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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4989402 | Method of, and device for, a secured control of spinning units of a spinning machine, especially of an open-end spinning machine The invention relates to textile machine control. The run of spinning units is controlled by two busses, a two-way bus, and a reserve one-way bus, the latter being activated, as a rule, by a central electronic system, and possibly, though less often, by t... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4974791 | Magnetic tape cassettes A magnetic tape cassette has an improved reel spring, slack limiter and tape guide. The reel spring has a generally rectangular shape with first and second parallel edges extending substantially along its entire length. A flat, central base portion of the... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4958404 | Card for producing fibrous webs etc. A card for producing fibrous webs or random webs of textile fibers comprises a plurality of cylinders in series with metallic wire. The cylinders rotate in a predetermined mutual sense to which worker rolls are coordinated. The cylinders and workers are c... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4936522 | Collapsible rewind spindle A rewind spindle has a bearing defining a rotation axis and a main rod supported on the bearing for rotation about the axis and having an outer face forming a part-cylindrical outer surface centered on the axis and extending angularly at most about 180° ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4936521 | Device for automatically clamping moving, and releasing a spool In a winding machine where material is wound onto a non-rotating spool by a flyer that revolves around the spool, a device for moving, clamping, and releasing the spool moves the spool into position for winding, traverses the spool axially as the flyer ro... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4936030 | Energy efficient running shoe This invention relates to a shoe having a mechanism in its sole to transmit the mechanical energy of heel impact to the front of the foot, where it is stored and then released during thrust. The mechanical energy of the impact on the rest of the foot (in ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4936028 | Removable soles for shoes A shoe with replaceable outsole, destined for use as a tourist, army, work, etc. shoe. It is basically comprised of an upper portion (the shoe itself) to which the uppersole is permanently attached in some manner, a removable outsole with an interlocking ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4934620 | Apparatus for winding coaxial insulation onto a winding core For the construction of an insulating wound body 8 for electrical insulation purposes, in an installation 50 for the formation of a stack 24, sheets 21 and/or precut sheets blanks 21' are prepared from a web of material. The sheet stack 24 precedes the wi... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4930711 | Automatic defect cutting assembly for a continuous fabric winder A method and apparatus for removing a section of a sheet of material being wound on a roll. The apparatus removes the section and then positions the lengths preceding and following the removed section in overlapping relationship with one another so that t... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930714 | Reel for a magnetic tape A reel for a magnetic tape comprises a hub in a cylindrical form with a boss at its upper surface, a lower flange formed at the lower part of the hub by one-piece molding, an upper flange with an aperture for allowing insertion of the boss, the upper flan... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930231 | Shoe sole structure An improved shoe sole structure, wherein the sole made of rubber comprises a plurality of crosswise parallel grooves in the upper face of the front half section and a large recess in the upper face of the rear half section, and the grooves are filled in a... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930718 | Fencing dispenser A vehicle mounted dispenser for fencing fabric including a normally upright cage receiving a roll of fencing fabric to be dispensed through either of a pair of slots on either side of the cage. The cage is pivotally mounted on a holder structure attached ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4928904 | Gap, overwind, and lead angle sensor for fiber optic bobbins A position sensor for sensing the position of an optical fiber with respect to the axis of a bobbin as the fiber is being wound to the bobbin. The apparatus and method illuminate the fiber being fed onto a bobbin with an externally incident energy which i... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4928895 | Method and apparatus for assembling a plurality of packages for transport along a textile machine A method and apparatus for transporting packages from stations of a textile machine to a location for further handling or processing includes a package support device. Packages are transferred from the winding station to the package support device and, wh... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4925076 | Paper feeder A paper feeder for tractor-feed printers. A frame movably mounts an endless belt having a plurality of feed pins. A cover is pivotably mounted to the frame and may be pivoted between open and closed positions. In the closed position a lower surface of the... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4925080 | Spreader bar apparatus A spreader bar apparatus is disclosed for separating slit portions of a web. The apparatus includes a first spreader bar which extends in a cross-machine direction relative to the web. The first spreader bar is bowed relative to the slit portions such tha... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4923140 | Bail reversing apparatus for fishing spinning reels A bail reversing apparatus of the invention has an abutting member formed on the reel body which is made to abut against a kick member to turn the kick member and thereby return the bail support member to the reel-up position. This enables efficient, quic... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4922705 | Cleaning device for a drafting device in a spinning machine A cleaning device for a drafting device in a spinning machine comprises a clearer device provided at a drafting device of each of a large number of spindles provided in a row in the spinning machine, and a collecting device for fiber waste which reciproca... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4922704 | Method and apparatus for introducing a roving into a textile machine drafting frame According to the method, an end part of a roving is first introduced into the main drafting zone of a drafting frame of a textile machine after a reference point at a clamping device. Thereafter, a middle part of the roving is drawn laterally into the pre... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4921155 | Tape material conveying roller and tape material conveying method An apparatus for conveying a tape material having different surface moduli on either side by nipping with a pair of rotatable rollers and a method of conveying the same is disclosed. The tape material having different surface moduli is conveyed by an appa... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4920739 | Method and apparatus for reestablishing the spinning operation A method and apparatus for reestablishing the spinning operation at a spinning station of an open end spinning machine after a yarn break or after completion of winding of a full package. A traveling piecing unit responds to signals at a spinning station ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4921184 | Locking mechanism for webbing retractor A locking mechanism for looking a winding shaft wound a webbing to prevent the winding shaft from rotating at excessive movement more than a predetermined amount of acceleration in a horizontal direction. The locking mechanism has an operating member whic... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4918838 | Shoe sole having compressible shock absorbers This is a sole with compressible shock absorbers which not only provides an improved shock absorbing function but also provides more comfort for the wearer. The shock absorbers consist of a polygonal replaceable air bellows placed in a polygonal recess on... | 04/24/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4919319 | Contactless web support guide Contactless support guides serve to create a cushion of pressurized air to hold a web of material such as paper spaced from a support face. The support face can be curved to transport the web through an angular deviation. The support face contains a large... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4918840 | Footwear fastener Footwear Fastener is a logical and comfortable alternative to lacking shoes. It will adapt to any shoe. A zipper with loops sewn on the bottom and buttons on top allow the show wearer to lace the loops through existing eyelets and hook around the buttons.... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4919350 | Holder/dispenser for paper in roll form This invention contemplates an improved dispenser of paper in roll form by reason of novel friction brake device which provides user control and economy.... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4919318 | Swing arm roller speed differential web tracking system Side registration is provided for a web during its forward movement by lateral movement of the web causing one side edge of the web to engage a registration edge guide, by moving the web sideways with self-skewed pivotal rollers engaging and driving the w... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4916891 | Open-end rotor spinning machine An open-end rotor spinning machine which operates at rotor speeds higher than 100,000 rpm is constructed so that the critical system rotational speed is higher than the 100,000 rpm operating rotational speed. The rotatable rotor has a shaft bearingly supp... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4917327 | Tape dispenser A tape dispenser includes an automatic tension control mechanism and provision for auto-splicing the tail portion of one tape to the leading portion of another. The tensioning mechanism includes a brake band that extends at least partially about a tape sp... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4917322 | Barbed wire caddy A cart for spools of wire for transport or dispensing in which the main rigid "U"-shaped handle has an integral lockable hinge on one leg that can be unlocked to enable the leg to be swung away and thereby permit the wheels and wire spool to be removed. T... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4915282 | Inertia compensated festoon assembly An inertia compensated festoon assembly useable to control the tension in a moving web that is subject to tension changes due to, among other things, frequent zero-speed splices of the web to a new web and that must run continuously, downstream from the a... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4914838 | Sport shoe with metatarsal cradle and drag toe A sport shoe is provided having a circular cleat array disposed about but not directly beneath the metatarsal joint of the great toe. The shoe sole also includes a flex area in the region of the metatarsal joints. This combination permits flexure of and c... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4915283 | Clamping arrangement for gripping and carrying web material A clamping arrangement is disclosed for gripping and carrying web material about a die turret of a packaging machine for molding the web and for carrying the web through and off the packing machine as product is loaded and the package is sealed. The clamp... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4912859 | Spring shoe A spring shoe is provided, of the type which includes a top plate that holds a person's foot and a bottom plate coupled to the top plate through springs to allow for vigorous jumping, wherein the top plate is stabilized against unwanted motion in a simple... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4913367 | Coil width detecting apparatus for coil material feeding unit The present invention is concerned with a technique for measuring the width (l) of a strip uncoiled from a coil material (3) to be fed to a press line, wherein linear displacement of both support shafts (4) on uncoiler mechanisms (1) adapted to support th... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4908910 | Process and apparatus for blending fibers of at least two flows of fiber material, in particular spinning material A process and apparatus for blending fibers of a plurality of fiber flow is disclosed which includes a fiber feed device (2a, 2b, 3a, 3b) which feeds fiber layers (12) through an angular channel (13, 14) which rearranges the vertical layers into generally... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4908960 | Overshoe Disclosed is an overshoe including a sole section, shoe section, and ankle cover section having a flap which folds inwardly towards the inside ankle of the user. The flap is detachably secured in position by a fastener which is covered by the flap upon be... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4907756 | Winding brake for spring-return tape measure A winding brake for spring-return tape measures comprising a case having diametral walls, a drum disposed inside the case for carrying a graduated tape, said drum comprising a flange opposite one of the diametral wall of the case, at least one inside crad... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4905923 | Dispenser tube holder A holder for rotatably retaining a roll dispenser tube in its carton includes a self-tapping screw for piercing opposite ends of the carton and engaging the inside of the tube. Each screw has a shallow head forming a thumbturn that occupies minimal space ... | 03/06/1990 |
