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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6260341 | Modular machine for spinning and doubling with elements for transmitting individually the spindles with conical or double conical continuous and individual folding system Modular machine for spinning and doubling with individual transmission elementos for spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, comprising a frame formed by two metal cabinets connected to each other by means of a cent... | 07/17/2001 |
| 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 |
| 5584170 | Method and apparatus for driving an open-end spinning rotor during automatic piecing In the case of a method for closed-loop controlling the revolutions of an open-end spinning rotor during automatic piecing, the spinning rotor is run up to its operating speed from a standstill by being coupled to a tangential drive belt, which runs at op... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5174102 | 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 ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4604862 | Manufacture of telecommunications cable cores A core unit and method and apparatus for making it in which conductor pairs or units having a single direction of twist and in which angles of twist lay change along lengths of the conductor pairs. In a preferred and practical construction, the angles of ... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4531353 | Method and apparatus for spinning yarn under constant tension A spinning frame 10 is disclosed for processing a strand at a varying strand movement speed to produce a strand processed with uniform tension. The spinning frame includes a motor 21 and a planetary gear box 30 which operates as a differential having firs... | 07/30/1985 |
| 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 |
| 4336684 | Driving assembly for ring spinning or twisting machine An assembly of motors designed to drive a ring rail, a bank of spindles and a plurality of draw or delivery rollers in a ring spinning or twisting machine is supplied with three-phase current of a frequency determined by the settings of digitally adjustab... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4266397 | Method and apparatus for restarting individual winding units of a ring spinning or twisting frame On a ring spinning or twisting frame having winding units with rotatable thread follower rings, the difference in the speed of rotation between the ring and its follower during the restarting of the winding unit, after repair of a thread break, is maintai... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4254615 | Apparatus for controlling the bobbin drive of a flyer roving frame A device for controlling the bobbin drive of a flyer roving frame which has a bobbin, a flyer and drive roll thereon that are utilized for building a bobbin with yarn. A drive for the frame incorporating a differential gear and controls are provided for a... | 03/10/1981 |
| 3987611 | Method and apparatus for taking up a yarn onto a pirn after false-twisting Percent take-up feed of a yarn, which is taken up onto a pirn by rotary surface contact with a take-up roller via delivery rollers, is time-functionally and continuously changed by a speed converter which is inserted into a rotation transmission mechanism... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3986330 | Method of and apparatus for twisting a yarn A yarn package is frictionally engaged by a roller and driven at a peripheral speed so as to pay off a filament that is wound on a spindle positively connected to the output shaft of a fixed-speed motor. This output shaft is also connected through a stepl... | 10/19/1976 |
