Patents Assigned to Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
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Patent number: 7647760Abstract: A drawing frame-slubbing machine combination for manufacturing a roving yarn from a fiber assembly is disclosed. The drawing frame-slubbing machine combination includes a drawing frame for doubling and stretching a fiber assembly into a drafter sliver and a slubbing machine with a twist application component configured to apply a true twist to the drafter sliver by one or more air flows.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Christian Griesshammer, Herbert Stalder
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Patent number: 7628005Abstract: An air jet spinning machine for producing spun threads from staple fiber strands includes a number of spinning positions, to each of which compressed air nozzles are arranged for the purpose of generating the spinning twist. A joint compressed air regulator is connected upstream of the spinning positions, which regulator includes a pressure sensor and a regulating device. The compressed air regulator is set at a reference pressure, which corresponds to the unregulated static pressure prevailing when all spinning positions are in operation. In the case of a change in the static pressure, the compressed air regulator re-adjusts to the reference pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gernot Schaeffler
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Publication number: 20090289141Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for winding a roving (15) provided with a protective twist onto a roving bobbin (12), containing a bobbin mounting (19) for the rotatable mounting of a roving bobbin (12) and a traversing device (11) for traversing in the bobbin axial direction (16) the roving (15) to be wound. The invention is distinguished in that the traversing device (11) comprises a driven pair of winding delivery rollers (17, 18) arranged directly in front of the roving bobbin (12) and having a nip line (20) through which the roving (15) to be wound is guided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Christian Griesshammer, David Gehring, Fabian Lehner, Pascal Marti
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Patent number: 7516606Abstract: A process is provided for optimizing the production performance of a spinning machine. Each individual spinning position is separately monitored in relation to the number of end breaks and is adjusted to an optimal production speed. When this process is applied to an air jet spinning machine, the compressed air fed to the spinning positions is adjusted depending on the respective production speed.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gernot Schaeffler
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Patent number: 7493749Abstract: A spinning position for spinning yard from a fiber structure including a fiber guidance element is disclosed. The fiber guidance element includes a fiber guiding surface having a deflection point located in the interior of the fiber guidance element. The input direction of a fiber structure into the fiber guidance element forms an angle of inclination ? with the fiber guiding surface at the deflection point. The splaying of the outer fibers of the fiber structure is increased and the quality of the yarn is thereby increased. The jamming of the fiber elements lying parallel to the direction of introduction may also be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2004Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Herbert Stalder, Kurt Ziegler, Peter Artzt, Heinz Müller
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Patent number: 7464529Abstract: A process and an arrangement for re-starting a previously interrupted spinning process in a spinning arrangement is provided. The arrangement includes a drafting unit which can be shut down and also an airjet unit including a vacuum chamber. For the purpose of removing an initially inhomogeneous fiber stream, a staple fiber strand, delivered by the re-operating drafting unit, is temporarily suctioned as waste via a deflecting device after it has left the drafting unit. Only then, when a homogeneous fiber stream has formed, is the staple fiber strand joined with a thread which is transported through the airjet unit. The inhomogeneous fiber stream is removed with the aid of the low pressure in the vacuum chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler, Peter Schweier
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Patent number: 7464530Abstract: A process for preparing a piecing operation in an air jet spinning arrangement is described. The air jet spinning arrangement comprises a drafting device, whose main drafting zone is bordered on its entry side by an apron roller pair and on its exit side by a delivery roller pair. The apron roller pair is connected to a first drive, the delivery roller pair to a second drive. When the spinning process is interrupted, the delivery of a closed staple fiber strand is stopped in the main drafting zone and a new starting end of the staple fiber strand is created. This new starting end is to be pieced together with an end of a thread already spun. To create a new starting end of the staple fiber strand suitable for piecing, the apron roller pair and the delivery roller pair are each controlled separately when the spinning process is interrupted and are shut down one after the other, in such a way that in the main drafting zone a new starting end of the staple fiber strand is formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler
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Publication number: 20080276594Abstract: An air jet aggregate for an air jet spinning apparatus for producing a spun thread from a staple fiber strand includes a vortex chamber and a number of fluid-feeding injector channels running into the vortex chamber. At least two injector channels are provided, which have differing angles of inclination in relation to a parallel to the axis of the spun thread. The at least two injector channels having differing angles of inclination are connectable to at least one pressurized air source. The injector channels with differing angles of inclination are, preferably, connectable to separately adjustable pressurized air sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: MASCHINENFABRIK RIETER AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Volker Jehle
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Patent number: 7404285Abstract: An exchangeable adapter is provided for reducing the size of a trash removal opening of an opening roller housing in open-end spinning arrangements. The said adapter comprises two semi-spherical supporting surfaces at a distance to one another for positioning the adapter on corresponding rounded countersurfaces. The adapter comprises further a curved fiber guiding surface corresponding to the curve of an opening roller as well as a boundary wall for reducing the size of the trash removal opening arranged directly upstream of the fiber guiding surface. The adapter is made from profiled bars and cut to the required effective width. The fiber guiding surface can be provided with a recess which is connected with the external atmosphere and which permits the entry of air into the opening roller housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Mathias Burchert, Siegfried Krohmer, Michael Basting
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Publication number: 20080115476Abstract: An air jet spinning arrangement includes an essentially hollow cylindrical vortex chamber, whose peripheral wall forms a supporting surface for a peripheral surface of a rotationally symmetrical insert in the running-in area of the staple fiber strand. A number of air jet slits are worked into the peripheral surface of the insert, which air jet slits are completed to form closed compressed air channels by way of the supporting surface. The nozzle-like mouths of the compressed air channels are arranged on the front side of the insert facing the vortex chamber. The design of the air jet slits resemble a multiple-start thread.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2005Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gerd Stahlecker
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Publication number: 20080066442Abstract: A process for preparing a piecing operation in an air jet spinning arrangement is described. The air jet spinning arrangement comprises a drafting device, whose main drafting zone is bordered on its entry side by an apron roller pair and on its exit side by a delivery roller pair. The apron roller pair is connected to a first drive, the delivery roller pair to a second drive. When the spinning process is interrupted, the delivery of a closed staple fibre strand is stopped in the main drafting zone and a new starting end of the staple fibre strand is created. This new starting end is to be pieced together with an end of a thread already spun. To create a new starting end of the staple fibre strand suitable for piecing, the apron roller pair and the delivery roller pair are each controlled separately when the spinning process is interrupted and are shut down one after the other, namely in such a way that in the main drafting zone a new starting end of the staple fibre strand is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2005Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler
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Publication number: 20080041029Abstract: A process is provided for optimizing the production performance of a spinning machine. Each individual spinning position is separately monitored in relation to the number of end breaks and is adjusted to an optimal production speed. When this process is applied to an air jet spinning machine, the compressed air fed to the spinning positions is adjusted depending on the respective production speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2005Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gernot Schaeffler
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Patent number: 7328569Abstract: An arrangement for producing a spun thread includes a drafting unit having a delivery roller pair and an airjet assembly arranged downstream thereof. In the airjet assembly, a vortex chamber with an air evacuation channel is provided. Furthermore, at least one cleaning channel is provided, which is arranged with a suction opening to the delivery roller pair. This cleaning channel is connected by a mouthpiece to the air evacuation channel. A compressed air opening of an injector channel is located in the area of the mouthpiece. The injector channel increasing the low pressure of the air evacuation channel when required.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AgInventor: Peter Schweier
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Patent number: 7325390Abstract: A twin unit has two drafting devices for drafting fiber strands and is applicable in a spinning machine. The twin unit includes a common housing for the two drivable drafting devices, whereby the housing is detachably mounted in a machine frame. The drafting devices include a number of drivable bottom rollers and are arranged essentially mirror-symmetrical to one another. Each bottom roller has an area which drafts the fiber strand and is characterized in that the bottom roller has two bearing points. The two bearing points of each bottom roller are arranged one on either side of the area which drafts the fiber strand. In one variation, at least two opposite bottom rollers may form a bottom roller pair, in which the bearing points facing to the plane of symmetry of the twin unit are taken up in a joint bearing take-up. In addition, a top roller in the form of a twin pressure roller may be assigned to a bottom roller pair.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler
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Patent number: 7281366Abstract: An arrangement for producing a spun thread from a staple sliver including a drafting unit and an air jet aggregate arranged downstream thereof. A vortex chamber with an air evacuation channel is located in the air jet aggregate. A cleaning channel is arranged to the delivery roller pair of the drafting unit, which cleaning channel is connected, together with the air evacuation channel to a joint vacuum source. The cleaning channel runs preferably into the air evacuation channel in the inside of the air jet aggregate. The cleaning channel is preferably aligned against the pressure roller of the delivery roller pair. Further suction openings can be additionally arranged to the bottom rollers of the drafting unit, which suction openings are also connected to the joint vacuum source.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Peter Schweier
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Publication number: 20070227116Abstract: A spindle-shaped component for an air jet spinning arrangement is described. The component includes a base body and an attached tip, as well as a yarn withdrawal channel which extends through the base body and the tip, the first part of the yarn withdrawal channel being an entry opening in the tip. The spindle-shaped component also has an injection channel which runs into the yarn withdrawal channel, the injection channel being directed in the direction of the entry opening of the yarn withdrawal channel. The injection channel is formed by a surface area of the base body and a surface area of the tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gerd Stahlecker
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Publication number: 20070175200Abstract: A process and an arrangement for re-starting a previously interrupted spinning process in a spinning arrangement is provided. The arrangement includes a drafting unit which can be shut down and also an airjet unit including a vacuum chamber. For the purpose of removing an initially inhomogeneous fiber stream, a staple fiber strand, delivered by the re-operating drafting unit, is temporarily suctioned as waste via a deflecting device after it has left the drafting unit. Only then, when a homogeneous fiber stream has formed, is the staple fiber strand joined with a thread which is transported through the airjet unit. The inhomogeneous fiber stream is removed with the aid of the low pressure in the vacuum chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler, Peter Schweier
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Publication number: 20070125062Abstract: An airjet spinning arrangement includes a fiber feed channel and a thread withdrawal channel arranged downstream therefrom, which thread withdrawal channel is movable away from the fiber feed channel. An injector channel runs into the thread withdrawal channel, which injector channel is connectable to a compressed air source. The injector channel is arranged in a piston-like component, which piston-like component is movable away from the fiber feed channel by the compressed air fed to the injector channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Gernot Schaeffler
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Patent number: 7225605Abstract: The invention relates to textile machines with several spinning places, whereby each spinning place comprises a can feeding means, a spinning unit, and winding unit. The invention is based on the task to design the spinning places in such a manner, to minimize the downtimes due to failures of machine components, or during re-fitting. According to the invention, such a spinning place is furnished with modularly structured and exchangeable spinning units and or winding units.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Olivier Wüst, Herbert Stalder
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Patent number: 7225606Abstract: A rotor cup for an open-end spinning device comprises a supporting base body which is provided with an insert. The insert comprises the fiber guiding surfaces, namely a fiber sliding surface and a fiber collecting groove. The insert is centered radially in the base body and is supported axially with a stopping face at the base body and crimped therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventor: Paul Hoersch