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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4195388 | Can creels for feeding fibre slivers to textile machines An improvement in and to can creels for feeding fibre slivers to textile machines, wherein one or more reserve slivers are provided for and advanced when one or more of the normally fed fibre slivers are broken or run-out. A pair of feeding rollers automa... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4192018 | Baseball glove A baseball glove having a thumb and finger stalls, a crotch portion between the base of the thumb stall and the base of the next adjacent finger stall, and a web extending between and being secured to the thumb and next adjaent finger stall and to the cro... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4187594 | Roll for pressure treating webs of material In a roll for pressure treating webs of material comprising a stationary core which is surrounded by a rotatable hollow cylinder spaced from the core, and in which there are provided, between the core and the hollow cylinder, longitudinal seals and end se... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4187800 | Device for manufacturing photosensitive screen A device for manufacturing a photosensitive screen comprising a vapor supply source and a mesh-shaped electric conductive substrate arranged above the vapor supply source along at least one portion of a circular plane having a center located at the vapor ... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4186684 | Apparatus for vapor deposition of materials An apparatus for performing vapor deposition processes on a substrate includes essential housing having a centrally located reaction chamber, with the housing having a pair of opposed openings in opposed sides thereof. Cover means are removably secured to... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4177544 | Method of and apparatus for making tampons A carousel rotatable about a fixed axis carries a plurality of treatment units which are mounted on the carousel removably for easy repair and replacement. A supply fixed adjacent the carousel feeds a strip of pressable material tangentially toward the ca... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4177522 | Survival belt A belt is formed of a single piece of high strength nylon line approximately 50-100 feet long attached to a belt buckle by a series of longitudinal loops which constitute the warp strands of a woven band. The weft strands of the band are woven through the... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4176407 | Hitting mitt The hitting mitt comprises a flexible pad structure formed into a tube shape having opposite end openings and including a hole formed through the side wall of the tube shape. A person can insert either his right or left hand into one of the end openings a... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4176425 | Device for supporting textile fiber bales during bale breaking A bale breaker machine includes a breaker arrangement on which a textile fiber bale is positioned for being opened at its underside, a guiding wall pair formed of two substantially vertically oriented bale guiding wall disposed above the breaker arrangeme... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4173057 | Apparatus for receiving and gathering a fibre band from a card or stretcher Apparatus for receiving and gathering a fibre band from a card or stretcher is arranged for a hopper wheel to deliver the band into the top of a cylindrical tube inclined to a vertical line passing centrally through its lower end, the tube being arranged ... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4169301 | Gilling or stretching apparatus In gilling or stretching apparatus wherein a plurality of pin bars are driven and guided in a circuitous path including a stretching run and a return run, with threaded spindles engaging the pin bars along said runs, means are provided to retard the speed... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4168545 | Abrasive hand covering A hand covering or glove having a flexible two-piece body with a plurality of discrete abrading units disposed on the hand covering to permit free flexing thereof. Each abrading unit is a discrete one-piece molded synthetic organic resin member with an ab... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4167803 | Apparatus for detecting foreign bodies in a textile lap An apparatus for detecting metallic bodies in a running textile lap performs the steps of generating a high-frequency electromagnetic field; passing the textile lap through the high-frequency electromagnetic field; and deriving a sensor signal as a functi... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4167914 | Rotating rod, rotating press roll nip coating apparatus An extrusion coater for high viscosity, thin coatings of the hot melt type, includes an elongated slot coating head across which the web to be coated is advanced under tension and includes a lead-on lip at the slot plus a fixed, unyieldable, lead-off lip ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4164042 | Wall structures such as for use in deep diving apparatus A wall structure for use in forming part of an enclosure that is subject to high pressure differential between its external and internal environments comprises tubing that has been flattened over two diametrically opposed areas and helically wound so as t... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4163304 | Rotary cylinder fitted with needles or teeth for the treatment of slivers of textile fibers The needles or teeth are rigidly fixed on longitudinal bars mounted on the cylinder body in such a manner as to be capable of pivotal displacement on the cylinder body about axes parallel to the axis of the cylinder. Locking means carried by the cylinder ... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4162559 | Carding apparatus A carding flat for use with textile carding machinery comprises an array of individual pins each secured in a respective aperture in a flat support.... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4161805 | Process and apparatus for carding fibers Fibers are carded to produce a web on a carding machine on which at least one gaseous barrier is produced near at least one end of the main cylinder roll of the carding machine so that the edge of the web of fibers on the main cylinder roll is maintained ... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161803 | Caster A caster including a pair of diametrically opposed rollers having axes of rotation which are angled with respect to the supporting surface on which the caster travels. During movement of the caster, the rollers exert opposing transversely-directed forces ... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161052 | Method and apparatus for making a uniform, continuous sliver An apparatus for making a uniform, continuous sliver has a sliver sensor for continuously sensing the throughput quantity of the sliver and generating a continuous main regulating signal x as a function of the throughput quantity and a first regulator con... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4157601 | Front screen for carding machines A front screen is illustrated having a nose portion extending from beneath the cylinder between the cylinder and the doffer wherein orifice means are provided for directing air under pressure forwardly therefrom for avoiding collection of fibers on the si... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4156958 | Releasable fastening Releasable fastening for fastening a body of revolution to a roll shell of approximately the same diameter, more particularly a ring on an elastic shell of a pressure equalization roll; in the corner which is formed by the wall of the roll shell and an en... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4156954 | Disintegrating apparatus The apparatus is particularly adapted for disintegrating bale-like masses of waste textile strand material that includes synthetic (e.g., polyester, nylon, etc.) textile strands of large-magnitude tensile strength and frequently of considerable length. Th... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4156300 | Floor covering installation A process for joining together the edges of two floor coverings, in which one web is positioned under the margin of one of the coverings and a corresponding wing is positioned over the margin of the covering, after which the wing is advanced towards the w... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4153977 | Method of forming a continuous fiber layer of constant weight per unit length and apparatus for implementing the method A method of, and apparatus for, forming a fiber layer of substantially constant weight per unit length, there being provided supply means for supplying a fiber and air mixture onto a moving, fiber-separating, perforated surface. A suction opening is arran... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4153978 | Method for fiber alignment using fluid-dynamic forces A method and apparatus are provided for aligning individual fibers parallel to the main fluid stream that is conveying them, using fluid-dynamic forces. This method and apparatus are based on the use of converging streamlines in a nearly irrotational flow... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4153976 | Roller gin with spiral blade rotobar A roller cotton gin including a ginning roller and a stationary knife to which seed cotton is conveyed by the friction surface of the ginning roller for separating lint fibers from the cotton seed, and a rotary stripping blade device adjacent the stationa... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4152812 | Cotton cleaning attachment for cotton scraper A cotton cleaning attachment for a cotton scraper has a separator section mountable at a discharge end of a conventional scraper so as to receive scrap cotton, dirt and debris downwardly under the force of gravity from the discharge end of the scraper and... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4152809 | Traverse-rod construction for automatically providing even folding and unfolding or drapery supported thereby A traverse rod for drapes has its pleat hangers attached to elements (e.g. the spaced pivot pins) of a lazy-tong mechanism, whereby the pleats are always evenly spaced regardless of the degree of opening or closing of the drapes. The lazy-tong mechanism (... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4150461 | Cleaning of textile fiber tufts In order to remove dust from textile fiber tufts, the tufts are conveyed by an air-penetrable, continuously advancing screening element and a single stream of air is passed a plurality of times through the screening element in order to alternately mix wit... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4149303 | Roll In a grooved drum with a working drum surface of metal consisting of a cylindrical inner drum on which at least one ribbon is helically wound, turn by turn, the radially outer boundary of which forms the working drum surface, the ribbon also forming axial... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4149672 | Apparatus for mixing cold and hot water, and for distributing the water mixture A cold and hot water mixing faucet comprises an inlet valve each for the cold and hot water to deliver cold and hot water to a mixing chamber. Each valve includes a valve housing and a membrane thereon and defining a counterpressure chamber therewith. The... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4146935 | Glove for hobbling grip A sports glove for use particularly in golf wherein the glove is to be worn on the dominant hand so as to reduce its gripping power whereby the non-dominant hand and arm can control the golf swing.... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4145792 | Device for returning excess fibers from cylinder of carding machine A device comprises a guide cover extending from above the taker-in roller on one side of the cylinder toward and over a feed roller and defining a passage for the air stream produced by the rotation of the taker-in roller to return fibers entrained in the... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4144619 | Dry-laying a web of particulate or fibrous material Apparatus for dry-laying cellulosic fibres on a foraminous travelling band comprises a distribution chamber one wall of which facing the band is provided by a vibratable screen. Within the chamber is a rotating brush roll positioned so that the brushes ca... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4144623 | Process for the production of tampon blanks There is set forth a process for the production of a tampon, particularly for menstrual hygiene in which a fleece of absorbent cotton or similar material is wound up together with a retrieving string arranged on it. A fleece track is carried along approxi... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4144617 | Tilted axle caster An enclosed axle, inclined wheel caster including a generally disc like pivot support, or body frame member, which may be flat or dished, carrying an axle and a supporting wheel member rotatably mounted on the axle, both of such members being made from st... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4143442 | Castor with a brake device Castor with a brake device and of the kind having two wheels mounted on a common axle extending through an intervening partition a bore having therein to receive the castor pivot rod. The wheels are retained on the axle by means of a locking member engagn... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4142281 | Magnetic roller for electrographic developing and/or reproducing devices The magnet carrier assembly of an electrographic copying device is fabricated from a number of separate parts instead of being machined from a single block of metal. The assembly can consist of a tubular body which supports the magnets either on the outsi... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4142279 | Apparatus for treating a tow of filaments with a liquid An apparatus for treating a tow of filaments with a fluid, the apparatus forming a tow path therethrough and having a pair of guide surfaces positioned on opposite sides of the tow in series with each other in such a manner that the two path has at least ... | 03/06/1979 |
