Abstract: In the course of rewinding yarn on a bobbin winding machine, the yarn performs a balloon-like oscillation around the delivery bobbin. The shape of the balloon has an effect on the yarn tension force and thus on the behavior of the yarn during winding. To reduce resulting tension fluctuations and particularly tension peaks, the course of yarn travel is influenced by means of a device in accordance with the present invention having an annular yarn guide surface comprised of a first set of guide surfaces collectively forming a part of a truncated cone the larger diameter of which is adjacent the delivery bobbin and a second set of guide surfaces collectively forming converging edges of an at least five-sided truncated pyramid with each pyramidal edge being disposed to extend axially between two adjacent first guide surfaces forming recessed notches in their collective conical surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying treating liquor to a traveling textile web having a vat containing treating liquor and a plurality of web guiding rolls submerged in the treating liquor and arranged in a substantially vertical sequence with adjacent rolls being in contact to form nips therebetween. The upper rolls are supported in the vat for resting under their own weight on the lower roll to apply pressure at the nips on the textile web. A drive motor drives at least one of the rolls with the other rolls being driven by surface contact with the drive roll for positive feed of the traveling web at a uniform surface speed through the treating liquor. Guide rolls guide the textile web to the vat at substantially the same surface speed as that of the plurality of rolls. A pair of driven squeeze rolls above the treating liquor form a nip through which the textile web is guided as it travels from the treating liquor, with squeeze rolls being driven at substantially the same surface speed as the guide rolls.

Abstract: Spinning stations of open-end spinning frames are cleaned from time to time to increase productivity, e.g. each time a sliver can change is made although, if the times between the exchange of two cans are too long, cleaning may be performed at a preset cycle. The sliver must be removed from the spinning station for this purpose. To be able to reintroduce a defined length of the removed sliver into the spinning station at the end of a cleaning operation, the end of the sliver is aspirated from between the draw-in roller and the gripping table of the spinning station by means of an aspiration and blower nozzle and pulled out of the spinning box of the spinning station and, after the cleaning operation, the sliver is introduced into the spinning station by means of the aspiration and blower nozzle. The aspiration nozzle has an insert with bores for causing the tip end of the sliver to assume a particular shape.

Abstract: A fluid power transmission for driving automotive accessories at a constant speed with a variable speed input includes a pump driven by a motor vehicle engine in communication with a hydraulic motor which drives the motor vehicle accessories. A working fluid is disposed within a conduit system which communicates the pump driving force with the hydraulic motor. A flow control valve in the return line from the hydraulic motor to the pump provides a constant input flow rate to the pump independent on motor vehicle engine speed and the accessory load on the hydraulic motor to provide a constant output speed at a necessary pressure for the pump to maintain the accessories at a predetermined optimal rotational speed.

Abstract: An attachment for the cylinder apparatus of a circular knitting machine which produces lock stitched hosiery. The attachment further includes an additional attachment which provides a mechanism to gather and sever a tubular hosiery segment intermediate its distal ends, creating two equal sized hosiery segments each having a closed end and an open end for use as foot covers, or footies, and having the advantage of creating two footies per cut with virtually no waste. A collar connecting device interconnects an extension cylinder to a standard cylinder tube on an existing knitting machine. The collar connecting device permits a double cylinder arrangement with an intermediate gathering, sealing and cutting device which yields a pair of hosiery footies with a single cutting action thus doubling the standard output, and eliminating the usual waste product.

Abstract: An essentially pickproof padlock has a housing defining an interior chamber and a keyway with a stacked parallel arrangement of multiple annular cam rings fixed concentrically within the housing. The radially inward annular surface of each cam ring is formed with a respective raceway of a predetermined annular extent and disposition relative to the chamber. A tumbler assembly is disposed within the cam arrangement for selective relative rotational movement. The tumbler assembly has a plurality of slidable pins each with a head portion forming a bearing element. An associated key is formed with a plurality of parallel axial recesses for receiving the pins of the tumbler assembly, each recess being of a selected respective length terminating at a shoulder to collectively engage and move the head portions of the pins into respective operative dispositions within corresponding ones of the raceways wherein the tumbler assembly may be rotated by the key between locked and unlocked dispositions.

Abstract: A router bit includes a generally elongate body portion, a shank portion for mounting to a rotating machine, and a knife support head disposed oppositely from the shank portion. The knife support head includes a pair of recesses formed therein to accept interchangeable knives which are adjustable longitudinally to compensate for knife wear and loss of diametrical dimension due to resharpening of the knives.

Abstract: A fluid filter is of the kind having a tubular flow-through core surrounded by a pleated wire cage around which a filter medium in the form of a pleated bag is mounted with the pleats in the bag extending into and around the pleats of the wire cage. The filter medium is formed by a sheet of filter material having draw-string ends which fold over and are tied down on opposite ends of the cage. Sealing assemblies which eliminate the need for conventional gaskets are used to seal the folded over and tied down ends of the filter medium. The arrangement facilitates the assembly, removal and re-use of filter media.

Abstract: Textile yarn package supporting carriers are disclosed for use in textile dyeing machines to enable the machine to be effectively operated at less than full capacity. Each carrier has a base with multiple upstanding package supporting posts each having a longitudinal package supporting portion extending upwardly from the base and dimensioned to securely support a predetermined maximum number of packages on each post. A cap mounts to the spindle portion of each post for movement therealong into engagement with the outermost package on the post. The cap has a latching arrangement with a latch plate disposed to be selectively movable between a disengaged or release position wherein the latch plate does not impede relatively free sliding movement of the cap along the post and a second engaged position wherein the latch plate is braced against the post to prevent sliding movement of the cap along the post.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveyorized griddle-like cooking of food products simultaneously on two opposed product sides comprises a pair of cooking elements arranged in opposed spaced facing relation to emit thermal cooking energy toward one another and two endless food transport conveyors driven to travel between the cooking elements along respective food-conveying runs in a common transport direction in sufficient closely spaced, generally parallel relation to transport the food products to be cooked simultaneously on opposite sides. Each conveyor is preferably in the form of a belt having a substantially continuous imperforate food contacting surface so as to provide griddle-like contact with the opposite sides of the food product during cooking. Differing embodiments of the apparatus are contemplated to accommodate cooking of differing food products, e.g.

Abstract: A device for directing underground electrical cables between an above ground electrical apparatus disposed on a supporting pad and an underground conduit includes a hollow housing defining first and second openings and a passageway extending interiorly through the housing between the openings, the first opening being substantially larger than the second opening and matable with the access opening of the supporting pad, and the second opening being matable with the underground conduit for directing cables between the underground conduit and the access opening in the support pad for connection to the electrical apparatus.

Abstract: A dust collector for removing foreign matter entrained in a flow of transport air, which includes individual pulse jet cleaners for each of a plurality of filter elements, and a second pulse jet cleaning arrangement that is located centrally of the filter elements, preferably in the form of a conduit extending longitudinally parallel to the axes of the filter elements. The filter elements are rotated past the second pulse jet cleaner to enhance the cleaning of the filter elements.

Abstract: A valve for use in a fluid flow line comprises a housing having a piston chamber with a inlet, outlet, and a vent. An annular outer piston defining a central fluid flow opening is disposed in slidable sealing contact with the housing within the chamber. An inner piston extends axially through the central opening of the outer piston for relative axial movement and is movable in an axial direction between a first position, in which the inner piston blocks the inlet from the chamber, and a second position, in which the inner piston seals the vent from fluid communication with the chamber. The inner and outer pistons, furthermore, are movable relative to each other between an engaged condition, in which the outer piston engages the inner piston to seal the central opening thereof, and a disengaged condition, in which the central opening of the outer piston is open to fluid flow therethrough.

Abstract: A textile winding machine has a plurality of winding stations and a servicing device which travels along the winding stations. The winding stations are connected with an empty tube magazine disposed at the end of the machine via a conveyor extending along the machine. A manipulating device is provided at each winding station for transferring an empty tube into an intermediate tube storage location of the winding station. The manipulating device has a tube gripper pivotable between a tube pick-up position at the conveyor and a tube release position at the intermediate storage location. The servicing device replaces cheeses which have attained a predetermined diameter with empty tubes by transferring an empty tube out of the intermediate storage location of the respective winding station. In the process, the fill state of the intermediate storage location is monitored by a sensor system installed on the cheese changing servicing device.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming compressible material into discrete solid blocks or briquettes in which the material is compressed in a compression chamber by a pre-press ram and a main ram. A control system is provided which includes sensors for generating signals that are a function of the density of the compressed and densified material within the compression chamber, and an arrangement which is responsive to the sensors is provided for varying the operation of the material feeding device to change the volumetric flow of material fed to the compression chamber in response to predetermined changes in the density of the material in the chamber.

Abstract: A jet-type textile wet processing machine is equipped with a pivotable inner wall assembly within the entrance end of the fabric chamber in the processing vessel for selective pivotal disposition to control definition of the plug form of the fabric advancing through the chamber and has an internally segmented jet nozzle structure for creating annularly differentiated impinging streams of processing liquid on the traveling fabric rope. Unique processing applications enabled by the machine include simultaneously treating within a single chamber two independent disconnected endless fabric ropes or a single fabric rope or a single fabric rope in doubled form.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating traveling textile material in a pressurized fluid includes a housing divided into a plurality of expansion chambers and a centrally located treatment chamber through which the material is caused to travel and in which pressurized treatment fluid is applied to the material, the pressurized treatment fluid expanding progressively outwardly through the expansion chambers by way of the material passageways. The material passageways are formed with their smallest dimension at least eight times smaller than the smallest dimension of the expansion chambers to achieve the necessary pressure drop without sealing.