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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7173703 | Apparatus on a textile fibre processing machine for evaluating textile fibre material In an apparatus for inspecting and evaluating fiber material, for example a sliver or fleece, an opto-electronic system, is provided across the width of a textile machine and scans the moving fiber material and converts the measured values into electronic signals. T... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7143642 | Integrated moisture, length, and strength tester A fiber testing station. Electrically conductive first fiber retaining means engage first ends of fibers, where the fibers extend in substantially one direction from the first fiber retaining means to distal second ends of the retained fibers. The first fiber retain... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7093325 | Apparatus for determining fibre lengths and fibre length distribution from a fibre material sample, especially in spinning preparation In an apparatus for determining fibre lengths and fibre length distribution from a fibre material sample, especially in spinning preparation, collected fibre material is automatically conveyable by a conveyor device, is arranged to be supplied to a take-up device th... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6161441 | Fiber individualizer An apparatus that individualizes fibers within a feed stream without breaking the fibers. A first stage, having first pinch rollers, receives the feed stream and provides it to a second stage. The second stage receives the feed stream from the first stage... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5767421 | Belt conveyor cross-stream sampling system A method and apparatus is provided for cross-stream sampling of bulk material distributed as a mounded continuum in a trough formed along the length of a belt conveyor. A rotating cutter passes transversely through the traveling, bulk material continuum t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5546819 | Bottle inspection machine The present invention relates to a bottle inspection machine with a plurality of inspection sections (8-10) that are equipped to perform different inspection tasks and a sorting station (11) which, depending on the results of the inspection, releases the ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5295401 | Textile on-line sampling inspection A process is disclosed for sampling textile fiber skeins. A fiber skein (2) continuously moved in the longitudinal direction (23) is intermittently brought to a stop within a defined section (4, 28). The profile of the immobilized section (4, 28) of the f... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5046539 | Automatic fluid dispenser for multi-welled dish A fluid dispensing system comprises a first linearly translatable plate and a second linearly translatable plate mounted below the first plate at 90 degrees relative thereto, the first plate being displaceable in one direction and the second plate being d... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4962771 | Filter assembly machine cigarette sampling unit A unit for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine, which unit is designed to cooperate with a conveyor for feeding the cigarettes through the filter assembly machine, and features a sampling conveyor tangent to the feed conveyor and having an ev... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4858767 | Plastic container inspection process A container inspection process and apparatus is provided for detecting the presence of contaminants present on or absorbed into the walls of plastic containers. The process flushes volatiles from within the container by injecting gas, draws a vapor sample... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4574646 | Method for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine Method for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine whereby a cigarette is picked out of a respective recess at a first point on a line feeding the cigarettes through the filter assembly machine and, after being fed to at least one checking statio... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4044617 | Multi-stage sampler for flowing material A multi-stage sampler for providing a representative sample of a batch of flowing material such as wet or dry sand, mineral concentrates, grain, sicky material, particulate matter, and the like. The sample includes a rotating sampler disc onto which the b... | 08/30/1977 |
| 3982439 | Apparatus for slowing head pieces and samples coming from a rolling mill This invention provides apparatus for slowing down the forward speed of severed head pieces or sample pieces issuing from a rolling mill at rolling mill speed, so that the severed pieces may be removed from the main processing line. This is achieved by pr... | 09/28/1976 |
