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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6634164 | Apparatus for producing a stranded cable with alternating twist direction made of strand elements An apparatus for manufacturing stranded cables from strand elements with alternating twist directions (SZ stranding). One or more storage disks can be disposed between a guide that receives the strand elements and a stranding disk. The stranding disk and ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6553750 | Process and device for the production of a yarn in an open-end spinning device A spinning rotor of an open-end spinning device is slowed down for piecing to a low rotational piecing speed and is then accelerated to the operating speed. For this purpose, the spinning rotor or an element in driving connection with it is presented a dr... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6546712 | System for the reverse oscillating lay (ROL) consistency during the optical fiber cable manufacturing process A method, apparatus and system for improving reverse oscillating lay (ROL) consistency during an optical cable manufacturing process. A torque capstan receives an optical fiber cable from an ROL machine that places reverse-oscillating lay on the core of a... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6476570 | Device and process for controlling the motor drives of textile machines A device and a process for controlling the motor drives (121) of textile machines, comprising at least one "encoder" (101), capable of controlling the number of revolutions of each motor (121), and at least one central electronic unit (111) processing the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6374588 | Hairiness controlling device and winder It is an object of the present invention to provide a hairiness controlling device that can start, simultaneously with the start of spun yarn running, stabilizing a spun yarn run through disks. According to the present invention, a rotation speed of each ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6167688 | Individual-spindle-drive type multiple twister To provide an individual-spindle-drive type multiple twister that enables the position of a spindle that has stopped due to a malfunction to be promptly identified, thereby making it possible to drive and stop each spindle easily. An individual-spindle-dr... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5904036 | Roving frame and method of operating same A roving frame has a drafting frame receiving sliver and feeding rovings to respective roving winding stations. Respective spindles at these stations receive core sleeves on which the roving bobbins are wound for respective flyers. An evaluating and contr... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5802832 | Texturing yarn A method of controlling the manufacture of false twist textured yarn characterised by adjusting non-isothermally in a closed loop the heat flux taken up by the yarn in tension to a specific yarn dyeability. Adjustment can be achieved by feeding back the o... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5782075 | Apparatus for wire stranding and control thereof Apparatus and process for the production of stranded wire from copper wire, whereby the stranded wire is wound upon a spool by means of a transfer mechanism. A control arrangement is provided, which regulates the rotation of the spool, the motion of a tra... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5727375 | Method and apparatus for stranding elongated elements into reversely twisted strand Apparatus for stranding elongated elements into a bundle of reversely twisted strand sections includes a rotating accumulator drum, a rotating winding flyer at the first end of the drum, and a rotating unwinding flyer at the second end of the drum. A guid... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5551222 | Driving apparatus for two-for-one twister having advantageously located speed change devices A pair of tangential belts disposed for parallel movement on the left and right locations for individually driving a pair of left and right spindle trains disposed in a back-to-back relationship to each other are individually driven by means of a pair of ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5535579 | Method and apparatus for controlling takeup tension on a stranded conductor as it is being formed Method and apparatus for providing proper tension on a stranded conductor, as the conductor is formed and collected on a take-up reel or bobbin, by using a strain gage to monitor the tension of the conductor being collected and to provide a signal to a co... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5517812 | Automatic control of armour tape tension A method and system are provided for automatically controlling tension of an armour tape being wrapped around a continuous strand of material, such as an electrical cable, travelling through an armouring machine having a reel of tape and tape feed rolls r... | 05/21/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5423171 | Method and device for joining yarn in an open-end spinning means A process for piecing a broken yarn on an open-end spinning device in which the fiber feed to the fiber collection surface, and which has been interrupted during stoppage of the open-end spinning device. The fiber feed is switched back on and is immediate... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5400581 | Process and device for the reduction of energy consumption in the operation of spinning elements The present invention provides a process and device for the reduction of energy consumption in operating spinning elements in driving spinning rotors of open-spinning machines or the spindle drive of ring spinning machine or the roving frame. It is the ob... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5341633 | Apparatus for winding a roving applied to a roving frame In a roving winding apparatus applied to a roving frame provided with a plurality of draft parts and corresponding bobbin wheels, a bobbin shaft for driving the bobbin wheel, a bobbin rail on which the bobbin shaft is rotatably horizontally mounted along ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5331798 | Method and device for joining yarn in an open-end spinning means A process for piecing a broken yarn on an open-end spinning device in which the fiber feed to the fiber collection surface, and which has been interrupted during stoppage of the open-end spinning device. The fiber feed is switched back on and is immediate... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5243812 | Device for the piecing of a yarn in a open-end spinning machine operating with a spinning rotor A yarn is fed at a piecing speed to the fiber collection surface of a spinning rotor. It is there combined with the fibers of a fiber ring and is then drawn off from the spinning rotor in the form of a continuous yarn while fibers newly fed into the spinn... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5152132 | Process and device for the piecing of a yarn in an open-end spinning machine operating with a spinning rotor A yarn is fed at a piecing speed to the fiber collection surface of a spinning rotor. It is there combined with the fibers of a fiber ring and is then drawn off from the spinning rotor in the form of a continuous yarn while fibers newly fed into the spinn... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4977737 | Method of controlling the driving of a ring spinning frame In the high speed driving of a ring spinning frame provided with a plurality of ring-spinning twisting-winding units, to compensate for the possible loss of thickness of yarn produced, when the drive speed of the spindles reaches more than a predetermined... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4947634 | Ring spinning or ring twisting machine In a ring spinning or ring twisting machine the spindles of which each have an asynchronous motor as drive means, and the auxiliary apparatus thereof are driven by at least one electric motor having variable rotational speed, and the ratio of the rotation... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4944143 | Speed control means and apparatus for a repeatable material processing apparatus The invention provides a means of controlling the speed of operation of a material processing apparatus, such as a ring spinning machine in a textile mill. The purpose of the invention is to allow high speed processing, while maintaining a high quality pr... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4922703 | Twist number setting device for a two-for-one twister A twist number setting device for a two-for-one twister constituted such that an output power shaft of a drive motor is connected to a drive pulley which is connected to a spindle and provides a turning force to the spindle and also connected to a rotary ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4918911 | Spinning apparatus A spinning machine has an electric motor for rotating a bobbin-supporting spindle to build a package of yarn thereon and a funnel for guiding yarn onto the spindle. The spindle is rotatingly driven by an electric motor and the electric motors of the spind... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4903473 | Method for controlling a cage stranding machine A stranding machine, and a method for controlling same wherein a measurement device is utilized to measure the centrifugal forces of a spool of the stranding machine. The strand spool rotation rate is then regulated dependent upon the measured centrifugal... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4899528 | Control device to drive and stop an open-end spinning element A device for the control of an open-end spinning element, including a pivoted control lever (4) is provided which is capable of assuming three different working positions. In a production position the control lever brings a first drive, running at product... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4817371 | Individual-motor drive method of and apparatus for spindles of a spinning machine To decrease the time required for spindles of a spinning machine to reach their normal operating speeds after a yarn breakage or the like, where the spindles are individually driven by respective asynchronous motors individual to the spindles, the alterna... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4698957 | Method of controlling a roving machine having a decentralized drive system A method of controlling a roving frame to produce good quality results with fewer procedural interruptions and without knowing precise parameters of the textile material being processed. To this end, optimum roving tension during the laying down of each r... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4694643 | Spinning or twisting machine For compensation of changes in rotational speeds, for example, occurring because of varying loads on the motors, the drive mechanisms for at least two kinds of working units have a common synchronizing mechanism and are connected operably by a torque tran... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4691509 | Open-end friction spinning machine In the case of an open-end friction spinning machine having a plurality of spinning units, measuring devices are provided for examining the quality of the moving yarn at each spinning unit. Preferably, the tension of the yarn between a withdrawal device a... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4653153 | Method and device for the optimization of the drawing process on autoleveller drawframes in the textile industry A rapidly reacting measuring element is used at the delivery of the drafting zone on autolevelling drawframes used in the textile industry, which makes it possible to superimpose on the signal thus obtained from the measuring element by means of an electr... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4541236 | Device for sensing the tension in the individual threads in a stranding machine This invention relates to a sensor device able to provide, without contact, an exact indication of the tension in the free portion of each individual thread which leaves the rotating head of a stranding machine in order to contribute to the formation of a... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4519202 | Spinning or twisting machine, especially for glass-fiber threads In order to maintain a desired feed velocity in a glass-fiber thread passing via a traveler from a supply bobbin to a cop on a spindle, the thread is led upstream of the traveler through the nip of a pair of rollers that are set in rotation by its motion ... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4392342 | Cable stranding apparatus and method of operating it A method of, and apparatus for, manufacturing a stranded product from materials wound on feed reels journalled in a rotating feed cage. To permit operation at a maximum safe speed based on centrifugal force of the mass of material on the feed reels, an en... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4389838 | Single-twist stranding A single-twist stranding machine includes a stranding disc and nipple for stranding together a plurality of filaments, wires, conductors or the like, a rotatably mounted take-up spool onto which the stranded-together elements are wound, a flyer coaxial wi... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4388801 | Process and apparatus for producing a twisted elastic thread A process and apparatus for producing a twisted elastic thread in which an elastomeric thread of substantially 154 dtex to 310 dtex, is adhesively twisted with two yarns. The thickness of each of the two yarns is substantially of 100 to 12,500 dtex, and t... | 06/21/1983 |
