opening fiber material into single fibers An opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement is provided on its periphery with suction openings and with a combing structure comprising teeth. Each tooth exhibits a tooth front facing the rotational direction, which tooth front forms a negative ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5775085 | Method and device for preventing mass fluctuations in fiber material The invention relates to a method and a device for preventing mass fluctuations in fiber material (1) which is processed in a spinning process using a rotor (10) to form a yarn (3). To this end, the mass fluctuations in the fiber material are detected in ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5709074 | Open end spinning roller with exchangeable combing ring An opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement includes a combing ring which is slipped onto a base body and supported between two clamping surfaces. The combing ring is provided with centering surfaces at the end areas of its inner circumference.... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5689946 | Opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement An opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement is provided with a combing ring, which is slidably mounted onto a base body and is supported between two clamping surfaces. In order to fix the combing ring radially to a cylindrical guiding surface o... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5673548 | Sliver feeding devices for open-end spinning frames A sliver feeding device for an open-end spinning frame, comprising a sliver draw-in roller and a sliver feed trough pivotable about a supporting shaft for movement toward and away from the draw-in roller. The draw-in roller has an annular sliver conveying... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5640839 | Method of spinning-in yarn on open-end spinning machines using a pressurized air feed and a device for carrying out the method A method of spinning-in yarn on open-end spinning machines in which an interruption of the spinning process is followed by the stop of the feed of the sliver (4) into the singling-out device (2) whose combing roller (22) keeps turning, and the rotor is st... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5600945 | Method and apparatus for manipulating a sliver during cleaning of an open-end spinning station Spinning stations of open-end spinning frames are cleaned from time to time to increase productivity, e.g. each time a sliver can change is made although, if the times between the exchange of two cans are too long, cleaning may be performed at a preset cy... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5595058 | Open-end spinning device In an open-end spinning device the spinning rotor can be replaced by a spinning rotor with a different diameter. Furthermore, the opener device is capable of being displaced in relation to the spinning rotor. The rotor cover can be adapted through replace... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5592808 | Opener device for a spinning station of an open-end spinning machine An opener device in an open-end spinning machine includes an opener roller driven by a drive disk and a drive belt. A tension roller is movable between a first position wherein it exerts a driving tension force on the drive belt, and a second position whe... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5540043 | Rotor spinning apparatus with spinning box dirt separator A rotor spinning apparatus includes a support frame stationarily disposed on a frame of a spinning machine. A bearing is disposed on the support frame. A spinning rotor is disposed on the bearing and has a rotor axis and a rotor opening. A rotor housing s... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5509261 | Stepping motor arrangement for driving a silver feed roller in a rotor spinning machine A rotor spinning machine has a plurality of simultaneously operated spinning stations each with a spinning rotor, an opening roller, a feed roller for delivering sliver to the opening roller, and a stepping motor connect directly to the feed roller for dr... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5481862 | Pneumatically operated debris removal device for an open-end spinning device An open-end spinning device (1) of the type having a sliver opening device (30) and a pneumatically operated debris removal device (34) is disclosed. The opening cylinder housing (11) of the sliver opening device (30) has a debris discharge opening (15) a... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5454219 | Means for providing air flow in a trash removal chamber of an open-end spinning unit A housing encloses a rotor, an opening roller, and a conduit communicating between the rotor and opening roller for the feeding of fiber from the opening roller to the rotor. The housing forms a trash removal chamber below the opening roller into which tr... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5419952 | Making slub yarn on open-end machine, and composite fabric Denim fabric is made from warp yarn which is at least 30% novelty cotton yarn having irregularly spaced effects (e.g. slubs) about one-half inch to two inches in length. The cotton novelty yarn is made by separating cotton sliver into cotton fibers, and a... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419111 | Spinning station with operable cove for a rotor spinning machine In a rotor spinning machine, each spinning station's drawing-in roller is connected directly to its own individual drive supported by the cover of the spinning station housing, which provides a simplified and conveniently accessible alternative to the con... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5398494 | Sliver opening device for separating out impurities and feeding fiber to an open end spring machine A sliver opening and fiber feeding device for opening a sliver into individual fibers and feeding the individual fibers to the rotor of an open end spinning machine is provided with a polytetrafluoroethylene coating for the interior surface of the housing... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5373690 | Process and device for pneumatic conveying of fibers to the fiber collection surface of an open-end spinning element With pneumatic feeding of fibers to the fiber collection surface of an open-end spinning element, an auxiliary air stream flowing from the immediate proximity of the feeding device to the inlet into the fiber feeding channel is produced and is sufficientl... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5361574 | Process and device for pneumatic feeding of fibers to the fiber collection surface of an open-end spinning element In conveying fibers (20) pneumatically to the fiber collection surface of an open-end spinning element, the fibers (20) fed into the fiber feeding channel (4) are detached from the wall (42) of the fiber feeding channel (4)which follows the fiber-guiding ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5222352 | Process and an arrangement for spinning staple fibers into a yarn A process and an arrangement for the spinning of staple fibers into a yarn is disclosed in which sliver-shaped fiber material is opened up into individual fibers which are fed to a collecting surface which moves at a speed which corresponds to at least th... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5185994 | Feeding and opening device for an open-end spinning arrangement In the case of a feeding and opening device for an open-end spinning arrangement having a tuft support, which follows a feeding table, it is provided that the tuft support is arranged stationarily and has a guiding surface which is situated opposite a fee... | 02/16/1993 |
| 4976099 | Sliver feeding and opening device of an open end spinning machine A sliver feeding and opening device includes an outlet opening for passage of separated fibers to the rotor and an intake opening for the intaking of sliver to be separated into fibers. An intermediate opening is disposed in the chamber of the housing of ... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4939895 | Spinning machine with can replacement apparatus An open end spinning machine and an associated traveling sliver can replacement carriage are provided with cooperating components for automatically replacing empty sliver cans at the spinning positions of the machine with full sliver cans and threading up... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4926627 | Device to feed and open a fiber sliver on an open-end spinning device A device for the feeding and opening of a fiber sliver for an open-end spinning device, having a feeder roll, a pressure roll interacting with the feeder roll and an opening roll. The device includes a tray with two guide walls guiding the fiber sliver be... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4866926 | Fibre loosening device for a spinning unit of spinning machine Fibre loosening device for a spinning unit of a spinning machine. The invention relates to a fibre loosening device for a spinning unit of a spinning machine. Before entering the fibre separating area, the sliver is longitudinally separated into fibre sec... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4825637 | Fiber opening device in a spinning unit of an open-end spinning machine A fiber opening device in a spinning unit of an open-end spinning machine wherein an opening roller is mounted within a housing with the housing being integrally formed from a drawing-in opening past a trash discharge opening to a fiber discharge opening ... | 05/02/1989 |
